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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Cuba Caravan Alert
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:59:35 GMT

/** reg.cuba: 249.0 **/
** Topic: CARAVAN ALERT!! **
** Written  7:11 am  Nov 17, 1992 by sfaria in cdp:reg.cuba **
CARAVAN ALERT!!

The San Francisco/Bay Area U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment is activating
its emergency response network because of the latest news that a
customs official in Laredo, TX, was quoted as saying that the
caravan would be prevented from carrying embargoed materials into
Mexico, even if it means arrest.

According to the November 15 edition of the Minneapolis Star-
Tribune, Audrey Plotkin, district director of U.S. Customs, met
last week with Laredo plice, Texas Deptartment of Public Safety,
and U.S. Border Patrol representatives.  She says that they don't
want any problems, they want to "ensure the flow of international
trade and traffic," but that items included in the U.S. embargo
against Cuba would be kept from crossing the bridge into Mexico. 
Customs licensing personnel from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets
Control will reportedly be in Laredo to try to issue export
licenses to the caravan.  "If they don't want to get a license and
they try and ship the goods, they will be stopped," said Judy
Turner of the Customs Service in Houston.  "If that means we have
to detain them or arrest them, then that's what we'll do."

Timely response is crucial to the success of the caravan.  We are
calling, writing, and sending mailgrams to the division of the
Treasury Department that administers the embargo (this has proved
very effective in the past), demonstrating along with many other
U.S. cities this Friday, November 20 at 5:00pm, at 425 Market St
near Embardadero BART, and asking people to activate their own
phone lists with this informatioin.

Please call the Friendshipment's 24-Hour Hotline, 510-273-9199, to
find out how you can help get the caravan across the U.S. border
into Mexico.  The hotline is updated several times each day, as the
situation changes.  We'll also continue to post new in reg.cuba,
pn.announcements, and pn.alerts.

** End of text from cdp:reg.cuba **

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: AI: Liberia: Killing of Nuns
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:06:12 GMT

/** headlines: 488.0 **/
** Topic: LIBERIA: killing of nuns **
** Written 12:03 pm  Nov 16, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:headlines **
/* Written 10:43 pm  Nov 14, 1992 by aiusala in igc:ai.general */
/* ---------- "LIBERIA: killing of nuns" ---------- */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat                                                   
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom

DATE: 6 NOVEMBER 1992

LIBERIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED BY KILLINGS OF NUNS

Amnesty International said today it was gravely concerned by the recent
killing of five Roman Catholic nuns by armed men in Liberia's capital,
Monrovia, and by reports that four Roman Catholic novices have gone missing. 
It said it was also deeply concerned about reports that as many as 300
children who have been made orphans during Liberia's conflict have been taken
away by National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) forces and may also now be
at grave risk.

      The five nuns, all United States nationals, are said to have been seized
and summarily killed between 20 and 22 October during an assault on Monrovia
by forces supporting Charles Taylor's NPFL, which controls much of Liberia. 
Monrovia's Roman Catholic archbishop, Michael Francis, is reported to have
said that four Roman Catholic novices, all Liberian nationals, have also gone
missing, amid fears that they may have been killed or detained by NPFL forces. 
Their situation, and that of the 300 Liberian orphans said to have been taken
away by the NPFL remains unclear. 

      "We utterly condemn the deliberate and arbitrary killing of the nuns",
Amnesty International said, "and we are very concerned about the situation of
the Liberian novices and orphans.  We call on the NPFL to clarify urgently
whether they are in its custody and, if so, to guarantee their safety."

      Amnesty International made this call while reiterating its appeal to all
parties to the Liberian conflict to respect human rights and basic
humanitarian standards.
** End of text from cdp:headlines **

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Re: POST-ELECTION *EDITORIAL*
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:29:38 GMT

Got these two "letters" in response to the "Post-Election
Editorial" posted a week ago (these were the only items received in
response to my invitation to send replies over the next few days).

