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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:35:17 GMT



"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders,
to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be
compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have
to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which
he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment
onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not
encountered in private life." --Albert Camus, writer, France.

[From "When the State Kills...The death penalty: a human rights issue"
by Amnesty International]


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From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: DC Protest At Israeli Embassy
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:17:33 GMT

/* Written 10:36 pm  Jan 26, 1993 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "DC Protest At Israeli Embassy" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: DC Protest At Israeli Embassy

From isolem Tue Jan 26 17:54:40 1993
From: Ingrid Solem <isolem>

                               Announcement from the
                    AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

                                    DEMONSTRATE
                                at Israeli Embassy!

       On February 2, the Embassy of Israel is hosting a reception commemo-
       rating  the  work of  Dr, Martin  Luther King,  Jr. Dr.  Benjamin L.
       Hooks, Executive  Director of the NAACP, and Judith Lichtman, Presi-
       dent of the  Women's Legal Defense Fund, will  be presented with the
       1993 Civil Rights Award by none other than the government of Israel.

       In light of  Israel's expulsion of over 400 Palestinians  to a moun-
       taintop in southern Lebanon in the dead of winter, such a commemora-
       tion is not  only inappropriate, but  degrades the good name  of Dr.
       King  and the  movement  he led.  Dr.  King, one  of  this century's
       greatest human rights  advocates, should not  be associated with  an
       apartheid regime like Israel. As South Africa's closest ally, Israel
       is in  no position to commemorate  the life of the  great Dr. Martin
       Luther King, Jr.

                          PROTEST ISRAEL'S HYPOCRISY IN 
                       COMMEMORATING MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!
                  Tuesday, February 2, beginning at 3:30 PM sharp
                            In front of Israeli Embassy
                3514 International Drive, N.W. (and Van Ness Road)
                           (Van Ness Metro on Red Line)
                       For more information, please call the
                    American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,
                      Organizing Department at: 202-244-2990.
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From: Sandra Bender u <bend7366@mach1.wlu.ca>
Subject: Sex Tourism in Thailand
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:37:57 GMT

I'm desparately seeking information on sex tourism in Thailand
and the Phillippines. I'm doing research on the invisibilization
of women within the world economy. I'm making attempts at doing a
case study on sex tourism in south asia. It has been extremely
difficult to locate any primary research surrounding the amount
fostered by this industry, etc. I'd appreciate any help that
anyone might be able to provide me with.

thanks

sandra bender
bend7366@mach1.wlu.ca
(519) 886-0703
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA



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From: Frank Scofi <fscofi@igc.apc.org>
Subject: CUBAN-AMERICAN RED-BAITED
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:15:03 GMT

ACTION ALERT:

The following article appeared in The Record on 1/21/93, the
largest daily in Congressman Robert Torricelli's congressional
district in New Jersey.

"Candidate for U.S.  Post Rebuts Critics on Cuba"

WASHINGTON - A Cuban American lawyer being considered for a top
State Department Post on Wednesday disputed claims by exile groups
that he may seek to soften the United States hard-line policy
toward Cuba.

Mario Baeza, a partner in a New York Law firm, said through an aide
that he supports the US trade embargo against Cuba, contrary to the
claims of some ion the exile community.

"He would abide by it and enforce it," the aide said.

Baeza had been due to be nominated to the key post of Assistant
Secretary of State for inter-American Affairs.

But aides to President Clinton decided to reconsider the nomination
after protests from conservative Cuba exile groups. Baeza's name
was crossed off a list of State Department nominees that was sent
to Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Baeza's aide said further discussions with Clinton Administration
officials were planned today.

Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-Englewood, chairman of the House Sub-
committee that deals with Latin America, also expressed concern to
Clinton aides because Baeza's views on Cuba appeared to vary
significantly from Clinton's, a Torricelli spokesman said.






An AP piece in another New Jersey Paper, The Jersey Journal,
entitled "Cuban American Backs Embargo" stated:

Exile groups mounted a fierce campaign against Baeza, citing in
particular his visit to Cuba last June as part of a group invited
to attend a seminar on business opportunities in Cuba.

