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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:51:37 GMT


			The "Communist Threat"


Shortly before the CIA coup [crushing Guatemala's first and last
democracy, which threatened the interests of US corporations, in
particular the United Fruit Company], Guatemalan Foreign Minister
Toriello commented accurately that US policy amounts to

	cataloguing as `Communism' every manifestation of
	nationalism or economic independence, any desire for social
	progress, any intellectual curiosity, and any interest in
	progressive or liberal reforms... any Latin American
	government that exerts itself to bring about a truly national
	program which affects the interests of the powerful foreign
	companies, in whose hands the wealth and the basic resources
	in large part repose in Latin America, will be pointed out as
	Communist; it will be accused of being a threat to continental
	security and making a breach in continental solidarity, and so
	will be threatened with foreign intervention.

[Quoted in Noam Chomsky, _Turning the Tide_, page 52. Footnote [21]
cites Connell-Smith, _Inter-American System_, 161f]


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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:02:39 GMT



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From: McKay Russo <xmr%rz.uni-jena.de@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Update on Rostock
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:02:42 GMT

    As reported, the attack against the refugee home in Rostock reached
its worst point Monday night, as the crowd of 900, mostly young people
stormed the 'home' and set fire to the lower floors.
Yesterday I saw a TV report made from inside the building as it was burning.
The police and fire fighters watched on a few hundred meters away as
the racist crowd set fire to the building where 150 Vietnamese refugees,
a few supporters and a camara team were trapped.  Those inside tried to
call the police emergency line and the fire department 20, 30 times,
but either the line was disconected, bussy, or the people on the other end
weren't convinced of the seriousness of the matter.  As the racists
made their way up the building, floor by floor setting fires, the people
trapped on the top floor tried desperately to get to the roof, which
was blocked by a steel door.  Then the power went out.  Eventually
they made it onto the roof and into the next building where some, but
not all the residents opened their doors and let the people in.
    Basically this happens every week in the united Germany, but not
so extreme.  Also this time there was a camera team from national
telivision, who went through the same fear as the refugees, not
knowing if the police would come, if they would be burned alive.
In this case the whole nation has seen what these refugees have gone
through and have seen the ineptitude of the police and local politicians.
Faced by such an extreme case of racism, the government will
have to respond.  But we can't let the government off the hook.  They
are partly responsible with their attempts to limit the asylum right,
with their demonizing of refugees.

The anti-fascist movement in germany was quick to respond.  Most of the
news has not yet reached me, but I know that there was a demo in
Frankfurt on Monday with 150 people and on tuesday with more people.
Also on tuesday there was a demo in Weimar with 100 people.  Like I
wrote in the last posting there was a demo in Bonn with 150
autonomists resulting in several broken windows.  I have also
heard of a demo in Rostock already.  Also in Rostock a bar
frequented by right wing skin-heads was burnt down.
Today there is another demo in Weimar and tomorrow in Erfurt.  On Saturday
there is a nation-wide demo in Rostock.  If you can't come in person
think of solidarity actions you can organize where you live.
If you need more info, write me and I'll try to get it to you.

McKay

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From: EcoNet via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: NEWS: Charges Filed for Last Year's Railroad Chemical Spill
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Date: 1 Sep 1992 23:42:52 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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Originator: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu

[From EcoNet ecotopia.news Conference]

Chemical Spill Draws Charges 
 
A year after the railroad tank car spill that killed a stretch
of the upper Sacramento River, misdemeanor charges have been
filed against the Southern Pacific Transportation Co.
 
"My concern is that the conduct does not go uncharged," Shasta
County District Attorney Dennis Sheehy said as he announced
violations of the state Fish and Game code carrying a maximum
penalty of $1,000. Sheehy's office also plans to file civil
charges for negligence.
 
The DA beat the state attorney general's office, which had yet
to file a case, though it was expected to. About 20 private
lawsuits seeking tens of millions of dollars are consolidated in
San Francisco Superior Court.
 
The train derailment on a curve north of the town of Dunsmuir
sent about 19,000 gallons of metam sodium, a highly toxic soil
fumigant, into the river last July 14, killing all aquatic life
for 45 miles downstream.
 
