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Dear Peoples Bark News Berkeley Readers;

My hotmail account has been terminated without cause, reason or
accountability from hotmail.  My suspicion is their reaction to an
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subscriber email addresses.

The Islamic Association for Palestine has personally requested in an
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CONTENTS

1...U.S. EXPANDS—Property Forfeiture Laws
2...April 16 02-- Life and Dead in Jenin
3...US Lawmakers Wants to Pass Big $$$$ to Israel Soon!
4...Reader Mail & Letter from NY Times to Jules Siegel
5...ICAHD Palestinian Home Rebuilding Campaign
6...HOW CAN WE STOP THE U.S. WAR MACHINE?
7...U'wa Event! May 1st 7pm - La Pena,Berkeley
8...Berkeley Students Call for National Day of Action for Palestine
9...GAPsucks.org Events
10..Tariq Ali Speaking Event
11..War Resisters League Demo + Vigil, Mon., 4-22, Oakland
12..ANWR Drilling is Blocked!
14..BFC Update From the Field 4/18/02
15..My Letter re: the Jesuits Scandal
16..HERE rally at Claremont 4/28
17..Hip Hop Artist Paris Talks about the 'War on Terrorism'
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1. U.S. EXPANDS—Property Forfeiture Laws


From: "Ross" <real@ renonevada.net>
Subject: U.S. EXPANDS—Property Forfeiture Laws
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:17:50 -0700

by, Ross Striker

U.S. EXPANDS—Property Forfeiture Laws
The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000

Government Can Now Forfeit Property "Involved" In Most Felonies and Seize
Inheritances: After you die, or before, anyone, even a relative or spouse to
get an "Informant Reward", can erroneously tell police—your property was
"involved" in a felony to cause its—forfeiture by government. HR 1658
expanded government forfeiture laws to include approximately 200 felonies,
making more property subject to government forfeiture; even after the
statute of limitations has passed for criminal prosecution: Property owners
and heirs need not be "involved" in the felony that makes their property
subject to government forfeiture. An heir need only know that anyone, e.g.,
an employee or friend committed a felony that involved their property to
make it forfeitable. Under HR 1658, government’s discovery of a 20-year-old
crime may make property forfeitable: An alleged misrepresentation by a
deceased on a FDIC Insured Loan Application can make an inherited home or
its sales proceeds, forfeitable by the government.

Did Property Owners Lose? "The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000"
Passed: And as before, only a "Preponderance of Evidence" is still required
for government to civilly forfeit an innocent owner’s property—NOT "Clear &
Convincing Evidence." Property owners and real estate associations—didn’t
stop the U.S. Senate from GUTTING HR 1658’s original Innocent Owner
Protection Provision—that would have made government PROVE by "Clear and
Convincing Evidence" an owner’s property is subject to government
forfeiture." Rep. Hyde’s "Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000" did
away with the statute of limitations, the time limit police have to forfeit
property allegedly involved in crime.

Police now have five years after learning an asset is subject to
forfeiture—to civilly forfeit it. HR 1658 allows whistleblowers, disgruntled
and former employees, spouses and others to earn huge informant
commissions—by getting government agencies to civilly forfeit the assets of
businesses and friends alleged to have committed felonies even after the
statute of limitations has past for criminal prosecution: And/or charge
properties belonging to innocent owners with having been involved in
felonies or violations that made their assets subject to civil forfeiture.
The following HR 1658 provision does not appear to protect INNOCENT OWNERS
from government civil forfeiture: (An owner "Did All That Could Be
Reasonably Expected Under The Circumstances To Terminate Such Use of Their
Property."
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2. April 16 02-- Life and Dead in Jenin


From: SIUHIN@ aol.com
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: April 16 02-- Life and Dead in Jenin
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:30:12 EDT

**April 16: Latest News from Palestine, Life and Dead in Jenin
**For all the news, please check: www.PeaceNoWar.net
**also, please visit Palestine IMC: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/

1) News:

1. <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#1">Jenin camp
'horrific beyond belief' (BBC UK)</A>

2. <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#2">9 Palestinians
Killed in Gaza Strip, West Bank (Palestine Chronicle)</A>

3.<A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#3"> Israel Returns to
Jenin After Short Withdrawal (Palestine Chronicle)</A>

4. <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#4">INTERNATIONAL
ACTIVISTS DETAINED, BEATEN BY ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE (ISM)</A>

5. <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#5">U.S. lawmakers to
push measures backing Israel (Reuters)</A>

6. <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#6">Vandals throw paint
at Jewish monument in Greece (Reuters)</A>


2) UPDATE: Jenin (Palestine IMC)

April 18, 2002: A small group of internationals have managed to bring
desperately needed food and water into Jenin camp, including fresh milk and
vegetables. The people in the camp have had no fresh food for weeks and
although this small amount has now reached them, it is no where near enough.
More aid is needed, and quickly, particulary foodstuffs and nappies for
babies and infants. In addition, there is no water supply so water is also
urgently required.

For information contact: Brian, Heather, Richard, Rory or Sofia on:
+972 55 638 237
+972 67 270 398
+972 55 851 896
+972 67 241 879

IMC Palestine volunteer in Jenin camp: "It is horrible. You wouldn't believe
the destruction. I don't know what to say." The situation in the camp has
not improved much. Our reporter witnessed a man running past her, what was
left of his hand was bleeding very badly. Medics on the scene attended to
his injury but, as curfew has been re-imposed, it is not clear if he will be
evacuated to the hospital. A child was also injured, fortunately not so
seriously. It is not yet clear how they received these injuries.

April 17, 2002: International volunteers in Jenin have reported that men are
burying the dead. Women and children are wandering the streets in a dazed
condition. It is still very dangerous as Israeli snipers are operating in
the area. Whilst walking through the camp they have found parts of bodies,
flesh and bone in the streets. They ar econtinuing to help with relief
efforts and recording the evidence which they find.in addition of
that,Israeli army prevents human rights lawyers access to Jenin hospital.

3) Reference Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/Analysis.htm

4) US foreign aid to Israel
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/US%20aids.htm

5) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/peace/index.htm">What is the
Alternative to war, killings? Peace Actions</A>
phone, e-mail campaigns, volunteers to Palestine...
http://www.peacenowar.net/peace/index.htm

Appeal: From the International Solidarity Movement
<A HREF="http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/6592.php">"Call To
Action: Come To Palestine"</A>
http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/6592.php

Join International Campaigns to Boycott Israeli Goods and Services!
<A
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Los Angeles, CA 91030
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3. US Lawmakers Wants to Pass Big $$$$ to Israel Soon!


From: SIUHIN@ aol.com
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: URGENT: US Lawmakers Wants to Pass Big $$$$ to Israel Soon!
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:24:06 EDT

U.S. lawmakers to push measures backing Israel
By Vicki Allen
WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters)

Key members of the House of Representatives said on Thursday they would seek
up to $200 million in emergency aid to Israel, as U.S. lawmakers pushed
bipartisan measures to support the Jewish State amid its campaign in
Palestinian cities.

Separately, two senators offered a bill that would impose sanctions on
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation
Organization, and two House members introduced a non-binding resolution
expressing solidarity with Israel and citing Arafat's "ongoing support and
coordination of terror."

Members of the House and Senate had held off such measures while U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell was on a mission that ultimately failed to
secure a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations
foreign aid subcommittee, said she and other members of the panel would push
for up to $200 million in emergency aid for Israel as part of a $27 billion
counter-terrorism package moving through Congress.

Israel already receives $3 billion in U.S. assistance annually,
and had sought up to $800 million more.

The offer of fresh aid comes as Israeli forces press a military campaign in
Palestinian cities and villages in the West Bank, launched after a series of
Palestinian suicide bombings carried out against Israeli targets.

Lawmakers said they hoped to pass to pass the emergency spending package by
June.

"The State Department requested $200 million, OMB (the White House Office of
Management and Budget) rejected it, and I think there are enough people who
believe that this money is important that we will work to include it," Lowey
said.

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the State Department would
back more money for Israel, as it had done earlier. "Of course we won't
oppose supplemental funding for Israel," Armitage told the subcommittee, but
he did not specify an amount.

But Arizona Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe, who chairs the subcommittee, was cool
to the additional aid. "I have a tendency to follow the administration's
plan, which is not to ask for additional money for Israel," he said.

Two House members who agree on little other than their fierce backing for
Israel introduced a resolution backing Israel's actions "to provide security
to its people by dismantling the terrorist infrastructure in the Palestinian
areas."

The resolution offered by Reps. Tom DeLay of Texas, a member of the House
Republican leadership, and Tom Lantos of California, the senior Democrat on
the International Relations Committee, expresses solidarity with Israel and
blasts Arafat.

A spokesman for DeLay said he hoped for a floor vote on the resolution
before the Memorial Day recess in late May.

Sens. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, and Mitch McConnell, a
Kentucky Republican, introduced a bill that would impose sanctions on Arafat
and the PLO. But they said they did not plan to bring it to a vote for a
while to avoid interfering with the White House peacemaking effort.

The bill would impose diplomatic sanctions on the PLO for what it said was
failure to renounce terrorism, but would give the president discretion to
waive them.

House Majority Leader Richard Armey, a Texas Republican, offered legislation
that would give President George W. Bush authority to impose sanctions on
Syria.

Armey said Syria has "a long and odious history of providing aid and comfort
to the vilest of terrorist groups," and supports "radical Islamic forces as
they launch attacks along Israel's northern border."


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4. Reader Mail & Letter from NY Times to Jules Siegel


From: "Alberto M. Giordano" <narconews@ hotmail.com>
Reply-To: narconews-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Reader Mail & Letter from NY Times to Jules Siegel
Date :   Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:44:05 -0500


April 19, 2002
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5. ICAHD Palestinian Home Rebuilding Campaign


From: Russell Bates <russbumper@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [sjpfolks] ICAHD Palestinian Home Rebuilding Campaign
Date :   Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:58:35 -0700 (PDT)
john, what goes down rises upagain, russ

Subject: International Campaign to Rebuild Palestinian Homes

Dear friends and colleagues,

You must now be aware of the massive scale of house destruction
ongoing in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.
Just Peace Technologies has partnered with the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) to launch an appeal to rebuild
Palestinian homes.
This campaign will enable ICAHD and sister Palestinian groups to
rebuild together (as they have in the past) in a positive form of
resistance that makes a real difference to destitute families (see
Jeff Halper's letter below).

Here's the urgency: if 500 people sign-up to participate in this
project, a major foundation will provide the operating funds we need
to launch.  Our deadline is next Tuesday, April 23rd.

We are asking everyone we know to take an online survey to tell us if
they are willing to participate in this International Campaign to Rebuild
Palestinian Homes

http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?2853L0SF37MEH5YW3TXPYXV7

Please take 2 minutes to fill-out the survey, then ask your friends,
family, and colleagues to forward this message to their email lists.

Lastly, if you can suggest ways to quickly spread the word about this
survey, please get in touch with me.

Sincere best regards,
Donna Baranski-Walker
Director, Just Peace Technologies
Redwood City, California USA
Phone/Fax: (650) 261-1235
www.justpeacetech.org

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Dear Friends,
Given the tragic destruction and violence of the past few weeks, it may
seem premature to plan for rebuilding. Yet ICAHD's resistance to
Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes, combined with our ability to
bring hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians together to rebuild, is
effective in exposing the workings of the Occupation.
It also keeps alive that spark of common struggle for a just peace
that will allow for reconciliation someday. House demolitions have
become the hallmark of the Occupation, as the wanton destruction of the
Jenin refugee camp shows. The systematic demolition of Palestinian
homes throughout the Occupied Territories, together with the devastation
of the Palestinian infrastructure, goes far beyond mere retaliation
for terrorist attacks.
It is an attack on an entire people, an attempt to make the Palestinians
submit to a mini-state under Israeli control. We need to struggle
against the Occupation so that both our peoples will eventually enjoy
the fruits of a just peace.

As Israel withdraws from Palestinian towns, cities, and villages, the
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, working with sister
Palestinian NGOs, will launch its campaign to rebuild damaged and
demolished Palestinian homes. In the words of my friend, Salim
Shawamreh, whose home was demolished three times by the Israeli
authorities: "We need your help." Only you, members of the
international civil society, standing with like-minded Palestinians
and Israelis, can provide the crucial support we need to make our voices
heard.

We ask you please take 3 minutes to complete the following online survey
to help us plan and finance our worldwide rebuilding campaign: "The
Right to Live in a Homeland: 1000 House Parties to Rebuild Palestinian
Homes." We hope you will join our efforts by gathering your friends
together for a house party in May to learn about the situation in
Israel-Palestine; write letters to government officials; and help raise
the funds for our rebuilding campaign. Together, we can bring a peace
agreement one step closer by insisting that Israel end its policy of
house demolitions, and enable Israelis and Palestinians to build
together for peace.

Please click the link below. Your response will remain confidential. We
will use the survey results to set a date and engage the resources
needed for this campaign. Thank you for your help and support.


http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?2853L0SF37MEH5YW3TXPYXV7

Sincerely,
Jeff Halper
Coordinator
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions


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Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
PO Box 2030,            Tel: +972-(0)56-875-893
Jerusalem 91020          Fax: 1-880-809-7913
Israel                       Email: fred@ icahd.org

http://www.icahd.org
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Voice Mail/Fax (from USA): 1-800-809-7913
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6. HOW CAN WE STOP THE U.S. WAR MACHINE?



From: Planttrees@...
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: 4/20 4:30 pm HOW CAN WE STOP THE U.S. WAR MACHINE?
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:47:14 EDT

HOW CAN WE STOP THE U.S. WAR MACHINE?
Sat April 20, 4:30pm
Women's Building,18th St. Between Valencia and Guerrero, SF

Come to this panel discussion after the anti-war demonstration in San
Francisco*

Since 9-11, the Bush and his bi-partisan backers in Congress have declared
war on the world. They've killed thousands of civilians in Afghanistan, sent
troops to the Philippines, Yemen, and the Republic of George and
dramatically stepped up support for the US-puppet regime's war in Colombia.
Bush gave Ariel Sharon the green light to launch the full scale invasion of
the Palestinian towns and cities and massacre hundreds of civilians and
resistance fighters. And to top it all off, the US is clearly preparing for
a new invasion of Iraq.

But resistance is growing. 1,000,000 took to the streets of Morocco, 20,000
protested outside the US embassy in Lebanon, and Cairo students fought
police for their right to protest in support of the Palestinian struggle. In
Europe tens of thousands have demonstrated against Bush's war from Rome to
London to Barcelona. And students at several Bay Area universities have held
large protests and civil disobedience actions to demand an end to US aid to
Israel.

These protests are an excellent start, but what will it really take to
prevent the US government from launching more wars? How did the anti-war
movement in the 1960's get big enough to frighten the government in to
withdrawing from Vietnam? Is it possible to recreate that success? If so,
how? And, why didn't the anti-war movements of the 1960's put an end to all
wars? Understanding these questions is not an optional extra as we protest
Bush's new wars, but an absolute necessity, if we get rid of the US war
machine, once and for all.

Come participate in a discussion led by:

CRISTINA VASQUEZ
Colombian-born social justice activist and Director of the SF Mission based
Companeros del Barrio.

EYAD KISHAWI
Member of the San Francisco American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and
the Free Palestine Alliance.

TODD CHRETIEN
Activist for the International Socialist Organization.


SATURDAY APRIL 20TH, 4:30 P M (after the anti-war protest)
The Women's Building, 3543 - 18th St., SF (between Valencia & Guerrero)
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7. U'wa Event! May 1st 7pm - La Pena,Berkeley


From: aliun@...
Subject: U'wa Event! May 1st 7pm - La Pena,Berkeley
Date :   Wed, 17 Apr 2002 04:41:03


PLEASE PASS ON! PLEASE PASS ON!
PLEASE PASS ON!

Please join us for a film showing, dance performance and panel about the
current Uwa struggle for life, land and justice:

In celebration International Worker’s Day: Colombia, Oil Workers &
Indigenous Rights:

Benefit Fundraiser for U’wa Youth
Wed. May 1st 7-9pm donation: $5-$20

La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley (directions below)

If you cannot attend, we urge you to send a donation of any size to the
address below!

Films include Kajka Ika: From the Heart of the World and Audiencia U’wa
All-Nation Singers Native drum
Dance Performance on Indigenous people and militarization by Monica
Enriquez Panel US military aid, corporate interests and the strong stance of
the U'wa tribe in defense of their life, land and autonomy.

Militarization, US Aid and Human Rights
Sandra Alvarez., coordinator of the Colombia Program at Global Exchange
& Monica Enriquez, Colombian activist Oil Exploitation and Oxy’s Caño Limón
Pipeline
Kevin Koenig Oil Campaigner for Amazon Watch
Petroleum and the Colombian Labor Movement
Francisco Ugarte, local labor organizer will speak of the January labor
delegation to Colombia led by Witness for Peace


Donations & info:
U’wa Defense Project 270 Lafayette St. Suite 1107, NYC , NY 10012
anamaria@ mindspring.com
Proceeds will go towards the U’wa community’s request of empowering U'wa
youth with University educations to compliment their knowledge of
traditional ways.

Directions to La Peña:
BART: La Peña is located two blocks from Ashby Ave. BART station- walk
up ASHBY towards campus, make aright on Shattuck.

Driving: Take 80 Sacramento, Ashby Exit, go up about 20 blocks, pass San
Pablo and MLK, three blocks after MLK, make a RIGHT on Shattuck Ave, go
about three blocks , La Pena will be on your left hand side.

La Peña:
(510) 849 2568 x20 www.lapena.org
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8. Berkeley Students Call for National Day of Action for Palestine


From: Steve Wagner <lakemerrittneighbors@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Berkeley Students Call for National Day of Action for Palestine,
5-1 or 5-2
Date :   Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:06:16 -0700 (PDT)

http://www.iap.org/newsapril185.htm

Berkeley Students Call for a National Day of Action -- May 1st and/or
2nd, 2002

Students for Justice in Palestine -- UC Berkeley, April 18, 2002

   During the national day of action on April 9th, close to 10,000
students participated in actions on US colleges and universities to
demand an end to the Israeli occupation and demand that academic
institutions divest from holdings in Israel. At Berkeley, 1200
activists protested and 79 face charges for participating in non-
violent civil disobedience.

   The Israeli military incursions show no signs of abating, while the
reports of the massacres at Jenin and Nablus only point to the vicious,
brutal, and murderous campaign of the Israeli government against the
Palestinian people.

   As a consequence, it is important, more than ever, that students and
activists all across the country come out against the Israeli
occupation and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

   Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley calls on all
activists to join in national actions on May 1st or 2nd (whichever date
works best for activists on individual campuses)* on the three
following demands:

   1) End the Occupation, No to the Settlements, Right of Return for all
Refugees 2) Divestment of all University/College Holdings in Israel,
End Aid to Israel 3) Drop all Charges Against Campus Activists Arrested
on April 9th.

   We make this call in the interests of solidarity and urgency and in
the absence of a more democratic process to initiate this call, and we
stand in support of proposals for increasing the participation of
activists in future calls.

   In order to coordinate national media and to develop a more thorough
network, we ask that you email us information about actions that you
plan on your campus. Please send announcements, press releases, or any
other contact information to <justiceinpalestine@...>

Yours in Solidarity and in Struggle, Students for Justice in Palestine
-- UC Berkeley
__________________
http://www.iap.org


=====
Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace.  Weekly peace walks around Lake
Merritt in Oakland.  Starts & ends at the colonnade between Grand &
Lakeshore Avenues, 3 P.M., every Sunday.
Info:  (510)763-8712, <lmno4p@ yahoo.com> or
http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP
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9. GAPsucks.org Events


From: Planttrees@ aol.com
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: GAPsucks.org Events
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:29:20 EDT

Greetings, Bay Area Activists!


For those of you NOT traveling to DC, P-L-E-A-S-E join us for the following:


Apr, 17, Oak: Take Action to Stop the Superjail for Kids!!!

****>Join the Courageous Youth who have Led the Campaign to Stop this $200M
Debacle!


Apr 20, SF: People's Earth Day at Bay View Hunters Point!

*****>Community Solidarity to Stop Environmental Racism!!!***


Apr 20, SF: Peace March & Rally: Bay Area Solidarity Action!!!

Justice for Colombia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq...
& the Global South!!!


Apr 22, SF: Protest Live Animal Testing at Huntington Life Sciences!!!

Part of World Week for Animals in Laboratories
(full schedule of events below)


Apr 23, SF: ****LIVING RIVER down MARKET to Protest WATER
Privatization!!!!*****

Now it's Oil, Next it's Water! Join Oscar Olivera in this
Historic March to Bechtel!!!


Apr 24, Sac: Stop Delano State Prison! (carpools leaving Oakland)!

End Institutionalized Racism & CA Prison Mania Fueled by the
Prison Guards Union!!!


Apr 24, SJ: Earth Day at San Jose State: Call for Volunteers!

Table with Us for Old Growth, Redwoods, Workers,
& Consumer Consciousness!!!


***NEWS FLASH: The West Papuans were betrayed by the UN and the world in the
1960's; they have been suffering over 30 years of oppression, torture,
murder, and genocide at the hands of the Indonesian military; their land,
abundant in natural resources and some of the last virgin forest on the face
of the earth, is being pillaged by corporate interests. The world has an
opportunity to intercede in this desperate situation BEFORE THE VIOLENCE
ESCALATES--but most people don't even know it's on the map. NOW YOU DO: Sign
the online petition:  http://www.PetitionOnline.com/westpap/ ;
Join the IAWP listserve webmaster@ koteka.net;
Pressure Congress to stop military aid to Indonesia!******


Apr 17, Oak: Protest to Stop the Superjail for Kids!

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

Stop The Super Jail: Dublin's too Damn Far. Wednesday, April 17th @ 4pm Lake
Merritt Bart (9th & Oak St.) This will be an important DIRECT ACTION to
challenge the County on the process that they have been taking in finding a
new location for Alameda County's new Juvenile hall.  The County is still
trying to build the new hall in Dublin and it1s up to us to stop them from
carrying through with their plans.  Please come and represent to make sure
that we keep the heat on so that Alameda County1s Juvenile hall is built in
an accessible location.
For more info, call 510-451-5466 ext. 302.


Apr 20, SF: People's Earth Day at Bay View Hunters Point !

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

San Francisco area residents: Attend Peoples Earth Day in Bayview  Hunters
Point! Saturday, April 20, 2002, 11 a.m. until 5 p.m..
Bring  your friends, family, co-workers to this Green Energy, Community
Health and Environmental Justice event at India Basin Park next to  the PG&E
Hunters Point power plant. We will have multicultural information and
activities for people of all ages. At 3 p.m. we will march to the front
gates of the PG&E power plant to  demand its immediate closure, and to
support clean, renewable energy, conservation and energy efficiency.
Volunteers are needed to help publicize the event and at the event. Peoples
Earth Day is co-sponsored by Greenaction, Literacy for Environmental Justice
and Bayview Hunters Point Community
Advocates.
More info: Greenaction: 415) 248-5010


Apr 20, SF: Peace March & Rally: Bay Area Solidarity Action!!!

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

Assemble 11 AM Dolores Park; March 12 Noon; Rally 1 PM Civic Center. MANY
groups, activists, and concerned Bay Area residents will be participating in
this march and rally (including SRBG--we'll be tabling on the redwood stump
at Civic Center!): Here's the announcement from Reclaim the Streets with
their special spin: Join the Carnival Against Carnage contingent of the
anti-war march on Saturday, April 20th!  Beginning at 11am, meet up at the
southwest corner of 19th and Dolores  (near the church). The march is set to
leave around noon, and will go to Civic Center. In the spirit of New Orleans
funeral parades, dress in bright colors, or be a  zombie for the day, or
come and participate however the "carnival against  carnage" idea strikes
you!  We urge people to stand up against all the carnage that's going on,
and we
think that the living should carry on the struggles of those who have been
killed. We like to have fun at demonstrations, too! Join us for a party  in
the streets! :) Pumpin' sound system brought to you by rts_eastbay@
yahoo.com or 415  820-9658.


Apr 22, SF: Protest Live Animal Testing at Huntington Life Sciences!!!

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

Monday, April 22nd: DEMONSTRATE against HLS collaborators! 11 am. One Market
St (at Embarcadero), San Francisco. 500 animals die at HLS EVERY DAY. This
April, don't forget the millions of animals tortured and killed in labs
around the world each year!  Join hundreds of West Coast activists for
World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL)  Friday, April 19th - Monday,
April 22nd  (San Francisco, CA). Saturday, April 20th: CONFERENCE: Exposing
Animal Experimentation (10 am - 6pm)  1606 Bonita Ave (at Cedar), Berkeley
Unitarian Fellowship Hall  Sunday, April 21st: DEMONSTRATE: Home
Demonstrations Time & Location (to be announced), www.ardac.org . Join the
Animals Rights Direct Action Coalition (ARDAC) and hundreds activists from
around the country,
converging in San Francisco, as we take our message to those responsible for
the continuing torture and death of thousands of animals behind the closed
doors of the notorious animal experimentation firm Huntingdon Life Sciences!
--Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition  740A 14th St. #177, San Francisco,
CA 94114  Ph: (415) 364 3053, www.ardac.org,
email: info@ ardac.org


Apr 23, SF: LIVING RIVER down Market to Protest Water Privatization!!!!

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


Join Oscar Olivera, the hero of the people's successful revolt against
Bechtel's privatization of the water utility in Cochabamba, Bolivia!!!! Now
Bechtel has filed a $25 million lawsuit against Bolivia for lost future
profits. ***We will be forming a LIVING RIVER with yards of blue cloth that
will flow down Market Street and engulf Bechtel's corporate headquarters,
letting them know that water is a basic human right, not a commodity!!!!****
Assemble 3 PM, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B Goodlett Place (on Polk, between
McAllister & Grove), San Francisco; 3:30 PM Procession down Market; 5 PM,
Rally and Press Conference, Bechtel HQ, 50 Beale St. (between Market &
Mission), San Francisco. Feel free to be creative: WEAR BLUE! Come as a
MERMAID, WATER NYMPH, TURTLE, or FISH ! BRING A VIAL of water for a WATER
RITUAL! Contact 415-731-7924
chalicenew@ earthlink.net to volunteer or for more info!


Apr 24, Sac: Stop Delano State Prison! (carpools leaving Oakland)!

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

Delano Prison Budget Hearings Senate:  Wednesday, April 24th @ 9:30 am
,.Room 113 of the State Capitol. Carpools leaving from Macarthur BART at
7:00am. We are at a turning point in our campaign to stop California from
building its 24th new prison in 20 years, a $595 million prison slated for
Delano. Thus far we have been successful, delaying groundbreaking for over a
year by mobilizing grassroots opposition in Delano and statewide and winning
our environmental lawsuit  The state legislature will be considering funding
for
the Delano II prison in April and we need to PACK THE HEARING ROOMS!  We can
win this historic battle but we need your support! If you can attend, Please
email rose@ criticalresistance.org
or call 510-444-0484


Apr 24, SJ: Earth Day at San Jose State: Call for Volunteers!

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

Table with Us for Old Growth, Redwoods, Workers, & Consumer Consciousness!!!
Contact 415-731-7924 chalicenew@ earthlink.net to volunteer
or for more info!


Thank you for taking action, for democracy, justice,
and a sustainable planet!!!


Mary Bull

Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign

252 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117

415-731-7924 chalicenew@ earthlink.net  www.gapsucks.org


FOR REDWOODS & WORKERS,

BOYCOTT GAP, BANANA REPUBLIC, & OLD NAVY!


FOR PEOPLE & PLANET,

STOP "FAST  TRACK" & THE FTAA! www.stopftaa.org

(Note: There is going to be another House vote on fast-track!

On Dec. 6, fast track won by one vote! Don't let that happen again!

Call your House rep NOW!!!) www.citizen.org/trade/fasttrack/action/


TO END INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM,

STOP THE SUPER JAIL FOR KIDS! www.booksnotbars.org
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10. Tariq Ali Speaking Event


From: Russell Bates <russbumper@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [sjpfolks] Tariq Ali Speaking Event
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:48:37 -0700 (PDT)

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***

Left Turn -- Bay Area Event Announcement: Thursday,
April 25, 2002

Tariq Ali, author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms
(Verso, 2002)
Speaking at the University of California-Berkeley

Tariq Ali is a longstanding editor of New Left Review and has written more
than a dozen books on history and politics. His most recent book is The
Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihad, and Modernity (Verso, 2002). He
also has been working on two sets of novels. Three novels of the "Islamic
Quintet" have been published by Verso: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, The
Book of Saladin, and The Stone Woman.

Tariq Ali was born in 1943 in Lahore, in what was then
British-controlled India. He was educated in Pakistan and then at
Oxford. His opposition to the military dictatorship in Pakistan during the
1960s led to permanent exile in Britain. He was active in the
anti-war movement in Europe during the late 1960s.
_____

When: Thursday, April 25, 2002
5:30 to 7:00 pm.
Doors open at 5:00 pm
Where: Northgate Hall, Room 105
UC-Berkeley campus (on Hearst, Northside)
_____
Sponsored by Left Turn (www.leftturn.org)
Co-Sponsored by: The Middle East Radio Project;
Students for Justice in Palestine; Berkeley Global Justice; and the Townsend
Center for the Humanities Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group

For more information, email:
hgiaphat@ socrates.berkeley.edu
or phone: (510) 847-2503
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11. War Resisters League Demo + Vigil, Mon., 4-22, Oakland


From: Steve Wagner <lakemerrittneighbors@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: War Resisters League Demo + Vigil, Mon., 4-22, Oakland
Date :   Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:31:15 -0700 (PDT)
"Who Won This War?"

A Peace Vigil and Poster Exhibition

Monday, April 22, starting at noon

Outside the Oakland (Ron Dellums) Federal Building

Clay St. between 12th and 14th Streets

Featuring:

* Posters showing the results of violence from over 20 countries,
showing the universality of suffering, and reminding us of our common
humanity.

* Beautiful music by Folk This, Erica Sodos, Maxina Ventura, Denise
of the Banned Band, and others

* Just a few speakers

Produced by War Resisters League-West, in concert with the National
Coalition for Peace and Justice anti-war mobilization.

For more info or to get flyers sent, faxed or e-mailed to you,
or to get involved, contact:
Jim Haber
wrlwest@ riseup.net
415-282-6580


=====
Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace.  Weekly peace walks around Lake
Merritt in Oakland.  Starts & ends at the colonnade between Grand &
Lakeshore Avenues, 3 P.M., every Sunday.
Info:  (510)763-8712, <lmno4p@...> or
http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP
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12. ANWR Drilling is Blocked!


From: Project Underground <cbaldi@ moles.org>
Reply-To: cbaldi@ moles.org
Subject: ANWR Drilling is Blocked!
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:35:01 -0700

"We ought to dance in the Streets!!! This proves that we can overcome
whatever obstacles in our path and the power of spirituality and prayer!!!
I am so happy, this was the one, it isn't over yet but we are winning the
battle slowly but surely...To all our supporters, THANK YOU!"

Faith Gemmill
Gwich'in Steering Committee


By a vote of 46-51, the Senate defeated opening up the Coastal Plains of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration and exploitation.

Drilling in the Refuge, which has been a cornerstoe of the Bush-Cheney
Energy plan and fueled by post-September 11th "national security" rhetoric,
has been strongly oppposed by the Gwich'in nation and environmental and
human rights organizations which contend that drilling in the Coastal Plains
would devestate the Porcuipine Caribou Herd's calving grounds; compromising
the food security and cultural survival of the Gwich'in people.

This vote is an important victory for the Gwich'in people, who are
indigenous to the area and who have fought against any oil exploration and
development in the Refuge.

THE STRUGLE CONTINUES:

This vote by the Senate makes it unlikely that drilling in the Refuge will
make it into any final energy plan, however, drilling there has already
passed the House, so it will remain on the table as part of the
Senate-House negotiations. We must continue to fight against any moves by
the U.S. Governement to open up drilling on the sacred and traditional lands
of the Gwich'in people. Stay tuned for future action alerts from Project
Underground, the Gwich'in Steering Committee and other organization waging
the battle against development in the Refuge.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

1. Check out the following past article in Drillbits & Tailings:

* GWICHIN' PEOPLES OF ALASKA HANG IN THE BALANCE OF US PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIONS - http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/5_18/1.html

*US SENATORS ASK FOR ACCESS TO ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE -
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/5_05/2.html

*DIARY: LETTERMAN MOCKS BUSH FOR ARCTIC DRILLING PROPOSAL -
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/5_18/diary.html

2. Visit the Gwich'in Steering Committee's Website at:
www.alaska.net/~gwichin/ and other Gwich'in websites at
http://www.oldcrow.yk.net/

3. Visit other websites that feature information on the Refuge (also listed
on the Gwich'in Steering Committee's website):

*Natural Resources Defense Council -
http://www.nrdc.org/nrdc/nrdcpro/anwr/anwrinx.html

*Public Interest Research Groupl -
http://www.nrdc.org/nrdc/nrdcpro/anwr/anwrinx.html

*Arctice Circle - http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/

*Caribou Commons Project - http://www.cariboucommons.com/

*U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -
http://www.r7.fws.gov/nwr/arctic/carcon.html

*Defenders of Wildlife - http://www.defenders.org/

*Trustees of Alaska - http://www.trustees.org/



Catherine Baldi
Program Coordinator
Project Underground
1916A MLK Jr Way
Berkeley, CA  94703
TEL: +1-510-705-8981
FAX: +1-510-705-8983
EMAIL: cbaldi@ moles.org
WEBSITE: www.moles.org
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14. BFC Update From the Field 4/18/02


From: Buffalo Field Campaign <bfc-media@ wildrockies.org>
Subject: BFC Update From the Field 4/18/02
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1904 02:13:06 -0600

Buffalo Field Campaign
News From the Field

In This Issue:

*Update From the Field 4/18/02

* What you Can Do

* BFC in the Press

* Thank You!

* Buffalo Exchange Benefits this Saturday, April 20

* A Program Update

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*Update From the Field 4/18/02

Buffalo Supporters,

I continue to be amazed at the strength and determination of the
volunteers who are working so hard to defend the buffalo and share
their story with the world.  A typical day begins at 4am and isn't
over until the end of our nightly meeting, usually around 10:30 pm.
Spring is the most difficult time as the days are longest, there are
greater numbers of buffalo out of the park, and the DOL's insistence
on killing bison is strongest.  Because many volunteers who have been
here all season start to leave at this time of year, our numbers are
down.

Right now there are more than 200 buffalo out of the park along the
Madison River between the park boundary and the Horse Butte
Peninsula.  They are being captured and slaughtered on a weekly
basis.  I wish I could write more uplifting updates but the truth is
the truth and needs to be told.  Buffalo are being slaughtered
systematically on a weekly basis and we are doing everything in our
power to raise awareness of and stop the needless killing.

Peter Leusch, with whom I share the media coordinator position, was
arraigned before a federal magistrate in Missoula this morning.  Pete
was arrested yesterday after he blocked the only access road to the
Horse Butte bison capture facility by locking himself into a "bat
mobile"-- a station wagon that was modified to allow him to lock his
arms around the drive-shaft from inside.  It took fifteen agents more
than two hours to move Pete and the car to the side of the road and
get the equipment that they need to capture bison past the
obstruction to the trap.  This is two hours that would have otherwise
been used to find, haze, and capture bison.  Pete pled not guilty to
three federal misdemeanor charges:  resisting arrest, creating a road
hazard, and maintaining an illegal structure.  He was released on his
own recognizance.

After arresting Pete the DOL, Park Service, Forest Service, and
Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks proceeded to capture
24 bison.  We saw two livestock trailers full of bison go to the
slaughterhouse this morning.  Because DOL spokesperson Karen Cooper
won't answer my request for specific information on the capture and
slaughter, we don't yet know how many bison were slaughtered and how
many were released.

Our summer campaign kicks off Memorial Day weekend and we still need
volunteers to staff our information tables in Yellowstone National
Park.  We are also currently hiring a summer office coordinator.  If
you are interested in either of these roles, please call (406)
646-0070 and ask for Valerie or Cookie.

-db-

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* What you Can Do

Yesterday's capture operation coincided with the opening of the
Governor's Conference on Tourism, currently underway in West
Yellowstone.  Montana Governor Judy Martz will speak at the tourism
conference on Friday.  Martz needs to realize the irony in her
attempt to promote tourism while supporting the slaughter of
America's last wild buffalo.

Call the governor's office and tell her you won't support tourism in
a state that is killing our natural heritage:

Judy Martz (406) 444-3111

And call the West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce and tell them the same:
(406) 646-7701

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* BFC in the Press

Reporters from the Missoula Independent visited us during our Week of
Action in March.  Read the article they wrote and look at the photos
of our actions:

http://www.missoulanews.com/News/News.asp?no=2326

---------------------------------------
* Thank You!

Thanks to Dr. Jesse Schwartz and Living Tree Community Foods for the
delicious and nutritious Living Olive Oil and for all the other
treats we've received from them this winter.  We are much happier and
healthier for it.

---------------------------------------
* Buffalo Exchange Benefits this Saturday, April 20

Please visit your local Buffalo Exchange Store this Saturday.  Stores
throughout the West and in Philadelphia are generously hosting a
fund-raiser and outreach drive for the Buffalo Field Campaign in
celebration of Earthday.

---------------------------------------
* A Program Update

Greetings!
The deaths in the field are so sad , but I know that without the
dedicated volunteers monitoring agencies actions - a lot more animals
would die.  The combined deaths during BFC's five years of existence
has totaled 157 (plus the number killed today), less than fifteen
percent of the number killed in 1996-97 alone.  Our constant presence
in the field and concerted legal, research and public education will
certainly lead to true protection for future generations.

On the public awareness front - the Rally in D.C. on April 4 brought
more national awareness of the issue along with our Earth Day events,
tabling at concerts, summer tabling in the Parks, etc.  The petition
drive is still going strong and the International Buffalo Network is
growing daily.

The legal front is moving along slowly but hopefully the Department
of Livestock will soon be brought to task for denying citizens their
right to know and have to quit hiding their records from us like they
have something to be ashamed of.  Other legal actions are also moving
forward.

What I really want to update you on is our scientific research.  In
addition to the thriving cooperative Bison Ecology Project, we have
successfully launched our Horse Butte Wildlands Protection Project.
This project is a science based project to strengthen our efforts to
win protection for these biologically diverse public lands outside
YNP.

In case you have never had the honor of visiting Horse Butte, let me
share this with you.  Horse Butte is an incredibly beautiful
peninsula west of Yellowstone National Park.  The bordering Hebgen
Lake and riparian wetlands provide rich wildlife habitat for bald
eagles, trumpeter swans, peregrine falcons, lynx, great horned and
boreal owls, sandhill cranes, wolverines, otters, beavers, skunks,
marmots, deer, elk and moose.  Its rich habitat, along with its
proximity to the park and to neighboring wilderness areas, make it a
vital corridor for wildlife species such as the endangered wolf and
grizzly bear. Sagebrush, grasses, and wildflowers dot the meadows.
The butte is speckled with old-growth trees.  Southeast from the
butte lies burnt and downed lodgepole for pine marten and woodpecker
habitat.  Slopes and bottomlands contain a mosaic of Douglas fir and
Lodgepole forest. An incredible diversity of plant and wildlife
species and habitat types thrives on the peninsula.

Horse Butte also plays an important role for the nation's last truly
wild bison. The Yellowstone bison are the most distinct and
evolutionarily unique herd in the U.S., a keystone species, essential
to the health and biodiversity of the Yellowstone ecosystem as a
whole.  For countless generations, the Yellowstone buffalo herd has
migrated to Horse Butte via a winter/spring migration corridor.  The
buffalo winter there at this lower elevation and calve on the
protected peninsula in the spring.  When the sun has melted the deep
snows, and the time is right, they return to Yellowstone Park using
this same traditional corridor.

We kicked off the project with help from the Maki Foundation, Nancy
and some dedicated supporters.  The exciting news is that Earth
Friends has just issued a matching grant to help us on this project!!
If you can donate to help us raise these matching funds - it would be
a great help.  We are frugal with our expenditures and operate in
true grassroots fashion - so if you can make an donation in addition
to your supportive operating expense donation - we can make the
match.  Please mail donation to POB 957; West Yellowstone, MT 59758
and memo - HBPP - match.  If you need further information - please
contact me at bfc-programs@....  I can supply you with
info and/or an annual report.

The buffalo have indeed been blessed with caring supporters and I
thank you so much for all that you do.  Everyone, everywhere who
cares for the buffalo and takes action on their behalf through
letter-writing, raising public awareness, prayer and support is
helping to make a change.

I hope soon we can join together with people of all nations and
celebrate the buffalo's true protection.  Until then, we'll be in the
field 365 days a year!

Thank you,
Su Gregerson
Program Development Coordinator
bfc-programs@...

Buffalo Field Campaign Programs
POB 957
West Yellowstone, Montana 59758

Donations are tax deductible and go directly to front lines work. BFC
is the only group in the field 365 days a year with the last, free
roaming buffalo.
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From: Buffalo Field Campaign <bfc-media@...>
Subject: For the buffalo!
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:42:57 -0600

John,

We welcome any help you can give in publicizing the  buffalo
slaughter that has been happening on a weekly basis since December.
We can house and feed as many new volunteers as you can help
generate, especially between now and the end of May, though maybe a
bit later.

Civil disobedience works best with large numbers.

There are currently more than 200 buffalo out of the park and we
expect the DOL to attempt to capture nearly all of them.  With lots
of people who have been here all winter burning out and leaving, we
could really use the new energy, particularly people with experience
with non-violent cd.

We welcome anyone who cares enough to come and help.

We are also looking for folks to help with our summer campaign, when
we table in the park and educate visitors on the plight of the herd.

Thanks for helping publicize this issue with the Peoples Bark News.
And thanks for the offer to help generate volunteers.

Montana is very beautiful in Spring.

For the Buffalo,

Dan Brister
Buffalo Field Campaign
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15. My Letter re: the Jesuits Scandal


From: aram b james <abjpd1@ juno.com>
Subject: FYI: This is the Version of My Letter re: the Jesuits Scandal that
the SJ Metro published today.
Date :   Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:25:06 -0700



Saying Your Preyers

Thanks for your continuing coverage of the scandal involving the Jesuits,
Priests and the Catholic Church (Public Eye, April 4). As a public defender,
I'm amazed at the light sentences received by the priests: Father Moniz,
three years' probation and no jail; Father Conner, six months’ home
monitoring; Father Mariano, five months in county jail. My own clients—often
poor and without institutional support—almost without exception go to state
prison for very long periods on similar charges. I’m also aware of the
outrage expressed by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office when
former Sheriff’s Deputy Armand Tiano was given a one year county jail
sentence instead of prison for his conviction on sexual assault matters.
Where was their outrage when the Jesuits were given a mere slap on the
wrist?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the same judges who routinely hand down long
sentences to public defender clients—often with gratuitous verbal attacks
heaped on them by the court—aren’t the same judges who, all of sudden, felt
great compassion for the defendants. Where was the press coverage when these
cases were initially prosecuted? How was it that these cases avoided public
disclosure at the time of sentencing? Would further victimization have been
avoided with adequate coverage?

The idea of rehabilitation for individuals convicted of sexual offenses
makes great sense, but not if the only ones offered such rehabilitation
are Priests, Jesuits and other protected members of society. How much of
an outcry would there be if numerous convicted child molesters were
allowed to reside in Los Gatos in an idyllic setting if they weren’t
members of the clergy? Would we have protests and the local lynch mob
threatening to kill the defendants and anyone speaking on their behalf? I
would hope not, but I wouldn’t be surprised, given the normal public
outrage at anyone even charged with such offenses.

Aram James,
Palo Alto
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16. HERE rally at Claremont 4/28


From: Dave Kadlecek <dkadlecek@ igc.org>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: HERE rally at Claremont 4/28


Hey all-

Things are really heating up at the Claremont-and it's time to turn up the
pressure on KSL, and we're planning on moving to the next level of our
campaign at our "Guess Who's Coming to Brunch" Rally at the Claremont
Sunday, April 28th from 11am-1pm (on Ashby and Domingo Ave.) This is the big
one folks -- the workers at the Claremont are going to announce a major
decision at the rally, so we need you to be there in support and solidarity.

   I've attached a flyer to pass around. [text below -- flyer available
from Liz at this email address "Liz Oakley" <theliz01@...>


Si Se Puede!
-Liz Oakley
510-326-5275

P.S.-
For those of you who have already come across the challenge of parking at
the Claremont, we CAN use the large lot, but the downside is there is a
charge, and that money will go to KSL.  There's also parking on the curbs
surrounding the hotel, and some on Domingo.
Call me for public transit info.

...


Guess Who's Coming to Brunch Rally
At the Claremont
Sunday, April 28th
From 11am-1pm
(on Ashby and Domingo Ave.)

Come out and Rally as we take our campaign at the Claremont
to a new level!

Check out the latest at the Claremont at WWW.KSLWATCH.ORG
For more info, or to arrange transportation,
Call Liz Oakley at (510) 893-3181, ext. 133
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17. Hip Hop Artist Paris Talks about the 'War on Terrorism'


From: "Gat Turner" <gat_turner@ hotmail.com>
Subject: Hip Hop Artist Paris Talks About 'War on Terrorism'
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:53:47 -0700



http://www.daveyd.com/FullArticles\articleN1046.asp
================================================================
This interview was also in the SF Bayviews newspaper.  It is online but
their website is undergoing renovation at this time.
When it is up - http://www.sfbayview.com

Since last week when we ran the story about Paris returning to the Hip Hop
scene, there have been thousands of emails from all over the world coming
through. Most have been encouraging with people emphatically welcoming his
return. There are also those who have laid out some hard questions for Paris
to answer especially since he has voiced some strong opinions on the War on
Terrorism. Paris pointed out that was to be expected.

If people recall 10 years ago when Paris released the album 'The Devil Made
Me Do It', he included some indepth information that he penned about the
Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam. It was a wonderful break down
and it provided listners with important back ground material so they could
better understand where he was coming from.

This time around Paris responded to a number of questions posed by an FNV
Newsletter reader named TX about his stance on the War on Terrorism and some
of the issues he brought up in his new song 'What Would You Do'. Paris
responded eloquently and provided supporting material. We decided to share
those questions and responses so folks can have a serious break down on this
current war.

You can download the new Paris song "What Would You Do?" for free at
http://www.daveyd.com/paristrack.mp3

You can email Paris directly at gat_turner@...

Peace for now

Davey D


TX: A few weeks ago, I posed a question to you about what specific
provisions in the Patriot Act destroy our 4th Amendment protections. I've
read it and I don't see it.

Paris:If you've really read it and still don't see it, then allow me
to spell it out for you because it's all-too-clear to me that the Patriot
Act violates so much more than just the 4th Amendment.
Its signing has effectively nullified at least six amendments of the Bill of
Rights addendum to the U.S. Constitution.
As a result of this, America has become nothing short of a Police State. The
Patriot Act is, in fact, a massive  violation of the Constitution it
purports to uphold and improve.
Among other things, it mandates that judges give police search
warrants when they ask for them, for any reason. In fact, judges can't deny
these warrants to police, because police don't need a stated reason to ask
for them.

The Bill of Rights is the cornerstone of American freedom. During
the debates on the adoption of the Constitution in the 1790s, its opponents
repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to
tyranny by the central government. Many states would not have signed the
original Constitution without knowing that these amendments would be added.
These amendments became known as the Bill of Rights, which Americans have
cherished, protected and fought for for over 200 years.

The Patriot Act rushed through Congress and signed by President George W.
Bush is a major step toward a totalitarian state in which individual liberty
is crushed by the whim of police and corporate demagogues masquerading as
patriots.

The Patriot Act:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html

* Violates the First Amendment freedom of speech guarantee, the
provision allowing the right to peaceably assemble, and the provision
allowing the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

* Violates the Fourth Amendment guarantee of probable cause in
astonishingly major and repeated ways. The Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to
be searched, and the persons of things to be
seized." The Patriot Act, now passed and the law of the land, has
revoked the necessity for probable cause, and now allows the police, at any
time and for any reason, to enter and search your house. Under the act they
are not required to even tell you why.

* Violates the Fifth Amendment by allowing for indefinite
incarceration without trial for those deemed by the Attorney General to be
threats to national security. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person
shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law,
and the Patriot Act does away with due process. It even allows people to be
kept in prison for life without even a trial.

* Violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of the right to a speedy and public
trial. Now you may get no trial at all, ever.

* Violates the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment).

* Violates the 13th Amendment (punishment without conviction).

From the ACLU's objections:

* It minimizes judicial supervision of telephone and Internet
surveillance by law enforcement authorities in anti-terrorism
investigations and in routine criminal investigations unrelated to
terrorism. (Unrelated to terrorism? WTF? That means anything. Maybe
surveillance of those expressing political dissent? Ya think?)

* It expands the ability of the government to conduct secret searches in
anti-terrorism investigations and in routine criminal investigations
unrelated to terrorism. (Again - unrelated to terrorism? That means
anything. If you disagree with the government's policies publically then
this applies to you).

* It gives the Attorney General and the Secretary of State the power
to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations and block any
non-citizen who belongs to them from entering the country. Under this
provision the payment of membership dues is a deportable offense. (That
means, among other things, that Bush and Ashcroft can decide that even
obviously peaceful organizations are terrorists, and under this law,
can put them in jail).

* It grants the FBI broad access to sensitive medical, financial, mental
health, and educational records about individuals without having to show
evidence of a crime and without a court order. (I can't help you if you
don't see the danger in this).

* It could lead to large-scale investigations of American citizens
for "intelligence" purposes and use of intelligence authorities to bypass
probable cause requirements in criminal cases.
(This could apply to anyone).

* It puts the CIA and other intelligence agencies back in the business of
spying on Americans by giving the Director of Central Intelligence the
authority to identify priority targets for intelligence surveillance in the
United States.

* It allows searches of highly personal financial records without
notice and without judicial review based on a very low standard that does
not require probable cause of a crime or even relevancy to an ongoing
terrorism investigation. (They can do any of this without any reason
whatsoever. This is the kind of freedom fascists have always wanted -
freedom to put everyone who disagrees with them in jail).

* It creates a broad new definition of "domestic terrorism" that could sweep
in people who engage in acts of political protest and subject them to
wiretapping and enhanced penalties. (This means they can jail anyone who
disagrees with them, and keep them in jail for life without a trial).

The implications for immigration are equally as disturbing, but I won't go
into them here.

-----------------------------

Paris Responds: Pt 2

TX: What's the deal about oil in the Caspian Sea? Where is the proof? It was
more plausible when we dealt with the Persian Gulf war.

Paris: The Caspian Sea region has potentially the world's largest oil
reserves (6 trillion dollars worth), likely making Central Asia the next
Middle East. The problem is piping it out. Afghanistan occupies a strategic
position between the Caspian and the markets of the Indian subcontinent and
east Asia. It's prime territory for building pipelines, which is why the oil
company Unocal -- as well as the U.S. government -- welcomed the Taliban's
rise to power in 1996 as a promising source of "stability." And while this
stability didn't materialize, people like Bush Jr. and the oil men around
him have never given up on the tremendous profit possibilities that Central
Asia offers.

Remember that both Bush and Vice President Cheney are wealthy oil men and
Cheney's Haliburton Corporation will probably be building the multi-billion
dollar oil pipeline across Afghanistan that will be needed to bring much of
that oil to market. It is also important to be aware that Zalmay Khalilzad
who is the US Envoy to Aghanistan was a Unocal advisor.
(http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/01/113169.php). Therefore a forced
conflict with people they already have no regard for was the perfect vehicle
to enable them to set up shop with the U.S. population's explicit approval.

As for legal grounds, the November 26th issue of Newsweek states:
Secret Legal Document Gave Bush Wartime Powers, Including Holding Secret
Tribunals

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- After he signed an order allowing the use
of military tribunals in terrorist cases, President George W. Bush insisted
he alone should decide who goes before such a military court, his aides tell
Newsweek. The tribunal document gives the government the power to try,
sentence -- and even execute -- suspected foreign terrorists in secrecy,
under special rules that would deny them constitutional rights and allow no
chance to appeal. Bush's powers to form a military court came from a secret
legal memorandum, which the U.S. Justice Department began drafting in the
days after Sept. 11, Newsweek has learned. The memo allows Bush to invoke
his broad wartime powers, since the U.S., they concluded, was in a state of
"armed conflict." Bush used the memo as the legal basis for his order to
bomb Afghanistan.

If that's not a dictator using his power for personal gain and the gain of
corporate interests then I don't know what is. Now dig this:

http://www.bushwatch.net/oil.htm
The U.S. Eyes Oil in Central Asia and Steps on Russia's Turf THE NEW COLD
WAR

WASHINGTON, D.C.: As the war winds down, the U.S. is eyeing Central Asia as
a new colony. And as America projects its power across the region, it runs
the risk of setting off a new cold war with Moscow. A few reasons why:

Big Oil is once again taking a hard look at prospects for building a
pipeline carrying Caspian Sea oil across Afghanistan and down through
Pakistan to ports on the Arabian Sea. "The large-scale projects aimed at
building gas and oil pipelines linking the Caspian region with the
attractive international market of the Arabian Sea may become the principal,
if not the only, means to breathe a [new] life into Afghanistan,"

Martha Brill Olcott, a Carnegie Endowment scholar, told the Moscow paper
Izvestia.

Turkmenistan, which used to be part of the Soviet Union and has huge natural
gas deposits, is key to controlling the region. In late October,
Turkmenistan's president, Saparmurat Niyazov, sent a letter to the UN
leaders advocating construction of a pipeline bringing Turkmen gas across
Afghan territory to Pakistan's Arabian Sea ports. The Far Eastern Economic
Review reports Niyazov claimed the pipeline "will help rebuild this country
[Afghanistan], normalize peaceful life and work of the Afghan people and
also accelerate socio-economic development of the entire adjacent region."

In Moscow at the end of last month, Niyazov declared, "We could sell to
foreign markets about 120 billion cubic meters of gas annually, but we can
not do this due to the lack of pipelines."

Another important reason for the war in Afghanistan is for control of the
opium poppies used to make most of the heroin in the world. One would think
that President Bush with his 'War on Drugs/Terror' would seek to stop the
manufacture of heroin in Afghanistan now that the U.S. has taken over
control of the country. But instead it has been reported that the new ruling
Northern Alliance is expanding substantially the growing of opium poppies
and the manufacture of heroin in Afghanistan (http://www.orion-online.net/
vnews/display.v/ART/2001/12/12/3c16c334d37ad).

According to the Glasgow Herald, a United Nations survey showed that fields
used for poppy production almost tripled in size in the last year, going
from 5,000 to 13,000 acres. Those fields weren't bin Laden's. They were the
Northern Alliance's. Could it be that the Bushes, Cheney and the CIA really
are involved, as long-rumored, in heavy-duty drug trafficking all over the
world?

Just food for thought...


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Paris Responds: Pt 3

TX: Does Paris really believe that our own country killed 3,000 plus people?
Again, where's the proof? Or are we just talkin' about a conspiracy theory?

Paris: Let me see now, the label "conspiracy theory" is a tactic that the
media often invokes to immediately discredit voices of dissent and people
who seek truth. Are you playing Devil's Advocate or are you being sincere?
Assuming the latter, let me say that the tactic of creating manufactured
enemies for personal gain has been around for as long as there have been
conflicts. Of course there's no concrete proof of a conspiracy - the media
would never allow that - but rather an abundance of evidence that points to
a conspiracy on behalf of US interests. Know that there's no concrete proof
of the involvement of any other country either. The first thing that you
must do is ask yourself, over and over again, the following question:
"Who benefits?"

Does Bin Laden benefit from the response that an act of war was surely to
generate? Does his home country of Afghanistan? How did we know it was him
immediately after the event? It's now more important then ever that we
question everything and recognize propaganda when we see it.

Many of the media outlets now do little more than fan the flames of bigotry,
exacerbate irrational fears or attempt to appeal to our sense of compassion
- oftentimes in collaboration with some type of "Save/Heal/Help America"
sales campaign. Have we really experienced an act of war by another country?

While we all agree that a crime was committed with the WTC bombings, was
this crime an act of war by another country? Assuming that this actually was
a non-USA sponsored event, and assuming that Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban
are indeed the culprits, does the act allegedly committed by him and his
organization amount to an act of war by Afghanistan? If I go into another
country and commit a crime am I declaring war on that country in the name of
the USA? Do I have the ability politically to declare war on anyone in the
name of the USA? Absolutely not. Think about it.

But let's get back to my point about manufactured enemies. Crassus did it
with the slave revolt led by Sparticus against Rome. Cicero did it with
Caesar by hiring thugs to cause as much disturbance as possible in Rome, all
the while campaigning on a promise to end the internal strife if elected and
granted extraordinary powers. Hitler did it with Reichstagg the same way.
FDR did it to mask the symptoms of a sick economy struggling back from the
Great Depression by entering us into WW2. Johnson did it in Vietnam to
stimulate defense spending. Bush Sr. did it for oil money - when OPEC failed
to keep limits on oil production in the Mideast, the market was being
glutted with oil pumped from underneath Iraq, which sat over roughly 1/3 of
the oil reserves of the entire region. Bush Sr. wanted a war to stop that
flow of oil and to keep prices (and profits) from falling any further than
they already had. But like Roosevelt with Japan, he needed the "other side"
to make the first move. Clinton did it to divert attention from the Monica
Lewinsky scandal, first bombing Sudan and then Afghanistan for supposed
chemical weapons violations. Later examination proved the Sudanese site to
be an aspirin factory and the site in Afghanistan to be a mosque.

So you see, what I'm proposing is nothing new. Ask yourself what this
current administration had to gain? Well let's see, the unification of the
country after a suspected fraudulent election, oil profiteering to the tune
of 6 trillion dollars and rapid and unchecked expansion of federal
authority, for starters.

Now for the facts:

* It was widely reported that none of the names of the so-called Arab
terrorists were on any of the passenger lists of any of the four planes
involved in 9-11. Yet within 48 hours, the FBI and CIA somehow managed to
produce the pictures and names of 19 Arabs who were supposedly the
"terrorists" on the planes, even though none of their names were on any of
the passenger lists. How did they know? Were they determined to be
"terrorists" just because they had Arab names?

* There has been no real official FBI or CIA follow-up to the millions of
dollars in stock options profits generated by the attacks. Why not? Surely
additional inquiries into the money trail (not Bin Laden's) will yield
surprising results.

* It was reported that the black boxes from the planes, which record
conversations between the pilot and ground control, were all either
destroyed or the conversations on recovered blackboxes could not be
released. Why not? Black boxes are built to survive the worst plane crashes
imaginable. By not releasing the black box communications and data, we can
never know what really happened in the cockpit, on the aircraft and who
really flew the planes. Additionally, there had to be some communication
between the pilots and Air traffic Control. Yet no air traffic controller
was interviewed to talk about their conversations with the pilots during the
course of the "hijackings." In a news story this big, why not?

* "Global Hawk" pilotless plane technology has existed since 1998 but is
rarely discussed and could have been used in the 9-11 events
(http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Feb1997/970220-D-0000G-001.html). It is
rumored that up to four planes can be flown at once utilizing this
technology. How many planes were involved in 9-11? Four. And according to
almost all professional commercial airline pilots, the supposed Arab
"hijackers" could not have flown those planes at all, or as well as they
were flown, if they only attended the flight schools that were reported in
the news.

* Remember the story of the rental car found so conveniently at Boston
airport, where two planes were hijacked, which contained, of all things, a
copy of the Koran and an instructional video for how to fly commercial jets?
An instructional video? I thought they went to school. Yet they can hit
buildings with pinpoint accuracy? We're supposed to believe that?

* What about the "Bin Laden confession video" that was "found" an a living
room VCR in Afghanistan? Shit, do we look that stupid? I guess so.

* No US military planes were sent up to intercept any of the hijacked planes
even though there were at least 30 minutes to an hour from the time it was
known that the planes were hijacked. Much has been written about this by the
alternative free press on the internet. It is standard procedure for
military planes to be sent up if a plane is off course and has not
communicated with ground control. This is normal safety protocol because an
off-course plane could potentially result in a mid-air collision. The
relevant question why US military jets weren't deployed under these
emergency and highly-dangerous conditions? If you think Bin Laden could have
done all of this sitting in some cave in Afghanistan - think again. The only
people who could have pulled this one off are high-ranking government
officials within our own government.

Those are just a few of the most disturbing oddities.

So let's recap. None of the supposed Arab "terrorist" names were on any of
the passenger flight lists and the U.S. Government, within 48 hours, showed
us pictures of 19 Arab "terrorists" - even though the FBI and CIA said they
had no prior information that the 911 event could happen. Live pilots in the
cockpit, we find, aren't even needed to fly any of the four planes at all,
as Global Hawk technology could conceivably allow for them all to be flown
by a single pilot from the ground.

Hence, the 19 Arab "hijackers" weren't necessary at all. But by the U.S.
Government refusing to release any of the pilot-to-ground control
communications from the (allegedly destroyed) blackboxes in the aircraft, it
effectively blacks out any conversation from the "hijacked" airline pilots
possibly telling the control tower that the flight controls of their planes
had been taken over.

Other important major benefactors of the "War on Terror" are the war
industrialists. George Bush, Jr.'s father happens to be one of the main
players in the fifth largest war corporation in the World: the Carlyle
Corporation (http://www.bushwatch.net/bushcarlyle.htm). This is an example
of nepotism at it's finest, as Bush Sr. plans to make a LOT of dough from
his involvement with the Carlyle Corporation and the awarding of defense
contracts. The Bin Ladens and the Bushes have been doing business together
for many years. How interesting.

And finally, probably one of the biggest giveaways that Bin Laden is not the
main "Mastermind" behind 9-11 is the fact that since 9-11, there have been
NO additional "terrorist" acts perpetrated against, or in, the US or Europe.
Not one bullet has been fired on U.S. soil. Not one bomb exploded.

So here we have the purported "master terrorist", Osama Bin Laden, who
supposedly committed the biggest terrorist act ever on U.S. soil and yet he
has not been able to commit even a small terrorist act against his "enemy" -
the U.S. - since 9-11. Afghanistan is being bombed viciously and thousands
of innocent, defenseless Afghani men, women and children have been killed by
American forces, as have Bin Laden's Al Queda forces, but the "enemy
terrorist" is not fighting back? Huh?

We are told constantly by the U.S. Government that Bin Laden has thousands
of "sleeper operatives" just waiting in the wings to commit terrorist acts
in the U.S. and Europe. Where are they? Now he disappears, all the while
costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars. Pentagon officials have
said several times they may never be able to find Bin Laden. Hmm... I guess
any country supposedly harboring him now is ripe for U.S. state-sponsored
terrorism. If the capture of Bin Laden really was the true objective,
wouldn't it have been easier and cheaper to have offered a one billion
dollar reward for him and his cronies and not send any military force to
Afghanistan? Was the loss of life of thousands of innocent Afghani
civilians, along with Taliban and American military personnel really
necessary?

It has been reported the U.S. had plans to invade Afghanistan and oust the
Taliban months before 9-11. Can you say Oil?

----------------------------

Paris Responds: Pt 4

TX: Is the US supposed to be the World Police, or is it enough that we pick
& choose our fights as long as we are sincere about helping the people of
that region?

Paris: You tell me, are we supposed to be the world's police? Are we
supposed to consistently murder and be murdered for other people's concerns?
Who does the fighting, and who always dies? Surely not the children of
lawmakers and politicians. They always elude conflict, just as Bush Jr. did
with the help of his pop. Order and read the Book FORTUNATE SON: George W.
Bush and the Making of an American President, second edition
(http://www.softskull.com/catalog/
hatfield/fortunate_son.html) for additional uncut info on our supposed
Commander-In-Chief. By they way, who says we're sincere? The
corporate-sponsored, propaganda-spewing media? Since when have we ever
"helped" anybody with nothing to gain ourselves? Think!


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Part 5

TX: Would Paris agree with the bombings in Israel? Please note that I don't
agree with some of Israel's tactics or motives either.

Paris:I tend to not venture into debates regarding the Middle East. Simply
ponder that the ongoing conflict revolves around "Occupied Territory" and
that ALL of our media in the United States is pro-Israel and then begin to
formulate your own opinion. Think! If Native Americans began blowing up shit
over here for theft of their land, would they be justified? Rocks &
slingshots against armed soldiers and nuclear weapons...hmmm...


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Part 6

TX: Would Paris really have preferred Al Gore as president? His wife was the
one who began explicitly censoring hiphop. The Democratic Party has just
about the same amount of self-interests as Republicans. I've read Bush v.
Gore and under our Constitution the right decision was made. There's no way
around that.

Paris: What right decision? No way around what? This is bigger than
Hip-Hop. How many people and/or companies in popular media now would openly
entertain a message like mine given the current political climate generated
by THIS administration?

Believe me, there are many, many people out there who feel as I do, who are
tired of the propaganda and constant media bombardment and lack of any news
and/or entertainment of substance. Look at the superficial state of hip-hop
now. Where are all of the major labels who claim to be for the people? For
the street? Down with the real? Who claim that change in hip-hop is needed?
Wasn't it Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam, who recently brought up this
very fact at a major hip-hop conference? Well? Pitiful. Remember that people
buy what is glorified and given to them. Instead of progressive acts that
people are hungering for we now have constant negativity. Look at the
countless references to ecstacy in popular music as an example. Amerikkka's
new manufactured genocide drug of choice. Where are the lyrical standards
enforcers now?

Now of course I know the Democratic Party has it's evils, I'm not disputing
that in the least. But it is definitely the lessor of the two evils, as it
doesn't have such a severe record of systematic exclusion and racist bias.
Both Bushes, John Ashcroft, David Duke, Ralph Reed, Pat Buchannan, Orrin
Hatch, Dick Armey, Ward Connerly, Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Rush
Limbaugh and a host of others are all Republicans, remember. And there's no
way around THAT.

TX: I can understand where Paris is coming from and the distrust he has. I
am not disputing that our country is not without its own
"skeletons", but I don't take ANYTHING at face value. I need proof. Without
it, I really cannot accept as truth that the US had all this planned. There
are too many factors where things can go wrong and seriously lead to global
destruction. I don't think any government wants that. There'd be nothin'
left to rule!

Paris: There would be EVERYTHING left to rule with a subservient, docile
population good for nothing but consumerism. Again, ask yourself who really
has gained as a result of the attacks last September. A climate of fear and
the constant media reminders of a "terror threat" keep us blindly backing
anything the government wants to do. All we need now is bar codes on our
foreheads. Do you know the population of Afghanistan is over 70% teenagers?
Who are we really at war with, and why?

Are you going to trust me, your brother with nothing to gain but grief from
an out-of-control oppressive dictatorship (my record's not for sale), or our
government and media who have (dis)respectfully done and covered up some of
the most vicious dirt ever in history? Call me unpatriotic if you like, but
that would be a blind assumption. Know that it is more unpatriotic to NOT
question the government and it's actions, especially when your rights are
being violated and so many people are adversely affected by what it does.
Understand that when our government acts like this, THE WHOLE WORLD LOSES.

The first casualty of war is the truth.
written by Paris


Stay Strong
PARIS
Email Paris directly at gat_turner@...
http://www.daveyd.com/paristrack.mp3

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no peace without justice....
VIOLATING MY CIVIL RIGHTS IS AN 'ACT OF TERRORISM'!

john vance, editor
PEOPLES BARK NEWS BERKELEY

A project of:
A First Amendment Center
PO Box 4851
Berkeley, Ca 94704
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(510) 287-9406

Hotlines:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 621
(KPFA Event Calendar)

(510) 287-9406
(A First Amendment Center's Message Line!)

(510) 594-4000 ext. 202
(Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hotline!)

(510) 548-0542
(Friends of KPFA hotline!)

(415) 546-6334 ext. 352
(Media Alliance KPFA info line!)

PLEASE send me SF Bay Area news/events that you would like posted
to: aliun@. hotmail.com - Deadline for event notice submissions is every
Monday at noon.

Event Calendar:
http://www.peacenowfreedomnow.net

And, remember, the most important place of all, our own people's
media at: http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ for San Francisco Bay Area
news postings and http://www.indymedia.org/ to look for postings
for other city's community news.

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_week.php
(San Francisco Indymedia Calendar)

More calendars:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages (PBNB)
http://bapd.org/cal.txt (Bay Area Progressive Calendar)
http://www.bapd.org/notices.html  (Some Really GOOD Current Notices)
http://bapd.org/n52.html (Peace and anti-war calendar)
http://www.sfbg.com/action/index.html (SF Bay Guardian ALERTS)

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
(East Bay Coalition Against the War)

http://www.peaceandjustice.org/events/indexhi.html
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Calendar)

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
(Global Exchange)

http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar.html
(Ecology Center calendar)

http://abacia.com/calendar/  (Abacia calendar)

http://www.change-links.org/chcl2.htm
(Change Links Calendar - L.A.)

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/calendar.cfm?
(Berkeley DP Calendar)

http://www.protest.net/ (Protest.Net Calendar of Events)

http://www.earthneighborhood.com/events.html
(Earth Neighborhood calendar - Union City, Ca)

SOME ALTERNATIVE (and one mainstream) MEDIA SOURCES:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
<A First Amendment Center's Links Page>


http://www.internationalanswer.org/
<Act Now to Stop War and End Racism>

http://www.aljazeera.net (Arabic Media in Qatar)
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
(TRANSLATOR for aljazeera.net)


http://www.alternet.org <AlterNet>
http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/gateway/arnindex.html <AntiRacismNet>
http://www.atasite.org/ <Artist's Television Access>
http://www.afghanmagazine.com <Afghan Magazine>
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)
http://berkeleystopthewar.org/ <Berkeley Stop the War Coalition>
http://www.wpkn.org/news/btl.html <Between the Lines - WPKN - CT>
http://www.brasscheck.com/ <brasscheck.com>
http://www.bushwatch.net/ <Bush Watch>
http://www.buzzflash.com/ <BuzzFlash>
http://www.legitgov.org/ <Citizens for Legitimate Government>
http://www.commondreams.org <Common Dreams>
http://www.corpwatch.org/ <CorpWatch>
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup/ <CounterCoup>
http://www.democracynow.org/ <Democracy Now - Out of Exile!>
http://www.drudgereport.com/ <DRUDGE REPORT>

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
<East Bay Coalition Against the War>

http://fair.org/ <Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting>
http://www.flashpoints.net/ <Flashpoints News Radio>
http://globalcircle.net/ <Global Circle Net News>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ <Global Research>
http://www.guerrillanews.com/ <Guerilla News Network>
http://www.humanrightsnow.org/ <Human Rights Now - Michael Ratner>
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm <IATP - WTO Watch>
http://www.independent.co.uk <Independent.co.uk>
http://www.indymedia.org/ <IndyMedia>
http://www.infowars.com/ <Infowars.com - Alex Jones>
http://accuracy.org/ <Institute for Public Accuracy>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ <In These Times>
http://www.kpfa.org <KPFA>
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm <Mid-East Realities>
http://www.opensecrets.org/ (Money in Politics)
http://www.labornet.org/ <LaborNet - News for the Labor Movement>
http://www.madre.org/ <Madre - Women's Human Rights Organization>
http://www.media-alliance.org/ <Media Alliance>
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ <MediaChannel.org>
http://michaelmoore.com/ <Michael Moore>
http://www.copvcia.com/index.html <Mike Ruppert><NOT FREE>
http://www.motherjones.com <Mother Jones>
http://www.narconews.com <Narco News>
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html <Noam Chomsky>
http://www.kpfa.com <NOT KPFA - but about KPFA>
http://www.oneworld.net/ <OneWorld.net>
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp <Open Democracy>
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html <Palestine media Watch>
http://www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ <Palestine Report>
http://poornewsnetwork.org/ <Poor News Network>
http://www.protest.net/ <Protest Net>
http://www.rabble.ca/ <Rabblerousers>
http://www.radio4all.org/ <Radio4All>
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/infohub.html <Rainbow Puddle>
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ <re: constructions>

http://www.enronownsthegop.com/
<Republican Party of Texas - brought to you by Enron>

http://rwor.org/ <Revolutionary Worker>
http://www.sfbayview.com/ <San Francisco Bay View>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ <SF IndyMedia>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/publish.php <SF IndyMedia (Publish Page)>
http://www.savepacifica.net/ <Save Pacifica.net>
http://www.speakoutnow.org/ <Speakout!>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <telegraph.co.uk>
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml <The Afghan Women's Mission>
http://www.tenc.net/ <The Emporer's New Clothes>
http://www.thenation.com/ <The Nation>
http://www.newsguild.org/index.php <The Newspaper Guild>

http://porthurontokentstate.tripod.com/
<The Port Huron to Kent State Project>

http://www.tompaine.com/ <TomPaine.commonsense>
http://www.utne.com <Utne Reader Online>
http://www.voterwest.org/ <Voter March West>
http://warresisters.org/ <War Resisters League>
http://www.war-times.org <WarTimes>
http://www.willpitt.com/Archive.htm <WillPitt.com>

http://www.wilpf.org/
<Women's International Legue for Peace and Freedom>

http://newsforchange.com/ <Working for Change>
http://www.zmag.org/ <Z Magazine Online>

http://ajr.newslink.org/ (mainstream media source)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/~musnews/  (Muslim News - Britain)
http://www.paknews.com/   (Pakistan News Service)
http://www.yespakistan.com/  (More News from Pakistan)
http://www.millat.pibc.com/index.htm  (News from Pakistan)
http://www.thefridaytimes.com  (Pakistan News)
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/  (News from Peshawar, Pakistan)
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/  (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)



BOOKS TO READ:

http://www.akpress.org/

OTHER LINKS:
http://www.kpfa.org (KPFA)

KPFA/Pacifica-related websites:
http://www.cfdp.org (Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica)
http://www.pacifica.org (Pacifica Foundation Radio Website)
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(A First Amendment Center's  website)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
(Coalition to Remove the Pacifica Board)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

(Lotsa KPFA-related links)
http://www.glib.com/union.html
(unofficial WBAI union website)
http://www.webwm.com/mfberry
http://www.newKPFA.net
http://www.wbai.net (Listener's Group - NYC/CdP)

http://www.BillMandel.net or
http://www.BillMandel.com
(Bill Mandel's website(s))

http://www.spanishbookclub.cjb.net
(My partner, Miriam Ruvinskis',
Spanish Book Club website)

FreePacifica discussion list: to subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@. recordist.com with the text "subscribe freepac"

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica local list:  to subscribe, send
email to: les@. delong.org  with the text "subscribe"
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Dear Peoples Bark News Berkeley Readers;

FUNDS NEEDED FOR APRIL 20TH RALLY! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN.


no peace without justice,

john vance, editor/publisher/coordinator
Peoples Bark News Berkeley
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages

A First Amendment Center
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
Berkeley, Ca

PLEASE READ BELOW THIS LINE!!!
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From: "iacsf" <LIST@ ACTIONSF.ORG>
Reply-To: IAC-SF-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: FUNDS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR APRIL 20 PROTEST IN SAN FRANCISCO
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:15:36 -0000


FUNDS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR APRIL 20 PROTEST IN SAN FRANCISCO

The International ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End
Raciscm) is in urgent need of funds to make the April 20 Protest
Against War, Racism & Poverty a success. As mobilizing for San
Francisco grows, so do the expenses necessary to make our united and
powerful voice heard. As we hear of more buses, cars, vans and
contingents arriving Saturday we need to increase our logistical
costs.

This week alone we face expenses in excess of $15,000!

Sound and stage will exceed $6,000.

Portable toilets: $2,000.

Banners and beautifully printed signs, over $3,000.

In addition we have printing costs for flyers and posters,
mobilizer's newsletters, truck rental, tables, ASL sign
language interpreters, and many, many more.

The scope of these expenses was unanticipated, but is now necessary
due to the increased turnout expected for Saturday. Donations can be
made online at www.progressunity.org, and are tax-deductible.

Checks can be made out to International ANSWER or tax-deductible donations
to Progress Unity Fund/ANSWER and mailed to 2489 Mission St. #24, San
Francisco, CA 94110.

Credit card donations can also be made over the phone:
(415) 821-6545.


Progress Unity Fund/ANSWER
2489 Mission St. #24
San Francisco, CA 94110

Remember to join us on Sat. April 20 at 11 am in Dolores Park. The
march will start at noon and the rally in Civic Center at 1 pm.

Your support and generosity are appreciated, and will make Saturday's
protest a success.



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Dear Peoples Bark News Berkeley Readers;
                                         Below is an urgent email received
from the Islamic Association for Palestine.  IAP has had their
Yahoogroups list censored and pulled and Hotmail has removed their email
account.

My recommendation is certainly to send protest emails to Yahoo and Hotmail
but more importantly, go to the http://www.iap.org website
and select latest news and help IAP to get the word out.

As i have been stating in my recent past emails, Yahoo and Hotmail
are not our friends.  It's beyond the commericalism - it sounds like they
are very pro-censorship.  So, does that mean they are merely
'tolerating' us until they elect to 'opt us out' of their information
system???
Anyway, if you soon do not have access to PBNB, i am sure by now, you won't
need to be told what happened.
i have all of my subscriber's email addresses offline, so if PBNB does go
down, i will be setting up in a definite commercial-free listserve.
When i am outa yahoo and hotmail, i am outa there.  They will be doing me a
favor.
This is not so much of a rant as it is my statement that Yahoo and Hotmail
are UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED - (thank you, Ralph!)
Please, please go to the IAP website and let's help them to get their news
out - let's keep folks updated on the rampage, including the rampage on our
rights to let it be known.
The information is below my signature here.

------------------------

no peace without justice,

john vance, editor/publisher/coordinator
Peoples Bark News Berkeley
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages

A First Amendment Center
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
Berkeley, Ca

PLEASE READ BELOW THE LINE
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From: cop watch <copwatchberkeley@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Censorship by YAHOO!
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:27:22 -0700 (PDT)

--- diplomatiquebr <diplomatique-web@ mandic.com.br>
wrote:

To: Al-Awda-News@ yahoogroups.com
From: "diplomatiquebr"
<diplomatique-web@ mandic.com.br>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:42:20 -0000
Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Censorship by YAHOO!

From the IAP website: http://www.iap.org

On Monday, Yahoo! has taken the liberty to deactivate our e-mail
account (iapinfo@...) and mailing list without any notice. We
currently do not have ability to post messages to our list as a result.
Then on Wednesday morning Hotmail cancelled our new account which we set up
(iaporg@...), again without any notice or
explanation.  However, we still have the ability to update our website on a
regular basis. We apologize for this unexpected occurrence and we hope to
have some kind of resolution to this problem soon.  You can continue to
e-mail us at iapinfo@...

Please only e-mail us if you think it is absolutely necessary. If the
zionists think they can cover up their nasty war crimes by silencing
us on cyberspace, they are sadly mistaken. The truth will be made known
despite all of their sinister efforts. As one person wrote us from Brazil
this morning (April 17): "It doesn't matter that Israel and a few Americans
are against you; the whole rest of the world is with you!!! Finally I see
that the people of world are opening their
eyes!"

http://www.iap.org

------------------------------------
u.s. navy Out of Puerto Rico


HIP HOP FOR VIEQUES

April 19, 2002

A night of culture, music and food!

PROPHETS OF RAGE w/full live band

DJ Sake I
local 1200 djs

Live Bombay by Bay Area Boricuas

3RD DEGREE

DJ Ice Water

Groupo Folklorico Paule
afro-puerto rican drummin and dancing

Traditional Puerto Rican food by Soulfrito

Doors open & dinner will be served at 8pm

1928 telegraph Avenue
(between 19th & 20th)
(Near 19th Street BART station)
Downtown Oakland

Admission $6 before 10pm

Comite 98 por un Puerto Rico Libre

part of proceeds will go to benefit the struggle in Vieques
Boriken Libre Production

www.borikenlibre.com
www.hiphop101.org

info: 510 398-5660

In 1938, the u.s. navy began using the isalnd of Vieques, off the east coast
of Puerto Rico, for military practices.  Since then, many Viequenses have
died of serious health problems.  The island's economy has been devastated
and in April 1999, civilian David Danes was killed during a u.s. bombing
practice.  The island has been a war zone for more than 60 years.  Puerto
Rico has been a colony of the u.s. for more than 101 years.  Ni Una bomba
mas!
-----------------------------------------------------------

From: LMNOP <lmno4p@ yahoo.com>
Subject: LMNOP 4-20 Roundup (& 2 other special events)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:51:49 -0700 (PDT)

BE SURE TO READ WEBB'S MESSAGE & CHECK-OUT THE WEBB-SITE URL BELOW THE
FOLLOWING 4-20 ROUNDUP FOR INFORMATION ABOUT AN EVENT THIS COMING
FRIDAY IN OAKLAND NEAR LAKE MERRITT!!!

----------------------------------------------

LMNOP 4-20 Roundup

The National March to "Fight the Real Axis of Evil:  War, Poverty, and
Racism" is this Saturday, April 20th, in San Francisco.  11 A.M.,
Gather at Dolores Park (19th Street & Dolores - the 16th Street BART
station is the closest one to Delores Park); 12 Noon, March;  1 P.M.,
Rally at Civic Center (Carlton Goodlett Place [Polk Street] & Grove -
the Civic Center BART station is the closest one if you're only going
to the rally).

LMNOP people who would like to ride over together on the BART will be
meeting at the MacArthur BART station between 10:30 & 10:45 (we'll be
going through the gate at 10:45 - we'll be heading for the 1st train
car if you should happen to arrive after 10:45 & the train hasn't left
yet).

Other East Bay BART gathering points for the 4-20 demo will be:

North Berkeley BART, 10:20 A.M.;
Downtown Berkeley BART, 10:40 A.M.; &
West Oakland BART, 10:50 A.M.

ALSO:  There will be a prayer gathering at the 1st Congregational
Church in Oakland starting at 9 A.M. - People will walk together from
there to the 19th Street Oakland BART at 10 A.M.

----------------------------------------------

ANOTHER SPECIAL EVENT ON APRIL 20th - (Spread the word!)

April 20, 7:30 P.M. benefit rally for Mumia Abu-Jamal with Howard Zinn
& Alice Walker.  The title of the event is "Mumia's Freedom in a 9-11
World."  It will be at the St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison
Street, in Berkeley.  Tickets are $20 at Cody's Bookstore, Pegassus
Books, Black Oak Books, Walden Pond Bookstore, Modern Times Bookstore,
and City Lights Bookstore, or from the Mobilization to Free Mumia
Abu-Jamal at (415)695-7745.

Sponsors of the "Mumia's Freedom in a 9-11 World" event are The
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Middle East Children's
Alliance, and Friends of Free Speech Radio.

----------------------------------------------

"GORILLA ART" AT PATRIOTIC BILLBOARD IN OAKLAND,
Friday, 4-19, from 3:50 to 6:15 P.M.  Details:


From: "Webb Mealy" <jwmealy@ hotmail.com>
Subject: Item for LMNOP Bulletin
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:46:47 -0700

Event for LMNOP Bulletin

Who: Webb Mealy together with PNVRC (People's NonViolent Response
Coalition--Oakland and East Bay) and LMNOP friends and others. All
are invited.

What: "Gorilla Art" Free Speech Art Event at a patriotic billboard,
as discussed and seen at the inaugural PNVRC Tuesday Tea Party

Where: 1st Avenue at International Boulevard (E. 14th), Oakland (see
http://home.pacbell.net/mealy8/Gorilla_Art.html for maps and concept
of the action.

When: Friday, April 19th, 3:50 - 6:15 (approx.)

How: Bring drums, "no tax dollars for bombs" theme posters, bright
banners and carnivalesque clothing as desired (no Israel/Palestine
theme-related materials, please). Police have been notified (no permit
required), and a documentary television crew will be filming.
Media are invited.

----------------------------------------------
Check out our website at http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP

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

From: Russell Bates <russbumper@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [berkeley-copwatch] Counter FBI Terrorism!
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:38:47 -0700 (PDT)

Counter FBI Terrorism!  The FBI Director, Robert Mueller, is coming to
speak in San Francisco on Friday, April 19th.  Come speak-out against FBI
repression and support the Judi Bari lawsuit.  Rally outside the Pan Pacific
Hotel, 500 Post St, (and Mason) at 11:30 am.

For more information, call (510) 663-6330.

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berkeley-copwatch mailing list
berkeley-copwatch@...

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Dear Peoples Bark News Berkeley Readers;
                                         Some KEY LOGISTICS for the Saturday,
April 20th March and Rally against the Number 1 terrorist
and murderer! Please send all inquiries to:

Email: answer@ actionsf.org




no peace without justice,

john vance, editor/publisher/coordinator
Peoples Bark News Berkeley
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages

A First Amendment Center
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
Berkeley, Ca

PLEASE READ BELOW THIS LINE
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From: "iacsf" <LIST@ ACTIONSF.ORG>
Reply-To: IAC-SF-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IAC-SF] Logistical information for April 20
                   SF March Against War, Racism & Poverty
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:13:19 -0000


Logistical information for April 20 San Francisco
March Against War, Racism & Poverty

Tens of thousands of people are expected in San Francisco on Sat.
April 20 at the rally sponsored by International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War
& End Racism).
Dozens of buses are coming from around California, and vans and carpools are
being organized across the western U.S. We look forward to a powerful and
successful event opposing Bush's war at home and abroad.

Schedule

9 am Set-up at Dolores Park (19th St. & Dolores St.)
10 am Volunteer Check-in at Dolores Park
11 am Rally Program at Dolores Park
12 noon March to Civic Center
1 pm Rally Program at Civic Center

At 3 pm buses will depart for People's Earth Day protest at PG&E in Hunter's
Point to oppose environmental racism and air pollution. The plant is at
India Basin Park on Evans Ave. near Jennings (MUNI #19).

The rally should conclude around 4 pm and clean-up will commence. Bus
pick-up is on Grove St. between Polk & Larkin.

March Route

The march route is 2.1 miles and is generally flat with a few short or
gradual hills. The march route is north on Dolores to 16th St., west to
Church St., north to Hermann, west to Fillmore, north to Haight, east to
Buchanan, north to Grove, then east into Civic Center.

There will be a bus at the end of the march for people who prefer to ride,
or who cannot march the entire distance. The MUNI "J" Church line also
services both Dolores Park and Civic Center and is wheelchair accessible.

March Contingents

There will be dozens of contingents on Saturday representing Labor, Students
& Youth, different cities and towns, and various groups. ANSWER will have
signs and banners available, but feel free to bring your own. Musical
instruments, puppets, and other art are a great contribution to the march.
Please bring bullhorns to help let our chants and voices be heard.

Volunteers

Hundreds of volunteers will be needed on Sat. April 20, and there is much
preparation needed before then. We need volunteers to be march monitors, to
distribute signs and literature, to gather names, set up the park, and
dozens of other tasks. If you can help, either come to Dolores Park at 9 am
on Sat. to help with set-up, or at 10 am to plug in to any other assignment.
Please call (415) 821-6545 or email volunteer@ actionsf.org to let us know
we can count on your support.

