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Open Letter from Assata Shakur
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COINTELPRO Revisited - COINTELPRO and Qubilah Shabazz
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From: the_asi...@hotmail.com
Subject: Open Letter from Assata Shakur

Open Letter from Assata Shakur
By Assata Shakur

My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because
of
government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from
the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US
government's policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political
prisoner,
and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984.

I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S.
government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a
criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in
various
struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights movement, and
the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined the Black Panther Party.
By
1969 the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization
targeted
by the FBI's COINTELPRO program. Because the Black Panther Party demanded
the total liberation of black people, J. Edgar Hoover called it "greatest
threat to the internal security of the country" and vowed to destroy it
and
its leaders and activists.

In 1978, my case was one of many cases bought before the United Nations
Organization in a petition filed by the National Conference of Black
Lawyers, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression,
and
the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice, exposing the
existence of political prisoners in the United States, their political
persecution, and the cruel and inhuman treatment they receive in US
prisons.
According to the report:

The FBI and the New York Police Department in particular, charged and
accused Assata Shakur of participating in attacks on law enforcement
personnel and widely circulated such charges and accusations among police
agencies and units. The FBI and the NYPD further charged her as being a
leader of the Black Liberation Army which the government and its
respective
agencies described as an organization engaged in the shooting of police
officers. This description of the Black Liberation Army and the accusation
of Assata Shakur's relationship to it was widely circulated by government
agents among police agencies and units. As a result of these activities by
the government, Ms. Shakur became a hunted person; posters in police
precincts and banks described her as being involved in serious criminal
activities; she was highlighted on the FBI's most wanted list; and to
police
at all levels she became a 'shoot-to-kill' target."

I was falsely accused in six different "criminal cases" and in all six of
these cases I was eventually acquitted or the charges were dismissed. The
fact that I was acquitted or that the charges were dismissed, did not mean
that I received justice in the courts, that was certainly not the case. It
only meant that the "evidence" presented against me was so flimsy and
false
that my innocence became evident. This political persecution was part and
parcel of the government's policy of eliminating political opponents by
charging them with crimes and arresting them with no regard to the factual
basis of such charges.

On May 2, 1973 I, along with Zayd Malik Shakur and Sundiata Acoli were
stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike, supposedly for a "faulty tail light."
Sundiata Acoli got out of the car to determine why we were stopped. Zayd
and
I remained in the car. State trooper Harper then came to the car, opened
the
door and began to question us. Because we were black, and riding in a car
with Vermont license plates, he claimed he became "suspicious." He then
drew
his gun, pointed it at us, and told us to put our hands up in the air, in
front of us, where he could see them. I complied and in a split second,
there was a sound that came from outside the car, there was a sudden
movement, and I was shot once with my arms held up in the air, and then
once
again from the back.

Zayd Malik Shakur was later killed, trooper Werner Foerster was killed,
and
even though trooper Harper admitted that he shot and killed Zayd Malik
Shakur, under the New Jersey felony murder law, I was charged with killing
both Zayd Malik Shakur, who was my closest friend and comrade, and charged
in the death of trooper Forester. Never in my life have I felt such grief.
Zayd had vowed to protect me, and to help me to get to a safe place, and
it
was clear that he had lost his life, trying to protect both me and
Sundiata.
Although he was also unarmed, and the gun that killed trooper Foerster was
found under Zayd's leg, Sundiata Acoli, who was captured later, was also
charged with both deaths. Neither Sundiata Acoli nor I ever received a
fair
trial We were both convicted in the news media way before our trials. No
news media was ever permitted to interview us, although the New Jersey
police and the FBI fed stories to the press on a daily basis. In 1977, I
was
convicted by an all- white jury and sentenced to life plus 33 years in
prison. In 1979, fearing that I would be murdered in prison, and knowing
that I would never receive any justice, I was liberated from prison, aided
by committed comrades who understood the depths of the injustices in my
case, and who were also extremely fearful for my life.

The U.S. Senate's 1976 Church Commission report on intelligence operations
inside the USA, revealed that "The FBI has attempted covertly to influence
the public's perception of persons and organizations by disseminating
derogatory information to the press, either anonymously or through
"friendly" news contacts." This same policy is evidently still very much
in
effect today.

On December 24, 1997, The New Jersey State called a press conference to
announce that New Jersey State Police had written a letter to Pope John
Paul
II asking him to intervene on their behalf and to aid in having me
extradited back to New Jersey prisons. The New Jersey State Police refused
to make their letter public. Knowing that they had probably totally
distort
the facts, and attempted to get the Pope to do the devils work in the name
of religion, I decided to write the Pope to inform him about the reality
of'
"justice" for black people in the State of New Jersey and in the United
States. (See attached Letter to the Pope).

In January of 1998, during the pope's visit to Cuba, I agreed to do an
interview with NBC journalist Ralph Penza around my letter to the Pope,
about my experiences in New Jersey court system, and about the changes I
saw
in the United States and it's treatment of Black people in the last 25
years. I agreed to do this interview because I saw this secret letter to
the
Pope as a vicious, vulgar, publicity maneuver on the part of the New
Jersey
State Police, and as a cynical attempt to manipulate Pope John Paul II. I
have lived in Cuba for many years, and was completely out of touch with
the
sensationalist, dishonest, nature of the establishment media today. It is
worse today than it was 30 years ago. After years of being victimized by
the
"establishment" media it was naive of me to hope that I might finally get
the opportunity to tell "my side of the story." Instead of an interview
with
me, what took place was a "staged media event" in three parts, full of
distortions, inaccuracies and outright lies. NBC purposely misrepresented
the facts. Not only did NBC spend thousands of dollars promoting this
"exclusive interview series" on NBC, they also spent a great deal of money
advertising this "exclusive interview" on black radio stations and also
placed notices in local newspapers.