Baeza said through the aide that the trip lasted six hours and its
main purpose was to visit family members who still live in Cuba.
Baeza was born in New York but spent much of his child hood in
Cuba.


LET THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS KNOW THAT THEY MUST STOP LETTING THE
CUBAN AMERICAN NATIONAL FOUNDATION DICTATE US POLICY TOWARDS CUBA.
THE CUBAN AMERICAN NATIONAL FOUNDATION HAS LABELLED BAEZA A
COMMUNIST. PROTEST THIS RED-BAITING. BAEZA IS ALSO AN AFRO-CUBAN.



THE OFFICE OF WARREN CHRISTOPHER, SECRETARY OF STATE AT:
State Department
202-647-5291
fax: 202-647-0122

AND ALSO THE OFFICE OF PETER TARNOFF (Third in charge at State
Department) AT:
202-647-9117
FAX: 202-647-4780


FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS ISSUE CALL IFCO AT 212-926-5757

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
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:35:16 GMT


On our Free Press (during the Panama Invasion)...


     |                Reporters Rallying Round The Flag                 |
     |                                                                  |
     |    Journalists justified their role as distributors of           |
     |  government handouts in different ways.  Asked on Day 1 why US   |
     |  opponents of the invasion were virtually invisible on-the-air,  |
     |  a "CBS" producer (who declined to give her name) told           |
     |  "Extra!":  "When American troops are involved and taking        |
     |  losses, this is not the time to be running critical             |
     |  commentary.  The American public will be rallying around the    |
     |  flag."                                                          |

...at work.

From _The Media Goes to War: How Television Sold the Panama Invasion_
a report by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). Use the GET
command with PANAMA INVASION for a copy of this report.

Use GET also with CHOMSKY VICTORS1 for more background (which comes
with the original footnotes).

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emailed the index of archived files.


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From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: AI UA018/93 HAITI Ill-treatment
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:14:48 GMT

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/* Written  2:56 pm  Jan 26, 1993 by sharrison in igc:ai.uan */
for USA readers:

PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the Colorado
office between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm, Mountain Time, weekdays
only, if sending appeals after March 9, 1993.

If you have any questions about this Urgent Action appeal or
the Urgent Action Network in general please contact:

Scott Harrison
Urgent Action program office
PO Box 1270
Nederland CO 80466
303 440 0913 (voice)
303 258 7881 (fax)
sharrison@igc.org (e-mail address)

If you are not a member of Amnesty International USA, we
would like to send you information.
From: emcelroy@igc.apc.org (Eugene McElroy)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Latin American Perspectives on CUBA
Date: 20 Jan 93 22:30:00 GMT
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Organization: ?
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu


                   LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
           ISSUE 76, VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1, WINTER 1993

                              CUBA:
        LABOR, LOCAL POLITICS AND INTERNATIONALIST VIEWS
                           **********

          The latest issue of Latin American Perspectives is
dedicated in its entirety to Cuba. The articles are as follows:

1. Introduction by Jean Hostetler-Diaz, Jennifer Dugan-Abbassi
and Timothy F. Harding.

2. PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS AND THE WORKPLACE 

a. Representative Government in Socialist Cuba
     Peter Roman

b. The Labor Union in the Cuban Workplace
     Gail Lindenberg

Books Reviews

a. Participation in the Workplace in Socialist Cuba
     Ronald H. Chilcote

b. Cuba's "Middle Class"
     Linda Fuller

c. Cuba in the Age of Perestroika
     Andrew Zimbalist

3. CUBANS ON REGIONAL ISSUES

articles

a. New Challenges for Cuban Policy Toward Central America
     Julio Carranza Valdes

b. Debt and Foreign Capital: The Origin of the Crisis
     Osvaldo Martinez

c. "Drug Trafficking" and Social and Political Conflicts in Latin
America: Some Hypotheses
     Luis Suarez Salazar

d. Social Democracy in Latin America
     Tomas A. Vasconi and Elina Peraza Martel

                           **********
LAP is available from
                        Sage Publications
                        2455 Teller Road
                     Newbury Park, CA  91320
                                
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From: Janice Zazinski <JANICEZ%MITVMC.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject:      Call NBC Re: Domestic Violence
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:12:33 GMT

This message has been passed around several lists and I thought it was
appropriate for ACTIV-L:
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Forwarded message:
>From POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU!JRYCENGA Wed Jan 20 11:52:44 1993

For political activists, or media watchdogs, or just concerned
women, here's a quick something you can do to help prevent
and stop domestic violence.

