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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: FAIR memo to media Re: GOP convention
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:39:21 GMT

/** media.issues: 201.0 **/
** Topic: Republican Convention **
** Written 10:58 am  Aug 14, 1992 by fair in cdp:media.issues **
From: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting <fair>
Subject: Republican Convention

MEMO FROM: FAIR
TO: <<NAME>>
DATE: AUGUST 17, 1992
RE: REPUBLICAN SPECIAL INTERESTS
 
Dear <<NAME>>:
 
A significant theme of your coverage of the Democratic National
Convention was that the Democratic Party and its nominee were
seeking to distance themselves from various, powerful "special
interests" within the party in order to appear credible to
mainstream voters.  The "special interests" label often referred to
groups such as labor unions, blacks, gays, etc.  
 
Now the Republican National Convention is upon us.  We urge you --
in the name of tough, independent reporting, as well as balance --
to spell out for your readers who the Republican Party's special
interests are.  Do they include the nuclear power and oil
industries, the medical and insurance establishment, military
contractors, etc.?  The public has a right to know this
information.
 
Given the coverage of the Democratic convention, anything less than
a full exploration of Republican special interests might convey to
your readers that -- unlike the Democrats, who are beset by
"special interests" -- the Republican Party represents only the
"national interest."  This is a biased and partisan perspective
which I'm sure you do not want to convey.
 
Please contact me if you have any questions.  We look forward to
seeing your coverage.
 
 
 
Steve Rendall
Senior Analyst
FAIR
** End of text from cdp:media.issues **

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: dmorse@igc.apc.org (Dorothy Morse)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: SOMALIA:US delays aid again!
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:06:31 GMT
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Resent-From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>

/* Written  5:40 am  Aug 20, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */
/* ---------- "SOMALIA:US delays aid again!" ---------- */
There was no mention on the radio of whether the French relief flight
scheduled for yesterday had been delayed because of looting.

Let me again call attention to the fact that 500 airlifts a week are
going into Yugoslavia, that 11 UN peacekeeping personnel have been *killed*
in Yugoslavia, stepping on mines, etc., and that trucks carrying food aid
go over mined roads in Yugoslavia.  The news stories about this concentrate
on the "hungry faces streaming with tears of gratitude."  I don't
begrudge the hungry Yugoslavians a single bite.

What we need is an equal resolve to get food to Somalians.

I'm going to be calling all the media possible today, local and national.

I believe communication with Boutros-Ghali is in order too.  It may
be necessary just to completely forget the US and hope other countries
will solve this problem.

But Clinton should be called, and we should urge him to denounce this
foreign policy disaster carried on by the Bush administration.

that number again for the Clinton Campaign 1-800-995-2388.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: NAFTA: LAWMAKERS, LABOR, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS RIP NAFTA
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:48:43 GMT

[From PeaceNet's trade.news via misc.activism.progressive]
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Topic 141       TRADE.NEWS 8-12-92 
kmander Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations     9:53 am  Aug 12, 1992 
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			 TRADE NEWS BULLETIN
		      Wednesday, August 12, 1992

_________________________________________________________ 
LAWMAKERS, LABOR, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS RIP NAFTA 

As word spread that a NAFTA deal was imminent, U.S.  
lawmakers and labor, consumer safety and environmental  
groups criticized the free trade treaty.   

Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) said the agreement should be  
reworked to strengthen "inadequate" environmental and labor  
safeguards.  Citizens' groups criticized the secrecy of the  
negotiations and asked the Bush Administration to release the  
NAFTA text for closer scrutiny.  "The environmental and health  
impacts could be enormous.  We need the text to judge whether  
it meets the standards we have communicated to the  
Administration and Congress on these issues," said John Audley,  
trade analyst with the Sierra Club. 

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly  
denied that NAFTA would endanger the environment, arguing  
that a failure to implement a treaty could be the  
"environmental mistake of the decade."  Bush Administration  
officials contend the agreement includes clauses to help ensure  
industrial development without damaging the environment. 

Source: Michelle Mittelstadt, "Free Trade," AP, August 12, 1992;  
"NAFTA Announced Behind Secrecy Veil, Citizens' Groups  
Challenge Bush to  Release Text," CITIZENS' TRADE WATCH  
NEWS RELEASE, August 12, 1992; "Agreement Includes  
Environmental Clause," UPI, August 11, 1992. 

