HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mjsst@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (mark.j.schiff)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,rec.food.restaurants,alt.restaurants,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Anti smoking laws coming up in New Jersey
Keywords: smokefree maybe?
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:06:25 GMT
Followup-To: floyd!mjs
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

If you want smokefree restaurants in New Jersey you must let your
(or our) legislators know now. 

1. Contact your Senator and two Assembly Members in Trenton.  They
need to hear from you that you want smokefree restaurants.  If you
do not know who your representative is, call the League of Women
Voters at 1-800-792-vote (792-8683) or your local library's
reference desk.

2. Contact Assembly woman Maureen Ogden, who chairs the Assembly
Environments Committee, which is hearing this the bills.  She's at
266 Essex St, Millburn, N.J. 07041, 201-467-5151.

3. Call GASP at 1-908-273-9368 to volunteer to help in this cause.


*************************************************************
Mark Schiff
floyd!mjs at att.com

*** Its your taste buds and lungs that are at stake. ***
Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.drugs,chi.general,talk.politics.drugs
From: maxwell@deep-13.gizmo.com
Subject: IMI Meeting this SUNDAY (31 Jan).
Keywords: IMI, meeting, Windy City Weedfest, Hash Bash.
Followup-To: talk.politics.drugs
Organization: Gizmonics Institute Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:07:35 GMT
Summary: IMI meeting 1-31-93/1400-1600
Reply-To: mmonningh@igc.org
X-Posted-From: vango.fnal.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

This is a reminder to all of you chi.hempsters in netland that the next
meeting of the Illinois Marijuana Initiative will be held this Sunday, 31 Jan,
from 2 to 4 at the Woodridge Il. Public Library. 

Meeting topics will include: voting for directors, Ann Arbor Hash Bash plans,
and preparations for the Windy City Weedfest.

This will be the first IMI meeting of the Post Reagan-Bush Era!!

For more info, call the IMI at (708)859-0499 or email the IMI at
mrosing@igc.org or mmonningh@igc.org.  

Herbally.Max
mmonningh@igc.apc.org
IMI member.

(followups to tpd)
From: Eugene McElroy <emcelroy@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Date: 20 Jan 93 10:17 PST
Subject: Latin American Perspectives on CUBA
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1296500485:000:1522
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!emcelroy    Jan 20 10:17:00 1993


From: Eugene McElroy <emcelroy>
Subject: Latin American Perspectives on CUBA

                   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
From: an683@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dean C. Gelston)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: "THEY'RE HERE" THE CLINTONS, AHHHHHHH !
Date: 25 Jan 1993 06:43:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an683@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dean C. Gelston)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


Believe It Or Not.              _______________ 
                     """""""   /|              |
                     | * * |  / |AAAHHHHHHH !!!|
                    (| _^_ |)/  |______________|
                     ||___||
                     \_____/
From: eastexit@twics.co.jp (Jens Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: information on int'l solidarity news digest
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:16:45 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

Does anyone know the address of a magazine called Internatinal
Solidarity News Digest? It was quoted in a new book, People
and Power in the Pacific by Walden Bello. I'd greatly 
appreciate any help. I can be reached either here or through
fax: 81-3-3292-2437 (in Japan).
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: 4 more years of bullshit!
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 11:51:57 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism

As quoted from <1296500482@igc.apc.org> by Hank Roth <pnews@igc.apc.org>:

> <<< via P_news/p.news >>>
> {From SOCIALIST WORKER, January 1993}

He, he, he! :)

> FOUR MORE YEARS: CLINTON CABINET APPOINTMENTS 
> REVEAL CAMPAIGN PROMISES WERE HOLLOW 

And I'll bet he doesn't even dispossess and starve millions of farmers.   Curse
that Bill Clinton!



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From: cbannon@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Christine Bannon)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: actions in february ?
Summary: rumors of protests and perhaps more 2/13 in NJ
Keywords: actions  pro-choice
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:52:43 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	A friend caught sight of a pro-life newsletter out of Levittown, LI.  
Rumor has it that anti-choicers are planning to picket and perhaps blockade and
perhaps act violently against patients in abortion clinics on 2/13.  Has anyone
heard anything ?  RSVP to cbannon@gandalf.rutgers.edu, aka Christine Bannon.
Thanks...
From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Date: 20 Jan 93 16:50 PST
Subject: Re: MIM
Nf-ID: #R:9301210000.AA03422@poly.math.cor:-1744373509:9301210047.AA10813@nosegoblin.cs:-1888933593:000:912
Nf-From: css.itd.umich.edu!pauls    Jan 20 16:50:00 1993


From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
Subject: Re: Re: MIM

Harel, 

I can understand that you wish to reply to the criticisms levelled against
you and against MAP/ACTIV-L regarding banning MIM from your list.