On Sat. when you arrive in Dolores Park, come to the ANSWER table where
there will be a big "Volunteer" banner and sign-in. From there you will be
directed to an area of work where you can best help out.

Work Sessions

There are hundreds of last minute preparations like making signs and
banners, phonebanking, visibility, packing, etc. Drop in to the ANSWER
office at 2489 Mission St. #24 (near 21st St.) between 9 am and 9 pm Wed.,
Thurs. or Fri. to help.

Come Prepared

San Francisco usually has cool mornings and warm afternoons turning windy
and chilly (especially in Civic Center), so layers of clothing are the best
idea.
Remember sun screen and other sun protection as well as comfortable walking
shoes. Bring food and water for the day, although we will have water
available in Dolores Park, and there will be food vendors at Civic Center.
We will have portable toilets at Dolores Park and Civic Center.

Medical

We plan to have basic medical assistance available for simple cuts and
bruises, sun exposure, etc. We urgently need more volunteers to help with
this, so if you have any medical skills, please email volunteer@
actionsf.org and put MEDICAL in the subject line or call
(415) 821-6545.

Legal

The rallies and march on Saturday are legal, permitted events. The National
Lawyers Guild and others are providing legal observers for
the day.

Accommodations

There are two hostels with space available on Fri. and Sat. night, both
around $22.50/night: Ft. Mason Hostel 415 771-7277
Civic Center Hostel 415 474-5721 @ 685 Ellis at Larkin,
just 3 blocks from rally

Contact info

The ANSWER office is located at 2489 Mission St. #24, San Francisco 94110.
Phone: (415) 821-6545, Fax: (415) 821-5782,
Email: answer@ actionsf.org

Transportation information and other logistics can be found at
www.actionsf.org.

Visit www.InternationalANSWER.org for the latest
national developments, endorsers, etc.

Funds urgently needed!

All of this has cost many thousands of dollars, and much more will be needed
to pay for sound, stage, portable toilets, etc. on Saturday. Please help
with a donation to International ANSWER, or tax-deductible donations to
Progress Unity Fund/ANSWER and mail to:

Progress Unity Fund/ANSWER
2489 Mission St. #24,
San Francisco, CA 94110.

Online credit card donations at www.progressunity.org.

Program

Look for an upcoming announcement on the exciting
program planned for Saturday!



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CONTENTS

1...The Ruins of Jenin
2...April 16 02- Latest News from Palestine,
     Life and Dead in Jenin
3...Judi Bari vs. FBI April 15, 2002
4...Where's the Beef? Monopoly in the Beef Industry
5...Howard Zinn and Alice Walker this Sat 4/20 @ 7:30pm
6...McKinney
7...Israel's Real History
8...4/18 BAWDN Meeting & 4/21 BAWDN Forum
9...5/25 Iraqi Conference At Stanford
10..A View on Bush from the Times (The Manila Times)
11..Action: Arctic Wildlife Refuge
12.."Boom - The Sound of Eviction" at Berkeley's Fine Arts Cinema
14..LABOR TUESDAY! for April 16, 2002
15..PFA film on Gulf War & New Mexico
16..Local 3 Calendar of Events: 4/15  - National Writers Union
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1. The Ruins of Jenin


From: Louis Morgan <loumorgan@ earthlink.net>
Reply-To: loumorgan@ earthlink.net
Subject: [eastbay-coalition] The Ruins of Jenin
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:43:45 -0700

From the FreePalestine e-list:

Amid the ruins of Jenin, the
grisly evidence of a war crime
Phil Reeves in Jenin
16 April 2002
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413

A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover
up for a fortnight hasfinally been exposed. Its troops
have caused devastation in the centre of the Jenin
refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent,
where thousands of people are still living amid the ruins.

A residential area roughly 160,000 square yards about a third of a mile wide
has been reduced to dust. Rubble has been shovelled by bulldozers into 30ft
piles. The sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere,
evidence that it is a human tomb. The people, who spent days hiding in
basements crowded into single rooms as the rockets pounded in, say there are
hundreds of corpses, entombed beneath the dust, under a field of debris,
criss-crossed with tank and bulldozer treadmarks.

In one nearby half-wrecked building, gutted by fire, lies the fly-blown
corpse of a man covered by a tartan rug. In another we found the remains of
23-year-old Ashraf Abu Hejar beneath the ruins of a fire-blackened room that
collapsed on him after being hit by a rocket. His head is shrunken and
blackened. In a third, five long-dead men lay under blankets.

A quiet. sad-looking young man called Kamal Anis led us across the
wasteland, littered now with detritus of what were once households, foam
rubber, torn clothes, shoes, tin cans, children's toys. He suddenly stopped.
This was a mass grave, he said, pointing.

We stared at a mound of debris. Here, he said, he saw the Israeli soldiers
pile 30 bodies beneath a half-wrecked house. When the pile was complete,
they bulldozed the building, bringing its ruins down on the corpses. Then
they flattened the area with a tank. We could not see the bodies. But we
could smell them.

A few days ago, we might not have believed Kamal Anis. But the descriptions
given by the many other refugees who escaped from Jenin camp were
understated, not, as many feared and Israel encouraged us to believe,
exaggerations. Their stories had not prepared me for what I saw yesterday. I
believe them now.

Until two weeks ago, there were several hundred tightly-packed homes in this
neighbourhood called Hanat al-Hawashim. They no longer exist.

Around the central ruins, there are many hundreds of half-wrecked homes.
Much of the camp - once home to 15,000 Palestinian refugees from the 1948
war - is falling down. Every wall is speckled and torn with bullet holes and
shrapnel, testimony of the awesome, random firepower of Cobra and Apache
helicopters that hovered over the camp.

Building after building has been torn apart, their contents of cheap fake
furnishings, mattresses, white plastic chairs spewed out into the road.
Every other building bears the giant, charred, impact mark of a helicopter
missile.
Last night there were still many families and weeping children still living
amid the ruins, cut off from the humanitarian aid. Ominously, we found no
wounded, although there was a report of a man being rescued from beneath
ruins only an hour before we arrived.

Those who did not flee the camp, or not detained by the army, have spent the
bombardment in basements, enduring day after day of terror. Some were forced
into rooms by the soldiers, who smashed their way into houses through the
walls. The UN says half of the camp's 15,000 residents were under 18. As the
evening hush fell over these killing fields, we could suddenly hear the
children chattering. The mosques, once so noisy at prayer time, were silent.

Israel was still trying to conceal these scenes yesterday. It had refused
entry to Red Cross ambulances for nearly a week, in violation of the Geneva
Convention. Yesterday it continued to try to keep us out.

Jenin, in the northern end of the occupied West Bank, remained "a closed
military zone", was ringed Merkava tanks, army Jeep patrols, and armoured
personnel carriers. Reporters caught trying to get in were escorted out. A
day earlier the Israeli armed forces took in a few selected journalists to
see sanitised parts of the camp. We simply walked across the fields, flitted
through an olive orchard overlooked by two Israeli tanks, and into the camp
itself.

We were led in by hands gesturing at windows. Hidden, whispering people
directed us through narrow alleys they thought were clear. When there were
soldiers about, a finger would raise in warning, or a hand waved us back. We
were welcomed by people desperate to tell what had occurred. They spoke of
executions, and bulldozers wrecking homes with people inside. "This is mass
murder committed by Ariel Sharon," Jamel Saleh, 43, said. "We feel more hate
for Israel now than ever. Look at this boy." He placed his hand on the
tousled head of a little boy, Mohammed, the eight-year-old son of a friend.
"He saw all this evil. He will remember it all." So will everyone else who
saw the horror of Jenin refugee camp. Palestinians who entered the camp
yesterday were almost speechless.

Rajib Ahmed, from the Palestinian Energy Authority, came to try to repair
the power lines. He was trembling with fury and shock. "This is mass murder.
I have come here to help by I have found nothing but devastation. Just look
for yourself." All had the same message: tell the world.


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413
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© 2001 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
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2. April 16 02- Latest News from Palestine,
    Life and Dead in Jenin


From: SIUHIN@ aol.com
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: April 16 02- Latest News from Palestine,
          Life and Dead in Jenin
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 05:18:35 EDT

**April 16: Latest News from Palestine, Life and Dead in Jenin
**For all the news, please check: www.PeaceNoWar.net
**also, please visit Palestine IMC: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/

*New Updates from PalestineChronicel.com
URL: <A
HREF="http://www.palestinechronicle.com/">http://www.palestinechronicle.com/</A>
News Update: 2:00 AM to 8:00 AM GMT (Tuesday)
-Hours following an Israel promise to pull out of most of the recently
re-occupied Palestinian territories, the Israeli army re-invaded the West
Bank city of Tulkarm in full.

-Israeli forces attacked two refugee camps near Nablus, New Askar and Old
Askar. The Israeli army used Apache helicopters to shell both camps,
wounding several people, destroying and damaging many homes.

-Two top Hamas leaders Faize Al Tawail and Abu Wardeh were arrested by
Israeli troops in the West Bank. Earlier, a top leader of the Palestinian
Intifada, Marwan Barghouti was detained. Israel intends to treat Barghuti,
the West Bank chief Fatah movement "according to the law," Israeli Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres said. Israel tried to assassinate the Barghuti in the
past months and failed.

-The Israeli army resumed its psychological warfare against 200 Palestinians
holed up in the Church of the Nativity, broadcasting ear-splitting noise and
repeated calls to surrender. Sounds of drilling, animal roars and strident
shouts were played over a giant loudspeaker facing the church which marks
Jesus's birthplace. Earlier, pre-recorded messages calling for the besieged
Palestinians to give up were played for half an hour.

1) Life and Dead, Destruction in Jenin, images:
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/April%2015%2002--Jenin.htm

2) News:
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/April%2016%2002.htm
1) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#1">Desperate Powell to
meet Arafat (The Guardian, UK)</A>
2) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#2">Amid the ruins of
Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime (Independent,
UK)</A>
3) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#3">Removal of bodies
from
Jenin refugee camp (The Palestine Monitor)</A>
4) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#4">From Under the
Rubble
of Jenin: 'Come Help Us!' (Palestine Chronicle)</A>
5) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#5">Palestinian Deaths
Aren't Headline Material at NY Times (FAIR, USA)</A>
6) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#6">UN rights body
condemns
Israel for 'mass killings' (Reuters)</A>
7) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#7">UN says Israel
flouting
Geneva Convention (Reuters)</A>
8) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#8">More than 20,000
protest against Israel in Germany (Reuters)</A>
9) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#9">Bush welcomes big
pro-Israel rally (Reuters)</A>
10) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#10">Sharon: Israel to
Continue Offensive (Associated Press)</A>

3) Reference Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/Analysis.htm

4) US foreign aid to Israel
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/US%20aids.htm

5) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/peace/index.htm">What is the
Alternative
to war, killings? Peace Actions</A>
phone, e-mail campaigns, volunteers to Palestine...
http://www.peacenowar.net/peace/index.htm

Appeal: From the International Solidarity Movement
<A HREF="http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/6592.php">"Call To
Action: Come To Palestine"</A>
http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/6592.php

Join International Campaigns to Boycott Israeli Goods and Services!
<A
HREF="http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/">http://www.BoycottIsraeliGoods.org</A\
>

Lee Siu Hin
ActionLA
4167 S. Normandie Ave.,
Los Angeles, CA 91030
Tel: (323)389-4593
e-mail: ActionLA@...
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3. Judi Bari vs. FBI April 15, 2002


From: Leuren Moret <leurenmoret@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Judi Bari vs. FBI April 15, 2002
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:10:05 -0700 (PDT)

Date: 16 Apr 2002 09:31:53 -0000
Subject: [BariNews] Digest Number 13
Reply-to: BariNews-owner@ yahoogroups.com


Forwarding this message where appropriate is encouraged.

To learn more about Judi Bari and the FBI suit please visit:
http://www.judibari.org


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Topics in this digest:

1. Defendant Sitterud Testifies No Evidence for Arrests Except
    Hearsay
    From: "Judi Bari vs. FBI Media Office"
    <media@ judibari.org>


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Message: 1
    Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
    From: "Judi Bari vs. FBI Media Office"
    <media@ judibari.org>
Subject: Defendant Sitterud Testifies No Evidence for Arrests Except
          Hearsay

Judi Bari v FBI

April 15, 2002
Defendant Sitterud Testifies No Evidence for Arrests Except Hearsay

Contact:  Jean Eisenhower, Kathy Glass, Steve Christianson,
510/663-6330

Oakland, CA - On the stand today, defendant, Oakland Police Department
Sgt. Michael Sitterud's testimony was riddled with contradictions,
improbable surprises, and lapses of memory regarding critical facts.  As
Chief Investigator on the case, he testified:  "I didn't involve myself in
the search for evidence."

· Though extensively trained in bomb investigation, Sitterud testified he
did not make any personal investigation of the bombed car while at the
bombing scene.

· He testified that he took the word of the FBI defendant Frank Doyle rather
than make his own inspection, and did not inquire about the
nature of Judi's injuries.

· Although he admitted both Darryl and Judi separately notified
authorities about the death threats they received and were carrying
with them, he didn't look  at the threatening evidence.

· Although he admitted both Darryl and Judi separately named two individuals
they believed should be questioned, he didn't follow
through on checking into those individuals.

· After testifying that he thought Darryl's statement (immediately
after the bombing) about a bomb "thrown" at them was "suspicious," he
never asked Darryl about his statement during his one - to two-hour
questioning, though he described Darryl as very cooperative.
Later, he would use this "suspicious" statement as grounds for Darryl's
guilt and arrest.

· Although Judi and Darryl were placed under arrest at approximately 3 pm on
May 24, he claimed not to have approved it until
3 am the next morning, and blamed "some supervisor."

· The rationale for the first search warrant for the Seeds of Peace house,
he testified, was based on FBI information about Earth First!'s
"reputation," which Sitterud termed "background fact," and a statement about
"identical" nails which was later denied by the person
who was claimed to have made it.  As chief investigator, he admitted
having never been able to find any matching nails himself, even though he
looked for them in the evidence room.  Although he claimed there was "lots
of other evidence," he could recall none on the stand except for the
"dramatic" evidence of a tool kit which he thought was for the purpose of
making bombs, but was in fact for making stained-glass items, belonged to
the daughter of an acquaintance, and was labeled such.

· He didn't recall any discussion of a motion-activated device
(though it is referred to as an exhibit in the affidavit for the second
search warrant), or seeing the intact guitar case on the sidewalk
beside the car, which he later said was probably placed on top of
the bomb.

· When asked whether Sgt. Sitterud noticed that the front door of the car
was blown out and the rear door was intact and operating, he
wouldn't acknowledge that fact.

· He testified he believed Earth First!'s reputation for soliciting media
attention and conducting illegal acts like
tree-spiking were indicators of a propensity to carry a bomb.
An informer's tip about an "action" he assumed meant something illegal, like
a bombing.

· He agreed that every Earth First! associate questioned had been
highly cooperative until they were accused.

· He said the confinement of Shannon Marr for hours in a locked room, where
she screamed and pounded on the door, was "unintentional."

· When he learned of the Lord's Avenger letter, he testified, he never told
the assistant District Attorney about it.  When asked by the
incredulous plaintiffs' attorney if he did not know a grand jury would
need this sort of evidence, he responded improbably, "I didn't know what
they'd do."  Later, he testified it was never tested for fingerprints.

· When FBI bomb expert David Williams showed him that the bomb had to be
beneath the driver's seat, and that it had been wrapped in a towel, he said
he was "surprised," but it didn't affect his judgment about Judi and Darryl
as suspects.  He further testified that when
Williams demonstrated the impact points of the bomb's end caps, he didn't
realize Williams was explaining where the bomb had to have been located.

Tomorrow, Sgt. Sitterud will complete his cross-examination, and will
be followed by Dr. Peter Slabaugh, Judi's attending physician; OPD Sgt.
Robert Chenault, Homicide Division, defendant, second assigned investigator
at bomb scene who drafted the initial warrant with dictation by FBI agent
Doyle; OPD Sgt. Myron Hanson, member of bomb and arson squad who took notes
of Doyle's association of plaintiffs with FBI terrorism investigation; and
Sgt. Del Kraft, OPD, on the bomb squad, who inspected the car at the scene
and took notes.

The trial takes place each Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 1:30 pm,
until approximately May 24, 2002, in the Oakland Federal Courthouse, 1301
Clay Street, Judge Claudia Wilken's courtroom (4th floor).

The proceedings are open to the public.
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4. Where's the Beef? Monopoly in the Beef Industry


From: ag-impact@ iatp.org
Subject: [ag-impact] Where's the Beef? Monopoly in the Beef Industry
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:06:23 -0500

Agriculture and Trade (ag-impact@...)
Posted: 04/16/2002  By smurphy@ iatp.org
============================================================



Where's the Beef?, Monopoly and Monopsony Power in the US Beef Industry
C. Robert Taylor

Rapid consolidation in meatpacking in the last two decades
    raises considerable concern about the potential for creating
    an imbalance of economic power, particularly by meat
    packers over independent livestock producers, and by food
    retailers over consumers. Similar concerns, which were
    expressed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, led to the
    Clayton and Sherman Antitrust Acts and the 1921 Packers
    and Stockyards Act (PSA). The PSA and earlier antitrust
    legislation led to divestiture in some highly concentrated
    markets, particularly in meatpacking. As we enter the 21st
    Century, however, we have witnessed an unprecedented
    wave of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures leading to
    horizontal concentration, to vertical integration, to tight
    bilateral relationships between packers and retailers, and to
    a web of interlocked firms.

Read the full report on-line:

http://www.ag.auburn.edu/dept/aec/rtaylor/beefmarginsforum.htm


A Publication of the Auburn University Department of Agriculture
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5. Howard Zinn and Alice Walker this Sat 4/20 @ 7:30pm


From: "Emanuel Hemsi" <thegoofman@ hotmail.com>
Subject: Howard Zinn and Alice Walker this Sat 4/20 @ 7:30pm
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:50:46 -0700

I don't know if someone already sent out this announcement but here's the
info:

Howard Zinn and Alice Walker
"Mumia's Feedom in a 9-11 World"

Sat. April 20, 7:30pm
St. Joseph the Workere Church
1640 Addison, Berkeley

to benefit
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal 415-695-7745
Middle East Children's Alliance 510-548-0542
Friends of Free Speech Radio 510-848-1118

Co-Sporsor: Vanguard Public Foundation and Vanguard Public Alliance
415-487-2111

Tickets: $20: East Bay: Back Oak, Cody's/Telegraph, Cody's/4th St.,
Pegasus/Shattuck, Pegasus/Solano, Walden Pond/Oakland, San Francisco: City
Lights, Modern Times and... Copperfields in Santa Rosa

Student Discount Tickets available:
Call: 415-695-7745

-Emanuel
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6. McKinney


From: Cecile Pineda <cecilep@ earthlink.net>
Reply-To: cecilep@ earthlink.net
Subject: [eastbay-coalition] McKinney
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:55:29 +0000

EQUAL TIME

Bush must answer Sept. 11 questions
By CYNTHIA McKINNEY

The need for an investigation of the events surrounding Sept. 11 is as
obvious as the need for an investigation of the Enron debacle. Certainly, if
the American people deserve answers about what went wrong with Enron and why
(and we do), then we deserve to know what went wrong on Sept. 11 and why.

Are we squandering our goodwill around the world with what many believe to
be incoherent, warmongering policies that alienate our friends and
antagonize our allies? How much of a role does our reliance on imported oil
play in the military policies put forward by the Bush administration?

And what role does the close relationship between the Bush administration
and the oil and defense industries play, if any, in the policies being
pursued by this administration?
We deserve to know what went wrong on Sept. 11 and why. After all, we hold
thorough public inquiries into rail disasters, plane crashes and even
natural disasters in order to understand what happened and to prevent them
from happening again or minimizing the tragic effects when they do.

Why, then, does the administration remain steadfast in its opposition to an
investigation into the biggest terrorism attack upon our nation?
News reports from Der Spiegel to the London Observer, from the Los Angeles
Times to MSNBC to CNN, indicate that many different warnings were received
by the administration.

In addition, it has even been reported that the United States
government broke Osama bin Laden's secure communications before Sept. 11.
Sadly, the United States government is being sued today by survivors
of the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa because, from court reports, it
appears clear that the United States had received warnings, but did
little to secure and protect the staff at our embassies.

Did the same thing happen to us again?
I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his
administration have personally profited from the attacks of Sept.
11. A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case.

For example, it is known that President Bush's father, through the Carlyle
Group, had -- at the time of the attacks -- joint business interests with
the bin Laden family's construction company and many defense industry
holdings, the stocks of which have soared since Sept. 11.

On the other hand, what is undeniable is that corporations close to the
administration have directly benefited from the increased defense
spending arising from the aftermath of Sept. 11.

The Carlyle Group, DynCorp and Halliburton certainly stand out as companies
close to this administration. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld maintained
in a hearing before Congress that we can afford the new spending, even
though the request for more defense spending is the highest increase in 20
years.

All the American people are being asked to make sacrifices. Our young men
and women in the military are being asked to risk their lives in
our war against terrorism while our president's first act was to sign an
executive order denying them high deployment overtime pay.

The American people are being asked to make sacrifices by bearing massive
budget cuts in the social welfare of our country, in the areas of health
care, Social Security and civil liberties for our enhanced military and
security needs arising from the events of Sept. 11. It is
imperative that they know fully why we make the sacrifices. If the secretary
of defense tells us that his new military objectives must be to occupy
foreign capital cities and overthrow regimes, then the American people must
know why.

It should be easy for this administration to explain fully to the American
people in a thorough and methodical way why we are being asked to make these
sacrifices and if, indeed, these sacrifices will make us more secure. If the
administration cannot articulate these answers to the American people, then
the Congress must.

This is not a time for closed-door meetings and secrecy. America's
credibility, both with the world and with her own people, rests upon
securing credible answers to these questions. The world is teetering on the
brink of conflicts while the administration's policies are vague, wavering
and unclear.

Major financial conflicts of interest involving the president, the attorney
general, the vice president and others in the administration have been and
continue to be exposed.

This is a time for leadership and judgment that is not compromised in any
fashion. This is a time for transparency and a thorough investigation.

--------------------------------------------------
----------------------
U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney is a Democrat
representing Georgia's 4th Congressional District.
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7. Israel's Real History


From: Russell Bates <russbumper@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Israel's Real History
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 04:29:27 -0700 (PDT)


Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:15:49
Subject: [justiceinpalestine] Israel's real history
Reply-to:
justiceinpalestine2001-owner@ yahoogroups.com

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*** PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY ***

A teach-in

Israel’s Real History:
Palestinian Dispossession and Resistance

It is called a land without a people for a people without a land, but the
founding myths of Israel are no comfort to those of us who have been
watching the last twenty days of Israeli brutality against the Palestinian
people. But rather than representing an aberration in Israeli policy, the
massacres in Jenin and Nablus are merely a
continuation of Israeli policies already in place – dispossession,
settlement, discrimination, and expansion.
The legacy of the state of Israel is not democracy but a series of massacres
of Palestinians – Deir Yassin, Qibya, Sabra, Shatila, and now Jenin.  Come
to a teach-in about the real history of Israel and find out why Palestinians
have been resisting Israeli occupation of
Palestinian lands for over 54 years.

Featuring Elias Rishmawi of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Wednesday, April 17th
6PM
100 Wheeler Hall

Sponsored by: Students for Justice in Palestine,
International Socialist Organization, ADC Sacramento


Students for Justice in Palestine, Berkeley, California
http://www.justiceinpalestine.org
justiceinpalestine@... - (510) 496-1269 x1948
- vm/fax
To subscribe, email to:
justiceinpalestine2001-subscribe@ yahoogroups.com
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8. 4/18 BAWDN Meeting & 4/21 BAWDN Forum


From: steve zeltzer <lvpsf@ igc.org>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: 4/18 BAWDN Meeting & 4/21 BAWDN Forum
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:55:59 -0700

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
    The next meeting of the Bay Area Workers Democracy Network will be on
Thursday April 18, 2002 at 7:00PM at the Nulight Restaurant at 3319 Mission
St./29th St. in San Francisco.
    The Proposed Agenda includes:
    1. Report on Rescinding of SF Labor Council Middle East Resolution
& Follow-up
    2. Report on Alia & Hiam Campaign For Justice
    3. Report on AFSCME/SEIU democracy battles and discussions/meetings in
Los Angeles & West
            Coast Rank & File Labor Conference in Los Angeles
    4. Plans for participation in April 20 SF anti-war demonstration
    5. Discussion about Northern California conference on labor and
privatization at the Presidio and the layoffs at the Presidio.
    6. Discussion on Meeting on Repression, War On Terror & Labor
    7. Class On Corporate Unions & Fascism
    8. Newsletter of Labor Action Coalition

In Solidarity,

Steve Zeltzer

Bay Area Workers Democracy Forum/Discussion



The Middle East, Palestinian Workers,
War & The AFL-CIO



Speakers:
Mary Ann Ring, UCSF  ASCME 3299, Delegate SF Labor Council
Charles Minster, National Parks & Public Employees, LIUNA 1141, Delegate
                                  SF Labor Council
Jack Heyman, BA ILWU Local 10 *Delegate Alameda Labor Council (Invited)
Faisal Tbeilen, Member UESF-AFT*

    As a result of the attack on Palestinian trade union offices and the US
military supported assault on the people of Palestine, the San Francisco
Labor Council has passed a resolution protesting the illegal, immoral war
and supporting an end to the military arming of Israel by the United States.
This is the first action of any labor federation in the US to challenge the
US military arming of Israel. Those supporters of Israel and the US in the
Labor Council have recently recinded this resolution for a forum and the
draft of another resolution. The political battle is not over within the
labor movement on this issue.
This important statement now rescinded was  virtually alone among the US
trade union movement. John Sweeney and the national AFL-CIO have embraced
Bush's "War On Terror", as well as supporting the Patriot Act which harms
our democratic and human rights. The AFL-CIO is also supporting the  massive
increases of military spending that will be paid for with major cutbacks in
healthcare, social services and education. At the same time, the leadership
of the Teamsters and the Carpenters are running as fast as they can to get
on Bush's  Republican bandwagon.
We will discuss why it is important that US workers support the struggle of
Palestinian workers an the historic role of the AFL-CIO in relationship to
the wars in the Middle East and the rights of workers in the Middle East.

$5.00 Donation Requested/ No one turned away from a lack of funds
*For Information Only



Sunday April 21, 2002 3:00PM
Fellowship Of Humanity Hall
390 27th St./Broadway Oakland



Sponsored by the Bay Area Workers Democracy Network (BAWDN)
P.O.Box 40458 San Francisco, CA 94140
(415)641-4440 or (415)661-1371 or
Email:united@ labornet.org
sfactive@ earthlink.net
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9. 5/25 Iraqi Conference At Stanford


From: "Carolyn S. Scarr" <epicalc@ earthlink.net>
Subject: 5/25 Iraqi Conference At Stanford
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:07:38 -0700



Part 1.1


Announcing the 3rd National Organizing Conference on Iraq:
"Forging National Strategies"

May 25th ? 26th, 2002
Palo Alto,   California at Stanford University

Twelve years of bombings and sanctions have brought immense suffering,
hardship and death to the Iraqi people.  Well over a million Iraqis have
died from the lethal combination of wartime bombings and sanctions.  The
real "weapon of mass destruction" that must be removed from  Iraq is the
sanctions!
And now the United States Government is openly proposing to launch an
all-out war on Iraq.   US aerial bombardment would kill thousands
of civilians, as it did in Iraq in 1991 and in Afghanistan in
2001-2002.
Such a war could precipitate a collapse into an Iraqi civil war or even
a regional war, with devastating consequences, including deaths into the
hundreds of thousands.   Another war against Iraq would be driven by
U.S. oil companies' desire to control the second largest region of oil
fields in the world.

Join fellow activists from over 70 organizations for two full days of
networking, sharing, organizing and strategizing. Let us join our
efforts to stop the drive to another racist war, and to end the needless and
ongoing suffering of Iraqi children and the Iraqi people.

On-Line Registration Please register early, and indicate if you would
like the host group to find accommodations for you.  Details of the
conference site will be announced later, check the conference page for
updates, and helpful information for travelers.
http://www.endthewar.org/conference.htm

Travel Arrangements:  You are advised to book your travel tickets early.

While you will be responsible for your own transport while in the area,
the local host organizations will try to assist with transportation, to and
from the airport and locally, as much as possible.  To help you with
your planning, details of public transportation and local hotels will be
posted to the conference web site.  There are three airports within 35 miles
of Palo Alto: San Jose Int'l (SJC) (14 miles); San Francisco Int'l (SFO):
(20 miles); Oakland Int'l (OAK): (35 miles).
For ride-sharing notices check or post a message to our bulletin board.

Arrival/Departure Times:  The conference will begin early Saturday
morning, and the decision-making portion of the agenda will conclude by  6
p.m. on Sunday, May 26th. On Monday, May 27th (Memorial Day), the Agenda
Working Group (which you are welcome to join!) is planning for a possible
action, or continued non-decision-making meetings.
We therefore recommend that you arrive by Friday evening and set your
departure time so that you can participate in the conference until at least
6 p.m. on Sunday. Details of Monday's program will be announced along with
the official agenda at a later date.

To contact the Network, write to: nnewai@ usa.com.
Or Call PPJC at: (650) 326-8837
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10. A View on Bush from the Times (The Manila Times)


From: Joseph Holder <conquip@ ix.netcom.com>
Subject: A View on Bush from the Times (The Manila Times)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:51:04 -0700

A compelling commentary on Bush from the Times?

No, silly wabbit, not the New York Times! It's from the Manila Times.

This is one of the best sardonic commentaries on Bush that
BuzzFlash has read.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/apr/16/opinion/20020416opi5.html

SOUTHPAW
By Inday Espina-Varona
Georgie goes to school

The word from Washington is, that Georgie, the Texan princeling who so
badly yearns to be the man Dad wants him to be, is finally hitting the books
and doing his homework.

About time. Half a dozen chiefs of states have just told Colin Powell
the world is not behooved to behave like patriotic Americans. Ariel Sharon
and Yasser Arafat, not to mention rich Saudis and Bahrainis, have just shown
how little Georgie knows about Abraham’s children. Even the Northern
Alliance warlords have taken to killing each other again, in full view yet
of their blonde peacekeepers.

But friends will tell you Georgie was a late bloomer. So perhaps we
should just say a prayer of thanks that Georgie is slowly learning, that
hi-tech war toys and chiseled patrician features are not enough to earn
genuine respect.

No, change that. Let us give thanks that Georgie is finally realizing
that respect from equals may be more rewarding than the groveling that
merely masks smirks and dirty fingers, or the condescending prattle dished
out by shifty-eyed father figures like Donald Rumsfeld or Dick
Cheney, the latter well on his way to becoming a caricature of a
simpering, vanishing Alfred Hitchcock.

Maybe one day soon a li’l ol steel magnolia will march up the White
House steps, brush aside those Secret Service hunks, sweep into the Oval
Office, dump tomes on that glistening desk, and lecture Georgie on the
dangers of being such a pompous dunce.

Hopefully, one of those books will be a copy of the US Constitution, now
under siege by both terrorists and the protectors of the people. Maybe
Georgie, now that he’s in between sophomoric speeches, could be stirred into
studying the real things that make his country great — like the
belief that all men (and nations) are created equal, despite differences
in color, creed, facial hair, or per capita incomes.

He just has to look in his own backyard. While he’s at it, Georgie could
pull Ali Flietcher from the White House Press Room for a review of simple
English.

Spell coup, boys. Never mind the Frenchy appendage. The simple verb
says, “overturn, upset.” The longer noun means “a sudden decisive exercise
of force in politics; esp: the violent overthrow or altercation of an
existing government by a small group.”

Now spell Venezuela. Spell Chavez. You remember Chavez, Georgie?
PRESIDENT Hugo Chavez, chief of state of an independent republic, and one
elected in a democratic manner, was arrested last week by a small cabal of
generals and taken to an island. While all that was underway, the same cabal
installed Pedro Carmona, the leader of a band of oligarchs, as president,
and started a manhunt for Chavez’s aides and supporters. A move presumably
made to quell violence snowballed
into something Latin Americans thought lay buried in their collective
nightmare – dissolution of the National Assembly and the Supreme Court amid
a vague promise of elections a year hence.

Spell commitment. Oops. Your turn, Ali. Figures. If you can’t spell, you
probably can’t define. A commitment, gentlemen, is an agreement or pledge.

In case your advisers haven’t told you yet, Georgie, the US signed last
year the new Democracy Charter of the Organization of American States. It
says, among other things, that all members of the group would act strongly
against military coups.

All OAS members condemned the Venezuelan coup and refused to recognize
the new government — all but one – the US, whose president (that’s you,
Georgie) loves to declaim on moral rectitude (no, Ali, rectum is a different
word).

Do you remember what you said, Georgie?

It ain’t a coup. It ain’t a coup because he deserves it. He deserves it
because I, Georgie, don’t like his mug and his pals. And because Uncle Otto
Reich says he’s bad and you don’t argue with a man who saved Nicaragua from
the Sandinistas. And because Dad’s amigos aren’t too fond
of ex-parachutists who threaten to close a third of our oil taps. And
because I know how to spell hegemony, and it means you can be an SOB but you
have to be our SOB!

Spell Venezuela again. Remember that word, Georgie. Ten years down the
road, unless you’ve succeeded in redefining archives, that word is going to
be an embarrassment.

Ah, that one you got right. I told you, practice makes perfect.
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11. Action: Arctic Wildlife Refuge


From: "Carolyn S. Scarr" <epicalc@ earthlink.net>
Subject: Action: Arctic Wildlife Refuge
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:57:13 -0700

The moment of truth has arrived for the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. The U.S. Senate is likely to vote as early as Thursday on an
amendment to open America's greatest sanctuary for Arctic animals to
oil development and sprawling industrialization. Even if you have sent
a message to your senators about this issue before, new developments
make it critical that you do so again right now by going to
http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=1190

Our defense of the Arctic Refuge is hanging by a slender thread -- a
mere handful of senators who are likely but not certain to vote with
us. As the critical vote nears, the pro-oil lobby is resorting to
increasingly cynical schemes to lure these "swing" senators to their
side. Drilling proponents have offered to guarantee healthcare
benefits for unemployed steelworkers in return for opening the refuge
to oil development. They have offered to guarantee a supply of oil to
Israel. More eleventh-hour ploys are sure to follow today and
tomorrow. It is an insult to the American people to tie such issues to
the fate of the Arctic Refuge. Providing for steelworkers and
promoting peace in the Middle East should not depend on destroying our
greatest remaining wilderness.

These attempts to cut backroom deals that will sell out the refuge are
especially repugnant because the Senate has already voted AGAINST an
amendment that would have improved fuel economy standards for cars and
light trucks. That single measure alone would have saved far more oil
than the Arctic Refuge could ever produce. But pro-oil senators would
rather sacrifice America's premier wildlife refuge so that oil giants
can sell even more oil that can then be wasted in the world's most
inefficient gas-guzzling vehicles. This is special-interest politics
at its absolute, public-be-damned worst. It can only be countered by
millions of pro-environment messages from people like you and me.

Please do your part by contacting your two senators immediately. If
you want to have the greatest possible impact, then **pick up the
phone right now** and call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Speak to your senators' staff and ask them to tell your senators to
oppose any amendment that would allow oil exploration or development
in the Arctic Refuge. It will take you only about 3 minutes, but will
make a big impression.

If you have less than 3 minutes or you're not within reach of a phone,
then go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=1190
and send an electronic fax or email (and please take a few seconds to
personalize the sample message by adding your own thoughts about why
preserving the Arctic Refuge is important to you).

However you choose to contact your senators, *please do it instantly.*
This may be our last, best chance to stop the oil giants from
plundering America's irreplaceable sanctuary for polar bears, white
wolves, and 130,000 caribou.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

=====

BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places
A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.savebiogems.org
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12. "Boom - The Sound of Eviction" at Berkeley's Fine Arts Cinema


From: "whispered media" <wm@ videoactivism.org>
Subject: "Boom - The Sound of Eviction" at Berkeley's Fine Arts Cinema
          April 22-24
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:53:12 -0700

"Boom - The Sound of Eviction" screening nightly at 9:00 pm
April 22-24 (Mon-Wed) at the Fine Arts Cinema in Berkeley
http://www.boomthemovie.org

"A Powerful Cautionary Statement" - Variety

"Witty, Poignant and Impassioned" - LA Times

By turns humorous and scathing "Boom" delves into the ironies and
contradictions of the "New Economy" and delivers a potent social critique
that is ambitious in its scope, while remaining close to the human scale.
The viewer moves easily between dot-com party crashing at one end of the
economic spectrum and painful moments with families forced out of their
homes at the other. "Boom" features interviews with dot-com workers, real
estate developers, and Mayor Willie Brown, as well as those who challenged
the new economic order through community organizing, electoral politics, and
direct action. Dramatic footage of communities in conflict brings you out
into the streets while experts and community members themselves offer
analysis of the social and historic forces which have shaped the current
political landscape.

In addition to doggedly pursuing the daily drama of San Francisco
gentrification and resistance, the filmmakers have amassed an enormous
amount of material from which to fashion their motion picture. "Boom"
draws on 60's-era tourist movies, 50's educational films and other archival
materials as well as a rainbow of slice-of-life images that paint a detailed
portrait of San Francisco's lightning transformation from funky western
outpost to high-tech haven.

"Boom - The Sound of Eviction"  (96 minutes) is Whispered Media's first
feature-length documentary.  "Boom" was created with the support of many
community members who donated their work to this effort, including
photographers, musicians, performance artists, film archivists, and other
filmmakers whose work is featured in the documentary. Music by Amaldecor,
Antibalas, Aztlan Underground, Coldcut, Fugazi, Japonize Elephants, Michael
Franti & Spearhead, Mushroom, and Tortoise, as well as original sound design
by Alex Theory.

"Boom"  Screens at:
Fine Arts Cinema, 2451 Shattuck Avenue (at Haste), Berkeley, CA
510-848-1143, http://www.fineartscinema.com
Admission: $8 General ($5 Seniors, $4 children)

For more information, please visit http://www.boomthemovie.org
Phone: 415-789-8484
Email: boominfo@...

Formed in 1996, San Francisco's Whispered Media is best known locally for
"The Pie's The Limit," their video about the pie-throwing Biotic Baking
Brigade. They are also one of the founding collectives within the
Independant Media Center (http://indymedia.org), and co-produced two IMC
documentaries, "Showdown in Seattle: Five Days that Shook the WTO" and
"Breaking the Bank."
--


****************************************
Whispered Media
wm@...
P.O. Box 40130
San Francisco, CA 94140 USA
(415) 789-8484
http://www.whisperedmedia.org
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Video Activist Network
http://www.videoactivism.org
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14. LABOR TUESDAY! for April 16, 2002


From: Bobibt@ aol.com
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: LABOR TUESDAY! for April 16, 2002 is Posted.
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:39:51 -0700

Dear Friends:

Recently, the San Francisco Labor Council adopted a resolution condemning
the Israeli "bombing of civilian and political targets, most specifically,
but not limited to the Palestine trade union offices in Nablus, Palestine."
Then more recently the resolution was "rescinded." Our first article this
week suggests why the resolution was rescinded. Our second article
addresses some fresh Labor Dept.strike statistics and their implications,
not a dry subject. We conclude with a Labor Briefs section.

A new edition of LABOR TUESDAY! is posted each Tuesday. Click on this link
<http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bobibt/myhomepage/news.html?mtbrand=AOL_US>LABOR
TUESDAY! or copy and paste this URL into your browser window:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bobibt/myhomepage/news.html?mtbrand=AOL_US

Of course, the best thing is to bookmark the Labor Tuesday! web site,
creating your own link.

In Solidarity

Bob Mattingly

PS Please don't forget to support next Saturday's National Marches Against
War Racism and Poverty.
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15. PFA film on Gulf War & New Mexico


From: "Carolyn S. Scarr" <epicalc@ earthlink.net>
Subject: PFA film on Gulf War & New Mexico
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:07:09 -0700

fwd for those who can go.
Carolyn
=========

film Tuesday, April 16 7:30 p.m. Pacific Film Archive re
Persian Gulf War's effects on three people in New Mexico. "[one of ten best
undistributed films of the year"<Village Voice]


The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein


John Gianvito (U.S., 2001)

Artist in Person
In a film made over six years on a miniscule budget with
nonprofessionals, John Gianvito melds fiction and documentary to examine the
lasting ramifications of the Persian Gulf War on three characters in New
Mexico. Unusually heartfelt and politically engaged, Mad Songs was named to
the Village Voice list of the ten best undistributed films of the year.
The Fernanda Hussein of the title is a Mexican American mother
separated from her Arab husband and whose children are targeted due to
anti-Iraqi sentiments. Although less than two months in duration, the Gulf
War revealed the fervor and hatred that can arise in the U.S. alongside
patriotism.
While Hussein's anguish may be the most wrenching, it reverberates in the
struggles of a teenage boy involved with antiwar activities, and of a vet,
played by a Gulf War veteran, deeply impacted by what he witnessed.
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein is a haunting lament to "the utterly
senseless destruction of innocents" (Gianvito), both here and in Iraq.
- Kathy Geritz


   With Thia Gonzales, Dustin Scott, Robert Perea. (168 mins, Color,
16mm, From the artist)


PFA FILMSERIES: A Committed Cinema

PFA PLAYDATE: Tuesday April 16, 2002




PFA Address & Info

PFA Theater: General Information


2575 Bancroft Avenue

Berkeley, California

510/642-1412 (office)

510/642-5249 (tickets)


Admission Prices:

General--$7.00

BAM/PFA members--$5.00

UC Berkeley students--$4.00

UCB Faculty and Staff--$5.00

Senior citizens (65 and over)--$4.50

People with disabilities--$4.50

Children (12 and under)--$4.50

Additional feature--$1.50
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16. Local 3 Calendar of Events: 4/15  - National Writers Union


From: NWU Local 3 <info@ unionwriters.org>
Subject: Local 3 Calendar of Events: 4/15
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:53:47 -0700
Dear NWU Local 3 Member,

Don't miss out on 2 featured events in 2 days:

1. April 17: The Internet and Publishing Rights, 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Sponsored by the Bay Area Editors Forum
2. April 18: Registration deadline to get the early registration discount
for the UPCOMING "Writer As Publisher Seminar", May 18. See below for
details or go to www.writeraspublisher.com
____________________________________________________

NWU Local 3 C A L E N D A R

Technical Writers Meeting, Wednesday, April 17

The Internet and Publishing Rights, Wednesday, April 17

Early registration deadline, Writer As Publisher Seminar, April 18

Local 3 Election Ballots Due in the Mail, Friday, April 19

Protest the War on Terrorism, Saturday, April 20

Journalism Group Meeting, Thursday, April 25

Steering Committee Meeting, Tuesday, May 7

Upcoming NWU Seminar: Writer As Publisher, Saturday, May 18
_____________________________________________________

D E T A I L S

Call Local 3 office for more info: 510.839.1248 or www.unionwriters.org

--> Wednesday, April 17, Biz/Tech Writers Meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Everyone is welcome: members and non-members. Opportunity for open question
and answer, followed by networking. Light refreshments served. NWU
tech/business writers meet every third Wednesday of the month. This month's
meeting is in Palo Alto at the home of Andreas Ramos, 4031 Park Blvd. For
details go to www.unionwriters.org or www.andreas.com/nwu, or contact
Andreas Ramos andreas@... (Palo Alto) or Tonie Flores ton1e@ msn.com
(Oakland).


--> Wednesday, April 17, The Internet and Publishing Rights, 6:30 - 9 p.m.

Ben Bagdikian, NWU national advisory board member, and media expert will be
hosted by the Bay Area Editors' Forum at Borders at Union Square, San
Francisco. The event is endorsed by Local 3. Bagdikian, a member of the NWU
National Advisory Board, will speak on  "The Internet and Publishing
Rights--Have We Been Here Before?" Bagdikian has written six books; his
latest is Double Vision Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession.
Networking begins at 630 pm. Program at 700 pm. Free.


--> Thursday, April 18, Early registration deadline, "Writer As Publisher"
Seminar

You can get a price break on the registration fee for the May 18 "Writer As
Publisher" seminar being offered by Local 3 if you register by this date.
You can register online at www.writeraspublisher.com or send a check to the
Local 3 office with your name, email address, postal address, and phone
number. Seminar details below.


--> Friday, April 19, Local 3 Election Ballots Due in the Mail

Think your taxes are the only pressing commitment for mid-April? Don't
forget to vote for Local 3 officers, steering committee, trustees and
delegates to the national Delegates Assembly. Ballot on page 6 of the April
HearSay newsletter must be postmarked by Friday, April 19.


--> Saturday, April 20, Protest the War on Terrorism, 11 a.m.

Join other labor organizations and grassroots groups to oppose the attack on
civil rights, civil liberties and immigrant rights.  At Delores Park in San
Francisco, 19th Street & Delores. Gather at 11 a.m. Look for the NWU banner.
March at noon and 1 p.m. Rally at the Civic Center (Polk St. & Grove). For
more information go to www.Internationalanswer.org or call 415.821.6545.


--> Thursday, April 25, Journalism Group Meeting, 7 p.m.

At the Rockridge Library, 5366 College Avenue in Oakland.Cross street is
Manila, and the library is about two blocks from the Rockridge BART station.
For further information or to be put on the mailing list, contact Kathleen
McNamara at Siobrach@ aol.com.


--> Tuesday, May 7, Steering Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm

NWU steering committee meets on the first Tuesday of every month. Everyone
is welcome. This month's meeting is in Oakland at the union office, 337 17th
Street, between Harrison and Webster. For more information contact
510/839-1248 or e-mail: info@ unionwriters.org.


--> Saturday, May 18, NWU Seminar: Writer as Publisher 9:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Register by April 18 to get a discount.

Think you need an agent, publisher and publicist to get your work out to the
world? Think again. New techniques and technologies are changing the
landscape of publishing. You can now make more money, get to press faster,
and retain control over your work by publishing it yourself. Learn how at
the "Writer as Publisher: Independent Publishing Seminar," hosted by the
National Writers Union at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in downtown
Oakland. For all the details, go to: http://www.writeraspublisher.com
Registration for the full-day event is $95 for members of the Writers Union
($105 after April 18) and $125 for non-members ($135 after April 18).
Register online at http://www.writeraspublisher.com/register.html or mail
your check to National Writers Union, Attn: Publishing Seminar, 337 17th
Street #101, Oakland, CA 94612. For more info call 510.839.1248.

Speakers at this all-day seminar include:
PAT HOLT, former San Francisco Chronicle book editor and current online
publishing critic. A major proponent of independent publishing, she will
talk about the current state of the book industry, electronic media, and
print-on-demand potentials and pitfalls. Learn more about Pat at
http://www.holtuncensored.com

DAN POYNTER, pioneer of self-publishing and author/publisher of over 100
books. Dan will share his insights on how you can write your book faster and
eliminate many of the steps involved in the traditional publishing model. A
copy of Dan's popular "Bible" on the subject, "The Self-Publishing Manual,"
is included with the cost of registration. Read more about Dan at
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NAIDA WEST, Author of two books, her self-publishing income allowed her to
found Bridge House Books. She will speak on the "Creative and Commercial
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King, successful self-published travel and technical writer; Jeanne Powell,
local poetry writer and publisher; Rand Richards, the author of Historic San
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Hotlines:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 621
(KPFA Event Calendar)

(510) 287-9406
(A First Amendment Center's Message Line!)

(510) 594-4000 ext. 202
(Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hotline!)

(510) 548-0542
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PLEASE send me SF Bay Area news/events that you would like posted
to: aliun@. hotmail.com - Deadline for event notice submissions is every
Monday at noon.

Event Calendar:
http://www.peacenowfreedomnow.net

And, remember, the most important place of all, our own people's
media at: http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ for San Francisco Bay Area
news postings and http://www.indymedia.org/ to look for postings
for other city's community news.

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_week.php
(San Francisco Indymedia Calendar)

More calendars:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages (PBNB)
http://bapd.org/cal.txt (Bay Area Progressive Calendar)
http://www.bapd.org/notices.html  (Some Really GOOD Current Notices)
http://bapd.org/n52.html (Peace and anti-war calendar)
http://www.sfbg.com/action/index.html (SF Bay Guardian ALERTS)

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
(East Bay Coalition Against the War)

http://www.peaceandjustice.org/events/indexhi.html
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Calendar)

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
(Global Exchange)

http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar.html
(Ecology Center calendar)

http://abacia.com/calendar/  (Abacia calendar)

http://www.change-links.org/chcl2.htm
(Change Links Calendar - L.A.)

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/calendar.cfm?
(Berkeley DP Calendar)

http://www.protest.net/ (Protest.Net Calendar of Events)

http://www.earthneighborhood.com/events.html
(Earth Neighborhood calendar - Union City, Ca)

SOME ALTERNATIVE (and one mainstream) MEDIA SOURCES:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
<A First Amendment Center's Links Page>


http://www.internationalanswer.org/
<Act Now to Stop War and End Racism>

http://www.aljazeera.net (Arabic Media in Qatar)
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
(TRANSLATOR for aljazeera.net)


http://www.alternet.org <AlterNet>
http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/gateway/arnindex.html <AntiRacismNet>
http://www.atasite.org/ <Artist's Television Access>
http://www.afghanmagazine.com <Afghan Magazine>
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)
http://berkeleystopthewar.org/ <Berkeley Stop the War Coalition>
http://www.wpkn.org/news/btl.html <Between the Lines - WPKN - CT>
http://www.brasscheck.com/ <brasscheck.com>
http://www.bushwatch.net/ <Bush Watch>
http://www.buzzflash.com/ <BuzzFlash>
http://www.legitgov.org/ <Citizens for Legitimate Government>
http://www.commondreams.org <Common Dreams>
http://www.corpwatch.org/ <CorpWatch>
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup/ <CounterCoup>
http://www.democracynow.org/ <Democracy Now - Out of Exile!>
http://www.drudgereport.com/ <DRUDGE REPORT>

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
<East Bay Coalition Against the War>

http://fair.org/ <Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting>
http://www.flashpoints.net/ <Flashpoints News Radio>
http://globalcircle.net/ <Global Circle Net News>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ <Global Research>
http://www.guerrillanews.com/ <Guerilla News Network>
http://www.humanrightsnow.org/ <Human Rights Now - Michael Ratner>
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm <IATP - WTO Watch>
http://www.independent.co.uk <Independent.co.uk>
http://www.indymedia.org/ <IndyMedia>
http://www.infowars.com/ <Infowars.com - Alex Jones>
http://accuracy.org/ <Institute for Public Accuracy>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ <In These Times>
http://www.kpfa.org <KPFA>
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm <Mid-East Realities>
http://www.opensecrets.org/ (Money in Politics)
http://www.labornet.org/ <LaborNet - News for the Labor Movement>
http://www.madre.org/ <Madre - Women's Human Rights Organization>
http://www.media-alliance.org/ <Media Alliance>
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ <MediaChannel.org>
http://michaelmoore.com/ <Michael Moore>
http://www.copvcia.com/index.html <Mike Ruppert><NOT FREE>
http://www.motherjones.com <Mother Jones>
http://www.narconews.com <Narco News>
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html <Noam Chomsky>
http://www.kpfa.com <NOT KPFA - but about KPFA>
http://www.oneworld.net/ <OneWorld.net>
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp <Open Democracy>
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html <Palestine media Watch>
http://www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ <Palestine Report>
http://poornewsnetwork.org/ <Poor News Network>
http://www.protest.net/ <Protest Net>
http://www.rabble.ca/ <Rabblerousers>
http://www.radio4all.org/ <Radio4All>
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/infohub.html <Rainbow Puddle>
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ <re: constructions>

http://www.enronownsthegop.com/
<Republican Party of Texas - brought to you by Enron>

http://rwor.org/ <Revolutionary Worker>
http://www.sfbayview.com/ <San Francisco Bay View>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ <SF IndyMedia>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/publish.php <SF IndyMedia (Publish Page)>
http://www.savepacifica.net/ <Save Pacifica.net>
http://www.speakoutnow.org/ <Speakout!>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <telegraph.co.uk>
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml <The Afghan Women's Mission>
http://www.tenc.net/ <The Emporer's New Clothes>
http://www.thenation.com/ <The Nation>
http://www.newsguild.org/index.php <The Newspaper Guild>

http://porthurontokentstate.tripod.com/
<The Port Huron to Kent State Project>

http://www.tompaine.com/ <TomPaine.commonsense>
http://www.utne.com <Utne Reader Online>
http://www.voterwest.org/ <Voter March West>
http://warresisters.org/ <War Resisters League>
http://www.war-times.org <WarTimes>
http://www.willpitt.com/Archive.htm <WillPitt.com>

http://www.wilpf.org/
<Women's International Legue for Peace and Freedom>

http://newsforchange.com/ <Working for Change>
http://www.zmag.org/ <Z Magazine Online>

http://ajr.newslink.org/ (mainstream media source)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/~musnews/  (Muslim News - Britain)
http://www.paknews.com/   (Pakistan News Service)
http://www.yespakistan.com/  (More News from Pakistan)
http://www.millat.pibc.com/index.htm  (News from Pakistan)
http://www.thefridaytimes.com  (Pakistan News)
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/  (News from Peshawar, Pakistan)
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/  (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)



BOOKS TO READ:

http://www.akpress.org/

OTHER LINKS:
http://www.kpfa.org (KPFA)

KPFA/Pacifica-related websites:
http://www.cfdp.org (Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica)
http://www.pacifica.org (Pacifica Foundation Radio Website)
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(A First Amendment Center's  website)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
(Coalition to Remove the Pacifica Board)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

(Lotsa KPFA-related links)
http://www.glib.com/union.html
(unofficial WBAI union website)
http://www.webwm.com/mfberry
http://www.newKPFA.net
http://www.wbai.net (Listener's Group - NYC/CdP)

http://www.BillMandel.net or
http://www.BillMandel.com
(Bill Mandel's website(s))

http://www.spanishbookclub.cjb.net
(My partner, Miriam Ruvinskis',
Spanish Book Club website)

FreePacifica discussion list: to subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@. recordist.com with the text "subscribe freepac"

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica local list:  to subscribe, send
email to: les@. delong.org  with the text "subscribe"
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CONTENTS

1...The Ruins of Jenin
2...April 16 02- Latest News from Palestine,
     Life and Dead in Jenin
3...Judi Bari vs. FBI April 15, 2002
4...Where's the Beef? Monopoly in the Beef Industry
5...Howard Zinn and Alice Walker this Sat 4/20 @ 7:30pm
6...McKinney
7...Israel's Real History
8...4/18 BAWDN Meeting & 4/21 BAWDN Forum
9...5/25 Iraqi Conference At Stanford
10..A View on Bush from the Times (The Manila Times)
11..Action: Arctic Wildlife Refuge
12.."Boom - The Sound of Eviction" at Berkeley's Fine Arts Cinema
14..LABOR TUESDAY! for April 16, 2002
15..PFA film on Gulf War & New Mexico
16..Local 3 Calendar of Events: 4/15  - National Writers Union
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1. The Ruins of Jenin


From: Louis Morgan <loumorgan@ earthlink.net>
Reply-To: loumorgan@ earthlink.net
Subject: [eastbay-coalition] The Ruins of Jenin
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:43:45 -0700

From the FreePalestine e-list:

Amid the ruins of Jenin, the
grisly evidence of a war crime
Phil Reeves in Jenin
16 April 2002
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413

A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover
up for a fortnight hasfinally been exposed. Its troops
have caused devastation in the centre of the Jenin
refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent,
where thousands of people are still living amid the ruins.

A residential area roughly 160,000 square yards about a third of a mile wide
has been reduced to dust. Rubble has been shovelled by bulldozers into 30ft
piles. The sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere,
evidence that it is a human tomb. The people, who spent days hiding in
basements crowded into single rooms as the rockets pounded in, say there are
hundreds of corpses, entombed beneath the dust, under a field of debris,
criss-crossed with tank and bulldozer treadmarks.

In one nearby half-wrecked building, gutted by fire, lies the fly-blown
corpse of a man covered by a tartan rug. In another we found the remains of
23-year-old Ashraf Abu Hejar beneath the ruins of a fire-blackened room that
collapsed on him after being hit by a rocket. His head is shrunken and
blackened. In a third, five long-dead men lay under blankets.

A quiet. sad-looking young man called Kamal Anis led us across the
wasteland, littered now with detritus of what were once households, foam
rubber, torn clothes, shoes, tin cans, children's toys. He suddenly stopped.
This was a mass grave, he said, pointing.

We stared at a mound of debris. Here, he said, he saw the Israeli soldiers
pile 30 bodies beneath a half-wrecked house. When the pile was complete,
they bulldozed the building, bringing its ruins down on the corpses. Then
they flattened the area with a tank. We could not see the bodies. But we
could smell them.

A few days ago, we might not have believed Kamal Anis. But the descriptions
given by the many other refugees who escaped from Jenin camp were
understated, not, as many feared and Israel encouraged us to believe,
exaggerations. Their stories had not prepared me for what I saw yesterday. I
believe them now.

Until two weeks ago, there were several hundred tightly-packed homes in this
neighbourhood called Hanat al-Hawashim. They no longer exist.

Around the central ruins, there are many hundreds of half-wrecked homes.
Much of the camp - once home to 15,000 Palestinian refugees from the 1948
war - is falling down. Every wall is speckled and torn with bullet holes and
shrapnel, testimony of the awesome, random firepower of Cobra and Apache
helicopters that hovered over the camp.

Building after building has been torn apart, their contents of cheap fake
furnishings, mattresses, white plastic chairs spewed out into the road.
Every other building bears the giant, charred, impact mark of a helicopter
missile.
Last night there were still many families and weeping children still living
amid the ruins, cut off from the humanitarian aid. Ominously, we found no
wounded, although there was a report of a man being rescued from beneath
ruins only an hour before we arrived.

Those who did not flee the camp, or not detained by the army, have spent the
bombardment in basements, enduring day after day of terror. Some were forced
into rooms by the soldiers, who smashed their way into houses through the
walls. The UN says half of the camp's 15,000 residents were under 18. As the
evening hush fell over these killing fields, we could suddenly hear the
children chattering. The mosques, once so noisy at prayer time, were silent.

Israel was still trying to conceal these scenes yesterday. It had refused
entry to Red Cross ambulances for nearly a week, in violation of the Geneva
Convention. Yesterday it continued to try to keep us out.

Jenin, in the northern end of the occupied West Bank, remained "a closed
military zone", was ringed Merkava tanks, army Jeep patrols, and armoured
personnel carriers. Reporters caught trying to get in were escorted out. A
day earlier the Israeli armed forces took in a few selected journalists to
see sanitised parts of the camp. We simply walked across the fields, flitted
through an olive orchard overlooked by two Israeli tanks, and into the camp
itself.

We were led in by hands gesturing at windows. Hidden, whispering people
directed us through narrow alleys they thought were clear. When there were
soldiers about, a finger would raise in warning, or a hand waved us back. We
were welcomed by people desperate to tell what had occurred. They spoke of
executions, and bulldozers wrecking homes with people inside. "This is mass
murder committed by Ariel Sharon," Jamel Saleh, 43, said. "We feel more hate
for Israel now than ever. Look at this boy." He placed his hand on the
tousled head of a little boy, Mohammed, the eight-year-old son of a friend.
"He saw all this evil. He will remember it all." So will everyone else who
saw the horror of Jenin refugee camp. Palestinians who entered the camp
yesterday were almost speechless.

Rajib Ahmed, from the Palestinian Energy Authority, came to try to repair
the power lines. He was trembling with fury and shock. "This is mass murder.
I have come here to help by I have found nothing but devastation. Just look
for yourself." All had the same message: tell the world.


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413
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© 2001 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
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2. April 16 02- Latest News from Palestine,
    Life and Dead in Jenin


From: SIUHIN@ aol.com
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: April 16 02- Latest News from Palestine,
          Life and Dead in Jenin
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 05:18:35 EDT

**April 16: Latest News from Palestine, Life and Dead in Jenin
**For all the news, please check: www.PeaceNoWar.net
**also, please visit Palestine IMC: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/

*New Updates from PalestineChronicel.com
URL: <A
HREF="http://www.palestinechronicle.com/">http://www.palestinechronicle.com/</A>
News Update: 2:00 AM to 8:00 AM GMT (Tuesday)
-Hours following an Israel promise to pull out of most of the recently
re-occupied Palestinian territories, the Israeli army re-invaded the West
Bank city of Tulkarm in full.

-Israeli forces attacked two refugee camps near Nablus, New Askar and Old
Askar. The Israeli army used Apache helicopters to shell both camps,
wounding several people, destroying and damaging many homes.

-Two top Hamas leaders Faize Al Tawail and Abu Wardeh were arrested by
Israeli troops in the West Bank. Earlier, a top leader of the Palestinian
Intifada, Marwan Barghouti was detained. Israel intends to treat Barghuti,
the West Bank chief Fatah movement "according to the law," Israeli Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres said. Israel tried to assassinate the Barghuti in the
past months and failed.

-The Israeli army resumed its psychological warfare against 200 Palestinians
holed up in the Church of the Nativity, broadcasting ear-splitting noise and
repeated calls to surrender. Sounds of drilling, animal roars and strident
shouts were played over a giant loudspeaker facing the church which marks
Jesus's birthplace. Earlier, pre-recorded messages calling for the besieged
Palestinians to give up were played for half an hour.

1) Life and Dead, Destruction in Jenin, images:
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/April%2015%2002--Jenin.htm

2) News:
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/April%2016%2002.htm
1) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#1">Desperate Powell to
meet Arafat (The Guardian, UK)</A>
2) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#2">Amid the ruins of
Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime (Independent,
UK)</A>
3) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#3">Removal of bodies
from
Jenin refugee camp (The Palestine Monitor)</A>
4) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#4">From Under the
Rubble
of Jenin: 'Come Help Us!' (Palestine Chronicle)</A>
5) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#5">Palestinian Deaths
Aren't Headline Material at NY Times (FAIR, USA)</A>
6) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#6">UN rights body
condemns
Israel for 'mass killings' (Reuters)</A>
7) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#7">UN says Israel
flouting
Geneva Convention (Reuters)</A>
8) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#8">More than 20,000
protest against Israel in Germany (Reuters)</A>
9) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#9">Bush welcomes big
pro-Israel rally (Reuters)</A>
10) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/#10">Sharon: Israel to
Continue Offensive (Associated Press)</A>

3) Reference Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/Analysis.htm

4) US foreign aid to Israel
http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/US%20aids.htm

5) <A HREF="http://www.peacenowar.net/peace/index.htm">What is the
Alternative
to war, killings? Peace Actions</A>
phone, e-mail campaigns, volunteers to Palestine...
http://www.peacenowar.net/peace/index.htm

Appeal: From the International Solidarity Movement
<A HREF="http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/6592.php">"Call To
Action: Come To Palestine"</A>
http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/6592.php

Join International Campaigns to Boycott Israeli Goods and Services!
<A
HREF="http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/">http://www.BoycottIsraeliGoods.org</A\
>

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Los Angeles, CA 91030
Tel: (323)389-4593
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3. Judi Bari vs. FBI April 15, 2002


From: Leuren Moret <leurenmoret@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Judi Bari vs. FBI April 15, 2002
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:10:05 -0700 (PDT)

Date: 16 Apr 2002 09:31:53 -0000
Subject: [BariNews] Digest Number 13
Reply-to: BariNews-owner@ yahoogroups.com


Forwarding this message where appropriate is encouraged.

To learn more about Judi Bari and the FBI suit please visit:
http://www.judibari.org


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1. Defendant Sitterud Testifies No Evidence for Arrests Except
    Hearsay
    From: "Judi Bari vs. FBI Media Office"
    <media@ judibari.org>


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Message: 1
    Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
    From: "Judi Bari vs. FBI Media Office"
    <media@ judibari.org>
Subject: Defendant Sitterud Testifies No Evidence for Arrests Except
          Hearsay

Judi Bari v FBI

April 15, 2002
Defendant Sitterud Testifies No Evidence for Arrests Except Hearsay

Contact:  Jean Eisenhower, Kathy Glass, Steve Christianson,
510/663-6330

Oakland, CA - On the stand today, defendant, Oakland Police Department
Sgt. Michael Sitterud's testimony was riddled with contradictions,
improbable surprises, and lapses of memory regarding critical facts.  As
Chief Investigator on the case, he testified:  "I didn't involve myself in
the search for evidence."

· Though extensively trained in bomb investigation, Sitterud testified he
did not make any personal investigation of the bombed car while at the
bombing scene.

· He testified that he took the word of the FBI defendant Frank Doyle rather
than make his own inspection, and did not inquire about the
nature of Judi's injuries.

· Although he admitted both Darryl and Judi separately notified
authorities about the death threats they received and were carrying
with them, he didn't look  at the threatening evidence.

· Although he admitted both Darryl and Judi separately named two individuals
they believed should be questioned, he didn't follow
through on checking into those individuals.

· After testifying that he thought Darryl's statement (immediately
after the bombing) about a bomb "thrown" at them was "suspicious," he
never asked Darryl about his statement during his one - to two-hour
questioning, though he described Darryl as very cooperative.
Later, he would use this "suspicious" statement as grounds for Darryl's
guilt and arrest.

· Although Judi and Darryl were placed under arrest at approximately 3 pm on
May 24, he claimed not to have approved it until
3 am the next morning, and blamed "some supervisor."

· The rationale for the first search warrant for the Seeds of Peace house,
he testified, was based on FBI information about Earth First!'s
"reputation," which Sitterud termed "background fact," and a statement about
"identical" nails which was later denied by the person
who was claimed to have made it.  As chief investigator, he admitted
having never been able to find any matching nails himself, even though he
looked for them in the evidence room.  Although he claimed there was "lots
of other evidence," he could recall none on the stand except for the
"dramatic" evidence of a tool kit which he thought was for the purpose of
making bombs, but was in fact for making stained-glass items, belonged to
the daughter of an acquaintance, and was labeled such.

· He didn't recall any discussion of a motion-activated device
(though it is referred to as an exhibit in the affidavit for the second
search warrant), or seeing the intact guitar case on the sidewalk
beside the car, which he later said was probably placed on top of
the bomb.

· When asked whether Sgt. Sitterud noticed that the front door of the car
was blown out and the rear door was intact and operating, he
wouldn't acknowledge that fact.

· He testified he believed Earth First!'s reputation for soliciting media
attention and conducting illegal acts like
tree-spiking were indicators of a propensity to carry a bomb.
An informer's tip about an "action" he assumed meant something illegal, like
a bombing.

· He agreed that every Earth First! associate questioned had been
highly cooperative until they were accused.

· He said the confinement of Shannon Marr for hours in a locked room, where
she screamed and pounded on the door, was "unintentional."

· When he learned of the Lord's Avenger letter, he testified, he never told
the assistant District Attorney about it.  When asked by the
incredulous plaintiffs' attorney if he did not know a grand jury would
need this sort of evidence, he responded improbably, "I didn't know what
they'd do."  Later, he testified it was never tested for fingerprints.

· When FBI bomb expert David Williams showed him that the bomb had to be
beneath the driver's seat, and that it had been wrapped in a towel, he said
he was "surprised," but it didn't affect his judgment about Judi and Darryl
as suspects.  He further testified that when
Williams demonstrated the impact points of the bomb's end caps, he didn't
realize Williams was explaining where the bomb had to have been located.

Tomorrow, Sgt. Sitterud will complete his cross-examination, and will
be followed by Dr. Peter Slabaugh, Judi's attending physician; OPD Sgt.
Robert Chenault, Homicide Division, defendant, second assigned investigator
at bomb scene who drafted the initial warrant with dictation by FBI agent
Doyle; OPD Sgt. Myron Hanson, member of bomb and arson squad who took notes
of Doyle's association of plaintiffs with FBI terrorism investigation; and
Sgt. Del Kraft, OPD, on the bomb squad, who inspected the car at the scene
and took notes.

The trial takes place each Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 1:30 pm,
until approximately May 24, 2002, in the Oakland Federal Courthouse, 1301
Clay Street, Judge Claudia Wilken's courtroom (4th floor).

The proceedings are open to the public.
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4. Where's the Beef? Monopoly in the Beef Industry


From: ag-impact@ iatp.org
Subject: [ag-impact] Where's the Beef? Monopoly in the Beef Industry
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:06:23 -0500

Agriculture and Trade (ag-impact@...)
Posted: 04/16/2002  By smurphy@ iatp.org
============================================================



Where's the Beef?, Monopoly and Monopsony Power in the US Beef Industry
C. Robert Taylor

Rapid consolidation in meatpacking in the last two decades
    raises considerable concern about the potential for creating
    an imbalance of economic power, particularly by meat
    packers over independent livestock producers, and by food
    retailers over consumers. Similar concerns, which were
    expressed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, led to the
    Clayton and Sherman Antitrust Acts and the 1921 Packers
    and Stockyards Act (PSA). The PSA and earlier antitrust
    legislation led to divestiture in some highly concentrated
    markets, particularly in meatpacking. As we enter the 21st
    Century, however, we have witnessed an unprecedented
    wave of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures leading to
    horizontal concentration, to vertical integration, to tight
    bilateral relationships between packers and retailers, and to
    a web of interlocked firms.

Read the full report on-line:

http://www.ag.auburn.edu/dept/aec/rtaylor/beefmarginsforum.htm


A Publication of the Auburn University Department of Agriculture
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5. Howard Zinn and Alice Walker this Sat 4/20 @ 7:30pm


From: "Emanuel Hemsi" <thegoofman@ hotmail.com>
Subject: Howard Zinn and Alice Walker this Sat 4/20 @ 7:30pm
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:50:46 -0700

I don't know if someone already sent out this announcement but here's the
info:

Howard Zinn and Alice Walker
"Mumia's Feedom in a 9-11 World"

Sat. April 20, 7:30pm
St. Joseph the Workere Church
1640 Addison, Berkeley

to benefit
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal 415-695-7745
Middle East Children's Alliance 510-548-0542
Friends of Free Speech Radio 510-848-1118

Co-Sporsor: Vanguard Public Foundation and Vanguard Public Alliance
415-487-2111

Tickets: $20: East Bay: Back Oak, Cody's/Telegraph, Cody's/4th St.,
Pegasus/Shattuck, Pegasus/Solano, Walden Pond/Oakland, San Francisco: City
Lights, Modern Times and... Copperfields in Santa Rosa

Student Discount Tickets available:
Call: 415-695-7745

-Emanuel
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6. McKinney


From: Cecile Pineda <cecilep@ earthlink.net>
Reply-To: cecilep@ earthlink.net
Subject: [eastbay-coalition] McKinney
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:55:29 +0000

EQUAL TIME

Bush must answer Sept. 11 questions
By CYNTHIA McKINNEY

The need for an investigation of the events surrounding Sept. 11 is as
obvious as the need for an investigation of the Enron debacle. Certainly, if
the American people deserve answers about what went wrong with Enron and why
(and we do), then we deserve to know what went wrong on Sept. 11 and why.

Are we squandering our goodwill around the world with what many believe to
be incoherent, warmongering policies that alienate our friends and
antagonize our allies? How much of a role does our reliance on imported oil
play in the military policies put forward by the Bush administration?

And what role does the close relationship between the Bush administration
and the oil and defense industries play, if any, in the policies being
pursued by this administration?
We deserve to know what went wrong on Sept. 11 and why. After all, we hold
thorough public inquiries into rail disasters, plane crashes and even
natural disasters in order to understand what happened and to prevent them
from happening again or minimizing the tragic effects when they do.

Why, then, does the administration remain steadfast in its opposition to an
investigation into the biggest terrorism attack upon our nation?
News reports from Der Spiegel to the London Observer, from the Los Angeles
Times to MSNBC to CNN, indicate that many different warnings were received
by the administration.

In addition, it has even been reported that the United States
government broke Osama bin Laden's secure communications before Sept. 11.
Sadly, the United States government is being sued today by survivors
of the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa because, from court reports, it
appears clear that the United States had received warnings, but did
little to secure and protect the staff at our embassies.

Did the same thing happen to us again?
I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his
administration have personally profited from the attacks of Sept.
11. A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case.

For example, it is known that President Bush's father, through the Carlyle
Group, had -- at the time of the attacks -- joint business interests with
the bin Laden family's construction company and many defense industry
holdings, the stocks of which have soared since Sept. 11.

On the other hand, what is undeniable is that corporations close to the
administration have directly benefited from the increased defense
spending arising from the aftermath of Sept. 11.

The Carlyle Group, DynCorp and Halliburton certainly stand out as companies
close to this administration. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld maintained
in a hearing before Congress that we can afford the new spending, even
though the request for more defense spending is the highest increase in 20
years.

All the American people are being asked to make sacrifices. Our young men
and women in the military are being asked to risk their lives in
our war against terrorism while our president's first act was to sign an
executive order denying them high deployment overtime pay.

The American people are being asked to make sacrifices by bearing massive
budget cuts in the social welfare of our country, in the areas of health
care, Social Security and civil liberties for our enhanced military and
security needs arising from the events of Sept. 11. It is
imperative that they know fully why we make the sacrifices. If the secretary
of defense tells us that his new military objectives must be to occupy
foreign capital cities and overthrow regimes, then the American people must
know why.

It should be easy for this administration to explain fully to the American
people in a thorough and methodical way why we are being asked to make these
sacrifices and if, indeed, these sacrifices will make us more secure. If the
administration cannot articulate these answers to the American people, then
the Congress must.

This is not a time for closed-door meetings and secrecy. America's
credibility, both with the world and with her own people, rests upon
securing credible answers to these questions. The world is teetering on the
brink of conflicts while the administration's policies are vague, wavering
and unclear.

Major financial conflicts of interest involving the president, the attorney
general, the vice president and others in the administration have been and
continue to be exposed.

This is a time for leadership and judgment that is not compromised in any
fashion. This is a time for transparency and a thorough investigation.

--------------------------------------------------
----------------------
U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney is a Democrat
representing Georgia's 4th Congressional District.
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7. Israel's Real History


From: Russell Bates <russbumper@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Israel's Real History
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 04:29:27 -0700 (PDT)


Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:15:49
Subject: [justiceinpalestine] Israel's real history
Reply-to:
justiceinpalestine2001-owner@ yahoogroups.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

*** PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY ***

A teach-in

Israel’s Real History:
Palestinian Dispossession and Resistance

It is called a land without a people for a people without a land, but the
founding myths of Israel are no comfort to those of us who have been
watching the last twenty days of Israeli brutality against the Palestinian
people. But rather than representing an aberration in Israeli policy, the
massacres in Jenin and Nablus are merely a
continuation of Israeli policies already in place – dispossession,
settlement, discrimination, and expansion.
The legacy of the state of Israel is not democracy but a series of massacres
of Palestinians – Deir Yassin, Qibya, Sabra, Shatila, and now Jenin.  Come
to a teach-in about the real history of Israel and find out why Palestinians
have been resisting Israeli occupation of
Palestinian lands for over 54 years.

Featuring Elias Rishmawi of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Wednesday, April 17th
6PM
100 Wheeler Hall

Sponsored by: Students for Justice in Palestine,
International Socialist Organization, ADC Sacramento


Students for Justice in Palestine, Berkeley, California
http://www.justiceinpalestine.org
justiceinpalestine@... - (510) 496-1269 x1948
- vm/fax
To subscribe, email to:
justiceinpalestine2001-subscribe@ yahoogroups.com
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8. 4/18 BAWDN Meeting & 4/21 BAWDN Forum


From: steve zeltzer <lvpsf@ igc.org>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: 4/18 BAWDN Meeting & 4/21 BAWDN Forum
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:55:59 -0700

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
    The next meeting of the Bay Area Workers Democracy Network will be on
Thursday April 18, 2002 at 7:00PM at the Nulight Restaurant at 3319 Mission
St./29th St. in San Francisco.
    The Proposed Agenda includes:
    1. Report on Rescinding of SF Labor Council Middle East Resolution
& Follow-up
    2. Report on Alia & Hiam Campaign For Justice
    3. Report on AFSCME/SEIU democracy battles and discussions/meetings in
Los Angeles & West
            Coast Rank & File Labor Conference in Los Angeles
    4. Plans for participation in April 20 SF anti-war demonstration
    5. Discussion about Northern California conference on labor and
privatization at the Presidio and the layoffs at the Presidio.
    6. Discussion on Meeting on Repression, War On Terror & Labor
    7. Class On Corporate Unions & Fascism
    8. Newsletter of Labor Action Coalition

In Solidarity,

Steve Zeltzer

Bay Area Workers Democracy Forum/Discussion



The Middle East, Palestinian Workers,
War & The AFL-CIO



Speakers:
Mary Ann Ring, UCSF  ASCME 3299, Delegate SF Labor Council
Charles Minster, National Parks & Public Employees, LIUNA 1141, Delegate
                                  SF Labor Council
Jack Heyman, BA ILWU Local 10 *Delegate Alameda Labor Council (Invited)
Faisal Tbeilen, Member UESF-AFT*

    As a result of the attack on Palestinian trade union offices and the US
military supported assault on the people of Palestine, the San Francisco
Labor Council has passed a resolution protesting the illegal, immoral war
and supporting an end to the military arming of Israel by the United States.
This is the first action of any labor federation in the US to challenge the
US military arming of Israel. Those supporters of Israel and the US in the
Labor Council have recently recinded this resolution for a forum and the
draft of another resolution. The political battle is not over within the
labor movement on this issue.
This important statement now rescinded was  virtually alone among the US
trade union movement. John Sweeney and the national AFL-CIO have embraced
Bush's "War On Terror", as well as supporting the Patriot Act which harms
our democratic and human rights. The AFL-CIO is also supporting the  massive
increases of military spending that will be paid for with major cutbacks in
healthcare, social services and education. At the same time, the leadership
of the Teamsters and the Carpenters are running as fast as they can to get
on Bush's  Republican bandwagon.
We will discuss why it is important that US workers support the struggle of
Palestinian workers an the historic role of the AFL-CIO in relationship to
the wars in the Middle East and the rights of workers in the Middle East.

$5.00 Donation Requested/ No one turned away from a lack of funds
*For Information Only



Sunday April 21, 2002 3:00PM
Fellowship Of Humanity Hall
390 27th St./Broadway Oakland



Sponsored by the Bay Area Workers Democracy Network (BAWDN)
P.O.Box 40458 San Francisco, CA 94140
(415)641-4440 or (415)661-1371 or
Email:united@ labornet.org
sfactive@ earthlink.net
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9. 5/25 Iraqi Conference At Stanford


From: "Carolyn S. Scarr" <epicalc@ earthlink.net>
Subject: 5/25 Iraqi Conference At Stanford
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:07:38 -0700



Part 1.1


Announcing the 3rd National Organizing Conference on Iraq:
"Forging National Strategies"

May 25th ? 26th, 2002
Palo Alto,   California at Stanford University

Twelve years of bombings and sanctions have brought immense suffering,
hardship and death to the Iraqi people.  Well over a million Iraqis have
died from the lethal combination of wartime bombings and sanctions.  The
real "weapon of mass destruction" that must be removed from  Iraq is the
sanctions!
And now the United States Government is openly proposing to launch an
all-out war on Iraq.   US aerial bombardment would kill thousands
of civilians, as it did in Iraq in 1991 and in Afghanistan in
2001-2002.
Such a war could precipitate a collapse into an Iraqi civil war or even
a regional war, with devastating consequences, including deaths into the
hundreds of thousands.   Another war against Iraq would be driven by
U.S. oil companies' desire to control the second largest region of oil
fields in the world.

Join fellow activists from over 70 organizations for two full days of
networking, sharing, organizing and strategizing. Let us join our
efforts to stop the drive to another racist war, and to end the needless and
ongoing suffering of Iraqi children and the Iraqi people.

On-Line Registration Please register early, and indicate if you would
like the host group to find accommodations for you.  Details of the
conference site will be announced later, check the conference page for
updates, and helpful information for travelers.
http://www.endthewar.org/conference.htm

Travel Arrangements:  You are advised to book your travel tickets early.

While you will be responsible for your own transport while in the area,
the local host organizations will try to assist with transportation, to and
from the airport and locally, as much as possible.  To help you with
your planning, details of public transportation and local hotels will be
posted to the conference web site.  There are three airports within 35 miles
of Palo Alto: San Jose Int'l (SJC) (14 miles); San Francisco Int'l (SFO):
(20 miles); Oakland Int'l (OAK): (35 miles).
For ride-sharing notices check or post a message to our bulletin board.

Arrival/Departure Times:  The conference will begin early Saturday
morning, and the decision-making portion of the agenda will conclude by  6
p.m. on Sunday, May 26th. On Monday, May 27th (Memorial Day), the Agenda
Working Group (which you are welcome to join!) is planning for a possible
action, or continued non-decision-making meetings.
We therefore recommend that you arrive by Friday evening and set your
departure time so that you can participate in the conference until at least
6 p.m. on Sunday. Details of Monday's program will be announced along with
the official agenda at a later date.

To contact the Network, write to: nnewai@ usa.com.
Or Call PPJC at: (650) 326-8837
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10. A View on Bush from the Times (The Manila Times)


From: Joseph Holder <conquip@ ix.netcom.com>
Subject: A View on Bush from the Times (The Manila Times)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:51:04 -0700

A compelling commentary on Bush from the Times?

No, silly wabbit, not the New York Times! It's from the Manila Times.

This is one of the best sardonic commentaries on Bush that
BuzzFlash has read.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/apr/16/opinion/20020416opi5.html

SOUTHPAW
By Inday Espina-Varona
Georgie goes to school

The word from Washington is, that Georgie, the Texan princeling who so
badly yearns to be the man Dad wants him to be, is finally hitting the books
and doing his homework.

About time. Half a dozen chiefs of states have just told Colin Powell
the world is not behooved to behave like patriotic Americans. Ariel Sharon
and Yasser Arafat, not to mention rich Saudis and Bahrainis, have just shown
how little Georgie knows about Abraham’s children. Even the Northern
Alliance warlords have taken to killing each other again, in full view yet
of their blonde peacekeepers.

But friends will tell you Georgie was a late bloomer. So perhaps we
should just say a prayer of thanks that Georgie is slowly learning, that
hi-tech war toys and chiseled patrician features are not enough to earn
genuine respect.

No, change that. Let us give thanks that Georgie is finally realizing
that respect from equals may be more rewarding than the groveling that
merely masks smirks and dirty fingers, or the condescending prattle dished
out by shifty-eyed father figures like Donald Rumsfeld or Dick
Cheney, the latter well on his way to becoming a caricature of a
simpering, vanishing Alfred Hitchcock.

Maybe one day soon a li’l ol steel magnolia will march up the White
House steps, brush aside those Secret Service hunks, sweep into the Oval
Office, dump tomes on that glistening desk, and lecture Georgie on the
dangers of being such a pompous dunce.

Hopefully, one of those books will be a copy of the US Constitution, now
under siege by both terrorists and the protectors of the people. Maybe
Georgie, now that he’s in between sophomoric speeches, could be stirred into
studying the real things that make his country great — like the
belief that all men (and nations) are created equal, despite differences
in color, creed, facial hair, or per capita incomes.

He just has to look in his own backyard. While he’s at it, Georgie could
pull Ali Flietcher from the White House Press Room for a review of simple
English.

Spell coup, boys. Never mind the Frenchy appendage. The simple verb
says, “overturn, upset.” The longer noun means “a sudden decisive exercise
of force in politics; esp: the violent overthrow or altercation of an
existing government by a small group.”

Now spell Venezuela. Spell Chavez. You remember Chavez, Georgie?
PRESIDENT Hugo Chavez, chief of state of an independent republic, and one
elected in a democratic manner, was arrested last week by a small cabal of
generals and taken to an island. While all that was underway, the same cabal
installed Pedro Carmona, the leader of a band of oligarchs, as president,
and started a manhunt for Chavez’s aides and supporters. A move presumably
made to quell violence snowballed
into something Latin Americans thought lay buried in their collective
nightmare – dissolution of the National Assembly and the Supreme Court amid
a vague promise of elections a year hence.

Spell commitment. Oops. Your turn, Ali. Figures. If you can’t spell, you
probably can’t define. A commitment, gentlemen, is an agreement or pledge.

In case your advisers haven’t told you yet, Georgie, the US signed last
year the new Democracy Charter of the Organization of American States. It
says, among other things, that all members of the group would act strongly
against military coups.

All OAS members condemned the Venezuelan coup and refused to recognize
the new government — all but one – the US, whose president (that’s you,
Georgie) loves to declaim on moral rectitude (no, Ali, rectum is a different
word).

Do you remember what you said, Georgie?

It ain’t a coup. It ain’t a coup because he deserves it. He deserves it
because I, Georgie, don’t like his mug and his pals. And because Uncle Otto
Reich says he’s bad and you don’t argue with a man who saved Nicaragua from
the Sandinistas. And because Dad’s amigos aren’t too fond
of ex-parachutists who threaten to close a third of our oil taps. And
because I know how to spell hegemony, and it means you can be an SOB but you
have to be our SOB!

Spell Venezuela again. Remember that word, Georgie. Ten years down the
road, unless you’ve succeeded in redefining archives, that word is going to
be an embarrassment.

Ah, that one you got right. I told you, practice makes perfect.
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11. Action: Arctic Wildlife Refuge


From: "Carolyn S. Scarr" <epicalc@ earthlink.net>
Subject: Action: Arctic Wildlife Refuge
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:57:13 -0700

The moment of truth has arrived for the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. The U.S. Senate is likely to vote as early as Thursday on an
amendment to open America's greatest sanctuary for Arctic animals to
oil development and sprawling industrialization. Even if you have sent
a message to your senators about this issue before, new developments
make it critical that you do so again right now by going to
http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=1190

Our defense of the Arctic Refuge is hanging by a slender thread -- a
mere handful of senators who are likely but not certain to vote with
us. As the critical vote nears, the pro-oil lobby is resorting to
increasingly cynical schemes to lure these "swing" senators to their
side. Drilling proponents have offered to guarantee healthcare
benefits for unemployed steelworkers in return for opening the refuge
to oil development. They have offered to guarantee a supply of oil to
Israel. More eleventh-hour ploys are sure to follow today and
tomorrow. It is an insult to the American people to tie such issues to
the fate of the Arctic Refuge. Providing for steelworkers and
promoting peace in the Middle East should not depend on destroying our
greatest remaining wilderness.

These attempts to cut backroom deals that will sell out the refuge are
especially repugnant because the Senate has already voted AGAINST an
amendment that would have improved fuel economy standards for cars and
light trucks. That single measure alone would have saved far more oil
than the Arctic Refuge could ever produce. But pro-oil senators would
rather sacrifice America's premier wildlife refuge so that oil giants
can sell even more oil that can then be wasted in the world's most
inefficient gas-guzzling vehicles. This is special-interest politics
at its absolute, public-be-damned worst. It can only be countered by
millions of pro-environment messages from people like you and me.

