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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: UN "Human Rights" seminar in Indonesia
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Organization: PACH
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:10:41 GMT

/** pn.announcemen: 51.0 **/
** Topic: STOP UN/Jakarta Hypocrisy Now!! **
** Written 10:13 pm  Dec 17, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcemen **
From: <peacenet>
Subject: STOP UN/Jakarta Hypocrisy Now!!

From cscheiner Thu Dec 17 21:25:33 1992
From: Charles Scheiner <cscheiner>

/* Written  9:24 pm  Dec 17, 1992 by cscheiner@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.easttimor */
/* ---------- "STOP UN/Jakarta Hypocrisy Now!!" ---------- */
      ***** Urgent Action Alert *****
to:   Human rights and solidarity groups
from: Jose Ramos-Horta
re:      Protest UN "Human Rights" seminar in Jakarta!
date: December 17, 1992

The UN Human Rights Center in Geneva has decided to accept Indonesia's 
outrageous invitation to host an Asia-Pacific human rights workshop in 
Jakarta on January 26-28, 1993!
Invitations have already been sent to governments and human rights experts.

I am appealing to every solidarity group and every non-governmental 
organization around the world to launch a campaign of protest and a 
denunciation of this decision by the United Nations.

Such a seminar was to have been held in December 1991, but it was delayed 
because of the November massacre in Dili. The human rights situation in East 
Timor and Indonesia has not improved.

I make a special appeal to NGO's of the Asia-Pacific region, including 
Indonesians, to oppose this bizarre gathering which makes a mockery of human 
rights in Indonesia and in East Timor.

Ask the U.N. Human Rights Center in Geneva if they are planning to hold 
human rights seminars in Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma), Tienanmen 
Square, Guatemala City, and Belgrade (Serbia).

Protest notes must be in the strongest possible language. Human rights 
experts who accept the invitation to Jakarta must also be denounced publicly.
Please fax letters of protest immediately to:
   Center for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva
   fax: 41-22-917-0123
Fax copies to
        Alvaro De Soto, Special Assistant to the Secretary General in New York
        fax: 1-212-963-4879

If we cannot prevent the seminar, every government and expert who attends 
must be urged to condemn the human rights situation in East Timor and in 
Indonesia, and to distribute the report of the Special Rapporteur on 
Torture, the latest UN Human Rights Subcommission report on East Timor and 
information from Asia Watch and Amnesty International.

Thank you for your quick and energetic response. Time is of the essence.
------
Alert distributed by the East Timor Action Network/US, 
    PO Box 1182, White Plains, NY 10602 USA
    Tel.914-428-7299  Fax.914-428-7383  Email cscheiner@igc.apc.org
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From: ww%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Workers World Service)
Subject: Labor Briefs 18 Dec
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:14:30 GMT


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Labor Briefs

DRAWING A LINE IN THE FRONTIER SAND

Desert solidarity shut down the glittering Las Vegas strip the
night of Dec. 5 as some 20,000 unionists marched to support 550
Frontier Hotel workers who've been out on strike since Sept. 21,
1991. John Wilhelm, Hotel and Restaurant Employees western
regional director, told reporters the action was an important
signal of labor militancy to send the incoming Clinton
administration. "Having the event in Las Vegas demonstrates the
will to fight for that agenda exemplified by the courageous
Frontier strikers in the unlikely right-to-work environment of
Nevada," Wilhelm said.

Unionists from as far as Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota,
Texas and Canada clogged the Las Vegas streets to buoy the
strikers--not a single one of whom has crossed the picket line.

LOS ANGELES TEACHERS VOTE TO STRIKE

Members of the Los Angeles teachers' union have voted to reject
the school board's latest take back contract offer and go on
strike in February if an acceptable settlement is not reached by
then. The United Teachers-Los Angeles, which represents 33,000
teachers and other school workers, last called a strike in 1989.
But in 1991 the union accepted a 3 percent pay cut on the promise
it would be restored this year. Instead, teachers now face an
additional 9 percent pay cut.

