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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 08:35:15 GMT


"I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that
undermines the moral and legal foundations of a society. I reject the
notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on
potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true -- that
savagery begets only savagery." -- Andrei Sakharov

[From "The Death Penalty -- Cruel & Inhuman Punishment" a pamphlet by
Amnesty International [322 8th Ave., New York, NY 10001]


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Book: Triumph of the Image - Gulf War
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:33:47 GMT

/** media.issues: 232.0 **/
** Topic: New Book*Triumph of the Image*Gulf  **
** Written  9:20 pm  Oct  7, 1992 by hfrederick in cdp:media.issues **
From: Howard Frederick <hfrederick>
Subject: New Book*Triumph of the Image*Gulf War

From ausisicp Wed Oct  7 12:44:16 1992


     Triumph of the Image:  The Media's War in the Persian Gulf -
     A Global Perspective, edited by Hamid Mowlana, Director of
     the International Communication Program at The American
     University, George Gerbner, Professor of Communication in
     the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of
     Pennsylvania, and Herbert I. Schiller, Professor Emeritus at
     the University of California - San Diego.

     Published by Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder,
     Colorado 80301; Telephone:  303-444-3531; Fax:  303-449-
     3356.


The triumph of image over reality and reason is the theme of this
book.  The studies from the many countries assembled suggest that
it was not the war in the Persian Gulf that we witnessed but
rather imagery orchestrated to convey a sense of triumph and thus
to achieve results that reality and reason could never have
achieved.  The book offers contributions from 35 authors in 18
countries, including short samplings from the media of several
regions.  The authors explore the social, economic, and political
context of media coverage in their countries, the domination of
one image in most of the, and the struggle for alternative
perspectives.

** End of text from cdp:media.issues **

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From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Greenpeace via Jym Dyer)
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Subject: BULLETIN: Russian Coastguard Threatens to Fire on Greenpeace Ship
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:24:56 GMT
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[Greenpeace Bulletin from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

    RUSSIAN COASTGUARD THREATENS TO FIRE ON GREENPEACE SHIP

KARA SEA--11 October, 1992--The Greenpeace ship, SOLO, was
pursued by a Russian coastguard vessel early this morning as it
crossed the Kara Straits and was warned that shots would be fired
if it refused to stop.

The SOLO, which is on a mission to document submarine nuclear
reactor dumps off the coast of Novaya Zemlya -- the Russian
nuclear testing site -- was chased after entering Russian
territorial waters at 4:55 local time.

Three flares were fired at the SOLO when captain, Albert Kuiken,
refused to alter SOLO's course.

The Russian authorities warned that weapons would be used if the
SOLO did not stop. Captain Kuiken replied that this would cause
an international incident since the SOLO was unarmed and
exercising the right of free passage.

At this point, the SOLO had cleared the Russian territorial
waters of the Straits and had entered international waters.

A Peoples Deputy from the Russain Supreme Soviet, Anatoly
Mostovoy, who is sailing onboard the SOLO, also spoke to the
coastguard vessel. He was warned that criminal charges would be
laid against him.

"Your response is a little serious," Mostovoy responded. "This
ship is not a threat to Russia."

Soon after this exchange, SOLO increased its speed and at 6:45
the Greenpeace ship was proceeding north towards the dumpsites
in the Kara Sea.

The coastguard vessel was still in pursuit but falling behind.

"Novaya Zemlya is a deadly legacy of the nuclear age," Greenpeace
campaigner onboard, John Sprange said. "Some 132 nuclear tests
and 15 dumped nuclear reactors there are protected by military
secrecy. The Cold War is now over and the world needs to know the
environmental consequences of the age."

A government sponsored Russian-Norwegian scientific expedition,
which aimed to investigate the extent of radioactive
contamination in the Kara Sea, was also denied access to the dump
sites in September.