Please do your part by contacting your two senators immediately. If
you want to have the greatest possible impact, then **pick up the
phone right now** and call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Speak to your senators' staff and ask them to tell your senators to
oppose any amendment that would allow oil exploration or development
in the Arctic Refuge. It will take you only about 3 minutes, but will
make a big impression.

If you have less than 3 minutes or you're not within reach of a phone,
then go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=1190
and send an electronic fax or email (and please take a few seconds to
personalize the sample message by adding your own thoughts about why
preserving the Arctic Refuge is important to you).

However you choose to contact your senators, *please do it instantly.*
This may be our last, best chance to stop the oil giants from
plundering America's irreplaceable sanctuary for polar bears, white
wolves, and 130,000 caribou.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

=====

BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places
A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.savebiogems.org
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12. "Boom - The Sound of Eviction" at Berkeley's Fine Arts Cinema


From: "whispered media" <wm@ videoactivism.org>
Subject: "Boom - The Sound of Eviction" at Berkeley's Fine Arts Cinema
          April 22-24
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:53:12 -0700

"Boom - The Sound of Eviction" screening nightly at 9:00 pm
April 22-24 (Mon-Wed) at the Fine Arts Cinema in Berkeley
http://www.boomthemovie.org

"A Powerful Cautionary Statement" - Variety

"Witty, Poignant and Impassioned" - LA Times

By turns humorous and scathing "Boom" delves into the ironies and
contradictions of the "New Economy" and delivers a potent social critique
that is ambitious in its scope, while remaining close to the human scale.
The viewer moves easily between dot-com party crashing at one end of the
economic spectrum and painful moments with families forced out of their
homes at the other. "Boom" features interviews with dot-com workers, real
estate developers, and Mayor Willie Brown, as well as those who challenged
the new economic order through community organizing, electoral politics, and
direct action. Dramatic footage of communities in conflict brings you out
into the streets while experts and community members themselves offer
analysis of the social and historic forces which have shaped the current
political landscape.

In addition to doggedly pursuing the daily drama of San Francisco
gentrification and resistance, the filmmakers have amassed an enormous
amount of material from which to fashion their motion picture. "Boom"
draws on 60's-era tourist movies, 50's educational films and other archival
materials as well as a rainbow of slice-of-life images that paint a detailed
portrait of San Francisco's lightning transformation from funky western
outpost to high-tech haven.

"Boom - The Sound of Eviction"  (96 minutes) is Whispered Media's first
feature-length documentary.  "Boom" was created with the support of many
community members who donated their work to this effort, including
photographers, musicians, performance artists, film archivists, and other
filmmakers whose work is featured in the documentary. Music by Amaldecor,
Antibalas, Aztlan Underground, Coldcut, Fugazi, Japonize Elephants, Michael
Franti & Spearhead, Mushroom, and Tortoise, as well as original sound design
by Alex Theory.

"Boom"  Screens at:
Fine Arts Cinema, 2451 Shattuck Avenue (at Haste), Berkeley, CA
510-848-1143, http://www.fineartscinema.com
Admission: $8 General ($5 Seniors, $4 children)

For more information, please visit http://www.boomthemovie.org
Phone: 415-789-8484
Email: boominfo@...

Formed in 1996, San Francisco's Whispered Media is best known locally for
"The Pie's The Limit," their video about the pie-throwing Biotic Baking
Brigade. They are also one of the founding collectives within the
Independant Media Center (http://indymedia.org), and co-produced two IMC
documentaries, "Showdown in Seattle: Five Days that Shook the WTO" and
"Breaking the Bank."
--


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Whispered Media
wm@...
P.O. Box 40130
San Francisco, CA 94140 USA
(415) 789-8484
http://www.whisperedmedia.org
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Video Activist Network
http://www.videoactivism.org
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14. LABOR TUESDAY! for April 16, 2002


From: Bobibt@ aol.com
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: LABOR TUESDAY! for April 16, 2002 is Posted.
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:39:51 -0700

Dear Friends:

Recently, the San Francisco Labor Council adopted a resolution condemning
the Israeli "bombing of civilian and political targets, most specifically,
but not limited to the Palestine trade union offices in Nablus, Palestine."
Then more recently the resolution was "rescinded." Our first article this
week suggests why the resolution was rescinded. Our second article
addresses some fresh Labor Dept.strike statistics and their implications,
not a dry subject. We conclude with a Labor Briefs section.

A new edition of LABOR TUESDAY! is posted each Tuesday. Click on this link
<http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bobibt/myhomepage/news.html?mtbrand=AOL_US>LABOR
TUESDAY! or copy and paste this URL into your browser window:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bobibt/myhomepage/news.html?mtbrand=AOL_US

Of course, the best thing is to bookmark the Labor Tuesday! web site,
creating your own link.

In Solidarity

Bob Mattingly

PS Please don't forget to support next Saturday's National Marches Against
War Racism and Poverty.
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15. PFA film on Gulf War & New Mexico


From: "Carolyn S. Scarr" <epicalc@ earthlink.net>
Subject: PFA film on Gulf War & New Mexico
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:07:09 -0700

fwd for those who can go.
Carolyn
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film Tuesday, April 16 7:30 p.m. Pacific Film Archive re
Persian Gulf War's effects on three people in New Mexico. "[one of ten best
undistributed films of the year"<Village Voice]


The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein


John Gianvito (U.S., 2001)

Artist in Person
In a film made over six years on a miniscule budget with
nonprofessionals, John Gianvito melds fiction and documentary to examine the
lasting ramifications of the Persian Gulf War on three characters in New
Mexico. Unusually heartfelt and politically engaged, Mad Songs was named to
the Village Voice list of the ten best undistributed films of the year.
The Fernanda Hussein of the title is a Mexican American mother
separated from her Arab husband and whose children are targeted due to
anti-Iraqi sentiments. Although less than two months in duration, the Gulf
War revealed the fervor and hatred that can arise in the U.S. alongside
patriotism.
While Hussein's anguish may be the most wrenching, it reverberates in the
struggles of a teenage boy involved with antiwar activities, and of a vet,
played by a Gulf War veteran, deeply impacted by what he witnessed.
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein is a haunting lament to "the utterly
senseless destruction of innocents" (Gianvito), both here and in Iraq.
- Kathy Geritz


   With Thia Gonzales, Dustin Scott, Robert Perea. (168 mins, Color,
16mm, From the artist)


PFA FILMSERIES: A Committed Cinema

PFA PLAYDATE: Tuesday April 16, 2002




PFA Address & Info

PFA Theater: General Information


2575 Bancroft Avenue

Berkeley, California

510/642-1412 (office)

510/642-5249 (tickets)


Admission Prices:

General--$7.00

BAM/PFA members--$5.00

UC Berkeley students--$4.00

UCB Faculty and Staff--$5.00

Senior citizens (65 and over)--$4.50

People with disabilities--$4.50

Children (12 and under)--$4.50

Additional feature--$1.50
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16. Local 3 Calendar of Events: 4/15  - National Writers Union


From: NWU Local 3 <info@ unionwriters.org>
Subject: Local 3 Calendar of Events: 4/15
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:53:47 -0700
Dear NWU Local 3 Member,

Don't miss out on 2 featured events in 2 days:

1. April 17: The Internet and Publishing Rights, 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Sponsored by the Bay Area Editors Forum
2. April 18: Registration deadline to get the early registration discount
for the UPCOMING "Writer As Publisher Seminar", May 18. See below for
details or go to www.writeraspublisher.com
____________________________________________________

NWU Local 3 C A L E N D A R

Technical Writers Meeting, Wednesday, April 17

The Internet and Publishing Rights, Wednesday, April 17

Early registration deadline, Writer As Publisher Seminar, April 18

Local 3 Election Ballots Due in the Mail, Friday, April 19

Protest the War on Terrorism, Saturday, April 20

Journalism Group Meeting, Thursday, April 25

Steering Committee Meeting, Tuesday, May 7

Upcoming NWU Seminar: Writer As Publisher, Saturday, May 18
_____________________________________________________

D E T A I L S

Call Local 3 office for more info: 510.839.1248 or www.unionwriters.org

--> Wednesday, April 17, Biz/Tech Writers Meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Everyone is welcome: members and non-members. Opportunity for open question
and answer, followed by networking. Light refreshments served. NWU
tech/business writers meet every third Wednesday of the month. This month's
meeting is in Palo Alto at the home of Andreas Ramos, 4031 Park Blvd. For
details go to www.unionwriters.org or www.andreas.com/nwu, or contact
Andreas Ramos andreas@... (Palo Alto) or Tonie Flores ton1e@ msn.com
(Oakland).


--> Wednesday, April 17, The Internet and Publishing Rights, 6:30 - 9 p.m.

Ben Bagdikian, NWU national advisory board member, and media expert will be
hosted by the Bay Area Editors' Forum at Borders at Union Square, San
Francisco. The event is endorsed by Local 3. Bagdikian, a member of the NWU
National Advisory Board, will speak on  "The Internet and Publishing
Rights--Have We Been Here Before?" Bagdikian has written six books; his
latest is Double Vision Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession.
Networking begins at 630 pm. Program at 700 pm. Free.


--> Thursday, April 18, Early registration deadline, "Writer As Publisher"
Seminar

You can get a price break on the registration fee for the May 18 "Writer As
Publisher" seminar being offered by Local 3 if you register by this date.
You can register online at www.writeraspublisher.com or send a check to the
Local 3 office with your name, email address, postal address, and phone
number. Seminar details below.


--> Friday, April 19, Local 3 Election Ballots Due in the Mail

Think your taxes are the only pressing commitment for mid-April? Don't
forget to vote for Local 3 officers, steering committee, trustees and
delegates to the national Delegates Assembly. Ballot on page 6 of the April
HearSay newsletter must be postmarked by Friday, April 19.


--> Saturday, April 20, Protest the War on Terrorism, 11 a.m.

Join other labor organizations and grassroots groups to oppose the attack on
civil rights, civil liberties and immigrant rights.  At Delores Park in San
Francisco, 19th Street & Delores. Gather at 11 a.m. Look for the NWU banner.
March at noon and 1 p.m. Rally at the Civic Center (Polk St. & Grove). For
more information go to www.Internationalanswer.org or call 415.821.6545.


--> Thursday, April 25, Journalism Group Meeting, 7 p.m.

At the Rockridge Library, 5366 College Avenue in Oakland.Cross street is
Manila, and the library is about two blocks from the Rockridge BART station.
For further information or to be put on the mailing list, contact Kathleen
McNamara at Siobrach@ aol.com.


--> Tuesday, May 7, Steering Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm

NWU steering committee meets on the first Tuesday of every month. Everyone
is welcome. This month's meeting is in Oakland at the union office, 337 17th
Street, between Harrison and Webster. For more information contact
510/839-1248 or e-mail: info@ unionwriters.org.


--> Saturday, May 18, NWU Seminar: Writer as Publisher 9:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Register by April 18 to get a discount.

Think you need an agent, publisher and publicist to get your work out to the
world? Think again. New techniques and technologies are changing the
landscape of publishing. You can now make more money, get to press faster,
and retain control over your work by publishing it yourself. Learn how at
the "Writer as Publisher: Independent Publishing Seminar," hosted by the
National Writers Union at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in downtown
Oakland. For all the details, go to: http://www.writeraspublisher.com
Registration for the full-day event is $95 for members of the Writers Union
($105 after April 18) and $125 for non-members ($135 after April 18).
Register online at http://www.writeraspublisher.com/register.html or mail
your check to National Writers Union, Attn: Publishing Seminar, 337 17th
Street #101, Oakland, CA 94612. For more info call 510.839.1248.

Speakers at this all-day seminar include:
PAT HOLT, former San Francisco Chronicle book editor and current online
publishing critic. A major proponent of independent publishing, she will
talk about the current state of the book industry, electronic media, and
print-on-demand potentials and pitfalls. Learn more about Pat at
http://www.holtuncensored.com

DAN POYNTER, pioneer of self-publishing and author/publisher of over 100
books. Dan will share his insights on how you can write your book faster and
eliminate many of the steps involved in the traditional publishing model. A
copy of Dan's popular "Bible" on the subject, "The Self-Publishing Manual,"
is included with the cost of registration. Read more about Dan at
http://www.parapublishing.com

NAIDA WEST, Author of two books, her self-publishing income allowed her to
found Bridge House Books. She will speak on the "Creative and Commercial
Aspects of Writing Fiction and Poetry." Find Naida's business online at
http://www.bridgehousebooks.com

Other speakers include Andreas Ramos, web guru and technical writer; Don
Monkerud, high-tech journalist and fiction writer; Adam David Miller, poetry
author and the founding editor of the Graduate Student Journal at UCB; Carla
King, successful self-published travel and technical writer; Jeanne Powell,
local poetry writer and publisher; Rand Richards, the author of Historic San
Francisco; Stephanie Cota, a silicon Valley web design and marketing expert;
and Andrena Zawinski, the Feature Editor of PoetryMagazine.com.
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no peace without justice....
VIOLATING MY CIVIL RIGHTS IS AN 'ACT OF TERRORISM'!

john vance, editor
PEOPLES BARK NEWS BERKELEY

A project of:
A First Amendment Center
PO Box 4851
Berkeley, Ca 94704
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(510) 287-9406

Hotlines:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 621
(KPFA Event Calendar)

(510) 287-9406
(A First Amendment Center's Message Line!)

(510) 594-4000 ext. 202
(Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hotline!)

(510) 548-0542
(Friends of KPFA hotline!)

(415) 546-6334 ext. 352
(Media Alliance KPFA info line!)

PLEASE send me SF Bay Area news/events that you would like posted
to: aliun@. hotmail.com - Deadline for event notice submissions is every
Monday at noon.

Event Calendar:
http://www.peacenowfreedomnow.net

And, remember, the most important place of all, our own people's
media at: http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ for San Francisco Bay Area
news postings and http://www.indymedia.org/ to look for postings
for other city's community news.

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_week.php
(San Francisco Indymedia Calendar)

More calendars:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages (PBNB)
http://bapd.org/cal.txt (Bay Area Progressive Calendar)
http://www.bapd.org/notices.html  (Some Really GOOD Current Notices)
http://bapd.org/n52.html (Peace and anti-war calendar)
http://www.sfbg.com/action/index.html (SF Bay Guardian ALERTS)

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
(East Bay Coalition Against the War)

http://www.peaceandjustice.org/events/indexhi.html
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Calendar)

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
(Global Exchange)

http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar.html
(Ecology Center calendar)

http://abacia.com/calendar/  (Abacia calendar)

http://www.change-links.org/chcl2.htm
(Change Links Calendar - L.A.)

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/calendar.cfm?
(Berkeley DP Calendar)

http://www.protest.net/ (Protest.Net Calendar of Events)

http://www.earthneighborhood.com/events.html
(Earth Neighborhood calendar - Union City, Ca)

SOME ALTERNATIVE (and one mainstream) MEDIA SOURCES:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
<A First Amendment Center's Links Page>


http://www.internationalanswer.org/
<Act Now to Stop War and End Racism>

http://www.aljazeera.net (Arabic Media in Qatar)
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
(TRANSLATOR for aljazeera.net)


http://www.alternet.org <AlterNet>
http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/gateway/arnindex.html <AntiRacismNet>
http://www.atasite.org/ <Artist's Television Access>
http://www.afghanmagazine.com <Afghan Magazine>
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)
http://berkeleystopthewar.org/ <Berkeley Stop the War Coalition>
http://www.wpkn.org/news/btl.html <Between the Lines - WPKN - CT>
http://www.brasscheck.com/ <brasscheck.com>
http://www.bushwatch.net/ <Bush Watch>
http://www.buzzflash.com/ <BuzzFlash>
http://www.legitgov.org/ <Citizens for Legitimate Government>
http://www.commondreams.org <Common Dreams>
http://www.corpwatch.org/ <CorpWatch>
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup/ <CounterCoup>
http://www.democracynow.org/ <Democracy Now - Out of Exile!>
http://www.drudgereport.com/ <DRUDGE REPORT>

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
<East Bay Coalition Against the War>

http://fair.org/ <Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting>
http://www.flashpoints.net/ <Flashpoints News Radio>
http://globalcircle.net/ <Global Circle Net News>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ <Global Research>
http://www.guerrillanews.com/ <Guerilla News Network>
http://www.humanrightsnow.org/ <Human Rights Now - Michael Ratner>
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm <IATP - WTO Watch>
http://www.independent.co.uk <Independent.co.uk>
http://www.indymedia.org/ <IndyMedia>
http://www.infowars.com/ <Infowars.com - Alex Jones>
http://accuracy.org/ <Institute for Public Accuracy>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ <In These Times>
http://www.kpfa.org <KPFA>
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm <Mid-East Realities>
http://www.opensecrets.org/ (Money in Politics)
http://www.labornet.org/ <LaborNet - News for the Labor Movement>
http://www.madre.org/ <Madre - Women's Human Rights Organization>
http://www.media-alliance.org/ <Media Alliance>
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ <MediaChannel.org>
http://michaelmoore.com/ <Michael Moore>
http://www.copvcia.com/index.html <Mike Ruppert><NOT FREE>
http://www.motherjones.com <Mother Jones>
http://www.narconews.com <Narco News>
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html <Noam Chomsky>
http://www.kpfa.com <NOT KPFA - but about KPFA>
http://www.oneworld.net/ <OneWorld.net>
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp <Open Democracy>
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html <Palestine media Watch>
http://www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ <Palestine Report>
http://poornewsnetwork.org/ <Poor News Network>
http://www.protest.net/ <Protest Net>
http://www.rabble.ca/ <Rabblerousers>
http://www.radio4all.org/ <Radio4All>
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/infohub.html <Rainbow Puddle>
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ <re: constructions>

http://www.enronownsthegop.com/
<Republican Party of Texas - brought to you by Enron>

http://rwor.org/ <Revolutionary Worker>
http://www.sfbayview.com/ <San Francisco Bay View>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ <SF IndyMedia>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/publish.php <SF IndyMedia (Publish Page)>
http://www.savepacifica.net/ <Save Pacifica.net>
http://www.speakoutnow.org/ <Speakout!>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <telegraph.co.uk>
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml <The Afghan Women's Mission>
http://www.tenc.net/ <The Emporer's New Clothes>
http://www.thenation.com/ <The Nation>
http://www.newsguild.org/index.php <The Newspaper Guild>

http://porthurontokentstate.tripod.com/
<The Port Huron to Kent State Project>

http://www.tompaine.com/ <TomPaine.commonsense>
http://www.utne.com <Utne Reader Online>
http://www.voterwest.org/ <Voter March West>
http://warresisters.org/ <War Resisters League>
http://www.war-times.org <WarTimes>
http://www.willpitt.com/Archive.htm <WillPitt.com>

http://www.wilpf.org/
<Women's International Legue for Peace and Freedom>

http://newsforchange.com/ <Working for Change>
http://www.zmag.org/ <Z Magazine Online>

http://ajr.newslink.org/ (mainstream media source)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/~musnews/  (Muslim News - Britain)
http://www.paknews.com/   (Pakistan News Service)
http://www.yespakistan.com/  (More News from Pakistan)
http://www.millat.pibc.com/index.htm  (News from Pakistan)
http://www.thefridaytimes.com  (Pakistan News)
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/  (News from Peshawar, Pakistan)
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/  (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)



BOOKS TO READ:

http://www.akpress.org/

OTHER LINKS:
http://www.kpfa.org (KPFA)

KPFA/Pacifica-related websites:
http://www.cfdp.org (Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica)
http://www.pacifica.org (Pacifica Foundation Radio Website)
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(A First Amendment Center's  website)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
(Coalition to Remove the Pacifica Board)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

(Lotsa KPFA-related links)
http://www.glib.com/union.html
(unofficial WBAI union website)
http://www.webwm.com/mfberry
http://www.newKPFA.net
http://www.wbai.net (Listener's Group - NYC/CdP)

http://www.BillMandel.net or
http://www.BillMandel.com
(Bill Mandel's website(s))

http://www.spanishbookclub.cjb.net
(My partner, Miriam Ruvinskis',
Spanish Book Club website)

FreePacifica discussion list: to subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@. recordist.com with the text "subscribe freepac"

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica local list:  to subscribe, send
email to: les@. delong.org  with the text "subscribe"
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CONTENTS

1...Bay Area Progressive Calendar
2...Petition Against Ariel Sharon's Crimes
3...Washington Post Breaks `Bush 9-11 Plot' Story
4..."Stupid" Stays at #1 on NY Times List, 4 Weeks in a Row
5...**MARIMBA PACIFICA at ASHKENAZ FRIDAY 4/19**
6...[IAC-SF] APRIL 20TH Transportation Information
7...As Venezuela Goes, So Goes Much of the World
8...[IAC-SF] WE NEED YOUR HELP ON APRIL 20
9...[narconews] Q&A on Coup in Venezuela
10..Whatta fine, guy!
11..Solidarity Action in Jerusalem
12..Tree-Sitter Dies in 150-Foot Fall
14..Bay Area Events - Global Exchange Calendar
15..Boycott the Gap: Join Us for these Terrific Bay Area Events!
16..Chiapas Noticias / Schools Update
17..DELANO PRISON BUDGET HEARING!
18..Family Court Reform Rally, Sacramento June 22
19..THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH
20..LMNOP Reminder (& a few other things)
21..Media Alliance Membership Party!
22..National Inter-Relatedness Day
23..People's Park, 33rd Anniversary
24..The Road to Public Power
25..Unbelievable: Web site that Changed My Life
26..Upcoming Events at New College
27..War Times April Issue Out Now
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1.  Bay Area Progressive Calendar


From: Progressive Calendar <ProgressiveCalendar@ afsc.org>
Subject: Bay Area Progressive Calendar
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:40:29 -0400



Bay Area Progressive Calendar
**On Going Events**


Every Sunday


3:00PM
OAKLAND  Walk

**Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace** (LMNOP) invites you to join
us on weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt in OAKLAND. Please bring peace
related signs if you can.  Meet at the columns at the east end of the Lake,
between Grand & Lakeshore Avenues.  Near Grand Ave.  Exit off 580 freeway.
Most well known nearby landmark: Grand Lake Theater.
Info:  (510) 763-8712, lmno4p@ yahoo.co


Every Tuesday


From noon till one p.m. at the OAKLAND    Federal Building twin towers,
just west of BART City Center - 12th St. station, a vigil protesting the
continuing sanctions and bombing that have killed about 2 million Iraqis in
the past 11 years.
For more info:  epicalc@ earthlink.net
[Ecumenical Peace Institute]


Every Wednesday
7:00PM
Berkeley Meeting

First and third Wednesdays of the month.  Amnesty International Berkeley
Community Group meeting.  Come join fellow friendly human rights activists
to help promote social justice one individual at a time.  Help prevent human
rights violations around the world. Location: Claremont branch of the
Berkeley Public Library, 2940 Benvenue Ave., College and Ashby..
For more info: contact Govind at 510-872-0768.

Every Thursday


12:00PM
San Francisco Vigil

From noon till one p.m. at the San Francisco Federal Building, Golden Gate
Ave. and Larkin St., near BART Civic Center, a vigil protesting our bombing
of Afghanistan and our nation's "war" against terrorism, using more terror.
For more info, call 415/ 565-0201,
SSchwartz@ afsc.org.
SF Friends Meeting and AFSC.

First and Third Thursday of every month


7:00PM
Berkeley
Organizing Meeting

Berkeley Liberation Radio, a low power radio station at 104.1 FM holds
public meetings for all interested people twice a month.  The meetings are
at the Long Haul Info Shop, Location:  3124 Shattuck Avenue in South
Berkeley (across from the La Pena Cultural Center).
For more Info: (510)595-0190

Every Friday


Noon to 1pm Berkeley   Vigil

**Women in Black** Bancroft and Telegraph on the south side of UC campus.
We began standing in November of 1988 in solidarity with Women in Black in
Jerusalem to end the occupation. Join us when you can.
For more info: (510) 548-6310 or (510) 845-1143,
wibberkeley@ yahoo.com

5:00 PM
San Francisco Vigil


SPREAD THE WORD

San Francisco Women In Black Monthly Protest

To End All the Violence, End the Occupation Now!  Stop the U.S. War in
Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines and beyond.  Respect the Human
Rights of POWs and Detainees; Defend Civil Liberties at Home.  Location:
Montgomery & Market Streets.  Silent vigil followed by klezmer music and
speaker from GABRIELA Network (Philippines-US Women's Solidarity Network)
all women welcome

Now Thru -April 30


7:30AM
San Francisco
Cultural Event

The Free Speech Movement Cafe Presents-The legacy of Social Protests: The
Disability Rights Movement.  Featuring photographs by: Cathy Cade, HolLynn
D'Lil, Howard Petrick, Ken Stein.  This is the first exhibition in a series
dealing with Free Speech, Civil Rights, and Social Protest Movements of the
60s and 70s in Cali. Coordinated and Curated by: Harold Adler ("The Whole
World's Watching" Project) Accessibility: Free Speech Cafe is Wheelchair
accessible.
Location: The Free Speech Movement Café, Moffitt Undergraduate Library; UC,
Berkeley.
For more info: hjadler@ yahoo.com
Cost: Free



April - May 12


10:00AM    San Francisco  Exhibition

Recalling the Vote: collection of over sixty original photographs reveals
the passion and courage in the struggle for civil rights and social
equality.
Cost: Free
Location: FirstCrows Gallery, 1074 Folsom St.
For more info, call 415/551/0067 or visit www.FirstCrows.org


Saturday, April 20


12:00PM  San Francisco   Forum

Beyond the pink ribbon: challenging the culture of breast cancer.   Breast
cancer activists tie with the pink ribbon.  A town meeting organized by
breast cancer action.  Cost: $10 donation.
Location: 3543 18th St.

7:30PM   Berkeley    Benefit


The incomparable duo Howard Zinn and Alice Walker.  Mumia's Freedom in a
9-11 World.  location: St. Joseph the worker Church, 1640 Addison.  Cost:
$20 at Selected locations.
For ticket info and other information, call: 415/695/7745.

Sunday, April 21


3:00PM  Oakland   Forum/Speakers

The Middle East, Palestinian Workers, War and the AFL-CIO.  As a result of
the murderous attack on Palestinian workers and the people of Palestine.
The San Francisco labor council has passed a resolution protesting the
illegal, immoral war and supporting an end to the military arming of
Israel.   Cost:  $5 donation. Location: Fellowship of Humanity hall,
390 27th St. Broadway

7:00PM  San Francisco   Speak-Out

Mexican Environmentalist and former prisoner of conscience will speak out,
Rodolfo Montiel Flore.  Location: Mission Cultural Center,
2628 Mission St.
Cost: Donations at the door.
For more info call: 415/255/7296.


Thursday, April 25


7:30PM
Berkeley
Video, Slides, Panel Discussion

LIVE from CHIAPAS: A Report from the International Women's Day delegation to
Chiapas, Mexico. Featuring Video footage of riot in San Cristobal market,
Int'l Women's Day March & Rally and visit to Indigenous community.
Plus Slides and Panel Discussion on Plan Puebla-Panama, a plan to globalize
Chiapas and privatize indigenous lands. Plus - Spoken Word Artists.
Location: La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave.
$5-$10 (Sliding Scale).
Chiapas Support Committee.

For more info call: (510) 654-9587.

April 20-27


San Francisco

In commemoration and remembrance of Monsenor Juan Gerardi.  Exhibit of
photographs of the tragic history of Guatemala as communities discover the
remains of loved ones that were murdered by the state security forces during
the armed conflict.  Location: Back to the picture gallery, 934 Valencia St.







Compiled by AFSC, Ronald Wooden  FAX: (415) 551-9897.
MAIL: Prog Calendar, 65 Ninth St., SF 94103.
EMAIL: ProgressiveCalendar@ afsc.org
Calendar available free by email or fax anywhere.
Calendar and a directory of 1000 Bay Area nonprofit and activist groups on
World-Wide Web at http://www.emf.net/~cheetham/index.html.
For miscellaneous calendar questions, call Ronald at voice:
(415) 565-0201 *27.
Feel free to copy and distribute this calendar or extract events as you
wish, and send additions or corrections.  To get your event included, we
must receive written flyers/notices by email, fax, or post at least 10 days
before the event.
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2. Petition Against Ariel Sharon's Crimes


From: Heather Nordstrom-Eakin <gaiahealer@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Petition Against Ariel Sharon's Crimes
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:42:23 -0700 (PDT)

Dear all,
Please sign this petition and pass it around. It is very important to
collect at
least 1,000,000 signatures..... don't wait just pass it to every one you
know
without delay...This is a petition that may help lawyers in Belgium who are
suing Ariel Sharon. They need 1,000,000 signatures, so sign it and pass it
on.
The website is given below. Thanks for all your help.
http://www.petitiononline.com/warcrime/petition.html

Heather Nordstrom-Eakin


"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done."
   -- Ernie Kovacs
"It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society."
-J. Krishnamurti
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3. Washington Post Breaks `Bush 9-11 Plot' Story


From: Heather Nordstrom-Eakin <gaiahealer@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Washington Post Breaks `Bush 9-11 Plot' Story.
          Rep. McKinney NEEDS our support.4 ways!
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:00:46 -0700 (PDT)

In today’s news, from the Washington Post

The `Bush 9-11 Plot' story has FINALLY broken in U.S. media due to the
courageous and tireless efforts of U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney. The
Washington Post ran a story on her titled, "Democrat Implies Sept. 11
Administration Plot" TODAY. (See below link for story)

"With her comments concerning Sept. 11, McKinney, 47, seems to have tapped
into
a web of conspiracy theories circulating during the past six months among
people
who believe that the government is partially -- or entirely -- to blame for
last
year's attacks, which killed more than 3,000 people."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34565-2002Apr11.html

U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney’s statement:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/2198

HELP CYNTHIA!
As you can imagine the character assasination on her has begun in earnest,
and
the harder she pushes for the truth the more hateful it will become. WE MUST
STAND BY HER SIDE NOW. Here are 4 things you can do today to help her in
this
courageous cause for truth she has taken on on behalf of all of us. We have
a
voice:

1). Contact the Washington Post and thank them for the article, and urge
them to
look at the FACTS Rep. McKinney has put forth, rather than simply quoting
character assasination blurbs from other Congresspersons.

2). Contact Georgia Senator Zell Miller and complain to him about COVERING
UP
THE DISTURBING FACTS AROUND 9-11, and Bush ineptitude and possible
complicity,
by pathetic character assasination jibes and the courageous Rep. McKinney.
Encourage Miller to get some lessons in courage and honor from Rep.
McKinney,
and drop his gossip campaign (see his pathetic press release at the link
below.
Miller's contact info is below the statement link.)
http://miller.senate.gov/press/2002/04-12-02%20McKinney%20Stmt.htm Senator
Zell
Miller, (D-GA)257 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWashington DC 20510Phone:
(202)
224-3643Fax: (202) 228-2090TDDY: (202) 228-2105

3). Send a donation to Rep. McKinney, and urge others you know to urge
others they know, and on and on to do so. WHY? Because when a voice of
courage stands up for us, the progressive movement too often leaves them
dangling on the end of a rope. LET'S NOT LET THAT HAPPEN to Rep. Cynthia
McKinney. Let's dig deep and work hard to urge everyone we know and every
group we can contact to show this Congresswoman that she has our support in
the most powerful way we can show it (the pocketbook.)
PLEASE SEND DONATIONS AND CARDS OF THANKS TO:

U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney
PO Box 371125
DeCatur, GA 30037 USA

[You can contact her Washington D.C. office if you want to verify the above
address, or send a thank you note, HOWEVER, DO NOT SEND DONATIONS to her
D.C. office. Send donations to the above address of her campaign office.

124 Cannon Building
Washington, DC 20515
USA
ph 202 225 1605
fax 202 226 0691]

4). Send the Washington Post article (link below) out to all media and
congresspersons you can. Congressional and media contacts are below. Also,
send them the BBC and Canadian Television expose's of Bush complicity in
9-11. (links also below).

God bless. Godspeed. This woman has laid it all on the line. Please make the
above tasks your priority in coming days, and urge others in your various
networks to do so as well.

Other articles concerning gov’t involvement in Sep.11

VIDEO/PRINT/RADIO LINKS: (Contacts for media congress, below them).
9-11 Overview by Vision TV, Bush / CIA Complicity in 9-11, Real Player Video
Stream at: http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/mayday/mediafile.ram

BBC TELEVISION INDICTS BUSH / CIA IN 9-11 TERROR COMPLICITY:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/attack22.ram

Cynthia McKinney accuses Bush on 9-11, Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34565-2002Apr11.html

Reasonable Doubts About September 11th, 53 minute Real Player Video stream
at: http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/03/118760.php

"9-11 and Pearl Harbor, Real Player Video stream at:
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/mayday/visiontv1dial-up.ram

AUSTRALIAN MAINSTREAM PRESS BREAKS 9-11 FRAUD STORY:
http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/08/1017206313833.html

September 11 attacks exposed as 'an appalling fraud' April 9 2002 The
ultimate conspiracy theory book is flying off the shelves, writes Caroline
Overington in New York. FULL STORY AT INDYMEDIA -- 9.11 - What did the U.S.
know, and when did it know it?
http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=8824&group=webcast
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4. "Stupid" Stays at #1 on NY Times List, 4 Weeks in a Row


From: mike@ michaelmoore.com
Reply-To: mike@ michaelmoore.com
Subject: "Stupid" Stays at #1 on NY Times List, 4 Weeks in a Row
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:55:53 +0000

"Stupid" Stays at #1 on NY Times List, 4 Weeks in a Row
4/15/02

Dear Friends,

I woke up in Tampa, Florida, yesterday, picked up the Sunday newspaper,
and there it was: the New York Times today had declared that, for the
fourth week in a row, "Stupid White Men" is the #1 book in the country.
I am out of explanations at this point as to how this thing has stayed
atop on the Times bestseller list for a month. I've been informed that
the book is now in its 19th printing. Also, it remains #1 in Canada, and
it has gone to #1 this week in Britain and Ireland, according to the
Sunday Times of London.

All this has occurred in spite of a virtual press blackout on the book.
Or maybe because of it. The more the book is ignored by the media, the
better it does. So, if you are a newspaper editor or a TV producer,
PLEASE do NOT pay any attention to this book! Just because more
Americans are reading it than any other book in the country for the past
month should NOT persuade you to ask crazy questions of yourselves like,
"How can this be happening when the 'President' has the highest approval
ratings ever?" Just concern yourselves with repeating your mantra of the
past 7 months - "America Loves Bush! America Loves Bush!" It's a
comforting mantra, one that seems to bring you solace at a time of
journalistic confusion. It's also simple and easy to repeat - and it
means that you don't have to go out and do the work you are supposed to
do (like rooting out the Enron-backed criminals in the White House or
finding out what really happened before and after September 11th ).

The front page of the Tampa Tribune yesterday was all ablaze with the
news about the convention of Florida's Democrats on Saturday in Orlando.
There was a color photo of a smiling, waving Al Gore. Lieberman was
there and so was Kerry and a host of other stars of the Democratic
Party. About 2,500 Floridians were in attendance.

But in Tampa, on that same night, I was looking out from the stage at
the Sun Dome at a crowd of nearly 7,000 people who had come to the
"Democracy Rising" rally organized by Ralph Nader. Tampa has now
produced the largest crowd of the book tour (I signed the 2000th book of
the evening somewhere around 2am). This is 3 times the crowd that the
Democrats got and, again, there is virtually no coverage.

But remember - it NO LONGER MATTERS that most of the media ignores the
real news. It no longer matters because much of the media has chosen to
make itself irrelevant through its lazy reporting, sleazy presentation,
its obedience to the corporate agenda, and all the blowhard pundits who
scream out their useless opinions. A political shift has occurred in the
country and the media has completely missed it. We have become a nation
where the majority of citizens are very liberal and progressive on the
issues. The majority of Americans now call themselves pro-environment,
pro-choice, pro-labor, and anti-Big Business. 154 million out of the 200
million voters in this country did NOT cast a vote for George W. Bush.
That is the America in which we now live. Liberal, progressive, and sick
of the stupid white men who run the country.

Hey, here's something that you haven't seen on the Fox Nuisance Channel
- there are now over 140 college campuses in the U.S. with an active
student Green organization. The Green kids in Florida are everywhere and
their numbers are among the largest. You wouldn't think so, not after
the blame that was heaped on the Greens for causing Gore to "lose"
Florida. But they are building a mass movement, and the turnout I saw in
Tampa was proof to me that there is a ruckus afoot in America, and if
it's rockin' in a place like central Florida, then it's happening just
down the street from where you live.

The Democrats could have stopped this. They could have spent the past
two years fighting to raise the minimum wage or to lower the amount of
pollutants spewed into the air or to call for a Special Prosecutor to
investigate Bush and Enron.

But, no. The Democrats have spent their time trying to act like
Republicans, thinking that's how they will win back the House this
November. Note to Democrats: You will not win the House by being your
usual weak, lame-o selves. The Greens will deny you the chance you have
had to take charge. Until you get a clue, the Greens will thrive and
grow. You want to avoid a repeat of 2000? Fight for the working people
of this country! You want to stop the Greens? Act like a real Democrat!
Stand up for something! Do the math: A couple of thousand in Orlando
come to see the stars of the Democratic Party, while, at the same exact
moment, nearly three times that number is in Tampa to cheer on a
progressive agenda - which is greater? If the Democrats can't add 2+2,
then they are doomed.

I should also mention that Tampa is the command headquarters for the war
on Afghanistan. It's all done via remote control from the comfort of
Florida's beautiful Gulf coast. How many civilians have we killed now? I
believe the last number I read, it was more than the civilians who died
on September 11th. Oh, I know the Bush boys over at Macdill Air Force
Base have their rationalization as to why, in wartime, sometimes
civilians have to die. The terrorists of 9-11 had their
rationalizations, too. Everybody's got their rationalizations. Well,
here's mine - there is NO rationalization for the killing of other human
beings except in the rare and extreme cases of true self-defense.

Today is the beginning of National Library Week. As many of you know by
now, it was a single librarian who saved my book from the corporate
shredder. In the next day or so, I will send you another letter telling
you about what she did and what you can do to support the libraries of
this country.

Thanks again to everyone for your support. I'm in Oklahoma City and
Norman, Oklahoma, tonight (4/15). I head to Canada to the University of
Toronto tomorrow night (Tuesday), and I'll be in the Northwest later in
the week. Hope to see many of you there.

Yours,

Michael Moore
Author
Filmmaker
Detroit Tigers fan
www.michaelmoore.com

Write me at:
stupidwhitemen@ aol.com
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5. **MARIMBA PACIFICA at ASHKENAZ FRIDAY 4/19**


From: hadley@ musictocelebratelife.com (Hadley Louden)
Subject: **MARIMBA PACIFICA at ASHKENAZ FRIDAY 4/19**
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:52:56 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Music Lover:

Marimba Pacifica, the Bay Area's premiere Marimba Band, is appearing
at Ashkenaz (San Pablo at Gilman in Berkeley) on Friday Night April 19th.

Not only will we have our Joyous Blend of World Beat Dance Music featuring
our family of fine, hand-made marimbas as well as violins, horns and
beaucoup percussion, but there are also a couple of special events planned:

(1) A great opening act at 9:00 p m. is the premiere of a new African Griot
Band with members from Mali and Senegal - Djialy Kunda Kouyate (pronounced
"jolly kundah kuyahtay") featuring Kora and Balophone!

(2) At midnight we will be doing a special 4*20 celebration to FREE THE
HERB! featuring special guests.

With members from four continents and singing in five languages, the joyous
multicultural celebration of the band is a great antidote to the sadness of
our times. Enjoy the recently refurbished dance floor at Ashkenaz. Come and
dance for a better, more open and accepting, a more peaceful, world!

You can also catch Marimba Pacifica in two other upcoming gigs:
*Sunday May 19th at 19 Broadway in Fairfax. Show starts at 8:oo. No opener.
This is our official Marin County CD Release!
* Join us at the Health and Harmony Festival on Sunday June 9th with
special guest Fantuzzi!. We play on the Center Stage at 4:00 p.m. right
before Taj Majal hits the main stage.

For CDs, more info on the band or video and audio samples, check out our
website: www.musictoclebratelife.com or phone Hadley: (510) 532-3579


Thank you.

Hadley Louden
Music to Celebrate Life
510-532-3579 (f) 510-532-1420
http://www.musictocelebratelife.com
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6. [IAC-SF] APRIL 20TH Transportation Information


From: International Action Center <LIST@ ACTIONSF.ORG>
Reply-To: IAC-SF-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IAC-SF] APRIL 20TH Transportation Information
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:47:40 -0700


APRIL 20 PROTEST AGAINST WAR, RACISM & POVERTY
11 am Gather Dolores Park
12 noon March
1 pm Rally Civic Center

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

San Francisco MUNI

People are urged to use public transportation. Dolores Park is located on
the San Francisco MUNI "J" Church Line. Get off at either 18th or 20th St.
MUNI fare is $1.00, bills or coins. The "J" Church line can be accessed
under Market St. More info at www.sfmuni.org or 415-673-MUNI. This same line
services Civic Center from Dolores Park.

BART

Dolores Park is located six blocks southwest of the 16th St./Mission BART
Station (about a 10-minute walk). Walk west on 16th St. to Dolores and turn
left to 19th St.
Another option is to exit at Civic Center Station and transfer to S.F. MUNI
"J" Church line as above.


CAR/VAN PARKING

If you drive, (see directions below) parking is very limited in the Dolores
Park vicinity. It is better to drive and park at Civic Center garage,
located under the plaza where the rally is held. Entrance is on McAllister
between Carlton Goodlett Pl (Polk St.) and Larkin.
Rate is $10 for 5 hours.
Once parked, walk to Market St. and ride San Francisco MUNI underground "J"
Church line to Dolores Park as above.


BUS PARKING

Buses should drop passengers at Dolores Park (see directions below) and can
proceed to Civic Center where they can park on Grove St. between Polk and
Larkin.


CAR POOLS

Car pool information from various areas will be posted at www.actionsf.org
If you want info about your area posted, email transpo@ actionsf.org.


DRIVING DIRECTIONS

From Golden Gate Bridge to Dolores Park
Follow signs for US-101 SOUTH towards DOWNTOWN/LOMBARD ST and Continue on
US101 which becomes Richardson, then Lombard St. Turn Right on DIVISADERO
ST. Go 2 miles then bear Left onto CASTRO ST and continue 1/2 mile. Turn
Left on 18TH  ST. Turn Right on DOLORES ST. to 19th.

From Bay Bridge to Dolores Park Follow signs for US 101 South (San Jose) and
exit at Mission/Fell St., then exit again at Mission. Stay in left lane and
proceed on Duboce to Guerrero and turn left. Turn right at 18th St. then
left onto Dolores to 19th St.

From Peninsula to Dolores Park
I-280 north to San Jose Ave. exit. Proceed on San Jose about 1-1/2 miles
(it turns into Guerrero) to 18th St. Turn left at 18th, then left at
Dolores.
US 101 North to Cesar Chavez exit. Proceed to Cesar Chavez West. Turn right
at Dolores to 19th St.

From Dolores Park to Civic Center
Take 18th, 19th or 20th Streets east to Folsom. Turn left at Folsom to 9th
St. Turn left at 9th St., staying in right lanes. Cross Market St. onto
Larkin.

Bus parking: Turn left onto Grove and park on Grove between Larkin
and Polk. Car parking: turn left at McAllsiter and left into garage under
Civic Center Plaza.
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7. As Venezuela Goes, So Goes Much of the World


From: "udom94609" <udom62@ hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: As Venezuela Goes, So Goes Much of the World
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:41:25 -0000

Workingforchange.com has just posted Geov Parrish's excellent piece
on four days that have shaken Venezuela and scuttled IMF and White
House free trade strategies.

Parrish's piece is at:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=13144
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8. [IAC-SF] WE NEED YOUR HELP ON APRIL 20


From: International Action Center <LIST@ ACTIONSF.ORG>
Reply-To: IAC-SF-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IAC-SF] WE NEED YOUR HELP ON APRIL 20
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:10:50 -0700


WE NEED YOUR HELP ON APRIL 20

It will take hundreds of volunteers to help with set-up and take-down,
monitoring and security, literature distribution, staffing tables, etc.

Here's what you can do:

Please call the office at 415-821-6545 or
email volunteer@ actionsf.org.
with the following info:

Name: ________________________________________________________________

Phone:  ________________________________________________________________

Email: ________________________________________________________________

1. Check as many of the tasks below that you can help with on
    Saturday, April 20th.

Early tasks
__Load at A.N.S.W.E.R office at 7:30 am
__Loading/Stage set up at Civic Center at 8:00 am
__Stage set up at Dolores Park at 9:00 am
__General set up at Dolores Park at 9:00 am

__I'll be at Dolores Park at 10:00 am
__I can be a monitor during the march route
__Outreach at Dolores Park: staff tables, collect names, distribute
   literature
__Takedown at Dolores once march takes off. I will miss the start of the
   march
__Outreach at Civic Center: staff tables, collect names, distribute
   literature.
       I will do this once the march arrives at Civic Center
__Takedown and clean up at Civic Center at the end of the rally
__Unload at A.N.S.W.E.R. office about an hour after the end of the rally

2. If you can, attend one of the volunteer orientation meetings at
    6:30 this coming Thursday, April 18th or Friday, April 19th at the
    A.N.S.W.E.R. office at 2489 Mission St., #28 in San Francisco.

3. Be at Dolores Park at 10:00am to volunteer on Saturday, April 20th
    or earlier depending on your task

International ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)
2489 Mission St. #24
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 821-6545  email answer@...
Web: www.InternationalANSWER.org or www.actionsf.org
Tax-deductible donations online at www.progressunity.org
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9. [narconews] Q&A on Coup in Venezuela


From: "Alberto M. Giordano" <narconews@ hotmail.com>
Reply-To: narconews-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [narconews] Q&A on Coup in Venezuela
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:33:59 -0500


April 12, 2002
Please Distribute Widely

DAY II:
DEMOCRACY HELD HOSTAGE IN BOLÍVAR'S VENEZUELA

Dear Colleagues,

Authentic Journalism answers, as well as asks, the important questions.

We've just posted an interview conducted this morning by journalist Jules
Siegel with your correspondent about the details of the Coup d'etat in
Venezuela:

http://www.narconews.com/

Jules Siegel is a writer and graphic designer who has been living and
working in Mexico since 1981, in Cancun since 1983. His work has appeared in
Playboy, Rolling Stone, Best American Short Stories and many other
publications.

Stay tuned for more breaking news on the US-imposed dictatorship in
Venezuela, coming this afternoon...

...from somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews@ hotmail.com

Subscribe for free alerts of new reports:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews

Suscribete gratis para alertas de reportajes nuevos en Español:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes
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10. Whatta fine, guy!


From: owlswan free eagle <owlswan@ ironpeak.toad.com>
Subject: Whatta fine, guy!
Date :   Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:36:18 -0700 (PDT)
http://archive.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Over-the-Limit.html

        HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- Looking at Anssi Vanjoki's
        speeding ticket, many Finns are wondering whether their
        egalitarian spirit has taken them over the edge.

        True, Vanjoki was doing 46.5 mph in a 30-mph zone. But
        $103,000?

        The reason the penalty was so harsh is that traffic fines in
        Finland are based not just on the severity of the offense,
        but on the offender's income. Vanjoki is a senior executive
        of Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, and his fine
        was assessed on a 1999 income of $5.2 million.

        [...]


Love and peace,
owlswan

"If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't
include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then
the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was
written on...
-- Terence McKenna
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11. Solidarity Action in Jerusalem


From: Nourunissa@ aol.com
Subject:
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:47:50 EDT

Hey there,

What are we going to do about the genocidal slaughter in Palestine?
I, personally, am ready to get on a plane and just show up.... if a lot of
other folks would be willing to do the same thing. Maybe we can have a
solidarity action on April 20th not just in DC and other cities, but in
Jerusalem? I would appreciate any info about any group actions which would
involve going to Palestine as "human shields".

Peace, Justice and Solidarity     Dewi
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12. Tree-Sitter Dies in 150-Foot Fall


From: Joan Norman <defender5@ mindspring.com>

Subject: 22 yr old tree sitter of Cascadia Forest Alliance fell 150
          feet to her death Friday
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:47:29 -0700

Our precious sister; Beth O'Brien of Cascadia Forest Alliance in Oregon,
fell from her platform on Friday and died before help could reach her.
Joan

Tree-Sitter Dies in 150-Foot Fall

By ANDREW KRAMER Associated Press Writer

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)--A woman who climbed 150 feet up a tree to protest a
timber sale fell and died from her injures before rescuers could reach
the remote site in the Mount Hood National Forest.

The timber sale she was protesting had been canceled three days before
her death Friday, and the protesters expected to leave the area within a
week.

It took rescue crews over two hours struggling up snow-clogged dirt
roads to reach the tree-sitters' camp after fellow activists called
rescuers, Clackamas County Sheriff's spokeswoman Angela Blanchard said.

The caller said the woman, identified as Beth O'Brien, 22, of Portland,
was unconscious but still breathing, Blanchard said. But by the time
rescue crews arrived at about 9:30 p.m., O'Brien was dead.

She had unhooked herself from one platform and was trying to reach
another by a rope ladder when she fell, Blanchard said.

Sarah Wald of Cascadia Forest Alliance, which organized the
demonstration, said protesters remained in the trees Saturday evening.

Ivan Maluski, a longtime Eagle Creek protester, said tree sitters were
days away from leaving the site after a three-year vigil.

About four people take turns living year-round in tree platforms in the
area, Maluski said. After the cancelation was announced Tuesday,
protesters said they wanted to see a final signed contract before they
pulled out.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., an opponent of the timber sale, announced
Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service had reached an agreement to cancel
the logging contract after an independent review determined the deal
required significant modifications to prevent environmental harm.

At issue was the problem of blowdown, or trees not intended for logging
being felled by winds on the edge of areas where cutting was planned.
The Forest Service said tree sitters didn't influence the decision.

The Forest Service and the timber company, Vanport Manufacturing, agreed
to cancel the deal, but tree sitters said they would remain until the
final paperwork was signed.

Tree sitters live in plywood platforms attached to the upper limbs of
trees slated for logging.

At least two others have fallen in the past year. In June, one man fell
in the Eagle Creek area but refused treatment. In October, another fell
in the Tillamook State Forest and suffered multiple broken bones.

AP-NY-04-13-02 2251EDT

Copyright 2002, The Associated Press. The information contained in the
AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed
without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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14. Bay Area Events - Global Exchange Calendar


From: David Hanks <david@ globalexchange.org>
Subject:  Bay Area Events
Date:  Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:48:44 -0700



(13)  Tue Apr. 16, 7 pm - San Francisco
Penny Rosenwasser: "The Face of Occupation"

(14)  Tue Apr. 16, 6-7 pm - San Francisco
Edward Yates: "Cuba and its Coasts"

(15)  Tue Apr. 16, 12:25 pm-1:30 pm - San Francisco
Stop The War, Free Palestine

(16)  Wed Apr. 17, 7 pm - Berkeley
Exhibit: Children's Art from Palestine

(17)  Wed Apr. 17 - Thu Apr. 18, 7 pm - San Francisco, <br>Oakland,
<br>Berkeley
Film: "Hidden Wars of Desert Storm"

(18)  Wed Apr. 17, 1 am-1 pm - Palo Alto
Listening for a Change

(19)  Wed Apr. 17, 12 pm - San Francisco
Continental Campaign Against Genetically Engineered Corn and Corn Dumping

(20)  Wed Apr. 17, 6:30 pm - Berkeley
Berkeley Peace Walk and Vigil

(21)  Thu Apr. 18, 5:30-8:30 pm - San Francisco
Building Bridges to Afghanistan

(22)  Fri Apr. 19 - Mon Apr. 22 - Salinas, <br>Monterey, <br>Santa Cruz
Just Say No to the School of the Americas

(23)  Fri Apr. 19, 4:30-6 pm - San Jose
San Jose Peace Vigil

(24)  Sat Apr. 20, 11 am - San Francisco
Protest the real Axis of Evil: War, Racism and Poverty

(25)  Sat Apr. 20, 10 am-12 pm - Berkeley
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) Meeting

(26)  Sat Apr. 20, 7:30 pm - Berkeley
Howard Zinn & Alice Walker

(27)  Sat Apr. 20 - Sun Apr. 28 - San Francisco
Monsenor Juan Gerardi: In Commemoration and Remembrance

(28)  Sun Apr. 21, 3 pm - Oakland
The Middle East, Palestinian Workers, War, & The AFL-CIO

(29)  Sun Apr. 21, 3 pm - Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek Walk for Peace

(30)  Sun Apr. 21, 3 pm - Oakland
Weekly Peace Walk around Lake Merritt

(31)  Sun Apr. 21, 7 pm - San Francisco
Rodolfo Montiel Flores: "Human Rights and the Environment in Mexico"

(32)  Tue Apr. 23, 3 pm - San Francisco
March & Rally: Demand Bechtel to Drop its Legal Action Against the Bolivian
People!

(33)  Wed Apr. 24, 11 am-1 pm - Palo Alto
Listening for a Change

(34)  Wed Apr. 24, 7:30 pm - San Francisco
Authors: Seven Stories Press

(35)  Wed Apr. 24, 6:30 pm - Berkeley
Berkeley Peace Walk and Vigil

(36)  Thu Apr. 25, 7:30 pm - Berkeley
Live from Chiapas: a Report on the International Women's Day Delegation

(37)  Fri Apr. 26, 4:30-6 pm - San Jose
San Jose Peace Vigil

(38)  Sat Apr. 27, 9:30 am-4 pm - Hayward
Regional Civil Liberties Solidarity Summit

(39)  Sat Apr. 27, 11 am-2 pm - Berkeley
Know Your Rights Training

(40)  Sun Apr. 28, 3 pm - Oakland
Weekly Peace Walk around Lake Merritt

(41)  Sun Apr. 28, 3 pm - Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek Walk for Peace

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(13)
Penny Rosenwasser: "The Face of Occupation"
Tue Apr. 16, 7 pm
New College Theater
777 Valencia Street
San Francisco

Penny Rosenwasser spent 3 weeks in July doing solidarity actions with peace
activists in Israel and Palestine, visiting many unforgettable people and
places in the region. Through her slides, you can see their faces and hear
their stories. Penny Rosenwasser is Assistant Director of the Middle East
Children's Alliance and author of "Voices from a 'Promised Land':
Palestinians and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their Hearts." Sponsored by
the Middle East Children's Alliance and the New College Center for Education
and Social Action. (Free).

For more information, contact: New College of California, 415-437-3425

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(14)
Edward Yates: "Cuba and its Coasts"
Tue Apr. 16, 6-7 pm
Pan American Society
250 Montgomery Street - 14th Floor, Conference Room
San Francisco

In this program, Edward Yates, J.D., an environment law specialist, and
former manager of the Caribbean Law Program, The Ocean Conservancy, will
discuss the extraordinary bio-diversity of Cuba's coasts, the socialist
approach to resource management and innovative methods in marine
conservation in the region. Speaker Tim Eichenberg, J.D., a coastal law and
policy expert, with Oceana, a new international marine protection
organization, will talk about the threats to Cuba's pristine beaches and
reefs and his experience in inserting powerful provisions of the California
Coastal Act into the Cuban Coastal Zone Management Law. (Admission: $ 5
Members, $ 10 Non-Members). Co-sponsored with the Eco Cuba Exchange Program
of Global Exchange.

For more information, contact: Pan American Society,
info@..., 415-788 4764,
http://www.panamericansociety.org

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(15)
Stop The War, Free Palestine
Tue Apr. 16, 12:25 pm-1:30 pm
University of San Francisco, Harney Plaza (center campus)
2130 Fulton Street (Cross Street Parker)
San Francisco

A protest aiming to bring about increased awareness of the oppression in the
occupied terrorities due to the one-sided corporate media's portrayal of the
Middle East, the insanity of the so-called war on terorrism, and the
economic strangualtion by way of sanctions imosed on Iraq and Cuba. Speakers
and political poetry are planned.

For more information, contact: Paul F.J Aranas, Justice In Exile,
oneplanet4@..., 415-531-6371

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(16)
Exhibit: Children's Art from Palestine
Wed Apr. 17, 7 pm
La Pena Cultutal Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley

A reception to celebrate an art exhibit of Children's Art from Palestine
(including music, food and speakers).

For more information, contact: La Pena Cultutal Center, 510-849-2568

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(17)
Film: "Hidden Wars of Desert Storm"
Wed Apr. 17 - Thu Apr. 18, 7 pm
San Francisco, <br>Oakland, <br>Berkeley

Wednesday, April 17, 7pm
UC Davis, Memorial Student Union

Wednesday, April 17, 7pm
UC Berkeley, Dwinnelle Hall, Room # 187

Thursday, April 18, 7pm
SFSU, Cesar Chavez Student Center

To build support for the Anti-War Protest in Dolores Park (April 20th at
11am), the International Socialist Organization will be showing an award
winning documentary film called, "Hidden Wars of Desert Storm," directed by
Gerard Ungerman. This 60 minute film tells the history of the Gulf war in
1991 and the last 11 years of US imposed sanctions that have killed 1.5
million Iraqi civilians, according the UN. Discussions and planning sessions
for the April 20th protest will follow the screenings.

For more information, contact: Todd Chretien, ChretienTodd@...

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(18)
Listening for a Change
Wed Apr. 17, 1 am-1 pm
Lytton Plaza
Palo Alto

There will still be banners, signs, petitions, (even cookies and homemade
bread), and leaflets, but no chants and marches, instead peace activists
will pull up chairs, and invite people to speak about their feelings and
thoughts about the 9/11 tragedy and our government's response. They will
write down what people feel and think, and ask, "How do you think we can
defuse terrorism?" and "How can we make a safer, better world for our
children, all children?" Dialogue, raising questions and issues, reclaiming
public space, providing educational and networking opportunities for all,
are a few of the reasons behind this listening project, sponsored by Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom.

For more information, contact: Carol Brouillet, cbrouillet@...,
650-857-0927, http://www.communitycurrency.org

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(19)
Continental Campaign Against Genetically Engineered Corn and Corn Dumping
Wed Apr. 17, 12 pm
Mexican Consulate
870 Market Street
San Francisco

Campaign activists are demanding that corporations and governments heed the
concerns of consumers and farmers, North and South, and remove genetically
engineered corn and other foods and crops from the market, unless they can
be proven to be safe for human health and the environment.

For more information, contact: Organic Consumers Association,
simon@..., http://www.organicconsumers.org

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(20)
Berkeley Peace Walk and Vigil
Wed Apr. 17, 6:30 pm
BART Station
Shattuck & Center
Berkeley

Come and join a weekly non-violent, candle-lit vigil and peace walk to
raise awareness and gather support for opposition to the United
State's call for violence and the 'war on terrorism'. Signs/banners,
candles, musical instruments also welcome. Stop the War!

For more information, contact: Sophia, vigil4peace@...,
510-528-9217, http://geocities.com/vigil4peace/vigil.html

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(21)
Building Bridges to Afghanistan
Thu Apr. 18, 5:30-8:30 pm
The New Showroom of IMG Home
1830 Harrison Street
San Francisco

Building Bridges to Afghanistan: A Fundraising Party for Global Exchange &
San Francisco Friends of Afghanistan -- building the Afghanistan to San
Francisco/Bay Area Sister Cities Movement. Cocktails, Hors D'Oeuvres, Music,
Afghan Fashion Show.

All of the proceeds of this event will immediately fund a Global Exchange
coordinator of Sister Cities - type projects in Afghanistan and the work of
the San Francisco Friends of Afghanistan (the Afghanistan - San Francisco
Sister Cities Committee), including, for example, these worthwhile projects:
The development of "sister school" relationships; A "sister station" radio
project; Micro-finance opportunities for women; A business manufacturing
prostheses for amputees using local materials; A vineyard CEO sharing the
latest UC Davis technologies for replanting grapes.

Sam and Tony Abrahim of IMG Home left Afghanistan 25 years ago as refugees.
They have given generously to many local charities to share the success and
happiness they have achieved in their adopted country. Now they have joined
San Francisco Friends of Afghanistan and Global Exchange to help establish
sister cities partnerships between Afghanistan and the Bay Area to
contribute to the rebuilding of their native country as a democratic,
egalitarian society. Guests will receive a discount of 55% on purchases of
any items from IMG Home during this event, and a portion of any sales
proceeds will be donated to these projects for Afghanistan. ($15 Donation at
the door. Additional Donations may be received throughout the evening).

For more information, contact: Kristi, Global Exchange,
kristi@..., 415-255-7296 x250,
http://www.globalexchange.org/september11 or
RSVP, http://www.shopping.com/events/sistercities

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(22)
Just Say No to the School of the Americas
Fri Apr. 19 - Mon Apr. 22Salinas, <br>Monterey, <br>Santa Cruz

Friday, April 19, 12pm-2pm
Day One:
US Representative Sam Farr's office
100 West Alisal Street (Post Office), Salinas
A rally and media event in front of US Representative Sam Farr's
office.
For more information, contact:
Kurt Brux, 831-424-6447, accionhoy@...

Saturday, April 20, 12pm-2pm
Day Two:
Windows on the Bay
Del Monte Avenue, Monterey
A rally and media event with speakers.
For more information, contact:
Winston Elstob, 831-372-1143, elstobe@...

Sunday, April 21, 12pm-2pm
Day Three:
Earth Day
San Larenzo Park, Santa Cruz:
We will be hosting an informational table (environmental stuff about war and
drug policy).
For more information, contact:
Fred Hirsh, 831-475-4192, fredsam@...

Monday, April 22, 6pm-8pm
Day Four:
Teamsters Hall
207 North Sanborn Road, Salinas
A candle light vigil and media event. Bring signs, leaflets and a candle or
small light. (some signs, leaflets and candles will be provided).
For more information, contact:
Kurt Brux, 831-424-6447, accionhoy@...

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(23)
San Jose Peace Vigil
Fri Apr. 19, 4:30-6 pm
Federal Building
Second Street at San Carlos
San Jose

For more information, contact: davidrlowe@..., 408-735-8980,
http://www.sanjoseinterfaithpeaceaction.org

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(24)
Protest the real Axis of Evil: War, Racism and Poverty
Sat Apr. 20, 11 am
Dolores Park
19th Street at Dolores Street
San Francisco

For more information, contact: Sponsored by International A.N.S.W.E.R.
(Act Now To Stop War and End Racism), answer@...

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(25)
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) Meeting
Sat Apr. 20, 10 am-12 pm
UC Berkeley
Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall
Berkeley

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) Bay Area / Berkeley
activist's meeting and update on the Privaterra Project whose aim it is to
help Human Rights NGO's with IT Privacy and Security tools.

For more information, contact: Susan Evoy, cpsr@...,
650-322-3778, http://www.cpsr.org or
http://privaterra.cpsr.org

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(26)
Howard Zinn & Alice Walker
Sat Apr. 20, 7:30 pm
St. Joseph the Worker Church
1640 Addison Street
Berkeley

Tickets are available now at the following bookstores ($20)!
Black Oak - 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley 510-486-0698
Cody's - 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley 510-845-7852
Cody's - 1730 Fourth Street, Berkeley 510-559-9500
Pegasus - 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley 510-649-1320
Pegasus - 1855 Solano Avenue, Berkeley 510-525-6888
Pendragon - 5560 College Avenue, Oakland 510-652-6259
Walden Pond - 3316 Grand Avenue, Oakland 510-832-4438
City Lights - 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco 415-362-8193
Modern Times - 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco 415-282-9246
Student discount: 415-695-7745

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(27)
Monsenor Juan Gerardi: In Commemoration and Remembrance
Sat Apr. 20 - Sun Apr. 28San Francisco

On April 26, 1998, Bishop Gerardi was assassinated just two days after the
release of the Church's REMHI report, which attributed the vast majority of
the human rights violations committed during Guatemala's 36-year armed
conflict to the Guatemalan army and other government forces. Three years
after the crime, three military officers were sentenced to thirty years in
prison. Though a significant victory, there are still countless acts of
impunity and violations of human rights still left unresolved.

Exhibit of photographs by Jonathan Moller
April 20-27
Back to the Picture Gallery
934 Valencia Street (at 20th Street)
San Francisco
This special exhibit depicts the tragic history of Guatemala as communities
discover the remains of their loved ones that were murdered by state
security forces during the armed conflict.

Reception with Mynor Melgar
April 26, 6:30pm
Back to the Picture Gallery
934 Valencia Street (at 20th Street), San Francisco
Mynor Melgar, a Guatemalan lawyer, has worked on a number of high profile
human rights cases, including Bishop Gerardi's. (Donation: $5-10)

Memorial Mass
April 28, 1pm
Saint Mary's Cathedral (Geary and Gough Streets), San Francisco
Join in commemorating the life of Bishop Gerardi with the Guatemalan
community. Following the Memorial Mass (in Spanish), Mynor Melgar will talk
about the Gerardi case as well as Guatemala's current political climate.
There will be Guatemalan food and live marimba following the talk.

Co-sponsored by The Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Public Policy,
Guatemalan News and Information Bureau, Marin Interfaith Taskforce, Grupo
Quetzal, St. John of God Catholic Church, Comunidad Esquipulas, Asociacion
de Guatemaltecos Unidos, Global Exchange, Centro Cultural Guatemalteco,
Grupo Maya Qusamej Junan, Mission Dolores Church.

For more information, contact: Aura Aparicio, Global Exchange,
aura@..., 415-2557296x252,
http://www.globalexchange.org

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(28)
The Middle East, Palestinian Workers, War, & The AFL-CIO
Sun Apr. 21, 3 pm
Fellowship Of Humanity Hall
390 27th Street (at Broadway)
Oakland

Speakers: Mary Ann Ring (UCSF ASCME 3299), Charles Minster (LIUA 1144), Jack
Heyman (BA ILWU Local 10), Faisal Tbeilen (UESF-AFT). As a result of the
murderous attack on Palestinian workers and the people of Palestine, the San
Francisco Labor Council has passed a resolution protesting the illegal,
immoral war and supporting an end to the military arming of Israel. This
important statement however, is virtually alone among the US trade union
movement. John Sweeney and the national AFL-CIO have embraced Bush's "War On
Terror," along with supporting the Patriot Act which harms our democratic
right and the massive increases of military spending. At the same time the
leadership of the Teamsters and the Carpenters are running as fast as they
can to get on Bush's bandwagon. They will discuss why it is important that
US workers support the struggle of Palestinian workers and challenging what
has been the historic role of the AFL-CIO in relationship to war, the rights
of the Palestinians and Israel. ($5 Donation Requested/ No one turned away
from a lack of funds)

For more information, contact: Bay Area Workers Democracy Network,
united@..., 415-641-4440

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(29)
Walnut Creek Walk for Peace
Sun Apr. 21, 3 pm
BART Station
Mt Diablo Boulevard at Oakland Boulevard
Walnut Creek

Each week this Walk for Peace begins at the Walnut Creek BART Station,
proceeds to downtown Walnut Creek and back. The organizers want to let
people in their community know that not everyone agrees with direction that
the current administration in Washington DC is taking the country. They want
to let people know that they are alarmed at the escalating violence, the
threatening and belligerent rhetoric coming from US officials, and the
expansion of US military presence around the world.

For more information, contact: Mt Diablo Peace Center, 925-933-7850 or
Ken, ka@..., 925-827-3373

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(30)
Weekly Peace Walk around Lake Merritt
Sun Apr. 21, 3 pm
Lake Merritt - Columns at the East End
Between Grand and Lakeshore Avenues
Oakland

Join the Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace (LMNOP) and lots of
other people in a weekly peace walk around Lake Merritt.

For more information, contact: Beth Wagner, Lake Merritt Neighbors
Organized for Peace (LMNOP), lmno4p@..., 510-763-8712

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(31)
Rodolfo Montiel Flores: "Human Rights and the Environment in Mexico"
Sun Apr. 21, 7 pm
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission Street (between 24th and 25th Streets)
San Francisco

After two and a half years in prison on false charges, Rodolfo Montiel
Flores, a peasant farmer/environmentalist from Mexico was recently freed
from prison by order of President Vicente Fox. Mr. Montiel organized
community resistance in Guerrero to protest logging by Boise Cascade and
other logging companies that destroyed local forests, water farmlands and
livelihoods. Mr. Montiel was the winner of the 2000 Goldman Environmental
Prize and named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.

This event is sponsored by Global Exchange, the International Forum on
Globalization, The Mexico Solidarity Network, Rainforest Action Network, and
La Raza Central Legal. (Suggested Donation: $5-$10). Proceeds from the event
will benefit the Campesino Ecologist Organization of Sierra de Petatlan,
Guerrero.

For more information, contact: Carleen Pickard, Global Exchange,
carleen@..., 415-255-7296x339,
http://www.globalexchange.org or
June Brashares, Global Exchange, june@...,
415-255-7296x253

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(32)
March & Rally: Demand Bechtel to Drop its Legal Action Against the Bolivian
People!
Tue Apr. 23, 3 pm
Bechtel Headquarters
50 Beale Street
San Francisco

3pm - March from City Hall to Bechtel Headquarters
1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place (Polk between McAllister and Grove)

5pm - Rally and Press Conference at Bechtel Headquarters
50 Beale Street, San Francisco

Main speaker: Oscar Olivera, leader and hero of the Cochabamba Movement. The
Bechtel Corporation hiked water rates in Cochabamba, Bolivia (one of the
poorest countries in the world) by 300%, forcing people there to choose
between food and water. Bolivia's minimum wage is set at under US$67 per
month; 70 % of the population is under the poverty line. Bechtel's US$25
million demand could, in Bolivia, hire 3,000 rural doctors, 12,000 public
school teachers, or give access to the public water distribution system for
125,000 Bolivian families. Bechtel is one of the largest corporations in the
world with global revenues that almost double the income of all Bolivians.
Victor Hugo Daza, a 17 year-old boy, was shot in the face and killed by a
member of the Bolivian military whose action destroyed a family and earned
him no trial or punishment but rather a promotion. In spite of all this, the
people of Cochabamba rose up and forced Bechtel to leave Bolivia. Water is a
human right, not a profit opportunity.

In a bout of insight, the World Bank has predicted that wars in our century
will be over water. We are left to wonder in whose name and benefit these
wars will be fought. The events in Cochabamba are a clue and show how the
essential resource already wets global corporate greed. But Cochabamba is,
most importantly, the example of a people refusing to be victims. The
Bolivian city is a symbol of entrenched hope in the struggle for economic
and social justice. And the people of Cochabamba gave us one more lasting
example: only by showing up can we bring change.

For more information, contact: Diego Valencia, dvalencia@...,
510-663-0888 x104

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(33)
Listening for a Change
Wed Apr. 24, 11 am-1 pm
Lytton Plaza
Palo Alto

There will still be banners, signs, petitions, (even cookies and homemade
bread), and leaflets, but no chants and marches, instead peace activists
will pull up chairs, and invite people to speak about their feelings and
thoughts about the 9/11 tragedy and our government's response. They will
write down what people feel and think, and ask, "How do you think we can
defuse terrorism?" and "How can we make a safer, better world for our
children, all children?" Dialogue, raising questions and issues, reclaiming
public space, providing educational and networking opportunities for all,
are a few of the reasons behind this listening project, sponsored by Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom.

For more information, contact: Carol Brouillet, cbrouillet@...,
650-857-0927, http://www.communitycurrency.org

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(34)
Authors: Seven Stories Press
Wed Apr. 24, 7:30 pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street (at 20th Street)
San Francisco

Modern Times is pleased to welcome Seven Stories Press, the New York-based
independent publisher. Perhaps no other small, independent house in America
has consistently attracted so many important voices away from the corporate
publishing sector, including Octavia Butler, Noam Chomsky, Ariel Dorfman,
Annie Ernaux, Ralph Nader, Alice Walker, Howard Zinn, and the list goes on!
In addition to its main line of books, Seven Stories also publishes the
popular Open Media pamphlet series, with its "Information for a Change"
motto, offering background and analysis on hot-button topics in small,
affordable, pamphlet-size books. Tonight, join Seven Stories authors Kevin
Danaher (10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and the World Bank), As'ad Abu Khalil
(Bin Laden, Islam & America's New "War on Terrorism"), Peter Phillips
(Project Censored) and Peter Plate (The Mission Quartet) for a night of
reading and celebration.

For more information, contact: Modern Times Bookstore, 415-282-9246,
http://www.moderntimesbookstore.com

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(35)
Berkeley Peace Walk and Vigil
Wed Apr. 24, 6:30 pm
BART Station
Shattuck & Center
Berkeley

Come and join a weekly non-violent, candle-lit vigil and peace walk to raise
awareness and gather support for opposition to the United State's call for
violence and the 'war on terrorism'. Signs/banners, candles, musical
instruments also welcome. Stop the War!

For more information, contact: Sophia, vigil4peace@...,
510-528-9217, http://geocities.com/vigil4peace/vigil.html

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(36)
Live from Chiapas: a Report on the International Women's Day Delegation
Thu Apr. 25, 7:30 pm
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley

Live from Chiapas features video footage of a riot in the San Cristobal
market and of the International Women's Day March and Rally. It also
features a segment filmed by indigenous children in the Jungle. The Slide
Show features photos from five Zapatista communities. Bay Area delegates
will present a panel discussion of our briefings by Chiapas non-profits
struggling against the intense economic globalization and militarization of
the state.

For more information, contact: Chiapas Support Committee,
cezmat@..., 510-654-9587

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(37)
San Jose Peace Vigil
Fri Apr. 26, 4:30-6 pm
Federal Building
Second Street at San Carlos
San Jose

For more information, contact: davidrlowe@..., 408-735-8980,
http://www.sanjoseinterfaithpeaceaction.org

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(38)
Regional Civil Liberties Solidarity Summit
Sat Apr. 27, 9:30 am-4 pm
Westminster Hills Presbyterian Church
27287 Patrick Avenue
Hayward

This solidarity summit results from the Feb 20 National Day of Solidarity
with Arabs, Muslims and South Asian immigrants. This summit is designed to
provide the inspiration and energy to effectively oppose the denial of civil
liberties as manifested by the Patriot Act and the unconstituional
detentions across our country. Sponsored by: South Alameda County Peace &
Justice Coalition, Hayward Demos Club, Tri-City Peace Action, American Arab
Anti Discrimination Committee, Ecumencial Peace Institute, International
Refugee Services, Refuse & Resist, Amerian Muslim Congress, American Muslims
for Global Peace & Justice.

For more information, contact: Harry Scott, 510-538-0209

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(39)
Know Your Rights Training
Sat Apr. 27, 11 am-2 pm
Copwatch Office
2022 Blake Street (near Shattuck)
Berkeley

Learn what your rights are when dealing when the police and FBI. Learn how
to observe the police on the street and during protests.

For more information, contact: Karla James, 510-658-0702 or
Copwatch, 510-548-0425

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(40)
Weekly Peace Walk around Lake Merritt
Sun Apr. 28, 3 pm
Lake Merritt - Columns at the East End
Between Grand and Lakeshore Avenues
Oakland

Join the Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace (LMNOP) and lots of
other people in a weekly peace walk around Lake Merritt.

For more information, contact: Beth Wagner, Lake Merritt Neighbors
Organized for Peace (LMNOP), lmno4p@..., 510-763-8712

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(41)
Walnut Creek Walk for Peace
Sun Apr. 28, 3 pm
BART Station
Mt Diablo Boulevard at Oakland Boulevard
Walnut Creek

Each week this Walk for Peace begins at the Walnut Creek BART Station,
proceeds to downtown Walnut Creek and back. The organizers want to let
people in their community know that not everyone agrees with direction that
the current administration in Washington DC is taking the country. They want
to let people know that they are alarmed at the escalating violence, the
threatening and belligerent rhetoric coming from US officials, and the
expansion of US military presence around the world.

For more information, contact: Mt Diablo Peace Center, 925-933-7850 or
Ken, ka@ cooper.cpmc.org, 925-827-3373
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15. Boycott the Gap: Join Us for these Terrific Bay Area Events!


From: "Chalice \(note new email address\)"
       <chalicenew@ earthlink.net>
Reply-To: "Chalice \(note new email address\)"
           <chalicenew@ earthlink.net>
Subject: Boycott the Gap: Join Us for these Terrific Bay Area Events!
Date :   Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:29:41 -0700
Greetings, Bay Area Activists!

For those of you not traveling to DC, P-L-E-A-S-E join us for the following:

Apr, 17, Oak: Take Action to Stop the Superjail for Kids!!!
****>Join the Courageous Youth who have Led the Campaign to Stop this $200M
Debacle!

Apr 20, SF: People's Earth Day at Bay View Hunters Point!
*****>Community Solidarity to Stop Environmental Racism!!!***

Apr 20, SF: Peace March & Rally: Bay Area Solidarity Action!!!
*****>Justice for Colombia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq...& the Global
South!!!

Apr 22, SF: Protest Live Animal Testing at Huntington Life Sciences!!!
*****>Part of World Week for Animals in Laboratories (full schedule of
events below)

Apr 23, SF: ****LIVING RIVER down MARKET to Protest WATER
Privatization!!!!*****
*****>Now it's Oil, Next it's Water! Join Oscar Olivera in this Historic
March to Bechtel!!!

Apr 24, Sac: Stop Delano State Prison! (carpools leaving Oakland)!
*****>End Institutionalized Racism & CA Prison Mania Fueled by the Prison
Guards Union!!!

Apr 24, SJ: Earth Day at San Jose State: Call for Volunteers!
****> Table with Us for Old Growth, Redwoods, Workers, & Consumer
Consciousness!!!

***NEWS FLASH: The West Papuans were betrayed by the UN and the world in the
1960's; they have been suffering over 30 years of oppression, torture,
murder, and genocide at the hands of the Indonesian military; their land,
abundant in natural resources and some of the last virgin forest on the face
of the earth, is being pillaged by corporate interests. The world has an
opportunity to intercede in this desperate situation BEFORE THE VIOLENCE
ESCALATES--but most people don't even know it's on the map. NOW YOU DO: Sign
the online petition:  http://www.PetitionOnline.com/westpap/ ; Join the IAWP
listserve webmaster@...; Pressure Congress to stop military aid to
Indonesia!******

Apr 17, Oak: Protest to Stop the Superjail for Kids!
*********************************************************
Stop The Super Jail: Dublin's too Damn Far. Wednesday, April 17th @ 4pm Lake
Merritt Bart (9th & Oak St.) This will be an important DIRECT ACTION to
challenge the County on the process that they have been taking in finding a
new location for Alameda County¹s new Juvenile hall.  The County is still
trying to build the new hall in Dublin and it¹s up to us to stop them from
carrying through with their plans.  Please come and represent to make sure
that we keep the heat on so that Alameda County¹s Juvenile hall is built in
an accessible location.  For more info, call 510-451-5466 ext. 302.

Apr 20, SF: People's Earth Day at Bay View Hunters Point !
******************************************************************
San Francisco area residents: Attend Peoples Earth Day in Bayview  Hunters
Point! Saturday, April 20, 2002, 11 a.m. until 5 p.m..  Bring  your friends,
family, co-workers to this Green Energy, Community Health and Environmental
Justice event at India Basin Park next to  the PG&E Hunters Point power
plant. We will have multicultural information and activities for people of
all ages. At 3 p.m. we will march to the front gates of the PG&E power plant
to  demand its immediate closure, and to support clean, renewable energy,
conservation and energy efficiency. Volunteers are needed to help publicize
the event and at the event. Peoples Earth Day is co-sponsored by
Greenaction, Literacy for Environmental Justice and Bayview Hunters Point
Community Advocates. More info: Greenaction: 415) 248-5010

Apr 20, SF: Peace March & Rally: Bay Area Solidarity Action!!!
**********************************************************************
Assemble 11 AM Dolores Park; March 12 Noon; Rally 1 PM Civic Center. MANY
groups, activists, and concerned Bay Area residents will be participating in
this march and rally (including SRBG--we'll be tabling on the redwood stump
at Civic Center!): Here's the announcement from Reclaim the Streets with
their special spin: Join the Carnival Against Carnage contingent of the
anti-war march on Saturday, April 20th!  Beginning at 11am, meet up at the
southwest corner of 19th and Dolores  (near the church). The march is set to
leave around noon, and will go to Civic Center. In the spirit of New Orleans
funeral parades, dress in bright colors, or be a  zombie for the day, or
come and participate however the "carnival against  carnage" idea strikes
you!  We urge people to stand up against all the carnage that's going on,
and we  think that the living should carry on the struggles of those who
have been  killed. We like to have fun at demonstrations, too! Join us for a
party  in the streets! :) Pumpin' sound system brought to you by
rts_eastbay@... or 415  820-9658.

Apr 22, SF: Protest Live Animal Testing at Huntington Life Sciences!!!
*****************************************************************************
Monday, April 22nd: DEMONSTRATE against HLS collaborators! 11 am. One Market
St (at Embarcadero), San Francisco. 500 animals die at HLS EVERY DAY. This
April, don't forget the millions of animals tortured and killed in labs
around the world each year!  Join hundreds of West Coast activists for
World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL)  Friday, April 19th - Monday,
April 22nd  (San Francisco, CA). Saturday, April 20th: CONFERENCE: Exposing
Animal Experimentation (10 am - 6pm)  1606 Bonita Ave (at Cedar), Berkeley
Unitarian Fellowship Hall  Sunday, April 21st: DEMONSTRATE: Home
Demonstrations Time & Location (to be announced), www.ardac.org . Join the
Animals Rights Direct Action Coalition (ARDAC) and hundreds activists from
around the country, converging in San Francisco, as we take our message to
those responsible for the continuing torture and death of thousands of
animals behind the closed doors of the notorious animal experimentation firm
Huntingdon Life Sciences! --Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition  740A 14th
St. #177, San Francisco, CA 94114  Ph: (415) 364 3053, www.ardac.org, email:
info@...

Apr 23, SF: LIVING RIVER down Market to Protest Water Privatization!!!!
********************************************************************************\
*
Join Oscar Olivera, the hero of the people's successful revolt against
Bechtel's privatization of the water utility in Cochabamba, Bolivia!!!! Now
Bechtel has filed a $25 million lawsuit against Bolivia for lost future
profits. ***We will be forming a LIVING RIVER with yards of blue cloth that
will flow down Market Street and engulf Bechtel's corporate headquarters,
letting them know that water is a basic human right, not a commodity!!!!****
Assemble 3 PM, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B Goodlett Place (on Polk, between
McAllister & Grove), San Francisco; 3:30 PM Procession down Market; 5 PM,
Rally and Press Conference, Bechtel HQ, 50 Beale St. (between Market &
Mission), San Francisco. Feel free to be creative: WEAR BLUE! Come as a
MERMAID, WATER NYMPH, TURTLE, or FISH ! BRING A VIAL of water for a WATER
RITUAL! Contact 415-731-7924 chalicenew@... to volunteer or for
more info!

Apr 24, Sac: Stop Delano State Prison! (carpools leaving Oakland)!
***********************************************************************
Delano Prison Budget Hearings Senate:  Wednesday, April 24th @ 9:30 am
,.Room 113 of the State Capitol. Carpools leaving from Macarthur BART at
7:00 am. We are at a turning point in our campaign to stop California from
building its 24th new prison in 20 years, a $595 million prison slated for
Delano. Thus far we have been successful, delaying groundbreaking for over a
year by mobilizing grassroots opposition in Delano and statewide and winning
our environmental lawsuit  The state legislature will be considering funding
for the Delano II prison in April and we need to PACK THE HEARING ROOMS!  We
can win this historic battle but we need your support! If you can attend,
Please email rose@...  or call 510-444-0484

Apr 24, SJ: Earth Day at San Jose State: Call for Volunteers!
********************************************************************
Table with Us for Old Growth, Redwoods, Workers, & Consumer Consciousness!!!
Contact 415-731-7924 chalicenew@... to volunteer or for more info!


Thank you for taking action, for democracy, justice, and a sustainable
planet!!!

Mary Bull
Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign
252 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
415-731-7924 chalicenew@...  www.gapsucks.org

FOR REDWOODS & WORKERS,
BOYCOTT GAP, BANANA REPUBLIC, & OLD NAVY!

FOR PEOPLE & PLANET,
STOP "FAST  TRACK" & THE FTAA! www.stopftaa.org
(Note: There is going to be another House vote on fast-track!
On Dec. 6, fast track won by one vote! Don't let that happen again!
Call your House rep NOW!!!) www.citizen.org/trade/fasttrack/action/

TO END INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM,
STOP THE SUPER JAIL FOR KIDS! www.booksnotbars.org
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16. Chiapas Noticias / Schools Update


From: Schools for Chiapas
       <schoolsforchiapas@ schoolsforchiapas.org>
Subject: Chiapas Noticias / Schools Update
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:19:15 -0700

Schools for Chiapas / Escuelas para Chiapas

ENGLISH VERSION   (VERSION EN ESPAÑOL MÁS ADELANTE)

Monthly Email Educational Magazine

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April 2002 English Index (Version en español mas adelante.)

1.  Summer 2002 in Chiapas, Mexico ~ language study, school building,
     fair trade seminars, long-term education interns.
2.  Donate glass jars; welcome the Little Yellow School Bus for Peace
3.  Directly from Chiapas ~ Indigenous educators detail their needs.!
4.  Help Wanted - cooks, teachers, custodians, web workers, sales,
travelers, students
5.  Please help distribute our beautiful poster!
6.  Autonomous Educators of Chiapas Speak at National Forum in Defense of
Mexican Corn
7.  Teaching by Obeying: Something New Under the Sun
8.  Subscribe / Unsubscribe

1.  Summer 2002 in Chiapas, Mexico!
Meet the Zapatistas; build autonomous schools; see the growing collection of
original corn seed being protected from transgenetic contamination; meet
leaders of autonomous projects ~ join Schools for Chiapas during the summer
of 2002 in the misty mountains and steamy jungles of the Mexican southeast!
Spanish and Tzotzil language study ~ Every week; Little Yellow School Bus
for Peace trip ~ June 15 to Aug. 25, 2002; Education Caravan for Peace ~
July 28 to August 11: Call 619-232-2841.  On-line applications encouraged ~
www.schoolsforchiapas.org.

2.  Donate your old jars --- welcome the Little Yellow School Bus for Peace
in Chiapas!

"Get on the bus!" was the cry last spring and summer as The Little Yellow
School Bus for Peace in Chiapas (El Camincito Escolar) traveled more than
12,000 miles promoting autonomous education.  El Camioncito is taking to the
road once again this summer and needs volunteers, places to sleep, schools
to visit, and lots of jars to store the original seeds collected by
indigenous students in Chiapas who are working to protect heirloom plants
from genetically modified infections.  (See report below from the National
Forum in Defense of Mexican  Corn)  While the exact route of the bus is
still being developed, the bus crew says they will visit Sacramento, Fresno,
Denver, Golden, Boulder, Ft. Collins, Lawrence, Dallas (NEA Teachers'
Convention), Austin, Houston, Juarez, Chihuahua, Torreon, Guanajuato,
Guadalajara, DF, Puebla, and Chiapas.