Trout are starting to return to the poisoned stretch of
river from tributaries, the two-mile unharmed stretch
upstream from the spill to Box Canyon Dam, and from Shasta
Reservoir downstream. The stream has been declared safe for
swimmers and fish by the regional water quality board.
 
But residents along the river still complain of persistent
health problems, and Dunsmuir voters will decide in September
whether to recall their mayor and two city council members,
criticized for their handling of the spill and a decision to
seek redevelopment money from the state.
 
(From ECONEWS, Newsletter of the Northcoast Environmental
Center, 879 9th St., Arcata, California 95521, U.S.A., August
1992. Non-profit reprints OK with credit to ECONEWS; we like
to see clips.)
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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Update on Aguilar Payes Case
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:07:52 GMT

/* Written 11:39 am  Aug 26, 1992 by web:pbi in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Update on Aguilar Payes Case" ---------- */
 
An update on the judicial cases of Cesar Erazo Cruz and Adolfo
Aguilar Payes.
 
 On July 21st, Cesar Erazo Cruz was publicly tried and was
declared innocent of the assasination of Dr. Francisco Jose
Guerrero.  However, he remained in prison on charges of violent
evasion  and subversive association based on the period when he
had been freed from prison in a raid by the FMLN. Last week he
received political amnesty for these charges and was released.
 
The case of Aquilar Payes is proving more difficult. Aguilar
Payes is charged with the assassination of Edgar Chacon and
Gabriel Payes.  He is considered to be one of the remaining
political prisoners.  The only known evidence against him is an
extra-judicial confession which was later repudiated by him as
having been signed under torture.  
 
The case was originally set for July 28th but was abruptly
suspended. The reason given for the suspension was that the
publicity over the case had created a negative environment.
 
It has now been announced that it is to take place by the end of
this month.  Both the defense and the family are very concerned
that it will not be a clean process.  Their concerns are based on
commentaries that the public trial was suspended because the jury
had been threatened and for this reason the case had been
delayed. Other measures that are causing concern include the
augmenting of security measures related to the jury amd the  
replacing of  the glass panes  with polarized glass.  They are
also saying that the trial will only be announced five hours
beforehand in order to avoid publicity and that the number of
persons that can attend will be limited.
 
Because of this situation and the valuation that the faxes sent
before had a positive effect, it is urged that people send faxes
again.
 
Suggested message:
 
President of the Republic
Alfredo Cristiani
Presidential House
San Salvador
El Salvador, C.A.
Fax: (503)  22.85.14 or 81.00.18 or 71.09.05 
 
We wish to express our concern with the route being taken in the
judicial trial of Salvadoran citizen Adolfo Aguilar Payes.  We
are concerned that such actions under the new Peace Accords may
have a damaging affect upon these Accords.
 
The above message can be sent by contacting FAXNET and asking for
the Aguilar Payes message. This can be done in several ways: By
phone - 1-800-831-2202. By fax - 1-800-241-1170.  By modem - 1-
800-241-4470.
 
Peace Brigades International
 
 
 
 


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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: MEAST ACTION ALERT: Loan Guarantees
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:07:48 GMT

/* Written  9:05 am  Aug 27, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "MEAST ACTION ALERT: Loan Guarantees" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: MEAST ACTION ALERT: Loan Guarantees

From pnmideast Wed Aug 26 21:50:44 1992

Please see the conference mideast.action for the Action Alert 
titled "Last Chance to Stop the Loan Guarantees." Included is a
sample letter to your legislators and addresses for writing letters
in protest of the $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Israel
which it looks like the Bush administration is going to go through with.

/* Written 11:31 pm  Aug 25, 1992 by awair in cdp:mideast.action */
From: Arab World and Islamic Resources <awair>
Subject: Action Alert: Last Chance to Stop Loan Guarantees

THE MIDDLE EAST JUSTICE NETWORK
P.O. BOX 558
CAMBRIDGE, MA  02238
tel. (617)666-8061 fax.(617)776-8926

ACTION ALERT #37
August 13, 1992
LAST CHANCE TO STOP LOAN GUARANTEES!
Loans will fund settlements and threaten peace process
The loan guarantee debate has once again moved to center stage
with President Bush's announcement on August 11th that he and
Israeli Prime Minister Rabin had agreed on the "basic principles"
on which the US would extend Israel $10 billion in loan guarantees
over a five year period.
THE MERITS OF AMERICAN LOAN GUARANTEES MUST BE
EVALUATED UNDER TWO CRITERIA: WHAT ARE THE COSTS TO
AMERICANS AND HOW WILL THEY AFFECT PALESTINIANS
AND PROSPECTS FOR REGIONAL PEACE?