I made a criticism against you in public.  I will NOT now take that
up with you in private.

This is a public matter deserving more public discussion.  If you were
really  interested in discussing this, you would have opened the topic
of banning MIM from MAP/ACTIV-L *IN PUBLIC* on the list, so everyone
could talk about it.

I will respond to all of your rebuttals when you post them on 
misc.activism.progressive, since I am happy to discuss this further
in a public forum.

DO NOT SEND ANY MORE OF THESE TO MY MAILBOX.  Open this topic for
discussion in MAP/ACTIV-L or keep it to yourself.

I will not reply again to this thread in private email.

Yours,

Paul Southworth
Archivist
red.css.itd.umich.edu



Newsgroups: alt.activism
From: rogerl@Ingres.COM (Roger Leuthner)
Subject: Re: FEATURE: "Energy Without Oil" Executive Summary
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Keywords: energy environment oil press
Reply-To: rogerl@Ingres.COM (Roger Leuthner)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:58:46 GMT

In article <C18M48.9yz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> britzel@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (ritzel brian jay) writes:
>rogerl@Ingres.COM (Roger Leuthner) writes:
>
>>It doesn't matter whether carbon dioxide is emitted by the burning of oil
>>vs the burning of 'biofuels'.  I suppose it is more PC to burn something
>>called a 'biofuel' instead of gasoline (when in reality the waste products
>>are similar).
>
>
>Try thinking of the carbon incorporated in biomass as a "flow" and
>the carbon in petrofuels as a "stock" when contemplating the global
>carbon cycle...
>
>Switching to biofuels may not lead to a decrease in atmospheric carbon,
>but I believe the operative word in the original post was "stabilization",
>not "decrease."

Sure.

I'll disregard, for the moment, the fact that the "stock" of carbon in
fossil fuels is already part of the overall pool - give or take a few
million years, and assume that there was a state of equilibrium [before
mans impact] achieved by the earth's natural systems, in terms of carbons
- carbohydrates on the surface and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The problem is not that there is more carbon being put into the biosphere,
it is that the equilibrium has been upset, and now there is [apparently]
more carbon being emitted than being absorbed.  The gross size of the pool
is irrelevant, unless either (or both) solid or gaseous carbon is itself
nearing depletion - in which case the introduction of carbon from outside
the pool would be important.

Switching to biofuels will not lead to a "stabilization" of the
atmospheric carbon.  The amount of carbon in the air will increase
regardless of its original source; this is because we are exceeding the
capacity of the biosphere to incorporate gaseous carbon into their
structure.  Going a little further (shakily, I admit) it is possible that
the conversion of [say] plants into compost with accompanying emission of
methane [which is later burned] is meaningfully reducing the ability of
the biosphere to work towards equilibrium.

Looking at it from a stock/flow perspective, burning biofuels will
preserve the current amount of carbon in the _biosphere_.  It will still
increase the _atmospheric_ levels of carbon dioxide, since the capacity
for absorption is fairly constant [in the context of this argument].  In
other contexts, as noted weakly above, using biofuels may be reducing the
ability of the biosphere to absorb carbon dioxide.

>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Brian Jay Ritzel					britzel@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
>Department of Civil Engineering
>University of Illinois
Newsgroups: alt.activism
From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
Subject: Re: Turn Off Your TV: part 12
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:27:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.064403.3453@news.ysu.edu> ad626@yfn.ysu.edu (Steve Crocker
) writes:
>
> I think that what TV has done to
>our culture and our powers of reason is something the "left" and the
>"right" can join in deploring. Perhaps if you had caught the installment
>a week or two ago criticizing TV sports the ideological implications
>might have seemed a bit different.
>

Steve Crocker is certainly right in saying that the relation between
culture and the media is not just a right/left issue.  But he surely
errs with his "what TV has done to our culture", which begs the
question.  At best, the jury is not only still out; it's ready to
render a verdict of innocent.  Most serious students of the subject
have long argued that (except for the kind of stuff one would expect
from the LaRouchians) there seems to be precious little hard evidence
to support the proposition and a great deal that goes the other way.