Applications now being accepted to join the exciting summer 2002 tour of the
Little Yellow School Bus for Peace in Chiapas ~ use the standard caravan
on-line application and note the dates you wish to ride on the bus.  Hosts
needed for each city to be visited! Please call  510-604-1396.


3. Indigenous educators explain what they need today.

SERAZLN  ~ Autonomous Rebellious Zapatista Education System of National
Liberation)
ESRAZ "Primero de Enero" ~ "First of January" Autonomous Rebellious
Secondary School

March 27, 2002

To the peoples of Mexico and the world
To National and International Solidarity

From someplace within Aguascalientes II, (the) Political Cultural Center of
the people of Mexico and of the world, Oventik, San Andres Sacamch'en de los
Pobres (San Andres Sacred White Cliffs of the Poor), Highlands of Chiapas,
Mexico, Planet Earth.

From this mountainous place, dignified heart of the bases of support of the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation, we send a fraternal, revolutionary
salute.  The object of this letter is to express our appreciation of the
solidarity support that we have received to continue advancing in the road
of our struggle in search of democracy in education, liberty in education,
and justice in education and in this manner to construct the globalization
of dignified and autonomous education.
As it is already publically known our first Autonomous Rebelious Zapatista
Secondary School "First of January" is functioning since 1999 now offering
the first and second grades of secondary school.  We feel the joy of already
advancing in education in accord with the demands, necessities, and
realities of our communities  receiving absolutely no type of support from
the bad government.

Therefore today we ask of all you sisters and brothers support in some of
(the) our urgent necessities to better function and development of this
educational cadre.  Our needs are as follows:
For our cadre:

1.  Ten showers that will cost approximately 2,500 pesos national money each
for a total of 25, 000 pesos national money.

2.  10 laundry stations with a cost of approximately $N12,000 pesos national
money.

3.  A collective kitchen for the promoters (teachers) and the Education
Committee (School Board) with a cost of approximately $N14, 000 pesos
national money.

4.  A drainage system with a cost of approximately $N 3,500 pesos nacional
money.

5.  URGENT: Financing and technical expertise for the treatment of sewage to
avoid the contamination of our rivers. (Unknown cost)

6.  URGENT:  Financing and technical expertise to create a recycling system
and to avoid the contamination of our lands. (Unknown cost)

For academic instruction:
200 each of notebooks, school backpacks; pencils and pens; 10 large
blackboards with chalk and erasers; bond paper; manila paper; dictionaries;
complete encyclopidias; crayons

For the boy and girl students, the male and female teachers:
200 blankets, 200 toothbrushes, toothpaste, 200

For physical education:
Basketballs, soccer balls, volley balls; volley ball nets, basketball nets

For artistic education:
Musical instruments:  acoustic and electric guitars, marimbas, keyboards,
harps, sound equipment

For the agricultural project, productive workshop
Farming tools (20 each):  shovels, pickaxes, machetes, rakes, hoes,
wheelbarrows (5), planting shovels

For the Project "Mother Seeds in Resistance form the Lands of Chiapas"

(Sme'Ts'unubil ta Ts'ikel Vokol ta Jlumaltik Chiapas)
URGENT:  Financing and technical expertise to form a seed bank with the
object of saving our original seeds from transgentic contamination (Unknown
cost)
We thank you in advance for whatever support you can offer and as always
invite you to join us in the forgotten corner of the country.  You can come
directly to your Aguascalientes II.

If you want to participate in the Education Caravans for Peace you can
contact the Zapatista National Liberation Front (FZLN) in Mexico City (DF)
at 5-5761-4236, electronic mail: fzln@....  Internationals should
contact Schools for Chiapas in San Diego, California at 619-232-2841,
electronic mail: schoolsforchiapas@...

Liberty, Justice and Democracy.
Education Committee of "First of January" ESRAZ

Leaders of Construction of "First of January" ESRAZ
General Coordinator of SERAZ

4. Help Wanted - cooks, web workers, sales, tourists, teachers, custodians,
students!

a. Custodian and kitchen workers - Zapatista schools in Chiapas, Mexico need
your help cleaning schools while planting, harvesting, cleaning, and
preparing healthy, food for growing indigenous students.

b. Web Designers - help Schools for Chiapas expand and deepen our internet
presence.

c. Poster Sales People - promote indigenous education in Chiapas by
distributing the beautiful, bilingual Schools for Chiapas poster to
bookstores, craft shops, community centers, organizations, etc.

d. Tourists of conscience - travel to the misty mountains and steamy rain
forests of the Mexican Southeast to build schools and study language.

e. Spanish teachers - native Spanish speakers with educational background to
teach an innovative Zapatista-inspired Spanish-as-a-second-language
curriculum for international students wishing to learn Spanish while
supporting autonomous, Maya schools.

5.  Help Distribute Unique Chiapas Poster

This powerful painting belongs on every activist's wall and continues the
highly acclaimed Chiapas series by painter Beatriz Aurora.  On high quality
paper a deep blue sky reflects upon a sparkling jungle river filled with
fish of many colors and surrounded by animals of the tropial rain forests of
Chiapas.  The first autonomous middle school centers the work and is lined
up with a brilliant tropical sun and the distinctive building and design of
the ancient Maya city of Toniná.  The five Maya aguascalienetes where
Schools for Chiapas helps with Education projects are all present as earth
colored ships floating on a ocean of green with tiny masked Zapatistas
peering out from the joyous jungle scene.  The Little Yellow School Bus for
Peace heads for Oventik while teachers, students and parents take center
stage surrounding the autonomous school featuring a library, computer lab,
dormitory and traditional Maya leaders.  Historical and original Maya
glyphs call out the details of the painting while Spanish and English
lettering proclaims a central dream of the Zapaitsta movement ~ Escuelas
para Chiapas / School for Chiapas.

* How big?  How much?  How can I take some to local bookstores?
18in X 16in multicolored print on 80 lb., heavy flat stock by Beatriz Aurora
with participation of Aaron Marley.  $10 plus $2.85 for individual shipping.
   A card size of the same artwork is available in full color, on heavy stock
for $2 each or $8 for 6 cards and envelopes.  Call today!

Order your poster today or let us send you 12 posters on consignment to
support the work of Schools for Chiapas.  Call 619-232-2841 or email us at
schoolsforchiapas@....

6.  Educators Speak at National Forum in Defense of Mexican Corn
National Forum in Defense of Mexican Corn

Mexico City
January, 2002

Brothers and sisters, you who have come from different places and who are of
different political affiliations. We want to thank you for giving us the
opportunity to participate along with you in this national forum in defense
of corn. There are four of us here, and we are from the highlands of
Chiapas.
We are people who are made of corn and earth, we are Sotsil indigenous.
Today they call us Tsotsiles, because our true name was transformed on the
tip of the invaders' tongue. We have been indigenous ever since our mother
earth gave birth to us, and we shall continue to be so until that same
mother earth engulfs us. We came to represent an Autonomous Tsotsil School,
located in Oventik, Aguascalientes II, in the municipality of San Andrés
Sacamch'en de los Pobres in Los Altos region of Chiapas.

It is a school that was born out of our indigenous and non-indigenous
struggle, in which we sowed our struggle for an alternative education which
emancipates humanity, because a people who do not know their history, their
culture, are a dead people. It is a school that has no place for making
distinctions about people, that is, men or women, large or small, white or
dark, old man or old woman, we value everyone, and we are all valuable.
The school belongs to you, to you who are here today, to Mexico, to the
world, to those who speak badly about it today, to those who have looked
down upon it. We are fighting for a different education, where we are
seeking the common good, where each activist's perspective will not have to
be isolated.
We are fighting to know what we were yesterday, what we are today and what
we shall be tomorrow.

We are fighting to know history, to rescue our culture. Because we are quite
aware that a people who know their history shall never be condemned to
repeat it, and they shall never be defeated.

We have found out that the agro-chemical companies have patented our natural
corn so that we will then have to buy trans-genetic corn. We know the
serious consequences of this type of corn they are creating, which affects
our culture. For us, the indigenous, corn is sacred. If these agro-chemical
companies are trying to get rid of our corn, it is like wanting to get rid
of part of our culture that we inherited from our Mayan ancestors. We know
that corn is our primary and daily food; it is the base of our culture. We
know that our first fathers and mothers, Tepeu and Gukumatz, created us from
corn, and that is why we call ourselves men and women of corn.

That is why our grandfathers and grandmothers did not plant corn in just any
way. When they planted their fields they prayed three days before Mok in our
Mayan calendar, because the day Mok begins is when our indigenous
grandparents surrendered their brabajos, their hearts, asking protection
from our god creator so that their work would be successful. During the days
of prayer they ate only three tortillas the size of a coin at three in the
afternoon, and they took pozol (hominy) and dough so that the plants would
not anger the earth, because our grandparents believed that the land, the
trees, were beings who had souls.
We are worried that our corn will be done away with completely. That is why
we want to create a seed bank in our school in order to conserve our corn,
and then encourage every community to establish seed banks. A project
defending our natural corn is being carried out in our school.

The name of this project is "mother seed of our chiapaneco land, in
resistance".
That is why we are participating in this national forum against
trans-genetic corn, so that together, and with all the people of Mexico, we
will be able to save that part of our culture that they want to steal from
us.
Second Presentation

First of all, a very good afternoon to everyone who is here.  I am an
indigenous campesino from the state of Chiapas, which is one of the richest
states in the Mexican Republic because of its variety of natural wealth.

It is also one of the states with the highest degree of marginalization, of
educational backwardness and of poverty, with more than 2,000,000
inhabitants.
We are here [in Mexico City], but this is not the first time, because we
Mayas have come here since the Anahuak empire. We have returned once again
because we know that they will not listen to us from Chiapas. Today we are
bringing the voices of our peoples in resistance.
That voice of the peoples of 500 years of resistance. That voice of those
who are erased from memory.
We, the survivors of death without bullets, are here in this national forum
against trans-genetic seeds and in defense of native corn, which is so
important.
I want to call on the gentlemen of power, primarily on the Chamber of
Senators, the Chamber of Deputies and the Executive Branch. Specifically, I
do not believe in just words, although it is good if they are talking to us
about constitutional rights against trans-genetics. I want them to
understand quite clearly: for us, the indigenous, corn is very sacred in our
vision of the cosmos, and it is part of our culture. But now the entire
world knows that Mexican indigenous rights and culture have not been
ratified in the Congress of the Union. What they ratified is the freedom of
national and transnational businesses, primarily the US, benefiting the Plan
Puebla Panama, which is taking a first step by introducing trans-genetic
seeds, so that they can then carry out monoculture. This Plan Puebla Panama
is only for the benefit of the 1,000,000 middle class inhabitants, and not
for the 64 million lower class people in our country.

And, in order to prevent all this, we need the resistance of Mexicans, like
we are giving birth to in Chiapas, and the unity of, or links between,
non-governmental organizations, and the understanding that no one is
liberated by themselves and then no one can liberate anyone.

[Translated by irlandesa]

7.  Teaching by obeying - something new under the sun
Published Dec. 2001 in the Spanish Education Journal "Cuadernos de
Pedagogia"
909 250 510   www.cisspraxis.es.educacion

New and beautiful schools serving thousands of indigenous students are
taking root in the mountain villages and jungle canyons of Chiapas, Mexico.
Impoverished Maya communities surrounded by a massive and hostile military
force are nurturing an innovative, autonomous education system while
accepting visitors from around the world.

"The education we are developing here is an education which really teaches
us what we are...an education not of the style preferred by those who
dominate," explained the coordinator of the Zapatista Autonomous Rebellious
Education System (SERAZ) during a visit of the Education Caravan for Peace
during the summer of 2001.  "Rather we are searching for an education which
makes us conscious of the roots of this so-divided society, from this
divided world we can make a single world where we all fit."

Financial and moral support for SERAZ is developed through an ambitious
Mexican and international collaboration called the Education Caravans for
Peace.  This collaboration allows Mexican and international participants to
visit Chiapas as guests of SERAZ.  Since beginning in the summer of 1997
several thousand individuals from every state of Mexico and from twenty
eight countries around the world have lived and learned beside indigenous
people seeking to create a new form of education for their families and for
the children of the world.

"Education" was one of the original eleven key demands* first published on
January 1, 1994, when thousands of Maya peasants carrying machetes, hunting
rifles, and a few high-powered weapons occupied the major mountain cities of
the Mexican southeast. "The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a
death sentence for the indigenous peoples of Chiapas," explained the
Zapatista spokespeople while explaining the timing of the revolt to coincide
with the beginning of that tri-national treaty.  Although NAFTA specifically
exempted all matters related education from the terms of the agreement many
of the current globalization plans no longer include an education exemption.

The images of masked Zapatista rebels and their silver tongued Sub Commander
Marcos which lashed around the world quickly became an icon of
dissatisfaction with globalization.  It also quickly became clear that the
years of preparation for this revolt that occurred in tiny Maya communities
had included intensive intellectual and cultural study.  Monolingual farmers
speaking one of four indigenous languages articulated sophisticated
critiques of global trade agreements, demonstrated familiarity with
international conventions of war, and discussed violations of the Mexican
constitution, while calling for tolerance and respect of racial, sexual,
class and religious diversity.

However the mass media and many of those supporting the Maya rebels of
Chiapas have practically missed the profound education program that has
accompanied the Zapatista insurrection.

"Certainly, our children will read Cervantes and Borges, but they should
also come to love Shakespeare and understand advanced mathematics like
calculus and trigonometry," explained a Zapatista leader in 1996 when
describing the schools envisioned by the movement.  "Our kids will learn
about traditional Maya medicinal herbs because we can't afford western
medicines, but they will also use the internet to community with students
all over the world who are being also being hurt by neo-liberalism."

Despite active government opposition and a profound lack of funds, SERAZ has
grown rapidly over the last several years.  "Eventually, we anticipate
becoming an autonomous part of a reformed public education system of Mexico.
   We totally The most rapid grown has occurred in the autonomous primary
schools which exist throughout the state although more advanced studies are
also proceeding.

Hundreds of small towns and villages have chosen a community member for
teacher training in one of several Zapatista educational centers.  In
addition, on April 10, 2000 the first autonomous, secondary boarding school
opened it's doors to students in the highland Zapatista cultural center of
Oventic, Aguascalientes II.  On August 13, 2001, in front of parents,
teachers, and community leaders, this first group of students received
credentials for the completion of their first full year of secondary study.
In September of 2001 a new group of first year secondary students joined
those continuing in their second year of study at Oventic while other
secondary schools are in formation at other Zapatista centers.

"But what's really different about your Zapatista secondary school at
Oventic and the government school you attended for your first six years of
education?" I once asked the group of giggling, energetic preteens just as
the bright sun broke through the morning mist.

"The promoters here are really nice, they are not like the teachers in the
government schools," mumbled one shy 12-year-old student.  "Here we learn a
lot and the promoters never make us feel bad," agreed a
bright-eyed 13-year-old girl.

"It's that the promoters listen to what we say and they don't get mad when
we don't understand," volunteered the wry tomboy who was always leading the
pack of the youngest female students. "The promoters insist that we speak
out; and also all of them can understand our language.  In the government
school we aren't allowed to speak in Tzotzil and the teachers were very
mean."

"We don't use the term "teacher" within this new education system,"
explained the mature and articulate superintendent of Zapatista education on
the same foggy morning in the old library at the First of January Secondary
School in Oventic, Aguascalientes II.  "We prefer to use to term "Education
Promoter" since that does not suggest that anyone has all the answers.  Also
our communities have had many bad experience with teachers sent by the
government."

It is often the humility of these young instructors that most captures the
attention of visitors who come to learn about the new school system.  The
following is a transcription of a typical exchange between participants on
an Education Caravan for Peace and an indigenous teacher:

"I am a promoter [teacher], although I don't consider myself a promoter,
because I feel that I know nothing. But here we are making the effort to
accomplish this; we are here together to work. We're setting to this work
with all our strength. As the representative of all the promoters, I greet
you here to listen, and also to talk and to ask questions. We'll do our best
to figure out how to respond. Thank you
.
Q:  In what language do you teach, in Tzotzil or Spanish?
A characteristic of this school is that it is bilingual, although there are
words in Spanish that can't be translated [to Tzotzil], but we search for
their meaning, and also in Tzotzil there is not always an explanation in
Spanish, but we search for it.

Q:  What is the schedule of the school?
We are organized so that everyone goes through different maintenance
activities with some getting up very early (3:30am).  Classes start at 8:00
in the morning and at 11:00am we take a break for lunch, we start again at
1:30pm, and later we rest for two hours from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., after
study the students go to sleep at 9:00 p.m.

Q:  How have you thought about making your schools self-sustainable?
It's very difficult and many things are needed.  We always need land,
although it looks like there is more space it doesn't belong to us.  If we
would like to have chicken pens or hogs, we would need more land, and we
don't know how to resolve this.  We would like to raise food and raise money
to buy other things with what is left over.  With time we will do it.

Q:  How are the materials that are used in the classes gathered?
In general the materials are in Spanish, but there are also classes in
Tzotzil, we are receiving training, evaluators who help us, and now we are
going to learn Spanish better.  Many of us don't know how to write in
Tzotzil, although we speak it, but what we need is to also have materials in
Tzotzil.

During the 2001/2002 school year, Education Caravans for Peace will visit
SERAZ during New Years, Easter, and during the summer of 2002.  After
meeting in Mexico City and traveling to Chiapas on chartered busses,
participants have the opportunity to live and learn in Zapatista cultural /
education centers; often they join indigenous construction experts who are
constructing new schools and there is always the opportunity to meet
indigenous parents, teachers, students, and community leaders.

Mexicans living in Mexico should contact the Frente Zapatista de Liberacion
National at www.fzln.org.mx.   The international portion of this
collaboration is organized by a non-governmental organization called Schools
for Chiapas with offices in Chiapas and the United States.  Schools for
Chiapas can be contacted at
<schoolsforchiapas@ schoolsforchiapas.org> or via their web page at
www.schoolsforchiapas.org.
Dec. 2001 by Peter Brown

8.   Monthly email subscription or ending subscription
A.  To receive an update about the junior high school at Oventik,
Aguascalientes II and other indigenous schools in Mexico about once a month,
please send the following message to
schoolsforchiapas@ schoolsforchiapas.org
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B. If you do now wish to receive electronic messages about schools in
Chiapas, please send the following message to
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Escuelas para Chiapas / Schools for Chiapas
VERSION EN ESPAÑOL   (ENGLISH VERSION ABOVE)
abril 2002
Revista Educativa Mensual
Escuelas para Chiapas le ha enviado este correo electrónico porque usted
personalmente o alguien en su nombre ha subscrito este correo electrónico a
nuestro correo mensual para recibir información acerca de los escuelas
indígenas en Chiapas, México. Si cambió usted su dirección o desea suspender
su suscripción por favor siga las instrucciones que se dan al final de este
mensaje.

Índice en español - Versión en inglés arriba (ENGLISH VERSION ABOVE)

1.  Verano 2002 en Chiapas, México ~ estudio de lenguajes, construcción de
escuelas, seminarios sobre el comercio justo, internship de largo plazo.
2.  Donen frascos; Denle la bienvenida al Camioncito Escolar por la Paz
3.  Habla la voz Zapatista!
4.  Se Solicitan - cociner@s, maestr@s, limpiadores, expertos de la red,
vendedores, viajadores, estudiantes
5.  ¡Por favor ayúdenos a distribuir nuestro nuevo cartel hermoso!
6.  Educadores Autónomos hablan en el Foro Nacional en Defensa del Maíz
Mexicano
7.  Enseñar Obedeciendo: Algo Nuevo Bajo el Sol
8.  Suscribir / Parar suscripción

1.  Verano 2002 en Chiapas, México!
Conozca los Zapatistas; construye escuelas autónomas; vea la colección que
va aumentando de semilla original de maíz que ahora esta siendo protegido de
la contaminación transgenica; conozca líderes de proyectos autónomos ~
¡Únase a Escuelas para Chiapas durante el verano de 2002 en las montañas
nubladas y la selva vaporosa del sureste Mexicano!  Estudio de Español y
Tzotzil - clases semanales; Recorrido del Camioncito Escolar por la Paz - 15
de Junio al 25 de Agosto, 2002; Caravana Educativa por la Paz - 28 de Julio
al 11 de Agosto: Llame al 619-232-2841.  Solicitudes en-línea son
bienvenidas - www.schoolsforchiapas.org.

2.  Donen frascos usados y denle la bienvenida al Camioncito Escolar por la
Paz en Chiapas

"¡Súbanse al camioncito!" fue el grito que se escuchaba en la primavera y
verano del año pasado mientras el Camioncito Escolar por la Paz en Chiapas
recorría más de 12,000 millas promoviendo la educación autónoma.  El
Camioncito vuelve a la carretera de nuevo éste verano y se necesitan
voluntarios, hospedaje, escuelas y otros locales que visitar, y muchas
jarras para guardar las semillas originales juntadas por los estudiantes
indígenas en Chiapas quienes están luchando para proteger las plantas
tradicionales de la contaminación transgenica.  (Vea el reporte más adelante
del Foro Nacional en Defensa del Maíz Mexicano.)  Aunque todavía no se ha
determinado la ruta exacta, el equipo del Camioncito informa que visitarán a
Sacramento, Fresno, Denver, Golden, Ft. Collins, Boulder, Lawrence, Dallas
(NEA Conferencia de Maestros), Austin, Houston, Juárez, Chihuahua, Torreón,
Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Guadalajara, DF, Puebla, y Chiapas.

Se están aceptando actualmente solicitudes para unirse a este tour
emocionante ~ use la solicitud regular en la página de web y anote para que
fechas quiere unirse al tour.  Se necesitan organizadores para eventos y
hospedaje en cada ciudad que se visitará.  Favor de llamar al 510-604-1396.

3.  A los pueblos de México y del mundo...

SERAZLN                                                   ESRAZ "Primero de
Enero"

A 27 de Marzo de 2002

A los pueblos de México y del mundo
A la Solidaridad Nacional e Internacional

Desde algún lugar del Aguascalientes II, Centro Político Cultural del pueblo
de México y del mundo, Oventik, San Andrés Sacamch'en de los Pobres, Altos
de Chiapas, México, Planeta Tierra.

Desde este lugar montañoso, corazón digno de las bases de apoyo del EZLN,
les envíamos nuestro fraternal saludo revolucionario. El objetivo de nuestra
carta es para expresarles nuestro agradecimiento por el apoyo solidario que
hemos recibido para seguir avanzando en el caminar de nuestra lucha en busca
de la democracia en la educación, la libertad en la educación y la justicia
en la educación y llegar así a construir la globalización de la educación
autónoma y digna.

Como ya es del conocimiento público nuestra Primera Escuela Secundaria
Rebelde Autónoma Zapatista "Primero de Enero" esta funcionando desde 1999
contando ya con primer y segundo grados de secundaria. Sentimos la alegría
de estar ya avanzando en la educación de acuerdo a las demandas, necesidades
y realidades de nuestras comunidades sin absolutamente recibir ningún tipo
de apoyo de parte del mal gobierno.

Por lo tanto hoy pedimos de todos y todas ustedes hermanas y hermanos nos
apoyen en algunas de las necesidades urgentes que tenemos para el mejor
funcionamiento y desarrollo de este plantel educativo, y que son las
siguientes:

Para nuestro plantel:

1. 10 baños con regadera con un costo aproximado de 2,500 pesos moneda
nacional cada una para un total de 25,000 pesos moneda nacional.

2. 10 lavaderos con un costo total aproximado de $ 12,500 pesos moneda
nacional

3. Cocina colectiva para los promotores y comité de educación con un costo
aproximado de $14,000 pesos moneda nacional.

4. Sistema de drenaje con un costo aproximado de $ 3,500 pesos moneda
nacional

5. URGENTE: Financiamiento y asesoria técnica para el tratamiento de aguas
negras para evitar contaminar nuestros ríos (presupuesto desconocido)

6. URGENTE: Financiamiento y asesoria técnica para crear un sistema de
reciclaje y evitar contaminar nuestras tierras (presupuesto desconocido)

Para la enseñanza académica:
Cuadernos (200), lapices, lapiceros, pizarrones grandes (10), gis,
borradores, papel bond, papel manila, mochilas escolares (200),
diccionarios, enciclopedias completas, marcadores de colores

Para los y las estudiantes, maestras y maestros:
Cobertores (200) cepillos dentales (200), pasta dental, linternas(200),
Para la educación física:
Balones de básquetbol, futbol, volibol; redes de volibol, aros de básquetbol

Para educación artística:
Instrumentos músicales: guitarras acústicas y eléctricas, teclados,
marimbas, arpas, equipo de sonido.

Para el proyecto agroecológico, taller de producción:
Herramientas de campo (20 de cada uno): palas, picos, rastrillos,
carretillas (5), azadones, machetes, palas rectas,

Proyecto Semilla Madre en Resistencia desde Nuestra Tierra Chiapaneca
Sme'Ts'unubil ta Ts'ikel Vokol ta Jlumaltik Chiapas

URGENTE: Financiamiento y asesoria técnica para crear un banco de semillas
con el objetivo de rescatar nuestra semillas originarias contra la
contaminación transgénica (presupuesto desconcido)

Agradeciéndoles de antemano el apoyo que puedan brindarnos e invitándoles
como siempre a que nos acompañen en este rincón olvidado de la patria.
Pueden venir directamente a este su Aguascalientes II .

Si desean participar en las Caravanas Educativas por la Paz contactar al
FZLN en el DF al 5-5761-4236, correo electrónico:
fzln@ fzln.org.mx. Internacionales contactarse con Escuelas para Chiapas en
San Diego, California al 619-232-284, correo electrónico:
escuelasparachiapas@ escuelasparachiapas.org

Democracia, Libertad y Justicia.


Comité de Educación de la ESRAZ Primero de Enero

Patronatos de la Construcción de la ESRAZ Primero de Enero

Coordinador General del SERAZ

4. Se solicita ayuda - cocineros, trabajadores de paginas de Internet,
vendedores, turistas, maestros, guardianes, estudiantes.

a. Guardianes y trabajadores de cocina - Las escuelas zapatistas en Chiapas,
México necesitan su ayuda para limpiar las escuelas mientras plantan,
cosechan, limpian, y preparan comida saludable para estudiantes indígenas en
pleno desarrollo.
b. Diseñadores de paginas de Internet - ayuda a Escuelas para Chiapas a
expandir y profundizar nuestra presencia en el Internet.
c. Vendedores de pósteres - promueve la educación indígena en Chiapas
distribuyendo los hermosos pósteres bilingües de Escuelas para Chiapas a
librerías, tiendas artesanales, centros comunitarios, organizaciones,
etcétera.
d. Turistas de conciencia - viaje a las montañas nublosas y bosques
lluviosos del Sureste Mexicano a construir escuelas y a estudiar idioma.
e. Maestros de Español - Nativos de lengua española con conocimientos
educacionales para enseñar un currículo innovador con inspiraciones
zapatistas  de Español como un segundo idioma para estudiantes
internacionales con deseos de aprender Español mientras que apoyan a las
Escuelas Autónomas Mayas.

5. Ayuda a distribuir póster único de Chiapas
Esta poderosa pintura pertenece a cada pared activista y continua las series
aclamadas de Chiapas por la pintora Beatriz Aurora.  Sobre papel de alta
calidad un cielo azul profundo refleja un río brillante en la selva lleno
con peces de muchos colores y rodeado por animales de bosques tropicales
lluviosos de Chiapas.  Los primeros centros de escuelas primarias autónomas
alineados con un sol brillante tropical y el edificio de un diseño
distinguido de la ciudad antigua maya de Tonina.  Las cinco escuelas mayas
Aguascalientes donde Escuelas para Chiapas ayudan con proyectos de educación
están presentes como los barcos coloreados flotando sobre el océano de verde
con diminutos Zapatistas enmascarados mirando afuera del panorama alegre de
la selva.  El camioncito escolar amarillo para la paz se adelanta mientras
maestros, estudiantes y padres toman el centro de la pista rodeando las
escuelas autónomas presentando una biblioteca, laboratorio de computadoras,
dormitorio y lideres mayas tradicionales. Glifs originales e historicos
anuncian los detalles de la pintura maya mientras se proclama un sueño
central del movimiento Zapatista en Ingles y Español ~ Escuelas para Chiapas
/ Schools  for Chiapas.

¿Qué tan grandes? ¿Cuántos? ¿Cómo puedo llevar algunos a las librerías?

18 pulgadas X 16 pulgadas multicolores impresas sobre 80 libras., planas
pesadas surtidas por Beatriz Aurora con la participación de Aarón Marley.
$10 más $2.85 por envío individual.  Ventas en cantidad a $80 por 12; en 30
días.  También disponible en el tamaño de una tarjeta a todo color, en papel
de cartón duro por $2 cada una o 6 tarjetas y sobres por $8.  ¡Llame hoy

6. Hablan Educadores de Chiapas en el Foro Nacional en Defensa del Maíz
Mexicano
DF, México
Enero, 2002

Hermanos  y hermanas que han venido de diferentes lugares y de afiliaciones
políticas diferentes; queremos agradecerles por la oportunidad que nos  han
brindado de participar con ustedes en este foro nacional por la defensa del
maíz.  Estamos aquí cuatro personas y somos de los altos de Chiapas

Somos personas  hechas de maíz y de barro, somos indígenas sotsiles.  Hoy
nos llaman tsotsiles es por que nuestro nombre verdadero se a transformado
en la punta  de la lengua de los invasores.  Somos indígenas desde que
nuestra madre tierra nos parió y los seguimos siendo hasta que la misma
madre tierra nos trague.  Vinimos representando a una Escuela autónoma
tsotsil, ubicada en Oventik Aguascalientes II, municipio San Andrés
sakamch'en de los pobres de al región los altos de Chiapas.

En una escuela que nace de nuestra lucha del pueblo indígena y no indígena,
en la cual sembramos nuestra lucha por la educación alternativa y
emancipadora de la humanidad, porque un pueblo que no conoce su historia, su
cultura es un pueblo muerto; es una escuela  donde no tiene cabida la
distinción de personas, es decir hombre o mujer, grande o pequeño, blanco o
moreno, anciano o anciana valemos todos y todas valemos.  Es escuela de
ustedes aquí presentes, de México del mundo; es cuelas de los que hoy hablan
mal de ella, de los que hoy la desprecian; luchamos por una educación
diferente donde buscamos un bien común donde la perspectiva de cada luchador
no sea individual.

Luchamos para conocer la que fuimos ayer, lo que somos hoy y lo que mañana
seremos.

Luchamos para conocer la historia, para rescatar nuestra cultura.  Porque
bien sabemos que si un pueblo que conoce su historia, jamás será condenado a
repetirla y jamás será vencido.

Nos hemos enterado de que las empresas agroquímicas han patentizado nuestro
maíz natural para que luego compremos puro maíz transgenico; nosotros
sabemos las graves consecuencias que trae este tipo de maíz que están
creando, que afecta a nuestra cultura, porque para nosotros los indígenas el
maíz es sagrado y si estas industrias agroquímicas tratan de desaparecer
nuestro maíz es como querer desaparecer parte de nuestra cultura  que nos
heredaron nuestros antepasados mayas.  Nosotros sabemos que el maíz es
nuestro alimento principal y cotidiano, es base  de nuestra cultura, sabemos
que nuestro primeros padres y madres tepeu y gukumatz nos crearon de maíz y
por eso nos llamamos hombres y mujeres de maíz.

Por eso nuestros abuelos, abuelas no sembraban maíz como les daba las ganas.
   Cuando hacían sus milpas ayunaban tres días antes de mok en nuestro
calendario maya, porque el día en que empieza mok es cuando nuestros abuelos
indígenas campesinos entregan sus brabajos, sus corazones, pidiéndole
protección a nuestro dios creador para que sus trabajos tuviera éxitos en
los  días de ayuna solo comían tres tortillas como a las tres de la tarde y
que tienen el  tamaño de una moneda y tomaban pozol y la masa que no se
enoje la tierra las malezas, porque nuestros abuelos  consideraban a la
tierra, a los árboles como seres que tienen alma.

Nos  preocupa a que nuestro maíz se acabe por completo por eso en nuestro
escuela queremos crear un banco de semillas para conservar nuestro maíz,
para luego fomentar a que en cada comunidad se establezca bancos de
semillas.  En nuestra escuela se está llevando acabo un  proyecto en defensa
de nuestro maíz natural, dicho proyecto lleva por nombre "semilla madre en
resistencia de nuestra tierra chiapaneca".

Por eso nosotros estamos participando en este foro nacional en contra del
maíz transgénico, para que untos  y con todo el pueblo de México logremos
salvar parte de nuestra cultural que nos  la quieren arrebatar.

Segunda Intervención
Antes que nada muy buenas tardes a todos y todas presentes, yo soy un
campesino indígena del estado de Chiapas, que es uno de los estados más
ricos de la república mexicana, por la variedad de las riquezas naturales
que tiene y es uno de los estados que ocupa el primer grado de marginación,
el rezago educativo y la pobreza con mas de 2,000,000 de habitantes.

Nosotros estamos aquí pero no esta la primera vez porque desde el impero
anahuak llegábamos no solos los liayas, pero ahora vamos a regresar de nuevo
porque sabemos que desde Chiapas no nos escuchan hoy nosotros traemos la voz
de nuestros pueblos en resistencia esa vos de los pueblos de 500 años de
lucha esa voz de los que estamos en la des memoria.

Nosotros los sobrevivientes de la muerte sin plomo esta mas aquí en este
foro nacional que es tán importante en contra de las semillas transgénicas y
en defensa del maíz originaria.

Quiero hacerle un llamado a los señores de poder principalmente la cámara de
senadores, la cámara de diputados y el poder ejecutivo en lo particular no
creo con palabras, si bien nos hablan de derechos constitucionales en contra
de los transgenicos, quiero que lo entiendan muy bien, para nosotros los
indígenas en nuestra cosmovisión el maíz es muy sagrado y forma parte de
nuestra cultura, pero ahora todo mundo sabe que no está ratificado en el
congreso de la unión los derechos y cultura indígena mexicanos y lo que
ellos  ratificaron es la libertad de los empresas nacionales y
transnacionales principalmente EU favoreciendo el plan Puebla Panamá que
ahora está dando como primer paso de entrometer las semillas transgenica
para luego llevar acabo el monocultivo.  Este plan puebla Panamá es tan solo
para el beneficio de los 1,000,000 de habitantes de la  clase media y no
para  los 64 millones de la clase baja en nuestro país. Y para prevenir todo
esto se necesita la resistencia de los mexicanos como las estamos naciendo
en Chiapas y la unidad o el vinculo de las organizaciones no gubernamentales
y acuérdense que nadie se libera solo y nadie libera a nadie.


7. Enseñar obedeciendo - algo nuevo bajo el sol
Cuadernos de Pedagogia, Dec. 2001
www.cisspraxis.es/educacion

Escuelas nuevas y lindas, que sirven a miles de estudiantes indígenas, están
echando raíces en los pueblos y cañadas de Chiapas, México. Empobrecidas
comunidades mayas, cercadas por una masiva y hostil fuerza militar, están
nutriendo un innovador sistema educativo autónomo al mismo tiempo que
reciben visitantes de todo el mundo.

"La educación que estamos desarrollando aquí es una educación que realmente
nos enseña quienes somos...una educación de estilo diferente a la que
prefieren los que dominan" -nos explicaba el Coordinador General del Sistema
Educativo Rebelde Autónomo Zapatista (SERAZ) durante la visita de una
Caravana Educativa por la Paz durante el verano del 2001. "Estamos buscando
una educación que nos haga tomar conciencia de las raíces de esta sociedad
tan dividida. De este mundo dividido podemos hacer un solo mundo en el que
todos quepamos."

El apoyo financiero y moral que recibe el SERAZ se lleva a cabo a través de
una ambiciosa colaboración internacional llamada Caravanas Educativas por la
Paz. Esta colaboración permite a participantes mexican@s e internacionales
visitar Chiapas como invitados del SERAZ.
Desde sus inicios en el verano de 1997 varios miles de individuos de cada
uno de los Estados de México y de veintiocho países alrededor del mundo han
vivido y aprendido al lado de los indígenas que están buscando crear una
nueva forma de educación para sus familias y las niñas y niños del mundo.

"Educación" fue una de las once demandas claves publicadas el primero de
enero de 1994, cuando miles de campesinas y campesinos mayas armados con
machetes, rifles de cacería, y unas cuantas armas de alto calibre, ocuparon
las principales ciudades de las montañas del sureste mexicano. "El Tratado
del Libre Comercio (TLC) es una sentencia de muerte para los pueblos
indígenas de Chiapas" declaraban los portavoces zapatistas explicando así
como coincidía el levantamiento armado zapatista con el inicio de ese
tratado tri-nacional. A pesar de que el TLC hacía excepciones específicas en
todo lo referente a la educación, muchos de los planes actuales de
globalización no hacen excepciones alguna en este renglón.

Las imágenes de los rebeldes zapatistas enmascarados y su elocuente
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos inundaron al mundo convirtiéndose en un
icono de insatisfacción ante el neoliberalismo. También rápidamente llegó a
ser claro que los años de preparación para esta revuelta que ocurría en las
pequeñas comunidades mayas había incluido un intenso estudio cultural e
intelectual. Campesinos monolingües, expresándose en alguna de las lenguas
indígenas mayas, articulaban sofisticadas críticas a los tratados de
comercio global, mostrando familiaridad con convenios internacionales de
guerra y denunciando violaciones a la Constitución de los Estados Unidos
Mexicanos, mientras demandaban reconocimiento y respeto de razas, sexo, y
diversidad religiosa. Sin embargo los medios de comunicación y muchos de los
que apoyan a los rebeldes mayas de Chiapas prácticamente han fallado en
reconocer y resaltar la profundidad del programa educativo intrínsico a la
insurrección zapatista.

"Ciertamente, nuestras niñas y niños leerán Cervantes y Borges, pero ellos
también llegarán a disfrutar a Shakespeare y comprenderán matemáticas
avanzadas como cálculo y trigonometría," decía un líder zapatista en 1996
cuando nos describía las escuelas según la visión del movimiento. "Nuestras
niñas y niños aprenderán sobre las medicina tradicional maya y plantas
medicinales porque nosotros no podemos pagar las medicinas occidentales,
pero también usarán la red para comunicarse con estudiantes de todo el mundo
que también están siendo perjudicados por el neoliberalismo."

A pesar de la fuerte oposición gubernamental y una crítica falta de fondos,
SERAZ ha avanzado rápidamente en los últimos años. "En algún momento,
anticipamos que llegaremos a ser parte de un mejor sistema de educación
pública de México. El crecimiento más grande se ha dado en las escuelas
autónomas a nivel primaria que existen por todo el Estado de Chiapas aunque
también la educación media superior está avanzando."

Cientos de pequeños poblados y aldeas han elegido a por lo menos un miembro
de la comunidad para que se capacite en los Centros Zapatistas de
Capacitación de Promotores de Educación. El 10 de abril de 2000, la primera
secundaria -internado- autónoma abrió sus puertas a las y los estudiantes en
el Centro Cultural Zapatista de Oventik, Aguascalientes II en los Altos de
Chiapas. El 13 de agosto de 2001 ante padres y madres de familia, promotores
y promotoras de educación, y líderes de las comunidades, el primer grupo de
estudiantes recibió su constancia de haber terminado su primer año de
estudios secundarios. En Septiembre de 2001 un nuevo grupo de estudiantes
inició su primer año de secundaria uniéndose a las y los estudiantes que
continúan su segundo año de estudios en Oventik mientras tanto en otros
centros culturales zapatistas se están formando nuevas secundarias.

"Pero ¿cuál es realmente la diferencia entre su escuela secundaria zapatista
en Oventik y la escuela del gobierno a la que fueron durante sus primeros
seis años?" les pregunté en una ocasión a un grupo de inquietos y sonrientes
preadolescentes justo cuando la neblina de la mañana le permitía al sol
lucirse.

"Las y los promotores aquí son muy buenos, no son como los maestros del
gobierno," murmuró un tímido estudiante de 12 años. "Aquí aprendemos mucho y
los promotores nunca nos hacen sentir mal," asentía una chica de trece años
y de vivaces ojos.

"Es que las y los promotores lo que decimos y no se enojan cuando no
entendemos algo," añadió una extrovertida muchachita que siempre lideraba el
grupo de las estudiantes más jóvenes. "las y los promotores nos insisten que
debemos expresarnos, también es que todas y todos ellos hablan nuestro
idioma. En la escuela del gobierno no nos permiten hablar en Tzotzil y los
maestros eran muy malos con nosotros."

"No usamos el término "maestro" dentro de este nuevo sistema educativo,"
aclaraba el experimentado y elocuente coordinador general de educación
zapatista esa misma mañana nebulosa en el edificio de la vieja biblioteca de
la Escuela Secundaria "Primero de Enero" en Oventik, Aguascalientes II.
"Preferimos usar el término de "Promotor de Educación" porque sentimos que
ese no sugiere que alguien tiene todas las respuestas. Además nuestras
comunidades han tenido muchas malas experiencias con maestros enviados por
el gobierno."

Frecuentemente es la humildad de éstas y éstos instructores lo que más llama
la atención de los visitantes que vienen hasta este rincón de México para
conocer y aprender de este nuevo sistema escolar. La siguiente es una
trascripción de un intercambio típico entre participantes de una Caravana
Educativa por la Paz y un promotor indígena:

"Soy un promotor [maestro], aunque yo no me considero un promotor, porque
siento que no sé nada. Pero aquí estamos, haciendo un esfuerzo por lograrlo,
estamos juntos trabajando. Estamos haciendo este trabajo con todo nuestro
corazón. Como representante de las y los promotores les saludo, les
escuchamos a ustedes y sus preguntas. Haremos todo lo posible por
responderles lo mejor que podamos. Gracias.

P: ¿En qué idioma enseñan?  ¿en tzotzil o en español?
R: Una característica de esta escuela es que es bilingüe, aunque hay
palabras en español que no pueden ser traducidas [al tzotzil] , buscamos su
significado, y también en tzotzil no siempre existe una explicación en
español, pero la buscamos.

P: ¿Cuál es el horario de la escuela?
R: Estamos organizados para que cada uno vaya a las diferentes actividades
de mantenimiento, así algunos se levantan muy temprano (03:30hrs.) Las
clases inician cada día a las 08:00hrs., a las 11:00hrs tomamos un descanso
para almorzar; reiniciamos a la 13:30hrs. y después tomamos un descanso de
dos horas de la 17:00 a las 19:00hrs., después de estudiar las y los
estudiantes se retiran a dormir a las 21:00hrs.

P: ¿Cómo han pensado hacer sus escuelas auto-sustentables?
R: Es muy difícil y se necesitan muchas cosas. Siempre necesitamos tierra,
aunque parece que hay más espacio, éste no nos pertenece. Si deseamos tener
gallineros o criadero de puercos, necesitamos más tierra, y no sabemos cómo
solucionar este problema. Nos gustaría producir alimentos y ganar dinero
para comprar otras cosas con lo que nos quede. Con el tiempo lo haremos.

P: ¿Cómo reúnen los materiales que usan en sus clases?
R:  por lo general los materiales están en español, pero también hay clases
en tzotzil, estamos recibiendo capacitación, los evaluadores nos ayudan, y
ahora aprenderemos español mejor. Muchos de nosotros no sabemos escribir en
tzotzil, aunque lo hablamos, pero lo que necesitamos es tener también
materiales en tzotzil.

Durante el año escolar 2001/2002, las Caravanas Educativas por la Paz
visitarán SERAZ en  Año Nuevo, en Pascua, y durante el verano de 2002.
Después de encontrarnos en la Ciudad de México viajaremos a Chiapas en
autobuses, las y los participantes tienen la oportunidad de vivir y aprender
en centros zapatistas culturales y educativos; frecuentemente también se
unen a los indígenas expertos en construcción que construyen nuevas escuelas
y siempre hay la oportunidad de conocer a las madres y padres de familia,
promotoras y promotores de educación, estudiantes, y líderes de las
comunidades.

Mexicanas y mexicanas residiendo en México deben contactar al Frente
Zapatista de Liberación Nacional al www.fzln.org.mx  La parte internacional
de esta colaboración esta a cargo de una organización no gubernamental
llamada Escuelas para Chiapas con oficinas en Chiapas y en los Estados
Unidos de Norteamérica. Escuelas para Chiapas puede ser contactada en:
escuelasparachiapas@ escuelasparachiapas.org o visitando su página de la red
en: www.escuelasparachiapas.org
Por Peter Brown
[translated by Elizabeth Saenz Ackermann]

8. Iniciar Subscripción/Cancelar Subscripción

A. Para recibir información sobre la escuela secundaria de
Oventic,Aguascalientes II, sólo una vez al mes, mándanos el siguiente
mensaje a
<escuelasparachiapas@ escuelasparachiapas.org.>:

       Iniciar Suscripción a mexicopeace <tu correo electrónico>

B. Si no deseas recibir información sobre la secundaria en Oventic,
Aguascalientes II, envíanos el siguiente mensaje a
<schoolsforchiapas@...>:

       Cancelar suscripción a mexicopeace <tu correo electrónico>

C. Por favor envíanos tu dirección para enviarte correspondencia vía correo
ordinario, incluyendo tu Nombre, Dirección, Ciudad, Estado, Código Postal.
País, etc.

*******************************************
Schools for Chiapas * Chanob Junetik ta Chiapas * Escuelas  para Chiapas
Chiapas Schools Construction Teams * San Diegans for Peace in Mexico
1717 Kettner Blvd., Suite 125
San Diego, CA   92102
(619) 232-2841   FAX (619) 232-0500

Chanob Junetic ta Chiapas * Escuelas para Chiapas
Oventic Aguascalientes II, San Andrés Sacamch'en de los Pobres
Chiapas

Tu contribución  mensual, trimestral, semestral o anual es parte vital para
el desarrollo de planes de Escuelas para Chiapas. No hay un mínimo ni un
máximo y tu contribución es deducible de impuestos. ¡Participa ahora!
Aceptamos VISA, MasterCard, Money Orders y Cheques Personales

escuelasparachiapas@ escuelasparachiapas.org
www.escuelasparachiapas.org

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Por y para las niñas y los niños,


Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann and Peter Brown
Co-Directors
Tel (619) 238-4708
Fax (619) 231-1349
www.SchoolsforChiapas.org


PLEASE NOTE THE OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 28, 2001 THRU JANUARY 7,
2002

WE WILL RESPOND TO YOUR MESSAGES THEN.
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CONTENTS

17..DELANO PRISON BUDGET HEARING!
18..Family Court Reform Rally, Sacramento June 22
19..THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH
20..LMNOP Reminder (& a few other things)
21..Media Alliance Membership Party!
22..National Inter-Relatedness Day
23..People's Park, 33rd Anniversary
24..The Road to Public Power
25..Unbelievable: Web site that Changed My Life
26..Upcoming Events at New College
27..War Times April Issue Out Now
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17. DELANO PRISON BUDGET HEARING!


From: "Miss Tina Wong" <bluemonday4343@ hotmail.com>
Subject: DELANO PRISON BUDGET HEARING!
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:16:16 +0000

What does this say about the state that we're living in now, by building a
new prison, the 24th over the period of 20 years?
On top of that the City of Oakland focus on reducing crime by increasing the
police force...

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: can you please post!! Thanks

From: Rosebraz@...
Date: Tue, April 2, 2002 1:39 pm


DELANO PRISON BUDGET HEARINGS
WE NEED YOU THERE!!


Senate
WEDNESDAY APRIL 24
9:30 am
Room 113 of the State Capitol
Carpools leaving MacArthur BART at 7:00 am

We are at a turning point in our campaign to stop California from
building  its 24th new prison in 20 years, a $595 million prison slated
for Delano.  Thus far we have been successful, delaying groundbreaking
for over a year by  mobilizing grassroots opposition in Delano and
statewide and winning our  environmental lawsuit.

The state legislature will be considering funding for the Delano II
prison in  April and we need to PACK THE HEARING ROOMS!  We can win this
historic battle  but we need your support!

We hope you can join us.
If you can attend,
Please email rose@ criticalresistance.org
or call 510-444-0484


Critical Resistance
1212 Broadway, Suite 1400
Oakland, CA  94612
Phone:  (510)444-0484
Fax:  (510)444-2177
rose@...
crnational@...
criticalresistance.org



Critical Resistance
1212 Broadway, Suite 1400
Oakland, CA  94612
Phone:  (510)444-0484
Fax:  (510)444-2177
rose@...
crnational@...
criticalresistance.org


-- Boone T. Nguyen
Prison Activist Resource Center
www.prisonactivist.org
phone: 510-893-4648, ext. 109
fax: 510-893-4607
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18. Family Court Reform Rally, Sacramento June 22



From: LeBoeuf Suzanne <msuzzus@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Family Court Reform Rally, Sacramento June 22
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:20:59 -0700 (PDT)

From:  Suzanne LeBoeuf, M.A., MFTI
Subject:  Family Court Reform rally, Sacramento,
June 22, 11:30-4:00 p.m.
Date: April 13, 2002 (Saturday)

Contact: Suzanne LeBoeuf M.A., 51 Villa Circle, Fairfield, CA 94533
(707) 425-4124
email:  suzmommy4@ yahoo.com
http://icsn.50megs.com

*** PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY ***
There is a growing awareness of problems in the family court system in
northern California as well as around the country.
Judges are given too much sole power over domestic violence cases and often
award custody of children to the perpetrators who are often the fathers who
batter the mothers and children.  According to the California Protective
Parents Association in Sacramento, 91% of fathers who were accused of sexual
assault by their children received partial or full custody; 54% of the
non-violent mothers received supervised visitation with their children or
were denied all contact with their children; none of the accused abusers
were charged or criminally prosecuted for molesting their children; mothers
lost custody challenges
70% of the time, often to abusive fathers.

An article by Troy Anderson in the Daily News, L.A., 4/1/02,
"Judges fund criticized in audit" reported that the National Organization
for women asked Assemblywoman Sheila Kuela to call for an inquiry into funds
from attorneys and clients that reportedly had improperly influenced  judges
hearing family court cases.  Judges and attorneys associated with  this fund
are questioned as having colluded in family court cases.
* * * More exposure about how family court cases are handled is needed
as well as more education of the public.  Individuals bringing child custody
cases to family courts are faced with the shock of judges ruling the
opposite of what the law states and face such tyranny of the courts alone.
We need to bring this emotionally traumatizing issue to the public
consciousness and let people know they are not alone.

* * * I am coordinating a rally about the need for family court reform
that is both male and female friendly.  It will take place June 22 from
12:30 - 4:00 p.m. on the west capitol steps of the state capitol building in
Sacramento (10th and L Streets).

* * * I need help planning this rally and also to look for speakers.
Please contact me for more details and for flyers to be mailed to you.
You can be added to the rally planning online group by sending me your
email address and a note that you want to be added to the rally planning
group.

* * * In the future more rallies and public speaking can be
coordinated for areas closer to San Francisco.  Please let me know
of your interest.

* * * Donations for the Sacramento rally and future activities
are welcome.  Checks payable to: ICSN, 51 Villa Circle, Fairfield, CA
94533.  Institutional Change & Social Need (ICSN) is a soon-to-be
formed non-profit agency to help those facing the tyranny of family
courts as well as planning more events addressing this issue.


my personal website:
http://www.msuzzus.tripod.com/custodyfraudezine/
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19. THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH


From: Stephen McNeil <SMcneil@ afsc.org>
Subject: THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:21:35 -0400

THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH

Come to this after the April 20th Anti-War and Racism March in S.F.!

Photoexhibit of Dan Budnick, Life photography and special tour guide,
Graciela Martinez, Selma marcher (and AFSC Proyecto Campesino/Farm Labor
Program Director)

Saturday April 20, 2001
3 p.m.
RSVP to (415) 565-0201 x 12

As many of you know, there is going to be a National March Against War &
Racism on Saturday, April 20, in San Francisco. We would like to have a
visible presence of people of faith at this march, and to that end, we have
planned the following:

At 10:30am, a contingent of people will meet at the 16th Street BART in San
Francisco. There, we will greet members of the "Peace Train," an interfaith
group of people coming to the march from the East Bay. (They are holding an
interfaith prayer meeting at 9am in Oakland, before getting on the train
together to come over to San Francisco.) Together, we'll march to the corner
of 19th Street and Dolores, in front of Golden Gate Lutheran Church, where
we'll meet up with other people of faith. At 11am, we'll go over to the
rally in Golden Gate Park.

We are encouraging everybody to bring signs that say "People of Faith United
For Peace." If you wish to place your religious affiliation at the bottom of
that sign, please do so. We'd like the overall message, however, to be that
people of faith are coming together to promote peace -- a message that is
too often not heard.

1074 Folsom Street (not far from AFSC) at 3 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the San Francisco Friends Meeting of the Religious Society
of Friends and the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers): For further
information, please call (415) 565-0201 x 12.
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20. LMNOP Reminder (& a few other things)


From: LMNOP <lmno4p@ yahoo.com>
Subject: LMNOP Reminder (& a few other things)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 05:37:15 -0700 (PDT)

THE REGULAR REMINDER:  The weekly LMNOP Peace Walk at Lake Merritt in
Oakland starts & ends at the colonnade at the northeast end of the lake
between Grand & Lakeshore Avenues every Sunday at 3 P.M.  Near the
Grand Lake Theater, & the Grand & Lakeshore Avenue offramps from the
580 freeway.  Information, directions, & a map are available at the
LMNOP web-site:  http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP/

COME SIGN THE SIGN:  Web-site creator Wm will be at this Sunday's LMNOP
peace walk (April 14).  Wm will be going to the 4-20 demo in
Washington, D.C.  We will have a special sign for him to take to D.C.
that we are asking people to sign as a show of solidarity with the East
Coast demo.  Also, bring any questions, comments, or feedback about the
web-site that you might have for Wm.  (If you just can't wait 'til
Sunday to ask or tell him, Wm is at wm@ webwm.com

BERKELEY PEACE WALK & VIGIL:  The Berkeley Peace Walk & Vigil is every
Wednesday.  Starts & ends at Downtown Berkeley BART Station at Shattuck
& Center Streets.  Vigil begins at 6:30 - Peace Walk begins at 7.  Last
Wednesday's walk had a couple of dozen people, & very enthusiastic
support from passersby & pedestrians.  An excellent new map of the
settlements (called "For A Just Peace Between Israelis & Palestinians")
is being distributed by the Berkeley Peace Walk & Vigil.  It's worth
going one Wednesday evening just to get a copy.  Information on the
Berkeley Peace Walk & Vigil is available from <vigil4peace@...>

DIABLO VALLEY PEACE WALK:  The Diablo Valley Peace Walks are every
Sunday, just like LMNOP's.  Starts at 3 P.M. at the Walnut Creek BART
Station.  If you know anyone on that side of the tunnel let them know
about the Diablo Valley Peace Walks.

4-20 SAN FRANCISCO DEMONSTRATION:  People who would like to ride over
to the big San Francisco demonstration together on Saturday, 4-20, can
meet other LMNOP people at the entrance to the Lake Merritt BART
Station between 10:30 & 10:45.  Zu will be at the West Oakland BART
Station & Don will be at the downtown Berkeley BART station at the same
times.

See you Sunday at Lake Merritt!

- Steve


=====
Check out our website at http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP
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21. Media Alliance Membership Party!


From: Updates <updates@ media-alliance.org>
Subject: Media Alliance Membership Party!
Date:  Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:39:05 -0700


Media Alliance membership party and election featuring
nationally-syndicated radio host Laura Flanders

Tuesday April 23rd
814 Mission Street, #205, SF

6 pm: Cocktails & hors d¹oeuvres
7 pm: Board Election
7:30 Laura Flanders & Willie Ratcliff

Laura Flanders is the host of Working Assets Radio, a daily call-in radio
show which airs live on the Internet and public radio station KALW 91.7 in
San Francisco. She is the founder of the Women's Desk at FAIR and former
host of the media affairs program "Counterspin." She is the author of the
book "Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in
Reporting" Flanders will be joined by Willie Ratcliff, co-editor of the
award-winning San Francisco Bayview
newspaper, and candidates for the organization¹s Board of Directors.

FREE for members, $5 for nonmembers

Don¹t miss your chance to vote for the 2002 board of directors.
Voting will take place at  the MA office

Wednesday, April 17  from 1 ­ 8pm, Friday, April 19
from 1-6 pm, and Monday, April 22 from 1-5 pm and at
the MA annual meeting

And it's not too late to donate $25 to Media Alliance this year as a special
gift for our 25-years of work fighting for media democracy.

http://media-alliance.org/donate/

If you prefer to contribute with a check, please make it out to Media
Alliance and send to:

Media Alliance,
814 Mission Street, #205,
SF, CA 94103

(To arrange for a donation in the form of stock or bonds, please phone Tracy
Rosenberg at (415) 546-6334 x307) Media Alliance is a 501(c)(3)
organization, and all contributions are tax-deductible.
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22. National Inter-Relatedness Day


From: VRiddell@...
Subject: National Inter-Relatedness Day
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:04:04 EDT

Many thanks to Alan Levin for this profound proposition!

Love,

Valentine



<< Dear Friend,

I want to propose that we make April 15th National Inter-relatedness
Day.  On this day, which is the day marked for our payment of taxes
to the U.S. government, we honor our commitment to support each
other, and our complicity in the deeds of the United States
throughout the world.  We can gather together in council to share, or
go to the inner sanctum of our own conscience, breath deeply, and
explore and bring awareness to the following.

We honor and recognize that we support each other through; educating
our children and ourselves together, providing health care for the
elderly and those most in need, being protectors and sustainers of
the natural world against those who would abuse it,   protecting and
safeguarding the vulnerable,  and all the other human kindnesses and
cooperative actions we perform together as a nation.    We honor and
recognize the money, our stored energy, that we place in the hands of
our government to fulfill these goals. We also recognize the degree
to which we have withheld  funds that would more generously and
effectively meet these needs.

We recognize and accept our complicity in the actions of the global
reaching economic and military empire of the United States.  We
recognize our share in contributing more armaments to the conflicts
around the world than almost all other nations combined, including
many billions in arms to Israel and Saudi Arabia in the powder keg of
the middle east.  We accept our complicity as advocate for the
interests of multi-national corporations at the expense of, and in
opposition to, the expressed needs and aspirations of people
throughout the "developing" (impoverished) world.  We realize our
part in thwarting efforts at an international justice system,
stronger protections for and remediation of the environment, and
elimination of nuclear and space weapons. We take responsibility for
our part in promoting throughout the world an idealization of the
acquisition of material wealth, at the expense of the common good.

I'm sure that if you think about it, there is much more to say about
what our tax dollars are doing for us and to us.  How would it be to
take some time, whether or not you actually pay your taxes on the
15th, and just show up around what we are doing together.  Celebrate
this really profound expression of our inter-connection.   You may
find yourself in tears.  Also perhaps, empowered and motivated.

In honor of our inter-relatedness, the compassion that is our true
nature, and our human desire for justice,

Alan Levin
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23. People's Park, 33rd Anniversary


From: Kirk Lumpkin <kirklumpkin@ mac.com>
Subject: People's Park, 33rd Anniversary
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 23:19:29 -0800

Media Advisory
Contact: Kirk Lumpkin
(510) 696-0336
kirklumpkin@...
For Immediate Release
April 8, 2002


EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT


Who and What:
People¹s Park, 33rd Anniversary: A celebration of the creation and the
ongoing life of this piece of liberated earth.

Cost: Free (as always)

Who Should Attend: Open to the Public

When/Where: Sunday, April 28; 12:30pm to 6:00pm.
People¹s Park between Dwight Way, Bowditch St., Haste St, & Telegraph Ave.,
Berkeley

Accessibility: Wheelchair access.

For More Information: (510) 696-0336


PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
… The day begins with the All Nations Singers (Native American drumming &
singing) and ends
with a  Maypole & drum circle.

… MC: Wavy Gravy

… Live Music: Jonathon Richman (formerly of the Modern Lovers), Shelley
Doty X-tet (rock band), Upsurge! (jazz with poets, Raymond Nat Turner &
Zigi Lowenberg), Funky Nixons (political satire rock), and Carol  Denney
(speaker/folksinger), Xplicit Players,.

… Speakers: Barbara Lee (U.S House of Representatives), Kris Worthington
(Berkeley City Council), Terri Compost (Park gardener), Free Speech Sections
(hosted by Michael Delacour), Andy Lichterman (Western States Legal
Foundation), Karen  Pickett  (Earth First! spokesperson on the "Judi Bari
vs. FBI" trial), and Ed Rosenthal (marijuana activist).

… Poets: Julia Vinograd, Jean Stewart (novelist, disabled rights activist),
Goddess, and Kirk Lumpkin.

… Other: Skateboard ramps, open mic second stage (on Haste St.), petting
zoo, East Bay Depot for Creative Re-Use costume table,  etc.
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24. The Road to Public Power


From: "SF Green Party"
       <communications@ sfgreenparty.org>
Reply-To: grns-sf@ greens.org
Subject: The Road to Public Power
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:30:21 -0700

Dear SF Green Party supporters,

    San Franciscans can tackle PG&E's bankruptcy and make public power a
reality this year! Come to a public forum at the PUC Building, 505 Van Ness
Avenue (@ McAllister), on Tuesday April 16 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.

    Speakers will include:
. State Assembly Speaker Fred Keeley -- presenting his plan to buy out
    PG&E
. SF Board of Supervisors President Tom Ammiano, who put a public power
    measure on the November ballot
. Karen Pierce, president, Bayview-Hunter's Point Democratic Club
. A representative from the SF Labor Task Force

plus other special guests.

    Sponsored by San Franciscans for Public Power, a coalition of
progressive, union labor, environmental, consumer, senior, youth, small
business, and other community-based groups.

    For campaign updates, call the SFPP information line at
(415)364-1522.
Admission is free, but donations are welcomed.
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25. Unbelievable: Web site that Changed My Life


From: "Belinda Pawling" <belinda297@ msn.com>
Subject : Unbelievable: Web site that Changed My Life.
           CIA has murdered 8 million people
Date :   Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:19:31 -0700
These links Will Change your life. Additional Pages at top of each page.

http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/usgenocide/CrbnCnSthAmrc.html
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/AmericanStateTerrorism.html
9/11 Just another Day

Belinda


"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an
act of murder."
--Albert Einstein
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26. Upcoming Events at New College


From: "Jon Garfield" <jongarf@ speakeasy.net>
Subject: Upcoming Events at New College
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:56:55 -0700

- - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Penny Rosenwasser:  “The Face of Occupation”

Tuesday, April 16th, 7:00 pm.



Penny Rosenwasser spent three weeks in July doing solidarity actions with
peace activists in Israel and Palestine and photographing her tour of the
region.  Penny was arrested last Wednesday, April 10 with other members of
Jewish Voice for Peace outside the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco
performing civil disobedience in protest of the Israeli occupation of
Palestinian territories.  This Tuesday evening at New College, Penny will
present a slideshow and discussion on the occupation and the efforts of
peace activists.  Penny Rosenwasser is Assistant Director of the Middle East
Children's Alliance and author of "Voices from a 'Promised Land':
Palestinians and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their Hearts."  Donations
requested (no one turned away).  Sponsored by the Middle East Children's
Alliance and the New College Center for Education & Social Action. Contact:
Jon Garfield: 415-437-3425.  Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia
Street,
San Francisco

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Pacifica Now!  The Black Experience at Pacifica Radio
With Kiilu Nyasha, Askia Muhammmad and Don Foster

Wednesday, April 17th, 7:00 pm.


Wednesday, April 17, Kiilu Nyasha, KPOO producer, journalist, former KPFA
programmer and Black Panther Party activist; Askia Muhammmad, WPFW Pacifica
Programmer and Washington Bureau chief for the "Final Call Newspaper" and
Don Foster of the Alliance for a People's Pacifica will discuss the black
experience at Pacifica Radio, at the second forum in the "Pacifica Now!"
series taking place at New College.  Sponsored by the Alliance for a
People’s Pacifica (a project of Global Exchange).  Donations requested (no
one turned away). For more information, call Don Foster at (510) 527-1884.
Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

- - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

BAIDO Global Issues Series: "The Environment"

Thursday, April 17th, 7:00 pm.



The BAIDO (Bay Area International Development Organizations) Global Issues
Series provides monthly opportunities to make connections between critical
global issues and our lives in the Bay Area. The April 18th forum on the
Environment includes: "Popular Education for Global Environmental Health,"
by Jeff Conant, Coordinator of the Environmental Health Book Project at the
Hesperian Foundation;  "The Ecuadorian Rainforest, Oil and Economics," by
Heidi Tuhkanen, Development and Event Manager at The Pachamama Alliance;
"The Origins of San Francisco Bay in a Global Context," by Ken Lajoie,
formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey.  Suggested donation: $5-$10 (no
one turned away).  For more information: Call 510-839-1544 or visit
www.baido.org.  Location:  New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street,
San Francisco





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Jon Garfield, Director
Center for Education & Social Action
New College of California
741 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
phone: (415) 437-3425
email: jongarf@ speakeasy.net
http://www.newcollegenews.net/cesocialchange.html
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27. War Times April Issue Out Now



From: Adam Gold <adam@ youthec.org>
Subject: War Times April Issue Out Now
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:57:32 -0700

We apologize if this message is a duplicate....

The April issue of War Times is now available in sites all across the Bay
Area. Now more than ever we need to keep our eyes focused on what is really
going on in this country and around the world. This issue of War Times
covers the chaos in Palestine and the history of how it came to pass. We
also cover the effects of the ‘War on Terrorism’ on immigrants in the U.S.
And on Chicano/Latino youth. There is an article about Bush’s policy on
using nuclear weapons and a congresswoman’s cries against the Bush
administration. And there is a lot more.

In case you didn’t know, we do not mail multiple copies of War Times to
folks in the Bay Area. If you want copies for yourself or your organization
you will need to pick them up. Luckily, there are sites all over the Bay for
you to get them. If you want to be a distributor of 25 copies or more of War
Times, please pick up papers from one of the Distribution Centers listed
below. If you only need a couple of copies, you can go to any of the other
cafes, bookstores, and organizations listed at the bottom of this email.

Thank you for all of your emails requesting copies of the paper. If you plan
on being a distributor and have not yet let us know, please reply to this
email mentioning how many copies you will take, where you will bring them,
and where you will be picking them up. This will help us to make sure we are
keeping our distribution centers stocked.

War Times is a free newspaper but it costs between $15-20,000 to produce and
distribute each issue around the country. If you have not already
contributed to War Times, please consider sending a donation to us at
EBC/War Times, PMB#409, 1230 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 or
donating on our web site, www.war-times.org. For folks who give $100 or more
annually, we will mail a copy of each issue of the paper to you directly.

Thank you for being a part of the effort to distribute War Times. We will
see everyone at the April 20th mass demonstration against the War – 11am,
Dolores Park, San Francisco.

Peace,
Local Distribution Team

DISTRIBUTION CENTERS
San Francisco -
POWER, 10am-5pm – 32 7th Street, near Civic Center BART, 415-864-8372
La Raza Information Center, 10am-5pm - 474 Valencia@16th, 415-863-0221
Bound Together Books, 11am-7pm – 1369 Haight st., 415-431-8355

Oakland -
Youth Empowerment Center, 10am-6pm – 1357 5th street near West Oakland BART,
510-451-5466x300
Walden Pond Books, 10am-9pm - 3316 Grand Avenue, 510-832-4438
Tumi’s Copy Shop, 9am-6pm – 3028 International Blvd. Near Fruitvale Ave.
Marcus Books – 3900 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, 510-652-2344

North Berkeley -
Boadecia’s books – Closed Tuesdays, 12-8 every other day - 398 Colusa Avenue
(in Kensington), 510-559-9184,

Concord
C-Beyond, 10-6pm weekdays - 1846B Grant St(above the taqueria),
925-676-6556

Palo Alto -
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center, 10-5pm, 457 Kingsley Ave.,
650-326-8837

San Jose -
San Jose Peace Center, 9-5pm, 48 South 7th Street, 408-297-2299
Californians for Justice, 10-6pm, 1010 Ruff Drive

Santa Rosa
Copperfield’s Books, 10am-8pm (6pm on Sundays) - 138 N. Main St. Sebastopol,
707-823-2618

SINGLE ISSUE PICK-UP SPOTS
SAN FRANCISCO
- Coalition on Homelessness
- Day Laborers Program
- St. Peter’s Housing Committee
- REAL
- Teachers for Social Justice
- Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
- Global Exchange
- POWER
- POOR Magazine
- Center for Young Women’s Development
- PODER
- Centro del Pueblo
- Chinese Progressive Association
- Youth Making a Change
- Women's Building
- The Red Stone Bldg
- Progressive Grounds
- Good Life Grocery
- A Different Light
- City Lights books
- CCSF
- Bird & Beckett Bookstore
- Horseshoe Café
- Cafe International
- Bound Together books
- Phoenix Books
- Solar Light Books
- Rainbow Grocery
- Muddy Waters (all three)
- Modern Times
- Adobe Books
- Abandoned Planet
- La Casa Del Libero
- la Boheme
- City Lights Books
- Caffe Puccini
- World News
- Cafe Bizarre
- Potrero Neighborhood House.
- Farley's Cafe
- Christopher's Books
- Java Source
- Green Apple Bookstore
- Java Beach
- Marcus Books
- Bay View Newspaper
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OAKLAND
- Marcus Books
- Walden Pond Bookstore
- Youth Empowerment Center
- PUEBLO
- Asian Resource Center
- La Raza Centro Legal
- Californians for Justice
- Delauers Newstand
- Temescal Café
- San Antonio Collaborative
- SEIU 2850
- SEIU 250
- HERE 1877
- Urban Blend Café
- Mojo Coffee House
- First Unitarian Church of Oakland
- Intertribal Friendship House
- American Friends Service Committee
- Laney College
- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- ACORN
- 7th Street Mcclymonds Initiative
- La Clinica de la Raza
- AFSC

BERKELEY
- Black Oak Books
- Cody’s Books
- Moes’ Books
- La Pena Cultural Center
- Black Repertory Theater
- Boadecia’s Bookstore

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The first casualty of war is truth. These are War Times. It’s time we heard
some truth. Check out War Times newspaper, a national bilingual publication
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no peace without justice....
VIOLATING MY CIVIL RIGHTS IS AN 'ACT OF TERRORISM'!

john vance, editor
PEOPLES BARK NEWS BERKELEY

A project of:
A First Amendment Center
PO Box 4851
Berkeley, Ca 94704
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(510) 287-9406

Hotlines:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 621
(KPFA Event Calendar)

(510) 287-9406
(A First Amendment Center's Message Line!)

(510) 594-4000 ext. 202
(Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hotline!)

(510) 548-0542
(Friends of KPFA hotline!)

(415) 546-6334 ext. 352
(Media Alliance KPFA info line!)

PLEASE send me SF Bay Area news/events that you would like posted
to: aliun@. hotmail.com - Deadline for event notice submissions is every
Monday at noon.

Event Calendar:
http://www.peacenowfreedomnow.net

And, remember, the most important place of all, our own people's
media at: http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ for San Francisco Bay Area
news postings and http://www.indymedia.org/ to look for postings
for other city's community news.

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_week.php
(San Francisco Indymedia Calendar)

More calendars:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages (PBNB)
http://bapd.org/cal.txt (Bay Area Progressive Calendar)
http://www.bapd.org/notices.html  (Some Really GOOD Current Notices)
http://bapd.org/n52.html (Peace and anti-war calendar)
http://www.sfbg.com/action/index.html (SF Bay Guardian ALERTS)

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
(East Bay Coalition Against the War)

http://www.peaceandjustice.org/events/indexhi.html
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Calendar)

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
(Global Exchange)

http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar.html
(Ecology Center calendar)

http://abacia.com/calendar/  (Abacia calendar)

http://www.change-links.org/chcl2.htm
(Change Links Calendar - L.A.)

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/calendar.cfm?
(Berkeley DP Calendar)

http://www.protest.net/ (Protest.Net Calendar of Events)

http://www.earthneighborhood.com/events.html
(Earth Neighborhood calendar - Union City, Ca)

SOME ALTERNATIVE (and one mainstream) MEDIA SOURCES:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
<A First Amendment Center's Links Page>


http://www.internationalanswer.org/
<Act Now to Stop War and End Racism>

http://www.aljazeera.net (Arabic Media in Qatar)
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
(TRANSLATOR for aljazeera.net)


http://www.alternet.org <AlterNet>
http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/gateway/arnindex.html <AntiRacismNet>
http://www.atasite.org/ <Artist's Television Access>
http://www.afghanmagazine.com <Afghan Magazine>
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)
http://berkeleystopthewar.org/ <Berkeley Stop the War Coalition>
http://www.wpkn.org/news/btl.html <Between the Lines - WPKN - CT>
http://www.brasscheck.com/ <brasscheck.com>
http://www.bushwatch.net/ <Bush Watch>
http://www.buzzflash.com/ <BuzzFlash>
http://www.legitgov.org/ <Citizens for Legitimate Government>
http://www.commondreams.org <Common Dreams>
http://www.corpwatch.org/ <CorpWatch>
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup/ <CounterCoup>
http://www.democracynow.org/ <Democracy Now - Out of Exile!>
http://www.drudgereport.com/ <DRUDGE REPORT>

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
<East Bay Coalition Against the War>

http://fair.org/ <Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting>
http://www.flashpoints.net/ <Flashpoints News Radio>
http://globalcircle.net/ <Global Circle Net News>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ <Global Research>
http://www.guerrillanews.com/ <Guerilla News Network>
http://www.humanrightsnow.org/ <Human Rights Now - Michael Ratner>
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm <IATP - WTO Watch>
http://www.independent.co.uk <Independent.co.uk>
http://www.indymedia.org/ <IndyMedia>
http://www.infowars.com/ <Infowars.com - Alex Jones>
http://accuracy.org/ <Institute for Public Accuracy>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ <In These Times>
http://www.kpfa.org <KPFA>
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm <Mid-East Realities>
http://www.opensecrets.org/ (Money in Politics)
http://www.labornet.org/ <LaborNet - News for the Labor Movement>
http://www.madre.org/ <Madre - Women's Human Rights Organization>
http://www.media-alliance.org/ <Media Alliance>
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ <MediaChannel.org>
http://michaelmoore.com/ <Michael Moore>
http://www.copvcia.com/index.html <Mike Ruppert><NOT FREE>
http://www.motherjones.com <Mother Jones>
http://www.narconews.com <Narco News>
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html <Noam Chomsky>
http://www.kpfa.com <NOT KPFA - but about KPFA>
http://www.oneworld.net/ <OneWorld.net>
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp <Open Democracy>
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html <Palestine media Watch>
http://www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ <Palestine Report>
http://poornewsnetwork.org/ <Poor News Network>
http://www.protest.net/ <Protest Net>
http://www.rabble.ca/ <Rabblerousers>
http://www.radio4all.org/ <Radio4All>
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/infohub.html <Rainbow Puddle>
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ <re: constructions>

http://www.enronownsthegop.com/
<Republican Party of Texas - brought to you by Enron>

http://rwor.org/ <Revolutionary Worker>
http://www.sfbayview.com/ <San Francisco Bay View>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ <SF IndyMedia>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/publish.php <SF IndyMedia (Publish Page)>
http://www.savepacifica.net/ <Save Pacifica.net>
http://www.speakoutnow.org/ <Speakout!>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <telegraph.co.uk>
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml <The Afghan Women's Mission>
http://www.tenc.net/ <The Emporer's New Clothes>
http://www.thenation.com/ <The Nation>
http://www.newsguild.org/index.php <The Newspaper Guild>

http://porthurontokentstate.tripod.com/
<The Port Huron to Kent State Project>

http://www.tompaine.com/ <TomPaine.commonsense>
http://www.utne.com <Utne Reader Online>
http://www.voterwest.org/ <Voter March West>
http://warresisters.org/ <War Resisters League>
http://www.war-times.org <WarTimes>
http://www.willpitt.com/Archive.htm <WillPitt.com>

http://www.wilpf.org/
<Women's International Legue for Peace and Freedom>

http://newsforchange.com/ <Working for Change>
http://www.zmag.org/ <Z Magazine Online>

http://ajr.newslink.org/ (mainstream media source)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/~musnews/  (Muslim News - Britain)
http://www.paknews.com/   (Pakistan News Service)
http://www.yespakistan.com/  (More News from Pakistan)
http://www.millat.pibc.com/index.htm  (News from Pakistan)
http://www.thefridaytimes.com  (Pakistan News)
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/  (News from Peshawar, Pakistan)
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/  (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)



BOOKS TO READ:

http://www.akpress.org/

OTHER LINKS:
http://www.kpfa.org (KPFA)

KPFA/Pacifica-related websites:
http://www.cfdp.org (Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica)
http://www.pacifica.org (Pacifica Foundation Radio Website)
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(A First Amendment Center's  website)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
(Coalition to Remove the Pacifica Board)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

(Lotsa KPFA-related links)
http://www.glib.com/union.html
(unofficial WBAI union website)
http://www.webwm.com/mfberry
http://www.newKPFA.net
http://www.wbai.net (Listener's Group - NYC/CdP)

http://www.BillMandel.net or
http://www.BillMandel.com
(Bill Mandel's website(s))

http://www.spanishbookclub.cjb.net
(My partner, Miriam Ruvinskis',
Spanish Book Club website)

FreePacifica discussion list: to subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@. recordist.com with the text "subscribe freepac"

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica local list:  to subscribe, send
email to: les@. delong.org  with the text "subscribe"
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There is a nationwide epidemic of police brutality in the United States.
The victims are overwhelmingly African American, Latino and other people of
color.

STOLEN LIVES provides important and compelling exposures of the nationwide
epidemic of police brutality and murder.  People who've been killed, their
families and loved ones, and communities under the gun speak through the
pages and tell their stories.  And they get a platform to speak out even
more broadly.

Among people who don't deal with police brutality in their daily lives, this
book shows that it's more than just a "few bad apples" or some "isolated
incidents."  Many such people will be moved to join the struggle against
police brutality and stand with those under the gun when they see the
shocking scope of this epidemic.

From STOLEN LIVES: Killed by Law Enforcement - - - - -
This is the eighth of the forty summaries presented in the book, Stolen
Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement - a project of the Anthony Baez Foundation,
National Lawyers Guild and the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police
Brutality, Repression & the Criminalization of a Generation.

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MARC FITZSIMMONS -- SHOT IN THE BACK, THEN DENIED MEDICAL TREATMENT
    Los Angeles.  On July 2, 1998, 28-year-old Marc Fitzsimmons left to go to
the bank for his mother.  That was the last time she would ever see him.
    "Five days later, the Los Angeles Police Department called the Cleveland
Police Department to tell my parents to call me to tell me that my son had
been executed," related his mother, Donna Fitzsimmons Dymally.  "My son was
killed two miles from his home, yet they went all the way to Ohio five days
later to notify...Southwest Division.  They
got a reputation.  You know, you never think it could happen to you.
My son had no criminal record, no drugs, nothing."
    "The police claimed that he had a butcher knife or some kind of meat
cleaver and attacked them.  And they claimed that they shot him in the
chest.  And when we got the autopsy report, he was shot in the back.
He was taken to UCLA.  He was brought in in a police car, handcuffed.
The doctor in the autopsy report noted that he felt something was wrong.
'Well, where is this object, this weapon he was supposed to have had?'
The police could not show it.  It wasn't the police who killed him who
brought him in, it was another set of police.  The doctors believe he would
have lived if he had been given medical treatment.  They claim
they have witnesses, but of course they won't give us any incident report."
    "My child was an honor student.  He was a gifted child.  He was accepted
to UCLA at the age of 15.  Never caused me a day's trouble.
He was the most spirited, most nice -- that's why, when it happened to him,
it was just too much for me.  To think that it could happen to him,
a kid who never gave us a day's trouble.  For a long while I didn't want to
come out of my house.  I'm afriad now when my children leave.
It turns your life upside down."
    "I felt I had to get mobilized, I felt I had to get involved.  It was
like 'I cannot stand back,' because I realized it happened to me and it's
happening to other people and that maybe I could serve as a source to wake
other people up.  The only way we're going make a change is if we stand up
and be counted."
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The STOLEN LIVES PROJECT is a joint project of the October 22nd Coalition to
Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation;
the National Lawyers Guild and the Anthony Baez Foundation.

For more information, call 1-888-NO BRUTALITY or visit
http://www.unstoppable.com/22
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CONTENTS

1...WHITE HOUSE SANCTIONS TERRORISM AGAINST USA
2..."U.S. Legal Coup in Progress"
3...Apr 15 & 16: Events on Middle East Crisis
4...SF events 4.15
5...Reminder - General Meeting on Airport Workers
6...Judi Bari Trial Events
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1. WHITE HOUSE SANCTIONS TERRORISM AGAINST USA


From: John Lee <gostryter@ worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: gostryter@ netzero.net
Subject: WHITE HOUSE SANCTIONS TERRORISM AGAINST USA
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:10:21 -0400
RE: U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)

FROM:

JOHN LEE
Lee Paralegal Investigations
Knoxville TN

TO:

U.S. Rep. Joel Hefley (R-CO)
Chairman
U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

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CC:

EMAILING LISTS

AND

Philip A. Kent
Southeastern Legal Foundation
media@...
http://www.southeasternlegal.org/newsdescr.asp?RI=121

ATLANTA, April 12, 2002: The Southeastern Legal Foundation today
sent a letter to the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
requesting a formal sanction against U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), who
recently issued public statements suggesting that
the Bush administration and top government leaders knew about the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks beforehand but remained silent in order to
benefit financial investors of a Washington-based investment group.

"Cynthia McKinney has disgraced the U.S. House and has offered
falsehoods and innuendo to the terrorist enemies of America," said Phil
Kent, SLF President. "We have petitioned the House Committee to investigate
and sanction Ms. McKinney's public allegations of high treason by the Bush
administration as conduct unbecoming an elected
official."

The SLF request, sent to U.S. Rep. Joel Hefley (R-CO), Chairman
of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, specifically
references Rule 43 of the Code of Official Conduct for the U.S. House: "A
member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives shall conduct
himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect
creditably on the House of Representatives." Southeastern Legal
Foundation, a watchdog organization founded in 1976, successfully pursued
professional sanctions against former President Bill Clinton for lying under
oath and obstruction of justice.

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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities
committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity
for not even hearing about them." -George Orwell
http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/bio.htm

"When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.
When the government fears the people, we have freedom."
—Jack McLamb, Aid & Abet Newsletter - Constitutional Issues
for Lawmen, and author of The Vampire Killers,
"the most-decorated cop in Phoenix PD history" (retired)

In loco parentis (Latin) In the place of a parent; acting as a
parent with respect to the care and supervision of a child; acting with the
power to discipline a child as a parent can.
—Oran's Dictionary of the Law, 2nd Ed.

"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own
destruction."
—James Baldwin

"There's one born every minute."
—P.T. Barnum

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http://www.house.gov/writerep/

TO:
HON. CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY
Georgia 4th District
US Congress
http://www.house.gov/mckinney/

CC:
TN CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
Zach Wamp
http://www.house.gov/wamp/

RE:
"Democrat Implies Sept. 11 Administration Plot"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34565-2002Apr11.html
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/41455.htm

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS TO (NEW WORLD ORDER'S) NEWS MEDIA!

PLEASE KEEP IT UP! AND PLEASE INCREASE YOUR SECURITY!

I'm a Gulf War Vet poisoned with anthrax "vaccine" - disabled for past 5
years, denied disability despite SSA agreeing I have 4 disabling diseases.
Now doctors are finally getting limited news coverage proving Pentagon
intentionally killed over 10,000 of its employees with this disease. At
least we have a chance to know how to fight it (Cipro).

I'm currently singlehandedly taking on the world's $40-Billion a
year Mafia cartel of garbage (and nuke waste) and towing (car theft), with
its CEO living in my town. It had 25 contractors convicted under RICO Act in
New York City and was involved in stealing the steel from World Trade
Center, and followed government orders to bury and guard the steel debris
from the Oklahoma City bombing. Both acts prevented investigation into the
bombings.

My experiences have taught me that this New World Order cabal has
no intention of allowing USA to survive much longer.

To stay useful while fighting in courts, I hand out video news
broadcasts and do dozens of websites of news archives re: government
corruption.

My dad ran for US Senate against Howard Baker (but since both were in UT
Scarabbean Secret Society at University of TN, I doubt he was much more than
a "rabbit" to wear out Baker's opposition). Since then my dad dropped the 2
class actions we had pending against the Skull & Bones mayor and his Mafia
contractors, coincidentally after getting mugged at gunpoint near his
suburban home. He also worked on Iran contra Christic RICO civil class
action with Ralph Nader's Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. But even that I
suspect was to sabotage it in some manner, for various actions I've seen
after I asked to view those files.

If more of us don't bypass the NWO's treasonous Snooze media, this nation is
long gone. Hopefully, you woke up a few more people this
week.

Keep up the great work!

John Lee
Knoxville, TN
PIRATE NEWS - SEPTEMBER 911 SURPRISE
http://www.geocities.com/sept911treason

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34565-2002Apr11.html

Democrat Implies Sept. 11 Administration Plot

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 12, 2002; Page A16

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is calling for an investigation
into whether President Bush and other government officials had
advance notice of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 but did nothing
to prevent them. She added that "persons close to this
administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new
war."

In a recent interview with a Berkeley, Calif., radio station,
McKinney said: "We know there were numerous warnings of the
events to come on September 11th. . . . What did this administration know
and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th? Who else knew,
and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were
needlessly murdered? . . . What do they have to hide?"

McKinney declined to be interviewed yesterday, but she issued a
statement saying: "I am not aware of any evidence showing that
President Bush or members of his administration have personally
profited from the attacks of 9-11. A complete investigation might
reveal that to be the case."


In the radio conversation, McKinney delivered a stinging attack
on the administration. In 2000, she charged, Bush forces "stole
from America our most precious right of all, the right to free
and fair elections." With the September attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, McKinney said,
"an administration of questionable legitimacy has been given
unprecedented power."

She suggested that the administration was serving the interests
of a Washington-based investment firm, the Carlyle Group, which
employs a number of high-ranking former government officials from
both parties. Former president George H.W. Bush -- the current
president's father -- is an adviser to the firm. McKinney said
the war on terrorism has enriched Carlyle Group investors by
enhancing the value of a military contractor partly owned by the
firm.

During her five terms in office, McKinney has often given voice
to radical critiques of U.S. policy, especially in the
Middle East. She defied the State Department to investigate
assertions that international sanctions are brutalizing innocent
Iraqis.

With her comments concerning Sept. 11, McKinney, 47, seems to
have tapped into a web of conspiracy theories circulating during
the past six months among people who believe that the government
is partially -- or entirely -- to blame for last year's attacks,
which killed more than 3,000 people.

"What is undeniable is that corporations close to the administration have
directly benefited from the increased defense spending arising from the
aftermath of September 11th," McKinney charged. "America's credibility, both
with the world and with her own people, rests upon securing credible answers
to these questions."

Staff writer David Von Drehle contributed to this report.