--Harel Barzilai
Co-founder, Co-moderator, misc.activism.progressive (MAP)

-->  
-->  Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:23:06 -0800
-->  From: pierce@CS.UCLA.EDU (Brad Pierce)<
-->  To: harelb@math.cornell.edu
-->  Subject: Re: POST-ELECTION *EDITORIAL*
-->  Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
-->  In-Reply-To: <1992Nov13.005250.24748@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
-->  Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
-->  Cc: 
-->  
-->  ---
-->  
-->  Opinion: If every "progressive" who voted for Clinton/Gore had
-->           instead voted for a third-party candidate, Bush/Quayle
-->           would still have lost.
-->  
-->  ---
-->  
-->  
-->  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
-->  
-->  Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:01 CST
-->  From: Kerry Miller <ASTINGSH@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>
-->  Subject:      Re: POST-ELECTION *EDITORIAL*
-->  To: Harel Barzilai <harelb@math.cornell.edu>
-->  In-Reply-To:  Your message of Thu 12 Nov 1992 20:04:55 EST
-->  
-->    you calculate Clinton got 23% of the vote if "eligible voters"
-->  were all taken into account.  Given the anomalies of
-->  registration, why take even that number as anything reliably
-->  indicative of the number of people who *might* have voted?  -
-->
-->  which also helps explain the 20% who voted for Bush - as the
-->  pollsters have known for a long time, theres a real difference
-->  between likely voters and the rest -- and most likely are those
-->  who voted before, and most of *them* obviously had voted for GB.

-->  What would therefore be really interesting to know is, of New
-->  Voters, what were the percentages like?
-->  
-->  kerry miller      astingsh@ksuvm.ksu.edu
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From: New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Lawrence Summers and Clinton
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:38:32 GMT

/* Written 10:19 am  Nov 22, 1992 by clevenstein@igc.apc.org in igc:labor.hazards */
/* ---------- "Lawrence Summers and Clinton" ---------- */
In yesterday's New York Times, it was reported that Robert Reich,
one of Clinton's key economic advisors, had insufficient credibility
because he was not "really" an economist, but a lawyer.  To
counteract this attack, Lawrence Summers is taking a leave from the
World Bank to work with Reich.  Wasn't it Summers who wrote a memo
at the World Bank (that was leaked) arguing for the economic 
reasonableness of shipping hazardous waste to Third World countries?
From: Ron Buckmire <buckmr%rpi.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: ONE HOMOSEXUAL KILLED EVERY 5 DAYS IN RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:29:00 GMT


Copyright 1992 by UPI
Reposted with permission from the ClariNet Electronic Newspaper newsgroup
clari.group.gays.  For more info on ClariNet, write to info@clarinet.com or
phone 1-800-USE-NETS.



	RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (UPI) -- A study published Sunday said one
homosexual is killed every five days in Rio de Janeiro.
	At least 50 homosexuals were killed between January and September of
this year in the Brazilian coastal city, with the real figure probably
much higher due to the reluctance of families to report the full
circumstances of the deaths, said the Bay Gay Group in a report in the
daily O Globo newspaper.
	The group also said 1,200 homosexuals were killed throughout the
country between 1980 and 1991, with most of their bodies showing
evidence of a violent death.
	The Rio gay organization's vice president, Hildes Cunha, claimed
about 10 percent of crimes against homosexuals were given a serious
investigation by police.
	Cunha said the police only bothered with cases involving rich or
famous homosexuals, such as businessman Aparicio Basilio da Silva, whose
case was solved 10 days after he was found dead with 97 knife wounds.
	The group's founder, Paulo Cesar Fernandes, said in the O Globo
report that Brazilian police preferred to register the crimes as
robberies that resulted in deaths rather than murders.
	Observers agree the groups most at risk in Rio are transvestites and
homosexuals from abroad.
	The Bay Gay Group's study came from police records, interviews with
families and newspaper reports.
---
RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735.  ``D.C., April 25 1993''
uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910
"We are gay, we are black. We are often asked to choose between one or the
other and we cannot. We need to find the strength to be both."-Pomo Afro Homos
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: "Earning Interest on Your Principles": WORKING ASSETS (autopost)
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Organization: PACH
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:30:05 GMT