Super Bowl Sunday - which this year is January 31, here in southern
California at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena - is the single worst day
for domestic violence in the USA.  There is an increase of as much as
40% in the volume handled by domestic violence shelters on this
day.

To try to stem this tide of violence, the Women's Action Coalition (WAC)
of Los Angeles is supporting the campaign by Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR) to convince NBC (the network carrying the game) to carry
two Public Service Announcements on domestic violence during the
Super Bowl this year.  Anna Quindlen of the New York Times wrote a
fine editorial in the 1/17/93 edition of the Times supporting this
effort as well.

What I am asking of you - and all your friends (please PLEASE cross-post
this to _any_ lists you can think of) - is to help us with a FAX/LETTER
blitz on NBC, asking for these PSA's.  Here is a sample letter:

Dick Ebersol
President, NBC Sports
NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY  10112

Dear Mr. Ebersol:

I would like to add my support to FAIR's request that you air two
Public Service Announcements
on domestic violence during the Super Bowl game.  The Super Bowl is one
of the most widely viewed
television events of the year; it is also the day, according to women's
shelters, when calls for help
increase by as much as 40%.

Your broadcast of the Super Bowl will reach a huge audience.  By airing
PSAs, NBC will be
bringing a national audience's attention to the critical issue of
domestic violence.

Sincerely,

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From: era@csn.org
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
Keywords: Extremists, Christian Right, Amendment 2
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:27:44 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: Citizens Project; Colorado Springs, CO
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

We of the Citizens Project (Colorado Springs, CO) are looking for people
who could assist us in re-distributing the Citizens Project Newsletter
to non-Internet computer services.  If you have an account on any such
services (CompuServe, FidoNet, Genie, Prodigy, America Online, and others)
and are willing to help us, please let us know via return email to
era@ncar.ucar.edu.

The Citizens Project is a Colorado Springs, CO - based group of volunteers
who seek to prevent extremists from eliminating our fundamental freedoms.
Colorado's Amendments 1 and 2 are the extremists' most obvious successes
to date.      
--
Ed Arnold * Boulder, CO * 303-497-1253(voice,weekday) * 303-494-6949(voice)
internet: era@csn.org * compuserve: internet:era@csn.org * bitnet: era@ncario
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: dmr@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Daniel Rosenblum)
Subject: Wanted: texts of Martin Luther King's late speeches
Followup-To: poster
Summary: I'd like texts or recordings
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: Martin Luther King
Organization: Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management, Newark, N.J.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:15:11 GMT

I've heard, every now and then, on the local Pacifica radio station
(WBAI), some of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s later speeches.
They always seem to be available recorded only if you join as a
member during the membership drive when they're being played, and
since I already am a member of WBAI, this doesn't help.  I'm
particularly interested in one he gave in February or March 1968
to members of Local 1199 (Drug & Hospital Workers Union) in New
York City, in which he talks about, among other things, the Poor
People's Campaign which he was then organizing.  I heard parts of
another one on Mon. 18 January on WBAI, although I missed the where/
when of it.  Does anyone know where I can find texts or recordings
of these?  They clearly show that Rev. Dr. King wasn't the vague
dreamer of some sort of touchy-feely love-your-neighbor paradise
that the established mass media portray him as, but rather that he
had a deep and incisive critique of the American political and
economic system and of American militarism and that he demanded
radical changes.