Norman Miller
Xref: sparky alt.activism:21303 talk.environment:5707
From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Not a Boomer)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: Call For Discussion - unmoderating misc.activism.progressive
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:21:41 EST
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: ACME Products

In article <1993Jan22.022307.27241@mont.cs.missouri.edu>, oracle!us.oracle.com!mfriedma@uunet.UU.NET (Michael Friedman) writes:
> I think the recent flap over MIM and misc.activism.progressive clearly
> demonstrates that misc.activism.progressive has become exactly what we
> were told it would not be - a megaphone for Harel to promulgate views
> he agrees with while muffling those he disagrees with.
> 
> I feel very strongly that this is contrary to the basic spirit of
> Usenet - free, unfettered debate.
> 
> Therefore, I think that misc.activism.progressive should be
> unmoderated.
> 
> Comments, please?

	Go for it.  Of course you'll need to find 2000 yes votes to counter-act
the 700 canned votes mustered from ACTIV-L and associated lists where people
know nothing of Usenet.

Brett
________________________________________________________________________________
	"There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an
intellectual conviction."  Sean O'Casey in _The White Plague_ by Frank Herbert.
From: phs265y@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: Workers' Party Founded in Turkey
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:55:15 +1100
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <B2XyXB5w165w@nyxfer.uucp>, ww@nyxfer.UUCP writes:
> 
> Subject: Workers' Party Founded in Turkey
> From: nyxfer!ww (Workers World Service)
> 
> [....]
>
> In a stirring opening address, STP chairman Ali Onder Ondes spoke
> of the need to continue to struggle for world socialism in the 
> face of U.S. imperialism's "new world order." He called for 
> solidarity with Cuba, with the Soviet Communists fighting against
> capitalist restoration and with the liberation struggle of the 
> Kurdish people.

        A strange combination of causes! We should support Cuba against U.S.
imperialism, but it is hardly a socialist or worker's state; any state modelled
on stalinism deserves the same fate as the U.S.; it should be smashed by
workers to establish genuine socialism, socialism from below.
   
        The Kurds are fighting a genuine liberation struggle and deserve full 
support from socialists, but the old stalinists in Russia fighting to restore 
the "old order" are utterly repugnant. It is no surprise they have amalgamated 
with fascist brown-shirts, they have similar aims: the imposition of "order" 
from above, the restoration of priveleged apparatchiks, and the continuation of
Russia's imperialist aims.

        The aims and hopes of the worker's revolution in 1917 ended in the 
late 1920's when Stalin took power and proceeded to murder the leading 
revolutionaries of the October revolution.
        

                                 Tony Hartin
                                 International Socialist Organisation
                                 Australia
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,alt.education.disabled
From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
Subject: Re: Internet Connection to Congress
Followup-To: alt.amateur-comp,soc.culture.usa,alt.activism,comp.misc,news.misc
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Distribution: usa
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:08:20 CST

Greg Cook|xxxxxx (gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU) wrote:

: Actually, the National Science Foundation has 100's of documents available
: online.  You can reach there on the internet Gopher system and probably by
: telnet as well.

How does one go about telnetting or ftp'ing to this gopher system?
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From: 00h0maleki@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: test
Date: 21 Jan 93 22:56:38 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

test
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: _Public Citizen's_ Report: Congress
Date: 28 Jan 93 06:12:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:9301270610.AA22097@poly.math.cor:1769945030:9301280609.AA01937@poly.math.cor:-1876619235:000:2886
Nf-From: math.cornell.edu!harelb    Jan 27 22:12:00 1993


From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: _Public Citizen's_ Report: Congress Watch: S&L Scandal

_Public Citizen's_ Report: Congress Watch: S&L Scandal

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    "Working with Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) and the Financial
    Democracy Campaign, a coalition of labor, community, religious,
    and housing groups, Public Citizen lobbied Congress to shift the
    burden of the bailout onto corporations and the wealthy.