Last spring's rebellion focused national attention on the crisis
conditions for oppressed youths in Los Angeles. Most public
school students are Latino, Black or Asian. Now education funding
is being slashed in California. So young people of color and
their teachers are forced to bear the brunt of the cutbacks. A
school strike in February could offer a vehicle for workers,
students and community to fight back.

BOEING WALKOUT IMMINENT

Twenty-eight thousand unionized engineers and technicians at the
Boeing Co. in Seattle may walk out on their first strike ever in
early January. The aerospace firm unilaterally implemented its
"final" contract offer Dec. 14, days after members of the Seattle
Professional Engineering Employees Association had voted to
reject it. Now it's showdown time. Union leaders have called a
rally for Dec. 19 "to try to force the company back to the
[bargaining] table," union lawyer Dan Mahoney said. Mahoney said
the workers feel "genuine outrage and enthusiasm for taking
strike action."

--Shelley Ettinger

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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Forum/Rise of Racism in Europe 12/19 NYC
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:38:46 GMT


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                INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER FORUM

                  "The Rise of Racism in Europe"

                   Saturday, December 19, 1992
                          3:00 - 5:30 pm
                  39 West 14th Street, Room 206

                           212-633-6646


FARHAD BESHARAT, from Europe - Director, International Federation
of Iranian Refugee Councils (immigrant centers in Germany)

JOHN BLACK - Jailed in Germany for his work in the anti-fascist
youth movement in the 1930s; retired vice president, National
Union of Health & Hospital Workers; past president of 1199P

MONICA MOOREHEAD - Movement for a People's Assembly; organizer,
anti-racist struggle and The Job is a Right national campaign

RUBEN QUIROZ - Director, Northern Manhattan Coalition for
Immigrant Rights

RACHEL DUELL - All Peoples Congress, Moderator.
Most of Ms. Duell's family were killed in Nazi concentration camps


PLUS: Special Report by a participant in the Cuba Caravan that
successfully challenged the US blockade of Cuba!

Racist and anti-semitic violence is reported every day from around
Europe. Immigrants and national minorities are being scapegoated
as the economic crisis deepens. Massive organizing against racism
is also taking place, but less reported in the US, where the
anti-racist struggle must be strengthened. Hear a discussion on
what is happening in Europe, who is responsible, and the
continuing struggle against racism at home.


                          $3.00 donation
                     Refreshments after forum

                      Bring some extra cash
     to buy holiday gift-wrapped homemade cookies and fudge.


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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Berkeley Strikers Fight On...
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:06:41 GMT

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BERKELEY GRAD WORKERS STRIKE ON

By Saul Kanowitz
Berkeley, Calif.

The strike by graduate student workers at the University of
California at Berkeley has entered its sixth week.

The Association of Graduate Student Employees/UAW  represents
graduate student instructors, research and teaching assistants.
They are demanding the administration recognize the union and
enter into good-faith bargaining toward a union contract.

AGSE/UAW spokesperson Russell Paulsen told Workers World, the
administration's ideological right-wing union-busting approach is
at the core of the dispute.

For the past three years an interim agreement covered wages,
medical and vacation benefits, a "good-faith standard" for
discussion of work issues, and payroll dues deductions. These
benefits are not at issue. The lack of recognition or good-faith
negotiations prompted the strike.

On Dec. 4, a spirited crowd of undergraduates and graduate
student workers marched to Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien's office to
deliver a petition signed by 8,373 undergraduates urging the
university to recognize AGSE/UAW. Undergraduate Student Union
President Margaret Fortune presented the petition.

It read in part, "The work performed by graduate student
employees is indispensable to the functioning of the University;
our experience bears this out daily. The Administration must
recognize AGSE."

The Daily Californian, a Berkeley daily newspaper, printed an
open letter to the chancellor signed by more than two dozen
faculty members urging the administration to recognize the union.
The letter read in part: "We are deeply concerned that your
administration appears to be attempting to break AGSE's strike
and thus destroy the union rather than to reach an agreement.
This outcome will probably prove not only futile, but also
damaging to the educational mission to which we are all devoted."