DISTORTIONS AND LIES IN THE NBC SERIES
In an NBC interview Gov. Whitman was quoted as saying that "this has
nothing
to do with race, this had everything to do with crime." Either Gov.
Whitman
is completely unfamiliar with the facts in my case, or her sensitivity to
racism and to the plight of black people and other people of color in the
United States is at a sub-zero level. In 1973 the trial in Middlesex
County
had to be stopped because of the overwhelming racism expressed in the jury
room. The court was finally forced to rule that the entire jury panel had
been contaminated by racist comments like "If she's black, she's guilty."
In
an obvious effort to prevent us from being tried by "a jury of our peers
the
New Jersey courts ordered that a jury be selected from Morris County, New
Jersey where only 2.2 percent of the population was black and 97.5 percent
of potential jurors were white. In a study done in Morris County, one of
the
wealthiest counties in the country, 92 percent of the registered voters
said
that they were familiar with the case through the news media, and 72
percent
believed we were guilty based on pretrial publicity. During the jury
selection process in Morris County, white supremacists from the National
Social White People's Party, wearing Swastikas, demonstrated carrying
signs
reading "SUPPORT WHITE POLICE." The trial was later moved back to
Middlesex
County where 70 percent thought I was guilty based on pretrial publicity I
was tried by an all-white jury, where the presumption of innocence was not
the criteria for jury selection. Potential jurors were merely asked if
they
could "put their prejudices aside, and "render a fair verdict." The basic
reality in the United States is that being black is a crime and black
people
are always "suspects" and an accusation is usually a conviction. Most
white
people still think that being a "black militant" or a "black
revolutionary"
is tantamount to being guilty of some kind of crime. The current situation
in New Jersey's prisons, underlines the racism that dominates the politics
of the state of New Jersey, in particular and in the U.S. as a whole.
Although the population of New Jersey is approximately 78 percent white,
more than 75 percent of New Jersey's prison population is made up of
blacks
and Latinos. 80 percent of the women in Jersey prisons are people of
color.
That may not seem like racism to Gov. Whitman, but it reeks of of racism
to
us.

The NBC story implied that Governor Christie Whitman raised the reward for
my capture based on my interview with NBC. The fact of the matter is that
she has been campaigning since she was elected into office to double the
reward for my capture. In 1994, she appointed Col. Carl Williams who
immediately vowed to make my capture a priority. In 1995, Gov. Whitman
sought to "match a $25,000 departmental appropriation sponsored by an
"unidentified legislator." I watched a tape of Gov. Whitman's "testimony"
in
her interview with NBC. She gave a very dramatic, exaggerated version of
what happened, but there is no evidence whatsoever to support her claim
that
Trooper Foerster had "four bullets in him at least, and then they got up
and
with his own gun, fired two bullets into his head." She claimed that she
was
writing Janet Reno for federal assistance in my capture, based on what she
saw in the NBC interview. If this is the kind of "information" that is
being
passed on to Janet Reno and the Pope, it is clear that the facts have been
totally distorted. Whitman also claimed that my return to prison should be
a
condition for "normalizing relations with Cuba". How did I get so
important
that my life can determine the foreign relations between two governments?
Anybody who knows anything about New Jersey politics can be certain that
her
motives are purely political. She, like Torrecelli and several other
opportunistic politicians in New Jersey came to power, as part- time
lobbyists for the Batistia faction - soliciting votes from right wing
Cubans. They want to use my case as a barrier for normalizing relations
with
Cuba, and as a pretext for maintaining the immoral blockade against the
Cuban people.

In what can only be called deliberate deception and slander NBC aired a
photograph of a woman with a gun in her hand implying that the woman in
the
photograph was me. I was not, in fact, the woman in the photograph. The
photograph was taken from a highly publicized case where I was accused of
bank robbery. Not only did I voluntarily insist on participating in a
lineup, during which witnesses selected another woman, but during the
trial,
several witnesses, including the manager of the bank, testified that the
woman in that photograph was not me. I was acquitted of that bank robbery.
NBC aired that photograph on at least 5 different occasions, representing
the woman in the photograph as me. How is it possible, that the New Jersey
State Police, who claim to have a detective working full time on my case,
Governor of New Jersey Christine Whitman, who claimed she reviewed all the
"evidence," or NBC, which has an extensive research department, did not
know
that the photograph was false? It was a vile, fraudulent attempt to make
me
look guilty. NBC deliberately misrepresented the truth. Even after many
people had called in, and there was massive fax, and e-mail campaign
protesting NBC's mutilation of the facts, Ralph Penza and NBC continued to
broadcast that photograph, representing it as me. Not once have the New
Jersey State Police, Governor Christine Whitman, or NBC come forth and
stated that I was not the woman in the photograph, or that I had been
acquitted of that charge.

Another major lie and distortion was that we had left trooper Werner
Foerster on the roadside to die. The truth is that there was a major
cover-up as to what happened on May 2, 1973. Trooper Harper, the same man
who shot me with my arms raised in the air, testified that he returned to
the State Police Headquarters which was less than 200 yards away, "To seek
aid." However, tape recordings and police reports made on May 2, 1973
prove
that not only did Trooper Harper give several conflicting statements about
what happened on the turnpike, but he never once mentioned the name of
Werner Foerster, or the fact that the incident took place right in front
of
the Trooper Headquarters. In an effort to hide his tracks and cover his
guilt he said nothing whatsoever about Foerster to his superiors or to his
fellow officers.

In a clear attempt to discredit me, Col. Carl Williams of the New Jersey
State Police was allowed to give blow by blow distortions of my interview.
In my interview I stated that on the night of May 2, 1973 I was shot with
my
arms in the air, then shot again in the back. Williams stated "that is
absolutely false. Our records show that she reached in her pocketbook,
pulled out a nine millimeter weapon and started firing." However, the
claim
that I reached into my pocketbook and pulled out a gun, while inside the
car
was even contested by trooper Harper. Although on three official reports,
and when he testified before the grand jury he stated that he saw me take
a
gun out of my pocketbook, he finally admitted under cross-examination that
he never saw me with my hands in a pocketbook, never saw me with a weapon
inside the car, and that he did not see me shoot him.

The truth is that I was examined by 3 medical specialists:

(1) A Neurologist who testified that I was immediately paralyzed
immediately
after the being shot.
(2) A Surgeon who testified that "It was absolutely anatomically necessary
that both arms be in the air for Mrs. Chesimard to receive the wounds."
The
same surgeon also testified that the claim by Trooper Harper that I had
been
crouching in a firing position when I was shot was "totally anatomically
impossible."
(3) A Pathologist who testified that "There is no conceivable way that it
[the bullet] could have traveled over to hit the clavicle if her arm was
down." he said "It was impossible to have that trajectory"

The prosecutors presented no medical testimony whatsoever to refute the
above medical evidence.

No evidence whatsoever was ever presented that I had a 9-millimeter
weapon,
in fact New Jersey State Police testified that the 9-millimeter weapon
belonged to Zayd Malik Shakur based on a holster fitting the weapon that
they was recovered from his body.

