HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: re: Email to congress
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:43:27 GMT

You can call the congressional switchboard and voice your opinion by
asking for your representative's office.

Tell your representative you want them to make it possible for the
public to send them email.

*********************************
Local number of U.S. Congress switchboard          (202) 224-3121
*********************************
[When you reach the Capitol Hill switchboard, simply ask to be
connected to the office of the Member, Senator or committee you
want to reach. Please call during normal business hours on the
East Coast.]
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On another issue, and following up on my comments on the distressing
situation in "Re: goodbye" [this taken from alt.activism:]
********************************* 

Topic 125	Re: [misc.activism.progressive]  Cl	Response  3 of  8 
mitcheec 
alt.activism	 7:40 pm  Dec 30, 1992 
(at ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu)	(From News system) 

I'm as much in favor of e.communication to our congressmembers as anyone,  
although I think if there was a direct route from constituents' computers  
to the members, that a somewhat conservative viewpoint would dominate. 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that political conservatives seem  
more likely to take up new technology than liberals.  Liberals seem to be  
neo-Luddites in this respect.   

I didn't realize that for some time until I heard Rush Limbaugh point out  
that only liberals still have rotary telephones.  All I can say is I'm a  
liberal and I mostly have rotary telephones in my house. (That's one of the  
things Rush is good for, he makes liberals think about themselves  
(ourselves)).  So my point is that if a member were to rely heavily on  
input that came through electronic means (meaning e.mail) that the more  
conservative elements in society might have the upper hand.  No? 

+ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
| Elliott Mitchell.Peabody College.Vanderbilt University 
|  Nashville, Tenn. Home of the Grand Ole Opry 
|  IN: mitcheec@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu | BN: MITCHEEC@VUCTRVAX 
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:20:49 GMT


"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."
  -- Albert Eistein

[Thanks to Peter Shell <pshell@WIENER.PRODIGY.CS.CMU.EDU>]


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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: FMLN Prepares for 94 Elections
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:05:17 GMT


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

From el diario/La Prensa 12/22/92

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


FMLN Prepares for 1994 Salvadoran Elections

The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Frunt (FMLN), which became
a recognized political party in El Salvador last week, elected its
highest level representatives on Dec. 21 in preparation for the
1994 elections. Former Commander Shafick Handal is the candidate
with the greatest possibility of being elected by the national
convention to hold the position of General Coordinator. FMLN
leaders also elected the members of the party's National Board,
made up of 50 members. The Democratic Convergance (CD), a
left-wing coalition, had a meeting with its grass-roots membership
on Dec. 20 to design an electroal strategly for 1994. The Popular
Social Christian Movement of Ruben Zamora, the Social Democratic
Party and the formerly communist Democratic Nationalist Union of
Mario Aguinada make up the CD. (edlp 12/22/92 from AFP)


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.config,talk.environment
Subject: NEW NEWSGROUP: alt.politics.greens
Followup-To: poster
Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:27:32 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

=o= After discussion in alt.config and other relevant forums,
I have created the alt.politics.greens newsgroup.  That
newsgroup is a forum for matters pertaining to Green movements
worldwide.  This includes the Green parties of various countries
and localities, as well as less formally organized alliances and
movements.

=o= The newsgroup name proposed was "alt.politics.green-party,"
but a number of correspondents suggested "alt.politics.greens,"
which is more inclusive and is a more elegant name.
    <_Jym_>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 09:35:14 GMT


"The situation calls for the declaration of a new right of the
people: to intervene in, modify, regulate and ultimately control
any decisions that affect their lives, no matter where those
decisions are made. This should be established as a universal right
that recognizes no borders."

     -- Muto Ichiyo, p. 48, from "For an Alliance of Hope", Bulletin
	of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 22, No. 3, 1990, pp.
	44-51.

[Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars is published quarterly by a
nonprofit corporation of the same name. Write BCAS, 3239 9th St.,
Boulder, CO 80304-2112, USA, or phone (303) 449-7439. Subscriptions
$22/year, but special rate of $16/year for students, the unemployed,
and those of the third world.]

From: Brad Pierce <pierce@CS.UCLA.EDU>


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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: "Bad Attitude" New Rad-Wmn's paper
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:25:53 GMT


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

from the European Counter Network (ECN) London

15 December 1992

NEW RADICAL WOMEN'S PAPER

BAD ATTITUDE is a new radical women's newspaper published in
London. The first 28 page issue (December 1992/January 1993)
includes interviews with Andrea Dworkin and Nawal El Saadawi (the
Egyptian feminist), articles on female genital mutilation,
squatting and homebirth, international women's news, cartoons and
more!

