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From: Eric Fenster <efenster%igc.org@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Subject: EMU Moscow Course: last chance
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:02:42 GMT

Eastern Michigan University is conducting a study trip to Moscow from 04 June-
04 July.  It is a "fact-finding mission" on the political, economic and social
situation in Russia.

The total cost of $2600  includes travel from Boston-Moscow, room & board, the
course and program in Russia, tuition for 4 credit hours and visa.

All payments are due this week.  If you have the interest, time, funds and a
passport, this is the last chance to join this group and watch history being
made first-hand.

For details, you can reach the course director, Don Pearson, Director of EMU's
Labor Studies Program, at eco_pearson@emunix.emich.edu
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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.org>
Subject: SUDAN STARVATION
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:57:11 GMT

/* Written  4:11 pm  Apr 14, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "SUDAN STARVATION" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: SUDAN STARVATION

Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 13:30:58 PDT

/* Written  5:55 am  Apr 14, 1992 by scampbell in cdp:reg.africa */
/* ---------- "URGENT ACTION - SUDAN STARVATION" ---------- */
"Situation in Sudan is worse -- Bor fell to government troops on
Saturday.  Entire upper Nile region is cut off from all relief
supplies, it has now been six weeks.  Sudan gov't is intentionally
starving its people to death.  In Akobo, headquarters of
Presbyterian Church in Sudan, more than 200 have starved to death
in last 2 weeks, mostly children.

"We are desparately trying to find a way to help.  There is little
hope.  They fear all may starve before help arrives.  45,000
people are in Akobo, hundreds of thousands are in same situation.
Our tears are many -- our friends are dying -- please alert you
representatives in Washington to exert International pressure."
Bill   (Psalm 56:8)

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From: boylanr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (ross boylan)
Subject: Sexual Freedom!--DSA panel
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN.
Distribution: in
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:18:05 GMT

Thurs, Apr 9, 7:30 PM, Ballantine Hall 140
Indiana University Bloomington

                   Discussion: Sexual Freedom

Leading off the discussion will be a variety of local activists:

Toby Strout, of Middle Way House, on sexual abuse.

Carol McCord, of Planned Parenthood, on local politic, including
reproductive rights and sex education.

Simone Rowe from RORR (Reclaim or Reproductive Rights) on
abortion.

Tim Sutherlin, a political activist, on coming out in a small
town.

The event is free and open to all.  Sponsored by Bloomington
Democratic Socialists of America.

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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: PROFILE: Z Magazine
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 06:59:11 GMT



PROFILE: Z Magazine

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"Z is an independent, progressive monthly magazine of critical thinking 
on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United 
States.  It sees the racial, sexual, class, and political dimensions 
of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving 
contemporary circumstances; and it aims to assist activist efforts to 
attain a better future."
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Subscriptions: One Year $25; Two Years $40; Three Years $55 

$18 student/low-income

Sample issue: $3.00


Z Magazine,
150 W Canton St.,
Boston MA 02118

(617)236-5878 

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Some 100 pages per issue, no advertisements

Z is a project of the nonprofit Institute for Social & Cultural Change

Z features regular columns by Noam Chomsky, Holly Sklar, Stephen
Shalom, Bell Hooks, Edward S Herman, Brian Tokar, Michael Albert, and
many other notables


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From: nyxfer%panix.com@UMCVMB.missouri.edu (N.Y. Transfer)
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Subject: ANALYSIS: Why Nikkei Loss Alarms US Capitalists
Date: 17 Apr 92 19:31:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: mont.1992Apr17.193143.27166
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Organization: University of Missouri
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>



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


       Why drop in Nikkei exchange alarms U.S. capitalists

                        By Vince Copeland

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited.)

It used to be said, "When the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world
catches pneumonia." The idea was that the U.S. economy is so
powerful that a slight recession here can cause a much more
serious depression abroad.

But the relative decline of U.S. industry and the further
"globalization" of the capitalist economy is changing that
proposition somewhat.

Japan, for instance, could touch off a much bigger depression in
the United States than now prevails. It could do this simply by
withdrawing its investments in U.S. Treasury bonds and in the
stock market.

This is already actually happening, according to a front-page lead
story in the New York Times of March 22.

It has been thought that the huge dollar surplus in the hands of
Japanese banks (as a result of the big U.S. trade deficit with
Japan) has nowhere else to go.

But Japanese companies are in need of capital themselves right
now. And their best way of getting it may be to buy yen with their
dollars and invest in Japan.

The Tokyo stock market's Nikkei average (similar to the Dow Jones
in New York) stood at 38,715.87 on the last trading day of 1989.