_________________________________________________________ 
Produced by: 
Kai Mander     
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) 
1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303 
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA 

Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982  
E-Mail:kmander@igc.org 
_________________________________________________________ 


Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: ah881@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joyce Brabner)
Subject: 2 Young Israeli Activists Want 2 Meet Same in USA/1-2 Day Visits?
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:40:32 GMT

I will begin hosting two Israeli teenagers for 3-4 months,
starting this October.  My guests are interested in seeing
the U.S.A. by way of a special AMTRAK or Greyhound pass,
and they want to stay with families-- ESPECIALLY people
who are environmental activists, or working on peace, social/
economic justice issues, towards racial harmony, etc.
They would also like to visit some American university
campuses.
 
Can anyone suggest ways for my friends to find hosts who
will take them in for 1-2 days per stop?  They want me to
make it very clear that they are both willing to earn their
keep, and they both speak good English.
 
Do you know of any networks of people interested in having
guests?  I can provide letters of reference from Americans.
One student was my guest last year, and is a lovely person.
Please e-mail any ideas.  Thanks!

One of the students has been very active in working on
Israeli/Palestinian reconciliation, and has expressed an
interest in meeting Native American activists, if anyone
has any ideas there...

Know any established networks of host families similar to
SERVAS?

*****joyce*****
-- 





Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: GDMENDEN%MTUS5.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: US loan guarantees to Israel
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:20:16 GMT

August 14, 1992 Council for the National Interest

US Taxpayers asked to cover $10 billion loan guarantee costs.

Bush has, unfortunately, agreed to Israeli Prime Minister Rabin's
request for $10 billion in US loan guarantees.  Disappointing as
this may be, there's even more bad news for US taxpayers:  Israel
will cover only 3.5% in "scoring" costs, that is, the set-aside
required in case of default by Israel (which Israel will pay out
of our money).  The US Office of Budget and Management estimates the
actual scoring costs at between 7 and 9%.  This means that US
taxpayers will have to pay up front between $350 million to $550
million.

Another negative feature is that Israel is allowed to continue
construction of houses now underway (about 10,000 units--not
counting East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights--adding about
50,000 in population to the West Bank and Gaza) and also may start
new houses in the so-called "security settlements", to be determined
by Israel.  Under the terms set by Bush earlier this year, the US
alone would determine how much to deduct from the guarantees for
such construction.  Now Bush has conceded that Israel and the US
must jointly agree before anything can be deducted for these
violations.

   One congressional leader has spoken out against this raid on
the US Treasury:  Congressman David R. Obey (D-Wisc.), Chairman
of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of teh House Appropriations
Committee, which must handle this legislation.  He has said that he
is "not on board" for the deal Bush worked out with Rabin.

Witnesses testifying in favor of these guarantees before Obey's
subcommittee earlier this year said they were needed by Israel
so "Israel can become the kind of place that Soviet Jews will
want to immigrate to," so "we can reach the level of some of
the great economies of the Western world", and because "we want
to enrich the lives of Soviet Jews coming to Israel."


Write your congressional representative:  Oppose the idea that the
US taxpayers should pick up the bill for $350-550 million in
"scoring" charges and up to $100 million additional per year
in administrative expenses.   There is risk enough of long-term
default, which could cost taxpayers as much as $30 billion, including
interest, without paying more than half-a-billion in other charges.

The Honorable ____________
US Senate
Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable ___________
US House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Or phone: 202-225-3121


gdm
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From: pauls@icecreambar.css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Subject: Political FTP Site Wants Your Writings/Journals
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Michigan
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:12:34 GMT

The area at ftp.css.itd.umich.edu in /poli is now underway, and I I now  
have information on how contributors can submit material to the site.

The following documents are available in /poli and describe the area and  
how to use it.
__________________________________________________________________________

1. /poli/_about.the.site

8/15/92

Welcome to the /poli area of the site.  This area is dedicated to the free  
dissemination of political literature: journals, newsletters, essays,  
reviews of academic and cultural material (books, movies, music), and just  
about anything else that can fit with a political theme.

Space is limited at this time.  While all are invited to contribute to the  
archives, preference will be given to the materials of individuals and  
organizations that have limited funds or access to distribution media.

If you are interested in contributing single documents, please just send  
them along.  If you represent an organization seeking a permanent home for  
your literature or newsletter archives, please send your request for space  
via e-mail.