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From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Subject: INDIA: police killings at AYODHYA
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Resent-From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:19:50 GMT

/* Written  7:20 pm  Dec 13, 1992 by hnaylor@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general */
/* ---------- "INDIA: police killings at AYODHYA" ---------- */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom 

DATE: 10 DECEMBER 1992

INDIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED BY POLICE KILLINGS FOLLOWING MOSQUE
DEMOLITION AT AYODHYA

Amnesty International cabled Prime Minister Narasimha Rao on 9 December to
express concern about some of the killings which followed the recent
destruction of the Babri Masjid (mosque) in the Uttar Pradesh town of Ayodhya
on 6 December. 

      Over 600 people are known to have been killed in violence throughout the
country since Sunday. Amnesty International is concerned at the number of
deaths that have occurred as a result of police firing on protestors and
rioters. This happened in Bombay where at least 40 people died, some
reportedly as a result of indiscriminate police firing. Most victims belonged
to the Muslim community. 

      Amnesty International urged the government to take the utmost care to
prevent further loss of life and to ensure that the security forces are
instructed not to use lethal force unless as a very last resort when they face
a life-threatening situation - and only after appropriate warnings have been
given. Amnesty International also asked the government for clarification of
the nature of the charges and the evidence against the leader of opposition,
L.K Advani (who has now resigned), Murli Manohar Joshi, the leader of the BJP
and other party members who were arrested on 8 December 1992. 

      The 16th century Babri Masjid (mosque), now destroyed by rioting Hindus
but which the Indian government has assured will be rebuilt - stood at a site
in Ayodhya claimed to be the birthplace of the Hindu God Ram. Ayodhya lies in
Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state ruled by the opposition Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP), which was dismissed by the central government in New Delhi
after it had failed to uphold its undertaking to abide by a Supreme Court
ruling prohibiting any construction work of a Hindu temple at the site.

      The BJP, which backed the campaign for the last three years for a Hindu
temple to be built, and the Hindu revivalist Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP -
World Hindu Council), which organized the current campaign, had given
undertakings to the government that, on Sunday 6 December, they would only
participate in ceremonial rituals and would not permit the destruction of the
mosque and the building of a Hindu temple on its site. But when rioting Hindus
stormed the mosque and demolished it, the Provincial Armed Constabulary was
reported to have withdrawn quietly, leaving the mosque undefended.
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From: RED_TREK%DRYCAS.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Vegetarian Fast Food Campaign
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:12:37 GMT

X-NEWS: drycas rec.food.veg: 16934
From: red_trek@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.food.veg,talk.politics.animals
Subject: Vegetarian Fast Food Campaign
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:35:00 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

This file may be redistributed at will, on or off the net.

The following information is copied from brochureds put out by
the North American Vegetarian Society.

"The NAVS has launched the 'VEGETARIAN EXPRESS Fast Food
Campaign" to help prompt 11 of the largest fast food chains
to provide low-fat, no-cholesterol, meat-free, fish-free
dairy-free, low-sodium entrees--meals that would appeal to
the average consumer, the health conscious and those concerned
about the welfare of animals and the environment.  Preferably,
such entrees would have no or minimal amounts of preservatives
as well.

"You can help make vegetarian entrees possible at fast food
restaurants even if you eat only occassional meatless meals.
Send your signature, name and address to:  NAVS, PO Box 72,
Dolgeville NY 13329, and NAVS will count you as a consumer
who wants all-plant vegetarian entrees."

Personally written letters targeted at specific companies,
however, have far more impact than a list of names.  You
can call or write one of the following fast food chains
(listed in IMHO order of importance) to tell them you want
an all-plant entree with no meat, fish, fowl, eggs or
dairy, and little or no preservatives.  Send copies of your
correspondence to NAVS.

NAVS reccomends all letters and calls be upbeat and possitive--
after all, what we want is an upbeat and positive alternative!

-------

McDonald's
Campus Office Building
Kroc Drive
Oak Bridge, IL 60521
(708) 575-3000

Burger King
17777 Old Cutler Road
Miami FL 33157
1 (800) 937-1800

Wendy`s
4288 West Dublin Granville Rd
PO Box 256
Dublin OH 43021
1 (800)243-1846

---------

For more detailed information on the VEGETARIAN EXPRESS Fast Food
Campaign, or for a copy of NAVS's petition form, contact NAVS
at NAVS PO BOX 72, Dolgeville NY 13329, United States.  They
can also provide the full list of 11 targeted fast food chains.