ACTION IS CRUCIAL!

It appears that Congress will consider the loan guarantees when it
resumes its sessions after Labor Day.  Before then your elected
officials, challengers in the forthcoming elections and local
communities need to learn that loan guarantees to Israel are NOT
in the best interest of the US or the Middle East peace
negotiations.  The  following sample letter can be adapted to send
to your local and regional newspapers.
For full text, please see conf: <mideast.action>.  Your immediate
response is critical.
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:02:51 GMT


" Few are willing to undertake the tedious task of refuting the
regular flood of lies; they have little access to the public in any
event, and they can always be dismissed by the charge that they are
apologists for the enemy and its actual crimes. This standard device
is sometimes used consciously as a technique to preserve the crucial
Right to Lie in the Service of the State; or, for the more deeply
indoctrinated, it may simply be impossible to conceive of criticism of
the Holy State as anything but support for its official enemies,
principled criticism of the divine institution being unimaginable. In
either case, the discussion shifts to the evil deeds of the official
enemy and the critic can be dismissed as an apologist for these
crimes, as having a "double standard," etc.: the Holy State and the
Right to Lie in its service are secure. The device was, and still is,
used with tiresome regularity with reference to the Indochina wars: a
critic of the US attack against South Vietnam must be a "supporter of
Hanoi," so one can respond to the criticism by producing true or false
charges against Hanoi, and if the critic refutes false charges, that
just proves that he or she is an apologist for Hanoi as originally
claimed and there is no need to consider the original criticism of the
state one serves. The same device is now constantly used in the case
of Central America.

One would think that the transparent silliness of the procedure would
embarrass its practitioners, but evidently this is not the case."

_Turning the Tide. U.S. Intervention in Central America and the
Struggle for Peace_, page 78, by Noam Chomsky. 1985, South End Press,
Boston.


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: WOMEN RADIO LISTENER ALERT
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:13:25 GMT

/** media.issues: 202.0 **/
** Topic: WOMEN RADIO LISTENER ALERT! **
** Written  9:41 am  Aug 27, 1992 by ggundrey in cdp:media.issues **
From: George Gundrey <ggundrey>
Subject: WOMEN RADIO LISTENER ALERT! 

From: WINGS <wings>
Subject: RADIO LISTENER ALERT - PLEASE RE-POST

WOMEN RADIO LISTENER ALERT!     PLEASE POST IN NEWSLETTERS AND BBSes
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   "The National Women's Agenda: What Women Want and How They Plan
to Win It" is a program being released to public and community radio
stations via satellite on September 10 (at 2 p.m. Eastern Time).
Please write or call your local stations and ask them to carry
this program and when it will air. The show is sponsored by
national women's organizations and features organizers and
Congresswomen reviewing women's major legislation and how to
make it central to the election.
   Cassetttes will still be available after the release date from
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service, PO Box
5307, Kansas City MO 64131. (816)361-7161
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 
MORE INFORMATION IN PRESS RELEASE & ARTICLE FORM ARE AVAILABLE


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: HAITIAN DETAINEES IN MIAMI JAILED AFTER HURRICANE
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:45:23 GMT

/** reg.carib: 298.0 **/
** Topic: HAITIAN DETAINEES JAILED BY HURRIC **
** Written  7:05 pm  Sep  2, 1992 by worth in cdp:reg.carib **
September 2 Press Release from Haitian Refugee Center in Miami (excerpt):
190 Haitians detained at the Krome Detention Center south of Miami have been
transferred to COUNTY JAILS in Manatee, Sarasota, Hillsborough and Lake County,
Florida, since Hurricane Andrew.  "The 190 now in county jails are locked up;
some are mixed in with the criminal population, including `federal boarders,'
and subjected to overcrowding.  All of the jails lack Creole interpreters and
are hundreds of miles from the Haitian detainees' families, loved ones, their
legal counsel and assistance, and South Florida communities.  The transfer and
hearing delays caused by Hurricane Andrew lenghten their time in detention and
interfere with pre-screening parole interviews and release recommendations,
including the Asylum Pre-Screening Parole Program, none of which are in effect
at the jails.  Miami-based pro bono counsel are unable to represent detainees
at distant jails.

