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From: "Steve Carr" <rthr427%emx.cc.utexas.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: RE: Drug Laws: Presumed Guilty (2/6)
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:49:25 GMT

This series of articles is excellent.

A few months ago, I posted an article detailing my personal experience being
stopped in a Charlotte airport.  I fit the "hippie" part of the profile.

Since this time, I have contacted the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional
Rights.  They haven't been able to do much.  I also filed a Freedom of
Information Act request with the state of North Carolina.  They sent me back
a letter explaining they needed my fingerprints in order to process my
request.

We need to start fighting back.  Let's get organized.  I propose two
strategies to get us started.  First, could we get a list of names,
addresses and phone numbers of people interviewed in the article?  Any other
organizations out there that are currently devoting their resources to
combatting these abuses?  Names of people who would be willing to enter a
class action lawsuit?

Second, come up with a fact sheet similar to what CCR came out with a few
years ago.  "What to do if a Drug Agent stops you," or something of the
like.  I'd like to know: what are my rights in an airport?  What do I
legally *have* to disclose?  Basically, I was intimidated into consenting to
let the agents search me.  What sort of tactics can we expect from these
agents?

If you're interested in getting involved, drop me a line and let me know how
you'd like to help.

Steve

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Indonesia's terrorism on the rise in Timor
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:03:55 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 345.0 **/
** Topic: CIIR: unprecedented torture in ET **
** Written  8:07 pm  Dec 11, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor **
From: Charles Scheiner <cscheiner>
Subject: CIIR: unprecedented torture in ET

/* Written  3:00 pm  Dec 11, 1992 by apakabar@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.indonesia */
/* ---------- "Torture Lines In Timor!" ---------- */

Excerpt from press release by Catholic Institute for International
Relations, London, 11 December 92.  Omitted material has previously
'been posted. -- John

...

The following information was obtained from church sources inside
East Timor on 8 December:

"The tortures are going on every day.  There has never been anything like it.
Numerous people have been beaten, and some put to death, all of this 
continues.  There is complete confirmation of everything Amnesty International
has been saying since the capture of Xanana Gusmao, only things are far,
far worse than that.  Numerous people have been arrested and a significant
number have been forced to betray others after being tortured.  The reality
is far, far worse than observers see from the surface.  You can tell the
whole world that there is no doubt about the torture and atrocities the
Indonesians are committing at present.  The torture even extends to the
private parts of boys and girls, men and women....  The Indonesians
continue to call people in for interrogation and torture.  In quite a
number of cases the torture is so terrible that people defect to the
Indonesian side.  Many people who are released look like zombies....
The lines to the prisons are tremendous, one after another people are
sent in.  The beatings and tortures are out of this world."

"Despite all this, the spirit of the young people, their desire for
freedom, is more firm than before.  When people are not broken by the
torture, they are firm in their perspectives.  For now, people are only
free to pray and think."

Talks under UN auspices are due to take place between the Indonesian and
Portuguese governments on 17 December.  Portugal has demanded repeatedly
that Timorese leaders should be included.  There is no more appropriate
candidate than Xanana himself, leader and inspiration to the East Timorese
struggle for independence over the last seventeen years.

For more information, contact Catherine Scott 071 354 0883 or Steve
Alston 071 733 7900

11.12.92

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From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Subject: SYRIA: AI delegates to visit
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:26:08 GMT

/* Written  7:26 pm  Dec 13, 1992 by hnaylor@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general */
/* ---------- "SYRIA: AI delegates to visit" ---------- */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom 

DATE: 10 DECEMBER 1992

SYRIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL VISITS SYRIA

Two Amnesty International delegates are visiting Syria for about ten days in
order to attend and observe proceedings at trials before the Supreme State
Security Court in Damascus. Those standing trial are long-term political
detainees many of whom are prisoners of conscience adopted by Amnesty
International. During their visit the delegates are not authorized to make any
public statements and on their return will submit a report to the Secretary
General of Amnesty International. 
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From: Student Enviro-Link <env-link+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: E-Link: Ticket America Campaign
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:44:45 GMT

---------- Forwarded message begins here ----------
                   ATTENTION ENVIRO-ACTIVISTS!

      NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GAS GUZZLER CAMPAIGN NEEDS YOU!!

One of the greatest threats to the global environment and human
health is as close as the street outside your front door.  This
April, we're going to do something about it.

Gas guzzling, fuel-inefficient automobiles harm virtually every
aspect of our ecosystem, and are the single biggest contributor to
global warming and groundlevel ozone (smog).  Studies estimate that
up to 30,000 people die each year because of car air pollution.

This spring, we're launching the national TICKET AMERICA direct
action campaign.  We expect it to be controversial and provocative. 
Our aim: to make gas guzzlers as socially unacceptable as wearing
fur.  In the campaign's first phase, thousands of college student
"Green Patrols" will fan out in hundreds of cities across the
country to ticket gas guzzlers.  The action is designed to generate
massive publicity and public education.

