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From: ASIACOLL%AC.DAL.CA@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: "Urgent warning"
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:55:31 GMT



Dear all,

In The Chronicle-Herald : The Mail-Star Saturday, January 9, 1993 C2,
David Suzuki, a Canadian scientist and writer mentioned that at "The end
of November, the prestigious Union of Concerned Scientists released an
urgent warning tha the planet is undergoing catastrophic ecological change
that threatens all of humankind. Their global call to action was signed
by over 1500 senior scientists, including 101 Nobel laureates from around the
world".

Any idea where can I get the documentation?

Nick
email: zaigi@ac.dal.ca
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:35:14 GMT


APOLITICAL INTELLECTUALS

One Day
the apolitical intellectuals
of my country
will be interrogated
by the simplest of our people.
They will be asked what they did
when their nation died out
slowly, like a sweet fire,
small and alone.
No one will ask them
about their dress,
their long lunch breaks,
no one will want to know
about their sterile combats
with "the idea of the nothing"
no one will care about
their higher financial learning.
They won't be questioned
on Greek mythology,
or regarding their self-disgust
when someone within them
begins to die
the coward's death.
They'll be asked nothing
about their absurd justifications,
born in the shadow
of the total lie.
On that day
the simple men will come.
Those who had no place
in the books and poems
of the apolitical intellectuals,
but daily delivered
their bread and milk,
those who mended their clothes,
those who drove their cars,
who cared for their dogs and gardens
and worked for them, and they'll ask:
"What did you do when the poor
suffered, when tenderness
and life burned out in them?"
Apolitical intellectuals of my sweet country,
you will not be able to answer.
A vulture of silence
will eat your gut.
Your own misery will pick at your soul.
And you will be mute in your shame.

--Castillo

[From: _American Pictures_ multi-media show pamphlet.]
[Email harelb@math.cornell.edu for address or see IGC's "gen.references"]


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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:35:15 GMT


Chomsky, on the "free" Nicaraguan elections of 1990:

[...] The most interesting point, however, is the third.  Suppose that
the USSR were to follow the U.S. model as the Baltic states declare
independence, organizing a proxy army to attack them from foreign
bases, training its terrorist forces to hit "soft targets" (health
centers, schools, etc.) so that the governments cannot provide social
services, reducing the economies to ruin through embargo and other
sanctions, and so on, in the familiar routine.  Suppose further that
when elections come, the Kremlin informs the population, loud and
clear, that they can vote for the CP or starve.  Perhaps some
unreconstructed Stalinist might call this a "free and fair election."
Surely no one else would.

[...]

	       ===================================
	       T h e   D e c l i n e   o f   t h e
     		 D e m o c r a t i c   I d e a l
	       ===================================
		By Noam Chomsky, Z magazine, 3/90

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From: Harel Barzilai <harelb@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:55 PST
Subject: URGENT:TO IN THESE TIMES WRITERS
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1425500044:000:1294
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!harelb    Jan 11 16:55:00 1993


/* Written 11:58 am  Jan 11, 1993 by newsdesk in igc:headlines */
/* ---------- "URGENT:TO IN THESE TIMES WRITERS" ---------- */
/* Written  1:07 pm  Jan  8, 1993 by saskin in igc:nwu.agenda */
/* ---------- "URGENT:TO IN THESE TIMES WRITERS" ---------- */
URGENT!!!

If you have written for In These Times in the past five years and have
not been fully paid for your work, please contact me immediately. 
Having won at least $25,000 for ITT writers through grievance action,
the NWU is now negotiating with the paper toward a comprehensive
settlement of all remaining debt.  

The NWU would like to hear from ALL writers who've done work for ITT 
since 1987 and have not already been in touch with the NWU.  We are 
trying to determine the accuracy of ITT's claims to us regarding 
that status of their back debts to writers, and would like to hear 
from anyone who has written for them, whether your experience 
regarding payment is positive or negative.  Input from all ITT 
writers, union members and non-union alike, will be crucial in 
shaping the settlement of our longstanding dispute with ITT.  

I'll send a detailed explanation of the situation, together with 
some specific questions, to any ITT writers who respond to this 
notice. -- Steve Askin, In These Times Grievance Officer

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:35:14 GMT


    "...Laura Barrett, represending the Missouri Public Interest
    Research Group, noted that international trade treaties can
    actually undo federal and state laws to protect the environment.