On April 14 of this year, the Nikkei ended the day at 17,774.59--
about 55 percent lower.

The real transfer of funds from the U.S. to Japan has not yet
happened. It is still only a tendency.

Even so, this makes it all the more important that such a voice of
the State Department as the New York Times would devote its
headline story to this tendency. It shows something like panic at
the prospect of larger capital withdrawals.

At some of the U.S. bond auctions last year, Japanese banks bought
as much as 40 percent of the whole bond offering. What happens if
they stop doing this altogether, to say nothing of selling the
stocks and bonds already in their possession?

It looks very much like Japan could infect the United States with
a severe attack of pneumonia.

                               ***

This article originally appeared in Workers World newspaper. A
10-week trial subscription is available for $2. A year's
subscription costs $15. Makes checks payable to Workers World, and
send to 46 W. 21 St., New York, NY 10010.Phone (212) 255-0352. You
may contact Workers World editors on NY Transfer or PeaceNet at
"workers."

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From: ADAPT <cyanosis@igc.org>
Subject: 03/92 INCITEMENT: Table of Contents
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:16:17 GMT

                           INCITEMENT
                    Volume Eight, Number One
                           March, 1992

                 A Publication of Atlantis/ADAPT

     The American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today is a 
disability organization that is noted for its participation in 
protests.

***************

                        Table of Contents

     <01>  The Winds of Change to Blow Through Chicago

     <02>  National Strategy Meeting

     <03>  Personal Care Option?  Congress Knows Not What it Did!

     <04>  Freedom Day 1992

     <05>  Legislative News

          (a)  The Hill Looks at Attendant Service Legislation

          (b)  Battle Over Access to Medicaid Dollars

     <06>  Arkansas ADAPT Strikes a Blow for Freedom

     <07>  The Pepper Commission on Long Term Care

     <08>  Around the Nation

     <09>  We Ain't Kids Jerry!

     <10>  Ex-Nursing Home Resident Sues the "Home" and Wins

     <11>  Complaint Form for Americans with Disabilities Act


***************

     Wheelchair warriors everywhere agree: Support the work of 
ADAPT!  Become Inciteful!

     Isn't it time you became a part of the growing list of 
INCITEMENT supporters.  Your dollars will help keep the voice of 
ADAPT speaking out!

     YES! I support ADAPT!
     Here is my contribution to INCITEMENT.

$10______   $15______   $25 ______

$35______   $50______   $100______

     Other _____________

Name ______________________________________

Address ___________________________________

City ______________________________________

State or Province _________________________

Country ___________________________________


Send to:

ADAPT/Incitement
1339 Lamar Square Drive #B
Austin, Texas 78704

(Voice Telephone: 512-442-0252)

***************

     INCITEMENT is available through many computer bulletin 
boards.  Users are invited to please help us redistribute 
INCITEMENT.  Please do repost and reprint INCITEMENT.

***************

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From: Jack Otto <jackotto%kauri.vuw.ac.nz@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Subject: REQUEST:  Gulf War - Seeking visual and audio-visual materials.
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Resent-From: MATHRICH@UMCVMB.missouri.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:32:59 GMT

A New Zealand National Peace Movement Organisation, "Peace Movement
Aotearoa", is compiling materials for an exhibition on the effects of
the gulf war.  Especially wishing to show the extent of the
devastation both human and material.

They are specifically looking for visual and audio-visual materials
(esp'ly photos, videos) of scenes such as the destruction in Bhagdad,
Kuwait city, and the roads out of Kuwait city and Basra of the fleeing
Iraqi soldiers.

The aim of this is to show New Zealanders the scenes that were never
shown by the main-stream media during the war.

The organisation is prepared to pay reasonable costs for materials and
shipment.

Please reply to this EMail address, giving materials available and the
relevant addresses, phone or fax numbers which I can pass on to the
organisation.

Please give any suggestions of where else I can seek such material
from.

Jack.

-------------------------------------------------------
Jack Otto           Internet:  jackotto@kauri.vuw.ac.nz

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Free Tuition Offered!
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:40:13 GMT

From: PENN@MITLNS.MIT.EDU (steve penn 26-567, 253-1521 Remember Our Humanity; Science is Not Neutral; MIT War Research Kills.)

Included below is an article from the New Liberation News Service
(NLNS) Packet 2.7 (supplemental) -- our autoposter is posting one
article at a time from this 168K file. To receive the full file,
use the GET command (see bottom) on the file NLNS PACKET ; to 
find out more about NLNS, use GET on NLNS BROCHURE and/or email 
Steve Penn at the above address.