This area is managed by Paul Southworth, and e-mail should be directed to:  
pauls@umich.edu.  TO SIMPLIFY MY MAIL HANDLING, PLEASE INCLUDE THE WORD  
"FTP" AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SUBJECT LINE.

If you would like to negotiate for a large area of allocated space, please  
consider making a donation toward the purchase of a SCSI hard drive to be  
chained onto the system.
__________________________________________________________________________

2. /poli/_how.to.submit

8/15/92

HOW TO SUBMIT ITEMS TO THE ARCHIVE

Due to security considerations of the administrators who have graciously  
provided us with the space, there will be no directory to which potential  
submissions can be sent via ftp.  All submissions must be sent by  
electronic mail, or via snail mail on disk.

To submit via email, send to:  pauls@umich.edu

BE SURE TO INCLUDE "FTP" AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SUBJECT LINE TO SIMPLIFY  
MY MAIL HANDLING.

To submit via USmail, send to: Paul Southworth
                               Computing Resource Center
			       3113 School of Education
			       University of Michigan
			       Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259
__________________________________________________________________________

3. /poli/_area.index

INDEX OF SITE AREAS

Revised 8/15/92

Directory	Owner
---------	-----

/poli/ats.d	Arm the Spirit

		* radical anti-imperialist newsletter

/poli/eoa.d	Encyclopedia of Associations

		* provides free indexing services for 
                  organizations/associations

/poli/mpcc.d	Michigan Public Computing Coalition

		* working toward public access to network services


All directories are suffixed ".d"

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: NAFTA COULD DISPLACE THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN FARM  WORKERS
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:45:17 GMT

    "You're going to have vast out-migration from the Mexican
    countryside, but not enough to absorb all the workers," said Raoul
    Hinojosa-Ojeda," a UCLA urban planner.
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148 TRADE.NEWS 8-21-92 kmander Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations
11:55 am Aug 21, 1992
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TRADE NEWS BULLETIN 
Friday, August 21, 1992 
_________________________________________________________ 
NAFTA News Summary 
_________________________________________________________ 
NAFTA COULD DISPLACE THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN FARM  
WORKERS 

Supporters of NAFTA often argue the treaty would decrease  
Mexican immigration to the United States, but a group of experts  
said immigration will grow in the next few years.  NAFTA,  
combined with Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's  
agricultural reforms, could put thousands of Mexican farm  
workers out of work, forcing them to look elsewhere for jobs and  
increase the pressure on border states.  "You're going to have  
vast out-migration from the Mexican countryside, but not  
enough to absorb all the workers," said Raoul Hinojosa-Ojeda," a  
UCLA urban planner. 

Salinas' reforms, which include abolishing the state monopoly on  
corn production and increasing agriculture imports from the U.S.,  
could displace Mexican farmers.  

"If anything we'll see an upward spiral, not a downward one, in  
immigration over the next few years," said Roberto Martinez,  
director of the U.S.-Mexico border program for the American  
Friends Service Committee in San Diego. 

Source: Michael Zielenziger, "Free-Trade Agreement Could Uproot  
Thousands of Mexican Farm Workers," JOURNAL OF COMMERCE,  
August 18, 1992, p. 5A. 
_________________________________________________________ 
Resources: 

1.  U.S. apparel and textile workers have been vocal in their  
opposition to international free trade agreements.  In its March  
1992 issue of JUSTICE, the International Ladies' Garment  
Workers' Union argues that GATT and NAFTA will benefit  
corporations at the expense of workers.  An article states that  
GATT's plan to end all apparel and textile quotas by the year  
2002 would mean job losses totaling 1-1.4 million of the 1.8  
million apparel and textile jobs in the U.S.  Ten issues of JUSTICE  
are produced a year.  For a  subscription, send $2 to JUSTICE,  
1710 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, USA.  
_________________________________________________________ 
Produced by: 
Kai Mander     
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) 
1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303 
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA 

Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982  
E-Mail:kmander@igc.org 
_________________________________________________________ 

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: "STRONG FAMILY VALUES" (II)
Followup-To: alt.politics.elections
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:11:48 GMT


Duration of nationally provided paid maternity leave in weeks,1988:

          ======================
          COUNTRY          WEEKS  
          ======================

          United Kingdom      40  
          Finland             38  
          Denmark             28  
          France           16-28  
          Italy               22  

          Norway              20  
          Canada           17-18  
          Austria             16  

          Belgium             14
          Germany             14
          Ireland             14
          Japan               14
          Spain               14

          Netherlands         12
          Sweden              12
          Switzerland       8-12



          United States        0

Source: International Labor Organization, "Work and Family: The Child Care
Challenge," Conditions of Work Digest, vol. 7, February 1988.