    "According to Sierra Club member Rick Lamonica, `The greatest
    danger with free trade is the [further] empowerment of
    transnational corporations to transcend political governments and
    expand exploitation everywhdre. In institutes methods for
    corporations to circumvent environmental, labor, and consumer
    protection regulations through appointed, unaccountable
    international trade bureacrats that can declare laws "hidden"
    trade barriers.'

    "Mary Jo Maroney summed up feelings of the Gateway Greens: `Greens
    believe that popele themselves, through their elected workplace
    and community representatives, should decide what do produce anad
    how to do it. Citizense of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada should
    control our own economic destinies. NAFTA would be a sharp turn
    away from ecological sanity. Defeating NAFTA is a must; but, we
    must do more. We must remove power from multinationla corporations
    and create true economic democracy.'

===

From _Confronting Free Trade_ by Don Fitz in Z magazine, December 1992
issue. Write for a sample issue for $3 at the address below; please
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From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Unocal Abandons Pacific Waste-Trade Scheme
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 8 Jan 1993 00:52:21 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
Keywords: environment press

[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
 
RETURN TO SENDER: UNOCAL ABANDONS PACIFIC WASTE-TRADE SCHEME    
        Marshall Islands Rejects 'Toxic Colonialism'
 
SAN FRANCISCO, December 17, 1992 (GP) -- Officials in the
Marshall Islands have rejected UNOCAL's scheme to ship toxic
soil to Kwajalein Atoll because the oil company "never
negotiated in good faith," according to an attorney for a
Marshalls development agency.
 
Los Angeles-based UNOCAL, which had tried to convince the
Kwajalein Atoll Development Authority (KADA) to accept
13,000 or more tons of waste soil, announced Wednesday it had
"re-evaluated the project" and ordered the waste barge Pacific
Trader to turn back from the Marshalls.  The soil, dug up from
UNOCAL gas stations in Hawaii, is now enroute to Seattle, where
U.S. law mandates stricter decontamination treatment than it
would have received in the Marshalls.
 
"UNOCAL sent us a notice yesterday saying they were withdrawing
from the deal, when in fact there was never a formal agreement,"
KADA attorney David Lowe of Vacaville, Calif., told Greenpeace
Thursday. He said KADA was trying to determine if the soil was
suitable for construction of an island causeway, but UNOCAL did
not supply the proper information, and the scheme collapsed
after the oil company made unacceptable demands.
 
Greenpeace, which exposed the scheme and helped mobilize
opposition throughout the Pacific, applauded KADA, the
Marshallese and other people of the region for rejecting
UNOCAL's "toxic colonialism."  If the scheme had gone through,
it would have been the first waste-trade shipment from the
United States to a Pacific nation, and documents supplied to
Greenpeace show that the former UNOCAL engineer who attempted
to arrange the shipment has plans for similar schemes throughout
the Pacific.
 
"While we are pleased that this particular shipment has been
turned around, the Pacific remains at risk unless all the
countries of the region band together to ban waste trading,"
said David Rapaport, a Greenpeace clean development specialist.
"We realize the Marshall Islands has difficulty obtaining
construction material, but shipping them toxic waste is not
the answer."
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From: Robert G Halvorson <norml@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Subject: US Govt Films "HEMP FOR VICTORY" & "REEFER MADNESS"
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:05:21 GMT

Dear ALL,
	Hemp for Victory was a film made by the US Department of
	Agriculture and as such is in public domain and free to be
	braodcast on any medium with out the requirement to pay
	any royalties.  REEFER MADNESS- is a privately
	manufactured film by G&H Productions.  Reefer Madness is
	also in public domain.  The copy right for this film
	expired by the late 1980's and has not been renewed.  As
	such all or parts of it are available for use  in any form
	or manner without a requirement to pay any royalties.
	Reefer Madnes falls into a unique place, while it
	techinically had a copyright it was never enforced and as
	such has become a film used by many to build an empire on.
	Everyone will remeber the Film company that made Fredy and
	Nightmare on Elm Street.  This company it is rumored made
	it's first money, and it's bank to make the Nightmare
	films, traveling from college to college showing the film
	for $1.00 a head midnight movies.