TICKET AMERICA is part of the national Gas Guzzler Campaign, an
ongoing project to alter our nation's love affair with the
polluting automobile.  Campaign goals are 1) to educate the public
about the environmental impact of automobiles; 2) to demonstrate
how vehicle choice plays a significant role in reducing the
environmental damage caused by automobile usage; and 3) to change
the way people perceive the gas guzzling automobile from a status
symbol to a health and environmental threat.

April will be here before you know it.  To find out how you can
play a leadership role in TICKET AMERICA, contact us on PeaceNet at
campaign@igc.apc.org or call Joe Mendelson at the Greenhouse Crisis
Foundation, (202) 466-2823.  Together we can make a difference --
and have fun!  Hope to hear from you soon. 
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Subject: Misinformation in Somalia?
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:02:57 GMT
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/* Written  4:17 pm  Dec 14, 1992 by worldpnews@igc.apc.org in igc:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Misinformation in Somalia?" ---------- */
>From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704

SOMALIA
 Relief organizations operating in the southern Somali port of
Kismayu have denied an American military claim that a number of aid
workers have been taken hostage in the town.

Security has been deteriorating in the town, but the Red Cross and
the UN say the few aid workers remaining there are safe. (R.
Australia 12/12)

=================================================================

      Other news today on the subscribers-only worldp.news:

Unemployment in Spain; The situation for Latin American workers in
the US; Guatemalan government to start new official death squad;
Uruguayans vote on privatization law; Xanana Gusmao update.

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: NY Demo for Somolia, Bosnia
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:08:57 GMT

/** pn.announcemen: 50.0 **/
** Topic: Save Somalia * Save Bosnia **
** Written  3:52 pm  Dec 14, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcemen **
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Save Somalia * Save Bosnia

SAVE SOMALIA 
     SAVE BOSNIA

Participate in a candlelight vigil to support the people of
Somalia and Bosnia 

Tuesday, December 22, 1992, 5 pm
Gather at the Isaiah Wall, 1st Ave. at 43rd St., New York City
6 pm: Procession to Rockefeller Center (5th Ave. at 49th St.)
Bring a candle

Open Our Hearts 
     Open Our Borders

* Stand with the victims of war, rape & "ethnic cleansing"
* Send massive relief shipments to Bosnia & Somalia
* Halt the arms trade
* Support diplomatic solutions and grassroots peace initiatives
* Insure the safety of aid shipments & relief workers
* Enforce UN Sanctions & bring about a permanent ceasefire in
Bosnia
* Accept Yugoslav refugees into the U.S.

Participating groups include NY SANE/Freeze, Student Organizing
Students, WRL, Brooklyn Coalition for Peace; Brooklyn Parents for
Peace; NJ SANE/Freeze

For information call: (212)949-7033

** End of text from cdp:pn.announcemen **
From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: Long Live Palestine!
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:02:15 GMT
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>

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


LONG LIVE PALESTINE!

This month marks the fifth anniversary of the Intifada, the mass
Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian struggle is one of the most difficult national
liberation struggles in the world. The Palestinians are a people
whose state was taken away. They have no rear base from which to
organize, and they're up against formidable enemies: U.S.
imperialism and its garrison state Israel. For these reasons, the
whole world took notice when this rising of the entire
Palestinian population began.

What has happened in the past five years? Israel used its
billions of dollars in U.S. aid to isolate the West Bank and Gaza
economically, take away the Palestinian people's source of
livelihood, confiscate their land, club them into submission, and
jail as many as possible. Yet the Intifada continues.

In the past five years the socialist camp, which gave much-needed
aid to the Palestinian struggle, collapsed. Washington organized
its imperialist allies to invade Iraq, inflicting a body blow on
all the oppressed people of the Middle East, especially the
Palestinians. Yet the Intifada continues.

This Arab people's struggle for self-determination and
sovereignty not only goes on, but a joint leadership and tighter
coordination between Palestinian groups has helped raise the
level of the struggle in recent months.

Many in the progressive movement have responded to the collapse
of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp by losing faith in the
struggle for social change. But the Intifada stands as an
inspiration and a beacon, shedding light on the fact that
oppression always breeds resistance. And a determined people can
and will fight until they win.

This fifth anniversary of the Intifada is a good time for
progressive and working people here to renew their support for
the Palestinian cause and demand that the U.S. get out of the
Middle East and stop funding Israel.

(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; email: ww%nyxfer@igc.apc.org; "workers"
on PeaceNet; on Internet: "workers@mcimail.com".)