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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   

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, 21 Aug 1992 08:35:13 GMT


>From the October 1991 issue of the Commision on Security and
Cooperation in Europe Digest:

Rita Suessmuth, speaker of the German lower house of parliament
in Bonn, October 1991: "We must be aware that attacks against
asylum-seekers and foreigners in Germany reawaken fears outside
our country, which are nourished by our past. With our
experiences under the National Socialist (Nazi) reign of
violence, we Germans know the fundamental importance of
asylum as a human right."

From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.org>


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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Libyan Statement re: Sanctions
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:38:30 GMT

/** pn.announcemen: 61.0 **/
** Topic: Libyan Statement re: Sanctions **
** Written  1:46 pm  Aug 14, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcemen **
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Libyan Statement re: Sanctions

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 10:10:06 PDT
From: 1120 Basil Rd <isolem>
Subject: announcements: Libyan Statement Re Sanctions

LIBYAN STATEMENT RE UN SANCTIONS

August 14

  Libya today expressed "deep regret" over the decision of the United Nations
Security Council on Wednesday to continue air, arms and diplomatic sanctions
against the country.

  In a statement, the Libyan Foreign Ministry said:  "These unjust sanctions
led to many tragedies inflicted upon the Libyan people from deaths of children,
old people and women, a deterioration in the standard of living and a slowdown
in the development process...It has led to the imprisonment of an entire
population."

  The Foreign Ministry continued by expressing "its deep regret over this
extension because Libya, despite its innocence, has agreed to cooperate to
implement the (Security Council's) resolution and has taken several steps"
in this direction.

  The statement concluded, "Libya will prove its innocence and will seek
compensation for the losses and damages."

                 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

BACKGROUND:

  To date, at least 40 people have died as a direct result of the air
sanctions imposed on Libya.  Of these, seventeen were women and children
who perished because they could not be transported by air to trauma centers
in Europe following an explosion near Tripoli on June 20.  

  Shortly after the explosion, two of the surgeons who were caring for
the injured reported that "some of the cases cannot be treated (in Libyan 
hospitals)...Families are asking for the transfer of their loved ones to
hospitals outside Libya and some of them are pressing very much for that.
But what can we do?  They are the victims of (UN Security Council) Resolution
748."

  Libya attempted to evacuate the most severely injured by road to Tunisia
or by sea to Malta, from where they could have been flown to hospitals in
Europe.  However, the seventeen, all suffering from extensive burns, were
too ill to survive the long trip and they died either in the ambulances en
route to Tunisia or on the sea-rescue boats taking them to Malta.

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Written by Ingrid Solem, Peace Committee, Langley Hill Friends Meeting

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

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: SOMALIA:US delays aid again!
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Resent-From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:52:04 GMT

/* Written  5:30 am  Aug 20, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */
/* ---------- "SOMALIA:US delays aid again!" ---------- */
Aug. 20, 1992, about 7 am Central Standard Time USA

National Public Radio just reported that US aid flights into Somalia will
be  "delayed because of looting."

The radio interviewer talked with a director of the World Food Program. She
asked him if negotations couldn't be carried on to let the food thru.  He
said, well you can negotiate with the major groups, but almost everybody
in Somalia has a gun.

There was no mention of the fact that in a country where only  10% of
the required food is present, there will of course be looting.

There was no mention of the recommendations by aid workers that saturating
the country with food is the only way to proceed.  No mention of the
statement by Doctors Without Borders that "the food that is looted is
not being hoarded, it is being eaten by whoever has it."

In short, it's a return to the old policy stated by our State Dept's James
Bolton--"an enduring ceasefire is essential before further actions can be
taken"--  a policy denounced by the Christian antihunger group Bread for
the World, who said, "Further delay can conceivably mean death and 
destruction for a generation of people."

See next post.  My original long post was lost in software; I'm splitting
this one.
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: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:02:25 GMT



"Justice is incidental to law and order."
   - J. Edgar Hoover

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


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