    "And, in the closing hours of the 1990 legislative session,
    Congress Watch blew the whistle on a little-publicized effort by
    the Bush Administration to sneak an additional $57 billion bailout
    through Congress without any reforms to assure fairness.
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   -->  [Send GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to above address for a ]
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                     C O N G R E S S   W A T C H
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=========================
Savings and loan scandal.
=========================

The federal bailout of failed S&Ls, whose costs are estimated at
between $500 billion and $1.4 trillion over 40 years, stands as the
chief symbol of 1980s-style reckless deregulation and political
corruption. Across the country, citizens are angry about bearing the
burden of this scandal, and the New York Times identified Congress
Watch as playing the leading role in mobilizing citizens against
unfairly allocating the cost of the bailout.

Working with Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) and the Financial Democracy
Campaign, a coalition of labor, community, religious, and housing
groups, Public Citizen lobbied Congress to shift the burden of the
bailout onto corporations and the wealthy. And, in the closing hours
of the 1990 legislative session, Congress Watch blew the whistle on a
little-publicized effort by the Bush Administration to sneak an
additional $57 billion bailout through Congress without any reforms to
assure fairness.

In October, Random House published _Who Robbed America? A
Citizens' Guide to the S&L Scandal_, written by the director and staff
of Congress Watch. A plain English handbook, the volume included an
appendix spelling out financial industry PAC contributions to each
member of Congress -- and how they voted on key S&L issues.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Sunday, 24 Jan 1993 23:06:29 MST
From: <AZNOS@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Hattie Babbitt and the OAS

Anybody know anything about Hattie Babbitt, nominee for the US Ambassador
to the OAS?  I live in Phoenix and have seen one local article that stated
she was vehemently opposed to relaxing the embargo against CUBA , but
I do not know much else.  THANKS!
From: mcole@sub-40 (Mary Cole)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: domestic violence & the super bowl
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:14:15 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

Here's a message I received today. Please add your support to it and help  
others:


|>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:
|
|We (I) support 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 your  
airing PSAs, NBC will be bringing to a national audience the critical and  
important issue of domestic violence.
|
|Sincerely,
|
|
|   You can rephrase or rewrite this letter to your liking, but please FAX  
or write them immediately.
|
|To reach NBC by FAX:  212-664-5835.
|
|   Thanks for helping - you may save someone's life, or skeletal
structure, or eyesight.
|
Newsgroups: alt.activism
From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
Subject: Re: Turn Off Your TV: part 13
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:26:09 GMT

In article <239-PCNews-124beta@ccs.covici.com> covici@ccs.covici.com writes:
>red.css.itd.umish.edu in the directory poli/LaRouche .
>

I wouldn't dream of trying a full-scale analysis of this stuff
for two reasons: life is too short and the base material isn't
worth it.  

But I thought it might conceivably help someone who is perhaps
impressed with the (utterly fraudulent) show of learning that
is characteristic of LaRouchean vitriol if we could stop at one
item and raise one question.

The item is familiar to all LaRouche readers: reference to the 
Frankfurt School and Theodor Adorno.  Here is the quote:


>Turn Off Your TV--Part 13
>
>There Was Disney
>
>by L. Wolfe
>
>Disney's concepts were completely coherent with those of the 
>brainwashers of the Frankfurt School like Theodor Adorno, who 
>spoke of using the media and its power to convey emotion-laden 
>images to force a {retardation} of adult society.
>

Question: can someone, anyone, give us chapter and verse?  In
which of Adorno's books or articles does one find evidence that
he was a "brainwasher"?  I ask because this charge appears again
and again (as does a similar one about the Tavistock Institute).

Since there will be no answer, I can tell you this: what "brainwasher"
Adorno did was to analyse Nazi propaganda techniques.  Analyse.  He
himself was of course on the run from the Nazis who would have shot him 
twice (for being a Jew and for being on the left).  Now go back to the
quote above and observe its cleverness.  What did "brainwasher" Adorno
do?  He "spoke of using the media.."  Clinical article becomes part of 
a sinister plot.

That's the way it works.  I'm out of here.

Norman Miller
Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.activism.d,news.groups
From: oracle!us.oracle.com!mfriedma@uunet.UU.NET (Michael Friedman)
Subject: Call For Discussion - unmoderating misc.activism.progressive
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:23:07 GMT

I think the recent flap over MIM and misc.activism.progressive clearly
demonstrates that misc.activism.progressive has become exactly what we
were told it would not be - a megaphone for Harel to promulgate views
he agrees with while muffling those he disagrees with.

I feel very strongly that this is contrary to the basic spirit of
Usenet - free, unfettered debate.

Therefore, I think that misc.activism.progressive should be
unmoderated.

Comments, please?

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