There were no fingerprints, or any other evidence whatsoever that linked
me
to any guns or ammunition.

The results of the Neutron Activation test to determine whether or not I
had
fired a weapon were negative.

Although Col. Williams refers to us as the "criminal element" neither
Zayd,
or Sundiata Acoli or I were criminals, we were political activists. I was
a
college student until the police kicked down my door in an effort to force
me to "cooperate" with them and Sundiata Acoli was a computer expert who
had
worked for NASA, before he joined the Black Panther Party and was targeted
by COINTELPRO.

In an obvious maneuver to provoke sympathy for the police, the NBC series
juxtaposed my interview with the weeping widow of Werner Foerster. While I
can sympathize with her grief, I believe that her appearance was
deliberately included to appeal to people's emotions, to blur the facts,
to
make me look like a villain, and to create the kind of lynch mob mentality
that has historically been associated with white women portrayed as
victims
of black people. In essence the supposed interview with me became a forum
for the New State Police, Foerster's widow, and the obviously hostile
commentary of Ralph Penza. The two initial programs together lasted 3.5
minutes - me - 59 seconds, the widow 50 seconds, the state police 38
seconds, and Penza - 68 seconds. Not once in the interview was I ever
asked
about Zayd, Sundiata or their families. As the interview went on, it was
painfully evident that Ralph Penza would never see me as a human being.
Although I tried to talk about racism and about the victims of government
and police repression, it was clear that he was totally uninterested.

I have stated publicly on various occasions that I was ashamed of
participating in my trial in New Jersey trial because it was so racist,
but
I did testify. Even though I was extremely limited by the judge, as to
what
I could testfy about, I testified as clearly as I could about what
happened
that night. After being almost fatally wounded I managed to climb in the
back seat of the car to get away from the shooting. Sundiata drove the car
five miles down the road carried me into a grassy area because he was
afraid
that the police would see the car parked on the side of the road and just
start shooting into it again. Yes, it was five miles down the highway
where
I was captured, dragged out of the car, stomped and then left on the
ground.
Although I drifted in and out of consciousness I remember clearly that
both
while I was lying on the ground, and while I was in the ambulance, I kept
hearing the State troopers ask "is she dead yet?" Because of my condition
I
have no independent recollection of how long I was on the ground, or how
long it was before the ambulance was allowed to leave for the hospital,
but
in the trial transcript trooper Harper stated that it was while he was
being
questioned, some time after 2:00 am that a detective told him that I had
just been brought into the hospital. I was the only live "suspect" in
custody, and prior to that time Harper, had never told anyone that a woman
had shot him.

As I watched Governor Whitman's interview the one thing that struck me was
her "outrage" at my joy about being a grandmother, and my "quite nice
life"
as she put it here in Cuba. While I love the Cuban people and the
solidarity
they have shown me, the pain of being torn away from everybody I love has
been intense. I have never had the opportunity to see or to hold my
grandchild. If Gov. Whitman thinks that my life has been so nice, that 50
years of dealing with racism, poverty, persecution, brutality, prison,
underground, exile and blatant lies has been so nice, then I'd be more
than
happy to let her walk in my shoes for a while so she can get a taste of
how
it feels. I am a proud black woman, and I'm not about to get on the
television and cry for Ralph Penza or any other journalist, but the way I
have suffered in my lifetime, and the way my people have suffered, only
god
can bear witness to.

Col. Williams of the New Jersey State Police stated "we would do
everything
we could go get her off the island of Cuba and if that includes kidnaping,
we would do it." I guess the theory is that if they could kidnap millions
of
Africans from Africa 400 years ago, they should be able to kidnap one
African woman today. It is nothing but an attempt to bring about the
re-incarnation of the Fugitive Slave Act. All I represent is just another
slave that they want to bring back to the plantation. Well, I might be a
slave, but I will go to my grave a rebellious slave. I am and I feel like
a
maroon woman. I will never voluntarily accept the condition of slavery,
whether it's de-facto or ipso-facto, official, or unofficial. In another
recent interview, Williams talked about asking the federal government to
add
to the $50,000 reward for my capture. He also talked about seeking
"outside
money, or something like that, a benefactor, whatever." Now who is he
looking to "contribute" to that "cause"? The Ku Klux Klan, the Neo Nazi
Parties, the white militia organizations? But the plot gets even thicker.
He
says that the money might lure bounty hunters. "There are individuals out
there, I guess they call themselves 'soldiers of fortune' who might be
interested in doing something, in turning her over to us" Well, in the old
days they used to call them slave-catchers, trackers, or patter-rollers,
now
they are called mercenaries. Neither the governor nor the state police say
one word about "justice." They have no moral authority to do so. The level
of their moral and ethical bankruptcy is evident in their eagerness to not
only break the law and hire hoodlums, all in the name of "law and order."
But you know what gets to me, what makes me truly indignant? With the
schools in Paterson, N.J. falling down, with areas of Newark looking like
a
disaster area, with the crack epidemic, with the wide-spread poverty and
unemployment in New Jersey, these depraved, decadent, would-be
slave-masters
want federal funds to help put this "nigger wench" back in her place. They
call me the "most wanted woman" in Amerika. I find that ironic. I've never
felt very "wanted" before. When it came to jobs, I was never the "most
wanted," when it came to "economic opportunities I was never the "most
wanted, when it came to decent housing." It seems like the only time Black
people are on the "most wanted" list is when they want to put us in
prison.

But at this moment, I am not so concerned about myself. Everybody has to
die
sometime, and all I want is to go with dignity. I am more concerned about
the growing poverty, the growing despair that is rife in Amerika. I am
more
concerned about our younger generations, who represent our future. I am
more
concerned that one-third of young black are either in prison or under the
jurisdiction of the "criminal in-justice system." I am more concerned
about
the rise of the prison-industrial complex that is turning our people into
slaves again. I am more concerned about the repression, the police
brutality, violence, the rising wave of racism that makes up the political
landscape of the U.S. today. Our young people deserve a future, and I
consider it the mandate of my ancestors to be part of the struggle to
insure
that they have one. They have the right to live free from political
repression. The U.S. is becoming more and more of a police state and that
fact compels us to fight against political repression. I urge you all,
every
single person who reads this statement, to fight to free all political
prisoners. As the concentration camps in the U.S. turn into death camps, I
urge you to fight to abolish the death penalty. I make a special, urgent
appeal to you to fight to save the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the only
political prisoner who is currently on death row.