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 09:35:19 GMT


their forgetfulness is great.
They must be told the same thing a thousand times"
        -Adolf Hitler

"Workers are stupid.  You have to tell them something a
million times for them to understand."
        -David Duke

[Fm. JOHN LEWANDOWSKI, 786-3512 <LEWANDOWSK_J@CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU>]


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From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Protest US Troops to Somalia
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:02:18 GMT

/* Written 10:23 pm  Dec 15, 1992 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Protest US Troops to Somalia" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Protest US Troops to Somalia

From: James Reynolds <jreynolds>

I also believe protesting the intervention at this time is
counterproductive.  It would be nice if an international (well,
MORE international) peacekeeping operation were doing this job,
but unfortunately the U.N. was making little good headway towards
that end.  Also, I genuinely believe that President Bush might
have wished to do this earlier, but simply found the idea of 
dodging more pre-election claims of "globetrotting at the 
expense of domestic matters" unappealing.  

The important thing here is that the food shipments are getting
through!  Not that the WAY they are getting through is not
quite in accordance with ideology.  I commend the US on this
and wish others would also think about what's important here.

Jim Reynolds  (jreynolds)

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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: NEWS from Chile 12/11 ed-lp
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:46:59 GMT
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Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit

edlp 12/11

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman.  "el Diario/La Prensa" is
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


ALWYN ASSURES HUMAN RIGHTS WILL BE RESPECTED IN CHILE

Chile's president Patricio Alwyn said on Dec. 10 that the
problem of those arrested and disappeared during the previous
military regime is a wound in the soul of Chile's people, and
promised to study accusations of excesses committed by police
during his government. "We know about the existence of arrested
and disappeared people whose bodies have not been found," so the
family could give them proper burial, Alwyn said during the
commemoration of the Declaration of Human Rights and the 14th
anniversary of the Chilean Commisson on Human Rights. He pointed
out that his government created the Corporation for Reparation,
to compensate families of victims and look for some 2,000 people
who disappeared during the previous regime. He assured the
country that the practice of respect for human rights was not
just a theory but would be practiced permanently under his
government.  The Chilean Human Rights Commisson is headed by
lawyer Jaime Castillo Velasco, who was deported twice under the
miltary regime. (edlp 12/11 from P [sic])


MOYLE MURDER INVESTIGATION MOVES FROM SANTIAGO TO LONDON

The investigation of the March, 1990 murder of British journalist
Jonathan Moyle intensified when the lawyer of the deceased's
family announced he would go to London on the morning of Dec. 13
to study "secret documents" that could clear up the crime. Moyle,
who wrote articles about weapons trading, traveled to Santiago to
see an international exposition which the Chilean Air Force had
organized. He was found dead in his hotel. (edlp 12/11 from AFP)


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From: Kai Mander <kmander%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Anti-NAFTA Ad in New York Times
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:38:22 GMT

/* Written  7:24 am  Dec 17, 1992 by kmander@igc.apc.org in igc:trade.strategy *
/
/* ---------- "Anti-NAFTA Ad in New York Times" ---------- */
Today's New York Times (national edition 12-17-92, p. A7) contains an
advertisement protesting President Bush's planned signing of the North
American Free Trade Agreement today.  Under the headline, "Without Regard
to the Human Impact of Their Decisions" organizations such as Greenpeace,
National Farmers Union, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union,
AFL-CIO and many other groups contend the current draft of NAFTA would:
Undermine labor, environmental and social standards; Lead to environmental
ruin; Cause massive U.S. and Canadian job losses; Destroy family farms;
and Threaten democratic process.

Kai Mander
IATP
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Subject: EDIT'L: Let the Haitians in - NOW!
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:47:15 GMT
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Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit


LET THE HAITIANS IN--NOW!

If President-elect Bill Clinton wants to make good on one of his
early promises, he now has the perfect opportunity. Let him
intervene to stop the shamelessly racist oppression of Haitian
refugees--now.

Two hundred twenty-two HIV-positive Haitian refugees and their
dependents are being held prisoner at Camp Bulkeley, located in a
remote corner of the U.S. naval base at illegally occupied
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The detainees, among 40,000 people who fled Haiti following the
bloody overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by the
Haitian military, were tested for HIV against their will. Under
the cruel and racist interdiction policy of the Bush
administration, the great majority were forcibly returned to
Haiti. The HIV-positive Haitians are held incommunicado in
conditions of abject squalor and brutal repression.

Several are expected to die within the next several months.
Medical facilities are completely inadequate. Conditions are so
bad that already two Haitians have tried to commit suicide.

Washington is refusing to allow four critically ill Haitians to
enter the U.S. for treatment. An Immigration spokesperson said,
"They're going to die anyway, aren't they?"

When the Haitians protested against the horrendous conditions at
Camp Bulkeley, the Navy responded with a display of jet fighters,
tanks, helicopters and attack dogs. The Haitians justifiably
characterize themselves as prisoners of war, and their prison as
a concentration camp.

Clinton has promised to reverse Bush's policy on Haitian
refugees. The Haitians have no time for promises. It's time for
action now: full asylum for all Haitian immigrants, and medical
care for those who are ill.

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
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