© 2002 The Washington Post Company

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NEW WORLD DISORDERS

"The United States will be a Third World nation by the year 2050."
—Pat Buchanan, Republican/Reform Party, from his book,
Death of the West (2001)

"NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order."
—Henry Kissinger, Satanic cultmember at Bohemian Grove
Presidential Retreat, and member of the Satanic super-elite secret society
of Illuminati Council on Foreign Relations, when campaigning for the passage
of NAFTA

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is
the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World
Order."
—David Rockefeller, Satanic cultmember at Bohemian Grove

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier,
just so long as I'm the dictator."
—President-Elect George W. Bush, CNN
News, Aired December 18, 2000 - 12:00 p.m. ET

"A president of the United States has just assumed what amounts to
dictatorial power."
—William Safire, Republican, New York Times,
"Seizing dictatorial power", November 15, 2001

"A military flag is a flag that resembles the regular flag of the United
States, except that it has a yellow fringe, bordered on three sides."
—President Dwight Eisenhower, General, Supreme Commander
Allied Forces during World War II, White House Executive
Order No. 10834, August 21, 1959
(describing the ONLY "United States" flag displayed
in ALL courtrooms in USA)


"GEORGE W. BUSH reigns at the White House—because he has more royal blood
than Al Gore. And because of his noble heritage, Burke's Peerage, the bible
of British aristocracy, correctly predicted Bush's victory before Election
Day. "Governor Bush is related to more imperial royal and noble houses than
any previous President," said Burke's Peerage publishing director Harold
Brooks-Baker. FAST FACT! George W. Bush, his mother and father, and Al Gore
are distant royal cousins. 'He's closely related to every European monarch
on and off the throne, including a close kinship with all members of the
British House of Windsor,
making him a distant cousin of the Queen
and Prince Charles.'"
—National Enquirer, "BUSH'S WIN: IT'S ALL IN HIS ROYAL BLOOD!",
December 28, 2000

"In the event that I am reincarnated I would like to return as a
deadly virus in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."
—Prince Phillip, husband Queen Elizabeth of Britain, from
autobiography, in chapet titled, "His Royal Virus"

"350,000 people will have to eliminated every day in order to sustain the
planet. It's a terrible thing to say but somebody has to say it."
—Jauques Cousteau, Frenchman with network TV in America who lived
and worked underwater



NWO and its "United Nations" armies have declared WAR on the United States -
YET AGAIN. National parks are given to UN as partial payment on LITERALLY
BANKRUPT US government's $1.5-Billion per day INTEREST PAYMENT on the
bankruptcy debt. But unlike ENRON that bought over half of US Congress and
ALL who work at White House, our treasonous politicians will NEVER allow
United States Inc to wipe the slate clean and start over by "discharging"
this debt ON ALL AMERICANS TODAY that's leftover from 1920s Depression, much
less mobilize Pentagon armed forces to attack the NWO's international
bankers working at WIDE OPEN THROTTLE to destroy USA. Every paper "Dollar
Bill" is nothing but another Bank Loan from NWO's International Federal
Reserve Bank. IRS is nothing but a Puerto Rican Corporation tasked as a
Collection Agency using illegal ATF cops to Extort unconstitutional taxes
from brainwashed Americans as ALL US government Inc's LOOT Secret Profits
from overflowing Wall Street investments. Foreign UN military forces are now
working hand in hand beside police in USA or literally attacking and
disarming US traffic cops as power of US military is wasted overseas or
disarmed along USA borders. Law enforcement catalogs for US police offer
official uniforms for United Nations infantry.
UN controls USA's government school curiculums and censors ALL private
schools and churches that claim 501C "tax free" status. NWO now owns ALL
major "News" corporations that are no longer American but are Multinational
with zero allegiance to USA.

IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA!
THE BRITISH BANKERS ARE COMING!

WARNING: MORE FOREIGN TROOPS THAN US TROOPS IN USA
TODAY & US TROOPS ARE WORKING WITH US POLICE TO RAID
HOUSES AND PRACTICE FILLING FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS...
http://infowars.com/police_state.html
http://www.policestatedaily.com
http://www.uhuh.com/guns/aid-abet/aa-index.htm
http://www.copvcia.com

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KOFI ANNAN AND UNITED NATIONS ARE STAINED WITH BLOOD
-- HON. CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY

(Extensions of Remarks - November16, 2001)

HON. CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY OF
GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Friday, November 16, 2001

* Mr. Speaker, now I think I've just about seen and heard everything: Kofi
Annan and the United Nations being announced as joint recipients of this
year's Nobel Peace Prize. I'm not saying there wasn't a time in the UN's
history when it wasn't deserved. What I'm saying is I don't
believe it's deserved right now. Instead, I believe that to award the UN and
Kofi Annan now amounts to an insult to the millions that have died at the
hands of the United Nations in recent years.

* Mr. Speaker, Kofi Annan and the United  Nations are stained with the blood
of millions of dead people.

* Let me tell you about some of their recent failures.

* Let me start with their greatest failure--Rwanda

The 1994 Rwandan genocide must amount to one of the greatest humanitarian
failures of any generation. Kofi Annan was the Director
of UN Peacekeeping based in New York and was personally responsible for the
UN PeaceKeeping force in Rwanda. The now famous informant Jean Pierre had
warned Dallaire and the UN leadership of the coming mass slaughter but his
information was cavalierly dismissed. Tragically,
as had been predicted, Rwanda exploded into an orgy of violence the likes of
which the last century had never seen. At the end of 100 days an
estimated1,000,000 Rwandan men, women, and children had been bludgeoned,
macheted, and axed to death. The daily death rate was five
times that of the Nazi industrial death camps.
Instead of reinforcing the UN contingent in Kigali, the UN actually ordered
the withdrawal of their troops. It was then that the killing in Kigali
exploded. Of course, the US bears much of the blame for the UN's inaction.

* And now the much-celebrated International Tribunal for Rwanda has become
yet another UN bureaucratic disaster. Repeated UN investigations have found
widespread mismanagement, wastage, incompetence, and corruption. The
Tribunal has prosecuted a fraction of the Rwandan
genocide suspects it holds in custody. It has even been criticized by its
own Appeal Court of prosecutorial incompetence and failing to observe
elementary due process considerations. Sadly, the Tribunal, which should
have brought justice to the region, has instead become another multi-million
dollar UN boondoggle. Srebrenica, a name now
associated with one of the worst crimes in Europe since WWII or as Judge
Riad of the ICTY described it, ``..... a place where thousands of men were
executed, hundreds buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered,
children killed before their mother's eyes, and a grandfather was forced to
eat the liver of his own grandson.'' These
are truly scenes from hell written on the darkest pages of human history.
The UN created a safe haven in Srebrenica and encouraged civilians to enter
en masse so as to be under UN military protection. Only one condition
applied--entry into the UN safe haven required Muslim fighters to surrender
their weapons. This they did, hoping that if ever the need arose they would
get them back. They were to be sorely disappointed on that score.

* When it became apparent that General Mladic was separating the men from
the women and then killing them in the nearby fields, the Dutch UN troops
began pleading for UN military support. But, just like Rwanda, the UN
leadership once again became paralyzed and failed. They dithered over air
strikes, they refused to send in troops to help the beleaguered Dutch and in
the end, just as with Rwanda, the UN withdrew their troops. This permitted
General Mladic to remove an estimated 5,000-8,000 Muslims from in and around
the UN compound in Potocari and slaughter them.

* To this day the United Nations and no UN official has ever been held
criminally or civilly liable, let alone even publicly admonished, for
their massive failures in Srebrenica. All the families of the thousands of
victims can do now is pick up the pieces of their broken families and
attempt to restart their lives.

* Mr. Speaker, sadly there is more.

* East Timor. In late August 1999, the UN and now Secretary General Annan,
called for elections on the small island country of East
Timor despite disturbing evidence that hard line elements in the Indonesian
military were preparing to cause wide spread public disorder so as to
disrupt the elections. The UN failed to provide adequate
protection for the civilian population. Dili was burnt to the ground and
East Timor was engulfed in violence. After weeks of killing and
millions of dollars of damage, the Australian government sent in ground
troops to restore order to East Timor; but by then, it was too late to save
East Timor from UN bungling.

* Sierra Leone. So bad was the UN's conduct in Sierra Leone in June 2000
that their long time supporter and friend, Medicins Sans Frontieres, felt
compelled to speak out and complain. MSF complained bitterly that the UN
troops fled a RUF attack on the Sierra Leonean town of Kabala.

* In so doing MSF said that the UN had failed its mandate to protect
civilian populations, many of whom were sick women and malnourished
children in the MSF hospital.

* Cambodia. There is now mounting evidence that UN Peacekeeping troops
actually caused an explosion of AIDS in Cambodia in 1992.
In January of this year Richard Holbrooke, the then US Ambassador to the UN,
launched an unprecedented attack upon the UN during his last UTN address
saying ``..... it would be the cruelest of ironies if people who had come to
end war ..... were spreading the most deadly of
diseases ..... it will kill more people and undermine more societies than
even the most critical conflicts we discuss here.'' And despite Ambassador
Holbrooke's warnings there are concerns that right now in East Timor UN
staff could be causing yet another AIDS epidemic. Some things just never
seem to change.

* Mr. Speaker, let me put it squarely on the record. I believe in the UN. I
believe that our country should support the UN. But I do not think that we
should blindly lend our support in the face of massive negligence.

* I think answers to these questions beg to be asked:

* After such repeated UN failures to act upon knowledge of impending
humanitarian disasters, what forgiveness?

* After such repeated UN failures to discharge their sacred duties, what
accountability?

* After such ongoing complicity by the UN in repeated slaughters, what
punishment?

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Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?pub!4400

"Good Evening, my name is Leslie Gelb. I'm President of the Council on
Foreign Relations and Commander in Chief of our black helicopter forces.
Only kidding Kofi [Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations], the
helicopters are yours. Tonight's event is on the record. And it's being
webcast on the Council's website and also by CNN. A number of our colleagues
from the press are here to report on this
and to televise as well, so I remind you, it is on the record.
We've been at this now for almost eight years. Let me thank some people. Our
Chairman for the Center all along has been General John Vessey. And Jack
Vessey, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brings great
wisdom to our enterprise. The present Director of the Center is Bill Nash, a
retired Army General, who led the first
U.S. division into Bosnia, and who played an important role for the United
Nations in Kosovo. To advance our evening, it is my incredible pleasure to
introduce the Chairman of the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations,
Peter G. Peterson, whose brilliant suntan belies his civic accomplishments.
(Laughter). (Applause). Permit me to remind Kofi of two of Ted's dozen or so
nuclear strikes that evening. Referring reverentially to my book, Gray Dawn,
he said let me tell you about
Peterson's book Gray Dawn. This is a book that once you put it
down you will not be able to pick it up. (Laughter).
We were originally scheduled, you know, to rededicate the Council's Center
for Preventive Action on September 11th of all dates. Kofi Anan, the much
admired leader of the United Nations, of course, was to
address us that evening. Please let me introduce our presider for
this evening, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chairman of
our Center for Preventive Action, General John W. Vessey.
General Vessey will introduce our keynote speaker, our good friend and I'm
proud to say our Nobel Laureate, the United States -- the United Nations
Secretary-General -- perhaps that was a Freudian slip, I don't
know." (Applause) [Not to be confused with US Congressional "Committees on
Foreign Relations" AKA "Select Committees on Intelligence"]

UNITED NATIONS (New World Order) REPORT ON AIDS DEPOPULATING AFRICA:
http://www.fews.org/va/southernafrica/1999-00/zavay2k.pdf

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WILD CONSPIRACY ACTS

"Enterprise" means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership,
corporation, business trust, union chartered under the laws of this state,
or other legal entity, or any unchartered union, association or
group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity, and it
includes illicit as well as licit enterprises, and governmental, as well as
other, entities." —Organized Crime and Racketeering— 39 TCA §12-203 (State
RICO Act in Tennessee)

"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all,
IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a
simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a
fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or
no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and
denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."
—General Herman Goering, President of German Reichstag and NAZI Party,
Commander of Luftwaffe during World War 2, sentenced to death at the
Nuremberg warcrimes trials (committed suicide first)

HITLER WAS JEWISH ROTHCHILD ILLUMINATI NEW WORLD ORDER
"The Mind & God of Adolf Hitler"
By R. Joseph, University Press
Adolf Schickelgruber, AKA Adolf Hitler
http://www.brain-mind.com/Hitler.html

INSIDE THE 3RD REICH - FAKE TERRORISM TO START WARS
http://www.geocities.com/skull_and_bones_nazis

"Although he did not graduate Phi Beta Kappa as his father had, he did
follow his father into Yale University's Skull and Bones Club, a
secret society for the males of prominent families. The Order of Skull and
Bones was once called the 'Brotherhood of Death.'"
—Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, page 146, May 1994

"The intruders discovered "one room" adorned with nothing but Nazi
paraphernalia."
—Ron Rosenbaum, Esquire Magazine, "The Last
Secrets of the Skull & Bones", September 1977

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May 1, 2001
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html

"Friendly Fire - U.S. Military drafted plans to kill innocent people and
commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to provoke war with Cuba. Operation
Northwoods reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés,
sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas,
hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, US soldiers killing US soldiers,
and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities."

Body of Secrets
by James Banford (2001)

"To outsiders, its initials once stood for No Such Agency. To its employees,
they stood for Never Say Anything. Today the US National
Security Agency, NSA, is responsible for eavesdropping on the rest of the
world - a world where computer systems are measured by the acre
- and illegally eavesdropping on innocent citizens in USA." Details of
Operation Northwoods - Pentagon's plan to terrorize USA and trigger War
http://www.bodyofsecrets.com
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf
(pdf images of actual documents, 15 pages, 750kb
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2. "U.S. Legal Coup in Progress"


From: "Ross" <lobo@ renonevada.net>
Subject: "U.S. Legal Coup in Progress"
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 02:17:52 -0700

by, Robert Striker
"U.S. Legal Coup in Progress"
Patriot Act—redefines MAFIA and Others
as "Terrorist Associates"

Under the USA Patriot Act the U.S. Government can use a "new charge" to
arrest Mob members. The Act—redefined "Terrorist Association" as any
criminal activity that may "relate" to supporting terrorists.
For Prosecution, the U.S. Patriot Act merged common criminal activity with
supporting terrorism: The ACT states: criminals and terrorists use the same
criminal networks and organizations to "Market" illegal-drugs; both
participate in and have an interest in world criminal activity."
Police Can Now Use Secret Evidence Against Anyone: The Act opened a back
door for police to use "secret evidence" against non-terrorists and alleged
criminals. Government need only allege an individual or organization’s
activities "relate" to a "criminal market" terrorists use or depend on for
their support in order to cause an arrest and/or property confiscation.

What is a "Terrorist Associate? The Patriot Act’s wording "relate to" "join"
"influence on" "assist" "support" and "criminal market" are so vague,
government may charge as "Terrorist Associates" both legal and illegal
businesses and individuals who never intended to support terrorists. It is
foreseeable "illegal drug marketers" will be charged as "Terrorist
Associates" since it appears impossible to stop terrorists from using their
networks to sell drugs or other criminal activity. Under the Act police need
little probable cause to arrest citizens and only a "preponderance of
evidence" to confiscate their property. Innocent citizens may find it
difficult to defend against "secret evidence" and/or recover their
confiscated bank accounts and other property. Under the Act "a government
authority" to seize foreign bank accounts need only claim that a financial
transaction, account proceeds or property are "related" to criminal
activity.

Under the Patriot Act: U.S. and cooperating government authorities are not
required to "trace" prove the source of a foreign bank or financial service
account in order to seize all the proceeds therein. Should the United States
or a government authority find that a foreign bank account has been drawn
down or closed the government may "substitute for forfeiture" any other
asset a government claims to belong to the alleged owner of a bank account
then subject to forfeiture. Consequently, a government may "substitute for
forfeiture" assets
"equal" to the entire amount of all financial transactions and deposits that
went through a foreign bank or financial service account during a given time
period.

Under the Patriot Act: the U.S. or a cooperating government authority is not
required to prove what part of proceeds seized from a foreign bank or
service account are "related" to criminal activity. The U.S. or a
cooperating government authority may confiscate a foreign bank account and
"never" inform its owners the reason for confiscation or the evidence
against their account that caused its confiscation. Innocent account owners
may be defenseless under such circumstances.
Charged Defendants Under the Act start out guilty—having to prove they did
not reasonably have reason to know the person(s), organization or entity
they associated or networked with had committed a terrorist act or would
commit one in the future.

What constitutes Terrorism under the Patriot Act may be arbitrarily decided
by police: Any physical act that is legal or illegal may be alleged by
police to be terrorism under 18USC 2331. Example: Union demonstrators
fighting with strike breakers. No one need be injured for police to make a
terrorist charge; demonstrators need only "appear intended to intimidate or
coerce a civilian population; or to influence the policy of a government".
(See 18USC 2331).
The Act’s mention of "related" criminal activity and networks—permit
government under the Act’s anti-terrorism provisions to use "secret
evidence" against non-terrorists the government charges with being
"Terrorist Associates". Government "secret evidence" can be used in both
U.S. Military Tribunals and Civilian "Star Chamber Courts" as provided for
by the Anti-Terrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1996. Defense against
government-paid and/or other secret witnesses may be difficult when
defendants are not allowed to learn the evidence against them.

Under the U.S. Patriot Act the Government got the power from Congress to
charge U.S. Citizens for crimes that "relate" to any activity that may
support terrorists or threatens the safety, economy, national security,
and/or U.S. or Foreign Policy of the United States.

CONCERN: Like imprisoned foreign-terrorist suspects in the U.S., could
American Citizens (non-terrorists) subsequently charged by the government as
"Terrorist Associates" or for "related criminal activity" be next to lose
their right to have confidential meetings with attorneys? Will U.S. Citizens
be next to give up their
attorney-client-privilege and to endure government agents sitting at their
table whenever an attorney comes to meet with them in jail?

End

USA Patriot Act  (HR 3162)
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3. Apr 15 & 16: Events on Middle East Crisis


From: "jongarf2002" <jongarf@ speakeasy.net>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Apr 15 & 16: Events on Middle East Crisis; and other events
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 06:38:22 -0000

Hanan Elmasu: "Peace with Justice: Human Rights for Palestine"
Monday, April 15th, 7:00 pm.

Hanan Elmasu, a veteran Palestinian human rights advocate, will speak
at New College as part of a nationwide speaking tour addressing the
ongoing crisis in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.   She will discuss
the historical roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and outline
what needs to happen to end violence in the region. Most important,
she will suggest things that US citizens can do to help promote peace
in the Middle East.  Hanan Elmasu has lived and worked in the West
Bank city of Ramallah for 8 years. Currently based in Geneva,
Switzerland, she advocates for Palestinian human rights within the
United Nations and serves as a Board Member of Addameer, a prisoners'
support and human rights association in Ramallah.  Donations
requested (no one turned away).  Sponsored by Global Exchange and the
New College Center for Education & Social Action.  Contact: Shannon
Wolfe: 415-255-7296 ext 244.  Location:  New College Theater, 777
Valencia Street, San Francisco
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Penny Rosenwasser:  "The Face of Occupation"
Tuesday, April 16th, 7:00 pm.

Penny Rosenwasser spent three weeks in July doing solidarity actions
with peace activists in Israel and Palestine and photographing her
tour of the region.  Penny was arrested last Wednesday, April 10 with
other members of Jewish Voice for Peace outside the Israeli Consulate
in San Francisco performing civil disobedience in protest of the
Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.  This Tuesday evening
at New College, Penny will present a slideshow and discussion on the
occupation and the efforts of peace activists.  Penny Rosenwasser is
Assistant Director of the Middle East Children's Alliance and author
of "Voices from a 'Promised Land': Palestinians and Israeli Peace
Activists Speak Their Hearts."  Donations requested (no one turned
away).  Sponsored by the Middle East Children's Alliance and the New
College Center for Education & Social Action. Contact: Jon Garfield:
415-437-3425.  Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street,
San Francisco
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Pacifica Now!  The Black Experience at Pacifica Radio -- With Kiilu
Nyasha, Askia Muhammmad and Don Foster
Wednesday, April 17th, 7:00 pm.

Wednesday, April 17, Kiilu Nyasha, KPOO producer, journalist, former
KPFA programmer and Black Panther Party activist; Askia Muhammmad,
WPFW Pacifica Programmer and Washington Bureau chief for the "Final
Call Newspaper" and Don Foster of the Alliance for a People's
Pacifica will discuss the black experience at Pacifica Radio, at the
second forum in the "Pacifica Now!" series taking place at New
College.  Sponsored by the Alliance for a People's Pacifica (a
project of Global Exchange).  Donations requested (no one turned
away). For more information, call Don Foster at (510) 527-1884.
Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco
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BAIDO Global Issues Series: "The Environment"
Thursday, April 18th, 7:00 pm.

The BAIDO (Bay Area International Development Organizations) Global
Issues Series provides monthly opportunities to make connections
between critical global issues and our lives in the Bay Area. The
April 18th forum on the Environment includes: "Popular Education for
Global Environmental Health," by Jeff Conant, Coordinator of the
Environmental Health Book Project at the Hesperian Foundation;  "The
Ecuadorean Rainforest, Oil and Economics," by Heidi Tuhkanen,
Development and Event Manager at The Pachamama Alliance;  "The
Origins of San Francisco Bay in a Global Context," by Ken Lajoie,
formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey.  Suggested donation: $5-$10
(no one turned away).  For more information: Call 510-839-1544 or
visit www.baido.org.  Location:  New College Cultural Center, 766
Valencia Street, San Francisco


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New College of California
741 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
phone: (415) 437-3425
http://www.newcollegenews.net/cesocialchange.html
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4. SF events 4.15


From: Planttrees@ aol.com
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: SF events 4.15
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:08:38 EDT

http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/cal/index20020415.html

# COLOMBIA, The Next Vietnam?
MON Apr 15 7-9 PM Centro Del Pueblo 474 Valencia (btwn 15th and 16th)
Come hear Colombian peace activists Cristina Vasquez and Monica Enriquez
talk about the current situation in Colombia and find out how the United
States is involved in a war that has taken 35,000 lives in the last decade.
Time will be made available for questions from the audience. 0-$10
TOWN HALL COMMITTEE AGAINST WAR AND HATE http://www.sftownhall.org

# Hanan Elmasu: "Peace with Justice: Human Rights for Palestine"
Monday, April 15th, 7:00 pm. New College Theater, 777  Valencia St

### http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/cal/index20020416.html ###

# Tuesday, April 16th 12:25 pm -1:30 p.m at the University of San Francisco,
Harney Plaza
Protest to free Palestine of Israeli Occupation, END THE SANCTIONS ON Iraq &
   Cuba, and Stop the so-called "War on Terrorism"
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3394922.html

# Penny Rosenwasser:  "The Face of Occupation" Tue Apr 16 7 pm.
New College Theater, 777 Valencia St http://www.newcollege.edu
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3429607.html

### http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/cal/index20020417.html ###

# TAKE ACTION AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CORN Wed Apr 17 11:45am
Mexican Consulate - 870 Market Street (at Powell)
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/mexico/biodiversity/actionEmail040502.

html
Subscribe Address: Bay-GEactivists-subscribe@ topica.com

# Pacifica Now!  The Black Experience at Pacifica Radio -- With Kiilu
Nyasha,  Askia Muhammmad and Don Foster Wed April 17 7 pm. New College
Theater, 777 Valencia St

# BAIDO Global Issues Series: "The Environment" Thu Apr 17 7 pm.
http://www.baido.org New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia St

### http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/cal/index20020418.html ###

# EARTH DAY PUBLIC FORUM - Apr 18 Thu 7-9pm - "The Coming Water
Crisis" will feature Dr. Peter Gleick, Director of the Pacific Institute
for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, David Lewis,
Executive Director of Save the Bay, and Cynthia Koehler, a visiting scholar
at the University of California at Berkeley.  Assemblyman Fred Keeley will
moderate the forum, which also will feature a special video statement from
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. @ Palo Alto City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

#4/18: San Francisco International Film Festival Opening Night
Castro, Kabuki 8  http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3494180.html
# Thur Apr 18 SPIN JAM 136 Taylor @ Turk, 8pm-2am $5 every Thursday
SUBSCRIBE Fire Dance community: IK_Kommunity-subscribe@ topica.com

### http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/cal/index20020419.html ###

# 4/19: Free Iyengar Yoga Class  Friday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 April
19-June.
The Iyengar Institute of San Francisco is located at 2404 27th Ave (at
Taraval).  http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/cls/3525487.html
# SPACELOUNGE PRESENTS: CULTLOUNGE Apr 19 354 5th st $15 /$20
SUBSCRIBE: bman-announce-subscribe@ burningman.com

### Sat Apr 20 http://www.BayAreaEarthDay.net ###

# ALL Out for April 20th California-wide Anti-War Demo Sat Apr 20 11am
Dolores Park, SF at the corner of Dolores Street and 19th Street
As Bush steps up his "war on terror" with an attempted coup in Venezuela,
increased backing for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians and new threats
against Iraq, tens of thousands of people in Washington, DC and San
Francisco will take to the streets to show that there is a growing
opposition that will not remain silent.
townhall-announce-subscribe@ 911peace.net

#Sat, April 20, 9am-12pm - (EARTH DAY) Beautification in Adam Rogers Park
http://www.onebrick.org/Apr20.html

# Celebrate Berkeley Earth Day and Eco Motion Parade on Saturday, April 20,
11am-5pm in Civic Center Park, Allston and MLK Jr. Way in downtown Berkeley.
   http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3493068.html

# 4/20: THOUSANDS TO PROTEST BUSH POLICES IN SF 11am Dolores Park
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3398826.html

# 4/20: Song of the Earth Festival noon-3 GGPark Dutch Windmill
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3414852.html

# 4/20: Breast Cancer Action 5th Annual Town Meeting w/ Barbara Ehrenreich
12:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Women's Building, 3543 18th St $10 notaflof
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3405405.html http://www.bcaction.org

#SF International Film Festival Thu Apr 18- May 2 Castro, Kabuki 8
http://www.sffs.org

#Sat Apr 20 noon-7pm HoWeird St. Fair Howard St Btw 11/12
http://www.howweird.org

#Sat Apr 20 11a-5p People's EarthDay India Basin Park
Bayview Hunter's Pt

# 4:20 party @ hippy hill http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3481456.html

# 4:20 @ Studio Z 4:20pm - 4:20am
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3421488.html
http://www.cannabisaction.net  http://www.norml.org  http://www.canormal.org

#Earth Night: Energy and Expressions  Berkeley 4/20 April 20, 7-9 pm.  at
Pusod, 1808 5th st. Berkeley CA 94710 http://www.bwf.org
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3466163.html

#Sat Apr 20 9pm BiNet USA house party 1383 Minna @ 15th
http://www.lindasusan.com

### http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/cal/index20020421.html ###

# Please join Woody Harrelson, Bob Weir, Michael Franti, Randy Hayes,
Clowns, Clean Cars as they gather to celebrate Earth Day - Sunday Apr 21,
Noon to 5pm, at SF Precita Park (One block South of Cesar Chavez between
Folsom and Alabama) http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/com/3512799.html

#   4/21: Surviving Off the Land  Sunday, April 21; 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
http://www.crissyfield.org
Join an easy, one mile walk and learn how past residents of this area locate
food, water and shelter. Children welcome.
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/2994290.html

# Sunday, April 21st Gates at 10am. Racing at 1pm. $20 - 35 for racing.
$10 for watching.  announce location http://www.theshipyard.org
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3271871.html
http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/

# SAVE THE EARTH FEST 2002  Sunday, April 21st  Medicine Drum, Playground,
Jana Herzen and Alma Melodioso plus special guest DJ's - DJ Dragonfly,
SoulSalaam, DJ chiKa Kelly's Mission Rock
817 China Basin 3pm until 10pm  $15.00 21+
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/3460644.html


#Tue Apr 23 6-8pm SF Food Bank http://www.onebrick.org/apr23.html

# ANTARCTICA BENEFIT Wed Apr 24  7p-12a Presidio, San Francisco
$ 10 / $ 20 http://www.longnow.org/rhino/fund_raiser.htm
SUBSCRIBE: bman-announce-subscribe@ burningman.com

# Fri Apr 26 - Celebration Party at http://www.AKPress.org  7-11 PM
Music, Speakers and Videos $5-10 donation 674-A 23rd Street, Oakland

#Friday, April 26th Bliss http://www.blissspace.com/
full moon ritual drum corp food DJs http://www.blissspace.com

#  THE SAN FRANCISCO NEW AGE EXPO Apr 2-28, Concourse Exhib. Center
8th@Brannan http://www.NewAgeExpo.com http://www.lightstreamers.com
call 415-382-8300 for tickets and info or go to the website.

#Saturday, April 27th, "A Gathering of Light", Concourse Exhibition Center
8th and Bryant: Dragonfly, Soul Salaam, Rhythmystic, Moondoggy awesome
visuals, chillspace, food, clothing stalls, funky vendors and more TBA!

#The Fundamentals of Magic & Ritual  Sat Ap 27 1-5 PM  675 Chenery St
Art House $50.00 (limited scholarships available) 415/452-0149

# Sat Apr 27 FULL MOON BONFIRES on OCEAN BEACH @ Lincoln

# The Grass Is Always GREENer... http://www.sfgreenparty.org
Join the San Francisco Green Party for an open house reception for new
activists on Sunday, April 28 from 4 to 7 PM.  Are you a Green Party member
who wants to become more involved, but aren't sure how? Come and meet
veteran  activists in a relaxed atmosphere.   Stop by to find out about the
latest SFGP projects and how you can get involved.   Refreshments served.
Free.  San Francisco Green Party office, 1910 Mission (near 15th), S.F.
(415) 701-7090

# 5/1 MAYDAY $5 7:30PM Mission Cultural Ctr. 2868 Mission St./ 25th St

#Sun May5 clubslick.com fetish ball Club NV 525 Howard @ 1st $25

#Sun May 26 FULL MOON BONFIRES on OCEAN BEACH @ Lincoln

#6/1-26/02: Ewok village saves Earth from evil G8 meeting in Canada
email me immediately if this link fails :
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/eve/1488349.html

# HEALTH & HARMONY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL June 8 & 9 Sonoma County
Fairgrds, Santa Rosa 10-7pm http://harmonyfestival.com

#Mon Jun 24FULL MOON BONFIRES on OCEAN BEACH @ Lincoln
7/4 4th of July in Bolinas!  Noon Parade, Get there before 10am to avoid
traffic jam.
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5. Reminder - General Meeting on Airport Workers


From: StudentsForPeace_SFState@ yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: StudentsForPeace_SFState-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Reminder - General meeting on airport workers
Date: 13 Apr 2002 02:02:08 -0000


We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

General meeting on airport workers

Date: Monday, April 15, 2002
Time: 7:00PM PDT (GMT-07:00)

General meeting on the Filipino airport workers' struggle:

Mondays  7 pm
SEIU Local 790 Offices
1390 Market Street (corner 9th St.), 11th floor
San Francisco, CA
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6. Judi Bari Trial Events


From: Laurel Paget-Seekins <laurelrose@ riseup.net>
Subject: Judi Bari Trial Events
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:45:25 -0700

hi- can you help us spread the word about these events. thanks, laurel

EVENTS RELATED TO THE JUDI BARI VS FBI CASE
APRIL 8th- MAY 24th:
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Wobblies on Trial:  the Roots of FBI Repression

The Industrial Workers of the World, present Faith Petric, Wobbly
Troubadour, along with outspoken word troupe Molotov Mouths, in an evening
of solidarity with Judi Bari's lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police.
There will be a brief presentation on the government repression against the
labor movement and an update on the 2nd week of trial in the FBI lawsuit.
Dinner provided by Food Not Bombs.

April 18th, dinner at 6pm and program at 7 pm

Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland (near Broadway).
Sliding scale admission, $5-15, - no one turned away for lack of funds.
For more information, call (510) 548-3113.
*************
Counter FBI Terrorism!

The FBI Director, Robert Mueller, is coming to speak in San Francisco on
Friday, April 19th. Come speak-out against FBI repression and support the
Judi Bari lawsuit.  Rally outside the Pan Pacific Hotel, 500 Post St, (and
Mason) at 11:30 am.   For more information, call
(510) 663-6330.

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Violence Against Activists

Activists face outright violence in addition to covert actions against them.
This event will illuminate recent examples of violence against activists
including the use of pepper spray against non-violent activists and the
death of forest activist David "Gypsy" Chain. The event will include music
by Spring, video footage and an update on the 3rd week of trial in the Judi
Bari and Darryl Cherney lawsuit against the FBI and OPD.

April 25th, 7pm

Unitarian Hall, 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley,.
Sliding scale admission, $5-15, - no one turned away for lack of funds.
For more information, call (510) 548-3113.

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MAY DAY !  CELEBRATION: Casey Neill and his band perform
This concert will include an update on the 4th week of trial in the Judi
Bari and Darryl Cherney lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police
Department.

May 2nd, 9:30 pm
Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave, in Berkeley.

For more information, call (510) 548-3113.
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FBI and Local Police: Partners in Repression
Co-sponsored by Copwatch, this forum will focus on the FBI and local
police’s secret and illegal investigation of lawful groups and individuals.
Speakers include: Gerald Smith of Copwatch and a former Black Panther, Ann
Fagan Ginger of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Instutute and a speaker from
Northern California ACLU.  Plus music by folk artist and activist Melissa
Crabtree.  The evening will include an update on the 5th week of trial in
the Earth First! lawsuit against the FBI and OPD.

May 9th, 7pm
Unitarian Hall, 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley,.

Sliding scale admission, $5-15, - no one turned away for lack of funds.
For more information, call (510) 548-3113.
********
Ashcroft Attack on Civil Liberties:  What We Can Do to Stop It!

Riva Enteen of the National Lawyers Guild and others will present on the new
FBI powers and the USA Patriot Act.  A discussion on how we can defend our
civil liberties will follow.  The evening will include an update on the 6th
week of trial in the Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney lawsuit against the FBI
and Oakland Police.

May 16th,  7 pm,
La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley.

Sliding scale admission, $5-15, - no one turned away for lack of funds.
For more information, call (510) 548-3113.
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no peace without justice....
VIOLATING MY CIVIL RIGHTS IS AN 'ACT OF TERRORISM'!

john vance, editor
PEOPLES BARK NEWS BERKELEY

A project of:
A First Amendment Center
PO Box 4851
Berkeley, Ca 94704
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(510) 287-9406

Hotlines:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 621
(KPFA Event Calendar)

(510) 287-9406
(A First Amendment Center's Message Line!)

(510) 594-4000 ext. 202
(Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hotline!)

(510) 548-0542
(Friends of KPFA hotline!)

(415) 546-6334 ext. 352
(Media Alliance KPFA info line!)

PLEASE send me SF Bay Area news/events that you would like posted
to: aliun@. hotmail.com - Deadline for event notice submissions is every
Monday at noon.

Event Calendar:
http://www.peacenowfreedomnow.net

And, remember, the most important place of all, our own people's
media at: http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ for San Francisco Bay Area
news postings and http://www.indymedia.org/ to look for postings
for other city's community news.

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_week.php
(San Francisco Indymedia Calendar)

More calendars:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages (PBNB)
http://bapd.org/cal.txt (Bay Area Progressive Calendar)
http://www.bapd.org/notices.html  (Some Really GOOD Current Notices)
http://bapd.org/n52.html (Peace and anti-war calendar)
http://www.sfbg.com/action/index.html (SF Bay Guardian ALERTS)

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
(East Bay Coalition Against the War)

http://www.peaceandjustice.org/events/indexhi.html
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Calendar)

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
(Global Exchange)

http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar.html
(Ecology Center calendar)

http://abacia.com/calendar/  (Abacia calendar)

http://www.change-links.org/chcl2.htm
(Change Links Calendar - L.A.)

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/calendar.cfm?
(Berkeley DP Calendar)

http://www.protest.net/ (Protest.Net Calendar of Events)

http://www.earthneighborhood.com/events.html
(Earth Neighborhood calendar - Union City, Ca)

SOME ALTERNATIVE (and one mainstream) MEDIA SOURCES:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
<A First Amendment Center's Links Page>


http://www.internationalanswer.org/
<Act Now to Stop War and End Racism>

http://www.aljazeera.net (Arabic Media in Qatar)
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
(TRANSLATOR for aljazeera.net)


http://www.alternet.org <AlterNet>
http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/gateway/arnindex.html <AntiRacismNet>
http://www.atasite.org/ <Artist's Television Access>
http://www.afghanmagazine.com <Afghan Magazine>
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)
http://berkeleystopthewar.org/ <Berkeley Stop the War Coalition>
http://www.wpkn.org/news/btl.html <Between the Lines - WPKN - CT>
http://www.brasscheck.com/ <brasscheck.com>
http://www.bushwatch.net/ <Bush Watch>
http://www.buzzflash.com/ <BuzzFlash>
http://www.legitgov.org/ <Citizens for Legitimate Government>
http://www.commondreams.org <Common Dreams>
http://www.corpwatch.org/ <CorpWatch>
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup/ <CounterCoup>
http://www.democracynow.org/ <Democracy Now - Out of Exile!>
http://www.drudgereport.com/ <DRUDGE REPORT>

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
<East Bay Coalition Against the War>

http://fair.org/ <Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting>
http://www.flashpoints.net/ <Flashpoints News Radio>
http://globalcircle.net/ <Global Circle Net News>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ <Global Research>
http://www.guerrillanews.com/ <Guerilla News Network>
http://www.humanrightsnow.org/ <Human Rights Now - Michael Ratner>
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm <IATP - WTO Watch>
http://www.independent.co.uk <Independent.co.uk>
http://www.indymedia.org/ <IndyMedia>
http://www.infowars.com/ <Infowars.com - Alex Jones>
http://accuracy.org/ <Institute for Public Accuracy>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ <In These Times>
http://www.kpfa.org <KPFA>
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm <Mid-East Realities>
http://www.opensecrets.org/ (Money in Politics)
http://www.labornet.org/ <LaborNet - News for the Labor Movement>
http://www.madre.org/ <Madre - Women's Human Rights Organization>
http://www.media-alliance.org/ <Media Alliance>
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ <MediaChannel.org>
http://michaelmoore.com/ <Michael Moore>
http://www.copvcia.com/index.html <Mike Ruppert><NOT FREE>
http://www.motherjones.com <Mother Jones>
http://www.narconews.com <Narco News>
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html <Noam Chomsky>
http://www.kpfa.com <NOT KPFA - but about KPFA>
http://www.oneworld.net/ <OneWorld.net>
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp <Open Democracy>
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html <Palestine media Watch>
http://www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ <Palestine Report>
http://poornewsnetwork.org/ <Poor News Network>
http://www.protest.net/ <Protest Net>
http://www.rabble.ca/ <Rabblerousers>
http://www.radio4all.org/ <Radio4All>
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/infohub.html <Rainbow Puddle>
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ <re: constructions>

http://www.enronownsthegop.com/
<Republican Party of Texas - brought to you by Enron>

http://rwor.org/ <Revolutionary Worker>
http://www.sfbayview.com/ <San Francisco Bay View>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ <SF IndyMedia>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/publish.php <SF IndyMedia (Publish Page)>
http://www.savepacifica.net/ <Save Pacifica.net>
http://www.speakoutnow.org/ <Speakout!>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <telegraph.co.uk>
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml <The Afghan Women's Mission>
http://www.tenc.net/ <The Emporer's New Clothes>
http://www.thenation.com/ <The Nation>
http://www.newsguild.org/index.php <The Newspaper Guild>

http://porthurontokentstate.tripod.com/
<The Port Huron to Kent State Project>

http://www.tompaine.com/ <TomPaine.commonsense>
http://www.utne.com <Utne Reader Online>
http://www.voterwest.org/ <Voter March West>
http://warresisters.org/ <War Resisters League>
http://www.war-times.org <WarTimes>
http://www.willpitt.com/Archive.htm <WillPitt.com>

http://www.wilpf.org/
<Women's International Legue for Peace and Freedom>

http://newsforchange.com/ <Working for Change>
http://www.zmag.org/ <Z Magazine Online>

http://ajr.newslink.org/ (mainstream media source)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/~musnews/  (Muslim News - Britain)
http://www.paknews.com/   (Pakistan News Service)
http://www.yespakistan.com/  (More News from Pakistan)
http://www.millat.pibc.com/index.htm  (News from Pakistan)
http://www.thefridaytimes.com  (Pakistan News)
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/  (News from Peshawar, Pakistan)
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/  (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)



BOOKS TO READ:

http://www.akpress.org/

OTHER LINKS:
http://www.kpfa.org (KPFA)

KPFA/Pacifica-related websites:
http://www.cfdp.org (Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica)
http://www.pacifica.org (Pacifica Foundation Radio Website)
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(A First Amendment Center's  website)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
(Coalition to Remove the Pacifica Board)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

(Lotsa KPFA-related links)
http://www.glib.com/union.html
(unofficial WBAI union website)
http://www.webwm.com/mfberry
http://www.newKPFA.net
http://www.wbai.net (Listener's Group - NYC/CdP)

http://www.BillMandel.net or
http://www.BillMandel.com
(Bill Mandel's website(s))

http://www.spanishbookclub.cjb.net
(My partner, Miriam Ruvinskis',
Spanish Book Club website)

FreePacifica discussion list: to subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@. recordist.com with the text "subscribe freepac"

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica local list:  to subscribe, send
email to: les@. delong.org  with the text "subscribe"
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Dear Peoples Bark News Berkeley Readers;
                                         i am sending this report as a stand
alone report due to its lengthiness.  We are obviously in a crisis at this
time with respect to the palestinian-israeli conflict and you have been
receiving a lot more emails from me than usual.

At this time, i would like to remind all of you that if you would like to
switch over to receiving a PBNB NOTICE directly from me, please let me know.
   This would prevent the Peoples Bark News Berkeley from entering your
personal email box and you would have to go to the website, which is really
not that complex, and would free up your email
box from being overcrowded.  The PBNB NOTICE is simply a personal message
from me letting you know that the latest PBNB has been published and you can
go to the website link in the PBNB NOTICE to read the newsletter, THUS,
...NO HUGE EMAILS in your personal email box
- but ONLY at the PBNB website. All you have to do is reply to this email
with 'PBNB NOTICE' in the subject line and i will re-set your mmebership to
NO EMAIL and you will get the PBNB NOTICE only.
i would remind everyone that you can also put the Peoples Bark News Berkeley
website link in your favorites list and visit only when i send the PBNB
NOTICE to you.

Right now, i am putting together the Peoples Bark News Berkeley for release
later today.  If you have anything, event notices-wise, you want to get in
here, better shake a leg.

no peace without justice,

john vance, editor/publisher/coordinator
Peoples Bark News Berkeley
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages

A First Amendment Center
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
Berkeley, Ca

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From: Russell Bates <russbumper@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Destruction of Palestinian Public Institutions
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:11:04 -0700 (PDT)

folks, more outrageous stuff.  salam, russ

Note: forwarded message attached.


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Destruction of Palestinian Public Institutions:
First Preliminary Report --- April 13, 2002
(Palestine Emergency Committee)

"This is a humanitarian crisis without precedent in its destructive impact
on the Palestinian people and its institutions”, Joint statement on the
humanitarian crisis in the Occupied Territories, from United Nations
organizations, including UNDP, UNFPA, World Health
Organization, UN High Commission for Refugees, International Federation of
Red Cross and Red Crescent and UNWRA, among others. Rome, 10 April 2002**

This is a very preliminary inventory of damage done to Palestinian public
institutions by the Israeli army in the course of its invasion of
Palestinian cities and villages that began March 29th. The information will
undoubtedly be augmented by reports from throughout the West Bank once more
on-the-ground investigations are possible and when communication systems are
working again. Indeed, this report overwhelmingly focuses on institutions in
Ramallah, due to the fact that temporary liftings of the ongoing curfew have
allowed individuals to make preliminary inspections of institutions once
they are no longer occupied by IDF forces. The main focus here is
particularly on ministries and other institutions of the Palestinian
Authority, while ongoing information is being collected on non-governmental
organizations, and the media. However, even the initial findings indicate
several disturbing patterns with very grave consequences.
In particular, institutions of the Palestinian Authority have been subjected
to a consistent pattern of incursions which focus on seizure of records and
financial resources and destruction of technical infrastructure.
There has been a consistent pattern of seizure of documents, hard disk from
computers, paper files as well as widespread vandalism. In
addition, is what we have called- “sanctioned theft” – seizing of equipment
which has no informational or intelligence value, as well as some theft of
money. The private media has also been subject to extensive and systematic
destruction of its technical facilities. The evidence suggests a policy of
de-institutionalizing all Palestinian media – and not just that of the PNA
but Palestine’s vibrant independent TV and radio sector, as well. The
limited data on destruction and theft of non-governmental organizations, is
also reported.
Due to the limited data available, it is less clear if the organizations
themselves are specific targets or whether they are primarily victims of
general searches, IDF occupation of buildings for barracks, sniper
positions, or lookouts.

The interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation
Organization, and the fragile, if flawed, peace that ensued, ushered in a
period of Palestinian institution-building that was unprecedented in scale,
although drawing on the rich experience of developing local institutions,
particularly non-governmental organizations, during the period of direct
Israeli military occupation.
While the Palestinian Authority admittedly had very limited sovereignty,
powers and territory, for the first time a Palestinian government authority
directed Palestinian education, health, civil affairs and social services,
among other functions and responsibilities, and began to plan for economic
and social development.
Elections were held in January 1996 for the first elected Palestinian
parliament which brought into being the 88-member Palestinian Legislative
Council and elected Yasser Arafat as President.
When Israeli policy and military action is directed at “dismantling” the
Palestinian Authority, it not only targets political leaders and
institutions of self-rule, but it also targets vital services for the
survival of Palestinian society, un-doing developmental projects and
initiatives crucial to a stable and democratic Palestinian future.
Palestinian institution-building was strongly supported by the international
community; donor funds to Palestinian governmental and non-governmental
institutions in the 1995-2000 period amounted to 3,313,719,000 USD of which
933,411USD went for social spending, particularly education and health.
Up until October 2000, the Authority also steadily increased its own revenue
collection. Even in the difficult conditions of siege and closure of the
second intifada and the refusal of the Israeli government to transfer owed
revenue clearances to the Authority (its most important source of revenues),
it is vital, as the World Bank and UNSCO state, “to recognize the essential
functions and achievements of the Palestinian Authority in providing basic
essential services under very adverse conditions during the past five
months” (World Bank and UNSCO 4 April 2002). The incursions into the
Ministries of Education, Finances and Civil Affairs, as well as the
municipalities, noted below, certainly threaten these services and should be
of great concern.

The report is based on phone interviews with individuals who were able to
make on-site visits as well as reports issued by institutions that were able
to make preliminary inspections themselves. It includes only those
institutions that could be physically surveyed for damage. Institutions that
are still occupied by Israeli military forces (as stated in the report), are
included only if the external assessment gives some indication of the extent
of probable damage. The ongoing curfew in all of the towns invaded by the
IDF has been the main obstacle to collecting information.

The detailed report contains the following:

Ramallah PNA institutions
Ministry of Civil Affairs
The Legislative Council (PLC)
Ministry of Education
Central Bureau of Statistics
Ministry of Finance

Ramallah/ El Bireh Local Government
Municipality of Ramallah
Municipality of al Bireh
Al Bireh Municipal Library
Ramallah District Chamber of Commerce

Ramallah Non-governmental Institutions
1. Human Rights Organizations:  al Haq, Mattin Group and Mandela
    Institute
2. Development and Relief Organizations: HDIP and Union of Medical
    Relief Committees, Ramallah branch of the YMCA,
3. Private Radio and Television Stations: al Quds University Educational
    T.V. and Radio and others in Ramallah

Other Towns:
Bethlehem Municipality,
Anabta Municipality and two community organizations
Tulkarm General Union of Palestinian Women Office

At this time there is no further information available on the fate of other
occupied or invaded Ministries in Ramallah which include:

Ministry of Culture (IDF continues to occupy it since Friday March 29)
Ministry of Information (IDF continues to occupy it since Friday March 29)
Ministry of Interior (Inside Presidents Compound: shelled -- amount of
destruction unknown)
Ministry of Agriculture (occupied by IDF April 12th exited April 13)
Ministry of Social Affairs (occupied by IDF today April 13)
Health Secretariat (occupied and exited by IDF April 13th)
General Personnel Office (occupied and exited by IDF April 13)

At this time there is no further information on reported damage or IDF
occupation of the following Ramallah-based NGOs:
al Damir, prisoners rights organization; al Mawarid Educational resource
Center; Law human rights organization, Sakakini Cultural Center (invaded
April 13th);
The Young Scientists Club, The Agricultural Relief Committees.

The following NGOs have been invaded by IDF (and visited by staff when
curfew lifted) but have only suffered mild damage from searches includes:
MUWATEN, Birzeit Continuing Education Program, Birzeit Institute of Music.


Report Compiled By:
Dr. Rema Hammami, Birzeit University
Dr. Sari Hanafi, Shaml (Refugee and Diaspora Research Center)
Dr. Elizabeth Taylor



RAMALLAH:

I. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT (PNA) INSTITUTIONS:
This preliminary report only covers civil institutions of government and has
not attempted to deal with the widespread destruction of Palestinian Police
stations and other security force installations.


RAMALLAH

1. Ministry of Civil Affairs
    Location: Um al Sharayat

The Ministry of Civil Affairs is headed by Minister Jamil al Tarifi.
It is the main address for Palestinians living outside the occupied
territories who want to apply for visitor permits, family
re-unification and residency permits. It also handles the customs and other
administrative details for Palestinian returnees. As such, most of its work
is done in liaison with Israeli officials who vet every application. The
Ministry is housed in a five story building and divided into six
departments.

Damage: Extensive vandalism, some confiscation of materials and some
         theft.

From a preliminary on-sight report by Ministry employees the following
description was provided. The main doors to the Ministry were blown open
(evidence of a blast), inside the main entrance reception area were the
remains of a large pile of burnt documents.

Equipment: Inside the two sections that were visited thus far (there are six
sections altogether), destroyed Xerox copiers (seem to be sledge hammered)
as well as destroyed computers and printers. The central phone exchangem
taken as well as a digital receiver in the Ministers office.

Confiscation of Records: Thus far some missing hard drives, but stolen
papers from especially the Ministers office (neighbors told the employee
they saw soldiers carrying out what seemed to be boxes of papers).
Many destroyed documents.

Theft: Door to Minister's office blown open, the safe inside also blown open
and its contents including documents and Ministry finances missing. Petty
cash of 6,000 shekels taken from the finance department.

Other: The employee stated that the entrance and offices she entered were in
complete disarray and severely vandalized. Besides broken equipment, broken
filing cabinets and papers strewn everywhere -- many internal windows were
smashed as well. Additionally, pictures on walls (especially with
Palestinian themes) were found on the floor smashed. Also graffiti sprayed
on walls. The employee stated that she was so horrified at the extent of the
damage and vandalism that she was unable to visit more of the building and
left in tears.



2. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
    Location: Ramallah / Masyun district

The Ministry serves about one million children, i.e. a third of the total
Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza. It is the main address for
the overall administration of all government primary and secondary schools,
their faculties, as well as archiving of student transcripts. On April 3rd
at approximately 4:00 p.m. 30 APC's and tanks carrying approximately 150
soldiers broke down the ministry's main gates. Four employees in the
Ministry were taken to open doors, in some cases when they had no keys doors
were exploded open or broken open. Reports suggest that at other times even
when staff offered to open doors they were ignored while soldiers forcibly
broke in.
Staff were made to stand outside in the cold for more than six
hours while soldiers were inside the building.
Damage: Extensive vandalism, theft and confiscation
External Damage: IDF tanks demolished the main gate to the building and the
main doors of the premises were forced open.


Internal Damage: The IDF forces vandalized the Ministry's offices,
confiscating computers and educational aids and removing or destroying vital
records and documents.  Although it has not been possible for the Ministry
to assess the full damage and destruction wrought, the following specific
damage was noted by Ministry employees who were able to make a brief room by
room survey of the damage when the curfew was lifted for a few hours.


General: the Ministry's computer net servers were removed
financial office: the main safe  was blown open damaging its contents,
including dossiers, promissory notes, cash, check books and vouchers
- central office: the Israeli forces blew up metal filing cabinets
   destroying vital documents.
- all offices: files have been torn up, and left in huge piles on the
   floor
- Storage room:  the IDF confiscated computers, overhead projectors,
   video sets, and other valuable educational equipment
- Central office:  The Israeli forces blew up and destroyed all main
   doors.
They took away or destroyed records and references that are highly important
for official transcripts.
- Remaining offices in the Ministry:  The forces seem to have
   confiscated many floppy disks, CDs, files, dossiers and documents but
   more time will be needed to more accurately assess.

Impact

The Ministry's records, which were confiscated or destroyed, have been built
up over many years. The Ministry hopes it will be able to
re-construct destroyed records for the issuing and certifying of students'
transcripts from regional MOE offices. The MOE is unable to gain full and
clear access to the premises in order to make a comprehensive and detailed
assessment of the damage and losses at this point. However, it estimates the
financial loss merely of equipment, such as computers, videos, TV sets and
overhead projectors, to reach millions of dollars. Most of this equipment
was financed by donor countries and organizations. The main and direct
impact of this destruction, however, is on the one million Palestinian
children who are enrolled in the school system and who constitute the main
resource of Palestinian society in the future.

This data is based on a fuller report undertaken by the Ministry itself. For
the full text please contact Acting Minister of Education

Dr. Naim Abu Hommos,
Email: moepalestine@ hotmail.com
Fax + 970 298 3222


3. Palestinian Legislative Council (al-Bireh and Ramallah)
The Palestinian Legislative Council (or parliament) has two main buildings
within el-Bireh/ Ramallah. The al-Bireh building is the main administrative
office of the PLC while the Assembly Chambers are based in Ramallah in the
Ministry of Education.

A.  Main Administrative Building in al- Bireh
Damage: Vandalism, Confiscation and Sanctioned Theft
Based on an on-site visit by the PLC director general, and two PLC staff, as
well as witnesses in the neighborhood, the following preliminary report can
be made. Israeli troops broke in late Tuesday night, around 1:00 a.m. on
Wednesday, April 10.The actual break-in was witnessed by neighbors living
across the street from the PLC building.
Destruction: Soldiers broke into the main entrance and subsequently the door
and glass partition of the Economic Committee, the Budget Committee, the
Political Committee, and the Legal Committee.
Most of the damage included breaking and removal of doors and windows. Some
equipment was damaged and broken.

Sanctioned Theft: A computer and many files were taken from the Speaker’s
Office. A computer was also taken from the technical departments office.

Confiscation: Files and documents taken from the Speakers office and the
Chief Clerks office. Hard drives taken from computers. All the computers
were open in the personnel department.

Vandalism: The Library and the Public Relations Unit have suffered extensive
vandalism, books and files were thrown all over the floor. The door of the
"Hansard" (sound and video equipment) office was broken, documents were
thrown on the floor, but the equipment was left intact.

The IT Unit, Information Department, and Director’s General office did not
sustain any damage. Cars and vehicles parked on the streets were damaged,
and troops took keys of vehicles from the Technical Department. Telephones
are operating at the Council, and the Council has electricity.
(The above information  is based on ARD report provided by Dr. Mahmoud
Labadi, PLC director general, and two PLC staff Faisal Zakarneh, and Ahmad
Abu Dayyeh, along with Amin Sbeih of ARD/PLC2 project)

B.  Legislative Council Chambers in Ramallah Ministry of Education
     Building

The Chambers of the Legislative Council are where the 88 members meet when
the PLC is in session. The Chamber auditorium includes not only seating for
the council members, but expensive technical equipment for computerized
voting, video coverage of sessions and a closed circuit communications
system to link it with the administrative building in
el-Bireh.

Damage: Destroyed Doors; Confiscation of Video Archive of PLC Sessions
At approximately 4:00 p.m. on April 3rd, around 150 soldiers, with 30 tanks
and APCs, forced their way into the Ministry of Education’s Compound. The
soldiers detained four employees of the Ministry of Education’s compound,
including Mr. Salah Soubani, and made them walk in front of the soldiers and
open doors.
A group of about 50 soldiers forced Mr. Soubani to accompany them to the
Legislative Council Chambers, next to the elementary school, on the grounds
of the Ministry compound.

They asked several questions about the Chambers:

Who attends the meetings?
What do they do in the sessions?
Do people work there or live there?

Any door that could not be opened with a key, was blown up with an explosive
charge. [Several people living in the neighborhood heard the explosions.] A
door to the school was blown up and the door between the school and the PLC
Chambers was also blown up. The soldiers looked through every room of the
PLC wing. They took all of the video-cassette tapes from the lower video
room, at least a hundred tapes of Council sessions, put them in plastic
bags, and carried them away. As far as Mr. Soubani knows, no equipment was
stolen or damaged in the raid.
The soldiers did not appear to be from a special unit. They wore basic green
army fatigues. They did not use names when they talked to each other,
instead they called each other by numbers, except for one soldier who was
repeatedly referred to as “Sharon”.
When the rooms were inspected today, April 4th, Mr. Salah Soubani confirmed
that sound (Hansard) and Video equipment seemed to be in place and intact.

The above  report is based on ARD/PLC2 project interview with Mr. Salah
Soubani, director of the Information Department at the Ministry of
Education-Ramallah

4. Ministry of Finance Central Office
    Location: Sateh Marhaba Area

There are three buildings of the Finance Ministry in Ramallah. The Central
Office in Suteh Marhaba has been visited by Ministry employees once the
curfew was lifted, the other two (one in the Industrial district and one
downtown) are occupied by the IDF and cannot be visited. The Central Office
houses the Ministers office as well as a number of main departments
(Accounts, Payroll, General administration etc…). It was broken into by a
group of soldiers on approximately the 4th day of the invasion of Ramallah,
according to neighbors.

Damage: Broken doors, Extensive Confiscation of Computers and Computer Hard
Disks

Destruction: Broken entrance doors and many internal doors destroyed,
as well as windows.
Elevator badly damaged.
Destroyed Computers.
Destroyed furniture.

Confiscation: Computer skeletons strewn on the floor, due to many hard disk
drives being taken. The most hard hit section in terms of taken computers
and hard disks seems to be the Payroll department. Documents strewn on the
floor suggests that paper files may have been taken but the employees did
not have time to assess. Other computers were found with their screens on.

Other comments/ Impact: The general director suggested that the main
destruction and loss was of the Ministry's financial records and accounts.
The Ministry is in charge of disbursing salaries, health and pension
payments to all government employees including teachers, hospital workers,
the police as well as government bureaucrats. The GD says that given the
loss of information, public sector employees face not getting paid in the
foreseeable future until the records can be re-established. In addition,
files for back pay and insurance may have been lost as well.

Information based on interview with General Director Mr. Sami Ramlawi tel.
059205038

5. Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
    Fieldwork Administration Section
    Location: Radio Road near Lions Square (al Manara)

The Central Bureau of Statistics is headed by Dr. Hasan Abu Libdeh. The main
section of PCBS is in Balu'a  area and is where most of the statistical data
bases and reports are housed, as well as administrative records and
finances. That building was invaded by IDF troops during the first
re-occupation of Ramallah in October 2001. At that time soldiers confiscated
hard disks and vandalized a number of the offices. As of this writing (April
13th) the Balu’a office has not been touched. However, the Fieldwork section
in downtown Ramallah  which serves as the administrative center for
fieldwork has been invaded on four occasions. The department is located in a
four-storey residential and commercial building and is composed of four
apartments.

Damage: (Only covers first three invasions – as yet no confirmed information
on damage wrought by April 12th  break-in). Two broken doors, some broken
windows -- both in the course of soldiers entering into the building. Damage
is relatively light and there is no extensive vandalism.

Comment: The director of the section said that that it has been entered by
soldiers on four occasions; March 30th, April 3rd and April 8th and 12th.
Based on visiting the site after the first three incursions he thinks the
main aim was general search since the apartments they entered (two) only saw
light vandalism such as broken cupboards and some strewn papers. Equipment
was not damaged. However, neighbors report that on the most recent incursion
into the building (April 12th) they heard explosives being used.


II. LOCAL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS:
We have only been able to gather preliminary information based on
on-site visits about the following:

Ramallah Municipality
El-Bireh Municipality
Ramallah Chamber of Commerce
El-Bireh Municipal Library


1. Ramallah Municipality

Damage: Extensive vandalism, potentially some confiscation and theft
Ramallah Municipality is located near Clock square, it contains departments
of administration, the court room, engineering, health, sanitation,
archives, surveying  and finance.
On the evening of Saturday, March 30, a contingent of Israeli soldiers
forcibly entered the Municipality and remained inside for approximately 12
hours. The building was empty when the soldiers entered. The main door was
forced open by spraying it with over fifty bullets of different calibers.
The Municipality was empty when soldiers broke in, nevertheless they
remained there for approximately 12 hours.. Based on a preliminary site
visit by municipality staff, once the curfew was lifted they report the
following.
"Every department was vandalized,… Furniture was turned over and damaged,
paper files and documents were tampered with, dispersed and thrown to the
floor, surveying plans and building license files were destroyed, office
doors were broken; glass windows, doors and partitions were smashed, and
extensive damage was inflicted on the PCs and computer network. Many of the
PCs were damaged; the CPUs and hard disks either damaged or taken by the
soldiers, and so was the main server. Two steel safes were blown open which
contained important documents pertaining to the work of the Municipality and
some petty cash. Internal concrete block wall partitions were destroyed, and
extensive damage was sustained by the heating, electrical and computer cable
systems."
The Municipality staff has not been able to make a complete assessment of
the damage nor determine the extent of the missing equipment, documents and
other items.
The forced intrusion into the municipality was witnessed by reporters and
guests staying at a nearby hotel.

2. Al-Bireh Municipality
Based on data provided by municipal engineers who were able to briefly visit
the building when the curfew was lifted.
Damage: Destruction of outside walls, doors, furniture, computers, municipal
works jeep destroyed, some confiscation of files and hard disks, extensive
vandalism, theft

Destruction: An IDF contingent arriving in tanks broke into the building on
the second day of Ramallah’s invasion (Saturday March 30th). The tanks broke
down the outside walls of the municipality and crushed the municipal works
jeep parked outside. Entrance and internal doors broken down. Shattered
windows. Broken furniture. Five computers destroyed  (some for hard disks,
others just vandalized).
Fax machine shattered.
Confiscation: A number of files seemed to be missing and at least two hard
disks taken from computers. The municipality was unable to see what other
documents were taken as yet because of the amount of papers strewn on the
floor.

Sanctioned Theft: $12,000 surveying equipment missing

Vandalism:
A number of offices were in complete disarray, with overturned furniture and
broken file cabinets. Destroyed files. Computers, central telephone system
and alarm system no longer function.

3. Al-Bireh Municipal Library
    Located Near al-Bireh Municipality.

The library building was visited by municipal engineers briefly when the
curfew was lifted. A contingent of soldiers invaded the building on the
second day of the invasion 30th March

Damage: Primarily vandalism, destruction of computers, broken doors and
windows, Confiscation of books and journal

Destruction: External doors, shattered windows, 3 computers broken.

Vandalism: extensive papers and books on the floor

Confiscation: One computer screen was on suggesting that its hard disk had
been taken. A substantial amount of books and journals seem to be missing
although exactly how many (and what type) cannot as yet be assessed.

4. Ramallah Chamber of Commerce (New Building):
    Location: (Nazlat Rukab’s across from Ramallah Post office)

Based on on-site visit when curfew lifted by Director of the Chamber of
Commerce, Mr. Salah Odeh

The Ramallah Chamber of Commerce serves the whole district of Ramallah. The
Chamber of Commerce owns two attached buildings with the Chamber housed in
two floors in the new main building across from the post office. In the new
building a number of offices were rented out to the private sector (doctor’s
clinic, a development research institute, lawyers office etc…). The private
businesses only had their doors broken open and were searched. The offices
of the municipality were widely vandalized. There are no working offices of
the C.C. in the adjacent (old) building, which is mainly rented out to
private businesses and associations. The old building suffered extensive
fire damage (see below under NGOs the offices of the Palestinian Teachers
Union).

Damage: External doors blasted, internal doors blasted or broken down.
Smashed computers and Xerox copier, extensive vandalism

On Sunday March 31st a Contingent of soldiers broke into the Chamber of
Commerce building. They blew down the main entrance to the five floor
building. The front entrance was completely blackened by the blast. On the
3rd floor, where the offices of the Chamber of Commerce are located, they
also blew open the door with explosives. The large brass sign at the
entrance with the C.C.’s insignia was shattered completely and the stairwell
blackened by explosive blasts. Inside, the first office they entered
suffered the most damage. Four computers were destroyed (thrown on the
ground and smashed), the Xerox copier was also thrown on the ground and
broken. There was wide-scale vandalism throughout the other offices with
files and papers strewn on the floor. Whether hard disks or paper files were
taken cannot yet be assessed. Furniture in the president’s office was
vandalized. The door to the 5th floor conference room was blown open but
nothing seems to have been touched inside. Also the door to the roof was
broken open but again there was no other visible damage. Electricity lines
throughout the building were hanging from the ceiling, there is no
electricity functioning in the building.

III. NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (RAMALLAH)

As of this writing we have been able to collect briefs on the following:

Human Rights Organizations: al Haq, Mattin Group and Mandela Institute
Development and Relief Organizations: HDIP and Union of Medical Relief
Committees Charitable Association: Ramallah branch of the YMCA, al Nahda
Women’s Society for the Hearing Impaired
Private Radio and Television Stations: al Quds University Educational T.V.
and Radio  and others

1. The Health Development Information Policy Unit (HDIP)
    Location: Ramallah Main Street

The Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP) was
established in 1989 by a group of experienced researchers and health
practitioners committed to improving the status of health care for all
Palestinians. An independent, non-profit organization, HDIP specializes in
policy research and planning concerning development issues and health care
in Palestine and its publications are widely used by international and local
development agencies and planners. HDIP also advocates on health care issues
relevant to marginalized groups like women, youth and the disabled. HDIP has
served as a consultant for numerous international organizations, including
the World Bank, the World Health Organization, UNDP, UNICEF and
international and local NGOs.
HDIP is located on Main Street, Ramallah, in the same building complex that,
houses the economic development and rights organizations, Mattin Group, and
Al Haq, the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of
Jurists.All are currently occupied by IDF soldiers who are using the offices
as a base, with tanks stationed in the Al Ahliyyeh Street crossing Main
Street, and barbed wire preventing access.

On the night of 30 March 2002, a staff member staying in the Al Haq office
reported Israeli soldiers invading the building at 11:20PM and that both Al
Haq and HDIP had been entered by Israeli troops.
Damage: The extent of the damage cannot be assessed as Israeli troops are
currently in control of HDIP offices and environs. Residents have reported
soldiers removing cartons and other items from the building. HDIP had
recently expanded its offices into a very large space below the current
offices of Mattin Group which HDIP had refurbished and purchased large
amounts of new computers, office equipment and furniture.

2. The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, Ramallah
Location: Ramouni Building, Ramallah off Main Street
The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees is a grassroots
community-based health organization founded in 1979 by a group of
Palestinian doctors and health professionals to address the problems of the
decaying and inadequate health infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza
under Israeli military rule. Now one of the largest Palestinian
non-governmental organization, UPMRC runs 25 permanent primary health care
centers, fourteen labs and numerous mobile health units. Its approach is
preventive, with an emphasis on education and participation. In February
2001, UPMRC won an award from the World Health Organization.

On 1 April 2002, Israeli tanks shelled the Ramouni Building in downtown
Ramallah and soldiers ordered all the inhabitants out of the building, which
houses a main office and emergency medical center of the Union of
Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (reported on Haaretz web site of the
same day) Doctors, staff and about fourteen Italian volunteers, including
Member of the European Parliament Louisa Morgantini, were detained by
soldiers; television footage showed some staff made to kneel in a nearby
parking lot.
Soldiers entered the building and searched offices.

Damage: At least one shell entered the office of the UPMRC causing a wall to
collapse. The Director of UPMRC, Dr. Mustapha Barghouti, reported that most
equipment was destroyed, including computers and a photocopier. Access to
the Ramouni Building to access damage in more detail is restricted due to
continued army presence in the area. Other UPMRC facilities invaded by the
IDF on 31 March 2002 were the UPMRC Youth Club, the UPMRC Optometry Center,
and the UPMRC Technical Aid for the Disabled Center.

3. Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners, Ramallah

Description: Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners (named for Nelson
Mandela) was established in 1990 to provide assistance to political
prisoners. Its activities now include the provision of legal and material
aid to prisoners detained by both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities,
and to their families, and the training of Palestinian police forces in
human rights issues.

Type of Damage: The premises of Mandela were occupied for some days by the
Israeli Defense Forces. The following is reported by a member of Mandela's
Board of Directors, who was able to make one visit to the office during the
lifting of curfew.

1. External damage The external metal doors to the building, in which
    Mandela's offices are housed, were blown up and completely destroyed
2. Internal damage  VANDALISM : The offices were completely vandalized.
    Computers (3 counted) were thrown on the floor, broken furniture and
    files from cabinets strewn across the floor. Soldiers blocked the
    toilets leading to sewage over-spilling and ruining fitted carpets.
    Soldiers defecated in a number of rooms -- the offices are filthy.
B. CONFISCATION: The hard drive of the main computer has been removed.
    Its contents include Mandela's data base. Due to the imposition of
    curfew, it has not been possible to check whether other files or
    documents have been confiscated or destroyed.
C. STRUCTURAL DAMAGE: The IDF used Mandela's office to fire into other
    buildings. As a result 5 office windows were completely destroyed,
    including the aluminum frames. All internal doors, which were
    locked, were broken into and badly damaged. .

Impact on work

Mandela has clearly suffered considerable financial loss due to the
destruction or damage to equipment, furnishings and physical structure. How
much data and documentation has been confiscated or damaged is impossible to
determine under the present curfew.

4. MATTIN Group (Human Rights)
    Location: Main Street, Ramallah

MATTIN Group is a voluntary partnership specializing in international human
rights and humanitarian law enforcement. It was occupied on March 29th by
the same armored infantry and sniper force that occupied al-Haq and HDIP,
which adjoin it in the same building.

The main entrance door of the office was torn down on the day after the army
had occupied the premises. Neighbors reported that a large force had entered
MATTIN’s premises and were both carrying in and bringing out a large
quantity of unidentified objects.

During the lifting of the curfew on Tuesday, April 2, one of the senior
staff members of the organization attempted to gain entry into the office,
but was not permitted to do so. Based on a soldier’s statement, all internal
doors, as well as the internal walls connecting MATTIN’s space with al-Haq
and HDIP appear to have been broken down by the soldiers.

In addition to records, computers, and office equipment, among the archives
the office contains an irreplaceable collection of unpublished documents,
concerning International Humanitarian Law  related diplomacy and other
similarly important unpublished materials accumulated over a 19-year period.

On Monday, April 8, another attempt by a staff member to approach the office
was rebuffed by the army. The office building is blocked by barbed wire
which spans the street on which it is located, and always guarded by at
least two army vehicles, including tanks and APC’s. Because nobody has been
allowed inside the premises, it is still unclear just how severe the damage
to the office is, and what has been vandalized, confiscated, and looted by
the occupation forces.

5. AL – HAQ Human Rights Organization
    Location: Main Street Ramallah

Description: Founded in 1979, Al -Haq was the first Palestinian human rights
organization to be established in the occupied territories and is the West
Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists. Through
activities, such as monitoring of human rights violations committed by both
the Israeli and Palestinian Authorities, it has a long and internationally
recognized role in promoting respect for human rights within Palestine.

Type of Damage: This report was given by a staff member of al-Haq.
It is based on two quick visits he made to the offices when the curfew was
lifted.

External Damage: The two front doors broken open and badly damaged.

Internal Damage:

VANDALISM: Furniture broken and over-turned such as couch and  filing
cabinets. Content of filing cabinets scattered all over the floor; drawers
forced open and contents rummaged through or scattered 3 computers and one
printer thrown across floor and broken. Al-Haq has not yet had the
opportunity to inspect their laptops for damage

SANCTIONED THEFT: As yet, can only confirm 1 lap top computer stolen

CONFISCATION: Computer hard drives removed on a number of computers as well
as internal electronics likewise taken, leaving only the frame.

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE: One window smashed; 3 inner doors broken open and
damaged. Ceiling in places has been smashed from inside

Impact on work

Al Haq has been working for 24 years and has built up an extensive archive
of documents. The full extent of the impact of this vandalism on their work
depends largely on what can be salvaged from their records and documents.
These are scattered across the floors of their offices. Due to the curfew on
Ramallah, staff have not yet had the chance to see whether any papers or
documents are missing.


6. Ramallah YMCA (Branch of East Jerusalem YMCA)

The YMCAs offices in Ramallah serve not only young people in the town but it
also serves young people in the surrounding villages through its extensive
field programs. It runs a number of important programs for youth, including
vocational training for young women, vocational counseling for girls in
schools, and the career guidance for young people going into the workplace.
It also assists in constructing community youth centers in surrounding
villages.

(Based on preliminary reports issued by the YMCA Main Office in East
Jerusalem and based on accounts of people who either witnessed some of the
destruction, and staff who visited the premises briefly during the lifting
of curfew.  It has been impossible to make a full assessment of the damage
due to the ongoing curfew).

The YMCA's premises in Ramallah comprise three offices.The building is
designated by a large outdoor sign on the building.  On 8 April 2002 a
contingent of IDF forces blasted open the main entrance to YMCA building and
the guard's office. They badly destroyed the elevator and there was
extensive vandalism in a number of offices including destruction of
equipment (it seems computers, overheads and other training aids.

Reporters for NBC television living in a neighboring building tried to
prevent the destruction, by repeatedly telling the IDF forces that these
were YWCA premises, funded largely by USAID.  The soldiers ignored them and
went on to detonating the garage, destroying the vehicles inside: one car
and one large van containing valuable educational material, which was used
to tour villages for educational work.


7. Private Radio and TV Stations
The following is based on an on-site visit when the curfew lifted and
interviews with station managers undertaken by technical consultant to al
Quds educational Media, Wassim Abdullah and excerpted from an extensive
report that he wrote which is now posted at a website along with pictures of
the destruction.

See www.geocities.com/wramallah
(PBNB Editor note: i visited this website and had a little trouble accessing
but they do work.)

There are 5 private TV stations and 5 private radio stations in Ramallah, as
well as the official Palestinian authority radio and TV stations. Most of
these stations are located in and around the town center, an elevated area
suitable for maximum broadcasting coverage.
In the totality of the Palestinian Authority areas there are almost 50 TV
and radio stations, more than in any surrounding country. This
independent media was contributing to the building of civil society by
fostering an appreciation of free media, training in technical skills and
reporting, creating local programming, and developing an innovative sector.
The stations benefited from grants and support from the international and
local community.

A. Al Quds Educational Television
    Location: on the third floor of the College of Nursing in al-Bireh,
    near the entrance to Ramallah.

The TV station is operated by Al Quds University and broadcasts children's
programs in addition to public service announcements, medical information
and emergency services contact information. The institution was open and on
air with a cartoon show when Israeli soldiers broke in. Two staff operators
were held for several hours, eventually released and warned not to return.
Tanks and armored carriers are still on the campus of the college,
preventing anyone from entering. The station has remained off the air since
the takeover.

External destruction: The 40-watt relay TV transmitter and microwave
receiver atop the Bakri building in the Minara of Ramallah was destroyed.

Internal destruction: It is assumed that the state-of-the-art studio and
operations center have been completely destroyed, since soldiers
systematically destroyed almost all other TV stations in the
Ramallah-al-Bireh area. Contents of TV studio: cold lighting, super quiet
air conditioning system, cameras, audio and video mixers, players/recorders,
two AVID suites, a computer lab, microwave studio link and our new 250 watt
TV transmitter, a UPS, a comprehensive children, social and cultural library
of films, computers for the staff complete with audio, video and data
networks, office machines.

B. Al Nasr TV
    Total destruction of equipment/extensive vandalism: Microphones,
    tapes, CD's, monitors, mixers, players/recorders, etc were found
    spread over the floor of the station and completely smashed by
    sledgehammers.

C. Manara radio station
    Total destruction of equipment, extensive vandalism

D. Ajyal and Angham FM radio stations
    Location: Bakri building, Ramallah center

The doorman of the building was forced to open the station door to soldiers
who used sledgehammers to destroy the two studios, the internet streaming
and editing computers, the 10 Kw and 3 Kw transmitters and the entire music
and program library.
Destruction was total.

E. Love and Peace FM radio station
    Total destruction of equipment/extensive vandalism.

F. Al Quds FM radio station
    The building in which it is located was bombarded and set ablaze.
    No one has been able to enter the building to assess damage.
    Also ceased broadcasting and feared destroyed: Amwaj TV, Amwaj radio
    and Al-Watan TV. The buildings where they are situated are still
    occupied by Israeli soldiers and no one has been able to enter to
    assess damage.




IV. OTHER TOWNS/ VILLAGES:
It has been extremely difficult to access information from most other towns
since they have remained under curfew without break since they were invaded.
Also, many re-occupied towns (Jenin, Tulkarim, Nablus etc..) have had no
electricity or phone lines for the past week). Below is information on
damages to governmental and non-governmental organizations in areas besides
Ramallah. All of the following information is very preliminary given that it
is based on information from people who have reached sites while the curfew
is still on and thus only a very quick picture could be drawn.

Bethlehem

1. Municipality Building
    Location: Manger Square

This report was made by an employee in the emergency services room set up in
the municipality building. He and another 15 emergency workers were in the
building when it was invaded by IDF troops. They were detained for a number
of hours within the building and then taken to a detention center where he
and others were subsequently released.
The information he was able to provide was based on his eyewitness account
when the events were underway and is very preliminary. The IDF continues to
occupy the Municipality building as of April 13th.

Destruction: There has been destruction of many external and internal doors,
as well as many windows smashed. A number of interior walls of the building
have been destroyed.
Destroyed/ vandalized furniture. Approximately twenty mobile stretchers were
taken from the premises; seven of them were returned severely damaged.
Also destroyed were three video cameras and a cassette inside one of them
was confiscated.


Anabta Village (Tulkarm District)
[Employees could make only an initial assessment of damage, due to the
ongoing curfew.]

1. Anabta Municipality
Number of staff: 60
External destruction: The entrance door was completely destroyed.

Internal destruction

VANDALISM: Just before the incursion, the municipality had transferred some
archeological artifacts from Tulkarm fearing that they might be destroyed;
half of the relocated collection was destroyed. The
fire-alarm system, the central telephone system and individual telephones
were destroyed. Municipal files were torn and thrown on the ground.
The entire library, bookshelves and books, were thrown on the floor. Some
desks were damaged.

SANCTIONED THEFT: Two municipal computers were taken.
In the library, a computer and a camera were taken.

CONFISCATION: All of the municipality's floppy disks were removed.

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE: The windows and doors were broken.
(Information supplied by Mayor,Hamdallah Hamdallah; who has photos and a
detailed report on the destruction.)

2. The Anabta Women’s Charitable Organization
This charitable organization has a staff of 11 and offers health services
and social and cultural activities for women, provides relief for the poor
and outreach for the elderly, in addition to operating a preschool (230
children) and daycare (10 infants).

External damage

The outside wall was blown up with explosives, which also damaged the
building. The gate had several bullet or shrapnel holes in it.

Internal destruction

VANDALISM: There was a great deal of superficial damage. All of the glass
was found broken.

(Information provided by Itaf Al-Qabbaji )

Tulkarim

1. General Union of Palestinian Women, Tulkarim
    The Tulkarim branch of the GUPW is engaged in promoting and marketing
    embroidery and other traditional handicrafts produced by village
    women in the area.

External destruction

The door was blown open with explosives.

Internal destruction

VANDALISM: All drawers were apparently searched and all files were opened.
The office equipment appeared to be intact. Embroidery had been strewn all
over the floor and stepped on.
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE : Windows were broken.
(Information supplied by Fawziyyeh Yahya Aboud)

2. Rawdat Abna’ Al-Ghad
    This is a preschool with 6 employees serving 70 children.

External destruction Main door destroyed.

Internal destruction

VANDALISM: All of the children's the toys were thrown on the ground and many
smashed. The wall-to-wall carpeting has been ripped and in some places
removed, the small puppet theater was destroyed.
(Information supplied by Fawziyyeh Yahya Aboud)

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1. Massacre in Jenin!!!!!!!!!!!


From: "Brent R. Widener III" <widener_b@ yahoo.com>
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Subject: Massacre in Jenin!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:22:09 -0700 (PDT)

Articles on the slaughter in the Palestinian refugee camp at Jenin, which
has been sealed off from the world for the past week.
**************************

"Witnesses say that dead bodies [are] still in the streets and narrow roads
of the camp from 100 to 150. This is the fifth day that ambulances can't
reach to save the injured or the corpses... all health workers and
representatives are issuing SOS for help through the media... directly...
till now no result...
on the ground... In the past 36 hours, only two corpses and one injured
were received by the hospital... health situation and living is so [bad]
that people are now drinking from the sewage and eating leaves off trees...
We [heard] now from a witness that hundreds of bodies are under the rubble
of the houses... the people who saved themselves are gathered in the
university."