BAD ATTITUDE costs 1 pound sterling, or 5 pounds for a one-year
subscription (6 issues). Please add 20 % for international
subscriptions.

BAD ATTITUDE is also interested in receiving women's news from all
over the world. Write to BAD ATTITUDE, 121 Railton Road, London
SE24 OLR (telephone: 071 978 9057).

(news and messages for BAD ATTITUDE can also be sent to the London
European Counter Network office via Infoladen Omega, Berlin, and
ECN, Padova).


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: European Parliament: Release Timorese Prisoners
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:29:22 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 345.0 **/
** Topic: EP: Release Timorese Prisoners **
** Written 11:46 am  Dec 20, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Subject: EP: Release Timorese Prisoners

/* Written  9:37 am  Dec 19, 1992 by igc:apakabar in gn:reg.indonesia */
/* ---------- "EP: Release Timorese Prisoners" ---------- */

    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SESSION NEWS PRESS RELEASE
    DOCUMENT DATE: DECEMBER 17, 1992

    East Timor
    Thursday, 17 December - The situation in East Timor once again drew
a response from Parliament in a resolution which calls for the immediate
and unconditional release of all Timorese political prisoners. 
Parliament wants immediate access for representatives of the UN
Committee on Human Rights and Amnesty International to East Timor and to
Indonesian prisons. The resolution warns Indonesia of the consequences
that repeated violations of human rights and international law may have
for relations with the EC.

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

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Call Walsh to Oppose Bush's Pardons
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:08:17 GMT

/* Written  9:17 am  Dec 31, 1992 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Call Walsh to Oppose Bush's Pardons" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Call Walsh to Oppose Bush's Pardons!

Below are the phone numbers of the Congressional switchboard, and
for Independent Councel Walsh's office.  Please call to voice your
support for his efforts and your opposition to Bush's Christmas
Eve pardons.


I believe that the following is correct (I know it is for Congress):

Congress switchboard: (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121

Office of Independent Counsel  (202) 786-6681
444 North Capitol Street
Washington, D.C.

I have to check that address and phone number for Walsh's office.

If it seems a good idea, my suggestion, what should I do to facilitate it?



Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Hank Roth <odin@halcyon.halcyon.com>
Subject: Healthcare NOW
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:49:42 GMT

<<< via P_news/p.news >>>
*****************************************************************         
     
                           HEALTH CARE   
    Even in the 1880s, under the conservative Junker, Bismarck, 
in part as an act of feudal noblesse oblige, and in part as an 
attempt to steal the thunder from a rising socialist movement, 
sickness insurance came to Germany....and then to the UK in 1911; 
yet IT HAS NOT YET COME TO THE UNITED STATES. 
    Industrial accident insurance became law in Germany in 1884, 
in the UK in 1887; but not until 1930 did it become law in the 
U.S. A pension system was adopted in Germany in 1889, in the U.K. 
in 1908, but not until 1935 in the U.S. Health insurance was 
introduced in Germany in 1880, in the U.K in 1948 and never in 
the U.S. (except for the elderly and disabled---and it is 
difficult to get and inadequate for the disabled) Now every 
industrial nation has it, except for the U.S. and South Africa. 
If this country is so advanced, why are we always last, and if we 
are so great, why do our citizens have the fewest economic and 
social rights? What does that say about the ethos of America? 
    Poverty is not the fault of the poor, but a condition imposed 
upon them by this society and economy. We overproduce and then 
put people out to pasture without any safety net. That is the way 
the system works and it is unfair, unjust, and immoral. 
    Forty million people cannot afford any health insurance at 
all. No one can afford the cost of health care without it. Many 
more who have insurance have basic insurance and are inadquately 
covered. There is a moral obligation to provide affordable and 
equitable access to health care. Socialized, national health 
insurance and health care is the only option, and we must have 
it. 
***********************************************************************   
 
 

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Timorese resistance fights on
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:28:53 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 336.0 **/
** Topic: Timorese Resistance Fights On **
** Written 11:09 pm  Dec 16, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Subject: Timorese Resistance Fights On

/* Written  2:46 pm  Dec 15, 1992 by igc:apakabar in gn:reg.indonesia */
/* ---------- "Timorese Resistance Fights On" ---------- */