Humanitarian parole is not unprecedented.  A few months ago INS released from
Krome about 100 detainees after a fire there.  Parole pending immigration
hearings is the reasonable and equitable solution to a disastrous situation.

FOR INFORMARolande Dorancy, Executive Director, Haitian Refugee Center,
(305) 757-8538, 757-8781, 756-7604."

WHAT YOU CAN DO:  (1) Encourage press coverage.  There's been NONE, and this
is a story you may be able to interest journalists in -- an uncovered angle
in the sea of hurricane coverage.

(2) Ask any contacts you have -- individuals, churches, other groups -- in thoseareas to contact the jails, visit the detainees, activate services and support,
plead with INS for humanitarian parole.  At least let these people know that
someone knows where they are, and cares.
** End of text from cdp:reg.carib **

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From: Student.Assembly@dartmouth.edu (Student Assembly)
Subject: Dartmouth condemns Oregon anti-gay and -lesbian referendum
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:03:03 GMT

One (small) way to fight the Oregon referendum from afar:

The Student Assembly of Dartmouth College has passed by 22-8-1 a
statement reprinted below condemning the upcoming referedum in Oregon
to incorporate anti-gay and -lesbian provisions into the state
constitution.  Right now, it is legal in all 50 states to evict gay and
lesbian tenants, fire gay and lesbian employees, and execute other acts
of discrimination.  A few cities around the country have enacted civil
rights ordinances for gay and lesbian citizens.  The Oregon measure
would prohibit any city in Oregon from protecting them, would require
public schools to teach that homosexuality is Rabnormal, wrong,
unnatural, and perverseS and Rto be discouraged and avoidedS (quoted
from proposed amendment), and may force the state to fire all lesbian
and gay state employees, including teachers.

The Dartmouth Student Assembly will be sending a press release and the
statement to national and Oregonian media.  We would like to see
colleges and other entities around the country likewise generate
publicity and draw attention to the situation in Oregon.  We would like
to see the issue covered as broadly as the Louisiana gubernatorial
election in which David Duke ran.

Students, please urge your student governments to take up this issue so
that we can keep media attention on this egregious situation. 
Hopefully, other student governments will be able to pass stronger
language.

-Jeff Strabone

Jeff.Strabone@dartmouth.edu
===========

Dartmouth Statement on Human Rights

Sponsor: Auguste Goldman
Committee of Origin: None
Date of Passage: August 25, 1992

Whereas, the educational institutions in the United States can have a
profound effect on the maintenance of Human and Civil Rights in this
country, and

Whereas, educational institutions have a moral and intellectual duty to
fight bigotry, and

Whereas the Oregon Citizens AllianceUs referendum constitutes a Human
Rights violation,

We, the Student Assembly of Dartmouth College, hereby condemn the
Oregon Citizens AllianceUs anti-gay and -lesbian referendum on OregonUs
November ballot.  Furthermore, we encourage other student government
organizations around the country to join us in expressing outrage at
this flagrant assault on the civil and human rights of gays, lesbians,
and bisexuals by a state government.



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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Occupied Territories update
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:52:02 GMT

/* Written  4:53 pm  Sep  2, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Occupied Territories update" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


PALESTINE
 Chief Palestinian spokeswoman to the Middle East peace talks,
Hannan Ashrawi, said in Washington that Jewish settlement activity
continues in the Occupied Territories despite a recent announcement
by new Israeli Prime Minister, Itzhak Rabin, of freezing such
settlements.

Ashrawi said that a document circulated by the Palestinian
delegation at the sixth round of Arab-Israeli talks in Washington
denounced the confiscation of hundreds of acres of Arab land. She
added more than 100,000 [apartments, apparently. Ed] have been
completed for Jews in East Jerusalem and the West Bank city of
Nablus since Rabin took office last July.

The document also points out that since the beginning of the Middle
East peace talks in Oct last year, some 44 kms of Arab land have
been confiscated and about 10,000 houses for Jews have been
finished.

Ashrawi said that the continuation of the settlement policy
seriously undermines the peace process. (R. Havana 8/29)

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