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- Wednesday, 10 April 2002 -

ISRAELI MASSACRE IN THE CITY OF JENIN
News & Analysis: Middle East
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/jeni-a10.shtml
By David Cohen in Israel
The Palestine Red Crescent Society confirmed today that Israeli occupation
forces have killed dozens of Palestinian civilians in Jenin's refugee camp.
Tuesday April 9. Eyewitnesses inside the camp confirm that Israeli
bulldozers have leveled the refugee camp's front row homes while families
were still inside.
While the confirmed 30 victims were killed in one of the camp's street,
the total number of casualties is estimated to be at least 100. Many victims
are buried under the rubble, while others have been torn to pieces by the
exploding tank shells. Dozens of people have bled to death inside their
homes and in front of their traumatised family members.
Six Palestinians were confirmed killed in the camp during the early hours of
the morning and identified. The rest of the victims remain unidentified and
the numbers of injured have been impossible to confirm, but is feared to be
in the hundreds.
Since the early hours of the morning, Israeli Apache helicopters and tanks
have been bombarding the densely populated refugee camp, where at least
150,00 people reside in an area that barely reaches one square kilometre.
For the first time in its history of aggression, Israeli F-16 fighter jets
have bombarded the Jenin refugee camp, in an offensive clearly meant to
exact the maximum number of civilian casualties. Official sources estimate
that in the past two days, the camp has been bombarded with more missiles
and tank shells than all those Israeli occupation forces have previously
used against Palestinian targets in the past year and a half.
Israeli occupation forces continue to refuse to allow any ambulance into
the refugee camp, even to collect the bodies. Two days ago, bulldozers
destroyed a makeshift mass grave that the camp's residents had made to bury
their loved ones during the last Israeli invasion in February. Bodies were
removed from their graves and strewn across the street. Eyewitness accounts
also confirm that Israeli tanks patrolling the street have crushed a number
of bodies that medical crews have been unable to collect.
In a telephone interview with Al-Jazeera television, Umm Jihad, a camp
resident, described the desperate situation: "The shelling has not stopped.
We are all cornered in our homes, unable to sleep, move, or help those who
are pleading for help as they bleed in the camp's streets. The Israeli
bulldozers are leveling homes over their residents' heads and without prior
warning.
When we called health officials to ask for help, we were informed that the
occupation soldiers confiscated the ambulances' keys in order to debilitate
them. Our situation is one of indescribable suffering and desperation for no
one is intervening to save our children, who are dying in front of our own
helpless eyes".
In an unprecedented breach of human rights, Israeli occupation soldiers
announced Tuesday afternoon that they would cease firing in order to allow
the women and elderly to get water--only to arrest them and use them as
human shields.
Since the residents have had no water for days, a number of women and
elderly men came out of their homes. As they reached the camp's entrance,
where Israeli tanks and personnel carriers are stationed, they were all
detained.
Shortly after that, residents reported hearing the Israeli forces calling
out on the microphone to the resistance fighters and security officers to
surrender in order to save the lives of the detained civilians. The
detainees were seen strapped to the tanks and personnel carriers, which
resumed their bombardment campaign shortly after the call for surrender.
The Israeli officer previously heading the Jenin reoccupation offensive
was reprimanded and removed from his duty after having failed to take over
the camp in the past four days. Currently, Shaul Mofaz, Israel's Chief of
Staff, heads the brutal operation personally. Palestinian officials have
thus held him directly responsible for the atrocities taking place.
Jenin's three humble hospitals have confirmed that they have run out of
fuel, needed to keep the electricity generators running, after Israeli
occupation forces plunged the city into total darkness four days ago. The
hospitals have also run out of water.
The Palestinian leadership has warned repeatedly, through numerous appeals,
of a possible second Sabra and Shatila massacre, only this time it would be
in Jenin. "The Palestinian leadership urgently appeals to the international
community and the Arab leaders to immediately intervene and help save the
residents of the Jenin refugee camp for they have been the victims of a
brutal war campaign, lead personally by Israel's Chief of Staff, Shaul
Mofaz,"
read a leadership statement. It added, "We hold the international
community responsible for delaying any intervention that could spare the
refugee camp's residents from a certain massacre."
The Independent newspaper reported, "[T]he sound of four explosions came
down the phone line. A woman could be heard screaming in the background
'Come and save us'." This was in the middle of an interview their reporter
was conducting with a Red Crescent ambulance official: "He said the woman's
house had been hit by rockets fired from an Israeli helicopter".
From reports that came to the World Socialist Web Site correspondent, it
was clear that the Israeli authorities have been refusing to allow
ambulances access to the wounded. International law defines this type of
action as a war crime under the Geneva conventions. IMC-Israel reported that
the Red Cross said five ambulances were fired on in the area around Jenin
and Nablus April 8, when the IDF gave permission to give medical treatment
for the wounded people.
Under the headline "Cry for help from Jenin", Palestinian man Issa Samandar
gave the following report over the telephone: "Several heavy shielded
bulldozers of the army digging a wide road 8-10m wide from west to east...
to cut off the camp into two halves... This is done also with air bombings,
hundreds of bombs, from 2-7 Cobra and Apache helicopters, each raid... it is
still continuing from around 20.00 last night...till now". He added, "The
soldiers sometimes withdraw for the helicopters to do the strikes... This
came after the helicopters bombarded a house where soldiers were inside on
the assumption that they were Palestinians... The shooting and the bombing
are severe and
directed towards the houses with much brutality. More than one third of
the camp houses have been destroyed... total destruction... tens of people
died in this way.
"Witnesses say that dead bodies [are] still in the streets and narrow roads
of the camp from 100 to 150. This is the fifth day that ambulances can't
reach to save the injured or the corpses... all health workers and
representatives are issuing SOS for help through the media... directly...
till now no result... on the ground... In the past 36 hours, only two
corpses and one injured were received by the hospital... health situation
and living is so [bad] that people are now drinking from the sewage and
eating leaves off trees...
We [heard] now from a witness that hundreds of bodies are under the rubble
of the houses... the people who saved themselves are gathered in the
university."
He continued, "One soldier killed the son of 34 years... then the other
soldier exchanged and killed the father of 62 years in front of the sons
and grandsons... another two old men--more than 64 years [old]--and one
45 years [old] were also shot in front of their families.... Doctors said
that they were shot at intentionally so as to kill as many people on the
orders of the criminal Sharon... In these days it is not fair for the
victims to make analysis. And if some politicians reading these lines will
not understand what mentality is behind these atrocities, then humanity and
conscience is lost."
Yehudit Harel, an activist from the "Peace Block" movement, has been sending
by e-mail a public call to take away Shimon Peres's Nobel Peace Prize. She
told the World Socialist Web Site: "Shimon Peres is one of the most cynical
and immoral politicians of our times, a true Machiavelli disciple, who plays
such a key role in enabling the current catastrophe to happen. As a Nobel
Prize Laureate--with all his international connections and special status in
Europe--Shimon Peres secured all along a European umbrella for the Sharon
Government. Thus he made it possible for this criminal government to go as
far as this. It is high time to try to teach him a lesson".
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JENIN: REMEMBER THIS WORD
By Ramzy Baroud, Editor-in-Chief
http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20020408192557891
Israel knew too well what Jenin meant for its military aspirations, that
particular refugee camp was a deal breaker for Israel's attempt to suppress
the Palestinian population, to kill their spirit.
Jenin. Remember this word, for every time your lose faith in humanity, all
you need to do is to recall it. Repeat inside of you, slowly, when you are
down and frail. It should give you vigor and lift your spirit. It's a symbol
of courage, courage beyond these times of despair and degradation, courage
that's legendary, almost mythological. How else can we explain that a small
refugee camp, less than a kilometer sq. length and width stands for days in
the face of hundreds of tanks, Apache helicopters and thousands of trained
killers, they call soldiers?
Established in 1953 as a make-shift tent city to host thousands of
Palestinian refugees, this small camp breeds tenacity and defiance. Many of
those Palestinians who were uprooted from their villages in Palestine to
live in the most humiliating conditions were still able to see the land that
once was theirs, by simply gazing west.
For nearly five decades they looked west. Now, when their elders die, their
children who are raised in the same impoverished yet proud Palestinian camp,
also taught to gaze west. West is Palestine, their home, where they were
told stories by aging grandmas of how wonderful life once was. It was a
reminder of their dire hardship and life under occupation.
13 thousand refugees lived in the Jenin refugee camp, located near the city
of Jenin in the West Bank. Their dream was beyond paved roads, functional
sewer systems and good schools. Their dream was returning home. Many held
the deeds to their land in Palestine, some even held the large old keys of
their ravished homes, and most of them knew too well what UN Resolution 194
meant: it was their right to return.
But for decades those refugees remained without homes, without rights, and
for decades they were subjected to never ending cruelty. In 1967, Israel
added insult to injury when it invaded the West Bank and Gaza, the refugees
are now under military occupation.
In recent years, the young population in the camps have grown to reach 44
percent of the total number of refugees. Yet with little means, many managed
to attain a proper education at nearby Universities, Bir Zeit, Bethlehemand
Najah. A young, educated yet defiant generation was born and raised in the
small camp, a population that never forgot to look west, were Palestine is,
a population that never feared to carry on the torch of a dying generation.
That dying generation taught them one valuable lesson; never forget the
land, our rights, our pride and our dignity. And they never did.
When Palestinian streets exploded with anger in a loud cry for freedom,
the uprising was just getting started, and the Jenin refugee camp was there,
leading the crowd, chanting the loudest, demanding justice, human rights and
return.
Israel knew too well what Jenin meant for its military aspirations, that
particular refugee camp was a deal breaker for Israel's attempt to suppress
the Palestinian population, to kill their spirit.
Last March Israel carried out "Operation Colorful Journey" against the Jenin
and Balata refugee camps. Like its name, the "Operation" was colorful,
bloody colorful, as nearly 20 Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded
in the refugee camp. Many homes were destroyed, but the spirit remained
strong.
Israeli officials said that their mission in Jenin was like "picking up
terrorists with tweezers." But even the tweezers of the fourth strongest
army in the world, one of the most powerful nuclear powers, was hardly
enough to bend the will of Jenin. Jenin fought hard, and as the soldiers
were pulling out, Palestinians emerged from their homes, carrying their
dead, and chanting about Palestine and freedom.
But General Sharon never forgets his unfinished battles. Revenge is his
game, even if launched against refugees, fighting with old rifles and
kitchen knifes. As he recently deployed his forces to invade West Bank
towns, he spared nearly 300 tanks, thousands of soldiers and many Apaches to
invade the Jenin refugee camp.
Until the writing of this article, 8 days after intensive bombings,
horrendous killings and indescribable massacres, the camp is yet to fall.
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed, mass graves have been opened, scores
of dead have been buried in haste, men and women smothered under the rubble
of their homes, and the camp is yet to fall.
Frustrated with the small size of the poor camp, Israeli tanks began
stepping on everything, homes and mosques to find a way for themselves, to
open a new battlefront with the defiant refugees, and the camp is yet to
fall.
The head of the Israeli military Shaul Mofaz, embarrassed by the blunder,
led the "operation" himself to carry out a massacre, as the whole world
stood and waited while the refugees battled the tanks, and fought the
Apaches.
Over fifty missiles were fired on the camp within an hour; hundreds of
people are said to be buried under the rubble; many bodies were scattered in
the streets; Israeli troops began a systematic bombardment of the entire
camp, the wounded bled to death, with no medical attention, just
broken-hearted mothers screaming in vain. With little means, the small camp,
not only resisted, but inflicted heavy losses on the army that once claimed
to be "invincible".
From inside the camp, using a cell phone with a dying battery, a Palestinian
fighter reached Al Jazeera satellite television. "I just wanted to let the
proud people of the world, not to worry, we are resisting and will fight to
the last drop of blood." In the background, a proud population stood
listening to the speaker, maybe thinking that the world really listened or
cared.
They all chanted in one voice for freedom and Palestine, before the battery
died, maybe not to be charged again.
By the time this article is published, maybe the Jenin refugee camp will
be bulldozed, maybe hundreds more will be killed, maybe the fighting will
still continue; but under no circumstances will the remaining refugees of
Jenin be coerced to abandon their fight for freedom, their vow to return.
Israel is yet to be convinced that even with the most sophisticated US
manufactured weapons, the people of Jenin refugee camp will never abandon
their honorable fight, they will never cease to look west, where their land
and pride are, where Palestine is calling on its people to come home.
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2. Latest News from Palestine


From: SIUHIN@ aol.com
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: April 12: Latest News from Palestine
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 05:53:03 EDT

**April 12: Latest News from Palestine
**For all the news, please check: www.PeaceNoWar.net
**also, please visit Palestine IMC: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/


*News and Analysis:
Palestine/News/April 12 02.htm
1) Call To Action: Come to Palestine (Palestine IMC)
2) Extra-Judicial Executions in Jenin Refugee Camp (LAW, Palestine)
3) B'TSELEM Daily Update, April 11 (Israel)
4) Saudi Arabia sets aside $50M for 'martyrs' (United Press International,
USA)

*Audio Reports:
1) Democracy Now! (New York, USA)
Thursday, April 11: http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020411.html

*Upcoming Actions in US:
http://www.PeaceNoWar.net/Palestine/Protests/index.htm

*Peace Actions:
Wast is the alternative to the war?
http://www.peacenowar.net/peace/index.htm

Call To Action: Come to Palestine
Palestine Independent Media Center
Original article is at http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/6592.php
by various • Saturday April 06, 2002 at 09:12 PM

The CandleVoice Initiative
From: labibkobti@ aol.com


Lee Siu Hin
ActionLA/PeaceNoWar.net
4167 S. Normandie Ave.,
Los Angeles, CA 91030
Tel: (323)389-4593
e-mail: ActionLA@ ActionLA.org
-------------------------------------------------------------

---------
Peace, No War
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

Information for antiwar movements, news across the world

www.PeaceNoWar.net

--------------------------------------------------------

For up-to-date information, news, please visit PeaceNoWar.net
Home Page: www.PeaceNoWar.net

Please Join PeaceNoWar Listserv, send e-mail to:
mailto:peacenowar-subscribe@ lists.riseup.net
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3. D.C. April 22 - Protest Ariel Sharon Visit!!!


From: "V S C" <viequessc@ hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: D.C. April 22 - Protest Ariel Sharon Visit!!!
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:57:21 -0400

Vieques Support Campaign
Campaña de Apoyo a Vieques
http://palfrente.tripod.com
E-mail viequessc@...

                          -PLEASE FORWARD-
        _____________________________________________________

                    NO TO RACISM & IMPERIALIST WAR!
           U.S. NAVY OUT OF VIEQUES & ALL OF PUERTO RICO!
        _____________________________________________________

            U.S. WEAPONS: TESTED IN VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO -
              THEN USED AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.

Protest U.S. puppet & war criminal Ariel Sharon’s visit to Washinton, DC
Proteste la visita a Washington, DC del criminal de guerra Ariel Sharon.

                 All Out To/Todos Para Washington,DC

                           Monday/Lunes
                             APRIL 22
                           22 de ABRIL

                   Sponsored by/Auspiciado por
       AL-AWDA, Palestine Right to Return Coalition, NY-NJ

                 For bus ticket information call
           Para información de boletos de autobus llame
                          (718)854-0928

You may also call the Vieques Support Campaign,
an endorser of this  event.
Tambien puede llamal a la Campaña de Apoyo a Vieques,
un endosante de este evento. (212)677-0619 or (718)601-4751

      Boricuas stand with our Palestinian sisters & brother!
                 Free Palestine & Puerto Rico!!!
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4. RAWA IMC Benefit!


From: radtimes <resist@ best.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: RAWA IMC Benefit!
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:44:50 -0700

RAWA IMC Benefit !
:

From: John theBaker <jtbaker666@ juno.com>
:

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT from John the Baker:
I'm putting together a Benefit for Revolutionary Association of Women of
Afghanistan and Indymedia SF April 21st at Gilman 5pm.  Please come.  Its my
first time organizing a show at Gilman so I want all my friends there.
Jello Biafra will speak, as well as a representative of RAWA and 5 great
bands will play.   I also printed RAWA Benefit shirts to help raise extra
money to pay the touring bands and they are available through the
Alternative Tentacles website:
http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=478&sd=x35V@if-mIEvRncsw\
XQ

Buy one if ya can and spread the word about the benefit.

Thanks,
John the Baker
(this link finally works!)
http://www.ultravibe.com
John the Baker Video, Live@ Cactus Club San Jose
http://johnthebaker.freewebsites.com/jtb.htm
recently updated with news and tourdates !
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5. Solidarity events at San Francisco State


From: radtimes <resist@ best.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Solidarity events at San Francisco State
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:03:49 -0700

     Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:31:08 -0800
     From: pgasper@...
Subject: ACTIONS: Solidarity events at San Francisco State

DISTRIBUTE WIDELY (Please !):

Solidarity Events at SFSU



1. April 15-19 WEEK-LONG Teach-In.

2. April 19 Student Anti-War Meeting

3. April 20 International Protest and March Against the War (Dolores
    Park 11am)

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

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

1. April 15-19 WEEK-LONG Teach-In

Students and organizations on SFSU campus are organizing a week-long
teach-in (10-15 workshops), on Mon, April 15 - Fri, April 19. These
teach-ins are in preparation to the April 20th protest occurring
internationally. Having such workshops on such topics as:

Palestine, Colombia, Philippines, Airport Workers, From Slave Trade
to Free trade, U.S. War at home and abroad, Racism, Poverty, etc...

Flyers for April 20th are available

For more information, calendar, flyers, and/or to help organize
contact:
<http://us.f203.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ramon_cnc@yahoo.com>ramon_cnc@yahoo\
.com

Help is still needed!!

     **If you would like your event included on our calender of events,
please contact us ASAP.
*%*%%*%*%*%*%*%*%**%*%%**%%*%**%*%*%

2. April 19 Student Anti-War Meeting

As George W. Bush prepares to extend the "war on
terrorism" beyond Afghanistan, thousands are preparing
to show their opposition to this war at the national
anti-war demonstration in Washington D.C. on April 20.

In solidarity, there will be an anti-war
demonstration in San Francisco primarily with West
Coast activists.  We feel this will be an important
opportunity for the student anti-war movement to come
together and strengthen the opposition to this war.

We therefore invite all students and student groups to a meeting.
We propose that this gathering take place on

April 19, the night before the demonstration,
at San Francisco State University. more details on time/ place to come

LIMITED HOUSING WILL BE AVAILABLE.
At this meeting we can hear reportbacks
from the National Conference that took place
at Columbia University in February and
plan our activities as Anti-War groups
for the rest of the semester.

We  invite all Bay Area students and
student groups to a

meeting on April 9 to discuss and
plan the student gathering.

The April 9 meeting will be at 5:30 pm in
room C-116 on the lower level of
the Cesar Chavez Student Center,
located in the center of
San Francisco State University.

Please forward to other students
and student groups.

For further questions or  information please e-mail
edhernandezsfsu@ yahoo.com


Publicity/Outreach Committee
SFSU Students For Peace

Nabil S.
SFSU General Union of Palestine Students

Behzad Raghian
National Campus Anti-War Network Coordinating Committee

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3. April 20 International Protest and March (Dolores Park 11am)

APRIL 20 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST WAR & RACISM Saturday,
April 20, 2002, will be an International Day of Protest Against War
and Racism. Demonstrations are planned on that day in a growing list
of cities and countries around the world. The need for international
solidarity against the extremely menacing and expanding U.S. war
drive has never been greater. The International A.N.S.W.E.R.
Coalition calls on organizations in as many countries as possible to
hold demonstrations on April 20. U.S and British military forces are
continuing the war in Afghanistan -- a war that is far from over. In
recent weeks the U.S. has dispatched troops to the Philippines, Yemen
and the Republic of Georgia, and announced plans to step up military
intervention in Colombia and Peru. The U.S./Israeli war against the
Palestinian people, who are courageously and determinedly resisting
overwhelming force. A new U.S. assault on Iraq -- a country
devastated by more than 11 years of bombing and blockade -- is no
longer a matter of if but when according to the Bush administration
war planners. New plans for nuclear war against seven countries, five
of them non-nuclear powers, has been sent to Congress by the
Pentagon. These plans defy international law, international treaties
and the most elemental of human rights. To fund their maniacal
military plans, the Bush administration is calling for the Pentagon
budget to be increased to a half-trillion ($500,000,000,000) by 2007,
more than the combined military spending of all other countries on
the planet! The Bush program threatens all of humanity. It must be
stopped, and the only force that change this dangerous course is the
global people's movement. The International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
urges all anti-war, labor, women, student and other progressive
organizations to hold anti-war and on April 20.

Please contact by email
at
<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=ANSWER@afgj.org&YY=2937&order\
=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=u>ANSWER@...

or visit the website at
<http://www.internationalanswer.org/>http://www.internationalanswer.org
to let us know about your plans and for more information.
International A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
<http://www.internationalanswer.org/>http://www.internationalanswer.org
************************************
WE MUST UNITE AS A WORLD PEOPLE AND DEMAND SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE
PUEBLOS OF THE WORLD!!
U.S. OUT OF COLOMBIA!
U.S. OUT OF MIDDLE-EAST!
STOP U.S. MILITARY EXPANSION!
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6. COPWATCH Know Your Rights! Training April 27th


From: Russell Bates <russbumper@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [copwatch] COPWATCH Know Your Rights! Training April 27th
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:51:30 -0700 (PDT)


Learn what your rights are when dealing when the police and FBI.
Learn how to observe the police on the street and during protests.

COPWATCH is hosting a

Know Your Rights Training
Saturday, April 27, 11am to 2pm

Copwatch Office
2022 Blake Street
(Near Shattuck)
Berkeley, CA
FREE
Call (510)548-0425

_______________________________________________
copwatch mailing list
copwatch@...
http://lists.linefeed.org/mailman/listinfo/copwatch
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7. 20 Yellowstone Bison Captured


From: Buffalo Field Campaign <bfc-media@ wildrockies.org>
Subject: 20 Yellowstone Bison Captured
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:23:54 -0600

Buffalo Field Campaign
P.O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758
Phone (406) 646-0070 Fax (406) 646-0071
E-mail buffalo@ wildrockies.org.
http://www.wildrockies.org/buffalo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 11, 2002
Contacts: Peter Leusch and Dan Brister  (406) 646-0070

Livestock Agents Slaughter 7 Buffalo in the Largest Capture Operation
Since 1999; Agencies Stop Using New Brucellosis Test After Facing Park
Service Criticism

West Yellowstone, MT: Twenty bison were captured yesterday and a
Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) activist arrested in an operation
conducted by the Montana Department of Livestock (DOL).  Two bulls,
eleven cows (many of which were pregnant), and seven yearlings were
chased by snowmobiles from the south side of Horse Butte into the
nearby trap.

Agencies involved in the operation, including the DOL, the US Forest
Service, the National Park Service, and the MT Department of Fish,
Wildlife and Parks have killed over 3,200 Yellowstone bison since
1985.  The slaughter is based on the unsubstantiated fear that bison
will transmit Brucellosis to cattle.  In nearby Grant Teton National
Park, where infected wild bison have co-mingled with cattle for more
than 45 years, there has never been a single case of transmission to
cattle.  In fact, no such transmission has ever occurred anywhere
between wild bison and cattle.

In its 1998 study, Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,
the National Academy of Sciences concluded, "The current risk of
transmission from YNP bison to cattle is low."

Even if buffalo were capable of spreading brucellosis, the lack of
cattle during the winter months when buffalo are outside the park
make such a transmission impossible. The cattle that stock the summer
grazing allotments on Horse Butte are from Idaho. "Montana is killing
America's last wild buffalo to protect a few Idaho cattle," said BFC
spokesperson Dan Brister.

Seven of the bison, including a bull and six cows, were slaughtered
today.  13 were released.  The DOL began using a different test last
week to determine which bison are slaughtered and which released
after being questioned by Park Service officials and bison advocates.

In a letter to the Montana State Veterinarian on March 7, 2002,
Wayne Brewster, Deputy Director of the Yellowstone Center for
Resources stated, "During the development of the Bison Management
Plan, MDOL insisted that the card test be the serological test that
is used to determine whether bison are removed to slaughter or not.
The cooperating agencies should be mindful that the analysis of
impacts in the EIS, which Montana adopted for its Record of Decision,
was predicated upon historical removal rates based on the results of
the card test."

BFC has documented a higher percentage of bison going to slaughter
since the change to the FPA test this winter.  According to BFC
spokesperson Peter Leusch, "The card test is an inaccurate test, and
now the FPA has an even higher percentage of false positives.  It's
obvious that these bison are not being slaughtered because of
brucellosis, but out of a misguided prejudice against bison in
Montana."

Results of the FPA test sent 32 of 50 (64 percent) of captured bison
to slaughter this winter.  Since switching back to the CARD test, the
figure has dropped to 13 of 35 (26 percent).

Brian Huntington, a BFC volunteer from Missoula, was arrested by
Forest Service agents and charged with resisting arrest and
obstructing a peace officer at Horse Butte during the capture
operation.  He was transported to Missoula this morning and arraigned
on federal charges.

As yesterday's operation was underway a different herd of forty-six
bison migrated from the Park near the Madison River and grazed along
the shoulders of highway 191, standing in the road and crossing back
and forth near a dangerous corner. Several Gallatin National Forest
and Gallatin County law enforcement vehicles drove past on their way
to participate in the bison capture at Horse Butte without stopping
to warn motorists of the bison in the road.  In order to prevent an
accident BFC volunteers stationed themselves on the roadside and
warned approaching motorists.
"As yesterday's events so clearly illustrate," said Brister, "the
present buffalo slaughter is destroying our natural heritage, wasting
our tax dollars, and keeping our public servants from doing their
jobs."

The Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field,
everyday, to stop the slaughter of Yellowstone's wild buffalo.
Volunteers defend the buffalo on their traditional winter habitat and
advocate for their protection.  Daily patrols stand with the buffalo
on their native ground and document every move made against them.

Video footage is available upon request.

-30-


********************************************
Please feel free to contact us for photos, video footage, background
information or interviews regarding the plight of the last wild buffalo.

Thank you for your time.
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8. 5/1 SF MayDay 2002 Celebration With Videos/Music/Poetry/Song


From: steve zeltzer <lvpsf@ igc.org>
Subject: 5/1 SF MayDay 2002 Celebration With Videos/Music/Poetry/Song
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 17:50:10 -0700
Attachments: daewoo-gate.jpg (38k)

Attachment available by emailing lvpsf@ igc.org


Join The  May Day 2002 Celebration:
Solidarity Has No Borders As The International Struggle Continues

Solidarity/Music/Poetry/Video/Art

Workers around the world are in struggle. From Mexico City, to Korea,
Palestine and Iran, workers will be joining together on Mayday in an
international solidarity celebration.  Join us in this important workers
celebration.

Music By "Refusal To Disperse"

Irish Labor Poetry

"May Day Struggle In Iran":First US screening of Labor Video From Iran

"Record Of Repression" by Labor News Production, Seoul Korea on the struggle
against repression of the trade unions in Korea.

"Mexican City Bus Drivers Fight Privatization" Report On Ruta 100 struggle

Cartoon Art Display by Khalil Bendib

$5.00 Donation, No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds

7:30PM

Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts
2868 Mission St./ 25th St
San Francisco, California

Sponsored by
The Labor Video Project
P.O. Box 425584
San Francisco, CA 94142
(415)282-1908
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9. April 16 Forum on Public Power (updated program)


From: Alan <ilcinfo@ earthlink.net>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: April 16 Forum on Public Power (updated program)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:34:05 -0700

Bay Area Labor Task Force For Public Power in Calif, -
c/o  Golden Gate Chapter of the Labor Party,
P.O. Box 40637, San Francisco, CA 94140
Phone: (650) 355-5329 or (415) 626-1175;  Fax: (415) 626-1217
-----------------------------------

(Please repost and distribute widely. Please excuse duplicate postings)

Join us at a Public Forum:

"The Road to Public Power in 2002"

San Franciscans can navigate around PG&E's bankruptcy and make public power
a reality in 2002!

Tuesday, April 16 - 7 to 9 p.m.
State PUC Building
505 Van Ness Ave. (@ McAllister), San Francisco

* HEAR ASSEMBLY SPEAKER PRO TEM FRED KEELEY

Speaker Pro Tem Keeley is the author of a proposal to buy out PG&E Company
from PG&E Corp. and keep it intact in a Special Purpose Trust under the
California Power Authority. Such a California Gas & Electric entity would be
able to reduce rates by 20-30% and offer municipalities the opportunity to
buy their local portion of the system affordably. Hear the role San
Francisco can play

* HEAR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS PRESIDENT TOM AMMIANO

Supervisor President Ammiano will address the campaign for local control and
public power in the November 2002 general election.

ALSO SPEAKING

* KAREN PIERCE, PRES., BAY VIEW-HUNTERS POINT DEMOCRATIC CLUB

* A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE LABOR TASK FORCE FOR PUBLIC POWER

Sponsored by San Franciscans for Public Power, a coalition of progressive
union labor, environmental, consumer, senior, youth, small business, and
other community-based groups.

For more information, contact Ross Mirkarimi at 415-364-1522.

Free, but donations are welcome.
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10. Come Help Us on Earth Day!


From: Ecology Center <erc@ ecologycenter.org>
Subject: Come Help Us on Earth Day!
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:12:01 +0800

This is an invitation to you all from Kanchan Haynes, Volunteer
Coordinator at the Ecology Center.

April 20, 2002 is EARTH DAY 2002!!!  We need Help!

The 32nd annual Earth Day will be celebrated on Saturday, April 20,
in a free event, 11am-5pm in Civic Center Park, Allston and MLK Jr.
Way in downtown Berkeley.

It is on this very special day that the Ecology Center would like to
invite you to join us in representing the great work we do together
for the health and well-being of the Earth.

There are numerous ways you can participate:

* Support Environmentally-Minded Youth by helping to organize an
Ecology Center youth activity. We thought a cool seed planting
project would be great, it's Spring!  Wanna help?

* Brochure Copying Project  - We need to make sure that our
information is plentiful and looks good. Only 100% post-consumer
paper!

* Groovy display maker - Are you good at creating standing display
boards that show our programs and projects in really attractive ways?
This project might be for you!

* Help packing up Bookstore, Info, Awning and other items to go to the park

* Help Unpacking and Setting up the Bookstore and Info Booth - If you
can arrive early on Saturday and help with this it would be great.
It's a really sweet time to be out there and to start welcoming the
first arrivals for the celebration.

* Tabling - Spend some time learning more about or talking to others
about the Ecology Center and it's programs at our table. A training
will be available for this particular project. TBA

* Relief for farmers at the market - Hey, farmers need breaks too!
You can take over for someone while he or she explores the fair or
grabs lunch or whatever!

Well, there you have it! That's a good list for starters. If you
wanna come and play, feel free to call me at 510-548-2220 x235, or
email me at kanchan@... telling me what you are most
interested in and what kind of time you have.

Oh yeah! For anyone interested, the afterparty will be held at Cafe
De La Paz. Hamsa Lila will be playing, they are groovy and fun to
dance to. The Ecology Center supports art in support of the Earth.
Come out and dance with us after the Celebration!

So much of who we are and what we do depends directly on our members
and volunteers. For all that you do and have done, we are forever
grateful!

much love!


--

Ecology Center
2530 San Pablo Ave
Berkeley, CA 94702
www.ecologycenter.org
510-548-2220 x233
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11. Oakland Protest of Operation Tarmac 4/17


From: "Marsha Feinland" <mfeinland@ worldnet.att.net>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: Oakland Protest of Operation Tarmac 4/17
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:55:00 -0700


IN THIS MESSAGE:
*  Oakland Protest of Operation Tarmac 4/17

---------------------------------------------------------------

The Central Labor Council of Alameda County is working with local unions and
cb groups to hold a press conference on Wednesday, 4/17 at 11:00 am in front
of the Oakland Federal Building to tell the INS that we don't want
operation "Tarmac" to come here, that experienced baggage screeners who are
legal residents have proved their loyalty by working for low wages, if they
are eligible to be in the National Guard with guns, why shouldn't they be
able to screen bags? The Supreme Ct decision in Hoffman Plastics will also
be mentioned.  After the press conference a delegation will be going in to
meet with the INS.

Here's some info on "Tarmac":
Subject: Operation Tarmac and other worksite enforcement

   Please see this House testimony of INS concerning Operation Tarmac and
other worksite enforcement issues.

<http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/aboutins/congress/testimonies/2002/2GREENEH\
.pdf>http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/aboutins/congress/testimonies/2002/2GRE\
ENEH.pdf

**  Employment Rights of Immigrants E-mail Discussion Group  **
Visit the National Employment Law Project on-line at
<http://www.nelp.org>http://www.nelp.org

SEND E-MAIL for the group to nelp-immigemplrights@ yahoogroups.com

TO SUBSCRIBE, send blank e-mail to
nelp-immigemplrights-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send blank e-mail to
nelp-immigemplrights-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

Contact Naomi Zauderer (zauderer@ nelp.org) with questions.

Join other NELP discussion groups at
<http://www.nelp.org/discussion.htm>http://www.nelp.org/discussion.htm

If you are having trouble subscribing or unsubscribing,
contact  listhelp@ nelp.org or (212) 285-3025

Group address:
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nelp-immigemplrights>http://groups.yahoo.com/
group/nelp-immigemplrights

(read old messages, receive daily digest, change other settings)

Press Conference on Thursday, 4/18/02 re: Hoffman Decision

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center is inviting immigrant rights and labor
groups to participate in a press conference at their office on 4/18/02 to
respond to the Hoffman decision.  The press statement will call for a
federal law to ensure that ALL workers are entitled to back pay once an
official determination has been made that they have been illegally
discharged.

A draft of the release is below. If your organization would like to endorse

the release, please email Mark Silverman at: msilverman@ ilrc.org by
4/11/02.  If you'd like to add content - contact Mark.

We will discuss this issue and the press conference at the next LION
meeting on April 10th 9:30 am at CLC of Alameda Co, 7992 Capwell Dr, hope to
see you then!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRESS CONFERENCE
DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2002  TIME: 12 NOON

PLACE: Immigrant Legal Resource Center
1663 Mission Street, Suite 602 (6th Floor)
San Francisco 94103 (between Duboce and Van Ness)

For more information contact:
Mark Silverman at 415-255-9499 ext.  627
Bernardo Merino at 415 255-9499 ext. 637

IMMIGRANT AND LABOR GROUPS CALL FOR FEDERAL LAW TO PROTECT ALL WORKERS
AGAINST ILLEGAL FIRINGS

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), el Comite de Padres Unidos,
{LIST OTHER GROUPS WHO WISH TO JOIN} are holding a press conference to call
to clarify that all workers are entitled to back pay once an official
determination has been made that they have been illegally discharged.

"This new law is needed in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision
in Hoffman Plastic Compunds, Inc. v. NLRB, which prohibits backpay for
illegally fired undocumented immigrants.  The new law is necessary to
increase protection for all workers - by not permitting employers to violate
the law with impunity against one part of the work forced," stated Mark
Silverman, Director of Immigration Policy at the Immigrant Legal Resource
Center (ILRC).

The following is an excerpt from an article which provides background to
this Supreme Court decision.

In Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB, No. 00-1595 (Mar. 27, 2002),
http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/cases/2002,0328-Hoffman.pdf
the Court held that federal immigration policy as expressed by Congress in
the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 forecloses the National Labor
Relations Board from awarding back pay to an undocumented alien who has
never been legally authorized to work in the US. Petitioner Hoffman Plastics
laid off an employee who had been involved in union organizing activities.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)found that Hoffman had improperly
laid off the employee, and as part of the remedy ordered reinstatement and
backpay. At a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge to determine the
amount of backpay the employee in question admitted that he had been born in
Mexico, had never been admitted to the United States, and had used a birth
certificate borrowed from a friend to obtain a driver's license and as proof
of being authorized to work in the US. The NLRB determined that he was
entitled to backpay for the period until his use of fraudulent documents
became known. The court of appeals upheld the
NLRB's decision and Hoffman Plastics appealed to the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Rehnquist joined by Justices O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy and
Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court. The majority rejected that
contention of the NLRB put forth in its brief
http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2001/3mer/2mer/2000-1595.mer.aa.pdf
and at oral arguments
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/30jan20021630/www.supremecourtus.gov/ora\
l_arguments/argument_transcripts/00-1595.pdf
that it was not precluded from awarding appropriately limited backpay for
unlawfully discharged undocumented aliens physically present in the US, and
that this limited aware of backpay reasonably accommodated both National
Relations Act (NLRA) and the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). The
Chief Justice concluded that "to allow the NLRB " to award backpay to
illegal aliens would unduly trench upon explicit statutory prohibitions
critical to federal immigration policy

as expressed in IRCA. It would encourage the successful evasion of
apprehension by immigration authorities, condone prior violations of
immigration laws, and encourage future violations."

Justice Breyer, joined by Justices Stevens, Souter and Ginsburg, dissented
finding that nothing in either the statutory language of immigration law nor
its purpose warrant taking from the NLRB the power to award backpay in this
situation. Further, the dissent argued, the Court was bound to uphold the
determination of the NLRB because the NLRB had acted "with a discriminating
awareness of the consequences of its action" on immigration law.


Thanks to:
Mary Purcell
Program Coordinator, Immigrant Rights
Center for Labor Research and Education
Institute of Industrial Relations
2521 Channing Way, #5555
Berkeley, CA 94720-5555
Tel:  510-643-2355
Fax: 510-642-6432
Email: purcell1@ uclink.berkeley.edu
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12. Outreach to Airport Screeners


From: "Marsha Feinland" <mfeinland@ worldnet.att.net>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: Outreach to Airport Screeners
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:48:06 -0700

---- Original Message --------
Subject: outreach to airport screeners
From: Naomi <Naomi@ ircsf.org>

Dear Friends,

I saw last week's rally listed in the National Lawyers Guild newsletter and
thought you might be able to advise me about how to get the spread the word
to airport screeners about our free naturalization services. The
International Rescue Committee has a grant to provide N-400 and N-600
application completion, citizenship classes, etc., through the end of June.
Can you tell me the appropriate addresses to send flyers to, or other ways
to reach airport screeners? I am also attaching a flyer (If you want the
flyer, e-mail Naomi@ ircsf.org for it.) to this e-mail, in case you are able
to distribute it at all. [omitted from forwarded message]

Thanks for your help!

Sincerely,

Naomi Meyer


Naomi Meyer
Naturalization Case Manager
International Rescue Committee
1370 Mission Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel:  (415)863-3777
fax: (415)863-9264
naomi@ ircsf.org

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If you want the flyer, e-mail for it.
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14. PNVRC Bulletin #4



From: PNVRC@ aol.com
Subject: PNVRC Bulletin #4
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 03:39:08 EDT


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Brought to you by PNVRC
http://www.pnvrc.net
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Dear anti-war activists and peace-living friends,
This is the fourth email bulletin of the People's Nonviolent Response
Coalition (PNVRC). The PNVRC is a multi-issue coalition of groups and
individuals who have come together to formulate and promote nonviolent
alternatives to the "war on terrorism" both at home and abroad.

We want to thank the Tides Foundation and the Vanguard Public Foundation for
their generous support of our efforts thus far.
As we need ongoing support, we are asking anyone that can, to
donate at least $1.

Please make a check to Vanguard/PNVRC and send it to:

Vanguard Public Foundation,
c/o Vicky Seid,
383 Rhode Island Suite 301,
San Francisco, CA 94103

These informational Bulletins will be sent no more than once per week &
during emergencies. These will include committee meetings, special events,
related demonstrations, and various articles or web site links that might be
of interest to you.

· To discontinue receiving these bulletins, please e-mail us back.

· If you want a friend on our list, send us her/his e-mail address.


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UPCOMING DEMONSTRATIONS:
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SATURDAY, APRIL 20th: NATIONAL MARCHES AGAINST WAR AND RACISM
Join with thousands of other on Saturday,
April 20 in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.
This march is endorsed by many organizations including the PNVRC.
In San Francisco, gather at 11:00AM in Dolores Park.
March to the Civic Center at noon.
Rally at Civic Center at 1:00PM.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20th at 9AM:  EAST BAY INTERFAITH SEND OFF TO SF MARCH
The PNVRC invites all to gather at the First Congregational Church, 27th and
Harrison, Oakland for an Interfaith Prayer Meeting with a group of Bay Area
Ministers.
We will then march to the 19th St. BART Station and board the train to join
the demonstration in San Francisco.
For more information, call Anne Symens-Bucher (510)-536-3772 or
symensbucher@ earthlink.net

SUNDAY, APRIL 14th, 4-7PM and WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 at 6-9PM:
BANNER MAKING PARTY FOR APRIL 20th MARCH
Release your creative energy and help to make banners and posters for the
April 20th demonstration.
Contact Eve Lindi by email:  elindi@ msn.com
or phone: 510-339-1716 (evenings).

MONDAY APRIL 15th at NOON:  TAX DAY VIGIL
Protest US tax dollars supporting the Israeli invasion of Palestinian towns
and camps by joining the PNVRC at the Oakland Federal Building (12th and
Clay). Bring signs of your own making, with an emphasis on a *nonviolent
response* to the current very dangerous situation.

From this gathering, we will send a delegation to the San Francisco offices
of Senators Boxer and Feinstein on Tuesday 4/16, to pressure them to
clarify/justify their positions with regard to Israel and Palestine. (This
in response to the news that Feinstein and Boxer are supporting an
anti-Palestinian resolution in the Senate.)

The Tuesday delegation will present a petition with signatures collected at
our vigil, insisting that our Senators pay more attention to the diversity
and complexity of views on this topic, and represent our State and region
accordingly. The delegation will ask for specifics on their positions, and
follow up with a second visit to the Senators' offices on Friday 4/19.

MONDAY, APRIL 22nd at NOON:  A PEACE VIGIL AND POSTER EXHIBITION
In concert with the National Coalition for Peace and Justice Mobilization in
Washington D.C. The War Resisters League-West presents "Who Won This War?" A
Peace Vigil and Poster Exhibition featuring many powerful images, much
beautiful music and just a few speakers.  Location is at the Oakland Federal
Building (12th and Clay).  For more information, contact: Jim Haber (415)
282-6580  or by email: wrlwest@ riseup.net

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UPCOMING EVENTS:
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TUESDAY, MAY 7: TUESDAY TEA PARTY
The Tuesday Tea Parties are a continuing effort to periodically bring
together new and veteran activists to discuss current issues in relation to
the "war on terrorism".  They go from 6PM until 8PM and include a light
supper.  The first of these was held on March 26 at the First Congregational
Church in Oakland.  The place of the next one will be announced.

These open gatherings to build a new peace movement will be held in a
floating location in the East Bay, every 6 weeks (reference is to the Boston
Tea Party!).  Listen, dialogue, and do something!

SATURDAYS at 11:00AM:  MIDDLE EAST STUDIES GROUP
Grand Lake Neighborhood Center.  Contact Pamela Drake (510) 238-2301

The week-end of MAY 10-11:  The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
Power in Space (GN) 10th Anniversary Membership Conference and Protest
The GN 10th Anniversary Membership Conference and Protest will take place at
the University of California at Berkeley.  The GN is made up of 159
affiliate groups, on every continent, who are working to prevent the
nuclearization and weaponization of space.  The program includes protests at
Lockeed and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D - OH) as the invited keynote speaker.
Rep. Kucinich has introduced into Congress a bill entitled "Space
Preservation Act" (HR 3616) that would ban all weapons in space.
For more information about the conference contact:
Bruce Gagnon (352) 337-9274 or Sally Light (510) 527-2057 or the GN visit:
http://www.space4peace.org


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ARTICLES AND WEB SITES OF INTEREST:
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PNVRC: http://www.pnvrc.net/

WarTimes: A national newspaper dedicated to telling the truth about the "war
on terrorism": http://www.wartimes.org/

RollingThunder Chautauqua Tour: A series of political/culturalfestivals
around the country. http://www.rollingthundertour.org/

September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows:
http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/

Nonviolence.Org: A source for up-to-minute news and commentary on peace and
nonviolence: http://www.nonviolence.org/

One Million Taxpayers for Peace: A nationwide campaign using a very low risk
strategy to make your voice heard above the din of the 80% who approve of
the Washington agenda. http://www.monitor.net/~1mt/

Support the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC): The ICC will
hold accountable perpetrators of genocide, major war crimes and crimes
against humanity when nations will not or cannot act. The Court will act as
an international legal authority and will be governed by countries that
value international human rights. The establishment of the court will
provide an international alternative for prosecuting perpetrators of terror,
an alternative to Bush's "War on Terrorism". We need your help to tell
Congress and the President it's time for the U.S. to support the ICC. Go to
http://www.USAforICC.org and tell your elected officials that without
justice there is no peace.

A Jewish Voice for Peace: http://www.JewishVoiceForPeace.org/



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PNVRC EMERGENCY CONTINGENCY PLAN:
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The Coordinating Committee of the PNVRC has identified the need to be
prepared for the next serious military response overseas or aggression
against the USA.  This bulletin will inform you to meet in front of the
Oakland Federal Building (located on Clay Street in downtown Oakland between
12th Street and 13th Street) at 7 PM on the day of the violence.  The theme
will be to promote nonviolence. Please bring candles, placards etc. to
promote this end. We are coordinating this action with other groups.

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NEXT COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND CONTACT INFO
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Coordinating Committee: Thursday, April 18 at 5:30PM, Western States Legal
Foundation, 1504 Franklin Street, Suite 202 in Oakland.
CONTACT:  Jackie Cabasso, wslf@ earthlink.net

Events Committee:
CONTACT:
Nancy Nadel  nnadel@ igc.org
Claire Greensfelder  greensfelder@ earthlink.net

Faith Based Outreach: Monday, April 29, 5:30PM, First Congregtional Church,
2501 Harrison at 27th Street in Oakland.
CONTACT:  Anne Symens-Bucher, symensbucher@ earthlink.net

Education Committee:  No meeting scheduled at this time.  This committee is
working with the Oakland Education District. They have also taken on the
responsibility to organize the Tuesday Tea Parties with the Coordinating
Committee.
CONTACT:
Ann Weills  aweills@ aol.com
Judi Hirsh  judih@ ousd.k12.ca.us
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15. Lori Update -- April 12


From: "Mark Berenson" <berenson@ freelori.org>
Reply-To: lmfurst@ freelori.org
Subject: Lori Update -- April 12
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:40:34 -0400

Friday, April 12

To All Friends and Supporters of Lori Berenson

RHODA VISITS LORI

Rhoda had a very enjoyable visit with Lori in Huacariz Prison on March 30
and 31.  Although noticeably thinner from her recent 25-day hunger strike,
Lori was, however, in extremely good spirits and very glad to learn of
President Bush's discussions on her case with President Toledo the previous
week in Lima.

LORI CONDEMNS TERRORIST VIOLENCE

Lori and Rhoda had lengthy discussions about the recent car bombing in Lima,
the deteriorating conditions in the Mid-East and in Colombia,  and on the
continued global campaign against terrorism.  Lori sadly reflected on how
many innocent lives were lost and families destroyed since she last saw
Rhoda in December.

In her response to a question from Peru's Caretas magazine about her
reaction to the recent car bombing near the US Embassy in Lima, Lori said:
(translation) "That car bombing was horrible, indiscriminant destructive
violence against civilians, whose aim is the terrorizing of the population
and is a terrible thing that greatly saddens me.  Whoever committed such a
horrendous act was just looking to make people afraid, and to occupy
people's minds in that fear.  I wonder who would do that at this point?  Who
would seek to benefit from the loss of innocent life now?"
(http://www.caretas.com.pe April 4 article with the unflattering title "The
Gringa Prisoner.")

Although not published, Lori also said:  "I'm saddened by the loss of
innocent life and I feel very deeply for all the families of the victims of
the car bombings.  I am so sad that this kind of violence exists.  Who
gained by this horrible loss of innocent life?  If we don't look to
eradicate the causes of various forms of violence in Peru and elsewhere
around the world, we won't change anything.  The victims will always be
innocent, and too many."

NEW YORK OBSERVER EDITORIAL CALLS FOR LORI'S FREEDOM

The April 8 editorial from the weekly newspaper The New York Observer urges
Lori's release and return home to the U.S. The editorial ends with "New York
Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton and Governor George Pataki must
apply public pressure to the White House, and do all they can to make sure
that a daughter of New York comes home."  (See homepage of our website
www.freelori.org).

PERU'S TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION TRIES TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES

Recent articles from Peru indicate that the work of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission initiated by the Paniagua administration and
developed by the Toledo administration has made progress in uncovering two
decades of human rights abuses that occurred during three administrations:
Belaunde (1980-85), Garcia (1985-90), and Fujimori-Montesinos (1990-2000).
To date, horrific stories of atrocities committed by Peruvian military,
paramilitary, and police as well as by the Shining Path insurgency have been
made public.

An "interesting" phenomenon, reminiscent of Lori's public trial last year,
is the limited and selective TV coverage of the public Commission hearings.
As Commission members have lamented, the only way there could really be
reconciliation in Peru is if the people learn about the past atrocities and
their underlying causes.  Outside influences and opposition should not be
controlling what is and what is not being told to the Peruvian people --
there must be responsible and balanced journalistic reporting.  The coverage
was not comprehensive or balanced in Lori's trial and neither is it for the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

From what she has been able to learn, Lori believes that the Commission has
been acting admirably and ethically in the face of much opposition.  Some
members of the resurgent APRA party, fearful of linkages to
government-sponsored atrocities in their Garcia administration (1985-90),
have been trying to stymie Commission work and force changes in membership.
Mr. Garcia is once more very popular in Peru and unquestionably would be
re-elected president if elections were held today.  Obviously, APRA is
worried that severe links to human rights abuse would hurt its public image.
In the Toledo administration a "coalition" of parties, including APRA,
currently give Mr. Toledo "majority" support on many issues in the Peruvian
Congress.


Rhoda and Mark Berenson
website:  http://www.freelori.org
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16. New War Times and Palestine Leaflet


From: "War Times" <info@ war-times.org>
Subject: New War Times and Palestine Leaflet
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:00:01 -0400 (EDT)

Dear All,

We hope this note finds you well.

Palestine is on the frontlines. The outcome of that struggle is crucial not
only to the Palestinians and Israelis, but to the future course of Bush's
"war on terrorism." On our Website you can download a two-page (or
back-to-back) leaftlet on Palestine and distribute it either by email or in
hard copy as widely as you wish. It is located at
http://www.war-times.org/palestine020405.pdf

That leaftlet consists of the Palestine coverage that appears in the new
issue of War Times, which will be off the press on April 12. If you wish to
distribute 25 or more copies, please email us IMMEDIATELY at
distribution@ war-times.org.

The issue also covers: Bush's dangerous new nuclear policies, a powerful
anti-war statement by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, excerpts from an
interview with a senior UN arms inspector in Iraq, an update on secret
detentions and the case of Rabbih Haddad, an article about Youth Facing War
in East Los Angeles, and a piece about anti-war activity in the labor
movement.

We are also still in great need of funds to keep going. Tax-deductible
donations can be made to War Times at our website, www.war-times.org, or by
writing a check to EBC/War Times and sending it to:

WARTIMES
1230 Market Street,
PMB 409,
San Francisco, CA 94102.

We thank you for all of your efforts for peace and justice,
and for your ongoing support of War Times.

Sincerely,

The War Times Staff

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17. [narconews] The Coup d'etat in Venezuela


From: "Alberto M. Giordano" <narconews@ hotmail.com>
Reply-To: narconews-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [narconews] The Coup d'etat in Venezuela
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 04:50:09 -0500



April 12, 2002
Please Distribute Widely

Dear Colleagues,

It is now past 5 a.m. in our América and the newsroom has not slept, as we
have sifted through the reports and propaganda by all sides on the events in
Venezuela.

Our correspondents have been in direct contact with key sources in Venezuela
throughout the day and night. We will continue to monitor the situation and
report it to our readers. We begin with a translation of the press account
we think is most accurate, from Pablo Rodriguez of the daily newspaper
Pagina 12 of Buenos Aires, Argentina, reporting from Caracas, Venezuela.

http://www.narconews.com/

At 5:23 a.m. Venezuela Eastern Time, the English language email newsletter
of Vheadline.com reports from Caracas:

"With a South American tropical dawn just hours away, Venezuela has
announced a new Military High Command for the transition to a new Presidency
of the Republic... at 4:30 a.m. VET they were named as Army C-i-C General
Efrain Vasquez Velasco, General Ramirez Poveda, General Alfonso Martinez and
General Jesus Pereira."

A subsequent update from Vheadline editor Roy Carson informs that the same
business magnate who led the coup has now been installed as unelected
"president" of Venezuela:

"Federation of Chambers of Commerce & Industry (Fedecamaras) president Pedro
Carmona Estanga has been appointed the interim President of Venezuela."

President Hugo Chavez, elected in 1998 and 2000 by landslide margins, was
placed under arrest and is held in a military prison.

He is 47, the same age as Simón Bolívar was at the end of his road.

From a democratically elected government to an unelected military junta and
its imposed "president".

These are your U.S. tax dollars at work.

from somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews@...

Subscribe for free alerts of new reports:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews

Suscribete gratis para alertas de reportajes nuevos en Español:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes
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18. Save Poor Magazine & Pls Forward!


From: Samantha Liapes <sam@ ellabakercenter.org>
Subject: Save Poor Magazine & Pls Forward!
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:13:14 -0700

POOR MAGAZINE IS ONE OF THE ONLY NEWS SOURCES THAT CONSISTENTLY COVERS
POLICE ABUSES AND OTHER ABUSES OF THE SYSTEM.  THEY OFFER A VOICE FOR PEOPLE
MARGINALIZED, IGNORED OR UNFAIRLY DEMONIZED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA.   THEIR
STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS ARE NOT JUST JOURNALISTS BUT INDIVIDUALS COMMITTED TO
USING THE MEDIA AS A MEANS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.  WE CAN NOT
AFFORD TO LOSE POOR.  PLEASE MAKE A CALL TO PREVENT THEM FROM GOING UNDER:

Hi All:

DHS has arbitrarily threatened to withhold money they owe Poor
Magazine to pay participants in their jobs program and also to stop
funding Poor entirely.  This money is only part of Poor's funding but
it is a large enough amount that without it Poor could go out of
business completely, not be able to pay rent, etc.

Loss of Poor Magazine is unthinkable.  They provide an invaluable
innovative program and writing opportunities for those of us
concerned about poverty and homelessness issues in San Francisco.
Without Poor, we would be substantially crippled.

At Dee and Tiny's request, I e-mailed the letter below to Joyce Crum,
Supervisor in charge of making the final decisions.  I also called
and spoke with her today at 431-8700 reprising the contents of the
letter.

It would help a lot if you could do so as well.

There are three other Dept of Human Services "perps" involved who
could use a call as well:

Briana at 557-5456

Rick Manya 431-8700 Ext. 349

Bob Hayes 557-5278

Thanks, Everybody.

This will really be a valuable effort on your part.

Carol Harvey for Tiny and Dee at Poor Magazine

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Please cut and paste the letter below and e-mail it to:

jcrum@...



Joyce Crum, Supervisor

Jobs Program,

Private Industry Council

San Francisco Department of Human Services

San Francisco, CA

Dear Ms Crum:

I am a San Francisco resident.  I am a supporter of "Poor Magazine's"
Jobs Program.  I have worked with "Poor" in the past and am also a
journalist.  This is an excellent, irreplaceable program providing a
vital community contribution through superb training to participants.

I am greatly distressed to hear (and do not understand why) PIC is
threatening not to fulfill its commitment to reimburse "Poor
Magazine" for participants' wages.

The two editors of Poor Magazine make an invaluable contribution to
the community through their training work, journalistic work, and
magazines, both hard copy on the internet.  I strongly urge PIC to
continue funding "Poor Magazine's" Jobs Program and reimburse "Poor"
for the participant wages.

Thank you for your kind attention to this most vital matter.




--- M Ettinger
--- caduceusoutreach@ earthlink.net
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19. Policewatch Update & Chronicle Article


From: Samantha Liapes <sam@ ellabakercenter.org>
Subject: Policewatch Update & Chronicle Article
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:37:33 -0700

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Police Commission protest last night,
Wednesday 4/10.  It was a successful action and an important step in
highlighting the crisis of violence against African Americans by the SFPD.
There is nothing more powerful and nothing the police fear more than all of
these different families working together.  Their unity and willingness to
focus on the incidents not as individual cases but as evidence of a pattern
and practice of racial bias and excessive force makes it impossible for the
SFPD to brush any one of these attrocities under the rug.  THE PEOPLE UNITED
WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED.

We will continue to push for changes in SFPD policies and demand real
discipline for abusive officers.  We are demanding a overhaul and full
review of SFPD policies and training related to reckless shootings,
unneccessary violence towards persons with mental disabilities, abusive
treatment of minors, deliberate withholding of information from family
members and the press, and racial bias against African Americans.  After
meeting with the family members, I will be in touch about next steps.

Check out the surprisingly good Chronicle coverage of the Wednesday
PoliceWatch press conference. It ran in the PM paper on the 10th and on page
A-1 on the 11th. There are pictures of family members and victims in the
print version.  The press conference and the police commission protest got
coverage on four network news stations and the chronicle and examiner.
Offering the public the human faces and life stories of police victims and
revealing the immense suffering of the families is an important first step
in changing mainstream public consciousness and getting justice in these
cases.  The police do everything they can to dehumanize and demonize their
victims in the media and it is imperative that family members step forward
to speak the truth about their lost loved ones and show that the true
criminals in these cases were wearing badges and carrying guns.  Much
appreciation to the family members for their bold and powerful presence and
words.

April 10, 2002 (SF Chronicle)
SFPD accused of excess force/Black families
demand probe of recent incidents
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer


San Francisco -- A group of African American families filed a complaint
against the San Francisco Police Department today, accusing officers of a
pattern of excessive force in several recent shootings and an incident in
which teenagers were allegedly groped.
Demanding a full investigation and changes in training, and holding
pictures of their loved ones, relatives of the people involved in clashes
with police said officers were unnecessarily violent toward African
Americans.
"They're trained to protect us, not shoot us," said Zether McGriger, whose
daughter, Vilda Curry, was hit by ricochet fire at Geneva Avenue and Mission
Street on March 16 when police shot and killed Richard Tims, 35, of San
Francisco. Police said Tims had knifed a teenage boy moments before.
Curry, who was struck in the stomach by a bullet, suffers severe pain in her
pelvis and may never be able to walk well again, McGriger said.
"She asked me yesterday if they could just cut her leg off," McGriger
said.
Sobbing, Susan McAllister described how officers held her 13-year-old
daughter at gunpoint in Hunters Point on Jan. 21, the day the nation
observed the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
The police, responding to a tip that two African American men had been
spotted taking guns out of a car, "treated her like trash" while searching
her as the girl screamed, McAllister said.
Police pushed McAllister away when she asked what was going on. Her
daughter has been severely traumatized and is seeing a therapist,
McAllister said, and refusing to eat or go outside.
"I have never been so humiliated, so violated in my life," McAllister
said. "My daughter is a corpse. It will be a long time before my child
will ever be normal again."
The families filed their complaint today against the Police Department
with the Office of Citizen Complaints, the city's civilian-run police
watchdog agency.
The complaint accuses the department of a "pattern and practice of
reckless shootings and excessive force," as well as abusive treatment of
minors, unnecessary violence toward people with mental disabilities,
racial bias against African Americans and withholding information from
relatives of those slain by police.
It seeks "changes in the SFPD's training and disciplinary policies."
San Francisco police spokesman Jim Deignan said all the cases in question
remain open and under investigation by the department. "All complaints will
be investigated thoroughly," he said.
Deignan said, "As far as we can tell, the officers responded appropriately
in dangerous situations."
At a news conference this morning at the Ella Baker Center for Human
Rights in San Francisco, civil rights attorney Van Jones said it was
impossible for officers to be exonerated every time.
"We have a pile of black bodies on the streets of San Francisco," Jones
said. "Every one of these cases can't be justified. The San Francisco
Police Department has to do something about it."
One by one this morning, relatives of people who were shot and killed by
police in separate incidents since June described their anguish.
"They just shot him down like a dog," said Tims' father, Arthur Tims.
Gregory Hooper, 36, was shot and killed by off-duty Officer Steve Lee
during an altercation in Chinatown on Feb. 2. Some eyewitness accounts
have raised questions as to whether Lee acted in revenge when he shot
Hooper four times in the chest, though others have said Lee shot in
self-defense.
Witnesses have told police that Hooper repeatedly punched the officer,
knocked his head against the hood of a car and kicked him with his boots
before Lee opened fire. The witnesses have disagreed about whether Hooper
stopped his attack before Lee shot him.
"This was a cold-blooded murder with a badge," said Hooper's mother,
Lillie Mae Hooper. "I just feel like I'm dead inside. He was my only baby
son."
Idriss Stelley, 23, was shot more than 20 times by police after
authorities said he threatened officers with a knife inside the Sony
Metreon movie complex in June.
His mother, Mesha Monge-Irizarry, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in
federal court against the officers involved and the city, saying her son
had obvious mental problems and posed no threat of harm to police.
"It breaks my heart that my baby has died in vain," Monge-Irizarry said
today. "We want justice."

E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@....
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Copyright 2002 SF Chronicle
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20. People's Park, 33rd Anniversary


From: Kirk Lumpkin <kirklumpkin@ mac.com>
Subject: People's Park, 33rd Anniversary
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 23:19:29 -0800

Media Advisory
Contact: Kirk Lumpkin
(510) 696-0336
kirklumpkin@...
For Immediate Release
April 8, 2002


EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT


Who and What:
People¹s Park, 33rd Anniversary: A celebration of the creation and the
ongoing life of this
piece of liberated earth.

Cost: Free (as always)

Who Should Attend: Open to the Public

When/Where: Sunday, April 28; 12:30pm to 6:00pm.
      People¹s Park
        between Dwight Way, Bowditch St., Haste St, & Telegraph Ave.,
Berkeley

Accessibility: Wheelchair access.

For More Information: (510) 696-0336


PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
… The day begins with the All Nations Singers
(Native American drumming & singing)
and ends with a  Maypole & drum circle.

… MC: Wavy Gravy

… Live Music: Jonathon Richman (formerly of the Modern Lovers), Shelley
Doty X-tet (rock band), Upsurge! (jazz with poets,
Raymond Nat Turner &  Zigi Lowenberg),
Funky Nixons (political satire rock),
and Carol  Denney (speaker/folksinger), Xplicit Players,.

… Speakers: Barbara Lee (U.S House of Representatives),
Kris Worthington (Berkeley City Council),
Terri Compost (Park gardener),
Free Speech Sections (hosted by Michael Delacour),
Andy Lichterman (Western States Legal Foundation),
Karen Pickett (Earth First! speaking on the "Judi Bari vs. FBI" trial),
and Ed Rosenthal (marijuana activist).

… Poets: Julia Vinograd, Jean Stewart (novelist, disabled rights activist),
Goddess, and Kirk Lumpkin.

… Other: Skateboard ramps, open mic second stage (on Haste St.), petting
zoo, East Bay Depot for Creative Re-Use costume table,  etc.
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21. S.F. NOW Action Alert


From: president@ sfnow.org
Subject: S.F. NOW Action Alert
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:42:16 -0700

S.F. NOW Action Alert

In this post:
1. Take Action: Send a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chair
2. Take Action: Protect Choice-- CA Reproductive Privacy Act (SB1301) &
Federal\"Teen Endangerment Act (HR476)


For more information from SF NOW:
Email: info.sfnow.org
Visit: www.sfnow.org


1. Take Action: Send a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chair
At our successful membership meeting last month, the membership showed
concern --even outrage-- over the images of women in media and on TV. At the
meeting, the board shared findings of the Watch Out/Listen Up campaign and
we engaged in a candid group discussion about the roles of women on
television. We determined that while images and role for women and girls is
improving, there is still a lot to improve on.

Send a clear message to Federal Communications Commission Chair Michael K.
Powell. Copy and paste this action letter and email or mail Mr. Powell and
tell them that positive programming will help to overcome tremendous
prejudice and eliminate dangerous stereotypes of women. The FCC and networks
depend on your viewing support, tell them what you will support in
programming.
Use this link to go to the NOW website and send and instant email or letter.
http://www.capwiz.com/now/issues/alert/?alertid=117150&type=AN

Or, copy and paste the letter below.

Federal Communications Commission Chair
Michael K. Powell
445 12th St SW
Rm 8-A204
Washington, DC 20554

Re: Preserve Diversity and Openness in the Media and on the Internet

Chair Powell:

The Federal Communications Commission is responsible for ensuring that the
media serve the public interest. I am concerned that the FCC is acting on
behalf of big business rather than the people.

It is clear that the FCC has stepped up its efforts to de-regulate the media
and telecommunications industries. You must act now to halt further media
consolidation and to preserve the openness and diversity of the Internet.

As a supporter of women\'s rights, I am concerned that the current media
merger free-for-all threatens to rob us all of the independent voices, views
and ideas that nourish a pluralistic, democratic society. Ownership
consolidation is squeezing out what little diversity remains in the
marketplace.

The media are more than just a business; they bring information to people
that affects their lives. We cannot have a healthy democracy, and women
cannot pursue equal rights, if we are uninformed on the issues. The media
have a responsibility to serve the public interest and ensure that all
voices are heard. It is your job to promote this.

Please remember U.S. consumers and citizens when you review any further
regulations. The media giants already control far too much of our precious
information resources.

Sincerely,
===========================================================

2. Take Action: Protect Choice-- CA Reproductive Privacy Act (SB1301) &
Federal \"Teen Endangerment Act (HR476)
In the next few weeks, the House of Representatives and the California
Senate will consider legislation that will have a dramatic effect on access
to abortion. Please read below to learn how these bills could effect your
reproductive rights at the federal and state level.

1). Protect Reproductive Rights in California!
Early next week, the California Senate will hold hearings on the
\"Reproductive Privacy Act\" (SB 1301), legislation that will take
significant steps to protect the right to choose on a state level. This
legislation includes measures that will write the principles of Roe v. Wade
into California law and will provide greater access to early and
non-surgical abortion methods, such as mifepristone
(RU-486).  Increasing access to non-surgical abortion methods gives women an
important option that they can exercise early in their pregnancy.

Take Action! With the U.S. Supreme Court one vote away from overturning Roe
v. Wade, it is more important than ever that we support and protect a
woman\'s legal right to choose a safe abortion. You can read more and send a
FREE FAX to your State Senator and Assembly Member from at:
>http://www.aclu.org/stateaction/reproductive-ca.html

2). Don\'t Criminalize Actions of Caring Relatives & Friends!
Next week, the House is expected to vote on legislation that would make it a
crime for anyone other than a parent to transport a minor across state lines
for an abortion, unless the young woman has met the obligations of her
state\'s parental involvement law. This legislation, dubbed the \"Teen
Endangerment Act\" (HR 476), would consequently turn anyone who provides
assistance, be it grandmother, aunt or emergency medical personnel, into
criminals facing federal penalties.

Family communication simply cannot be legislated. While studies have found
that a majority of young women who are pregnant and seeking an abortion
already choose to involve a parent in their decision, others have very valid
reasons for not doing so. One third of teenagers who do not tell their
parents about a pregnancy have already been the victims of family violence
-- physical, emotional, and sexual abuse -- and fear it will recur.

Take Action! Although this subject is a difficult one, it is imperative that
young women have the option to turn to trusted adults rather than undertake
such desperate measures as self-induced or illegal abortions.

You can read more and send a FREE FAX to your Representative from our action
alert at:
http://www.aclu.org/action/custody107.html


Deborah Glenn-Rogers
President
San Francisco NOW
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22. S.F. NOW Meetings/Call for Volunteers


From: president@ sfnow.org
Subject: S.F. NOW Meetings/Call for Volunteers
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:55:46 -0700

S.F. NOW Meetings/Call for Volunteers

In this post:
1. Change of Date: Self Defense in May, Open House April 16
2. Take Part: Wall/Web of Shame
3. Call for Volunteers to Plan: Love Your Body Day Exhibit
    Fundraising Event--
    Planning Meeting April 25th

For more information from SF NOW:
Email: info@ sfnow.org
Visit: www.sfnow.org

1. Change of Date: Self Defense in May, Open House April 16
Due to rising costs of the women\'s building we\'ve had to reschedule the
self-defense class we had originally planned for April 16, 2002. We are
working with neighborhood yoga studios to get space donated for a weekend in
May.
Location, date and time will be announced soon. The website will be updated
as soon as finalize the details.

2. Take Part: Wall/Web of Shame
Attend our second Open House next Tuesday April 16, 2002 from 7-9 PM in the
NOW office, 4th floor of the Women\'s Building, 3543 18th Street (between
Valencia and Guerrero). Join the NOW Board members and Task Force chairs for
a casual evening in the office as we work to protect women\'s rights. Events
of the evening include: Robbie Glenn-Rogers discussing women prisoner\'s
rights, letterwriting and construction of our Advertising Wall of Shame.
Bring in any offensive images of women from any media source. Email your
links or images to
action@ sfnow.org or bring in/mail your hard copy images to the S.F. NOW
office.

3. Call for Volunteers to Plan: Love Your Body Day Art Exhibit Fundraising
Event--
Planning Meeting April 25th
Join other creative feminists at our first Love Your Body Day event
planning meeting, Thursday April 25th from 7-9pm at the NOW office on the
4th floor of the Women\'s Building in San Francisco, 3548 18th Street
(between Valencia and Guerrero in the Mission District).  At this meeting we
will begin brainstorming on what we want a September/October fundraising
event for Love Your Body Day to look like. Hope you can join us then.


Deborah Glenn-Rogers
President
San Francisco NOW
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no peace without justice....
VIOLATING MY CIVIL RIGHTS IS AN 'ACT OF TERRORISM'!

john vance, editor
PEOPLES BARK NEWS BERKELEY

A project of:
A First Amendment Center
PO Box 4851
Berkeley, Ca 94704
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(510) 287-9406

Hotlines:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 621
(KPFA Event Calendar)

(510) 287-9406
(A First Amendment Center's Message Line!)

(510) 594-4000 ext. 202
(Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hotline!)

(510) 548-0542
(Friends of KPFA hotline!)

(415) 546-6334 ext. 352
(Media Alliance KPFA info line!)

PLEASE send me SF Bay Area news/events that you would like posted
to: aliun@. hotmail.com - Deadline for event notice submissions is every
Monday at noon.

Event Calendar:
http://www.peacenowfreedomnow.net

And, remember, the most important place of all, our own people's
media at: http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ for San Francisco Bay Area
news postings and http://www.indymedia.org/ to look for postings
for other city's community news.

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_week.php
(San Francisco Indymedia Calendar)

More calendars:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages (PBNB)
http://bapd.org/cal.txt (Bay Area Progressive Calendar)
http://www.bapd.org/notices.html  (Some Really GOOD Current Notices)
http://bapd.org/n52.html (Peace and anti-war calendar)
http://www.sfbg.com/action/index.html (SF Bay Guardian ALERTS)

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
(East Bay Coalition Against the War)

http://www.peaceandjustice.org/events/indexhi.html
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Calendar)

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
(Global Exchange)

http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar.html
(Ecology Center calendar)

http://abacia.com/calendar/  (Abacia calendar)

http://www.change-links.org/chcl2.htm
(Change Links Calendar - L.A.)

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/calendar.cfm?
(Berkeley DP Calendar)

http://www.protest.net/ (Protest.Net Calendar of Events)

http://www.earthneighborhood.com/events.html
(Earth Neighborhood calendar - Union City, Ca)

SOME ALTERNATIVE (and one mainstream) MEDIA SOURCES:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
<A First Amendment Center's Links Page>


http://www.internationalanswer.org/
<Act Now to Stop War and End Racism>

http://www.aljazeera.net (Arabic Media in Qatar)
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
(TRANSLATOR for aljazeera.net)


http://www.alternet.org <AlterNet>
http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/gateway/arnindex.html <AntiRacismNet>
http://www.atasite.org/ <Artist's Television Access>
http://www.afghanmagazine.com <Afghan Magazine>
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)
http://berkeleystopthewar.org/ <Berkeley Stop the War Coalition>
http://www.wpkn.org/news/btl.html <Between the Lines - WPKN - CT>
http://www.brasscheck.com/ <brasscheck.com>
http://www.bushwatch.net/ <Bush Watch>
http://www.buzzflash.com/ <BuzzFlash>
http://www.legitgov.org/ <Citizens for Legitimate Government>
http://www.commondreams.org <Common Dreams>
http://www.corpwatch.org/ <CorpWatch>
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup/ <CounterCoup>
http://www.democracynow.org/ <Democracy Now - Out of Exile!>
http://www.drudgereport.com/ <DRUDGE REPORT>

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
<East Bay Coalition Against the War>

http://fair.org/ <Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting>
http://www.flashpoints.net/ <Flashpoints News Radio>
http://globalcircle.net/ <Global Circle Net News>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ <Global Research>
http://www.guerrillanews.com/ <Guerilla News Network>
http://www.humanrightsnow.org/ <Human Rights Now - Michael Ratner>
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm <IATP - WTO Watch>
http://www.independent.co.uk <Independent.co.uk>
http://www.indymedia.org/ <IndyMedia>
http://www.infowars.com/ <Infowars.com - Alex Jones>
http://accuracy.org/ <Institute for Public Accuracy>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ <In These Times>
http://www.kpfa.org <KPFA>
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm <Mid-East Realities>
http://www.opensecrets.org/ (Money in Politics)
http://www.labornet.org/ <LaborNet - News for the Labor Movement>
http://www.madre.org/ <Madre - Women's Human Rights Organization>
http://www.media-alliance.org/ <Media Alliance>
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ <MediaChannel.org>
http://michaelmoore.com/ <Michael Moore>
http://www.copvcia.com/index.html <Mike Ruppert><NOT FREE>
http://www.motherjones.com <Mother Jones>
http://www.narconews.com <Narco News>
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html <Noam Chomsky>
http://www.kpfa.com <NOT KPFA - but about KPFA>
http://www.oneworld.net/ <OneWorld.net>
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp <Open Democracy>
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html <Palestine media Watch>
http://www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ <Palestine Report>
http://poornewsnetwork.org/ <Poor News Network>
http://www.protest.net/ <Protest Net>
http://www.rabble.ca/ <Rabblerousers>
http://www.radio4all.org/ <Radio4All>
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/infohub.html <Rainbow Puddle>
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ <re: constructions>

http://www.enronownsthegop.com/
<Republican Party of Texas - brought to you by Enron>

http://rwor.org/ <Revolutionary Worker>
http://www.sfbayview.com/ <San Francisco Bay View>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ <SF IndyMedia>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/publish.php <SF IndyMedia (Publish Page)>
http://www.savepacifica.net/ <Save Pacifica.net>
http://www.speakoutnow.org/ <Speakout!>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <telegraph.co.uk>
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml <The Afghan Women's Mission>
http://www.tenc.net/ <The Emporer's New Clothes>
http://www.thenation.com/ <The Nation>
http://www.newsguild.org/index.php <The Newspaper Guild>

http://porthurontokentstate.tripod.com/
<The Port Huron to Kent State Project>

http://www.tompaine.com/ <TomPaine.commonsense>
http://www.utne.com <Utne Reader Online>
http://www.voterwest.org/ <Voter March West>
http://warresisters.org/ <War Resisters League>
http://www.war-times.org <WarTimes>
http://www.willpitt.com/Archive.htm <WillPitt.com>

http://www.wilpf.org/
<Women's International Legue for Peace and Freedom>

http://newsforchange.com/ <Working for Change>
http://www.zmag.org/ <Z Magazine Online>

http://ajr.newslink.org/ (mainstream media source)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/~musnews/  (Muslim News - Britain)
http://www.paknews.com/   (Pakistan News Service)
http://www.yespakistan.com/  (More News from Pakistan)
http://www.millat.pibc.com/index.htm  (News from Pakistan)
http://www.thefridaytimes.com  (Pakistan News)
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/  (News from Peshawar, Pakistan)
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/  (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)



BOOKS TO READ:

http://www.akpress.org/

OTHER LINKS:
http://www.kpfa.org (KPFA)

KPFA/Pacifica-related websites:
http://www.cfdp.org (Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica)
http://www.pacifica.org (Pacifica Foundation Radio Website)
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(A First Amendment Center's  website)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
(Coalition to Remove the Pacifica Board)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

(Lotsa KPFA-related links)
http://www.glib.com/union.html
(unofficial WBAI union website)
http://www.webwm.com/mfberry
http://www.newKPFA.net
http://www.wbai.net (Listener's Group - NYC/CdP)

http://www.BillMandel.net or
http://www.BillMandel.com
(Bill Mandel's website(s))

http://www.spanishbookclub.cjb.net
(My partner, Miriam Ruvinskis',
Spanish Book Club website)

FreePacifica discussion list: to subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@. recordist.com with the text "subscribe freepac"

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica local list:  to subscribe, send
email to: les@. delong.org  with the text "subscribe"
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Dear Peoples Bark News Berkeley Readers;
                                         This is an excellent historical
timeline regarding the present 'middle east' crisis.


no peace without justice,

john vance, editor/publisher/coordinator
Peoples Bark News Berkeley
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages

A First Amendment Center
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
Berkeley, Ca

READ BELOW THIS LINE
============================================================
From: katharlow@ aol.com
Reply-To: katharlow@ aol.com
Subject: "Lest We Forget" (must read!)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:31:20 EDT

Lest We Forget

The Israeli lobby in Washington has successfully influenced the U.S.
Congress to give billions of non-repayable dollars each year to Israel
on the premise that Israel's loyalty and strategic importance to the
United States make it an ally worthy of such unprecedented
consideration. Is it?

In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned Americans to avoid a
passionate attachment to any one nation because it promotes "the
illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common
interest exists."

In 1948, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, an opponent of the
creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, warned that, even though
failure to go along with the Zionists might cost President Truman the
states of New York, Pennsylvania, and California, "it was about time
that somebody should pay some consideration to whether we might not lose the
United States."

Israeli actions over the past 53 years involving U.S. interests in the
Middle East seriously challenge the "strategic asset" premise of the
Israeli lobby. Some of these actions are compiled in the list that
follows:

September 1953: Israel illegally begins to divert the waters of the
Jordan River. President Eisenhower, enraged, suspends all economic aid
to Israel and prepares to remove the tax-deductible status of the United
Jewish Appeal and of other Zionist organizations in the United States.

October 1953: Israel raids the West Bank village of Kibya, killing 53
Palestinian civilians. The Eisenhower administration calls the raid
"shocking," and confirms the suspension of aid to Israel.

July 1954: Israeli agents firebomb American and British cultural centers in
Egypt, making it look like the work of the Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood in order to sabotage U.S.-Egyptian relations.

October 1956: Israel secretly joins with England and France in a
colonial- style attack on Egypt's Suez Canal. Calling the invasion a
dangerous threat to international order, President Eisenhower forces
Israel to relinquish most of the land it had seized.

1965: 206 pounds of weapons grade uranium disappear from the Nuclear
Materials and Equipment Corporation plant in Pennsylvania. Plant
president is Zalmon Shapiro, a former sales agent for the Israel Defense
Ministry. C.I.A. Director Richard Helms later charges that Israel stole the
uranium.

June 1967: Israel bombs, napalms and torpedoes the USS Liberty, killing
34 Americans, wounding 171 others, and nearly sinking the lightly armed
intelligence ship. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral
Thomas Moorer, charges that the attack "could not possibly have been a
case of mistaken identity."

June 1967: Against U.S. wishes Israel seizes and occupies Syria's Golan
Heights.

June 1968: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir rejects U.S. Secretary of
State William Rogers' Peace Plan that would have required Israel to
withdraw from the occupied territories; she calls upon Jews everywhere
to denounce the plan.

March 1978: Israel invades Lebanon, illegally using U.S. cluster bombs
and other U.S. weapons given to Israel for defensive purposes only.

1979: Israel frustrates U.S.-sponsored Camp David Accords by building
new settlements on the West Bank. President Carter complains to American
Jewish leaders that, by acting in a "completely irresponsible way," Israel's
Prime Minister Begin continues "to disavow the basic principles of the
accords."

1979: Israel sells U.S. airplane tires and other military supplies to
Iran, against U.S. policy, at a time when U.S. diplomats are being held
hostage in Teheran.

July 1980: Israel annexes East Jerusalem in defiance of U.S. wishes and
world opinion.

July 1981: Illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and other equipment,
Israel bombs P.L.O. sites in Beirut, with great loss of civilian life.
December 1981: Israel annexes Syria's Golan Heights, in violation of the
Geneva Convention and in defiance of U.S. wishes.

June 1982: Israel invades Lebanon a second time, again using U.S.
cluster bombs and other U.S. weapons. President Reagan calls for a halt
of all shipments of cluster bomb shells to Israel.

September 1982: Abetted by Israeli forces under the control of Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon, Lebanese militiamen massacre hundreds of
Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. President
Reagan is "horrified" and summons the Israeli ambassador to demand
Israel's immediate withdrawal from Beirut.

September 1982: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin rejects President
Reagan's Peace Plan for the occupied territories.

January-March 1983: Israeli army "harasses" U.S. Marines in Lebanon.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger confirms Marine commandant's report
that "Israeli troops are deliberately threatening the lives of American
military personnel . . . replete with verbal degradation of the
officers, their uniforms and country."

March 1985: Israeli lobby in Washington pressures the U.S. Congress to
turn down a $1.6 billion arms sale to Jordan, costing the U.S. thousands of
jobs, quite apart from the financial loss to American industry. Jordan gives
the contract to Russia. A frustrated King Hussein complains: "The U.S. is
not free to move except within the limits of what AIPAC [the Israeli lobby],
the Zionists and the State of Israel determine for it."

October 1985: Israeli lobby blocks $4 billion aircraft sale to Saudi
Arabia. The sale, strongly backed by the Reagan administration, costs
the U.S. over 350,000 jobs, with steep financial losses to American
industry. Saudi Arabia awards contract to England.

November 1985: Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American recruited by Israel, is
arrested for passing highly classified intelligence to Israel. U.S.
officials call the operation but "one link in an organized and
well-financed Israeli espionage ring operating within the United
States." State Department contacts reveal that top Israeli defense
officials "traded stolen U.S. intelligence documents to Soviet military
intelligence agents in return for assurances of greater emigration of
Soviet Jews."

December 1985: U.S. Customs in three states raid factories suspected of
illegally selling electroplating technology to Israel. Richard Smyth, a
NATO consultant and former U.S. exporter, is indicted on charges of
illegally exporting to Israel 800 krytron devices for triggering nuclear
explosions.

April 1986: U.S. authorities arrest 17 persons, including a retired
Israeli General, Avraham Bar-Am, for plotting to sell more than $2
billion of advanced U.S. weaponry to Iran (much of it already in
Israel). General Bar- Am, claiming to have had Israeli Government
approval, threatens to name names at the highest levels. U.S. Attorney
General of New York calls the plot "mind-boggling in scope."

July 1986: Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy informs the
Israeli ambassador that a U.S. investigation is under way of eight
Israeli representatives in the U.S. accused of plotting the illegal
export of technology used in making cluster bombs. Indictments against
the eight are later dropped in exchange for an Israeli promise to
cooperate in the case.

January 1987: Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin visits South Africa to
discuss joint nuclear weapons testing. Israel admits that, in
violation of a U.S. Senate anti-apartheid bill, it has arms sales
contracts with South Africa worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Rep.
John Conyers calls for Congressional hearings on Israel-South Africa
nuclear testing.

November 1987: The Iran-Contra scandal reveals that it was Israel that
had first proposed the trade to Iran of U.S. arms for hostages. The
scandal becomes the subject of the Tower Commission Report, Senate and
House investigations, and the Walsh criminal prosecution inquiries.

April 1988: Testifying before U.S. Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism
and International Operations, Jose Blandon, a former intelligence aide
to Panama's General Noriega, reveals that Israel used $20 million of
U.S. aid to ship arms via Panama to Nicaraguan Contras. The empty planes
then smuggled cocaine via Panama into the United States. Pilot tells ABC
reporter Richard Threlkeld that Israel was his primary employer. The
arms-for-drugs network is said to be led by Mike Harari, Noriega's close
aide and bodyguard, who was also a high officer in the Israeli secret
services and chief coordinator of Israel's military and commercial business
in Panama.

June 1988: Mubarak Awad, a Palestinian-American advocate of nonviolence, is
deported by Israel. The White House denounces the action, saying, "We think
it is unjustifiable to deny Mr. Awad the right to stay and live in
Jerusalem, where he was born."

June 1988: Amnesty International accuses Israel of throwing deadly,
U.S.- made gas canisters inside hospitals, mosques, and private homes.
The Pennsylvania manufacturer, a major defense corporation, suspends
future shipments of tear gas to Israel.

November 1989: According to the Israeli paper Ma'ariv, U.S. officials
claim Israel Aircraft Industries was involved in attempts to smuggle
U.S. missile navigation equipment to South Africa in violation of U.S.
law.

December 1989: While the U.S. was imposing economic sanctions on Iran,
Israel purchased $36 million of Iranian oil in order to encourage Iran
to help free three Israeli hostages in Lebanon.

March 1990: Israel requests more than $1 billion in loans, gifts, and
donations from American Jews and U.S. government to pay for resettling
Soviet Jews in occupied territories. President Bush responds, "My
position is that the foreign policy of the U.S. says we do not believe
there should be new settlements in the West Bank or East Jerusalem."

June 1990: Officials in the Bush administration and in Congress say that
Israel has emerged as leading supplier of advanced military technology to
China, despite U.S.'s expressed opposition to Israeli-Chinese military
cooperation.

September 1990: Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy asks the Bush
administration to forgive Israel's $4.5 billion military debt and
dramatically increase military aid. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens
expresses concern over expected $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Saudi
Arabia and asks for an additional $1 billion in military aid to Israel.
Facing rising congressional opposition, White House backs off from plan
to sell Saudi Arabia over $20 billion in military hardware. Bush
administration promises to deliver additional F-15 fighters and Patriot
missiles to Israel, but defers action on Israel's request for more than
$1 billion in new military aid. Arens questions U.S.'s commitment to
maintain Israel's military advantage in the Middle East.

October 1990: "Aliya cabinet" chair Ariel Sharon encourages increase in
settlement of Soviet Jews in East Jerusalem, despite his government's
assurances to the U.S. that it would not do so. Bush sends personal
letter to Prime Minister Shamir urging Israel not to pursue East
Jerusalem housing. Shamir rejects appeal.

November 1990: In his new autobiography, former President Reagan says
Israel was the instigator and prime mover in the Iran-Contra affair and
that then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres "was behind the proposal."

January 1991: White House criticizes Israeli ambassador Zalman Shoval
for complaining that U.S. had not moved forward on $400 million in loan
guarantees and that Israel "had not received one cent in aid" from
allies to compensate for missile damage (in Gulf War)." U.S. says
comments are "outrageous and outside the bounds of acceptable behavior."

February 1991: Hours after long-disputed $400 million loan guarantees to
Israel are approved, Israeli officials say the amount is grossly
insufficient. Next day, Israel formally requests $1 billion in emergency
military assistance to cover costs stemming from the Gulf War.

March 1991: Israeli government rejects President Bush's call for
solution to Arab-Israeli conflict that includes trading land for peace.
In a report to Congress, U.S. State Department says Soviet Jewish
immigrants are settling in the occupied territories at a higher rate
than the Israeli government claims. During tour of West Bank
settlements, Housing Minister Sharon says construction of 13,000 housing
units in occupied territories has been approved for next two years. Plans
contradict statement by Prime Minister Shamir, who told President Bush that
the Israeli government had not approved such plans.

April 1991: Prime Minister Shamir and several members of his cabinet
reject U.S. Secretary of State Baker's suggestion that Israel curtail
expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories as gesture
for peace. U.S. calls new Jewish settlement of Revava "an obstacle" to
peace and questions Israel's timing, with Secretary Baker due to arrive
in Israel in two days. Hours before Baker arrives, eight Israeli
families complete move to new settlement of Talmon Bet. U.S. ambassador
to Israel William Brown files an official protest with the Israeli
government about establishment and/or expansion of settlements in the
West Bank. Housing Minister Sharon says Israel has no intention of
meeting U.S. demands to slow or stop settlements. Secretary Baker, in a
news conference before leaving Israel, says Israel failed to give
responses he needed to put together a peace conference.

May 1991: Israeli ambassador to U.S. Zalman Shoval says his country will
soon request $10 billion in loan guarantees from Washington to aid in
settling Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel. Secretary Baker calls
continued building of Israeli settlements "largest obstacle" to
convening proposed Middle East peace conference.

May 1991: President Bush unveils proposal for arms control in Middle
East. U.S. administration confirms that Israel, which has not signed the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has objected to provision on nuclear
weapons.

June 1991: Prime Minister Shamir rejects President Bush's call for
Israeli acceptance of a greater United Nations' role in proposed
Arab-Israeli peace talks.

July 1991: Israeli Housing Minister Sharon inaugurates the new Israeli
settlement of Mevo Dotan in the West Bank one day after President Bush
describes Israeli settlements as "counterproductive."

September 1991: President Bush asks Congress to delay considering
Israeli loan guarantee request for 120 days. Ignoring pleas of U.S.
administration, Israel formally submits its request. Prime Minister
Shamir says U.S. has a "moral obligation" to provide Israel with loan
guarantees, and that Israel would continue to build settlements in the
occupied territories.

October 1991: The Washington Post reports that President Bush waived
U.S.-mandated sanctions against Israel after U.S. intelligence
determined that Israel had exported missile components to South Africa.

November 1991: Hours after concluding bilateral talks with Syria, Israel
inaugurates Qela', a new settlement in the Golan Heights. Secretary of State
Baker calls the action "provocative."

February 1992: Secretary of State Baker says U.S. will not provide loan
guarantees to Israel unless it ceases its settlement activity. President
Bush threatens to veto any loan guarantees to Israel without a freeze on
Israel's settlement activity.

March 1992: U.S. administration confirms it has begun investigating
intelligence reports that Israel supplied China with technical data from
U.S. Patriot missile system.

April 1992: State Department Inspector issues report that the department has
failed to heed intelligence reports that an important U.S. ally - widely
understood to be Israel - was making unauthorized transfers of U.S. military
technology to China, South Africa, Chile, and Ethiopia.

May 1992: Wall Street Journal cites Israeli press reports that U.S.
officials have placed Israel on list of 20 nations carrying out
espionage against U.S. companies.

June 1992: U.S. Defense Department says Israel has rejected a U.S.
request to question former General Rami Dotan, who is at center of arms
procurement scandal involving U.S. contractors.

July 1992: General Electric Company pleads guilty to fraud and corrupt
business practices in connection with its sale of military jet engines
to Israel. A GE manager had conspired with Israeli Gen. Rami Dotan to
divert $27 million in U.S. military aid with fraudulent vouchers. U.S.
Justice and Defense Departments do not believe that Dotan was acting in
his own interest, implying that the government of Israel may be
implicated in the fraud, which would constitute a default on Israel's
aid agreements with the U.S.

June 1993: U.S. House of Representatives passes bill authorizing $80
million per year to Israel for refugee settlement; bill passes despite
$10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Israel and against evidence from
Israeli economists that Israel no longer needs U.S. aid.

October 1993: CIA informs Senate Government Affairs Committee that
Israel has been providing China for over a decade with "several billion
dollars" worth of advanced military technology. Israeli Prime Minister
Rabin admits Israel has sold arms to China.

November 1993: CIA Director James Woolsey makes first public U.S.
acknowledgement that "Israel is generally regarded as having some kind
of nuclear capability."

December 1993: Time magazine reports convicted spy Jonathan Pollard
passed a National Security Agency listing of foreign intelligence
frequencies to Israel that later was received by Soviets, ruining
several billion dollars of work and compromising lives of U.S.
informants.

December 1994: Los Angeles Times reports Israel has given China
information on U.S. military technology to help in joint
Israeli-Chinese development of a fighter jet.

January 1995: When Egypt threatens not to sign the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty because Israel will not sign, the U.S. says it will not
pressure Israel to sign.

July 1995: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk demands Israel abolish
import barriers that discriminate against U.S. imports.

November 1995: Israel grants citizenship to American spy Jonathan
Pollard.

April 1996: Using U.S.-supplied shells, Israel kills 106 unarmed
civilians who had taken refuge in a U.N. peace-keeping compound in Qana,
southern Lebanon. U.N. investigators, Amnesty International, and Human
Rights Watch condemn the shelling as premeditated. The U.N. Security Council
calls on Israel to pay reparations. Resolution is vetoed by the United
States.

June 1996: U.S. State Department hands Israeli defense officials
classified CIA report alleging Israel has given China U.S. military
avionics, including advanced radar-detection system and electronic
warfare equipment.