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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: NEWS:Friendshipment Reaches Mexican Border/wbai
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:54:00 GMT
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Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit

Cuba Caravan Arrives at Mexican Border

from WBAI-FM New York, Thursday, November 19


CUBAN FRIENDSHIPMENT ARRIVES AT MEXICAN BORDER

The 44 vehicles and 104 people participating in US-Cuba
Friendshipment, have arrived at the Laredo, Texas-Mexican border.
Tom Hansen, spokeman for the caravan, spoke via telephone on
WBAI.  He said the Mexican government has expidited paperwork for
the group and exonerated them of all fees.  They will receive a
police escort for the twelve-hour drive to Tampico, where the
material aid -- powdered milk, bicycles, medicines, school
supplies and bibles -- will be loaded aboard a Cuban freighter.
The Mexican stevedors' union has agreed to load to aid for free,
and the City of Tampico will open its civic center to the participants
for the two days they will spend in there.

Upon reading that the United States government may try to
prevent the caravan from crossing the Mexican border and could,
in fact, arrest the participants, seventeen members of the
European Economic Community have sent a letter to the US
government asking them to allow the caravan to go through.  The
letter pointed out the suffering of the Cuban people as a result
of the more than thirty year US imposed old embargo, and said the
to prevent the aid from going to Cuba would be a violation of
human rights.

-- summary by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News


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From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: ADL Response to Gov. Fordice Remarks on "Christian Nation"
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: NDA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:32:22 GMT

Here is a press release from the Anti-Defamation League.

 ADL Response to Gov. Fordice Remarks on "Christian Nation"
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Myrna Shinbaum of the Anti-Defamation League,
          212-490-2525, ext. 145

   NEW YORK, Nov. 18 -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) 
today deplored statements by Mississippi Gov. Kirk Fordice
labeling America "a Christian nation" and asserting that "the less
we emphasize the Christian religion the further we fall into the
abyss of poor character and chaos in the United States of America."
   In a letter to the governor, Melvin Salberg, ADL national
chairman, and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director, said, "we
find your comments appalling" and "unworthy of any governor elected
to represent a diverse and pluralistic constituency.
   "Whether or not it was your intent," Salberg and Foxman
continued, "the effect of your remarks was to demean all Americans
who are not Christian."  In referring to Gov. Fordice's reported
rejection of South Carolina Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr.'s
assertion that America is based on "a Judeo-Christian" heritage,
the ADL leaders said the Mississippi governor's response "reflects
a shocking and incomprehensible insensitivity to Jews and Judaism."
   Saying that "America is a nation of many religions," and citing
the Constitutional guarantee "for everyone to worship as he or she
chooses," the ADL leaders urged Fordice "to reconsider your views
on the subject, which we believe cast doubt on your ability and
willingness to govern fairly all of the citizens of your state."
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:35:15 GMT


    "The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is
    now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really
    based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and
    create, live their lives freely within institutions they control,
    and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all"

		--Noam Chomsky, quoted page 62, "Economic Roundtable"
		on Albert/Hahnel's books "Looking Forward --
		Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century"
		proposing a system free of Capitalist or
		Coordinatorist/Statist (East European) oppression
		Z magazine, July/August, 1991.

[For more about Z, email harelb@math.cornell.edu]


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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NEWS:Arson Attack on Boston Unionist/ww
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:17:14 GMT



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


ARSON ATTACK ON HOME OF BOSTON BUS UNION LEADER

By Workers World Boston bureau

An arson attack on the home of a school bus union vice president
has roused an angry response across the state of Massachusetts.