To find out more about the PROG-PUBS (Progressive Publications) email
mailing list, use GET on CAMPUS PROGPUBS, or contact RJ Hinde at
rjh1@midway.uchicago.edu
--Harel B.
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NLNS  Packet 2.7b  -  24 March 1992
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Free Tuition Offered!

	Want a free tuition scholarship?  All you have to do is live in Latin 
America, and aspire to serve the police and military in wiping out 
democratic, popular movements.  The Army's "School of the Americas" at 
Fort Benning, Georgia will then be happy to train you, using US tax dollars, 
in the art of surveillance, torture, political assassination, and overthrow of 
governments.  Five of the nine Salvadoran soldiers accused of the killing of 
six Jesuit priests in El Salvador were trained at Fort Benning.  So what are 
you waiting for... call for an application today! 
 	Seriously, you can call SOA Watch, 2420 Ft. Benning Rd, #1, 
Columbus, GA  31903  (404) 682-5369 for information on shutting down the 
school.  [Information from WRL Nonviolent Activist, January/February 
1991.]
	The School of the Americas is not the only offender.  Harvard 
University has a springtime training program for future third world 
"leaders" which also uses tax dollars to pay the tuition of domestic and 
foreign intelligence and security trainees.  A demonstration at Harvard on 
April 1, 1991 brought public attention to this program last year.  And 
Marshall University just started a training program for Army information 
officers (remember their skilled use of information during the Gulf War).
	In what military training activities is your school involved?

--War Research Information Service 

##################################################################

    ======================================
    To get a file named FILE NAME from the archiver (files are
    two words  separated by a space), send the 1-line message

    GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L

    to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
    [or: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU]
    ======================================

    Use GET with the file ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a listing of
    files available with the GET command.

e.g., send GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET to be
emailed the index of archived files.

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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Other Z articles
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:33:06 GMT

See "ideas" conference -- I'd like to start up a "zmagazine"
conference. Volunteers to push this forward extremely welcome. Too
swamped myself at the moment.

For now, here's an index of what we have so far. If nothing moves on
this, I may just post them here.

Harel
  total 335
  drwx------ 17 hbar         3072 Apr  6 00:27 ..
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        49021 Mar 26 17:13 z.mar92.bernie-sanders.interview
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        35266 Mar 26 17:10 z.mar92.dollar-democracy.92.txt
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        18503 Mar 26 16:49 z.mar92.us-japan.txt
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        20417 Feb  4 19:33 z.jan92.venting.last-vers.txt
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        12387 Jan 25 20:06 z.jan92.dbl-spk.env-prez.text
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        19587 Jan 25 20:05 z.jan92.spleen.conspiracy.text
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar         6889 Jan 25 20:05 z.jan92.organizing-yth.text
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        29486 Jan 25 20:04 z.jan92.labor-today.text
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 hbar         9418 Nov 20 15:26 z.kopkind.nov91.txt
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 hbar        20647 Nov 15 10:45 z.oct91.rainbow.txt
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 hbar        21999 Nov 15 10:41 z.nov91.tex-oil.txt.Z
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 hbar        16897 Nov 15 10:37 z.sklar.nov91.txt.Z
From: "RHODNEY WARD, (812) 855-4334W/336-4829H"
Subject:  UFW efforts in Washington State (from Labor Notes)
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:44:28 GMT

Solidarity Network



Support Washington Farm Workers

     The United Farm Workers of Washington State has launched a
peptition drive to let Washington voters decide whether farm
workers should have collective bargaining rights, according to
Steven Hill of the Whatcom County Rainbow Coalition.  The union
needs 150,000 signatures before July to get the intiative on the
November ballot.

     Working conditions for farm workers are worse than those for
most U.S. workers.  They are not covered under minimum wage laws,
Social Security, unemployment insurance, or health and safety
standards.  Though they have won some rights under Washington law,
not one of the atate's 80,000 farm workers is covered by a union
contract.

     The UFW-WS is also calling for a boycott of Chateau Ste.
Michelle/Stimson Lanes (CSM) wines.  The company is a subsidiary of
U.S. Tobacco.  A Washington Association of Churches commission
concluded that CSM wineries regularly violate labor laws, and that
a majority of the Chateau Ste. Michelle farm workers would vote for
the UFW-CS in a fair election.