Last week, Greenpeace released a report which estimated that the
waters around Novaya Zemlya contained the largest nuclear sea
dump in the world.  The former Soviet navy has been secretly
dumping nuclear submarine reactors there, some still fully-
fuelled, since the early 1960s.
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: The "Education President" gets an F
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:59:59 GMT

The Decline of America: The "Education President" gets an F


========================================================
Average science test scores among fourteen-year-olds in
            seventeen countries, 1983-86:
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             SCIENCE                    SCIENCE
COUNTRY       SCORE   COUNTRY            SCORE

Hungary       21.7    Australia          17.8
Japan         20.2    Italy              16.7
Netherlands   19.8    United Kingdom(40) 16.7
Canada(39)    18.6    Singapore          16.5
Finland       18.5    Thailand           16.5
Sweden        18.4    United States      16.5
Poland        18.1    Hong Kong          16.4
South Korea   18.1    Philippines        11.5
Norway        17.9

Source: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational
Achievement, Science Achievement in Seventeen Countnes, A Preliminary
Report (New York Pergamon Press, 1988).

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From: 
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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   



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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: PRIORITIES: Bombs, not Food for 3rd World
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:59:41 GMT

The Decline of America: PRIORITIES: Bombs, not Food for 3rd World

        Four months after Bush attended a World Summit for Children at
which he and 70 other heads of state pledged to make meaningful
efforts to provide the relatively small amount ($2.5 billion per year)
needed worldwide to save the lives of 150 million children in the
developing world from hunger and preventable diseases in this decade,
now he wants to reduce the contribution to UNICEF from $75 million to
$55 million.

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Sources for information cited here include the 1989 Report of
the Coalition of Mayors and The State of America's Children
(1991), published by the Children's Defense Fund.

From "Suffer the Little Children" by Anne Marie Palmer, Lone Star
Socialist.  The Lone Star Socialist is published by the Socialist
Party of Texas and they can be reached at P.O. Box 2640, Austin, TX
78768.


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Subject: Nicaragua Series intermission: Some Quotes
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:00:02 GMT
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Nicaragua Series intermission: Some Quotes

"The man whom [the Sandinistas] honor, Sandino, he said he was a
communist." -- Ronald Reagan, in _Time_, March, 1986.

"The commandantes even betrayed the memory of the Nicaraguan rebel
leader Sandino, whose legacy they falsely claim. For the real Sandino,
because he was a genuine nationalist, was opposed to communism." --
Ronald Reagan, June 24, 1986.

[Cited in George Black's book _The Good Neighbor_]
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From: "RHODNEY WARD, (812) 855-4334W/336-4829H" <ROWARD%ucs.indiana.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Need Information on Crisis Pregnancy Center/Fake Clinics
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:15:05 GMT


Hey Everyone,

RORR (Reclaim Our Reproductive Rights, in Bloomington, Indiana) is planning a
 demonstration against the ole Crisis Pregnancy Center
(CPC), that wonderful lil' network of fake clinics that harrass women who come
in, lured by their offer of free pregnancy tests.

We have a research team working on documenting the nefarious doings of the
Crisis Preg. Ctr's around the country.  We need your help.  If you know of
any pertinent articles on the CPC or have first hand experience, anecdotes,
etc. that you could share with us, that would be absolutely peachy!

Send info and suggestions to my email address:

roward@ucs.indiana.edu or roward@iubacs.bitnet

Thanks a lot!
Rhodney Ward
120 S. Kingston Dr., A-7
Bloomington, IN 47408
(812)336-4829h/(812)855-4334w
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Dorothy Bing, Pacifist 1900-1992
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:15:12 GMT

/** wri.news: 522.0 **/
** Topic: Dorothy Bing 1900-1992 **
** Written  5:29 pm  Sep 30, 1992 by gn:peacenews in cdp:wri.news **
*** Dorothy Bing 1900-1992
 
I have an affectionate mind's eye picture of the last time I saw
Dorothy, _writes HARRY MISTER_. She was bustling around, friendly
and practical as always, sorting out a mountain of old clothing at a
Peace Pledge Union fundraising event; one of those never-ending
loyalists of the peace cause who are always willing to take on the
donkey work of the movement. And at PPU Councils, when trivia
erupted into tantrums, a gentle-voiced Dorothy would firmly step in
to restore the goodwill.
 