It has been a long time since I have lived inside the United States. But
during my lifetime I have seen every prominent black leader, politician or
activist come under attack by the establishment media. When
African-Americans appear on news programs they are usually talking about
sports, entertainment or they are in handcuffs. When we have a protest
they
ridicule it, minimized it, or cut the numbers of the people who attended
in
half. The news is big business and it is owned operated by affluent white
men. Unfortunately, they shape the way that many people see the world, and
even the way people see themselves. Too often black journalists, and other
journalists of color mimic their white counterparts. They often gear their
reports to reflect the foreign policies and the domestic policies of the
same people who are oppressing their people. In the establishment media,
the
bombing and of murder of thousands of innocent women and children in Libya
or Iraq or Panama is seen as "patriotic," while those who fight for
freedom,
no matter where they are, are seen as "radicals," "extremists," or
"terrorists."

Like most poor and oppressed people in the United States, I do not have a
voice. Black people, poor people in the U.S. have no real freedom of
speech,
no real freedom of expression and very little freedom of the press. The
black press and the progressive media has historically played an essential
role in the struggle for social justice. We need to continue and to expand
that tradition. We need to create media outlets that help to educate our
people and our children, and not annihilate their minds. I am only one
woman. I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel
that people need to be educated as to what is going on, and to understand
the connection between the news media and the instruments of repression in
Amerika. All I have is my voice, my spirit and the will to tell the truth.
But I sincerely ask, those of you in the Black media, those of you in the
progressive media, those of you who believe in truth freedom, To publish
this statement and to let people know what is happening. We have no voice,
so you must be the voice of the voiceless.

Free all Political Prisoners,
I send you Love and Revolutionary Greetings From Cuba, One of the Largest,
Most Resistant and Most Courageous Palenques (Maroon Camps) That has ever
existed on the Face of this Planet.

Assata Shakur
Havana, Cuba
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From: kcamm...@aol.com
Subject: Kenyan Forest Dwellers Face Eviction

Greetings - the following is something we all can participate in.
Hopefully
we can make a difference and the Ogiek people can remain in their
ancestral
home. At the bottom of this message you will find an article concerning
the
Ogiek people. I hope you will forward this to others you know so that we
can
really make an impact. Thank you - Karen:

Thank you -
Kenyan Forest Dwellers Face Eviction

Dear Friends.
The Ogiek people are a minority forest dwelling community residing in the
Mau Forests and adjacent areas since time immemorial. As of 1939, there
have
been attempts by successive political regimes in Kenya to remove the
Ogiek
from their ancestral homelands, often forcibly. The Ogiek people of
Tinet,
like other Ogiek, had a well-defined land tenure system based on the
clan-family holdings of forested ridges. The unfortunate fact is that
today
the Ogiek have been pushed into the last Forest Belt of the former Mighty
Mau and Mt.Elgon Forests. The Tinet forest, about 250 kilometers west of
Nairobi, is part of the much larger and fast disappearing forest of the
Mau
Forest.

The Ogiek 's effort to hold onto their homelands is being challenged by
the
state. The state has systematically degazetted the forest areas and
allocated big parcels of former forest lands to the ruling elites, in
addition to the licensing logging in the forests to the level of total
destruction.

We are asking for your important participation in an International Letter
Writing Campaign to help advocate for the Ogiek people. Your letters are
needed and are crucial to ensuring the future of the Ogiek.

With Love and Respect in Defense of Human Rights & The Environment
Sincerely,

Redwood Mary, ECOTERRA International /Plight of The Redwoods Campaign
Julia Butterfly Hill, Circle of Life Foundation
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
Erick Brownstein, Rainforest Action Network

*Please send this request to your organizational list serves and email.
*Please write a letter or create a petition on behalf of the Ogiek
community.
*Talking points for your letter and or petition are listed below.
*Please send a copy of letters and or petition that you create to the
addresses listed.
*Please apply airmail postage to ensure delivery to Kenya.

Sample Letter:

Dear_______ It has come to my (our) attention that the Ogiek Community
residing in the Mau and Mt. Elgon forests have no guarantee to their
ancestral homelands. The seizure and loss of the Ogiek forest lands began
in
1939 and still
continues today.

Kenya ratified the International Covenant on Economics, Social &
Cultural
Rights and the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. Please
uphold Kenya's responsibility as obliged by international law to respect,
protect and fulfill the rights of the Ogiek people to their homeland and
life foundations.

The Ogiek need your assistance in the protection of what is left of
their
natural forest habitat. As long as the Ogiek Community has no guarantee
to
their rightful homelands and natural forest settlements, their human
rights
will be continued to be violated.

Please address the grievances of these marginalized people and formulate
and implement a policy framework that takes into account the security of
the
Ogiek's living, lifestyle and land rights.

Please take immediate action to guarantee the Ogiek Community a
formalized
self-determining land tenure process. The remaining forest must not be
further sacrificed to huge logging operations, the cultivation of tea and
other cash crops for export. In closing we are asking you to do
everything
in your power to stop the eviction and displacement of the 5,000 Ogiek
people from Tinet Forest

Sincerely,
Your Name, and Organizational Affiliation (-if any)
Address and Country

Please Mail a copy your letters and or petitions to:
EcoTerra International
U.S.A. Node
c/o Plight Of The Redwoods Campaign
P.O. Box 2856 Ft. Bragg
CA 95437 USA

Honorable Daniel T. Arap Moi
President of Kenya
Harambee House
P.O. Box 30510 Nairobi, Kenya

Mr. Amos Wako
The Attorney General
State Law Office
P.O. Box 40112
Nairobi, Kenya

Mr. Bernard Chunga
The Chief Justice,
Law Courts
P.O. Box 30187
Nairobi, Kenya

Mr. Charles Njonjo
The Chairperson
Land Review Commission
c/o Ministry of Lands & Settlement
P.O.Box 30450
Nairobi, Kenya

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Small Kenyan tribe battles government over fate of forest

The Ogiek tribe hunts and gathers in the Rift Valley Tinet Forests

October 23, 1999
Web posted at: 8:04 p.m. EDT (0004 GMT)

>From Correspondent Alphonso Van Marsh

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- A small rural tribe is taking the Kenyan
government
to court over the fate of precious forest land where tribe members have
lived
for as long as anyone can remember.