December 1996: Israeli cabinet reinstates large subsidies, including tax
breaks and business grants, for West Bank settlers. U.S. says the move is
"troubling" and "clearly complicates the peace process." Israeli government
rejects President Clinton's criticism of the settlements and vows to
strengthen them.

February 1997: FBI announces that David Tenenbaum, a mechanical engineer
working for the U.S. army, has admitted that for the past 10 years he has
"inadvertently" passed on classified military information to Israeli
officials.

March 1997: U.S. presses Israel to delay building new settlement of Har
Homa near Bethlehem. Prime Minister Netanyahu says international
opposition "will just strengthen my resolve."

June 1997: U.S. investigators report that two Hasidic Jews from New
York, suspected of laundering huge quantities of drug money for a
Colombian drug cartel, recently purchased millions of dollars worth of
land near the settlements of Mahseya and Zanoah.

September 1997: Jewish settlers in Hebron stone Palestinian laborers
working on a U.S.-financed project to renovate the town's main street.
David Muirhead, the American overseeing the project, says the Israeli
police beat him, threw him into a van, and detained him until the U.S.
Consulate intervened. U.S. State Department calls the incident "simply
unacceptable."

September 1997: Secretary of State Albright says Israel's decision to
expand Efrat settlement "is not at all helpful" to the peace process.
Prime Minister Netanyahu says he will continue to expand settlements.

May 1998: 13 years after denying he was not its spy, Israel officially
recognizes Pollard as its agent in hopes of negotiating his release.

June 1998: Secretary of State Albright phones Prime Minister Netanyahu
to condemn his plan to extend Jerusalem's municipal boundaries and to
move Jews into East Jerusalem, particularly in the area adjacent to
Bethlehem. Ignoring U.S. protests, Israel's cabinet unanimously approves
plan to extend Jerusalem's municipal authority.

August 1998: Secretary Albright tells Prime Minister Netanyahu that the
freeze in the peace process due to the settlement policy is harming U.S.
interests in the Middle East and affecting the U.S.'s ability to forge a
coalition against Iraq.

September 1998: Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports that the Israeli
airliner that crashed in Amsterdam in 1992 was not carrying "gifts and
perfume," as the Israelis claimed, but three of the four chemicals used to
make sarin nerve gas. According to the plane's cargo manifest, the chemicals
were sent from a U.S. factory in Pennsylvania to the top secret Israeli
Institute for Biological Research.

November 1998: Israeli Foreign Minister Sharon urges Jewish settlers to
"grab" West Bank land so it does not fall under Palestinian control in
any final peace settlement.

May 1999: U.S. denounces Israel's decision to annex more land to the
Ma'ale Adumim settlement.

June 1999: The Israeli company Orlil is reported to have stolen U.S.
nightvision equipment purchased for the Israeli Defense Forces and to
have sold it to "Far Eastern" countries.

April 2001: Prime Minister Sharon announces plans to build 708 new
housing units in the Jewish settlements of Ma'ale Adumim and Alfe
Menashe. U.S. State Department criticizes the move as "provocative."

May 2001: The Mitchell Committee (headed by former U.S. Senator George
Mitchell) concludes that Jewish settlements are a barrier to peace.
Prime Minister Sharon vows to continue expanding the settlements.

May 2001: U.S. is voted off the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights for the first time since the committee's establishment in 1947.
The Financial Times of London suggests that Washington, by vetoing U.N.
resolutions alleging Israeli human rights abuses, showed its inability
to work impartially in the area of human rights. Secretary of State
Colin Powell suggests the vote was because "we left a little blood on
the floor" in votes involving the Palestinians.

September 2001: Six days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America,
Secretary of State Powell, when asked why America is hated in the Arab
and Muslim world, acknowledges that the deep resentment and anger toward the
United States is due to the Palestinian crisis.

November 2001: Secretary of State Colin Powell calls on Israel to halt
all settlement building which he says "cripples chances for real peace
and security." Benny Elon, a right-wing minister in the Sharon
government, says the settlers aren't worried. "America has a special
talent for seeing things in the short term," he says, explaining that
what Powell said he said only to get Arab support for America's
anti-terrorism coalition against Afghanistan.

March 2002: U.N. Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan calls for immediate withdrawal of
Israeli tanks from Palestinian refugee camps, citing large numbers of
Palestinians reported dead or injured. U.S. State Dept. says the United
States has contacted Israel to "urge that utmost restraint be exercised
in order to avoid harm to the civilian population."


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1. URGENT: EYEWITNESS REPORT FROM RAMALLAH

2. THE ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT  By DOUG MANN

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Tuesday, April 2, 2002

Urgent: Eyewitness report from Ramallah

Ramallah, Occupied Palestine -- My name is Tzaporah Ryter. I am an American
student from the University of Minnesota. I currently am in Ramallah. We are
under a terrible siege and people are being massacred by both the Israeli
army and armed militia groups of Israeli settlers. They are shooting outside
at anything that moves.

I am urgently pleading for as much outside help as possible to help save
lives here.

I arrived in Ramallah last Thursday. I had come back for a visit to the
Palestinian city where I had been previously living and studying. On
Thursday afternoon, the Israeli army began sealing off each entrance to
Ramallah and there were rumors that they planned to invade.

People were rushing back home from across checkpoints and also people were
trying to flee. People were not allowed to go out and many working people --
with homes and children to return to -- were not allowed in, everyone was
trying to take cover. Those traveling in began desperately searching for
alternative ways and traveling in groups, but the Israelis were firing upon
them and everyone was running and screaming.

Women carrying their children were trying desperately to flee from Ramallah,
carrying infants and toddlers, and their young children were running along
in the rain through the fields, slipping and falling
on the rocks, trying to reach safety. Israeli jeeps were speeding across the
terrain pulling up from every direction and shooting at the women and
children, and also at me, as we ran in opposite directions.
They were chasing down people, hunting them like that in the fields.

When I reached Ramallah, people were panicking and trying to buy bread, rice
and milk from corner stores, but most supplies were already gone. We bought
what we could and went inside to wait for what was coming.

When night fell, Israeli tanks began to invade and also we saw Israeli
troops coming on foot from the valley, and surrounding our house. I could
hear them calling to each other in Hebrew. They were against our door and
all around. They were firing everywhere a barrage of
bullets and there was tank fire. We had to lay on the floor and keep silent.
We stayed there, on the floor, for nearly four days in the darkness.

We knew that our circumstances were better than others because old people or
infants or people with medical emergency needs had no help. It was very
cold, with most families packed all in one room.
Some people are without life sustaining medicines like insulin, and they are
altering their doses dangerously if they have any medicine left to take.
People are becoming dangerously sick from lack of food and water and heat.
The fear and terror only makes things worse, but it cannot be avoided.

In the daytime, we heard them shooting people in the streets, and could hear
them screaming and screaming. No ambulance was allowed through. Then their
screams stopped and there was just silence.

We had a telephone and would receive calls from all over telling us what was
happening. Everyone is in grave danger and Israeli soldiers were killing
people everywhere. They are arresting medics and
ambulance drivers, including foreign volunteer medical workers.

They keep taking doctors and medics, just now another call. Again, this time
the wife of a doctor telling us her husband has been taken from the
ambulance.

Large groups of people have been found in rooms, shot dead, there are blood
marks where they have lined people up on their knees and shot them, with
their ID cards laying on top of them. They are
taking people from their homes, blindfolding them, removing their clothes,
taking them away or lining them up and shooting them against the wall.

People are making phone calls and saying that these soldiers and militia
have come in and are shooting people and then the line cuts off.

The numbers of these killings I fear are much greater than the numbers
confirmed in the press, because the human rights offices and the media
centers have been stormed, and everything is shut down. No one can move
without almost certain chance of being shot by the Israeli snipers, who are
everywhere.

The Israelis are demanding that all journalists leave Ramallah and today
another foreign journalist was shot. They do not want any more
internationals here and are deporting people. It seems quite clear that they
do not want eyewitnesses which is only heightening my own fears.

The hospitals have also been surrounded and invaded and Israeli troops are
taking the injured people and interrogating them. Today a woman, a patient,
tried to walk out from hospital. The Israelis shot her in the neck and
killed her.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health is saying that they fear the spread of
diseases because of the number of unburied corpses.

The numbers are only growing in reports of the mass killings here and
Israeli troops continue to round up people. People are calling frantically,
missing a relative and we do not know where they have been taken, including
children.

The numbers we have now exceed 600, and we are estimating between 700 and
800. All human rights groups and legal advocates are being denied any
information of where the detained are being held.
From what we know confirmed is that 10% of those taken so far have been
children under age 18.

On the fourth day I decided to try to move. People were running out of
supplies and I also was so worried about people, and had to check to see if
they were okay. If I didn't, I feared panic would overtake me so badly that
I really had no other choice but to try and go.

It was not safe where I was in any case and at least if I left I would still
have my sanity. It was really terrifying as there are some internationals
here, usually traveling in groups, and the Israelis are saying on the radio
that they will arrest or shoot the internationals. They did shoot some
yesterday and regardless, it's not as if snipers differentiate and they are
everywhere.

My friends told me not to go, and were really scared for me, but I had to
go. When I went outside, there were cars all shot up and hit by multiple
bullets and shells in the middle of the road, un-parked. There must have
been people in them but I don't know where their bodies are. There are no
reports of them, but they must exist.

I got to the corner trying to go to the bakery for bread and food for
people. Some people were calling and calling with only one cup of rice left.
   I made it to the corner but they opened fire on my first try, and shot at
me, so I had to turn back.

After that I tried again and it took me one day to make it a block because I
had to start over again and again. I had to climb through the valley, and as
I passed house by house, people were warning me and
pointing out what path seemed safest for these two minutes. In the next two
minutes, it would be something different. They really helped to keep my path
safe.

Today is Day Five and they are still rounding up people like this and we
hear them shooting all day long.

This afternoon the Israelis suddenly lifted the curfew, suddenly announcing
that everyone had two hours to go out to get food. However, the Israeli
soldiers also took food from many of the stores, looted, and there is no
bread or things. People went to get whatever they could.

Even though the Israeli army said it had lifted the closure for two hours --
in which we still were not able to transfer medical supplies and still was
not long enough to everything that was badly needed --
the Israelis continued shooting people in the streets indiscriminately on
their way, so people were running around trying to make it to the store or
find a safe route only to have to run back home again. It was an added
cruelty and terror tactic in this macabre situation, a sick joke: starve
people and then shoot them when they try to find food with your permission.

In an apartment building in Beitunia neighborhood where I used to live, they
took 60 people who were my neighbors, including several families, and pushed
them into one room since last night. The Israelis told them that they are to
be used as "human shields", as the apartment building is across from a
building that they were invading.

One child needs to go to the hospital since last night and, initially, the
families were able to call outside. Now, the Israelis have taken their
phones.

There are reports that they are rounding up men between the ages of 14 and
45 in that neighborhood, and these civilians, from these same Palestinian
families trapped in that building, were just used to walk
in front of an Israeli tank as it invaded the Preventative Security
Compound.

Reports also have alleged that the Israelis were saying that some could
leave but shot them when they attempted to leave. The buildings there are
burning, and people are trapped inside.

We keep calling to try to find people but there has been no electricity and
most people's phones are dead now. I do not know what is happening to many
people. The only solution to this is to try to brave
the deadly streets in order to check, but its almost impossible and
terrifying to leave the house at all.

Each place I come to, I am afraid to leave not only for myself but for
everyone else in this horrifying position. Israeli death squads have been
yanking people into the street. I also hear only shooting and shooting, with
no return fire. This suggest that unarmed civilians are being gunned down
mercilessly everywhere and I am so scared for
everyone. I feel like maybe if I leave one place, one area or neighborhood I
will never see the people again alive.

There are more explosions outside now and more shooting. Another explosion.
More firing, it just doesn't stop.

This is a massacre. The foreign delegations tried to get in but were turned
back, the International Committee of the Red Cross is trying to help but
they are being ignored. Please help.

I am not only scared for myself and for people here, but if this cannot be
stopped, I am truly scared for all of humanity, for a world in which we send
men to the moon but cannot stop ethnic cleansing.

On the news in America, we see hardly anything of demonstrations. What are
you doing over there?

There do not seem to be any reports of what is happening. In truth, its got
to stop. Please go out to the streets, please demand a response from your
representatives. Be loud, march up to the capitals, refuse
to leave until the Israelis withdraw. Act now! Tell them the Israelis are
murdering innocent people whose only crime is being born in their own
homeland, a Palestinian under a military occupation.

Demand international protection for the Palestinian people, scream that this
is an affront to humanity and that it is time that the US not only stop
supporting Israel, but that the US stop its abuse of human
rights within its own borders. This is about all of our struggles. For the
love of God, please stop this slaughter. Please help.

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THE ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT

By DOUG MANN
     Why hasn't Israel annexed the West Bank and Gaza Strip?  Annexation is
not an option for Israel so long as the end-product would be an Israeli
State with a non-Jewish majority within its borders.  In that context the
struggle of the non-Jewish majority would take the form of a civil rights
struggle. And Israel would cease to be Israel if it had within its borders a
non-Jewish majority with the same political / civil rights as a Jewish
minority.

     The "two state solution" is not and never has been a viable solution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinian mini-state was essentially
a Bantustan and can be nothing more than that. That's because Jewish
settlements on the West Bank are basically an extension of Israel, and the
colonization of the West Bank by Jewish settlers has already gone past the
point of no return. Moreover, Palestinian workers are a super-exploited
caste within the Israeli workforce itself, and as a consequence of decades
of Israeli rule over the whole of Palestine, economic activity in Israel
proper and the occupied territories has been integrated to a considerable
degree.

    The national oppression of Palestinian / Arab workers is an essential
feature of the Zionist regime in Israel, and it serves the immediate
economic interests of the Israeli bourgeoisie.  That is why the large scale
fraternization of Israeli and Palestinian workers, which has been happening
on a large scale in recent weeks, poses a threat to the Zionist regime in
Israel.

     Throughout the Middle East the Arab bourgeoisie, a section of which has
backed the Islamic fundamentalist movement, fears the dynamic of a working
class movement in Palestine more than they fear the consequences of driving
Israeli workers into the arms of Israeli Prime Minister Sharon by blowing up
restaurants, busses, etc.

     Socialists stand for workers solidarity between Israelis and
Palestinians.  Stop US aid to Israel! Israeli troops out of the West Bank
and Gaza now! For a democratic, secular Palestine!

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Peace and Freedom Party Platform
(Adopted in convention July 9, 2000.)

     The Peace and Freedom Party, founded in 1967, is committed to socialism,
democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent working class
people: the employed, the unemployed, people on welfare, the undocumented,
the homeless, the incarcerated, retired workers, students and youth, and
armed forces enlisted people, of all ethnicities, religions, languages,
cultures and sexual orientations -- those without capital in a capitalist
society.


Socialism

We support social ownership and democratic management of industry and
natural resources. Under capitalism, the proceeds of labor go to the profits
of the wealthy few. With socialism, production is planned to meet human
needs.

To us, socialism is workers' democracy, including the principle that all
officials are elected, recallable at any time, and none receives more than a
worker's wage.  Socialism can only be brought about when the
working class unites and acts as a body in its own interests.  Our goals
cannot be achieved by electoral means alone.  We participate in mass
organization and direct action in neighborhoods, workplaces, unions and the
armed forces everywhere.

While organizing for the future, we work in the present, challenging the
system with the following immediate and transitional goals:


Labor and Full Employment

       We demand a socially useful job at union pay levels or a guaranteed
dignified income for everyone.
       We call for a 30-hour work week for 40 hours' pay and abolition of
forced overtime.
       We demand expansion and enforcement of job health and safety laws.
       We call for the restoration of all labor rights previously won by
women and their extension to men as well.
       We demand paid parental leaves and time off work for childcare.
       No prison labor for private profit. Living wage and full union rights
for any prison labor.
       Defend workers' rights to organize, form union caucuses, strike, and
boycott.
       No replacement of striking workers.
       Federally-funded public works programs to rebuild the nation's
infrastructure and restore the environment.
       International solidarity of workers against international capitalist
schemes such as NAFTA and WTO in defense of jobs, wages, working conditions
and environmental laws.
       A rank and file socialist-oriented labor movement to mobilize
working-class people to assume ownership and control of the economy.



Peace and International Justice

     The drive for greater profits by multi-national corporations which
direct U.S. foreign policy is a major cause of war. We stand for peace
between nations and the right of all peoples to self-determination. We
support an ongoing socialist transformation everywhere. We therefore call
for:

       The U.S. to renounce nuclear first strike, and take the initiative
toward global disarmament by eliminating all nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons.
       No U.S. intervention anywhere.
       End all support and aid to repressive regimes and all military and
police training aid everywhere.
       End efforts to destabilize foreign governments.
       End U.S.-directed economic warfare against Cuba, Iraq, North Korea,
Yugoslavia and other countries.
       Abolish the CIA, NSA, AID and other agencies for interference in other
countries' internal affairs.
       Withdraw all U.S. troops and weapons from all other countries.
       Stop all U.S. arms exports and trade.
       Dissolve all military pacts.
       Conversion from military to peaceful production.
       Abolish the Selective Service System.


Equal Rights and Liberties

     The capitalists use every difference in society, including sex,
ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, age, and physical abilities to
divide workers in order to depress wages, maintain a surplus labor pool, and
prevent working-class unity. We demand equal treatment of all people by
employers, businesses and government. We stand for a world free from all
forms of oppression.


Women

     We demand full equality for women in all aspects of life. Sexism is a
major instrument for teaching relations of domination and inequality and for
keeping one-half of the workforce underpaid or unpaid. End oppressive sex
roles in society; equal rights and responsibilities in child raising; unions
must do more to organize women and promote women's leadership. We demand:

       Adoption of an equal rights amendment.
       Equal pay for equal work, and for work of comparable worth.
       Enforce non-discrimination in hiring and promotion with affirmative
action where necessary.
       Provision of free, high-quality, community-controlled child care.
       Free abortion on demand.
       Convenient provision of safe, free birth control information and
materials to men and women of any age.
       Stop forced abortions and sterilization.
       End violence against women.


Ending Racism and National Oppression

     Accompanying the continuing economic crisis, we see a rise in racial
discrimination, increased terrorism against racially and nationally
oppressed people, and retrenchment in civil rights. Minority families are
disproportionately victimized by cutbacks in health care, education, child
care, welfare, food stamps and jobs.  We demand:

       End all forms of racial discrimination.
       Enforce non-discrimination in hiring and promotion with affirmative
action where necessary.
       Prosecute and punish police and prison officials who brutalize and
murder.


Language Rights

     The Peace and Freedom Party calls restoring to the State Constitution
co-equal status for Spanish as an official language of California in
recognition of its cultural, historical, economic and demographic importance
to the people of this state.

       Abolish all English-only laws and policies, including those of private
employers.


Undocumented Workers

     Immigrant workers are hounded by government authorities, worked and
housed in substandard conditions by unscrupulous bosses, and blamed by
Republican and Democratic demagogues for society's problems.

       We call for open borders. Dismantle the INS.
       We demand an end to deportations of immigrants.
       We demand full political, social and economic rights for resident
non-citizens.


Native Americans

We support self-determination of indigenous peoples and sovereignty for
Native nations. We demand:

       Honor treaty obligations with Native American nations and recognize
California tribes.
       Stop the theft of natural resources located on reservation lands.
       Honor Native American water, hunting and fishing rights.
       Free the prisoners of the FBI/BIA war against Native Americans, end
all harassment.


Sexual Orientation

       Equal treatment and benefits under the law for all families.
       Guarantee equal child custody, adoption, visitation privileges, and
foster parenthood rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
       Equal treatment for all people in the military regardless of sexual
orientation.
       The right to gay marriage and partners' benefits.
       Accurate sex education courses in public schools.
       Truthful information about sexuality in society and  history.


The Disabled

      The disabled are entitled to special consideration and planning in
education, housing, health, recreation, transportation and attendant care to
enable fuller participation in all aspects of society.

Retired Workers

     Retired workers must be guaranteed a decent living at union wage levels.
We demand:

       Immediate improvements in economic benefits and social services.
       Free, quality, multi-lingual and multi-cultural medical and home
health care.
       Accessible transportation.
       An end to all forced retirement.
       Stop the segregation and isolation of senior citizens.


Defense of the Environment

     The alarming destruction of the world's biosphere is brought about by
the same corporate forces and economic system that exploit and brutalize the
world's working class people. We organize against their ecological
destruction as we do against their social policies, which often overlap.
Socialism is necessary to end the ecological destruction caused by
capitalism.  Our goal is a society that is in harmony with nature as it is
in harmony with its own people.

     We therefore favor the integration of the following into the normal
operations and planning for a society In harmony with nature:

       Planning for urban and regional environment based on principles of
sound ecosystems management.
       Tighter regulation of pesticides, herbicides and industrial wastes to
protect human food, air and water, employees in the workplace, and species
habitat.
       A multi-source energy system development of solar technology and other
renewable, non-polluting energy sources. Eliminate nuclear power plants.
       Protect the ozone layer.
       Protect species habitat such as old-growth forests to preserve
bio-diversity.
       Massive development of free public transportation.



Education

     Education is critical to individual survival and civilized human values,
but U.S. capitalism is dismantling public education.  Inadequate and unequal
funding of schools perpetuates racism, crime and inequality.  We demand:

       Integrated, democratically-run schools with up-to-date plant and
equipment and smaller classes.
       Teach the history of workers' struggles and labor's creation of
society's wealth and progress.
       Multi-lingual and multi-cultural education at all levels.
       A federal law requiring and funding equal average per-pupil
expenditures by every public school     district, with extra funds for
students with special needs such as disability or economic deprivation.
       Tuition-free higher education available to all.
       Restore cutbacks in public education and public library services.
       No school voucher schemes.


Housing and Rent Control

     We recognize the right of everybody to quality, secure housing. We
demand:

       Production and rehabilitation of non-profit, community-controlled
housing through public financing with immediate emphasis on housing the
homeless.
       Rent and eviction control laws and collective bargaining for tenants.
       Resident-controlled community renovation programs to create, not
destroy, low- and moderate-income housing.
       Enforce local affordable housing quotas.


Freedom, Justice and Crime

     We call for the defense and extension of the liberties guaranteed in the
Bill of Rights, including freedom of speech, press, assembly and
association, and the right to keep and bear arms for individual and
collective defense. The ultimate guarantee of those rights is the organized
strength of the working class.

     Capitalism and poverty breed crime and repression.  Working class people
are the primary victims both of street crime and of police reaction to it.
The bosses use laws against victimless activities, "legal" and illegal
expansion of police powers, military and paramilitary occupation of poor and
minority communities, and diversion of resources to police and jails, to
keep workers intimidated and dependent.  We demand:

       Stop state-sponsored spying on and violence against progressive
organizations.
       Democratically-controlled police review boards with powers of subpoena
and discipline.
       Abolish the death penalty.
       Repeal the Three Strikes law.
       Stop trials and imprisonment of juveniles as adults.
       Treatment of prisoners as human beings; rehabilitation, not vengeance.
       Decriminalize victimless activities including drug use and consensual
sex. Legalize marijuana. End the "war on drugs," which is primarily directed
against poor and working-class people.
       Stop unwarranted searches and seizures of persons and property.
       Restore constitutional rights.
       Prosecute crimes of the wealthy and powerful against workers and the
environment.



Voting and Elections

       Proportional representation to promote legislative representation of
the wide variety of political viewpoints.
       Enforce and extend voting rights for people of color, non-English
speakers, and homeless people.
       Free and equal access to radio and television for all candidates.


Health Care

     We believe that access to quality medical and dental care is a basic
human right. We stand for a democratically-controlled, publicly-funded
health care system. We support health practices that emphasize
education, prevention and nutrition and minimize dependence on drugs,
surgery and radiation.  We demand:


       Free, high-quality health care for everyone.
       Free immunization programs.
       No private patents on drugs developed through publicly-funded
research.
       Price controls on drugs and medical technology.
       Safe pre-natal care, including women's choice of birth alternatives.
       More medical facilities to provide services and education in
low-income neighborhoods and rural areas.
       More substance abuse treatment and needle-exchange programs.
       More research into diseases and disorders caused by man-made
substances.


Taxes

     Public services and infrastructure have deteriorated as government has
increasingly shifted the tax burden from corporations to workers. Our
long-range goal is a socialist society without conventional taxes, with
public services to be funded from the proceeds of social production. We
demand:

       Repeal Proposition 13.
       Tax property for profit, not property for personal use.
       Remove property taxes on modest owner-occupied homes.
       Repeal the sales tax.
       Include aggregate of real property and stocks, bonds, etc. in a
steeply-graduated property tax.
       Restore the renters' tax credit.
       Double registration fees on luxury vehicles.
       Tax unearned income at a higher rate than earned income.
       Eliminate or reverse income tax on low- and moderate-income families.
       Re-enact California's unitary tax on multi-national corporations.
       Tax the business activities of churches on the same basis as other
organizations.
       Take the cap off social security taxes, make the rates progressive so
burden falls on the wealthy.


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>From: SIUHIN@...
>Reply-To: bay_area_activist@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: !b_a_Act: April 10: Latest News from Palestine-over 100 reported
>had been killed in Jenin!
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 02:58:34 EDT
>
>**April 10: Latest News from Palestine-over 100 reported had been killed in
>Jenin!
>**For all the news, please check: www.PeaceNoWar.net
>**also, please visit Palestine IMC: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/
>
>Alert! Over Hundred People Reported had been Killed in Jenin
>April 09, 2002: The IDF has deployed a large number of troops and intense
>firepower in an effort to break the Palestinian resistance. Officers in the
>area have described the battle as a "Palestinian Masada," saying that there
>is a huge amount of destruction in the camp, and that the bodies of dozens
>of dead Palestinians are strewn in the streets. Leaning over drips nearly
>empty of fluid, Zahra al-Wawe worked without electricity, blood banks or
>ambulances, pleading for help over her mobile telephone until the battery
>ran dry, shouting: "We are losing them, we are losing them."
>
>Medical sources fear that at least 150 residents have been killed and the
>bodies are still lying in streets, alleyways and inside shelters and homes.
>
>*News and Analysis:
>C:\Peace\Palestine\News\April 10 02.htm
>1) <A HREF="file://\%231">Israeli forces continue to commit war crimes in
>Jenin and Nablus (LAW)</A>
>2) <A HREF="file://\%232">Update from Ashraf in Ramallah (aplestine
>IMC)</A>
>3) <A HREF="file://\%233">Procession of lame leaves the dead in Nablus
>(TIMES, United Kingdom)</A>
>4) <A HREF="file://\%234">IDF Uses Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields
>(B'TSELEM, Jerusalem)</A>5) <A HREF="file://\%235">
>The Israeli ‘Withdrawal’ – Only Partially True (Palestine
>Monitor)</A>
>6) <A HREF="file://\%236">Don't Always Trust What They Tell You In The War
>On Terror (Independent
>United Kingdom)</A>
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>*Audio Reports:
>1) Democracy Now! (USA)
>Tuesday, April 9: <A
>HREF="http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020409.html">http://www.weba\
ctive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020409.html</A>
>- The Israeli Military Raids the Ramallah Offices of News Organizations.
>CNN and the Associated Press say their reports are being submitted to
>censors;
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>their reports. and more..
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>*Peace Actions!
>http://www.peacenowar.net/peace/index.htm
>Here's a space for people to propsoe peaceful, non-military
>solutions/actions
>to stop the war and killings in Palestine
>
>- Freeze Military Aid to Israel
>- Volunteers to Palestine
>- FAX, phone calls to US goverment
>- Boycott Israel goods
>
>
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>ActionLA/PeaceNoWar.net
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>Tel: (323)389-4593
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From: "Jon Garfield" <jongarf@ speakeasy.net>
Subject: Please post -- thanks!
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:51:49 -0700

PACIFICA NOW! NEWS: ITS ROLE in the PACIFICA NETWORK

With ROBERT KNIGHT, DENNIS BERNSTEIN and IAN BOAL

Tuesday, April 9th, 7:00 pm.

   Robert Knight, WBAI News Director; Dennis Bernstein, Producer of
Flashpoints on KPFA; and Ian Boal, UC Berkeley History Professor talk about
the role of the news on Pacifica Radio, at the first in the "Pacifica Now!"
series taking place at the New College Theater.  Upcoming speakers include
Askia Muhammad on the black experience (April 17), and Pacifica Acting
Executive Director Dan Coughlin and USF Professor Dorothy Kidd (April 24).
Sponsored by the Alliance for a People's Pacifica. Donations requested, no
one turned away. For more information, please call (510) 527-1884.

Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

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WARD CHURCHILL on COINTELPRO

And an UPDATE on JUDI BARI vs the FBI

Thursday, April 11th, 7:00pm.

Ward Churchill speaks on the FBI's notorious Counter Intelligence Program
(COINTELPRO). Also hear an update by an attorney on the Judi Bari lawsuit
against the FBI and Oakland police. Ward Churchill is Professor of American
Indian Studies and Communications at the University of Colorado, a member of
the Governing Council of Colorado AIM, and the author many books.  Sliding
scale, $5 - $15, no one turned away. For more information, please call (510)
548-3113.  (For information on events and activities related to the historic
Judi Bari vs. the FBI trial that begins April 8 visit:
http://www.judibari.org.)

Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

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HANAN ELMASU: "PEACE with JUSTICE: HUMAN RIGHTS for PALESTINE"

Monday, April 15th, 7:00 pm.

Hanan Elmasu, a veteran Palestinian human rights advocate, will speak in San
Francisco as part of a nationwide speaking tour addressing the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and what needs to happen to promote peace and
justice in the region. She has lived and worked in the West Bank city of
Ramallah for 8 years.  Currently based in Geneva, Switzerland, she advocates
for Palestinian human rights within the United Nations, and serves as a
Board Member of Addameer, a prisoners' support and human rights association
in Ramallah.  Sponsored by Global Exchange and the New College Center for
Education and Social Action.  $15 suggested donation.  For more information,
please call (415) 255-7296 ext 244.

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Tuesday, April 16th, 7:00 pm.

Penny Rosenwasser spent 3 weeks in July doing solidarity actions with peace
activists in Israel and Palestine, visiting and photographing unforgettable
people and places in the region. She will present a slideshow and discussion
revealing the quality of life under the occupation and the efforts of
activists seeking peace and justice. Penny Rosenwasser is Assistant Director
of the Middle East Children's Alliance and author of "Voices from a
'Promised Land': Palestinians and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their
Hearts." Sponsored by the Middle East Children's Alliance and the New
College Center for Education and Social Action. Free admission, donation
requested. For more information, please call (415) 437-3425.

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From: Sue Supriano <suesis@...>
Subject: Urgent-Stop Emergency Health Powers Act
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:23:26 -0700

There is a hearing on this  bill in the Health Committee of the
California Assembly tomorrow, Tuesday, April 9.  It's totally
possible the legislators have no idea of it's import and can move it
on without realizing the police state nature of it.  We must let
them know!  and we must let organizations and everyone know so it doesn't
get passed and make it too late to even have a discussion.  There is no
"movement" to do this so it's up to everyone reading this to get on the
email and the phone.  If we could get an organization (Civil Liberties,
health, etc.) to take some responsiblity, that would be great.  It's up to
all of us to get the ball rolling!!!!!!!!!!

New Legislative Threat to Health and Democracy!

Oppose the Emergency Health Powers Act (In California- Bill 1763)
before it's enacted.  Three other states defeated it.  We can too.

The California Bill, based upon Model Health Emergency Health Powers
Act, (Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is urging
all State legislatures to adopt the Model State Emergency Health
Powers Act) would allow the governor to declare a "public health
emergency", and without consulting with public health authorities,
law enforcement, the legislature or courts, to:
* · Require any individual to be vaccinated. Refusal
constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.
* · Require any individual to undergo specific medical
treatment. Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in
quarantine.
* · Seize any property, including real estate, food, medicine,
fuel or clothing, an official thinks necessary to handle the
emergency.
* · Seize and destroy any property alleged to be hazardous.
There will be no compensation or recourse.
* · Draft you or your business into state service.
* · Impose rationing, price controls, quotas and transportation
controls.
* · Suspend any state law, regulation or rule that is thought
to interfere with handling the declared emergency.

HHS will tie passage of the Act to billions of dollars in federal
funding: the usual method of bribery/coercion to get States to pass
legislation that would otherwise never be considered.

           In California on January 8, 2002, Assembly Member Richman
introduced Bill 1763 Emergency Health Powers Act.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ This may serve the Bush
Administration's aims, but bodes ominously for democracy. Doubts
surface about whose interests will be served by the Model Emergency
Health Powers Act.  It is hypocritical to "Wage War on Terrorism"
while one is funding, training, and engaging in Terrorist acts at
home and abroad.


"In Germany first they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak
up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I
was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left
to speak up."
Pastor Martin Niemoller


NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEAK UP!



Some ideas for what you can do (feel free to be creative too)
o Call or write to your assemblypersons
o Pass on the info & ask more folks to contact Assembly--  through
email, fliers, letters to editors, call-in shows

For info. and links to the bill--www.communitycurrency.org

--
"In Germany first they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak
up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I
was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left
to speak up."

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From: Louis Morgan <loumorgan@...>
Reply-To: loumorgan@...
Subject: [eastbay-coalition] Wednesday: Right of Return Possible
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 22:59:13 -0700

Palestinian Right to Return: Sacred, Legal and Possible

A talk by

Dr. Salman Abu-Sitteh

Wednesday, April 10
7:30 PM
22 Warren Hall (UC Berkeley Campus)

For directions check: http://www.berkeley.edu/map/



Dr Abu-Sitteh is a member of the Palestinian National Congress and
author of the ground breaking Palestinian Right to Return: Sacred, Legal and
Possible. Abu-Sitteh's research has demonstrated that the majority of
Palestinian property from which Palestinians were expelled in 1948 remains
basically empty, and could accommodate the return of refugees, contrary to
Israeli claims. His study, "The Feasibility of the Right of Return"
demonstrates this point well.
He notes that 78% of the Jews live in 15% of Israel; 22% of the Jews live in
85% of Israel, all of which is Palestinian land. The
absolute majority of the latter live in a dozen plus towns. Only 2.7% of
the Jews exploit all Palestinian land. Thus, he concludes, "only 154,000
rural Jews control 17,325 sq. km. which is the home and heritage of
4,942,000 refugees."

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26. Police Now Being Ordered to Assault Peaceful Protesters


From: "Eric Rainbolt" <erainbolt@ next-commerce.com>
Subject:  Police Now Being Ordered to Assault Peaceful Protesters -
           Democracy Depot Member Attacked by Police at Protest...
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:50:36 -0700
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Dear American Patriots,

please help spread the word of these malicious attacks on innocent Americans
by the police and military....

please help pass this photograph around as well:
http://everyonemustseethisphotograph.netfirms.com/

Please take this as seriously as you will allow yourself. Know your own
personal life may be in danger due to the New World Order agenda
advancement.

Please spread the awareness to thousands... every little bit will help...
this only way to be set free is through the truth....



Alex Jones of www.infowars.com needs to be aware of this.  You all need to
be aware of www.infowars.com and the docu-drama "9/11 - The Road to Tyranny"

God Bless.  Please also keep this in mind - and spread this around as well
to deliver the basic message it contains:

http://everyonemustseethisphotograph.netfirms.com/

The internet can be an effective tool to engage in peaceful protesting.

Don't focus on helping get Al Gore elected - rather put your energies into
getting him to tell the truth (at the risk to his own life) - because Al
Gore knows the truth of what is going on at the highest levels - and he also
must know the truth behind the latest engineered attacks on 9/11.  I once
campaigned for him hard - see www.freeword.com my website now is :
www.thatsonofabush.com

Of foremost importance, We must get the truth expressly out to our military.
   Your livelihood and are all others you now are at risk due to this "War on
Terrorism".

-Eric Rainbolt
South Austin Texas
512-280-5835


St. Petersburg Police Attack Participants at President Bush's Visit on March
8, 2002  Article written by eyewitness, Melissa Winn

I was at the intersection of 28th Street and 118th Avenue last week and
witnessed events that must be brought to your attention. While standing at
the northwest corner of the intersection, near a small group of people who
were sitting in the back of a pickup truck, I was appalled to see Sergeant
Lightfield attack Mauricio Rosas.

At the time, participants were seeking answers about an apparent
contradictory policy of the police department, allowing free reign of all
citizens and observers who are not making political statements critical of
the current administration and requiring those making such statements and
inquiries to be corralled in a specific, less visible area.

In response to Sunni's question, Sergeant Lightfield indicated that the
"pro-Bush" people didn't have a specific location where they needed to
stand. But at the same time he also said that they couldn't stand just
anywhere, but no attempts were made to relocate these observers. His
statements alone exemplify the confusion and contradictions of the day.

Consequently, four people with signs were directed to a vaguely identified
area across the street. At different times, and depending on who gave the
instruction, this area was multiply identified as the parking lot in front
of the building on the northeast side of the intersection and an area behind
the building bordering the street adjacent parking lot.

Mauricio had brought a video camera with him and was also carrying a sign. I
heard an officer tell him that he had to move to the other area specifically
because of the sign. At this point he gave his sign to me and asked to stay
at his present location since he was no longer in possession of a sign. He
was instructed to move anyway.

While the group was quickly trying to sort out what the actual instruction
was and why it was being given, along with to whom and for what purposes
individuals were included and exempt from this requirement, Sergeant
Lightfield turned to Mauricio and told him he'd have to turn off the camera.
At the same instant that he demanded this, the sergeant reached with his
left hand and forcefully grabbed the lens and microphone above it and yanked
it toward the ground. He did not give Mauricio any time to respond.

Sergeant Lightfield, immediately after grabbing the camera proceeded to push
Mauricio with both his hands and even shoulders. He was obviously putting
his weight into this effort and the two of them moved a few steps further
from the road in this struggle. I watched from a foot or two behind Sergeant
Lightfield and was both shocked and terrified. I fully expected this man to
wrestle Mauricio and his camera to the ground.

I distinctly remember raising my voice and asking Sergeant Lightfield to
"leave him alone, he's disabled!" My request received no response, but a
second later the sergeant stepped back from Mauricio, and in doing so, made
a strong downward sweeping motion with his left hand. He caught the strap on
the camera with his hand, and I vividly recall the look of terror and
surprise on Mauricio's face as he involuntarily bent slightly forward and
struggled to hold the camera against his thighs to keep it from being thrown
to the ground.

After crossing the street, confusion remained about the exact location of
the allotted area for participants with signs. Mauricio calmly persisted in
inquiring about what policies were being enforced and by whose orders. The
group was then told to relocate to a position behind the building (from the
parking lot in front of it where we'd originally been directed). We were
told Officer Sharp would escort us to this new area.

Officer Sharp was both polite and conscientious in his attempt to handle the
matter, and he strived to be politically correct in his terminology and
understanding of the situation. Yet, he explained, he still needed to escort
the group to the back of the building.

Mauricio's continued inquiries were re-directed to Lieutenant Williams, who
was identified as the highest-ranking official on the premises. He began
talking to Mauricio, offering answers, but after a minute suggested that he
would not answer additional questions on camera. He could give more
information if Mauricio turned the camera off. At this point, Sergeant
Lightfield stormed toward Mauricio. He appeared to suddenly descend on the
scene like a tornado, but must have been walking over from the patrol car
against 118th Avenue.

Sergeant Lightfield yelled, "I told you before…" Once again, and without
pausing or giving a time for any response on Mauricio's part, including
lowering or turning off the camera, Sergeant Lightfield reached forward with
his left hand and grabbed the lens and microphone of the camera, jerking it
violently toward the ground. At this time, I saw four or five other officers
instantaneously assembled around Mauricio and Sergeant Lightfield, almost in
a huddle. These officers prevented me from seeing any more details about the
incident. I did see Mauricio moving backward from his original position
interviewing Lt. Williams and Sergeant Lightfield appeared to be pushing him
once again.

I am surprised by the short temper that Sergeant Lightfield displayed on
this occasion and his fierce efforts to impose immediate compliance using
brute force. It seems to me that he must deal with far more dangerous
confrontations (actual confrontations, not initiated ones) all the time.
Sergeant Lightfield demonstrated to me that his intentions were to
physically intimidate and damage private property if the opportunity arose.
Clearly, it is not in the best interests of the community to have this man
patrolling such events without intensive anger management intervention.

Please be aware that there were several other people present who were using
both regular cameras and video cameras. These people were allowed to stand
wherever they wanted and a few of them may even have the sergeant's attacks
on videotape. At no time did I see them approached for purposes of
relocating or turning off their cameras. It is clear to me that the group
was singled out solely for expressing political opinions, an act which is in
violation of the first amendment to the constitution. Also evident is the
extreme reluctance of all police personnel to speak on camera about
policies. If these policies are truly official, then what would they have to
hide in relating them?

http://www.voiceoffreedom.com/attack.html

Follow-up:
March 15, 2002
Mauricio Rosas has requested an internal affairs investigation. Major Tim
Story of the St. Petersburg Police is currently assigned to the case.

Citizens attacked during President Bush's visit on March 8, 2002 in
St.Petersburg, Florida on March 8, 2002 for having signs.


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27. Salute to Nancy Pelosi April 21, San Francisco


From: "Mary Ratcliff" <editor@ sfbayview.com>
Reply-To: <editor@ sfbayview.com>
Subject: Press Release: Salute to Nancy Pelosi April 21, San Francisco
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:31:49 -0700

Opportunity to talk … demonstrate … ?

-----Original Message-----
From: RBHauptman@... [mailto:RBHauptman@...]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 4:30 AM
To: RBHauptman@ aol.com
Subject: Press Release: Salute to Nancy Pelosi
          April 21, San Francisco



For Immediate Release
For Information:
April 8, 2002
Rick Hauptman, CA Democratic Party
415-861-7425 or
RBHauptman@ aol.com




San Francisco Democratic Club's Salute to Nancy Pelosi
House Minority Whip/Highest Office for a Woman in Congressional History
Sunday, April 21, 2002



20 grassroots Democratic Clubs host tribute to
House Minority Whip Nancy Pelosi.

3-6 PM
Light Finger Food
No-Host Bar
Music
Mary Holland Trio
Some Speeches



Rassela's Jazz Club
1534 Fillmore (at Geary)

$10 - such a bargain - $10

Join us as we salute Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
The history-making Minority Whip
of U.S. House of Representatives

For Information:
Rick Hauptman
RBHauptman@ aol.com
or 415-861-7425



Sponsors: Asian Pacific Democratic Club, African American Democratic
Club, Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, Carolene & Milton Marks
Democratic Club, Democratic Women's Forum, District 11 Democratic Club,
Golden Gate Democratic League, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, Irish
American Democratic Club, Raoul Wallenberg Jewish Democratic Club,
Robert Kennedy Democratic Club, Ron Brown Democratic Club, San Francisco
Young Democrats, Sunset Community Democratic Club, Westside Chinese
Democratic Club, Westside Democratic Club,  partial listing.
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28. Peoples Park Anniversary Invite


From: "tierra dulce" <tierradulce@ hotmail.com>
Subject: Peoples Park Anniversary Invite
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 05:54:01 +0000

Dear Political Groups, Artisans and Celebrators,

       We would like to invite you to participate in Peoples Park's 33rd
Birthday Anniversary Faire and Concert on Sun April 28th from noon to 6pm.

We have free tabling space for political and social organizations.  Vending
space for artisans (10' x 10') is available for $20.

The day will be fun-filled with the music of The Shelley Doty
X-tet, The Funky Nixons, Jonathan Richman and more.

Barbara Lee will speak.

There will be activities for children all day, including arts and crafts, a
petting zoo, face painting and juggling.

There will be an active skateboarding park on Haste Street and a second
stage will have hip-hop, poetry and music near Telegraph Ave.

We will wind down the activities with drumming and a Maypole.

Join us.

To reserve a table space for political groups or vending space call Terri at
658-9178 or Michael at 848-8324.

Call us with other ideas for the day or to help with organizing.


Celebrate another year of People's Park's History!
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no peace without justice....
VIOLATING MY CIVIL RIGHTS IS AN 'ACT OF TERRORISM'!

john vance, editor
PEOPLES BARK NEWS BERKELEY

A project of:
A First Amendment Center
PO Box 4851
Berkeley, Ca 94704
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(510) 287-9406

Hotlines:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 621
(KPFA Event Calendar)

(510) 287-9406
(A First Amendment Center's Message Line!)

(510) 594-4000 ext. 202
(Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hotline!)

(510) 548-0542
(Friends of KPFA hotline!)

(415) 546-6334 ext. 352
(Media Alliance KPFA info line!)

PLEASE send me SF Bay Area news/events that you would like posted
to: aliun@. hotmail.com - Deadline for event notice submissions is every
Monday at noon.

Event Calendar:
http://www.peacenowfreedomnow.net

And, remember, the most important place of all, our own people's
media at: http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ for San Francisco Bay Area
news postings and http://www.indymedia.org/ to look for postings
for other city's community news.

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_week.php
(San Francisco Indymedia Calendar)

More calendars:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages (PBNB)
http://bapd.org/cal.txt (Bay Area Progressive Calendar)
http://www.bapd.org/notices.html  (Some Really GOOD Current Notices)
http://bapd.org/n52.html (Peace and anti-war calendar)
http://www.sfbg.com/action/index.html (SF Bay Guardian ALERTS)

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
(East Bay Coalition Against the War)

http://www.peaceandjustice.org/events/indexhi.html
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Calendar)

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
(Global Exchange)

http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar.html
(Ecology Center calendar)

http://abacia.com/calendar/  (Abacia calendar)

http://www.change-links.org/chcl2.htm
(Change Links Calendar - L.A.)

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/calendar.cfm?
(Berkeley DP Calendar)

http://www.protest.net/ (Protest.Net Calendar of Events)

http://www.earthneighborhood.com/events.html
(Earth Neighborhood calendar - Union City, Ca)

SOME ALTERNATIVE (and one mainstream) MEDIA SOURCES:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
<A First Amendment Center's Links Page>


http://www.internationalanswer.org/
<Act Now to Stop War and End Racism>

http://www.aljazeera.net (Arabic Media in Qatar)
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
(TRANSLATOR for aljazeera.net)


http://www.alternet.org <AlterNet>
http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/gateway/arnindex.html <AntiRacismNet>
http://www.atasite.org/ <Artist's Television Access>
http://www.afghanmagazine.com <Afghan Magazine>
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)
http://berkeleystopthewar.org/ <Berkeley Stop the War Coalition>
http://www.wpkn.org/news/btl.html <Between the Lines - WPKN - CT>
http://www.brasscheck.com/ <brasscheck.com>
http://www.bushwatch.net/ <Bush Watch>
http://www.buzzflash.com/ <BuzzFlash>
http://www.legitgov.org/ <Citizens for Legitimate Government>
http://www.commondreams.org <Common Dreams>
http://www.corpwatch.org/ <CorpWatch>
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup/ <CounterCoup>
http://www.democracynow.org/ <Democracy Now - Out of Exile!>
http://www.drudgereport.com/ <DRUDGE REPORT>

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
<East Bay Coalition Against the War>

http://fair.org/ <Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting>
http://www.flashpoints.net/ <Flashpoints News Radio>
http://globalcircle.net/ <Global Circle Net News>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ <Global Research>
http://www.guerrillanews.com/ <Guerilla News Network>
http://www.humanrightsnow.org/ <Human Rights Now - Michael Ratner>
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm <IATP - WTO Watch>
http://www.independent.co.uk <Independent.co.uk>
http://www.indymedia.org/ <IndyMedia>
http://www.infowars.com/ <Infowars.com - Alex Jones>
http://accuracy.org/ <Institute for Public Accuracy>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ <In These Times>
http://www.kpfa.org <KPFA>
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm <Mid-East Realities>
http://www.opensecrets.org/ (Money in Politics)
http://www.labornet.org/ <LaborNet - News for the Labor Movement>
http://www.madre.org/ <Madre - Women's Human Rights Organization>
http://www.media-alliance.org/ <Media Alliance>
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ <MediaChannel.org>
http://michaelmoore.com/ <Michael Moore>
http://www.copvcia.com/index.html <Mike Ruppert><NOT FREE>
http://www.motherjones.com <Mother Jones>
http://www.narconews.com <Narco News>
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html <Noam Chomsky>
http://www.kpfa.com <NOT KPFA - but about KPFA>
http://www.oneworld.net/ <OneWorld.net>
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp <Open Democracy>
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html <Palestine media Watch>
http://www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ <Palestine Report>
http://poornewsnetwork.org/ <Poor News Network>
http://www.protest.net/ <Protest Net>
http://www.rabble.ca/ <Rabblerousers>
http://www.radio4all.org/ <Radio4All>
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/infohub.html <Rainbow Puddle>
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ <re: constructions>

http://www.enronownsthegop.com/
<Republican Party of Texas - brought to you by Enron>

http://rwor.org/ <Revolutionary Worker>
http://www.sfbayview.com/ <San Francisco Bay View>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ <SF IndyMedia>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/publish.php <SF IndyMedia (Publish Page)>
http://www.savepacifica.net/ <Save Pacifica.net>
http://www.speakoutnow.org/ <Speakout!>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <telegraph.co.uk>
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml <The Afghan Women's Mission>
http://www.tenc.net/ <The Emporer's New Clothes>
http://www.thenation.com/ <The Nation>
http://www.newsguild.org/index.php <The Newspaper Guild>

http://porthurontokentstate.tripod.com/
<The Port Huron to Kent State Project>

http://www.tompaine.com/ <TomPaine.commonsense>
http://www.utne.com <Utne Reader Online>
http://www.voterwest.org/ <Voter March West>
http://warresisters.org/ <War Resisters League>
http://www.war-times.org <WarTimes>
http://www.willpitt.com/Archive.htm <WillPitt.com>

http://www.wilpf.org/
<Women's International Legue for Peace and Freedom>

http://newsforchange.com/ <Working for Change>
http://www.zmag.org/ <Z Magazine Online>

http://ajr.newslink.org/ (mainstream media source)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/~musnews/  (Muslim News - Britain)
http://www.paknews.com/   (Pakistan News Service)
http://www.yespakistan.com/  (More News from Pakistan)
http://www.millat.pibc.com/index.htm  (News from Pakistan)
http://www.thefridaytimes.com  (Pakistan News)
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/  (News from Peshawar, Pakistan)
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/  (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)



BOOKS TO READ:

http://www.akpress.org/

OTHER LINKS:
http://www.kpfa.org (KPFA)

KPFA/Pacifica-related websites:
http://www.cfdp.org (Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica)
http://www.pacifica.org (Pacifica Foundation Radio Website)
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(A First Amendment Center's  website)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
(Coalition to Remove the Pacifica Board)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

(Lotsa KPFA-related links)
http://www.glib.com/union.html
(unofficial WBAI union website)
http://www.webwm.com/mfberry
http://www.newKPFA.net
http://www.wbai.net (Listener's Group - NYC/CdP)

http://www.BillMandel.net or
http://www.BillMandel.com
(Bill Mandel's website(s))

http://www.spanishbookclub.cjb.net
(My partner, Miriam Ruvinskis',
Spanish Book Club website)

FreePacifica discussion list: to subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@. recordist.com with the text "subscribe freepac"

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica local list:  to subscribe, send
email to: les@. delong.org  with the text "subscribe"
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PBNB


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Dear Peoples Bark News Berkeley Readers;
                                         First a word of CAUTION.
DO NOT SEND names/email addresses/phone numbers/snail mail/etc.
if you do not want it re-published. You must let me know and you must let me
know right at the top of any message you send if YOU DO NOT WANT SPECIFIC
CONTACT INFO TO BE RE-SENT OR RE-PUBLISHED IN THE PEOPLES BARK NEWS
BERKELEY. In a recent Report directly from Ramallah, there were some
people's emails listed that have received hate mail.  i received
an email from the sender of that report and they have asked that the report
not be sent out with any email address other than the email address of the
sender - which in this case would be me. There are some contact email
addresses in the report of course that should be left in BUT there are a
couple of folks mentioned in the email that should be removed.  The reason
being that some of these people are in dangerous areas and would like  to
not be the recipient of possible more hate mail.
We are in a new medium folks - the internet - and many of us are in direct
contact with people who are literally in the war zone.
i would suggest that we become more conscious of that and thus my request
that no one send an email address or other contact info UNLESS you want it
re-published.  We should, all of us, let everyone we communicate with on the
internet know this as well - that IF YOU DO NOT WANT CERTAIN CONTACT INFO -
INCLUDING YOUR CONTACT INFO - TO BE RE-PUBLISHED - LET IT BE KNOWN AT THE
TOP OF YOUR EMAIL.

We must now become more security-conscious to protect our brothers and
sisters - especially those we are receiving email from who are literally
in a war zone.

Hate mail was received from this email address: Arafat@...
This hate mail contained a photo of an IDF soldier atop a tank waving an
Israeli flag! Can anyone tell me where this is coming from? And can this be
tracked to its origin?


john v - editor PBNB

http://www.palestine.indymedia.org (Palestine Indymedia)
http://www.indymedia.org (Worldwide Indymedia)
http://www.sf.indymedia.org (San Francisco Indymedia)
http://www.electronicintifada.net (Electronic Intifada)
http://www.mecaforpeace.org (Middle East Children's Alliance)
http://www.globalexchange.org (Global Exchange)
http://www.democracynow.org (Amy Goodman - Democracy Now)
http://www.flashpoints.net (Flashpoints Show/KPFA - Dennis Bernstein)

http://www.batshalom.org (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in
the Occupied Territories)

http://www.rhr.israel.net (Rabbis for Human Rights)
http://www.jvao.org (Jewish Voices Against the Occupation)


This is A First Amendment Center's Links Page.  Click here and then scroll
down to Alternative Media links.  Continue scrolling down to find
Israeli/Palestinian Informaiton links.  Any Indymedia site is excellent
alternative source.  You may publish on these sites yourself.
Check out The Electronic Intifada as well. Middle East Children's Alliance -
in the Community Groups links - is a major organization, along with Global
Exchange, who is very active in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and both
have people/organizations established in Palestine refugee camps.
www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
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CONTENTS

1..."The Balance of Terror and the Red Mercury Nightmare" - J.R. Nyquist
2...William Rivers Pitt | Shadows on the White House
3...[StudentsForPeace_SFState] Reminder - Organizing Meetings
4...Message from Yahoo! - After the Fact!!!!!
5...Regional Civil Liberties Solidarity Summit - April 27
6...Two million Rally in Italy
7...Howard Zinn/Alice Walker Speaking in Berkeley
8...Peltier Press Release - Forward Widely!
9...Forum on Middle East Palestinian Workers, War & AFL-CIO  4/21
10..LABOR TUESDAY! for April 2, 2002 is Posted
11..Police Gas Vieques Demonstrators
12..15,000 march for Peace in Tel Aviv
14..Post Your Alerts!
15..Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story
16..We Must Not Stop Resisting
17..Upcoming Events at New College
18..Community Media Guide
19..War Times Second Issue On the Way
20..Support Prepress Workers at SF Examiner!
21..BFBC Weekly Bulletin, April 6-14, 2002
22..[an-american-peace-movement] Posters/Flyers for People's March for
     Economic Justice, April 27, 2002, Santa Barbara, with Ralph Nader
23..[OreadDaily] Oread Daily April 8, 2002
24..Public Forum: Road to Public Power in 2002
25..Navy Shipyard Transfer Involves Serious
     Environmental, Legal, and Ethical Breaches
26..Police Now Being Ordered to Assault Peaceful Protesters
27..Salute to Nancy Pelosi April 21, San Francisco
28..Peoples Park Anniversary Invite
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1. "The Balance of Terror and the Red Mercury Nightmare"
     by J. R. Nyquist


From: Stephen Dunifer <xmtrman@ pacbell.net>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: "The Balance of Terror and the Red Mercury Nightmare"
           by J. R. Nyquist


Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 22:08:20 -0700

Cannot vouch for this but sure raises some interesting questions.
Is it right wing disinfo or what?

http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2002/0326.htm

PEACE!
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2. William Rivers Pitt | Shadows on the White House


From: "t r u t h o u t" <admin@ truthout.com>
Subject: William Rivers Pitt | Shadows on the White House
Date:  Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:21:41 -0600

t r u t h o u t | 04.08

BREAKING NEWS SPECIAL | Israel and Palestine in Mortal Conflict
Mideast Demonstrators Clash in Paris
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/03.31.BK.IDFvArafat.htm

William Rivers Pitt | Shadows on the White House
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.08A.WRP.Shadows.htm

Edward Kennedy Address; Education | Text/Audio
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.08B.Kennedy.Address.htm

Democrats Seek Probe by FBI Conference Calls Were Monitored
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.08C.FBI.Probe.htm

Jennifer Van Bergen | Repeal the USA Patriot Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.07D.JVB.Patriot.htm

'Suffering That Gets Us Nowhere'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.08E.Suffering.htm

Insurers Move to Bar Andersen Sales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.08F.Bar.Anderson.htm

Israel Presses On With Attacks, Focusing on Northern West Bank
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.08G.West.Bank.htm

Plan to Mine Clay for Litter Boxes Stirs Cat Fight in Desert
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.08H.Litter.Mine.htm

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Bush Abruptly Drops Demand for Israel Pullout
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06A.Israel.Pullout.htm

Israel Ignores Bush Appeal But Lets Envoy Meet Arafat
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06B.Envoy.Arafat.htm

Judge Refuses to Bar Secret Evidence
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06C.Secret.Evidence.htm

Jennifer Van Bergen | Repeal the USA Patriot Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06D.JVB.Patriot.htm

White House Stonewall: Day 42
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06E.Stonewall.htm

Sweeney Dismisses Bush Ergonomics Plan as "Meaningless"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06F.Bush.Plan.htm

John Pilger | Not In Our Name
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06G.JP.Name.htm

Study by Governors Calls Bush Welfare Plan Unworkable
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06H.Bush.Unworkable.htm

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t r u t h o u t | 04.05

Bush Says U.S. Is to Assume Stronger Role in Ending Violence
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05A.Ending.Violence.htm

Imprisoned American Indian Activist Sues FBI for Violating Civil Rights
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05B.Peltier.htm

Conyers on Haddad Ruling : "A Victory for Fundamental Fairness"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05C.Conyers.Haddag.htm

Jennifer Van Bergen | Repeal the USA Patriot Act
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05D.JVB.Patriot.htm

Washington Is Criticized for Growing Reluctance to Sign Treaties
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05E.Sign.Treaties.htm

White House Stonewall: Day 41
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05F.Stonewall.htm

Poor Women Less Likely to be Promptly Diagnosed, Treated for Breast Cancer,
Study Shows
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05G.Breast.Cancer.htm

Senate Trade Bill to Go Well Beyond President's Request for Trading
Authority
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05H.Trade.Bill.htm

Federal Government vs The Last American Wild Buffalo Herd | Update 4/03/2002
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05I.BFC.Update.htm

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3. [StudentsForPeace_SFState] Reminder - Organizing Meetings


From: StudentsForPeace_SFState@ yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: StudentsForPeace_SFState-owner@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: [StudentsForPeace_SFState] Reminder - Organizing Meetings
Date: 8 Apr 2002 02:02:47 -0000


We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

Organizing Meetings

Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM PDT (GMT-07:00)

Weekly Organizing Meetings
Come get plugged in to the work that is being organized by
Students For Peace. Faculty are welcome and encouraged to come.

LOCATION: c-114 (downstairs in the Cesar Chavez Student Center)
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Every week we start the meeting with a discussion on different
topics. Please check
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentsForPeace_SFState/files/

for a folder called "Readings for Meetings" and pick up a copy
of something to read in preparation for the discussion.


To subscribe to this group, send an email to:
StudentsForPeace_SFState-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Students For Peace @ San Franciso State University
A Coalition of Student groups and Faculty dedicated to building a movement
against the US launching a "war on terror" both abroad and at home.

FOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL sfsusfp@ sfsu.edu

NO WAR!    NO RACIST SCAPEGOATING!   DEFEND CIVIL LIBERITES!
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inserted information about how Yahoo had added these new marketing
preferences to your subscription WITHOUT telling you, of course - UNTIL NOW!
   Now, i wonder why they didn't let people know about this BEFORE they
implemented such a policy so you could have said NO THANK YOU?
PBNB KEEPING YOU INFORMED!!!!

john v - editor - PBNB


4. Message from Yahoo! - After the Fact!!!!!


From: Yahoo! <yahoo_privacy@...>
Reply-To: yahoo_privacy@...
Subject: Message from Yahoo! About Changes to Our Privacy Policy and your
Marketing Preferences
Date :   Sun, 07 Apr 2002 17:19:28 PDT


Message from Yahoo! about changes to our Privacy Policy and your Marketing
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5. Regional Civil Liberties Solidarity Summit - April 27


From: "Akai Colleen" <colleenakai@ hotmail.com>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@...>)
Subject: Regional Civil Liberties Solidarity Summit - April 27
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 14:58:22 -0700

Please post , distribute and join us at the

Regional Civil Liberties Solidarity Summit

Saturday April 27, 2002
9 :30 am to 4 pm
Westminster Hills Presbyterian Church
27287 Patrick Avenue, Hayward

Directions: I-80 exit Tennyson Avenue east in Hayward, first signal is
Patrick Ave, left on Patrick  Avenue, 2 blocks to corner of Patrick &
Roosevelt, across from Weeks Library

Contact: Harry Scott (510) 538-0209

Sponsored by: South Alameda County Peace & Justice Coalition, Hayward Demos
Club, Tri-City Peace Action, American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee,
Ecumencial Peace Institute, International Refugee Services, Refuse & Resist,
Amerian Muslim Congress, American Muslims for Global Peace & Justice

This solidarity summit results from the Feb 20 National Day of Solidarity
with Arabs, Muslims and South Asian immigrants. This summit is designed to
provide the inspiration and energy to effectively oppose the denial of civil
liberties as manifested by the Patriot Act and the unconstituional
detentions across our country.
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6. Two million Rally in Italy



From: radtimes <resist@...>
Subject: [radtimes] # 242
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 12:49:28 -0700

Two million Rally in Italy

<http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-1/400/400_12_HugeItalyProtest.shtml>

"We'll defend our unions"

March 29, 2002 | Page 12
YURII COLOMBO reports from Rome on the massive protest by Italian workers.

IT WAS the biggest demonstration in Italian history. Two million people,
organized by the union federation CGIL, mobilized March 23 to protest a
labor law "reform" proposal that would strip unions and workers of their
rights.
The red banners of the unions and left-wing political parties were
everywhere around the Circus Maximus, site of the chariot races during the
Roman Empire.  Italy's social forum movement and alternative unions were
also in the streets.  The unions mobilized for the protest with 9,000 buses,
60 trains, three ships and two planes.
The size of the protest was all the more dramatic because the government
tried to use the assassination of a government adviser on labor reform four
days earlier to force the unions to cancel the protest.
The so-called Red Brigades, a tiny armed group claiming to act on behalf of
the left, claimed responsibility for the murder of Marco Biagi. But this
only played into the hands of the government, leading some to suspect the
involvement of the Italian secret service (Italy's FBI) in the
assassination.
The murder could be used to justify a campaign of repression and
intimidation against the most combative union and socialist militants. Just
hours after the killing, right-wing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
declared that labor unions "feed the inhuman ideology that moves the hand of
the killers."
From the platform, union officials and politicians bowed to the pressure by
speaking in defense of the "state and democracy" and playing an Italian
national hymn that dates from the fascist era.
But in the crowd, the slogans were about confronting the bosses and the
government. In fact, the call for a demonstration, and a general strike to
follow it, came from the union rank and file after a series of local
strikes.
"Today, we showed to the government, bosses and terrorists that they can't
stop us," Fabrizio Portaluri, a shop steward at the big Pirelli tire plant
in Milan, told Socialist Worker. "We want to defend our rights. Today in
Rome, there were many workers who voted for Berlusconi and the right, and
now their ideas have changed. Workers are beginning to understand that the
problem is political, the problem is Berlusconi's government."
The proposed labor law changes would deny workers the right to appeal an
unjust firing to a judge, a gain won in the big union struggles of the late
1960s and early 1970s.
Last weekend's demonstrations followed a huge mobilization of 300,000 in
Genoa last July to protest the Group of Eight summit, despite the police
killing of protester Carlo Giuliani. A series of large protests against the
U.S.-led war in Afghanistan have involved tens of thousands.
Now the government is trying to put the left on the defensive. But workers
won't be intimidated. "Tomorrow, we'll begin to organize the general strike,
but we also understand that only one general strike can't beat the
government," Portaluri said. "We must think about how to continue the
struggle."

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Italy: The Biggest Demonstration In History

From:
WORKERS POWER GLOBAL WEEK
E-newswire of the LRCI
23 March 2002
Subscribe to: newswire@ workerspower.com
http://www.workerspower.com

Workers Power Global, Rome

Two million took to the streets of Rome on Saturday 23rd March to protest
against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi¹s plans to slash workers' legal
rights. The demonstration, called by the main union confederation, the CGIL,
was the biggest ever staged in Italy.

As well as a powerful answer to Berlusconi, however, this was also the best
possible rebuff to those who carried out the assassination of the economist
and labour lawyer, Professor Marco Biagi just five days earlier.

Biagi wasn't just any university professor. He was the author of the
notorious "White Book" which formed the basis of the government¹s proposals
for "reforming" the labour market to the advantage of Italy's employers'
federation. He was also heavily involved in the government attempt to modify
Article 18 of the Workers' Statute which protects workers against unfair
dismissal.

In short, Biagi's ideas were rotten to the core. They were the bosses'
ideas wrapped up in the pink ribbons of bourgeois academia and the phoney
language of liberal "moderation" and "compromise".

But, for all that, his assassination has to be condemned. Biagi's
pro-boss arguments and his attempts to present his policies as simply
"objectively necessary" were no match for the militancy of Italian workers
and his exploitation of his academic status would not have withstood a
concerted campaign to remove him. His murder can play no role in advancing
the working class¹ campaign against Berlusconi - but neither was it meant
to.

Politically, what was in the gunman¹s sights was the mass movement that has
grown rapidly since the murder of Carlo Giuliani in Genoa last July. In the
short term, the target was Saturday¹s demonstration. Whoever killed Biagi
wanted to detract from the importance of the mass movement, possibly even to
prevent the demonstration from taking place.

According to a document published at www.caserta24ore.it, the killing was
the work of the "Red Brigades for the Construction of the Combatant
Communist Party". Despite the name and the frequent use of "Marxist"
vocabulary in their 26 page communique, this is a group whose whole
political strategy is deeply anti-working class. Although the latest
diatribe makes little reference to Biagi, it does make clear that the
"Brigades" still believe that the workers are dormant and impermeable to
revolutionary ideas. This, in their analysis, makes necessary their own
"revolutionary" intervention.

Coming at a time when the supposedly dormant workers¹ movement is
increasingly dynamic, this suggests that the assassination was an attempt by
the Brigades to force reality back into line with their theory.

Or the communique was issued by a unit of the secret services dressed up as
non-existent Red Brigades. The vacuous language traditionally used by the
Brigades would not be difficult to reproduce for even the dumbest of state
agents. Nor should it be forgotten that, despite a recent report, published
in the Italian press, that Biagi's life was in danger, his armed escort,
removed last year, was not given back to him. Certainly, such agents have
been implicated in terrorist activities in the past and the state had a
clear interest in trying to derail preparations for Saturday¹s
demonstration.

What effect, then, did the killing of Biagi have? On the one hand, the
unions recognised that the murder of Biagi was an attack on them and on
their struggle against the modifications to Article 18. Rather than pull
back from fear of further rocking the boat, the CGIL trade union
bureaucracy quite rightly condemned the killing and then confirmed the
demonstration of 23 March. They also confirmed the general strike called for
April.

However, by broadening the aim of the demonstration into a denunciation of
terror and defence of democracy, the union leaders have, in effect, blunted
the campaign against Berlusconi and this is dangerous. It stands in great
contrast to the failure of the same union leaders to defend the democratic
rights of the demonstrators in Genoa against the terror tactics of the
carabinieri. In reality, the CGIL leaders have been more inclined to seek
negotiations with the government than to lead mass mobilisations. It was
mounting pressure from below that forced the calling of Saturday's
demonstration.

Revolutionaries and activists from the workers¹ movement and the
anti-capitalist movement, which have grown together since Genoa, will have
to fight to ensure that the CGIL does not now dilute, or even demobilise,
April's general strike. The social forums which have sprung up in city after
city across Italy must become the organising centres of the general strike,
drawing in delegates from workplaces, unions, and political organisations to
make sure the strike is the beginning of the end for Berlusconi ­ and
Biagi's "White Book".

FOR MORE ON ITALY SEE:
http://www.workerspower.com/wpglobal/italyhotautumn.html
http://www.workerspower.com/wpglobal/genoabalance.html

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Full list of links to ANTI-WAR resources on the web available on request.

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-Jim Dodge
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intelligence without communications is irrelevant."
-Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC
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-J. Krishnamurti
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"The world is my country, all mankind my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
-Thomas Paine
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" . . . it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds . . . "
-Samuel Adams
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"You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be no results."
-Gandhi
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"The most dangerous man to any government is the man
who is able to think things out for himself, without regard
to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.  Almost inevitably
he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under
is dishonest, insane, and intolerable."
-H.L. Mencken
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7. Howard Zinn/Alice Walker Speaking in Berkeley


From: caroseligman@ aol.com
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: Howard Zinn Speaking in Berkeley, Evening of April 20th
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 20:02:25 -0800

Saturday evening, April 20th
Alice Walker and Howard Zinn!
Speaking at a legal defense fundraiser for Mumia Abu-Jamal
7:30pm, St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, $20
(student discount, call 415-695-7745)

TICKETS are available NOW at the following bookstores!

*Berkeley:
Black Oak - 1491 Shattuck Ave., 510-486-0698
Cody's - 2454 Telegraph Ave., 510-845-7852
Cody's - 1730 Fourth St., 510-559-9500
Pegasus - 2349 Shattuck Ave., 510-649-1320
Pegasus - 1855 Solano Ave., 510-525-6888

*Oakland:
Pendragon - 5560 College Ave., 510-652-6259
Walden Pond - 3316 Grand Ave., 510-832-4438

*San Francisco:
City Lights - 261 Columbus Ave., 415-362-8193
Modern Times - 888 Valencia St., 415-282-9246
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8. Peltier Press Release - Forward Widely!


From: "lpdc" <lpdc@...>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: Peltier Press Release - Forward Widely!
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 19:04:43 -0800

PRESS RELEASE FOR LEONARD PELTIER BELOW!


Friends,

Below is the press release for the lawsuit that will be filed TOMORROW on
Leonard Peltier's behalf.  Please forward it far and wide to your local
media and to other supporters.  Please be sure that the release date remains
intact.  We do not want coverage on this before the case is filed tomorrow.
We do, however, want to give reporters a chance to write their stories today
so that it can hit the press tomorrow.  Also note that this has been
distributed to all national news sources already, so we just need to focus
on everyone's local press.  You may want to follow up with phone calls to
your paper, radio and TV stations to request they cover the story given that
a local support group or supporters exist in the area.  Let us know if you
have any questions.

THANK you for your help and support!

In Solidarity,
LPDC

PS A formatted version can be downloaded from our web site:
http://www.freepeltier.org
________________________________________________________
RELEASE DATE:  THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2002

Contact:
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (785) 842-5774;
lpdc@ freepeltier.org


NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST FBI

         Former FBI Director Louis Freeh is named as a defendant in a lawsuit
filed today by attorneys for imprisoned Native American activist, Leonard
Peltier.  Freeh, along with the FBI Agents Association and a long list of
active FBI agents, are accused of violating Peltier's Constitutional rights
by making false and unsupported statements to the public, the Department of
Justice, the United States Parole Commission, and former President Clinton.
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court, Washington D.C., alleges that
the FBI "engaged in a systematic, and officially sanctioned campaign of
mis-information and dis-information" designed to prevent Peltier from
receiving fair clemency and parole reviews.

             The suit follows a highly controversial campaign conducted by
the FBI to stop former president Bill Clinton from issuing Peltier a grant
of executive clemency during his last days in office.  FBI agents across the
nation submitted letters to the editor, sponsored major newspaper and radio
ads, and marched by the hundreds in front of the White House to discourage
clemency.  Former FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote searing letters to Bill
Clinton and Janet Reno, to urge against Peltier's release.  The campaign,
which gained national attention, characterized Peltier as a cold-blooded
killer who brutally shot two FBI agents at point blank range.  Peltier's
attorneys and supporters assert that this characterization is not only false
but intentionally deceptive given the government's long held position that
it cannot prove who shot the agents.  Furthermore, they say it cost Peltier,
now 57 years of age and in poor health, his long deserved freedom.

             Peltier has served more than 26 years in prison for the deaths
of two FBI agents killed in a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation.  Peltier's supporters claim the FBI terrorized witnesses,
utilized false testimony and withheld a ballistic test proving Peltier's
innocence to gain his conviction.  Senior Eighth Circuit Judge Gerald
Heaney, who denied Peltier a new trial based on a legal technicality, has
since come forward to support Peltier's release, citing FBI misconduct.
Amnesty International, the Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Rev.
Jesse Jackson, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Corretta Scott
King, and scores of Native tribes are among those who consider Peltier a
political prisoner who should be freed.

(Complaint will be posted on LPDC web site on April 4: www.freepeltier.org .
Interviews with lawyer handling case and spokespeople for the LPDC can
bearranged).


Until Freedom Is Won!
The New Peltier Justice Campaign

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
www.freepeltier.org

To subscribe, send a blank message to
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9.  Forum on Middle East Palestinian Workers, War & AFL-CIO  4/21



From: united <united@ igc.org>
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: 4/21, Oakland: Forum on Middle East Palestinian
          Workers, War & AFL-CIO
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 18:56:46 -0800

Bay Area Workers Democracy Forum/Discussion

The Middle East, Palestinian Workers,
War & The AFL-CIO

Speakers:
Mary Ann Ring, UCSF  ASCME 3299, Delegate SF Labor Council
Charles Minster, LIUA 1144, Delegate SF Labor Council
Jack Heyman, BA ILWU Local 10, Delegate Alameda Labor Council* (Invited)
Faisal Tbeilen, Member UESF-AFT*

    As a result of the murderous attack on Palestinian workers and the
people of Palestine, the San Francisco Labor Council has passed a
resolution protesting the illegal, immoral war and supporting an end to the
military arming of Israel. We will discuss how this came about.
   This important statement however, is virtually alone among the US trade
union movement. John Sweeney and the national AFL-CIO have embraced Bush's
"War On Terror", along with supporting the Patriot Act which harms our
democratic right and the massive increases of military spending. At the same
time the leadership of the Teamsters and the Carpenters are running as fast
as they can to get on Bush's bandwagon.
   We will discuss why it is important that US workers support the struggle
of Palestinian workers and challenging what has been the historic role of
the AFL-CIO in relationship to war , the rights of the Palestinians and
Israel.
$5.00 Donation Requested/ No one turned away from a lack of funds
*For Information Only

Sunday April 21, 2002 3:00PM
Fellowship Of Humanity Hall   390 27th St./Broadway Oakland

Sponsored by the Bay Area Workers Democracy Network
P.O.Box 40458 San Francisco, CA 94140
email:united@... or sfactive@...



San Francisco Labor Council Resolution



San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO
1188 Franklin St. Suite 203
San Francisco, California 94109-6852
(415)440-4809
Email: sflaborcouncil@ worldnet.att.net



The San Francisco Labor Council  Passed The Following Resolution

11 March 2002

Resolution on Mid-East Conflict

Whereas, the conflict in Israel and Palestine continues on an insane course
destroying lives, property and the future with no end in sight; and

Whereas, the reasons for the continuation of this catastrophe rests in the
struggle for control  at the expense of the working class  and
dispossessed; and

Whereas, the U.S. proves to be the main culprit in this struggle by
supplying the Israeli State  billions of dollars in arms to suppress the
Palestinian struggle for both Statehood and  ancestral lands while
oppressing and dividing the Jewish and Arab worker for the  benefit of
national and international capital; and

Whereas, the recent escalation of the conflict has seen scores of women,
children and other  innocents murdered and the 17 February bombing of the
headquarters of the Palestine  General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) by
U.S. supplied and paid for Israeli  F-16 jets that continue to bomb civilian
and Palestinian political targets, against U.S. legal restrictions; and

Whereas, these actions by the Israeli military and government have been
condemned by such  labor groups as the International Confederation of Trade
Unions (ICFTU), the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and
General Worker's Union  (ICEM), and the Congress of South African Trade
Unions (COSATU)

Therefore be it hereby Resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council
condemns the bombing  of civilian and political targets most specifically,
but not limited to, the Palestinian  trade union offices in Nablus,
Palestine and remind the U.S.. Government that this is  both a moral and
legal crime, and

Be it further Resolved, that this Council calls on the ranks of the PGFTU of
Palestine and the  Histadrut trade union federation of Israel to launch
joint action against both sides' attacks on innocents and civilians and work
together to gain control over this horrible situation; and

Be it finally Resolved, that this Resolution be submitted to all of our
affiliated bodies State, Nationally and Internationally for study and
concurrence so that labor may act jointly in its own defense.



Adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council on March 11, 2001.

Respectfully Submitted ,

Walter Johnson
Secretary-Treasurer
San Francisco Labor Council
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10. LABOR TUESDAY! for April 2, 2002 is Posted


From: Bobibt@ aol.com
(by way of Tom Condit <tomcondit@ igc.org>)
Subject: LABOR TUESDAY! for April 2, 2002 is Posted.
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 18:54:03 -0800

Dear Friends:

Is the carpenters union an 800 LB gorilla, and about to create havoc for
construction workers from coast to coast? Some fearful union partisans think
so, and their reasons are compelling. This week we take a look at the
building brouhaha. Then we present some views on the Labor Party -- views
sure to bother some of our friends. But we also offer to provide space for
other views.

A new edition of LABOR TUESDAY! is posted each Tuesday. Click on to this
link,
<http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bobibt/myhomepage/news.html?mtbrand=AOL_US>LABOR
TUESDAY! , or paste this place this URL in your browser screen,

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bobibt/myhomepage/news.html?mtbrand=AOL_US.

In Solidarity,

Bob Mattingly
bobibt@ aol.com
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11. Police Gas Vieques Demonstrators


From: SIUHIN@ aol.com
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Police Gas Vieques Demonstrators
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 05:40:56 EDT

Police Gas Vieques Demonstrators

By LILLIAM IRIZARRY
.c The Associated Press

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico (April 6) - Military police on Saturday fired tear gas
at a crowd of demonstrators as officers detained a man and woman whom they
said broke onto restricted U.S. Navy land.

The incidents occurred during the sixth day of military exercises on the
outlying Puerto Rico island of Vieques.

Tear gas was used to disperse the crowd, which according to Navy spokesman
Lt. Corey Barker, was throwing rocks at military personnel.

Witnesses denied the claim, saying the crowd began throwing canisters of the
tear gas only after officers began firing.

Demonstrators routinely break onto Navy lands to thwart exercises on the
firing range whose use by the Navy has raised anger that flared after
off-target bombs killed a civilian guard in 1999.

On Friday night, military police fired tear gas at demonstrators who threw
rocks at officers guarding the perimeter of the bombing range, Lt. Cmdr.
Katherine Goode said Saturday.

Local police were called in to calm the crowd Friday. One protester, Jaime
Collado, suffered a cut to the back of the head and received five stitches,
said officer Cesar Gracia. Collado said there were no rocks thrown in the
incident. Collado said he was injured by the aluminum tear gas canister used
by the military police.

On Saturday, ship-to-shore shelling and air-to-ground exercises continued.
The maneuvers could last for nearly three weeks. The Navy says protests have
not stopped the bombing practices since they began Monday.

Opponents of the Navy exercises say they harm the environment and health of
Vieques' 9,300 residents. The Navy denies that claim.

President Bush says the Navy will leave by 2003, and the Navy says it is
looking for alternative sites.

AP-NY-04-06-02 2031EST
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12. 15,000 march for Peace in Tel Aviv


From: katharlow@ aol.com
Reply-To: katharlow@ aol.com
Subject: 15,000 march for Peace in Tel Aviv
          (not enough, but it's a start...)
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 04:50:53 EDT

Ha'aretz reports on a large rally in Tel Aviv, attended by 15,000, according
to the report. In a photograph which accompanied the article on Ha'aretz's
web site, one protester held a sign which read, in Hebrew, "Dismantle the
settlements". Although the article makes no mention of which group or groups
organized the event, the presence of Labor and Meretz MK's as speakers is an
indicator that it was likely put together by Peace Now's coalition of peace
groups. This is an important signal that the more mainstream elements of the
Israeli peace movement is accelerating its mobilization of recent months and
is reacting to the current events. Peace Now's recent report of 34 new
settlements having been built by the Sharon government also shows that they
are not merely reacting to the current escalation but keeping a view of what
must be done to make real progress on the road to peace. Perhaps of greatest
significance is the presence of an MK from the Labor party, which has thus
far been entirely complicit in the actions of the Sharon government. Labor
MK Yael Dayan said at this rally, "By reoccupying, we will not prevent [the
establishment of] a Palestinian state, which is the only solution".

15,000 march for peace in Tel Aviv

By Yam Yehoshua, Ha'aretz Correspondent

Some 15,000 people attended a peace rally held by a coalition of
organizations in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, organizers said. The rally
began with a march from Rabin Square to the Defense Ministry at the Kirya.

The demonstrators protested the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
territories and the current Israel Defense Forces operations in the West
Bank cities.

Speakers at the rally included MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz) and Sakhnin Mayor
Mustafa Abu Ri'a. Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg also attended the rally, but
did not speak publicly.

"By reoccupying, we will not prevent [the establishment of] a Palestinian
state, which is the only solution," said Yael Dayan MK (Labor). "Our camp is
not ashamed and is coming out. Arik Sharon and Bibi Netanyahu do not have
any monopoly - not over the peace, not over bereavement, and not over the
army. The dead are just as much our dead as they are those of the right."


____________________________________________________________________

Jewish Peace News (JPN) is a service provided by A Jewish Voice for Peace.
JPN's editors are Adam Gutride, Amichai Kronfeld, Sarah Anne Minkin, Judith
Norman, Mitchell Plitnick, Lincoln Shlensky, and Alistair Welchman.  The
opinions expressed by the editors and presented in the articles sent to this
list are solely those of their authors, and do not necessarily reflect the
viewpoints of A Jewish Voice for Peace.

A Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a San Francisco Bay Area grassroots
organization dedicated to the human, civil and economic rights of Jews,
Palestinians, and all peoples in the Middle East.

For more information about JVP, please visit our web site at
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

To SUBSCRIBE, send a blank message (nothing needed in the subject or the
body) to: wilpf-news-us-subscribe@ igc.topica.com
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14. Post Your Alerts


From: "ahmed_bouzid@ yahoo.com"
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Post Your Alerts....
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:26:20 -0500

Dear all,

During the past two weeks, PMWatch has received dozens and dozens of action
call suggestions from PMWatchers and others.  As you know, the majority of
our action calls are inspired by member suggestion: that's the secret of
pmwatch -- people keeping an eye and pointing us to where the action is.  In
that spirit, we have established an interface through which you may post
your own action call to be make accessible to the thousands of visitors that
PMWatch gets every day.

To post your action call, go to:

          http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/alerts/editessays.asp

ALL action calls posted are first examined by the pmwatch staff and a
determination is made as to their appropriateness (basically making sure no
pollution from the Zionist saboteurs).

So, please post you action call. Make sure you always include:

                  - Brief description of what you call is about
                  - Full text of article or transcript in question,
                    preferably with a link
                  - Contact information for where to send letters
                    or make phone calls.

Thanks,
Ahmed Bouzid
Palestine Media Watch
http://www.pmwatch.org
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15. Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story



From: radtimes <resist@ best.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: ATA / AK Press event (4/14)
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 21:18:51 -0700

From: Rachael Rakes <rachael@ akpress.org>

Sunday, April 14
7pm
$5 at the door
Rachael's film night presents:
Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story
With Director Garrett Scott in person

In 1995, Shawn Nelson, an unemployed plumber from San Diego, CA, stole a
tank and ran amok through his home suburb of Clairemont.  "Cul de Sac: A
Suburban War Story" investigates the tank rampage and the decline of a 20th
century suburban landscape that's "reached the end of its useful
life."  The film examines the origin of Nelson's desperate act in the
context of a particular place.
The removal of Cold-War industries has left Clairemont's residents
displaced from a world once familiar.  In high-tech, post-industrial
California, Clairemont's residents appear as "backward," working-people:  a
class of Californian throwaways normally viewed as criminals on televised
police programs. Cul de Sac chronicles an hallucinatory experience of the
California Dream and its dystopic future.
(2001 directed by Garrett Scott)

Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia (@ 21st) San Francisco
info: 510.208.1706 or
rachael@ akpress.org
--
AK Press
674-A 23rd Street
Oakland Ca, 94612
p: 510 208-1700
f: 510 208 1701
rachael@ akpress.org
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16. We Must Not Stop Resisting


From: "Abeer Dabbas" <abeer@ measi.com.jo>
Subject: [eastbay-coalition] We Must Not Stop Resisting
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 03:07:04 +0200


Dear All ..

First if you are in jordan do not miss the meeting in the Union
Proffessional Comlex in Shmeisani at Alrazi room to discuss activities
supporting the Palestinains in their struggle with the zionist . . We must
not Stop Resisting , Lets work together to end the Occupation of Palestine ,
Raise your voice to stop the Massacres , we blamed our ancestors of leaving
Palestine in 1948 and 1967 although some of them left upon a promise of some
arab leaders that they will go back ... unortunately they did not , we must
not repeat the past ..  we must not do that again ,, i`ve just receive a
break news from the AFP that the " Israeli soldiers forces have ordered all
reseidents of palestinian refugee camp in jenin by loudspeaker to evacuate
their homes and assemble in center of the camp- AFP " i think alot of us who
read about the ways zionist took in the past to evacuate palestinian vilages
.

WE MUST NOT STOP RESISTING

Best Regards

Abeer Dabbas
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1- ACTION ALERT  **  ACTION ALERT  **  ACTION ALERT
2- From a friend in Nablus - letter
3- Phone numbers for IDF Command
4- EYEWITNESS - "They are raping our cities”
5- Speak Out
6- Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign
7- A call from Nablus - in Arabic
8- Pictures Of Demonstrations all around the world supporting Palestine


1 In the Name of Allah:  Most Gracious Most Merciful

-------------------------------------------------------------------

American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice

ACTION ALERT  **  ACTION ALERT  **  ACTION ALERT

CALL ON JORDANIAN GOVERNMENT TO FOLLOW EGYPTIAN LEAD AND SEVER TIES WITH
ISRAEL

      (Washington, DC, April 3, 3002) -- American Muslims for Global Peace
and Justice is calling on Muslim and Arab-Americans to call the Jordanian
embassy in Washington, DC and demand that Jordan sever it's ties with
Israel.