    According to a December 15 Reuter story datelined Sydney, Timorese 
guerrillas said on Tuesday they had ambushed an Indonesian patrol in 
East Timor, killing at least 30 soldiers, in the first attack since the 
capture of rebel leader Xanana Gusmao.
    Guerrillas made a surprise attack on two truck-borne reconnaissance
patrols last week near Maubisse in the Same region of the
Indonesian-ruled territory, guerrilla spokesman Jose Ramos Horta told
Reuters on Tuesday.
    The two Hino military trucks were destroyed and all the Indonesian
soldiers aboard were killed, he said, adding that there were no rebel
casualties.
    Rebel organiser Alfredo Ferreira in Darwin confirmed the attack, the
first major clash reported since November 20 when Indonesian troops took
separatist Timorese guerrilla leader Gusmao prisoner.
    Rebels say Gusmao was tortured into saying what he does not believe
and have challenged Jakarta to release him so he can speak his mind.
    "If he is now a supporter of Indonesia's views then let them bring
Xanana to (the United Nations in) New York," Ramos Horta said.
    "There in neutral terrain let him speak," Horta said before leaving
for New York to attend talks on December 17 between Indonesia and
Portugal over the former Portuguese territory.
    The United Nations does not recognise the annexation and still
considers Portugal the administrative power.
    An Indonesian army massacre of Timorese civilians in November 1991,
captured on film by visiting Western journalists, bought the
long-festering issue to a head and helped trigger this week's talks, to
be chaired by U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
    Indonesia has said the guerrilla movement Falantil (Armed Forces for
the Liberation of East Timor), which includes members of Fretilin, had
become a spent force since Gusmao's capture, and that 1,000 rebels had
surrendered to Indonesian authorities.
    Rebel sources say many of those who surrendered were in fact
ordinary villagers who had not been involved in the conflict.
    They said clashes between the lightly-armed guerrillas and
Indonesian forces were continuing under Gusmao's replacement Antonio
Gomes da Costa, known by his nom de guerre Ma'Huno.
    About 15,000 Timorese have lived in exile since the Indonesian
invasion, mostly in Portugal or Australia, where Ramos Horta is based.

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

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Prison Address for NAVSTAR Activist
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:01:18 GMT

/** pn.announcemen: 49.0 **/
** Topic: Prison Address for NAVSTAR Activist **
** Written 10:22 pm  Jan  1, 1993 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcemen **
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Prison Address for NAVSTAR Activist

From rbernstein Wed Dec 30 20:44:05 1992
From: Robert D. Bernstein <rbernstein>

People are welcome and encouraged to write to Keith Kjoller who is in
Lompoc Federal Prison for his action against the NAVSTAR satellite
system. As reported on in the past, this action was taken because of
NAVSTAR's critical role in support of all current and future military
actions ranging from "low-intensity conflict" to missile guidance.

His brother Kevin has given me this address with permission to post:

Keith Kjoller 94358-012
Satellite Work Camp
3705 West Farm Road
Lompoc, CA 93436
USA

-- Robert Bernstein -- Santa Barbara, CA

** End of text from cdp:pn.announcemen **

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: Greenpeace Anti-Nuke Action in Luxemburg
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 22 Dec 1992 00:39:28 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]
[Note the lovely "Luxembourgish" English accent throughout.]

19 December 1992

              GREENPEACE ANTI-NUKE ACTION IN EUROPE

This morning, members of Greenpeace Luxemburg and of COREPRA, a
regional organisation, took the last samples of their program to
analyse the radioactive discharges entering the Mosel river from
the french nuclear power plant in Cattenom, situated less than
10 kilometers away from the luxembourgish border.

This sampling program, begun in August of this year, consists of
analysing transfered aquatic mosses (fontinalis) taken at five
different places in the Mosel river. Five series of mosses have
been introduced into the Mosel river, each for twenty days.

One of the samples has been taken directly in the discharge
effluent of the radioactive cooling water of the Cattenom plant.
The most distant sample has been taken close to the luxemburgish
border.

The Greenpeace activists had to use zodiacs to take the samples,
as the discharge installation is surrounded by barbed wire.
The activists marked the different sampling places with buoys
bearing the radiation symbol. A sign saying:  "Attention!
Radioactive discharges from the Cattenom nuclear power plant.
Fishing and bathing hazardous." was fixed close to the
discharge.

"With this sampling program, Greenpeace and COREPRA will show
that the radioactive pollution, despite dilution in the Mosel,
is accumulating in the environment and in the food chain", said
Roger Spautz, Greenpeace Luxembourg's anti-nuclear campaigner.

"It is irresponsible that EDF (Electricite de France) is
controlling , alone, the radioactive pollution of their own
plant", said Spautz.