The 5,000-member Ogiek tribe hunts and gathers in the Rift Valley Tinet
Forests, about 120 miles northwest of Nairobi. The Ogiek also harvest rich
honey from forest beehives.

During colonial times, members of the tribe were forced onto smaller plots
as
British colonialists settled on the valuable land. The post-colonial
Kenyan
government kicked out the British in 1963.

VIDEO
Correspondent Alphonso Van Marsh reports on a clash in Kenya of indigenous
land rights versus environmental conservation
Windows Media 28K 80K.

Last spring, the government served an eviction notice on the tribe.
Officials
say they plan to protect the forests, but the Ogiek fear the land will be
illegally sold to agricultural developers.

"They will plant tea and make a lot of money in disregard of the rights of
the Ogiek community," says Joseph Sergon, an attorney for the tribe.

Last month, the tribe won a restraining order against the eviction. This
week, a court is expected to decide whether the forest meets the
constitutional definition of a homeland. That would allow the Ogiek to
stay.

But there's no guarantee of a quick solution. Similar land cases have been
stalled in Kenya's bureaucratic legal system for years. And in the
meantime,
the government considers the Ogiek trespassers in their own home.

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From: ijbl...@aol.com
Subject: College? Where Are The Black Males?

*circulate

>From Black Excel: The College Help Network
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COLLEGE? WHERE ARE THE BLACK MALES?
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The following list of Black female/male student enrollment
ratios at historically Black Colleges, is telling. The figures
are for the 1999-2000 year. We believe that the figures are
probably representative of what is probably occurring at
predominantly white colleges where Black students are enrolled.
You don't have to be a mathematician to figure out why our
critical thinkers are concerned. Check out the percentages
below.

*Here's a sampling of the female/male
enrollment percentages at some HBCUs:
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Fisk University---72% female, 28% male
Tuskegee University---60% female, 40% male
Clark Atlanta University---72% female, 26% male
Morris Brown College---59% female, 41% male
Hampton University--60% female, 40% male
St. Paul's College--63% female, 37% male
Virginia State University---58% female, 42% male
Virginia Union University---58% female, 42% male
North Carolina Central University--63% female, 37% male
North Carolina A&T University---51% female, 49% male
St. Augustine's College---58% female, 42% male
Bethune Cookman College--57% female, 43% male
Lincoln University--57% female, 43% male
Dillard University--78% female, 28% male
Xavier University---71% female, 29% male
Howard University---63% female, 37% male
Central State University--57% female, 43% male
South Carolina State University--58% female, 42% male
Voorhees College---65% female, 35% male
Bowie State University---62% female, 38% male
Morgan State University---59% female, 41% male
University of Maryland at Eastern Shore---58% female, 42% male
Alcorn State University---60% female, 40% male
Jackson State University---59% female, 41% male
Rust College---58% female, 42% male
Toogaloo College---68% female, 32% male
Grambling State University---55% female, 45% male
Shaw University---63% female, 37% male
Winston-Salem State University---66% female, 33% male
LeMoyne-Owens---68% female, 32% male
Alabama State University---55% female, 45% male
Miles College---56% females, 44% male
Stillman College--66% female, 34% male
Southern University---67% female, 33% male
Elizabeth City State University--63% female, 37% male

The Others:
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Of course, Spelman is all female, as well as Bennett.
Morehouse is all male.

At Benedict College the ratio is at 50/50. At Allen University,
with less than 300 students, it's 53% male. At Lane College,
with less than 700 students, it's 51% male.

Oh yes, the gender ratios is a major problem, with all kinds
of implications for the near future and beyond. In a 1999
issue of the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, for
example, you'll find this note: "Black women earn nearly
two thirds of all bachelor's degrees awarded to African Americans.
This dominance by black women is now reflected in scientific
disciplines as well." Comments? Strategic suggestions?

*information provided
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From: queen_...@yahoo.com
Subject: The Triangular Slave Trade - for Reparations sake

Posted by my elder in arms Curtis Mullins - please
read.