	SO IN CONCLUSION

THESE FILMS ARE YOURS TO USE AND BROADCAST WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION
FROM ANYONE..  That is unless they have made alterations to the
film by adding stuff  this stuff may fall under some sort of
copyright regulations.

	DO YOU WANT A UNCOPYRIGHTED COPY OF THESE FILMS

Then contact 'The Institute for Hemp' at PO Box 65130  St Paul MN
or 612-222-2628.  We have both films in an unalderated version.

	Hemp for Victory---  $14.95 + $4. shipping.  Our master
	copy was obtained from the National Archinve in June of
	1990, and made from the Original 35mm Film held there.
	Your copy is a clean copy from our revised master on VHS
	in standard play mode for ease of dubbing for BROADCAST.

	Reefer Madness--- $19.95 + $4. shipping.  Our master copy
	of this film was obtained from an original celluloid
	master of this classic film.  Your copy will contain
	Reefer madness in an uncut format, in addition we have
	included a Trailer for the film 'Marijuana'.  Your copy of
	this film and trailer is on VHS in standard play mode for
	ease of dubbing for broadcast.

	If you are interested in other material for broadcast on
	cable access please call or write.  We have over 6  videos
	about hemp ready for broadcast.

John Birrenbach insthemp@igc.org


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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Nicaragua Newsbriefs 1/7/93 ed-lp
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:35:58 GMT


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


From el diario/La Prensa

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman.

"el Diario/La Prensa" is a Spanish language newspaper
published in New York City.

NICARAGUAN CONSERVATIVES PROTEST CLOSING OF PARLIAMENT

Nicaragua's ultra-conservative vice president Virgilio Godoy and
deposed National Assembly president Alfredo Cesar led 500
demonstrators, all members of the UNO coalition which brought
President Violeta Chamorro to office, protesting what they called
Chamorro's "military coup" against the Parliament.  Chamorro had
ordered a provisional board of directors to assume custody of the
documents and facilities of the Parliament last December 30,
dismissing Alfredo Cesar and other parliamentary leaders, after
Cesar refused to respect a September 29 Supreme Court decision
which stated that the Parliament had been operating illegally
since September 2, and that everything done in the Parliament
since that date was null and void. (edlp 01/07/93; Nicaragua
Solidarity Network Update #153, 01/03/93)


"MODERATE" SANDINISTAS TELL ORTEGA TO QUIT

Former Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United Nations under the
Sandinista government, Carlos Tunnerman, and Sandinista leader
Edmundo Jarquin, suggested on January 3 that the resignation of
General Humberto Ortega as head of the Nicaraguan army might
contribute to Nicaragua's stability. They said that his remaining
with the army was not healty for the armed forces or for the
tranquility of the country. Tunnerman said in a radio interview
that the army must be modernized and professionalized and put
under civilian authority. Only then, he said, would it be able to
guarantee the country's stability. Tunnerman and Jarquin, members
of the "moderate" wing of the Sandinista party, are the first two
Sandinistas to publicly state their views against Ortega remaining
at the head of the army. Ortega had said in a statement last
October that he would remain head of the army until 1997, when the
professionalization process is scheduled to be completed. (edlp
01/04/93)


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:35:14 GMT


"They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which
is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of
the sick bay or the graveyard."

        --Alexander Cockburn, at the beginning of the latter part of
        this column, concerning the Panama invasion and today's
        Panama [The Nation, Feb. 4, 1991]


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From: ta@itk.unit.no (Trond Andresen)
Subject: Advice on mailing lists wanted 
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology / SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:05:43 GMT

The Norwegian daily left-wing newspaper "Klassekampen" 
("Class struggle") will soon be connected to the Internet. 
Klassekampen (abbr. KK) has a circulation
of 9.000 and is the ONLY daily revolutionary left-wing
newspaper in Europe. The paper has a very wide readership in
Norway, and is - contrary to what one would believe - widely
respected also in non-radical political communities in Norway.
It is frequently quoted in other Norwegian media. 
KK has extensive world coverage, to a great degree made possible
by personal contacts with activists in different parts of the 
world.

As a long-time friend of this newspaper and net freak, I am
helping them with getting the most out of their imminent
net connection. So what I want advice on is which mailing lists
KK ought to subscribe to. Myself I subscribe to ACTIV-L, and are
very satisfied with this list, even if it is somewhat USA-
dominated. 