     Don't buy CSM/Stimson Lane wines.  Let U.S. Tobacco know where
you stand.  Write Richard A. Kolberger, Vice President at:

                    Richard A. Kolberger
                    Vice President
                    U.S. tobacco
                    100 West Putnam Ave.
                    Greenwich, CT 06830

and Allen Shoup, President at:

                    Allen Shoup
                    President
                    Chateau Ste. Michelle
                    One Stimson Lane
                    Woodinville, WA 98702

Volunteers and donations are needed to help with the voter
initiative.  Write Farm Worker Task Force at:

                    Farm Worker Support Task Force
                    4759 15th Ave., NE
                    Seattle, WA 98105

_______________________________________________________________

This solidarity alert was published in the April edition of Labor
Notes, #157.  Individual subscriptions are $15 for one year and $25
for two.  ($125/year for corporations, management personnel and
consultants)  Send in your check (made out to Labor Notes) to:

                    Labor Notes
                    7435 Michigan Ave.
                    Detroit, MI 48210

if you would like a subscription.
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From: ADAPT <cyanosis@igc.org>
Subject: 03/92 INCITEMENT: NATIONAL STRATEGY MEETING
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:16:25 GMT

                    NATIONAL STRATEGY MEETING 

     In January ADAPT held a strategy meeting in Denver to 
discuss a number of key issues and plan our spring action.  ADAPT 
folks from California, Colorado, Utah, Texas, Illinois, Arkansas, 
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut were  
there.  A good portion of the two day session focused on 
leadership and taking responsibility for local and national 
participation.  Working strategies to strengthen and sustain 
local groups were discussed.  The group spent quite a bit of time 
on ways people can take more active roles, not standing on 
ceremony, and ways the group can work more closely.

     Working on issues related to our core issue of redirecting 
funds for attendant services came up in a number of ways. The 
growing health care debate and what role ADAPT would play in 
relation to that was a big part of this discussion.  It was 
agreed we would have the best impact by working to ensure any 
health care proposal includes our goal of 25% of Medicaid funds 
be redirected to community based attendant services. National 
health care plans need to address the redirection of dollars to 
long-term, user controlled attendant services; too many of these 
proposals ignore long term care, or simply copy our current 
institution dominated system.  However, unless a group has people 
already steeped in health care issues, it is easy to get sucked 
down into such big amorphous debates and loose all effectiveness.

     Use of the presidential campaign to forward our issues was 
another brief topic.  It was agreed any time a candidate comes to 
one of our areas we will try and hit them with the ADAPT stand.  
Don't get attached to a particular candidate - hit them all!   
Finally, with the arrival of the effective date of the Public 
Accommodations section of the ADA (January 26, 1992) we talked 
about working on enforcement.  It was agreed smaller actions on 
inaccessible public accommodations are great for building local 
groups. 

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From: nyxfer%panix.com@UMCVMB.missouri.edu (N.Y. Transfer)
Subject: NEWS:Brady & the Russian Congress
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@UMCVMB.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:56:54 GMT


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

                  BRADY AND THE RUSSIAN CONGRESS

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited.)

The Russian people need democracy, said the great capitalist
democrats of the West. They need a free parliament that isn't just
a rubber stamp for the Communist Party. Remember that argument?

On April 11, the Russian Congress of People's Deputies, formed
after President Boris Yeltsin had outlawed the Soviet Communist
Party, met and adopted some resolutions that weren't just a rubber
stamp for Yeltsin's capitalist program.  Responding to the
unprecedented misery that has been caused by the "free market,"
they demanded higher wages and pensions as well as cuts in
workers' taxes. They also voted--quite democratically--to remove
Yeltsin as prime minister and dismiss his cabinet in three months.

All hell broke loose.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, who "just happened" to be
visiting Moscow, told reporters he warned the Russians that
"changes in the economic program by the Congress were steps
backward, not forward." Then he pulled out his biggest economic
club. He threatened to cut off an aid package of $24 billion from
the World Bank that had been announced just in time to be dangled
before the Russian Congress.

It all shows what the ruling class here has in mind for Russia.
They have no intentions of helping a competing capitalist power
get on its feet. Their aim is to enslave it and make it part of
their neocolonial empire.

The bankers here want the World Bank and International Monetary
Fund to draw up Russian budgets and decide how many urban and
rural workers will go hungry.  This goes double for the other
republics of the former USSR.

Such open intervention in Soviet affairs was unthinkable just a
short time ago.  Now Brady can tell the Russian Congress, "Get
with the program or else." U.S.  imperialism is working furiously
to strengthen Yeltsin's executive powers--meaning his right to
rule by decree--as a bulwark against the rising mass resistance to
the counter-revolution.

                               ***

This article originally appeared in Workers World newspaper. A
10-week trial subscription is available for $2. A year's
subscription costs $15. Makes checks payable to Workers World, and
send to 46 W. 21 St., New York, NY 10010.Phone (212) 255-0352. You
may contact Workers World editors on NY Transfer or PeaceNet at
"workers."

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