peace and blessings,

queenie
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++The
Triangular Slave Trade
This article reproduced in its entirety and was
written by Neelam Sharma
using material submitted by Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, a
political prisoner currently held in Easter Correctional Facility
Napanoch, NY and Bonnie Kerness, associate director of the American
Friends
Service Committee in New Jersey, a prisoners' rights advocate for the past
20
years.
The U.S. representative to the United Nations
recently expressed his disgust at a request that the American Government
should "officially apologize" for the damage done to African Americans
by the Triangular Slave Trade [the term applied to describe the trade in
Africans]; his reasoning was that since slavery was actually "legal" at
the time no
"crime" was in fact committed. Taking note of this line of argument, it
is important to understand clearly that even as we are busy
campaigning for reparations for past wrongs, a new form of slavery is
being "legally"
created.
The African slave trade of 16th-18th century did
not appear suddenly overnight; it grew over a period of time driven by the
"economic interests" of merchants and businessmen; and it was sanctioned
by
their representatives in government. This is precisely the process that
is
unfolding today with the creation of a "prison industrial complex" on a
scale never before seen.
There are two very disturbing aspects of the growth in
this "new industry": the contracting out of penal institutions to business
interests, and the increasing use of physical and psychological torture
on prisoners as a form of "control".
The Growth of Private Prisons Ten years ago there were just 5 privately
run
prisons in the country, housing a population of 2000. Today, 20 private
firms
run more than 100 prisons with about 62,000 beds. That is still less
than 5 per cent, but the industry is expanding fast, with the number of
private
prison beds expected to grow to 360,000 during the next decade. Already
28
states have passed legislation making it legal for private contractors to
run prisons; more are expected to follow suit. Companies like Goldman
Sachs
and Co., Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Smith Barney Shearson Inc.,
and Merril Lynch and Co., are among those competing to underwrite prison
construction with private, tax-exempt bonds (where no voter approval is
required). Why such a scramble for these contracts? Consider the growth
of
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the industry leader whose stock
price has increased from $8 a share in 1992 to about $30 today, and whose
revenue
rose by 81% in 1995 alone. The Nashville-based CCA, which runs 46 penal
institutions in 11 states, controls roughly half of the industry. It
took ten years for the company to reach 10,000 beds; it is now growing by
the
same number every year.
The Triangle of Interest
On May 12 1994 the Wall Street Journal featured an
article entitled: "Making Crime Pay-Triangle of Interest Created
Infrastructure To Fight Lawlessness-Cities see Jobs; Politicians see a
Popular
Issue and Businesses Cash In- The Cold War of the 90's". In other words,
the media creates a climate of fear about rates of crime, politicians
campaign on this issue demanding new legislation and get tough measures
like
"three strikes"; businesses step in to snap up the lucrative prison
contracts. Of course it is precisely big business and their
representative in
government who control the media.
This "Triangle of Interest" has set the stage for
the resurrection of slavery in America since this peculiar institution was
never in fact abolished. From the time it was written, the 13th
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which is popularly known to have
abolished "involuntary servitude" and "chattel slavery" of Africans, has
had
an exception clause: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted." This clause has been consistently upheld
by the U.S. Supreme Court, meaning that prisoners are to be considered no
more than "slaves of the state."
A Social Environment That Creates Criminals
It was this same clause in the 13th Amendment that
was used, after the emancipation of African slaves, to sentence Africans
who were once slaves, to new forms of slavery. In a new book called
Prison
Writing in 20th Century America, the editor H. Bruce Franklin begins with
an
Autobiography of an Imprisoned Peon. A brief extract from this essay,
which was originally published in 1904, shows clearly how slavery was
continued using the exception clause. "One of the usual ways of securing
laborers for a large peonage camp is for the proprietor to send out an
agent to the little courts in the towns and villages, and where a man
charged
with some petty offenses has no friends or money the agent will urge him
to
plead guilty, with the understanding that the agent will pay his fine,
and in
that way save him from the disgrace of being sent to jail or the chain
gang!
For this high favor the man must sign before hand a paper signifying his
willingness to go to the farm and work out the amount of the fine imposed.
Every year many convicts were brought to the Senator's camp!" The writer,
who
to this day remains anonymous, goes on to explain that most of those
"convicts" had been "set-up
for the crimes" they were convicted of with the
collusion of state
officials,
plantation owners and paid "agents" in the African
community.
What is different about the situation existing
today? High
proportions
of people of color are filling this country's prisons
for drug-related
crime,
specifically offenses related to crack-cocaine. The
truth about the
U.S.
government's complicity in introducing crack cocaine
into the Black
neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, through
it's agency the
CIA, is
only now emerging. Since the release of Gary Webb's
articles in the
San Jose
Mercury-News in 1996, detailing how the CIA used the
Nicaraguan Contras
to
flood the Black communities with cheap drugs, the CIA
has consistently
denied
these allegations. However, in July of this year, CIA
officials spoke
anonymously to reporters about an internal agency
report relating to
these
charges. It is interesting what one of them said, "In
some cases, we
knew
that the people we were dealing with would not qualify
as Vienna
choirboys,
but we dealt with them nonetheless because of the
value they brought."
It is
also interesting that this 2-volume report is still
classified.
The Criminalization of Youth of Color
This is simply one method that has been used by
those with power to
criminalize poor and oppressed people, especially
young males of color,
but
increasingly also women of color. Some of the
processes used to create
entire communities of "criminals" are very subtle;
this subject could
warrant
an entire article by itself. But a measure of how
successful these
attempts
have been is the acceptance of prison as a part of
life among large
sections
of our youth. While Black people, conservatively,
comprise only 12.5%
of the
entire population; we make up 48% of the prison
population. The
fastest
growing ethnic group being imprisoned today is people
of Mexican
descent.
This country imprisons more of its citizens than any
other
industrialized
nation: 1.7 million people are currently in state and
federal prisons.
This
number does not reflect those in children's
facilities, immigration
detention
center, or county and city jails.
Could it be that these figures in some way reflect
a growth in
crime?
Well, none other than the FBI recently reported that
crime in America
is in
fact decreasing (the one exception is crimes of
violence by police
officers!). The truth is that to be profitable
private prison firms
must
ensure that prisons are not only built but also
filled. Experts in the
"industry" claim that 90-95 % capacity is needed to
guarantee the hefty
rates
of return required luring investors. Prudential
Securities, for
example,
issued a wildly bullish report on CCA a few years ago,
but cautioned,
"it
takes time to bring inmate population levels up to
where they cover
costs.
Low occupancy is a drag on profits."
Businesses and Politicians-"Working" Together
It is hardly surprising that all the major firms
in the field have
hired
big time lobbyists to push for the type of "get tough
policies" needed
to
ensure their continued growth. When it was seeking a
contract to run a
halfway house in New York City, Esmore (the number 3
firm in this new
industry) hired a former aide to State Representative
Edolphus Towns to
lobby
on its behalf. The former aide won the contract, as
well as the
support of
his former boss, who had been an opponent of the
project. In 1995 the
chairman of Wackenhut (which has a third of the
"private prison
market")
testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee urging
support for
amendments
to the Violent Crime Control Act. The amended
provisions of the Act
subsequently passed, authorizing the expenditure of
$10 billion to
construct
and repair state prisons.
CCA has been especially adept at expansion via
"political payoffs."
The
first prison the company managed was the Silverdale
Workhouse in
Hamilton
County, Tennessee. After Tennessee Commissioner Bob
Long voted to
accept
CCA's bid for this project, the company awarded Long's
pest control
firm a
lucrative contract. When Long decided the time was
right to quit
public
life, CCA hired him as a lobbyist. The company has
been a major
financial
supporter of Lamar Alexander, the former Tennessee
governor, and failed
presidential candidate. In one of many "sweetheart"
deals, Lamar's
wife made
more than $130,000 on a $5,000 investment in CCA.
Tennessee Governor
Ned
McWherter is another CCA stockholder; he is quoted in
the company's
1995
Annual Report as saying "the federal government would
be well served to
privatize all of their corrections."
The young male of color who is worth less than
nothing in this
economic
system is suddenly worth between $30-60 thousand