NAVS is the best place to contact for more info, but I do have
a more complete file (including all 11 addresses/phone numbers,
and the full text of NAVS's petition form) which I can send you
if you contact me at:   Red_Trek@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu

Once again:  this file can be redistributed at will, on or off
the net.
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From: Kerry Miller <ASTINGSH%KSUVM.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject:      Chomskys Crystal Ball
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:53:26 GMT


CHOMSKY'S CRYSTAL BALL

      "Apologists for state violence understand very well that the general
public has no real stake in imperial conquest and domination.  The public
costs of empire may run high, whatever the gains to dominant social and
economic groups.  Therefore the public must be aroused by jingoist appeals, or
at least kept disciplined and submissive, if American force is to be readily
available for global management.
     "Here lies the task for the intelligentsia.  If it is determined
that we *must,* say, invade the Persian Gulf *for the benefit of mankind,*
[emphasis in the original] then there must be no emotional or moral objections
from the unsophisticated masses, and surely no vulgar display of protest.  The
ideologists must guarantee that no "wrong lessons" are learned from the
experience of the Indochina war and the resistance to it.
     "During the Vietnam war a vast gap opened between the nation's
ideologists and a substantial body of public opinion. This gap must be closed
if the world system is to be managed properly in coming years.  Thus we are
enjoined to "avoid recriminations" and serious efforts will be made to
restrict attention to questions that have no significance or long-term
implications.  It will be necessary to pursue the propaganda battle with vigor
and enterprise to reestablish the basic principle that the use of force by the
U.S. is legitimate, if only it can succeed..."

          -Noam Chomsky, "Lessons of Vietnam #1, The Remaking of History,"
          published in Ramparts Magazine ~1975.

 **************
Thus the kinder, gentler Somali operation...
kerry miller          astingsh@ksuvm.ksu.edu
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Nicaragua: Popular movement pressures government
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:04:55 GMT

/** reg.nicaragua: 76.0 **/
** Topic: GL: Popular Movement **
** Written  6:27 pm  Dec 10, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: GL: Popular Movement

/* Written  6:40 pm  Dec  8, 1992 by greenleft@peg.UUCP in igc:greenleft.news */
Popular movement pressures Nicaraguan government

By Stephen Marks

MANAGUA - Workers and campesinos affiliated to the National
Workers Front (FNT) marched on the offices of President Violetta
Chamorro in Managua on November 25 as negotiations started
between FNT leaders and the Nicaraguan government.

The 15,000 marchers protested the deterioration of public health,
privatisation, the sacking of teachers' union activists, lack of
jobs and job security, and the expulsion from school of students
involved in protests in September.

Addressing the marchers before joining the rest of the
negotiating team FNT leader Luci Jimnez emphatically rejected any
return of property to the Somozistas.

The Somoza family and cronies swindled and robbed Nicaraguans at
will until the 1979 Sandinista revoltuion ended their 50 year
reign. Somozista businesses were nationalised and their lands
were distributed amongst poor families. Many of Somoza's former
clique are now US citizens and have returned to resteal their old
properties.

The government is using privatisation as a cover to return many
of these properties or ``compensate'' the Somozistas. Workers are
demanding that the government abide by previous accords that
promised the privatisation of all or a part of state enterprises
in favour of the workers.

The rally mobilised people from around the country. Barricada
newspaper reported that 39 vehicles bussed 2500 people down from
Jinotega and Matagalpa in the North. Many of the roads in central
Managua were lined with these trucks and trailers during the
protest.

Four marches fed into the demonstration from various points
around the capital. Workers filed out of large enterprises such
as the Victoria Beer Company and metal workshops. They joined up
with striking electricity workers fighting privatisation,
hospital workers demanding improved pay and hospital budgets, and
peasants demanding the legalisation of their land titles.

Called ``Plan B'' by the union leaders the march is part of an
ongoing campaign by the popular movements to remedy the drastic
poverty inflicted by 70% unemployment and government policies.

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