Last january, France's President Mitterrand had promised the
luxemburgish government to allow the installation of its own
monitoring station next to the site of the Cattenom nuclear
power plant. This station has not been installed up to now.

With their program, Greenpeace and COREPRA denounce the
disinterest of the governments and public institutions to
protect the population against the dangers of nuclear power
and ask for an independant control of the radioactive emissions
of the Cattenom plant.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Aram Falsafi DEC RTI Engineering 297-5079  22-Dec-1992 1753
Subject: Help stop U. of New Haven from opening branch on West Bank settlement.
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:23:22 GMT

This is from the 12/92 PEACEWORK, newsletter of the Boston American Friends
Service Committee.

According to the North American Coordinating Committee for NGOs on the Question
of Palestine (NACC), the University of New Haven is planning to open a branch
on the Israeli settlement of Elkana.  NACC says it "appears misguided at best,
insidious at worst.  It would be a violation of international law, including
the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Hague Convention of 1907.  It would also
serve to legitimize Israeli occupation."

The NACC is asking that protests be sent to Lawrence J. DeNardis, UNH
President, 300 Orange Ave., West Haven, CT 06516, USA, 203-937-0756 (fax) and
to Edward Djerejian, Asst. for Near East and South Asian Affairs, US Dept. of
State, 202-647-7720 (fax), 202-647-7209 (tel).
Xref: sparky misc.activism.progressive:9649 alt.activism:19864 talk.environment:5264
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: What is ACTIV-L? (the Activists Mailing List) (autopost)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:30:05 GMT

ACTIV-L is an electronic mailing list served by a "LIST-SERVER" which
accepts 1-line commands via regular email...

    To join ACTIV-L (formerly AML, the Activists Mailing List), just send
    the 1-line message "SUB ACTIV-L <your full name>" to the address:
    LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET; joining is free, and you may unsub. any time.

    You should then receive a message confirming that your name has been
    added to the list. Alt. address is LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU ;
    administrator is Rich Winkel (mathrich@umcvmb...)

There is also a discussion mailing list connected with ACTIV-L.  To 
subscribe to it, first sub to activ-l as above, then mail the message:
    SET ACTIV-L FILES
to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.

As another step towards linking activists and empowering them with
information, and thus generally combating the control and information
monopoly of the handful of corporations which run the mainstream
media, ACTIV-L launched the UseNet newsgroup misc.activism.progressive
in the spring on 1991.

ACTIV-L works in cooperation with other online activists, including
the PROG-PUBS mailing list of/for campus PSNs (progressive student
newspapers) and the New Liberation News Service (NLNS); PeaceNet,
EcoNet, and their sister networks under IGC (the nonprofit Institute
for Global Communications) and *it's* worldwide sister networks of the
APC (Association for Progressive Communications); online peace/justice
groups; and others.

ACTIV-L's "listserver" maintains an archiver service -- send the
1-line message GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
for a listing of files available, which include:

-- resource file listings of alternative publications, videos, books,
speakers, groups, audiocassettes, etc;

-- Catalogs, e.g. Amnesty International's Human Rights Library
catalog, the American Friends Service Committee's _Peace Education
Resource Catalog_, and so on;

-- Human Rights reports, information on how to use the Freedom of
Information Act, obtaining administrative discharges from the
military, book reviews, etc

-- Articles, some footnoted, as well as full referenced backgrounders
(see especially the "Nicaragua Library") on Foreign Policy,
Latin/Central America, the Middle East and Gulf, the Media, the CIA/
the "Secret Government," domestic issues (health care; reverse
Robin-Hood economics; the death penalty), civil rights (ACLU) and
citizen activism (Ralph Nader's Public Citizen), the Environment and
environmental health/safety, stats on worldwide status of women, etc.

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Goodbye
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:22:19 GMT

/* Written  5:18 pm  Dec 30, 1992 by worldpnews@igc.apc.org in igc:worldp.news */
/* ---------- "Goodbye" ---------- */
Dear WORLD PERSPECTIVES readers.

As you might have noticed, we've been having problems keeping up in
the last few months. The number of people involved has dropped to
only two, both volunteers. The two of us eventually realized that
we can't continue doing this tremendous amount of work for nothing
forever.

In a few days, I'll be starting a full time job, which effectively
kills our news service. Maybe we'll be able to revive it one day.
Until then, we wish you the best. If you think you should be
reimbursed for the remainder of your subscription, please drop us
a note. Be advised, however, that at this point we are very broke.

If you can afford to, send money to those who are still doing the
work before they, too, despair. Keep struggling!

Venceremos!

Esty Dinur
Jeff Loranger

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