dollars a year in the
"justice" system. About three-quarters of new
admissions to American
jails
and prisons are men of African and Mexican descent.
Jerome Miller, a
former
youth corrections officer in Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts, says, "The
race
card has changed the whole playing field. Because the
prison system
doesn't
affect a significant percentage of young white men,
we'll increasingly
see
prisoners treated as commodities. For now the
situation is a bit more
benign
than it was back in the 19th Century, but I'm not sure
it will stay
that way
for long."
Controlling These New Slaves
In July of this year a judge in California ordered
a defendant in
her
courtroom to be zapped with a "stun belt" because he
would not keep
quiet
when told. In a September 13th 1997 People's Weekly
World article by
Julia
Lutsky entitled "Torture in America," the writer
describes stun belts.
"A
relatively new restraint device is the stun belt, in
use since 1993.
It
delivers an 8 second 50,000 volt shock to the
prisoner's kidney area,
often
leaving him writhing in pain on the floor. Some
states are considering
it as
a possible alternative to chaining work gangs. It
leaves prisoners
free to
move about, and can be activated by a guard from 300
feet away. Stun
belts
are currently used in the federal prison system, the
US Marshall's
Service,
over 100 county agencies and the corrections
facilities of 16 states."
The
nonchalant use of this device in a courtroom against
someone who was no
physical threat whatsoever, merely reflects the
increasingly common use
of
such means of torture within the prisons.
There are also "stun guns," "tasers" and "electric
riot shields,"
which
like the belt are all electronic shocking devices. In
1996, the
Phoenix New
Times reported the death of inmate Scott Norberg at
the Maricopa County
Jail.
Allegedly, he died while fighting with officers who
were attempting to
confine him in a "restraint chair," while strapping a
towel around his
mouth
to "keep him from spitting." During the struggle,
Norberg was shocked
multiple times with stun guns. Inmates who witnessed
his death
estimated
that he had been shocked between 8 and 20 times.
Guards estimated the
number
of shocks between 2 and 6. An examination of
Norberg's corpse,
commissioned
by his family, puts the number at 21.
Donald Blosswick, associate professor of
Mechanical Engineering at
the
University of Utah, contends that the design of the
"restraint chair"
is
unsafe, because it forces prisoners into a stressful
position and does
not
include directions to move the prisoners' limbs
regularly. Richard
Swart, a
social worker incarcerated at a Utah State Prison,
provided testimony
for
another inmate. Scotty Lee Yocham. He wrote:
"Yocham was directed to
leave
the strip cell and a urine soaked pillowcase was place
over his head
like a
hood. (He) was then walked, shackled and hooded to a
different cell
where he
was placed in a device called 'the chair'. The
'chair' is a restraint
device
designed for mentally ill persons who pose a
significant danger of
harming
themselves or others. The inmate is stripped nude,
placed in the chair
with
their buttocks several inches below their knees. The
arms and legs are
then
cuffed or shackled to the legs of the chair to prevent
the inmate from
moving. The design of the chair forces the inmate's
back against the
chair.
Mobility is almost non-existent. The inmate cannot
relieve himself
without
soiling himself. He is left uncovered and
unprotected, in pain, and
shackled. Yocham was kept in the chair for over 30
hours."
The Colorado ACLU is engaged in a federal suit
against the El Paso
County
Jail concerning the death of a prisoner who was
strapped to a device
known
as the "restraint board". This board is 7 feet long
and 1 foot wide.
Prisoners are strapped face down in 7 places from the
ankle to the
head-making movement impossible. The inmate in
question, Michael
Lewis, died
on February 7, 1998, after being strapped to the board
for several
hours for
the second time that day. The lawsuit alleges that
several hundred
prisoners
have been strapped to the board in the last few years,
some for as long
as 12
hours. The ACLU alleges that "the restraint board is
a terrifying
experience
that causes pain, psychic pain, mental distress and
physical injuries."
Another restraint device is "the motorcycle." Its
use has been
reported
by prisoners in South Carolina being held in isolation
units. It is
similar
to the "board," in that prisoners are strapped down at
several body
points.
However, the use of this particular board is
accompanied by a
motorcycle
helmet, which is placed on the prisoner's head to
prevent the prisoner
from
repeatedly and deliberately banging it.
The use of "pepper spray" is perhaps one of the
most frequently
reported
methods of torture. Ronnie Stewart, prisoner at the
Arizona State
prison in
Florence states: "The use of pepper spray and
beatings is a part of
everyday
life within the system here at the Special Management
Unit #1 if it is
not
being sprayed directly on you, then the entire wing is
being sprayed.
This
has occurred 3 times in the past 2 weeks. It is not
uncommon for the
officers to use up to 8 cans on a single inmate. I
myself was sprayed
and it
was about 10 hours before I was allowed to wash off
the chemical agent.
This
resulted in burns and blisters to my arms, face,
chest, and feet. For
the
entire 10 hours it felt like I was being boiled alive.
When you are
forced
to stand in the sun with no shelter the sweat from
your body continues
to
reactivate this chemical agent so that you remain in
extreme pain the
entire
day."
Isolation
Reports of the use of these various devices of
torture within the
prisons
are coming almost exclusively from prisoners being
kept in isolation,
which
in itself is increasingly used as form of control and
torture. In two
landmark decisions U.S. judges have recently sentenced
people to life
in
solitary confinement, perhaps marking a new era in the
use of "sensory
deprivation" as a condition of imprisonment. These
sentences reflect
the
U.S. criminal justice policy which increasingly
encourages the use of
"control units," "security housing units" and
"super-max" prisons.
The first official "control unit" was opened in
Marion Federal
Prison in
Illinois in 1972. It was a "behavior modification"
experimental unit.
Other
similar units began opening in state prisons across
the country around
the
same time. In 1983 the entire prison at Marion was
"locked down" (an
action
in which all prisoners are locked in cells 24 hours a
day without human
contact) in response to an isolated incident of
violence. This
lock-down has
never been lifted. In 1995 a new federal high tech
prison in Florence,
Colorado, took over the "mission" of Marion; according
to authorities
it
houses the "most predatory" prisoners i the U.S.
Prisoners are kept in
nearly total isolation for years; there is little
intersection with
anyone
other than prison staff. Visits and telephone calls
from family and
friends
are severely restricted, as are educational,
recreational, and
religious
services.
Currently over 40 states throughout the country
have adopted the
federal
model of control units; these often take the form of
"supermax", or
"maxi-maxi" prisons. While specific conditions in
these units vary,
their
goal is to "break" prisoners through spiritual,
psychological and/or
physical
breakdown. Supporters of these units claim they are
necessary to deal
with
"hardened criminals." In fact, the development of
control units can be
traced directly to the years of the Civil Rights and
Black Power
Movements
when many activists found themselves in prison. The
use of sensory
deprivation as a form of behavior modification was
extensively used on
members of the Black Panther Party, Black Liberation
Army, Puerto Rican
Independence Movement, and American Indian Movement,
as well as white
political activists, jail house lawyers, Islamic
militants and prison
activists.
In recent years, the rapid growth of these
"control units" has been
accompanied by an insane duplication of their controls
and
restrictions. For
example, when a control unit prisoner leaves his cage,
he is
strip-searched,
even when he has only been in contact with prison
staff. Oscar Lopez,
a
Puerto Rican political prisoner, reported being
searched rectally 3
times
returning; on e time he hadn't been in the direct
company of anyone
else for
months. Increasingly, mentally ill prisoners are
being put into
isolation
rather than receiving the treatment they need. In New
Jersey there is
the
documented case of Frank Hunter, who died in an
isolation unit after
being
forced to commit sexual acts for food; he didn't know
who or where he
was
when he died.
How will a government, which today sanctions such
barbaric
conditions
within its prisons, take seriously a demand that it
apologizes for past
atrocities, never mind repairing the damage? A
distinguishing feature
of the
trade in Africans, which first brought Black people to
this continent,
was
that the slave was seen as a "commodity", nothing more
than "chattel"
to be
used for profit. Today, would-be profiters rub their
hands in glee
when they
see the potential profits to be made from this modern
version of the
slave
trade, as characterized by a headline in USA Today:
"Everybody's doin'
the
Jailhouse Stock." The forces that seek to benefit
from this new slave
trade
have formed a "triangle of interest."
The time has arrived for African-Americans, and
all poor and
oppressed
people, to form our own "circle of interest." It is
only by putting
aside
our differences, our egos and our sectarian interests,
and
concentrating on
the commonality of our oppression, that we can wage an
affective
resistance
to this new effort to enslave us. Certainly there can
be no doubt that
today, more than ever, the poverty and oppression
within our
communities is
inextricable linked to the situation in the prison
system. We cannot
successfully challenge either one without challenging
the other.