KK wants news from the WHOLE world, including of course
3W regions. It wants union, women, anti-racist, gay, 
environment news ,anything that is worth being interested in. 

Please mail me some proposals!

-- 
Trond Andresen  (ta@itk.unit.no), Trondheim, NORWAY

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From: james%ny.neavs.com@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (James Corrigan)
Subject: Re: Call Walsh to Oppose Bush's Pardons
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:36:21 GMT

Independent Counsel Walsh's office phone number is (202) 383-8940.

His office declines to give out their fax number, but the address to
send a letter to is:

	Lawrence E. Walsh
	555 13th Street N.W.
	Suite 701 West
	Washington, D.C.   20004

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From: Edward Agro <eagro%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: INFO: The IRS SPIN Program and Wartax Refusers (WTR, US)
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:19:31 GMT

The following summarizes a short article I researched for posting
to peacenet. In the interest of minimizing the byte flow to AML
and misc.activism.progressive, I only give the summary here.
Anyone who would like to see the article itself, please email me
at eagro@igc.org  -- ed
__________________________________________________________________
Summary: Non-interest bearing bank accounts are no longer
absolutely unknown to IRS, but the method of finding such
accounts, though automated, is not perfect. Wartax refusers should
be aware that non-interest-bearing accounts probably won't, but
may, be found by IRS, even if an agent doesn't actually visit a
bank.
------------------------------------------------------------------

Knowledge is power, I suppose.     |    eagro@igc.org
                                   |    eagro@silver.lcs.mit.edu
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Greece: War resister jailed for "insulting" army
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Organization: PACH
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:11:33 GMT

/** wri.news: 610.1 **/
** Written  5:28 pm  Jan  8, 1993 by gn:warresisters in cdp:wri.news **

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GREEK PRESS
London, January 8, 1993

FREE NIKOS MAZIOTIS: RECOGNISE 
THE RIGHT TO REFUSE MILITARY SERVICE
War Resisters' International, and its affiliates in over 30 countries
around the world, call for the immediate release of Nikos Maziotis,
the Greek conscientious objector facing trial at a military court in
Thessaloniki on 12 January.  Nikos -- currently on hunger strike in
jail in Thessaloniki -- was arrested in October last year, following
an earlier arrest and four-month spell in jail in 1991.

Nikos' particular "crime" is said to be insulting the Greek army by
describing it as an institution of violence.  Having already been
punished for refusing to serve in the army, he is now being
punished for explaining his reason for this refusal.  

War Resisters' International and its affiliates work for the abolition
of all armies which we regard as institutions of violence.  Greece, as
the only country in the European Community which makes no real
provision for conscientious objectors to military service, has a
system of military conscription which violates the consciences of all
those who object to being trained to kill.  It drives young men into
exile and into either injuring themselves or feigning madness to
obtain medical exemption.  Conditions within the Greek army are
so unpleasant that the authorities fear that, if they offered an
alternative civilian service for objectors, too many people would
seek objector status.

Since November, Nikos Maziotis has been on hunger strike.  His
whole being is in revolt against war and the military system and he
is prepared to risk his health, his freedom and even his life to
express this.  It is horrific that a country which gave the world
concepts such as democracy and philosophy should today treat its
young thinkers in this appalling way.

          Howard Clark, coordinator
          War Resisters' International
          55 Dawes Street, London SE17 1EL
          England
          tel: +44 71 703 7189; fax: +44 71 708 2545


sent to:  Eleutherotumia, fax +30 1 3242418
          Nea, fax +30 1 3228797
          Nike, fax  +30 1 3627270
          Ethnos, fax +30 1 6391337

copies to: 
Movement for the Defence of Political and Social Rights, fax +30 1
3640390
Association of Greek Conscientious Objectors, fax +30 1 3644476
Arnoume, fax +30 31 222503

Nikos Maziotis's prison address is:
Stratiotikes Fulakes Pavlou Mela (= Pavlos Mela Military Prison)
Thessaloniki
Greece 

The Minister of Defence is
Minister of Defence I. Varvitsiotis
Basileos Georgiou  7
Athens
** End of text from cdp:wri.news **

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