Please mail answers to me, since I don't get a chance to read news
all that regularly.  I'll summarize here if anyone asks me to.
Thanks in advance.
-- 
Daniel M. Rosenblum, Assistant Professor, Quantitative Studies Area,
   Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University (Newark Campus)
ROSENBLUM@DRACO.RUTGERS.EDU                      ROSENBLUM@ZODIAC.BITnet
dmr@andromeda.rutgers.edu          ...!rutgers!andromeda.rutgers.edu!dmr
From: Howard Frederick <hfrederick@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Europe in Turmoil*Media*Call4Papers
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:58:12 GMT

                [ Please respond to hfrederick@igc.apc.org ]
                     Call for Papers*Deadline Extended

                    International Communication Section
         INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH

                            "Europe in Turmoil:  
               Communication and Democracy in Civil Society"
        Hosted by School of Communications, Dublin City University
                        June 25-26 Dublin, Ireland

     Three forces compete for the hearts and minds of Europe's attentive 
publics--government, market, and civil society.  In Europe, as elsewhere, 
governments and markets control the major channels of public opinion 
formation, so they usually prevail.  But new channels (both interpersonal 
and technological) have transformed our capacity to build and maintain 
long-distance coalitions and networks.  New regional and global forces are 
now using new channels of communication to fight problems whose scale 
previously confounded local and national solution.  We call this the 
"transnationalization of civil participation."  

     The International Communication Section seeks papers for two panels 
describing the scope and impact of channels promoting communication and 
democracy in Europe's civil societies.  From the environment to women, from 
neighborhood conflict resolution to computer networks, from radio to 
publishing, from universities to the labor movement:  Civil society is 
producing new media to distribute its culture and information.  Market- and 
government-controlled media have not been able to provide reliable and 
diversified information essential to democracy.  We will accept articles 
from outside Europe if they focus on channels of civil and democratic 
communication relevant "Europe in Turmoil."  

     Paper abstracts accepted until February 15.  Important:  Final papers 
must be submitted via *email or on diskette* by April 15, 1992, no 
exceptions.  For submissions, contact:  Howard H. Frederick, President, 
International Communication Section of IAMCR, P.O.B. 94653, Pasadena, CA 
91109 USA Voice:  +1-818-568-0994  Email:  hfrederick@igc.apc.org   
Fax: +1-818-791-2205 "Attention CLAIRE"   

     For more information on the Dublin conference, contact Paschal 
Preston, School of Communications, Dublin City University, Glasnevin DUBLIN 
9, IRELAND  Tel:  +353 1 7045478  Fax:  +353 1 704 5447  
E-Mail:  PrestonP@dcu.ie
From: aforum@moose.uvm.edu (autonome forum)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Prison News Service availble on-line!
Date: 20 Jan 93 22:30:08 GMT
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Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

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We are happy to announce that the anti-authoritarian prison journal 
"Prison News Service" is now available on-line! It is going to be
archived at ftp site 141.211.182.91 in Prison.News.Service
directory. Issue #37 is now available.

Prison News Service will also be distributed on-line to e-mail
subscribers to Arm The Spirit. To be included on this mailing list,
just contact us.

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From: ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca (Nigel Allen)
Subject: Lesbian Veterans to Lobby Congress After Wednesday Press Conference
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:15:48 GMT

Here is a press release from the Human Rights Campaign Fund.

 Lesbian Veterans to Lobby Congress After Wednesday Press Conference
 To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
 Contact: Kay Ostberg or Gregory King, 202-628-4160, both of
          the Human Rights Campaign Fund

   News Advisory:

   U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) and other women members of
Congress will join lesbian veterans and representatives of lesbian
and gay organizations and women's rights groups for a press
conference on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2216 of the
Rayburn House Office Building.
   The organizer of the event is the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the
nation's largest lesbian and gay political group.  The press
conference has been endorsed by the Military Freedom Project.
Speakers at the press conference will release a major statement of
support for President Clinton's decision to overturn the current ban
on lesbian and gay Americans from serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Following the press conference, lesbian veterans will lobby members
of Congress in support of ending the ban.

 -30-
-- 
Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario    ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca

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