Born nearly 92 years ago, Dorothy was a life-long pacifist. In the
First World War, she and her brother Harold worked for COs and the
Non Conscription Fellowship. Harold joined many of their comrades in
jail for his anti-war stand. They were pioneer members of the
postwar "No More War" movement, and were in at the start of the War
Resisters' International. Harold took over the chair of WRI after
its founding secretary, Herbert Runham Brown, died, and Dorothy was
for many years its financial agent in Britain.
 
When, in the middle '30s, "No More War" members merged with the
newly founded Peace Pledge Union, Dorothy helped restart an active
group in Croydon, and to build up the Surrey area of the movement.
In the '40s and '50s, COs in Britain set about reformulating the
positive implications of their antiwar stand. Oxfam, much influenced
by pacifist initiatives, took on relief work in the aftermath of war
and the disasters of the post-colonial era. Dorothy became an
indefatigable worker to the world's hungry and oppressed. Just
before her 90th birthday she was still helping to run her local
Oxfam shop.
 
In the early '80s Dorothy joined with that too-often forgotten
prophet of pacifist living, Wilfred Wellock, in the Social Order
group of the PPU, a germinal body of environmental ideas. 
 
The children she taught throughout her working life must have gained
immeasurable from knowing her. Worldwide there are hundreds of
thousands of unassuming, deeply committed people living out their
convictions as Dorothy has. They are the firm foundation from which
pacifism can grow.
 
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* Reprinted from Peace News 2359 (October 1992).                  *
* Please credit if reprinting.                                    *
* Peace News and War Resisters' International,                    *
* 55 Dawes Street, London SE17 1EL                                *
* (tel +44 71 703 7189; fax 708 2545; email peacenews@gn.apc.org) *
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: FORUM: Labor in South Africa (Rutgers U.,OCT 26)
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[Via misc.activism.progressive from PeaceNet's 
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Topic 277       Labor in South Africa 
emcelroy        Labor News & Notes       1:37 pm  Oct  8, 1992 
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From: Eugene McElroy <emcelroy> 
Subject: Labor in South Africa 

An Evening of Cultural and Political Events... 

                             FORUM: 
             THE PROSPECTS FOR LABOR IN SOUTH AFRICA 


                            Speakers: 

                           DAVID KHOZA 
          General Secretary, National Union of Forestry 
                and Allied Workers, South Africa 


                        MICHAEL SCHREIBER 
              Editor, 'Socialist Action' newspaper 
                  recently toured South Africa 


                         BRIDGET GILHOOL 
          President, Rutgers Graduate Labor Association 


                           ********** 
Opening Reception for the sculptures of Don Kennell in the Labor 
Education Center Courtyard 

Closing Reception for the paintings of Keith Christensen, Labor 
Education Center Lobby. 


                           ********** 
Monday, October 26, 6pm reception, 7:30 forum at the 
                           AUDITORIUM 
                     LABOR EDUCATION CENTER 
                       RUTGERS UNIVERSITY 
                  Ryders Lane and Clifton Ave  
                    New Brunswick, New Jersey 

                           *********** 
Sponsored by: Graduate Labor Association, Rutgers University/ New 
Brunswick AAUP, Labor Artist-in-Residence Program of the NJ 
Industrial Union Council/Art-Work 

               for information call  908-220-1472 

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From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: INFO: Greenpeace Statement on Plutonium Shipment
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Date: 16 Oct 1992 23:27:27 GMT
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[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

                     GREENPEACE STATEMENT
                            on the
        Imminent Plutonium Shipment from France to Japan

                        October 7, 1992

In the next few days, the Japanese ship "Akatsuki Maru" will
arrive in France to receive a 1.7 tonne cargo of plutonium.  This
transport will inaugurate a program of global plutonium sea
shipments from France and Britain to Japan.