On Nov. 11 the home of Steel Workers Local 8751 Vice President
Stevan Kirschbaum was hit by arson. A fire was set near the rear
of the house by the room of his 3 1/2-year-old daughter who was
asleep at the time. Local 8751 represents Boston school bus
drivers and is currently engaged in a difficult struggle to stop
a union-busting effort by the city, the school board and the bus
company.

Fire officials said the suspicious arson attempt was clearly "not
the work of kids." Arson Squad Inspector Jerry E. Smith told
union officials that the materials used to start the fire were
drenched with an unidentified accelerant. Smith said the
placement of the materials was "the work of someone who wanted to
burn the house down."

The union issued a statement saying: "This narrowly averted
tragedy was no coincidence, and demonstrates a totally brutal and
blatant disregard for human life on the part of the assailants.
The fire was started while the family was sure to be home. It is
sheer luck that no one was killed or seriously injured."

It is no coincidence that the arson attack came after six months
of continuous assaults on the union. Local 8751 has been the
target of a calculated pattern of violence and disruption
perpetrated and promoted by the city, school department and the
bus company. This violence has come in many forms--from a media
campaign of lies and distortions, to the elimination of 120
driver positions, making working conditions unsafe, to the denial
of city-guaranteed wage and benefit increases. And it came in the
form of the frame up of three union negotiators on 60 false
felony charges.

Labor unions across the state have called on Boston's mayor and
fire department to launch a full, independent investigation of
the criminal arson attack. Joseph C. Faherty, president of the
Massachusetts AFL-CIO, has demanded "a thorough investigation in
bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice." His was
one of many similar calls for justice.


(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; "workers" on PeaceNet; on Internet:
"workers@mcimail.com".)


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From: New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org>
Subject: MO smelter workers
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:45:04 GMT

/* Written  2:27 am  Nov 17, 1992 by indwrk@web.apc.org in igc:labor.newsline */
/* ---------- "MO smelter workers" ---------- */

Dear Comrades,
   300 workers at Doe Run Co. smelter in Herculaneum, outside of
St. Louis MO, have been on strike since July 30. The company which
has lead mines in Missouri feeding the smelters wanted the right
to reclassify any worker and reduce wages up to 53% down to $8.50
per hour. It was essentially a union busting operation. Doe Run,
owned by Flour Corp., a few years ago succeeded in decertifying
their mine unions. Smelter workers voted 272-0 to strike, and are
pursuing company strikebreaking agents by picketing any place they
set up shop.
   Dave Lalumondier of Teamsters local 688 says the workers would
be glad to hear of support from fellow workers, and also they have
a DOE RUN EMPLOYEES RELIEF FUND to acccept gifts of food or funds.
These can be sent to: 300 Grand St., St. Louis, MO 63103. -Abraham
Bassford

(Letters to the editor Industrial Worker Dec 92)
From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NEWS:Journalist Killed in Mexico/ed-lp
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:19:52 GMT


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

from El Diario La Prensa
11/16 Mexico

JOURNALIST KILLED IN MEXICO

Ignacio Mendoza, 52 years old, former director of the newspaper La
voz del Caribe, was shot to death on Friday night, November 13 in
Mexico City.  One day before his death Mendoza had appeared before
the governmental National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) to say
that he felt desperate in the face of agressive actions by the
governor of the state of Quintana Roo, Mendoza's home state.
Mendoza accused the governor, Miguel Borge, of having ordered
Mendoza's three children to be shot.

The journalist was killed by gunshots through the door of his home
in the Iztapalapa neighborhood of Mexico City, where he lived in
self-exile from his home state for fear of the governor's threats.
On the night of the killing Mendoza returned to his home after a
demonstration by journalists commemorating the 50th anniversary of
the Foreign Correspondents Association of Mexico, which was
attended by Mexican president Carlos Salinas.  (AFP 11/16)

translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News


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