    In a courageous, but long overdue move today, Egypt severed most of it's
relations with Israel to protest the current siege on the Palestinian
territories.  Despite numerous demonstrations in Jordan and in other Arab
countries, Jordan has refused to cut off relations with Israel, which is an
obstacle to the Arab world's attempt to put pressure on Israel and the
United States.

    When calling the embassy remember to discuss these points:
Jordan should cut off it's ties with Israel to protest Israel's brutal siege
on the West Bank.
Jordan is an Arab country, and thus it should work in the interest of the
Arab people, especially its own, and not the interests of Israel.
The Muslim and Arab community in the United States will continue to actively
and publically call for Jordan to cut its relations with Israel, and this
will undoubtedly embarrass King Abdullah and the Jordanian government.

Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Jafar Hassan
Charge d' Affaires
(202) 966-2664  Ext. 121
(202( 966-3110  Fax
www.jordanembassyus.org

     Please email Global Peace at outreach@ globalpeaceandjustice.org after
you contact the embassy so that we may keep a count of how many people have
answered our call to action.





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American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice (AMGPJ)
1200 G Street, NW, Suite# 800, Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202)489-3773 - Fax: (202)434-8757
Email: INFO@ GlobalPeaceAndJustice.org
Website: www.GlobalPeaceAndJustice.org


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----- Original Message -----
From: Rania Masri
To: rania@ nc.rr.com
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:40 PM
Subject: [GNAA] from a friend in Nablus

Dear all,

Here is what a good friend of mine in Nablus told me this morning..


“… it so much worse than what you see on the TV --  no press , no red cross
, no ambulances. No one can move in Nablus ... They are shooting 18 hours a
day continuously, but thank God resistance is very strong until now..
everyone should move to stop these crimes. Everybody is now ready to explode
himself… but all people talk about is Abu Ammar, Bethlehem, and Bush does
not care.  All these cities – no electricity, no water, nothing is allowed.
It is even more than what happened in 1948…”


No matter what we do here, we are doing too little…  Let us please not stop
resisting


-Rania

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it's won.

- Ella Baker


3
----- Original Message -----
From: NADEM NASHEF
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:@ mail.nets1.com.jo;
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:02 PM
Subject: eFreePalestine! Phone numbers for IDF Command

-----Original Message-----
From: Australian Arabic Council [mailto:mail@ aac.org.au]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:52 AM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@ hotkey.net.au;;
Subject: Phone numbers for IDF Command


..........Let's do some real lobbying here....

Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:30 PM
Subject: Fwd: Phone numbers for IDF Command. CALL NOW

Finally, here is a list of phone and fax numbers to keep some of the actors
in the occupation busy dealing with your protests. Make them know that they
are all personally responsible for their role in the occupation.


Head of Ramallah IDF Command:
0011-972-2-29970461
Mobile: 0011-972-54-240-303

Civil Administration Legal Advisor's Office
(in charge of approving all house demolition, administrative detentions,
land confiscations, expansion and construction of settlements, freedom
of movement-permits)
Tel: 0011-972-2-977711 or 99777071
Fax: 0011-972-2-9977326
PO Box 10482 Beit El West Bank

Officer in charge of denying Palestinians freedom of movement:
Tel: 0011-972-2-9977076 (Asaf), 7060, 7078

Office in charge of issuing house demolition orders:
Ask for Yossie: 0011-972-2-9977051
Fax: 0011-972-2-9977344

Office in charge of denying Palestinians permits and expanding Jewish
settlements:
Tel: 0011-972-2-9977398

State Attorney's Office, Ministry of Justice (represents the Israeli
government, army, security services in court and justifies the use of
torture, house demolitions, assassinations, denial of lawyer's visits to
Palestinian prisoners:
Fax: 0011-972-2-6466-655

State Attorney who represented the Israeli government and defended the
use of torture in the Israeli Supreme Court:
Shai Nitzan: Tel: 0011-972-2-6466595

State Attorneys who justify denying lawyer's the right to visit
Palestinian prisoners:
Yochi Genossen: 0011-972-2-6466584
Aner Helman: 0011-972-2-6466472

Military Court in Beit El, which prosecutes hundreds of Palestinians
each month for "violations" against the Israeli military occupation, and
also detains Palestinians under interrogation:
Beit El (Ramallah and Northern West Bank) Military Court
Fax: 0011-972-2-9970641
Tel: 0011-972-2-9970117

Aduraim (Bethlehem and Southern West Bank) Military Court
Fax: 0011-972-2-9970429

Erez (Gaza) Military Court
Fax: 0011-972-2-9904568
Tel: 0011-972-8-9904556

Megiddo Military Court ( All administrative detention cases detention
without charges see for example http://www.freeabed.org)
Fax: 0011-972-4-6092140
Tel: 0011-972-4-6092816


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-----Original Message-----
From: Palestine Monitor Alquds [mailto:palmon@ upmrc.org]
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 7:11 PM
To: palmon@...
Subject: EYEWITNESS - "They are raping our cities”


The Palestine Monitor, A PNGO Information Clearinghouse

EYEWITNESS
"They are raping our cities”
April 7, 2002

Imagine that you have been locked inside your house for 10 days. You cannot
leave your house because there are tanks and soldiers in the street, on
every corner there are snipers who shoot to kill. Imagine you cannot go to
work, your children cannot go to school or to the nursery and you have to do
your best to explain to them what a tank is and what the soldiers are doing
in the streets of your city. For the world it is easy to explain; we, the
Palestinians are terrorists and the Israeli government has a right and even
a duty to defend themselves and it is an “understandable overreaction”
(words of the Australian prime minister) that the Israeli army invade all
the Palestinian cities in order to “clear out” the terrorist network and its
leadership. For us confined to our homes, watching and listening to the
horrendous news of dead bodies in the streets we wonder why the world is
paralysed: we know that we are not terrorists but merely normal people like
you wanting to live our lives as best we can.

Imagine you have no electricity, no water, no phone-line and food is running
low. Just try to imagine this for one second. Then try to imagine that the
soldiers knock on your door. You have no choice but to open the door even
though your only wish is to spare your children from this terrifying
experience: strange men dressed in strange army uniforms, shouting in a
strange language and pointing huge weapons at you as they burst into the
only safe haven you thought was left; your own home. They order you and your
family to remain in one room while they use your kitchen, they sleep on your
couch or even in your bed, then leave their filth behind in your shower.
Before they leave, they destroy some family pictures, break the table and
some chairs and, on their way out, they may even steal your brand new mobile
phone, your savings, your computer and camera. This is done without any
purpose or any reason, they just want to make sure you noticed they were
here - in your house, violating the most intimate and personal sphere and
humiliating your human dignity.

Imagine after 8 days locked inside your house, the soldiers, who are safe
inside their tanks, announce that the curfew will be lifted for a few hours.
Knowing that the soldiers are still on the street, you hesitate to leave the
house but you know you need to go get more food for your family. Insecurely
you move about the city, which is totally damaged: buildings hit by
missiles, burnt out houses, a broken into corner-shop, cars parked in the
street completely crushed as the tanks drove over them, trees uprooted, a
lone boot lost by an even loner soldier tells a tale of resistance and fear.
You feel as if your city has been raped: the Israeli army said they invaded
our city to arrest “militants and terrorists”, but surely tearing up the
city and destroying the civilian infrastructure has nothing to do with their
“mission”? How can destroying health clinics and schools possibly be part of
the Israeli “war on terror”?

As you insecurely hurry back home in shock, you meet friends and colleagues
you haven’t seen for days, quickly exchanging your words of love and hopes
that we all will get through this without losing our minds or even our
lives. Imagine that this is you; an army invades your city, the soldiers
kill innocent people, they don’t let ambulances get to you if you have been
wounded, if your child is sick, if you’re about to give birth. They destroy
the infrastructure, cut the electricity and the water. They intentionally
harm you as member of the civilian population. Imagine this for one second
and try to think what you would do.

Today, this is life in Palestine. Some cities have been attacked and hit
worse than others, but there is one thing in common for all of us: the
civilian population suffers unnecessarily.



5
----- Original Message -----
From: "vectress" <vectress@ netcomuk.co.uk>
To: <FreePalestine@ yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 1:59 AM
Subject: eFreePalestine! Speak Out


Speak Out
34 YEARS OF ISRAELI POLICY HAVE LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR ITS UNHOLY WAR IN
THE WEST BANK AND GAZA
by Ellen Cantarow
April 06, 2002

http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/cantarowwar.cfm

I am Jewish. I am a writer. From 1979 to 1989 I reported for THE VILLAGE
VOICE, MOTHER JONES, INQUIRY and other US publications from Israel and the
West Bank. During those years I witnessed on the ground the rapid growth of
Israel's settlements and the seizure of Palestinian land and water for them:
today over half the West Bank's resources now are in Israel's hands. (About
a third of Gaza's resources have suffered the same fate.)

I conducted in-depth interviews with ultra-right-wing settlers and
settler-leaders whose cry was: "Let them bow their heads, or let Israel
expel them." I interviewed Palestinian villagers who had suffered settler
vigilante actions and read accounts of these by Israeli-Jewish reporters of
conscience in HA ARETZ and other Israeli papers. These vigilante actions ran
the whole gamut: wanton destruction of property and crops, rampages through
villages with cries of "Death to the Arabs" and smashing of car windows,
casual in-the-street humiliation of Palestinian civilians, beatings, murder.
Within Israel I witnessed the increasing polarization of Israeli society by
the occupation; the growing, virulent racism of new generations. Take, for
instance, the Moroccan Jews in Kiryat Shemona, members of Menachem Begin's
voting base about whom I wrote for THE VILLAGE VOICE in 1982 and who most
commonly told me, "The only good Arab is a dead Arab."

When I first arrived in Israel in 1979, a "Master Plan for the Development
of Settlements in Judea and Samaria, 1979-1983" had just been drafted. In it
Matityahu Drobles, head of the World Zionist Organization's Department for
Rural settlement wrote: "The disposition of the [Israeli] settlements must
be carried out not only around the settlements of the minorities" - by
settlements Drobles referred to towns and villages centuries old like
Bethlehem and Hebron - "but also in between them." Drobles's rationale for
this was that "over the course of time, with or without peace, we will have
to learn to live with the minorities and among them [ by "minorities"
Drobles meant the Palestinian people] while fostering good-neighborly
relations." Thus from the start of occupation Israeli policy-makers
projected the permanent colonization of the West Bank and, later, Gaza. To
single Ariel Sharon out as Israel's exceptional evil - if only he were gone
and polite, decent folks like Shimon Peres could guide the nation - is to be
oblivious of history. It wasn't under Ariel Sharon that the Drobles Plan was
drafted, nor under Sharon that Kiryat Arba was established in 1968, but
under Labor. Permanent settlement, retention and expansion of the
settlements: this has driven Israeli policy under all every government since
1967.

To rule the land into which it has made its incursions Israel from the late
60s has enforced a military legal code completely separate from the laws
governing Israel. The army, the military courts and other elements enforce
military rule. Under it, for the past 34 years, collective punishment for
the alleged acts of individuals has the order of the day - for example,
23-hour-a-day curfews lasting for weeks on end; the bulldozing of homes.
During the years I was writing about the situation, stone-throwing and
street demonstrations were what most commonly brought collective punishment.
Suicide bombing is a post-Oslo phenomenon triggered by the doubling of
settlement population after the accords were signed and by the dawning
realization that Oslo consolidated a South African-style plan for permanent
Bantustanization of the West Bank. On all my stays in the West Bank, I
witnessed the daily humiliation of Palestinians at Israeli checkpoints; the
casual landscape and social scenery of apartheid (the most obvious and
continual manifestations were the checkpoints with differing treatment of
Palestinians on the one hand; Israeli Jews and internationals on the other,
and the different color of license plates - blue for Palestinians, yellow
for Israelis). I interviewed villagers whose homes had been blown up and/or
bulldozed by Israeli soldiers. I heard accounts by men and women jailed,
abused, and tortured in Israel's prisons (the practice is an established
fact acknowledged by Israel 's B'tselem and foreign human rights
organizations and is ongoing as I write: THE FINANCIAL TIMES April 6
reported, "The Israeli human rights organization B'tselem yesterday
petitioned the High Court after receiving reports of torture at the Ofer
detention center near Ramallah.") About all of the foregoing the Hebrew
press was quite open while the US press was almost invariably silent.

We now arrive at the current nightmare. As I write, collective punishment is
ratcheted up a thousand fold in full-blown war atrocities committed
throughout the West Bank. Israel's war machine has moved into the northern
West Bank as well as in Gaza, from which I received an American relief
worker's e-mail this morning. For the past week my computer has delivered to
me daily - even hourly - desperate e-mails begging for help from
international human rights organizations. They plead with me and others in
my list serves to call our congress people and senators, protest to the
press. One writer, a university researcher by profession, describes looting
by Israeli soldiers invading his home: "I had a little money (about 800 NIS)
in the upper drawer of my desk which I got from the bank on Thursday when an
invasion was expected . . . I found [the drawer] broken and the money gone."
Another passage, from a different letter, reads: "Their 'visits' to our
houses are no different from [visits by] gangsters. They went to . . . my
very close neighbors' houses, they start by asking all of them to stay in
one room with their faces against the wall, then they enter all rooms . . .
go to the kitchen, collected all the food . . . and start eating it . . .
the rest of the food they take . . . with them, they also take jewels, money
and electronic equipment . . . Two of my neighbors have heart problems. The
first thing they did when they knew about their sickness was to go and get
their medicine and destroy it in front of their eyes." In London's THE
INDEPENDENT Robert Fisk confirms,
"The Israeli army . . . is proving once more - as it did in Lebanon - that
it is not the 'elite' force it's cracked up to be. It is impossible to
dismiss the widespread reports of looting from homes in Ramallah (not least
because that is exactlywhat Israeli soldiers used to do in southern Lebanon
in 1983); and that brave Israeli academic,
Avi Schlaim, has himself charged Israel with extra-judicial killings in
Ramallah."

Other e-mails describe ambulances shot at and stopped from arriving at their
destinations; hospitals invaded and medical personnel prevented at gunpoint
from carrying out their responsibilities; people bleeding to death while
soldiers block, at gunpoint and in tanks, their safe passage to medical
relief; corpses rotting in hospital corridors (numerous e-mails warn of the
threat of imminent epidemics); relatives forbidden to carry out decent
burials (one group of the slain had to be buried in a Ramallah parking lot);
civilians shot if they venture out their doors; massive looting and
vandalizing of homes; cultural institutions invaded and files destroyed;
electrical systems for water pumps destroyed so that whole urban areas have
their water supplies cut off; internationals and Palestinian press members
wounded by Israeli gun-fire. As I write this on April 6, the most urgent
e-mail of today is entitled, "Deliberately Created Humanitarian Crisis
Reaches Intolerable Point April 6th, 2001, 11AM," and describes six Nablus
field hospitals with scores of people in serious-to-critical condition,
doctors forced to operate with minimal equipment. In one such improvised
center, corpses rot in the operating room while Israeli snipers fire on
anyone trying to enter or leave. In Jenin 50 houses are reported seriously
damaged by Apache helicopter fire, 20 people injured and bleeding in the
street. There is much, much more.

Like Nero, President Bush has fiddled while Rome burns and has issued too
little too late. What is needed is an immediate order for withdrawal and a
threat of economic sanction (this is what President Eisenhower did in the
Suez Crisis of 1956, resolving it immediately.) What is needed is for Colin
Powell to be on the ground now, not a week from now or this coming Sunday.
Sharon, the Milosevic twin ordering these atrocities, is the self-same war
criminal who commanded the infamous Unit 101 which killed 99 defenseless
civilians at Kibyeh in October, 1953; who in August, 1977 ordered the
destruction of 2000 Gaza homes and expulsion from them of 16,000 civilians
during an Israeli "pacification" onslaught in the strip; who oversaw the IDF
while it enabled the Phalangist massacre of over a thousand Palestinian
civilians in the Beirut refugee camps Sabra and Shatila in 1982; who
triggered the second intifada when, with an escort of 1000 soldiers, he
"visited" Al Aksa mosque in September, 2000 - a visit followed next day by
the IDF's shooting of Palestinian demonstrators at the mosque.

I am old enough to remember a childhood just after World War II. I am filled
with a mix of grief, helplessness, despair and anger as Israel, pretending
to act in my name and using the Nazi holocaust against the Jews to exonerate
its crimes, proceeds with a clear effort to obliterate the economy, the
social, political and cultural institutions, and the entire infrastructure
of the Palestinian people. Those who do not speak out against the
abominations these horrors are complicit by their silence. Those who
exonerate or apologize for Israel as it commits them are guilty by
association.

Ellen Cantarow, Medford, MA 02155 (address for identification purposes
only.)


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(please forward to others especially in the media)

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release

April 7, 2002

Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign
Contact email: info@...
595 W. Main Street, 43, Norwich, CT 06360
http://www.BoycottIsraeliGoods.org

International Campaigns Launched to Boycott Israeli Goods and Services

A grassroots campaign has been launched to boycott Israeli goods and
services. In addition to boycotting Israeli agricultural and industrial
products, divestment of US funds in Israeli companies and in State of Israel
bonds is advocated, as well as a boycott of tourism.

Boycott Israeli Goods, or the BIG campaign, as it is called, strikes at
Israelís oppression of the Palestinian people.  "Israel has
consistently ignored UN resolutions and violated international law in its
dealings with the Palestinian people," said Dr. Zvika Havkin, a spokesman
for the group and an Israeli citizen.  "Settlements on Palestinian land have
continued to grow, and Israelís policy of siege and oppression has
impoverished the Palestinian people." Havkin added that the siege and
checkpoints result in "holding Palestinians in ghettos with inability to
move even to school or to get medical care" and that the "demolition of
hundreds of homes and destruction of farms, and infrastructure of villages
and towns amounts to grave breaches of
International law and the 4th Geneva Convention."

"Boycotting Israeli goods allows the individual consumer to act against
Israelís gross abuses of human rights," said Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh.  Similar
boycotts have been launched in Europe, the West Coast of the
United States, many African and asian countries, and in Israel itself.
"This nascent campaign is analogous to the boycotts that finally removed the
repressive apartheid regime in South Africa," Qumsiyeh added.

The campaign is urging consumers and all activists not only to boycott
Israeli products and services but to also use the opportunity to educate
others about the apartheid and repressive Israeli policies
supported by the United States government.  The organizers believe it
crucial to pressure Israel economically until it: a) ends its occupation of
all areas occupied in 1967, b) respects international law and human rights
(including the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and
lands).
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Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign
Contact email: info@ BoycottIsraeliGoods.org
595 W. Main Street, 43, Norwich, CT 06360
http://www.BoycottIsraeliGoods.org


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Unbelievable!!

Israeli soldiers relieve themselves on the wall of Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah Friday March 29 2002.
Sporadic gunfire and tank shell fire was heard as Israeli forces entered
Ramallah, surrounding Arafat's compound and occupying some buildings within.
(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020329/168/1br6f.html

An Israeli soldier gestures from atop an APC near the Church of the Nativity
in the old part of Bethlehem, April 5, 2002. Israeli soldiers have besieged
the church for four days trapping about 200 people,
including some Palestinian gunmen, the Palestinian governor of Bethlehem,
priests and nuns, inside. Photo by Magnus Johansson/Reuters

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/170/1cxhx.html

An Israeli Arab woman cries as she holds a poster reading "Peace is
Possible," in Arabic, Hebrew and English, after Israeli policemen broke up
an Arab Israeli protest against the Israeli military offensive
in the West Bank outside the U.S. Embassy in the northern Israeli city of
Tel Aviv, Thursday, April 4, 2002. A week into Israel's largest military
offensive in a generation, troops took over Nablus, the West
Bank's largest city Thursday, fought intense battles with gunmen barricaded
in nearby refugeecamps and tightened a cordon around armed Palestinians
holed up in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.
(AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/168/1cpur.html

Israeli demonstrators are restrained by a Knesset guard as they hold up
signs in the visitor's gallery of the Israeli parliament during a special
session held to debate the current crisis with the Palestinians, Thursday,
April 4, 2002. Sign on right reads "Sharon's kitchen Cabinet is cooking up
another Lebanon" and center "We don't want to die for nothing, withdraw from
the territories."
(AP Photo/ZOOM 77)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/168/1coty.html


A Palestinian boy peers out from the doorway of his house as destroyed cars
are seen in the background in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Thursday,
April 4, 2002. Israeli armoured vehicles moving through the
narrow alleyways removed or drove over parked vehicles while entering the
town. Gunfire could be heard as the Israeli army battled Palestinian forces,
but an Israeli sergeant denied that troops had entered the Church of the
Nativity, where Palestinian gunmen are
believed to have holed up. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/168/1cp6e.html

U.S. PROTESTS:

SEATTLE:

Protesters in Seattle take part in a silent vigil Friday, April 5, 2002, as
they depict blindfolded Palestinians kneeling to provide community awareness
and protest current events taking place overseas
between the Israelis and Palestinains.
(AP Photo/Ron Wurzer)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020406/168/1d1st.html

Gus Mansour leads a cheer at a rally outside the Federal Building in Seattle
Friday, April 5, 2002, to provide community awareness and protest current
events taking place between the Isrealis and Palestinians. (AP Photo/Ron
Wurzer)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020406/168/1d1q2.html


NEW YORK:

Protestors scream slogans during a demonstration and march by
pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New York's Times Square, April 5, 2002. An
estimated two thousand protestors called for the end to what they called the
Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory and
Israeli aggression againt the Palestinian people.
REUTERS/Mike Segar

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020406/170/1d15s.html

Protesters line the street in front of the Israeli Consulate in New York,
Friday, April 5, 2002, to voice their opposition to the current military
campaign undertaken by Israel against the Palestinians in the
occupied territories. (AP Photo/David Karp)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020406/168/1d0ym.html

Three unidentified women, part of a group of demonstrators in New York's
Times Square Friday, April 5, 2002, voice their opposition to the current
military campaign undertaken by Israel against the
Palestinians in the occupied territories. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020406/168/1d1il.html

Pro-Palestinian protestors march in New York's Times Square, April 5, 2002.
An estimated two thousand protestors called for the end to what they called
the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory and
Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.
(Mike Segar/Reuters)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020406/161/1d1pn.html

A man who identified himself as Khalid waves a Palestinian flag in New York,
Friday, April 5, 2002, to protest Israeli operations in the occupied
territories and U.S. support for the Jewish state.
(AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020406/168/1d1ks.html

A group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, from left, Jonathan Hamo, Nasser
Abdul, Rami Abdul and Jalal Dari, shout as they demand a free Palestine in
New York's Times Square Friday, April 5, 2002. Groups on
both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute have been protesting across
the country. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1d06j.html

A group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathers in New York's Times Square,
Friday, April 5, 2002. Groups on both sides of the
Israeli-Palestinian dispute have been protesting across the country.
(AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1d02e.html

Protestors scream slogans and wave flags during a rally by several hundred
pro-Palestinian protest outside the Israeli Mission to the United Nations in
New York City, April 5, 2002. Protestors called for an end to the Israeli
occupation of the Palestinian territory and Israeli aggression againt the
Palestinian people.
REUTERS/Mike Segar

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/170/1czyd.html

A young boy waves a Palestinian flag as he wears a sweatshirt with the flag
and a likeness of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat on it during
a demonstration by several hundred pro-Palestinian protestors outside the
Israeli Mission in New York City, April 5, 2002. Protestors called for and
end to what they called the Israeli occupation of the
Palestinian territory and Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.
REUTERS/Mike Segar

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/170/1czwd.html

Protestors scream slogans and wave flags and signs during a demonstration by
several hundred pro-Palestinian protestors outside the Israeli Mission to
the United Nations in New York City, April 5, 2002.
Protestors called for and end to what they called the Israeli occupation of
the Palestinian territory and Israeli aggression against the Palestinian
people.
REUTERS/Mike Segar

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/170/1czxk.html

NEW JERSEY:

Muslim men hold Palestinian flags and a poster denouncing Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon during a pro-Palestinian rally in Paterson, N.J.,
Friday, April 5, 2002. About 400 protesters heard speakers call on President
Bush to intervene and end the bloodshed against Palestinians. (AP Photo/Mike
Derer)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1d0rx.html

Muslim women hold a protest signs during a pro-Palestinian rally in
Paterson, N.J., Friday, April 5, 2002. About 400 protesters heard speakers
call on President Bush to intervene in the Middle East and end
the bloodshed against Palestinians.
(AP Photo/Mike Derer

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1d0ob.html

Aisha Yaseen of Paterson, N.J., who said she is an American citizen born in
Palestine, holds a sign denouncing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
during a pro-Palestinian rally in Paterson Friday, April 5,
2002. About 400 protesters heard speakers call on President Bush to
intervene and end the bloodshed against Palestinians.
(AP Photo/Mike Derer)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1d0n0.html

A man who identified himself only as Jay, with his head painted in the
colors of the Palestinian flag, shouts as he demonstrates against the
violence in Israel in New York's Times Square Friday, April 5, 2002. Fellow
demonstrator Omar Hassan, left, looks on.
(AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1d04j.html

PHILADELPHIA:

Pro-Palestinians demonstrate outside the Israeli Consulate in Philadelphia,
Friday, April 5, 2002. Groups on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian
dispute have been protesting across the country.
(AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr.)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1d03n.html

A group of pro-Palestinian women demonstrate outside the Israeli Consulate
in Philadelphia, Friday, April 5, 2002. Groups on both sides of the
Israeli-Palestinian dispute have been protesting across the country. (AP
Photo/H. Rumph Jr.)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1d03m.html

VIRGINIA:

Hidaya Wahdan of Falls Church, Va. carries a Palestinian flag outside the
State Department in Washington Friday, April 5, 2002 during a
demonstration to protest Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1cyrf.html

WASHINGTON, D.C.:

An unidentifed Palestinian supporter is restrained by her friends as she
argues with pro-Israeli demonstrators outside of the offices of the
Palestinian National Authority in Washington Thursday, April 4, 2002.
Demonstrators sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Greater
Washington had organized a candleight vigil at the PNA offices in support of
the right of Israelis to live in peace.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1cuje.html

PLEASE ADD THE FOLLOWING PICTURES FROM THE LATEST PROTESTS (COUNTRIES NOT
MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY). IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GET A PICTURE OF EVERY COUNTRY
and EVERY STATE to send to Bush!

AUSTRIA:

Palestinians hold posters during a demonstration against Israel's offensive
into Palestinian territories Friday, April 5, 2002, in downtown Vienna.
Poster at left reads "Sharon's bloody hands: balance:
thousands of murdered not only in Sabra and Shatila." Poster at right reads
"Turn to the left--freedom for Palestine." The demonstration was organized
by Austrian left-wing parties and the Palestinian community in Austria. (AP
Photo/Martin Gnedt)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1cwr3.html


HUNGARY:

A man clenches fists and shouts slogans as hundreds of Palestinians living
in Hungary and their supporters protest against what they call the
aggression of Israel and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
territories, in front of the Israeli Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, Friday
April 5, 2002. The demonstrators demanded the withdrawl of the Israeli army
from the occupied territories.
(AP Photo/MTI/Tamas Kovacs)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1cwrr.html

SOUTH AFRICA:

South African Pro-Palestinian Action Group members protest outside the
Israeli Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, April 5, 2002. The
demonstration took place to protest the current Middle East crisis. The
photograph right on poster shows an incident where a young Palestinian child
was killed by Israeli gunfire after being caught in a clash of crossfire
while his father tried to shield him. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1cwyq.html

MALAYSIA:

A Malaysian youth holds a poster that reads "Israel is King of Terrorists"
as others chant slogans during a rally held in support of Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat at the headquarters of the United Malays National Organization
(UMNO), Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's party, in Kuala Lumpur, Friday,
April 5, 2002. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1cv6j.html

ECUADOR:

Ecuadorean students burn a U.S. flag in front of the Israeli Embassy in
Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, April 4, 2002, during a protest against Israel's
military offensive in Palestinian territories.
(AP PHoto/Dolores Ochoa)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/168/1cqza.html

Ecuadorean students with a coffin that represents the Palestinian people
hampers traffic on Ave. 12 de Octubre in front of the Israeli Embassy in
Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, April 4, 2002, during a protest
against Israel actions in the Middle East.
(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/168/1cqvq.html

PERU:

A woman holds a photo of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a
pro-Palestinian demonstration in front of the Palestinian Embassy in Lima,
April 4, 2002. Peruvian and Palestinian groups protested against
violence in the Middle East. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/170/1cqfq.html

PUERTO RICO:

Athur Wael, 5, right, holds a picture of a Palestinian child killed by
Iraeli gunfire in San Juan, Puerto Rico Wednesday April 3, 2002. Hundreds of
Palestinians and anti-U.S. Navy Puerto Rican activists joined together for a
protest against Iraeli military action.
(AP Photo/ Tomas van Houtryve)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/168/1clya.html

ALGERIA:

An Algerian demonstrator wearing the traditional Arab headdress brandishes a
model of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites, during a
pro-Palestinian march in downtown Algiers, Friday April 5, 2002. Hundreds of
demonstrators gathered Friday in Algiers to protest against Israeli's
military incursions into Palestinian territories. (AP Photo)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020405/168/1cz3l.html

BAHRAIN:

Protesters hold candles and Palestinian flags during a pro-Palestinian rally
in front of the United Nations House in Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, April 4,
2002. (AP Photo/Ali Fraidoon)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/168/1csb9.html

ENGLAND:

A Palestinian demonstrater chants slogans outside British Prime Minister
Tony Blair's London residence Thursday, April 4, 2002. Blair's office
emphasized Thursday that the crisis in the Middle East will be
the top item on the agenda when he meets President George Bush at his Texas
ranch this weekend. (AP Photo/Max Nash)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020404/168/1csas.html


If you have a friend who wants to SUBSCRIBE, tell
them to send an email message to:
eastbay-coalition-subscribe@ yahoogroups.com
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17. Upcoming Events at New College


From: "Jon Garfield" <jongarf@ speakeasy.net>
Subject: Upcoming Events at New College
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 02:48:01 -0700

PACIFICA NOW!  NEWS:  ITS ROLE in the PACIFICA NETWORK

With ROBERT NIGHT, DENNIS BERNSTEIN and IAN BOAL

Tuesday, April 9th, 7:00 pm.

Robert Knight, WBAI News Director; Dennis Bernstein, Producer of Flashpoints
on KPFA; and Ian Boal, UC Berkeley History Professor talk about the role of
the news on Pacifica Radio, at the first in the “Pacifica Now!” series
taking place at the New College Theater.  Upcoming speakers include Askia
Muhammad on the black experience (April 17), and Pacifica Acting Executive
Director Dan Coughlin and USF Professor Dorothy Kidd (April 24). Sponsored
by the Alliance for a People’s Pacifica. Donations requested, no one turned
away. For more information, please call (510) 527-1884.

Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

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WARD CHURCHILL on COINTELPRO

And an UPDATE on JUDI BARI vs the FBI

Thursday, April 11th, 7:00pm.

Ward Churchill speaks on the FBI’s notorious Counter Intelligence Program
(COINTELPRO). Also hear an update by an attorney on the Judi Bari lawsuit
against the FBI and Oakland police. Ward Churchill is Professor of American
Indian Studies and Communications at the University of Colorado, a member of
the Governing Council of Colorado AIM, and the author many books.  Sliding
scale, $5 - $15, no one turned away. For more information, please call (510)
548-3113.  (For information on events and activities related to the historic
Judi Bari vs. the FBI trial that begins April 8, including the kickoff rally
April 8, noon, Oakland Federal Building, 1301 Clay St. at 13th St., visit:
http://www.judibari.org.)

Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

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HANAN ELMASU: “PEACE with JUSTICE: HUMAN RIGHTS for PALESTINE"

Monday, April 15th, 7:00 pm.

Hanan Elmasu, a veteran Palestinian human rights advocate, will speak at New
College as part of a nationwide speaking tour addressing the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and what needs to happen to promote peace in
the region. She has lived and worked in the West Bank city of Ramallah for 8
years.  Currently based in Geneva, Switzerland, she advocates for
Palestinian human rights within the United Nations, and serves as a Board
Member of Addameer, a prisoners' support and human rights association in
Ramallah.  Sponsored by Global Exchange and the New College Center for
Education and Social Action.  $15 suggested donation.  For more information,
please call (415) 255-7296 ext 244.

Location:  New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

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PENNY ROSENWASSER: “THE FACE of OCCUPATION”

Tuesday, April 16th, 7:00 pm.

Penny Rosenwasser spent 3 weeks in July doing solidarity actions with peace
activists in Israel and Palestine, visiting and photographing unforgettable
people and places in the region. She will present a slideshow and discussion
revealing the quality of life under the occupation and the efforts of
activists seeking peace and justice. Penny Rosenwasser is Assistant Director
of the Middle East Children's Alliance and author of "Voices from a
'Promised Land': Palestinians and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their
Hearts." Sponsored by the Middle East Children's Alliance and the New
College Center for Education and Social Action. Free admission, donation
requested. For more information, please call (415) 437-3425.

Location: New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco


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Jon Garfield, Director
Center for Education & Social Action
New College of California
741 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
phone: (415) 437-3425
email: jongarf@ speakeasy.net
http://www.newcollegenews.net/cesocialchange.html
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18. Community Media Guide


From: Steve Wagner <lakemerrittneighbors@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject: Community Media Guide (a useful tool)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 02:06:45 -0700 (PDT)

KRON Community Media Guide:

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?s=510446

Practical "how to do it" information about how to get your news into
the news.

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http://www.kron4.com


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Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace.  Weekly peace walks around Lake
Merritt in Oakland.  Starts & ends at the colonnade between Grand &
Lakeshore Avenues, 3 P.M., every Sunday.
Info:  (510)763-8712, <lmno4p@ yahoo.com> or
http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP
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19. War Times Second Issue On the Way


From: Adam Gold <adam@ youthec.org>
Subject: War Times Second Issue On the Way
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 23:31:50 -0700


Dear friends,

This email is to let you know that the second issue of War Times will be out
on April 13th! Please read this email to find out how you can pick up and be
part of distributing copies of the second issue.

Thank you for reading and distributing War Times! We are printing another
100,000 copies of this issue and we are counting on all of you to get out
about 10,000 locally to everyday people who want to know an alternative view
on the so-called War on Terrorism. Go ahead and bring them to work, your
place of worship, local events, and to the neighbors on your block. Now more
than ever truth is being sacrificed as a casualty of war. War Times is
committed to keeping truth alive.

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION OF APRIL ISSUE OF WAR TIMES:
First, the volunteer core of War Times will be delivering papers to about
100 organizations, bookstores and other locations around the bay. We are
doing this to ensure that a broad diversity of community organizations are
guaranteed to receive the paper. If you are not on the volunteer team and
you want to be, please contact Adam at
adam@ youthec.org

Second, we will have a number of pick-up spots where you can pick up bundles
of free papers to distribute to your community.

Third, we will mail a copy of the paper to individuals who become sustainers
which means signing up for a donation of at least $5 a month or giving a
one-time donation of $100.

(Make a donation to War Times by going to www.war-times.org or write out a
check to EBC/War Times and mail it to PMB 1230, Market St. San Francisco, CA
94129)

SO, if you want some papers, please check out the below list of locations
that we already have covered. Also look at the list of pick-up locations to
determine where you will be picking up your papers from. Finally, reply to
this email with a note that includes:

1) How many copies you will distribute
2) Where you will distribute them
3) Which pick-up spot you will get your papers from

If you just want one or two copies for yourself, you should be able to pick
them up at any of the locations listed below by April 15th!

If you have any questions or comments email Adam at adam@...

Peace,
Local Distribution Team

PICK-UP SPOTS (This is where you can get multiple copies of the paper for
distribution)

San Francisco -
POWER, 10am-5pm – 32 7th Street, near Civic Center BART,
415-864-8372

La Raza Information Center, 10am-5pm - 474 Valencia@16th,
415-863-0221

Bound Together Books, 11am-7pm – 1369 Haight st.,
415-431-8355

Oakland -
Youth Empowerment Center, 10am-6pm – 1357 5th street near West Oakland BART,
510-451-5466x300

Walden Pond Books, 10am-9pm - 3316 Grand Avenue,
510-832-4438

North Berkeley -
Boadecia’s books – Closed Tuesdays, 12-8 every other day
398 Colusa Avenue (in Kensington), 510-559-9184,

Palo Alto -
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center, 10-5pm, 457 Kingsley Ave.,
650-326-8837

San Jose -
San Jose Peace Center, 9-5pm, 48 South 7th Street,
408-297-2299

Santa Rosa
Copperfield’s Books, 10am-8pm (6pm on Sundays) - 138 N. Main St. Sebastopol,
707-823-2618

DROP-OFF SPOTS (these are locations we are delivering to directly. There is
no need for you to bring copies there)

SAN FRANCISCO
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Coalition on Homelessness
- Day Laborers Program
- St. Peter’s Housing Committee
- REAL
- Teachers for Social Justice
- Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
- Global Exchange
- POWER
- POOR Magazine
- Center for Young Women’s Development
- PODER
- Centro del Pueblo
- Chinese Progressive Association
- Youth Making a Change
- Women's Building
- The Red Stone Bldg
- Progressive Grounds
- Good Life Grocery
- A Different Light
- City Lights books
- CCSF
- Bird & Beckett Bookstore
- Horseshoe Café
- Cafe International
- Bound Together books
- Phoenix Books
- Solar Light Books
- Rainbow Grocery
- Muddy Waters (all three)
- Modern Times
- Adobe Books
- Abandoned Planet
- La Casa Del Libero
- la Boheme
- City Lights Books
- Caffe Puccini
- World News
- Cafe Bizarre
- Potrero Neighborhood House.
- Farley's Cafe
- Christopher's Books
- Java Source
- Green Apple Bookstore
- Java Beach
- Marcus Books
- Bay View Newspaper
-
OAKLAND
- Marcus Books
- Walden Pond Bookstore
- Youth Empowerment Center
- PUEBLO
- Asian Resource Center
- La Raza Centro Legal
- Californians for Justice
- Delauers Newstand
- Temescal Café
- San Antonio Collaborative
- SEIU 2850
- SEIU 250
- HERE 1877
- Urban Blend Café
- Mojo Coffee House
- First Unitarian Church of Oakland
- Intertribal Friendship House
- American Friends Service Committee
- Laney College
- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- ACORN
- 7th Street Mcclymonds Initiative
- La Clinica de la Raza
- AFSC

BERKELEY
- Black Oak Books
- Cody’s Books
- Moes’ Books
- La Pena Cultural Center
- Black Repertory Theater
- Boadecia’s Bookstore

NORTH BAY
     Mill Valley Book Depot
     Copperfield’s books – Sebastopol

CONTRA COSTA
     C-Beyond

SOUTH BAY
     San Jose Peace Center
     Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

--
The first casualty of war is truth. These are War Times. It’s time we heard
some truth. Check out War Times newspaper, a national bilingual publication
in print and at www.war-times.org
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20. Support Prepress Workers at SF Examiner!


From: OWC <ilcinfo@ earthlink.net>
Subject: Support Prepress Workers at SF Examiner!
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:52:58 -0800

OWC CAMPAIGN NEWS - distributed by the Open World Conference in
Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights, c/o S.F. Labor
Council, 1188 Franklin St., #203, San Francisco, CA 94109.
To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a message to <ilcinfo@...>.
Phone: (415) 641-8616   Fax: (415) 440-9297.
Visit our website at <www.owcinfo.org>.
(Please excuse duplicate postings, and please feel free to re-post.)
-------------------

Dear Supporters of Labor Rights:

Early last month, the prepress workers at the San Francisco Examiner
voted overwhelmingly in favor of union representation, selecting the
Graphic Communications International Union Local 4N as their
collective-bargaining representative.

In response, Mrs. Florence Fang, publisher of the Examiner, brought
in notorious union-buster  Robert Ballow (of the Tennessee-based King
& Ballow law firm that forced the SF Chronicle workers out on strike
in 1994). Her aim: to prevent the prepress workers from signing their
first contract. Mrs. Fang also has proceeded to lay off the workers
who voted for the union, in violation of U.S. labor law.

The San Francisco Labor Council and its Labor-Neighbor program are
actively building support for the GCIU Local 4N workers at the SF
Examiner. They are calling on all unions, community-based
organizations and individual supporters of labor rights to join in
this labor solidarity campaign.

We are reprinting below a sample copy of a letter we urge you and/or
your organization to send ASAP to Mrs. Fang. Please feel free to add
or modify this sample letter in any way you see fit.

Please send a copy of your letter to:

Ed Rosario, Vice President,
GCIU Local 4N, San Francisco Labor Council,
1188 Franklin St. #203,
San Francisco, CA 94109.

Thanks in advance for your support.

OWC Continuations Committee

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

Sample Letter to Mrs. Fang in Support of GCIU Local 4N Workers

(modeled after the letter sent to Mrs. Fang by Betty Traynor on
behalf of the Redstone Tenants Association in San Francisco)

Date: _____________

Mrs. Florence Fang,
Publisher,
The San Francisco Examiner
988 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Dear Mrs. Fang,

I am writing on behalf of [fill in name of union or organization, if any].

We urge you to recognize the Graphic Communications International
Union Local 4N as representative of The Examiner's prepress workers.
The workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of union representation and
this mandate must be respected. We implore you to not lay off any of
these workers and instead negotiate with them in a cooperative way
for the betterment of both The Examiner and The Independent.

We are alarmed that you hired Robert Ballow, a partner in a law firm
known for its union-busting activity across the United States, as
your representative in negotiations with the workers. This sends a
very bad message to your workers and makes it extremely difficult for
them to obtain a fair contract.

For the good of two very important newspapers in San Francisco, we
ask you to respect your workers' desire for union representation and
job security and to negotiate with them in a fair way for both sides.
San Francisco needs both of your newspapers providing a strong source
of information and entertainment. This can only happen in a humane
work environment where the workers are respected.

Thank you for considering our request.

Sincerely,

Your name, title and organization (if any)
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21. BFBC Weekly Bulletin, April 6-14, 2002


From: BFBC <bfbc@ lmi.net>
Subject: BFBC Weekly Bulletin, April 6-14, 2002
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:45:26 -0900

Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition
Weekly Bulletin of News and Events
April 6-14, 2002
************************************************************

"The doc and I are going to encourage all our country to run or walk
or swim or bicycle for the good of their families, for the good of
their own health and for the good of the nation."

President Bush, speaking on behalf of Surgeon
General-designate Richard Carmona

So that's what he meant by "Let's Roll!"

Welcome to the weekly bulletin of the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley
Coalition. In this bulletin, we provide informative and breaking news
on many subjects impacting the bicycling community in Berkeley.

This week's items:

1. Newly renovated Berkeley downtown Library Opens, Saturday,
    April 6, 1-5 p.m. Note the nifty new on-street bike racks!

2. Upcoming Earth Day Events -- mark your calendars!

3. UC Berkeley Campus Bike Subcommittee Meeting, Wednesday, April 10,
    2-4 p.m. at University Hall, Room 350

4. Berkeley Critical Mass, Friday, April 12, 6:00 p.m.,
    downtown Berkeley BART plaza

5. BEST organizing meeting, Friday, April 12, 6-8 p.m. at the
    Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave. at Dwight

6. Santa Fe Right of Way multiuse path and park on Council agenda
   April 23;

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

1. Newly renovated Berkeley downtown Library Opens, Saturday,
    April 6, 1-5 p.m.

Note the nifty new on-street bike racks in front of the newly
renovated library. There are three wave racks and a few more sidewalk
U-racks, right at the front door. The celebration starts at 1:00 p.m.
and the library opens to the public at 2:00 p.m.

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


2. Upcoming Earth Day Events -- mark your calendars!

Ecomotion Day at Berkeley Schools, April 17
Berkeley Earth Day, April 20, Civic Center Park
Berkeley Bay Festival, April 27, Berkeley Marina

volunteers needed for all events. If you would like to help kids safely get
to school or help valet park bikes, please let us know.
Contact BFBC's volunteer coordinator Sarah Syed at 549-7433
or ssyed@ lmi.net to help.

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

3. Bicycle Sub-Committee Meeting Reminder

Here is the time for the next campus bike subcommittee meeting.

Wednesday, April 10, 2002
2pm - 4pm
University Hall, Room 350

Here's the agenda:

1.    MEETING ADMINISTRATION
2.    UPDATES
3.    BICYCLE COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT
4.    LONG RANGE PLANNING  REVIEW GOALS & OBJECTIVES
5.    BICYCLE PARKING INVENTORY & UTILIZATION SURVEYS
6.    BIKE TO WORK WEEK/DAY - MAY 13-17/MAY 16
7.    PROPOSED BICYCLE PROGRAMS & GRANTS 02/03
8.    UPDATE ON CITY OF BERKELEY BICYCLE ISSUES
9.    DISMOUNT ZONE WORK GROUP
10.   FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS

Contact Rita Bond, 643-7194 or ritabond@ uclink4.berkeley.edu if you
have any questions.

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

4. Berkeley Critical Mass, Friday, April 12, 6:00 p.m. at the
    downtown Berkeley BART Station Plaza.

The raucous riders start gathering at 5:30 p.m. for this fun-filled
ride through the streets of Berkeley. All invited!

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

5. BEST Organizing Meeting, Friday, April 12, 6-8 p.m.,
    Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave. at Dwight

BEST stands for Berkeley Environmentally Sustainable Transportation
and is a working name adopted by advocates for better conditions for
transit riders, pedestrians, and bicyclists in Berkeley. This new
group is in the formation stages and needs your support in order to
create an effective voice in Berkeley for better transit service,
safer streets, and more convenient transportation alternatives. The
meeting is open to the public and everyone is encouraged to attend.

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

6. Santa Fe Right of Way multiuse path and park on Council agenda
    April 23;

Councilmember Linda Maio will place on the consent calendar an item
endorsing the use of the City's $1 million Housing Incentive Program
grant to begin development of the Santa Fe Right of Way. The grant
will fund development of the two blocks between University and
Delaware, including a pedestrian crossing at University. More details
in the next newsletter. Good News!
***************************************************************


This weeks bulletin prepared by:

Dave Campbell, President
Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition
<dcampbel@ lmi.net>

Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization,
and your membership makes us stronger.
Join today on-line at <http://www.bfbc.org> or visit the Bikestation
at Downtown Berkeley BART for membership information.
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22. [an-american-peace-movement] Posters/Flyers for People's March for
     Economic Justice, April 27, 2002, Santa Barbara, with Ralph Nader


From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@ lightspeed.net>
Subject: [an-american-peace-movement] Posters/Flyers for People's March for
Economic Justice, April 27, 2002, Santa Barbara, with Ralph Nader
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:21:41 -0700

PBNB Editor note: If you would like these flyer attachments, you will need
to send an email directly to: gear2000@...

Attachments :
PMFullSheet.3.1.02.doc (63k),
CLAC-apr02-poster.doc (285k),
PMQtrSheet.3.1.02.doc (344k),
PMQtrSheet.3.1.02spanish.doc (172k)

Attached in MS Word are printable flyers and posters as of now for the
second annual April 27th People's March for Economic Justice in Santa
Barbara, California, which should be really huge this year and will feature
Ralph Nader as keynote speaker.

Feel free to print and copy and distribute this information to help make
this event as successful as possible.
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23. [OreadDaily] Oread Daily April 8, 2002


From: "dgscooldesign" <dgscooldesign@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: OreadDaily-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [OreadDaily] Oread Daily April 8, 2002
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:38:32 -0000


April 8, 2002
Volume 2002.60
The Oread Daily is a Peoples' Paper and is Responsible Only to the
People (whoever they might be)


OREAD DAILY


HUMAN RIGHTS???

This morning (April 7), all major international human rights
organizations expressed their grave concern about ongoing violations
of international humanitarian law and human rights standards in the
Occupied Palestinian Territories and demanded immediate international
intervention. The organizations included Amnesty International, Human
Rights Watch, International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH),
International Committee of Jurists (ICJ), World Organization Against
Torture (OMCT), Euro- Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EHMRN),
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

Opening the press conference, Khader Shkirat, Director of LAW - The
Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the
Environment said: "We as human rights activists are waiting for the
day we can stop counting persons killed, injured, homes demolished,
medical personnel targeted, and accounts of other abuses." The aim of
this press conference is "to break the conspiracy of silence and the
unwillingness of the international community to act."
Shkirat added, "The international silence, in particular from the
European Union, makes every single state responsible for the ongoing
violations committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories."

Jessica Montell, director of the Israeli human rights organization
B'Tselem, who introduced the speakers, said that in March the highest
number of casualties were counted and that most probably April will
see the worse. On Friday, April 5, B'Tselem received information from
Israeli sources in the Beitunia detention camp that torture has been
used during interrogation of Palestinian detainees.

Mark Neuman, from Amnesty International, also speaking on behalf of
Human Rights Watch and the International Committee of Jurists, said
that "ordinary people are the main victims" and that the "deliberate
targeting of civilians and actions that harm them must be stopped
immediately."
He added that "the international community should act immediately to
deploy international observers with a strong, transparent human
rights monitoring component. Unlawful killings must be investigated
and those who have carried out or ordered them must be brought to
justice."
All organizations said that Israel has clear obligations under
international law, in particular, the Fourth Geneva Convention. The
actions of today have no military justification and are serious
violations of international law.
Neuman concluded saying that "it's time for the international
community to act, as it has moral and legal obligations under
international law. There can be no future unless human rights are the
center of the process."

Robert Ménard, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
said that in the past 10 days, there have been forty cases of
journalists being wounded, injured, arrested, expelled, or
threatened. "The Israeli army is knowingly targeting journalists in a
deliberate policy of intimidation." He urged the Israeli authorities
to keep their international commitment to respect press freedom,
which must include freedom of movement for all journalists - foreign
correspondents and Israeli and Palestinian journalists - and a system
of accreditation that ends the current arbitrary attitude of the
Israeli Government Press Office."

Other speakers included Sidiki Kaba (FIDH), Eric Sottas (OMCT), Henri
Leclerc (the French League for Human Rights), and Eva Norstrom
(EHMRN). Marie Helene Jouve from Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) could
not make it to Jerusalem. She and others from MSF were in Yatta,
which has been declared a closed military zone. MSF has experienced
severe restrictions on its attempts to reach the most isolated
families. Access to medical care is seriously jeopardized.
The international organizations were invited by LAW - The Palestinian
Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment and
the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza.
Source: The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights &
the Environment


LETTERS AND COMMENTS

Hey there Randy,
     Let me start by telling you how much I enjoy getting your daily
news summaries. It's a real pleasure to learn more about various
resistance movements and social developments as they are occurring
around the world.
     However, I'm unable to stop myself from writing to call you on
yesterday's (Ed. - April 4) blurb about Angola and "an end to its
war". I'm afraid it is not that simple in Angola. Having lived there
through 2 supposed ceasefires, I can assure you that the war will not
end until the Angolan people are fed and able to return to their
homes. Unfortunately, that could take a while. I would hate to give
readers the impression that everything will now be fine in the
country, as the people still need to have their voices heard as much
as possible, and sometimes readers have the tendency to dismiss
things as "OK" as long as the war has ended.
     If I have gone on and on, I truly apologize. Angola holds a very
special place in my heart and I feel compelled to inform people
that "peace" as you and I may know it is a long way off for the
country. (The oil and diamond industries and the countries that back
them will continue to wreak havoc there until we as global citizens
do something more about it.)

Yours sincerely,

SW

--------------------------

Letter to the Editor:
     I am horrified by the refusal of the Israeli government to
recognize the basic needs of the Palestinians and feel betrayed by
the activities which seem to me to be quintessentially unJewish.
However, I am equally horrified by the attitude of so many of my left
wing friends that somehow Israelis in particular and Jews in general
should ignore attacks on innocent people attending a seder. I know
the world thinks that we should mourn our dead and walk quietly to
our death. The Arab World has consistently believed that Israel has no right
to exist and  will eventually be pushed "into the sea". Despite protests to
the  effect that this is not what is taught in the Palestinian schools,  the
Palestinians admit that this is what is in their text books. The  proffered
reason is that they can't afford new text books. I don't  believe it. I feel
absolutely helpless and hopeless. Does anyone see any good coming out of
this horror?

HG

---------------------------------

TWO WARS
     Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is
the Palestinian nation's war for its freedom from occupation and for
its right to independent statehood. Any decent person ought to
support this cause. The second war is waged by fanatical Islam, from
Iran to Gaza and from Lebanon to Ramallah, to destroy Israel and
drive the Jews out of their land. Any decent person ought to abhor
this cause.
     Yasir Arafat and his men are running both wars simultaneously,
pretending they are one. The suicide killers evidently make no
distinction. Much of the worldwide bafflement about the Middle East,
much of the confusion among the Israelis themselves, stems from the
overlap between these two wars. Decent peace seekers, in Israel and
elsewhere, are often drawn into simplistic positions. They either
defend Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by
claiming that Israel has been targeted by Muslim holy war ever since
its foundation in 1948, or else they vilify Israel on the grounds
that nothing but the occupation prevents a just and lasting peace.
One simplistic argument allows Palestinians to kill all Israelis on
the basis of their natural right to resist occupation. An equally
simplistic counterargument allows Israelis to oppress all
Palestinians because an all-out Islamic jihad has been launched
against them.
     Two wars are being fought in this region. One is a just war, and
the other is both unjust and futile.  Israel must step down from the
war on the Palestinian territories. It must begin to end occupation
and evacuate the Jewish settlements that were deliberately thrust
into the depths of Palestinian lands. Its borders must be drawn,
unilaterally if need be, upon the logic of demography and the moral
imperative to withdraw from governing a hostile population.
     But would an end to occupation terminate the Muslim holy war
against Israel? This is hard to predict. If jihad comes to an end,
both sides would be able to sit down and negotiate peace. If it does
not, we would have to seal and fortify Israel's logical border, the
demographic border, and keep fighting for our lives against fanatical
Islam.
     If, despite simplistic visions, the end of occupation will not
result in peace, at least we will have one war to fight rather than
two. Not a war for our full occupancy of the holy land, but a war for
our right to live in a free and sovereign Jewish state in part of
that land. A just war, a no-alternative war. A war we will win. Like
any people who were ever forced to fight for their very homes and
freedom and lives.
AMOS OZ


AND IN ISRAEL---PROTEST

It is important to note that protests continue in Israel itself
against the reoccupation campaign.  In Tel Aviv on Sunday at least
15,000 people attended a rally called by mainstream Israeli peace
groups.  Labor MK Yael Dayan said, "Our camp is not ashamed and is
coming out. Arik Sharon and Bibi Netanyahu do not have any monopoly -
not over the peace, not over bereavement, and not over the army."  As
the crowd was gathering at Rabin Square a group of youngsters was
visible at a corner, hastily preparing placards with "Stop the war
crimes in Jenin!", which were added to the more  general Stop the
war/Stop the bloodshed/Get out of the Territories provided by
organizers.  At the conclusion of the rally as the crowd filed out, a
white-haired man could be seen holding a sign which read, "I served
in the Palmach [pre-state militia]. I fought in the War of
Independence and in the paratroopers afterwards. I lost my son,
killed in vain in Lebanon. I salute the courageous men of conscience,
who refuse to take part in Sharon's Lebanon War II". It is to be
noted at a rough reckoning, there are now about 30 soldiers in jail
for refusing to serve in the occupied territories.  Hundreds of
Israeli soldiers have signed a petition stating they will not serve
in the occupied territories.
Also on Sunday a hearing on a petition filed before the Israeli High
Court of Justice by B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization.
The petition demanded an end to torture of detainees and to give the
prisoners access to lawyers. Sadly, the Court denied the petition.
Sources: Ha'aretz, Gush Shalom, IMC/Israel




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24. Public Forum: Road to Public Power in 2002


From: Alan <ilcinfo@ earthlink.net>
Subject: Public Forum: Road to Public Power in 2002
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:29:03 -0800

Join us at a Public Forum:

The Road to Public Power in 2002

Come hear how San Francisco can navigate around PG&E 's bankruptcy
and make public power a reality in 2002.

Tuesday, April 16 from 7 to 9 p.m.

State PUC Building,
505 Van Ness Ave.
(@ MacAlester)

Speakers:

- Fred Keeley, California State Legislature, Speaker of the Assembly

- Tom Ammiano, President, S.F. Board of Supervisors President

- Conny Ford, Representative , S.F. Labor Task Force for Public Power

- Other special guests to be announced.

Sponsored by San Franciscans for Public Power, a coalition of
progressive union labor, environmental, consumer, senior, youth,
small business, and other community-based groups.

For more information, contact Ross Mirkarimi at 415-364-1522.

Free, but donations are welcome.
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25. Navy Shipyard Transfer Involves Serious
     Environmental, Legal, and Ethical Breaches



From: "SF Green Party" <communications@ sfgreenparty.org>
Reply-To: grns-sf@ greens.org
Subject: Navy Shipyard Transfer Involves Serious
          Environmental, Legal, and Ethical Breaches
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:51:53 -0800

Hunters Point Shipyard Land Transfer Being Negotiated
By Mayor, Pelosi, and Maxwell

Serious environmental, legal, and ethical breaches noted

by Larisa Casillas, SF Green Party County Council

(SF Green Party, March 29) -- [NOTE: The following letter was sent to Mayor
Brown, the members of the SF Board of Supervisors, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Please contact your elected officials to let them know this issue is
important to you (contact information below).]


    I am writing as a Green Party activist and resident of District 9 to urge
you to stop the proposed land transfer of the United States Navy¹s Parcels A
and B at the Hunters Point Shipyard to the City and County of San Francisco.
The city plans to develop this land for mixed use (i.e., residential housing
and businesses), despite recent reports suggesting the land in question
contains many life-threatening contaminants, including radium, lead,
asbestos and mercury, among others.

    Five concerns related to this land transfer beg for your immediate
attention:

1. The Navy has exercised a "fast track" strategy to ensure a quick­ and
unlawful­ land transfer. Under federal law, the Navy is obligated to
complete eight clean-up steps for each identified contaminated site before
the land can be transferred. It has neglected to act upon its responsibility
in the case of Parcels A and B, declaring Parcel B "clean" despite having
discovered radium on Parcel B in May, 2001 ­ less than one year ago.

2. Elected officials working with the US Navy, including Congresswoman Nancy
Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and District 10 Supervisor Sophie
Maxwell have violated San Francisco's Sunshine Ordinance by drafting plans
(Conveyance Agreements) absent of full community input, including that of
residents in the Bay View and Hunters Point areas.

3. Lennar Developers has already been chosen for the proposed projects,
absent of a formal and public competitive bidding process.

4. The Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) has
documented a list of violations including harassment, fraud, bribery and
misuse of city resources that need to be reviewed immediately before any
land transfer takes effect.

5. Lastly, the land in question is believed to be the sacred grounds of the
Muwekeme Ohlone tribe with more than 500 members still living in the area.
The Muwekeme Ohlone were illegally taken off the Federal Register in 1927
and believe that they will be returned to the register on April 22, 2002, at
which point they will have the first right of refusal on the land transfer.
They believe that sacred burial grounds are located on the two land areas.

    I urge you to do all that is within your power to stop this land transfer
immediately. I understand the need to attract projects that will generate
economic development and I know of the desperate need for residential
housing, especially in this often overlooked section of our city. However,
this land transfer, if approved, would be inhumane.

    Many residents of the Bay View and Hunters Point areas are living with
tuberculosis, cancer and other diseases due to environmental degradation
caused by the presence of the US Navy. In addition, children are being
exposed to environmental hazards that negatively affect their health; for
example, childhood asthma in the Bay View and Hunters Point area is 20%
compared to 7% nationally. And the rate of breast cancer in the area is
extraordinarily high.

    As a Mexican immigrant, I believe that what is happening to the residents
in the Hunters Point and Bay View areas is not unlike the experiences of
Latin American immigrants who toil in the fields in the name of progress and
development and later develop deadly diseases caused by pesticides. Let¹s
not allow for more suffering.

    I look forward to hearing from you about your plans on how to stop this
land transfer. I thank you in advance for your leadership.

Warmly,
Larisa Casillas


-------------------------

Contact your representatives and let them know you care about this!

Mayor's Office: 554-6141 ask for Naomi
Board of Supervisors: www.ci.sf.ca.us/bdsupvrs/roster.htm
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26. Police Now Being Ordered to Assault Peaceful Protesters


From: "Eric Rainbolt" <erainbolt@ next-commerce.com>
Subject:  Police Now Being Ordered to Assault Peaceful Protesters -
           Democracy Depot Member Attacked by Police at Protest...
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:50:36 -0700
Attachments: georgeandbillboard-9-11-nwo.jpg (90k)

Attachment must be obtained by sending an email to:
erainbolt@ next-commerce.com

Dear American Patriots,

please help spread the word of these malicious attacks on innocent Americans
by the police and military....

please help pass this photograph around as well:
http://everyonemustseethisphotograph.netfirms.com/

Please take this as seriously as you will allow yourself. Know your own
personal life may be in danger due to the New World Order agenda
advancement.

Please spread the awareness to thousands... every little bit will help...
this only way to be set free is through the truth....



Alex Jones of www.infowars.com needs to be aware of this.  You all need to
be aware of www.infowars.com and the docu-drama "9/11 - The Road to Tyranny"

God Bless.  Please also keep this in mind - and spread this around as well
to deliver the basic message it contains:

http://everyonemustseethisphotograph.netfirms.com/

The internet can be an effective tool to engage in peaceful protesting.

Don't focus on helping get Al Gore elected - rather put your energies into
getting him to tell the truth (at the risk to his own life) - because Al
Gore knows the truth of what is going on at the highest levels - and he also
must know the truth behind the latest engineered attacks on 9/11.  I once
campaigned for him hard - see www.freeword.com my website now is :
www.thatsonofabush.com

Of foremost importance, We must get the truth expressly out to our military.
   Your livelihood and are all others you now are at risk due to this "War on
Terrorism".

-Eric Rainbolt
South Austin Texas
512-280-5835


St. Petersburg Police Attack Participants at President Bush's Visit on March
8, 2002  Article written by eyewitness, Melissa Winn

I was at the intersection of 28th Street and 118th Avenue last week and
witnessed events that must be brought to your attention. While standing at
the northwest corner of the intersection, near a small group of people who
were sitting in the back of a pickup truck, I was appalled to see Sergeant
Lightfield attack Mauricio Rosas.

At the time, participants were seeking answers about an apparent
contradictory policy of the police department, allowing free reign of all
citizens and observers who are not making political statements critical of
the current administration and requiring those making such statements and
inquiries to be corralled in a specific, less visible area.

In response to Sunni's question, Sergeant Lightfield indicated that the
"pro-Bush" people didn't have a specific location where they needed to
stand. But at the same time he also said that they couldn't stand just
anywhere, but no attempts were made to relocate these observers. His
statements alone exemplify the confusion and contradictions of the day.

Consequently, four people with signs were directed to a vaguely identified
area across the street. At different times, and depending on who gave the
instruction, this area was multiply identified as the parking lot in front
of the building on the northeast side of the intersection and an area behind
the building bordering the street adjacent parking lot.

Mauricio had brought a video camera with him and was also carrying a sign. I
heard an officer tell him that he had to move to the other area specifically
because of the sign. At this point he gave his sign to me and asked to stay
at his present location since he was no longer in possession of a sign. He
was instructed to move anyway.

While the group was quickly trying to sort out what the actual instruction
was and why it was being given, along with to whom and for what purposes
individuals were included and exempt from this requirement, Sergeant
Lightfield turned to Mauricio and told him he'd have to turn off the camera.
At the same instant that he demanded this, the sergeant reached with his
left hand and forcefully grabbed the lens and microphone above it and yanked
it toward the ground. He did not give Mauricio any time to respond.

Sergeant Lightfield, immediately after grabbing the camera proceeded to push
Mauricio with both his hands and even shoulders. He was obviously putting
his weight into this effort and the two of them moved a few steps further
from the road in this struggle. I watched from a foot or two behind Sergeant
Lightfield and was both shocked and terrified. I fully expected this man to
wrestle Mauricio and his camera to the ground.

I distinctly remember raising my voice and asking Sergeant Lightfield to
"leave him alone, he's disabled!" My request received no response, but a
second later the sergeant stepped back from Mauricio, and in doing so, made
a strong downward sweeping motion with his left hand. He caught the strap on
the camera with his hand, and I vividly recall the look of terror and
surprise on Mauricio's face as he involuntarily bent slightly forward and
struggled to hold the camera against his thighs to keep it from being thrown
to the ground.

After crossing the street, confusion remained about the exact location of
the allotted area for participants with signs. Mauricio calmly persisted in
inquiring about what policies were being enforced and by whose orders. The
group was then told to relocate to a position behind the building (from the
parking lot in front of it where we'd originally been directed). We were
told Officer Sharp would escort us to this new area.

Officer Sharp was both polite and conscientious in his attempt to handle the
matter, and he strived to be politically correct in his terminology and
understanding of the situation. Yet, he explained, he still needed to escort
the group to the back of the building.

Mauricio's continued inquiries were re-directed to Lieutenant Williams, who
was identified as the highest-ranking official on the premises. He began
talking to Mauricio, offering answers, but after a minute suggested that he
would not answer additional questions on camera. He could give more
information if Mauricio turned the camera off. At this point, Sergeant
Lightfield stormed toward Mauricio. He appeared to suddenly descend on the
scene like a tornado, but must have been walking over from the patrol car
against 118th Avenue.

Sergeant Lightfield yelled, "I told you before…" Once again, and without
pausing or giving a time for any response on Mauricio's part, including
lowering or turning off the camera, Sergeant Lightfield reached forward with
his left hand and grabbed the lens and microphone of the camera, jerking it
violently toward the ground. At this time, I saw four or five other officers
instantaneously assembled around Mauricio and Sergeant Lightfield, almost in
a huddle. These officers prevented me from seeing any more details about the
incident. I did see Mauricio moving backward from his original position
interviewing Lt. Williams and Sergeant Lightfield appeared to be pushing him
once again.

I am surprised by the short temper that Sergeant Lightfield displayed on
this occasion and his fierce efforts to impose immediate compliance using
brute force. It seems to me that he must deal with far more dangerous
confrontations (actual confrontations, not initiated ones) all the time.
Sergeant Lightfield demonstrated to me that his intentions were to
physically intimidate and damage private property if the opportunity arose.
Clearly, it is not in the best interests of the community to have this man
patrolling such events without intensive anger management intervention.

Please be aware that there were several other people present who were using
both regular cameras and video cameras. These people were allowed to stand
wherever they wanted and a few of them may even have the sergeant's attacks
on videotape. At no time did I see them approached for purposes of
relocating or turning off their cameras. It is clear to me that the group
was singled out solely for expressing political opinions, an act which is in
violation of the first amendment to the constitution. Also evident is the
extreme reluctance of all police personnel to speak on camera about
policies. If these policies are truly official, then what would they have to
hide in relating them?

http://www.voiceoffreedom.com/attack.html

Follow-up:
March 15, 2002
Mauricio Rosas has requested an internal affairs investigation. Major Tim
Story of the St. Petersburg Police is currently assigned to the case.

Citizens attacked during President Bush's visit on March 8, 2002 in
St.Petersburg, Florida on March 8, 2002 for having signs.


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27. Salute to Nancy Pelosi April 21, San Francisco


From: "Mary Ratcliff" <editor@ sfbayview.com>
Reply-To: <editor@ sfbayview.com>
Subject: Press Release: Salute to Nancy Pelosi April 21, San Francisco
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:31:49 -0700

Opportunity to talk … demonstrate … ?

-----Original Message-----
From: RBHauptman@... [mailto:RBHauptman@...]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 4:30 AM
To: RBHauptman@ aol.com
Subject: Press Release: Salute to Nancy Pelosi
          April 21, San Francisco



For Immediate Release
For Information:
April 8, 2002
Rick Hauptman, CA Democratic Party
415-861-7425 or
RBHauptman@ aol.com




San Francisco Democratic Club's Salute to Nancy Pelosi
House Minority Whip/Highest Office for a Woman in Congressional History
Sunday, April 21, 2002



20 grassroots Democratic Clubs host tribute to
House Minority Whip Nancy Pelosi.

3-6 PM
Light Finger Food
No-Host Bar
Music
Mary Holland Trio
Some Speeches



Rassela's Jazz Club
1534 Fillmore (at Geary)

$10 - such a bargain - $10

Join us as we salute Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
The history-making Minority Whip
of U.S. House of Representatives

For Information:
Rick Hauptman
RBHauptman@ aol.com
or 415-861-7425



Sponsors: Asian Pacific Democratic Club, African American Democratic
Club, Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, Carolene & Milton Marks
Democratic Club, Democratic Women's Forum, District 11 Democratic Club,
Golden Gate Democratic League, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, Irish
American Democratic Club, Raoul Wallenberg Jewish Democratic Club,
Robert Kennedy Democratic Club, Ron Brown Democratic Club, San Francisco
Young Democrats, Sunset Community Democratic Club, Westside Chinese
Democratic Club, Westside Democratic Club,  partial listing.
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28. Peoples Park Anniversary Invite


From: "tierra dulce" <tierradulce@ hotmail.com>
Subject: Peoples Park Anniversary Invite
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 05:54:01 +0000

Dear Political Groups, Artisans and Celebrators,

       We would like to invite you to participate in Peoples Park's 33rd
Birthday Anniversary Faire and Concert on Sun April 28th from noon to 6pm.

We have free tabling space for political and social organizations.  Vending
space for artisans (10' x 10') is available for $20.

The day will be fun-filled with the music of The Shelley Doty
X-tet, The Funky Nixons, Jonathan Richman and more.

Barbara Lee will speak.

There will be activities for children all day, including arts and crafts, a
petting zoo, face painting and juggling.

There will be an active skateboarding park on Haste Street and a second
stage will have hip-hop, poetry and music near Telegraph Ave.

We will wind down the activities with drumming and a Maypole.

Join us.

To reserve a table space for political groups or vending space call Terri at
658-9178 or Michael at 848-8324.

Call us with other ideas for the day or to help with organizing.


Celebrate another year of People's Park's History!
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no peace without justice....
VIOLATING MY CIVIL RIGHTS IS AN 'ACT OF TERRORISM'!

john vance, editor
PEOPLES BARK NEWS BERKELEY

A project of:
A First Amendment Center
PO Box 4851
Berkeley, Ca 94704
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(510) 287-9406

Hotlines:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 621
(KPFA Event Calendar)

(510) 287-9406
(A First Amendment Center's Message Line!)

(510) 594-4000 ext. 202
(Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hotline!)

(510) 548-0542
(Friends of KPFA hotline!)

(415) 546-6334 ext. 352
(Media Alliance KPFA info line!)

PLEASE send me SF Bay Area news/events that you would like posted
to: aliun@. hotmail.com - Deadline for event notice submissions is every
Monday at noon.

Event Calendar:
http://www.peacenowfreedomnow.net

And, remember, the most important place of all, our own people's
media at: http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ for San Francisco Bay Area
news postings and http://www.indymedia.org/ to look for postings
for other city's community news.

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_week.php
(San Francisco Indymedia Calendar)

More calendars:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoplesBarkNewsBerkeley/messages (PBNB)
http://bapd.org/cal.txt (Bay Area Progressive Calendar)
http://www.bapd.org/notices.html  (Some Really GOOD Current Notices)
http://bapd.org/n52.html (Peace and anti-war calendar)
http://www.sfbg.com/action/index.html (SF Bay Guardian ALERTS)

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
(East Bay Coalition Against the War)

http://www.peaceandjustice.org/events/indexhi.html
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Calendar)

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
(Global Exchange)

http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar.html
(Ecology Center calendar)

http://abacia.com/calendar/  (Abacia calendar)

http://www.change-links.org/chcl2.htm
(Change Links Calendar - L.A.)

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/calendar.cfm?
(Berkeley DP Calendar)

http://www.protest.net/ (Protest.Net Calendar of Events)

http://www.earthneighborhood.com/events.html
(Earth Neighborhood calendar - Union City, Ca)

SOME ALTERNATIVE (and one mainstream) MEDIA SOURCES:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/thefirstamendment/page2.html
<A First Amendment Center's Links Page>


http://www.internationalanswer.org/
<Act Now to Stop War and End Racism>

http://www.aljazeera.net (Arabic Media in Qatar)
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1
(TRANSLATOR for aljazeera.net)


http://www.alternet.org <AlterNet>
http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/gateway/arnindex.html <AntiRacismNet>
http://www.atasite.org/ <Artist's Television Access>
http://www.afghanmagazine.com <Afghan Magazine>
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)
http://berkeleystopthewar.org/ <Berkeley Stop the War Coalition>
http://www.wpkn.org/news/btl.html <Between the Lines - WPKN - CT>
http://www.brasscheck.com/ <brasscheck.com>
http://www.bushwatch.net/ <Bush Watch>
http://www.buzzflash.com/ <BuzzFlash>
http://www.legitgov.org/ <Citizens for Legitimate Government>
http://www.commondreams.org <Common Dreams>
http://www.corpwatch.org/ <CorpWatch>
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup/ <CounterCoup>
http://www.democracynow.org/ <Democracy Now - Out of Exile!>
http://www.drudgereport.com/ <DRUDGE REPORT>

http://www.geocities.com/eastbaycoalition/
<East Bay Coalition Against the War>

http://fair.org/ <Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting>
http://www.flashpoints.net/ <Flashpoints News Radio>
http://globalcircle.net/ <Global Circle Net News>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ <Global Research>
http://www.guerrillanews.com/ <Guerilla News Network>
http://www.humanrightsnow.org/ <Human Rights Now - Michael Ratner>
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm <IATP - WTO Watch>
http://www.independent.co.uk <Independent.co.uk>
http://www.indymedia.org/ <IndyMedia>
http://www.infowars.com/ <Infowars.com - Alex Jones>
http://accuracy.org/ <Institute for Public Accuracy>
http://www.inthesetimes.com/ <In These Times>
http://www.kpfa.org <KPFA>
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm <Mid-East Realities>
http://www.opensecrets.org/ (Money in Politics)
http://www.labornet.org/ <LaborNet - News for the Labor Movement>
http://www.madre.org/ <Madre - Women's Human Rights Organization>
http://www.media-alliance.org/ <Media Alliance>
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/ <MediaChannel.org>
http://michaelmoore.com/ <Michael Moore>
http://www.copvcia.com/index.html <Mike Ruppert><NOT FREE>
http://www.motherjones.com <Mother Jones>
http://www.narconews.com <Narco News>
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html <Noam Chomsky>
http://www.kpfa.com <NOT KPFA - but about KPFA>
http://www.oneworld.net/ <OneWorld.net>
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp <Open Democracy>
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/main.html <Palestine media Watch>
http://www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ <Palestine Report>
http://poornewsnetwork.org/ <Poor News Network>
http://www.protest.net/ <Protest Net>
http://www.rabble.ca/ <Rabblerousers>
http://www.radio4all.org/ <Radio4All>
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/infohub.html <Rainbow Puddle>
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ <re: constructions>

http://www.enronownsthegop.com/
<Republican Party of Texas - brought to you by Enron>

http://rwor.org/ <Revolutionary Worker>
http://www.sfbayview.com/ <San Francisco Bay View>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/ <SF IndyMedia>
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/publish.php <SF IndyMedia (Publish Page)>
http://www.savepacifica.net/ <Save Pacifica.net>
http://www.speakoutnow.org/ <Speakout!>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <telegraph.co.uk>
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml <The Afghan Women's Mission>
http://www.tenc.net/ <The Emporer's New Clothes>
http://www.thenation.com/ <The Nation>
http://www.newsguild.org/index.php <The Newspaper Guild>

http://porthurontokentstate.tripod.com/
<The Port Huron to Kent State Project>

http://www.tompaine.com/ <TomPaine.commonsense>
http://www.utne.com <Utne Reader Online>
http://www.voterwest.org/ <Voter March West>
http://warresisters.org/ <War Resisters League>
http://www.war-times.org <WarTimes>
http://www.willpitt.com/Archive.htm <WillPitt.com>

http://www.wilpf.org/
<Women's International Legue for Peace and Freedom>

http://newsforchange.com/ <Working for Change>
http://www.zmag.org/ <Z Magazine Online>

http://ajr.newslink.org/ (mainstream media source)

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/~musnews/  (Muslim News - Britain)
http://www.paknews.com/   (Pakistan News Service)
http://www.yespakistan.com/  (More News from Pakistan)
http://www.millat.pibc.com/index.htm  (News from Pakistan)
http://www.thefridaytimes.com  (Pakistan News)
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/  (News from Peshawar, Pakistan)
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/  (Al-Ahram Weekly - Front Page)



BOOKS TO READ:

http://www.akpress.org/

OTHER LINKS:
http://www.kpfa.org (KPFA)

KPFA/Pacifica-related websites:
http://www.cfdp.org (Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica)
http://www.pacifica.org (Pacifica Foundation Radio Website)
http://www.freezepeach.cjb.net
(A First Amendment Center's  website)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
(Coalition to Remove the Pacifica Board)
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

(Lotsa KPFA-related links)
http://www.glib.com/union.html
(unofficial WBAI union website)
http://www.webwm.com/mfberry
http://www.newKPFA.net
http://www.wbai.net (Listener's Group - NYC/CdP)

http://www.BillMandel.net or
http://www.BillMandel.com
(Bill Mandel's website(s))

http://www.spanishbookclub.cjb.net
(My partner, Miriam Ruvinskis',
Spanish Book Club website)

FreePacifica discussion list: to subscribe, send email to:
majordomo@. recordist.com with the text "subscribe freepac"

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica local list:  to subscribe, send
email to: les@. delong.org  with the text "subscribe"
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PEOPLES BARK NEWS BERKELEY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

Judi Bari vs FBI Events
Mon Apr. 8 Oakland

The Earth First! lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police Department goes
to trial on April 8, 2002 at the Oakland Federal Courthouse in California.
On May 24, 1990, Earth First! organizers, Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, were
the victims of a motion triggered car bomb. They were driving through
Oakland on a tour to promote Redwood Summer, a nonviolent direct action
campaign protesting the logging of the last old growth redwoods. The FBI and
Oakland Police showed up at the bomb scene within minutes and quickly
arrested the pair for transporting the bomb, despite ample evidence that
Judi was the intended target. The Alameda County DA eventually refused to
press charges against the pair due to lack of evidence. No real
investigation to find the bombers was ever done and the bombers remain at
large today. Instead the FBI used the bombing as an opportunity to vilify
Earth First! and expand surveillance of nonviolent activists.

In 1991, Judi and Darryl filed a civil rights lawsuit against the FBI and
Oakland Police Department for false arrest, illegal search and seizure and
conspiracy to violate their first amendment rights. The lawsuit is exposing
the FBI's continued use of the notorious and now illegal "COINTELPRO"
program- the FBI campaign to, in their words,
"disrupt and neutralize" political dissidents. Judi died of breast cancer in
1997 but the case survives.

This lawsuit is more important than ever! Since September 11th, there has
been an alarming roll back in civil liberties. The FBI has been given more
powers, without oversight or accountability. The Earth First! lawsuit honors
the legacy of Judi Bari and exposes the FBI's misuse of authority to harass
and intimidate nonviolent political activists. With your help, the historic
trial can reverse the growing power of the FBI to trample on our right to
dissent. Come to the following events:

Beginning: Monday, April 8th, 8:30am-1:30pm
The Trial
Oakland Federal Courthouse
1301 Clay Street (at 13th Street)
(continuing for approximaely six weeks)
Monday, April 8, 12pm: Rally to kick off the first day of trial


Dear Peoples Bark News Berkeley Readers;
                                         i hope you will please bear with me.
   There simply seems to be way too much information coming at me
lately.  With the Judi Bari- Daryl Cherney vs fbi trial coming up, i needed
to get this out. Not to even talk about this israeli/palestine madness and
and and the so-called war on terrorism.
Speakin' of, bush talkin' about weapons of mass destruction - doesn't he
have any mirrors on his ranch in CrawDUH!, Texas?

john v

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There is a nationwide epidemic of police brutality in the United States.
The victims are overwhelmingly African American, Latino and other people of
color.

STOLEN LIVES provides important and compelling exposures of the nationwide
epidemic of police brutality and murder.  People who've been killed, their
families and loved ones, and communities under the gun speak through the
pages and tell their stories.  And they get a platform to speak out even
more broadly.

Among people who don't deal with police brutality in their daily lives, this
book shows that it's more than just a "few bad apples" or some "isolated
incidents."  Many such people will be moved to join the struggle against
police brutality and stand with those under the gun when they see the
shocking scope of this epidemic.

From STOLEN LIVES: Killed by Law Enforcement - - - - -
This is the seventh of the forty summaries presented in the book, Stolen
Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement - a project of the Anthony Baez Foundation,
National Lawyers Guild and the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police
Brutality, Repression & the Criminalization of a Generation.

------------
ANDREW "NU-NU" DURHAM -- SHOT DEAD FOR RUNNING
    Chicago.  In the early morning hours of Sunday, August 10, 1997, Andrew
"Nu-Nu" Durham lost his life to the Chicago Police Department.  He had been
hanging out when two police officers ordered him and a friend to come over
to their car.  Andrew took off running.  The cop chasing Andrew first shot
him in the thigh.  Eyewitnesses say that Durham stopped then stopped running
and raised his hands, but the officer grabbed him, shot him in the head, and
then shot him again as he fell to the ground.  Durham lay in the street for
45 minutes before an ambulance came to pronounce him dead.
    Police claimed that Andrew Durham was a suspected car thief who had
grabbed for the officer's gun.  But at a community-organized inquiry
attended by over 400 people a week later, eyewitnesses said that there
had been no struggle for the gun, and that the cops had simply pumped
bullets into the unarmed and wounded youth.  Community residents disputed
the charge of "suspected auto theft," asserting instead that Andrew was a
kind, soft-spoken young man, and protesting against the "double murder" --
first Andrew's life, and then his good name.
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The STOLEN LIVES PROJECT is a joint project of the October 22nd Coalition to
Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation;
the National Lawyers Guild and the Anthony Baez Foundation.

For more information, call 1-888-NO BRUTALITY or visit
http://www.unstoppable.com/22
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CONTENTS

1...Akha Journal: Progress, April 6, 2002
2...Iraq Forum, April 13-14, Oakland
3...Peoples Park Anniversary Invite
4...Bay Area Events - Global Exchange Calendar
5...Report from Israel
6...[sjpfolks] March and Rally, SF, April 27, Saturday
7...Berkeley's Ongoing Confusion
8...Protect Peaceful Protest
9...URGENT April 9th Palestine Solidarity Actions in Bay Area
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1. Akha Journal: Progress, April 6, 2002


From: Matthew McDaniel <akha@ akha.org>
Reply-To: bay_area_activist@ yahoogroups.com
Subject:  Akha Journal: Progress, April 6, 2002
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:20:03 -0800 (PST)

Dear Friends:

Many items in this journal.

1. The long awaited printing press we now have in hand and are prepping for
our first printing of the Akha Journal Publication. Will let you know when
we get the first copies ready to go.

Subscriptions are $60 per year for individuals.
$90 per year for institutions.

2. Our Akha Nature Conservancy project moves forward.  This project is at
the location of one of the embattled villages where we are doing our best to
outrun rather stupid forestry policy which is destroying the forest and
replacing it with pine in the "plant trees in rows" scheme.

Our goal is to save the existing trees from cutting, stop wild fires, and
halt the hunting of birds.

You may donate to help establish the native trees nursery and help with the
purchase of fruit trees, trail care, water protection etc.

An enormous task.  One of the reasons it is complicated is that when
villages were broken up and scattered, then clustered together again, there
were various tribes and if you can get one to cooperate and not cut, such as
the Akha, then wam, the Lisaw are there cutting the next day and could
hardly care.

Secondly, the forestry and police have an all or nothing policy.  They want
no one in the forest because of cutting they say. But when a reckless
cutting event occurs and is brought to their attention, cutting of big trees
and burning of the forest, they will not act against the individual. This is
as if they want reasons to rid the whole group which is hardly fair to those
who are taking good care of the forest.

3. The Thai Government said it has plans to relocate 1,115 Hill Tribe
villages. This includes most of the 300 Akha villages in Thailand. We have
seen what relocations result in before, a few you can still visit and see
what has happened to the men, to the families, to the children.

4. The Thai government says it is giving hilltribe people ID cards but in
reality it is fighting the process because there is a deadline in August for
deportation of people without full identity, and the government has not
installed a realisitic process that would have allowed those who didn't have
ID cards to finish the process.  Of the 70,000 Akha in Thailand,
approximately 20,000 only have ID cards and 50,000 face deportation though
they were born in the country.

We will be organizing shortly and informing you how you can become involved
to protect the lives of the Akha.

5. The Attack and Burning of Meh Joh Akha: We now find out that three Thais
were involved in planning and executing the attack on Meh Joh Akha for the
purpose of robbery of cash and methamphetamine tablets stored in the area.
Nine civilians were killed according to the last count that is available.
Three of them also Thais. Of the three Thais involved, one was killed
"mysteriously" according to the army, who deny being involved themselves or
blaming another unit. The fact remains that the Thai Army knew of the
attack, knew of the robbery, and the
other two men are still walking around free.  Of course the Burmese
Government is pressuring the Thai Border Committee about these events since
they also have witnesses to how the attack was carried out. The stolen meth
pills were said to be used to plant on people after they are killed via a
secret police connection.

6. We also are in the process of training our first Akha Language Teacher in
a mountain village school.  Getting this established will be a long process
but is much requested.

Matthew McDaniel

Thailand




Matthew McDaniel
The Akha Heritage Foundation
Maesai, Chiangrai, Thailand
Donations by check or money order may be sent to:
The Akha Heritage Foundation
PO BOX 6073
Salem OR 97304  USA
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2. Iraq Forum, April 13-14, Oakland


From: "Carolyn S. Scarr" <epicalc@ earthlink.net>
Subject: Iraq Forum, April 13-14, Oakland
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:41:35 -0800

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Dear friends,

I hope you can come to this very exciting forum on Iraq, the people,
the sanctions, related issues, and music and culture from a range of
countries.

The text of the flyer is included in this message.  The attached flyers
are in MS WORD and PDF format.  I hope one of these formats will be
usable for you.

Thank you,
Carolyn Scarr

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Focus on the People of Iraq
??? Making Connections
a two-day forum of facts and culture



Saturday and Sunday  o  April 13 - 14
9:00 a.m. through the evening
Oakland YWCA  o  1515 Webster Street at 15th Street
(near 12th Street BART station)
$10-30 donation requested  o  no one turned away for lack of funds



For the past eleven years, the United States has illegally maintained a
brutal blockade ("sanctions") against the people of Iraq, directly
causing the deaths of more than 1.5 million innocent Iraqi men, women
and children (mostly children), and has conducted every-other-day air
combat sorties over illegally-imposed "no-fly zones," dropping bombs and
firing missiles nearly every week for eleven years.  For the past 11
years, the United States has been waging war on the people of Iraq.

o  What have been the effects of our barbaric actions on the people of
     Iraq?
o  Who are the people of Iraq?
o  To answer those questions, a two-day forum focusing on the people of
     Iraq will be held at the Oakland YWCA  ??  with panel discu