These shipments, involving as much as 45 tonnes of plutonium
before the year 2000 alone, represent an unprecedented threat to
the environment and public health.  An accident releasing even a
small quantity of plutonium from one of these cargoes could
inflict fatal lung cancer on thousands of people and could
irrevocably contaminate marine or terrestrial areas for tens of
thousands of years.

At the same time, these plutonium shipments represent an
unparalleled risk of nuclear weapons proliferation.  If used for
weapons production, each of these shipments could result in the
construction of at least 120 nuclear bombs.

These widely recognized risks have fuelled increasing
consternation at both national and international levels. National
governments and regional fora have taken action to ban the
shipments from their territorial or economic zone waters.  The
International Maritime Organization will discuss the
environmental and safety risks of the plutonium shipments at
meetings in October and December respectively.  The Deputy
Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in a speech
in Japan, warned that commercial production and stockpiling of
plutonium "poses a major political and security problem
worldwide".

Japan, France and Britain have remained obstinately and
inexcusably silent in the face of this growing international
protest.  Unmoved by official requests for information from
countries around the world, Japan's silence is a direct denial of
the right and responsibility of sovereign states to protect the
environment and public health.  Silence in the face of formal
decisions to assess these safety and security risks at the
international level is nothing less than an arrogant and
unjustifiable denial of the will of the international
community.

Greenpeace therefore calls on individuals and nations around the
world to take all actions necessary to stop these
inexcusable shipments.  At the same time, if this first plutonium
transport does leave France for Japan, Greenpeace pledges to make
all efforts to follow the shipment in order to provide nations
along the transport route with the information they require to
protect human health and the environment.
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From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: President Bush Urged to Sign Anti-Driftnet Measure
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Date: 16 Oct 1992 23:21:59 GMT
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[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]

   GREENPEACE CALLS ON PRESIDENT TO SIGN ANTI-DRIFTNET MEASURE
            Ocean Protection Bill Faces Possible Veto

SEATTLE, USA October 5, 1992 (GP) -- Today Greenpeace called upon
President Bush to sign into law a bill passed by Congress to stop
high seas driftnet fishing, a highly destructive fishing method
known to kill tens of millions of sea creatures every year.

The legislation, H.R. 2152, prohibits the use of U.S. ports for
driftnet fleet resupply efforts, calls for existing programs to
be used to surveil driftnet fishing activities far offshore, and
mandates sanctions against seafood products from any country
which driftnets after 1992. An international coalition of
conservation groups and fishing interests have worked for nearly
a decade to halt large-scale driftnetting on the high seas.

"The President has a tailor-made chance to protect ocean
fisheries, marine wildlife, and U.S. jobs from destruction," said
Ben Deeble, Greenpeace ocean ecology campaigner. "This bill is a
win-win example of how to protect both jobs and the environment,
but only if Bush signs it into law."

High seas driftnets, used in the North Pacific by Japanese,
Taiwanese, and South Korean fleets, have been blamed with
intercepting millions of salmon and albacore tuna which normally
return to regenerate in North America's rivers and offshore
waters. High seas driftnets are believed to be exacerbating
already declining catches of salmon, particularly in coastal
areas outside Alaska. Catches of albacore tuna by the U.S. fleet
have declined by 90 percent in recent years, forcing many
fishermen in California, Oregon, and Washington out of business.

Estimates published by Japanese fishery scientists show that over
40 million creatures of over 100 different species (including
whales, sea turtles, dolphins, seabirds, sharks, and fin-fish)
were caught by Japan's driftnet fishery for squid during 1990.
The United Nations last year called for all large-scale driftnet
fishing in international waters, which uses nets up to 30 miles
long, to cease by December 31, 1992. However, the U.N. measure is
a resolution only. What is needed is a legally-binding
international agreement for all fishing on the high seas to
ensure effective implementation and compliance with the U.N.
moratorium. Greenpeace is actively participating in negotiations
currently underway, as a result of UNCED, toward international
agreement over the future of fishing on the high seas.
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