"The difference between successful and
unsuccessful movements is in
the
people who lead them. Successful ones are led by
persons gifted with a
delicate balance of both mental and physical
forcefulness. Brains are
useless without the nervous equipment and the muscle
required to
execute
their orders." -George Jackson, Field Marshall, BPP

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From: shelle...@juno.com
Subject: ACTIVISM IN DETROIT

for those of you who want to keep up with what activists are doing in
Detroit, check out
www.det-drums.com
michigan citizen is also online, its either
www.michigancitizen.com or www.michigancitizen.net
i cant remember which.
anyhoo-detroiters claim to be the most active black city in the
country....unfortunately we have an equally active and richer cadre of
boule' negroes who havent found a white ass they dont love kissing, and
work 24-7 trying to hand all the wealth and resources to the rich in
cash, but melanin deficient suburbanite hockey freaks. these demented
souls are lead by our illustrious punk of a mayor-dennis archer. (its too
bad we dont practice voodoo in this town.)---- so as local big head
thinker chris white says," its the africans vs the negroes", who will
prevail????? use the sites to keep informed!
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From: S A <savewi...@defenders.org>
Subject: Support Elephant Conservation

Oppose Illegal Poaching & Resumption of Ivory Trading

Barely ten years ago, wild elephants in Africa and Asia were hurtling
towards extinction. Poachers were killing elephants in record numbers
to feed the international demand for the ivory from elephant's tusks and
their hides. Elephants in Africa were particularly hard hit, with
populations in many countries nearly destroyed. In 1989, the nations of
the world took action through the Convention on International Trade on
Endangered Species (CITES) to ban the international ivory trade and stop
the wholesale slaughter of the world's elephants.

In 1997, CITES allowed a one-time trade in stockpiled ivory to resume
from some countries. That experiment resulted in dramatic increases in
poaching, both in the countries involved in the trade and across Africa
and Asia.

This past April in Nairobi, Kenya, the world's nations were once again
asked at CITES to approve a proposal to lift the ban and allow the ivory
trade to resume. In the end, this request was withdrawn, but the
poaching and illegal trade that was sparked by the experimental ivory
sale continues. To bring this poaching under control and to ensure that
it doesn't explode again if the ivory trade resumes, governments must
act now to enforce their laws and build their capacity to combat
elephant poachers now and in the future.

Help save elephants by visiting http://www.helpelephants.org! Send a
free e-mail to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urging them to support
elephant conservation and work to oppose illegal poaching and future
efforts to resume international trade in ivory.

Sincerely,

Help Elephants Campaign
Defenders of Wildlife
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From: ALEASE COMMUNICATIONS <LearnT...@TheBlackList.net>
Subject: HOPE Grows in Harlem

> HOPE Grows in Harlem
>
> May 2000, Harlem, NY - If you are looking for a
> reason to have hope in young people, don't look any
> further than the HOPE Institute for Teaching Youth
> Entrepreneurship graduation ceremony was held at
> the MetLife Financial Services Harlem headquarters
> on 125th Street on Thursday, May 4th at 6:00 p.m.
> HOPE (Harlem Overheard Publishing Enterprise) is the
> youth entrepreneurship arm of Harlem Overheard, New
> York City's fastest-growing youth-produced
> newspaper, published by Rheedlen Centers for
> Children and Families.
>
> Most would agree that it has become too easy to
> find negative headlines and reports on teenagers
> across the country, particularly African American
> and Latino youth from communities like Harlem. But
> don't despair and, more importantly, don't believe
> the hype, as young people across the country are
> doing some remarkably positive things that just
> don't make it to the airwaves. "You always hear
> about the bad and negative things young people are
> doing," said 16-year-old HOPE executive Rafee Grieg.
> "But you never see the positive things like what I
> have been doing for the last couple years."
>
> Greig is one of the youth organizers of the
> inaugural class of HOPE Institute participants, who
> participated in a 10-week introduction to
> entrepreneurship course which featured instructors
> from companies such as ALEASE COMMUNICATIONS, DME
> Interactive, NuJapple Marketing and Harris Public
> Relations of New York, to name a few. "The HOPE
> graduation will honor the next wave of entrepreneurs
> and professionals from Harlem," said Galvin
> Ferguson, HOPE's coordinator. "The message to our
> young people is that with the right vision and the
> right skills they can run their own businesses."
> Melvin Crenshaw, Program Manager of the Kidpreneurs
> Program at Black Enterprise Unlimited will be the
> keynote speaker for the graduation.
>
> During the graduation on May 4th the young HOPE
> executives revealed plans for the opening of
> America's first ever youth-managed fitness and
> nutrition center. The TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition
> Center is scheduled to open this summer at The
> Rheedlen University for Community Education in
> Harlem. "The Truce Fitness and Nutrition Center will
> provide young people with hands-on business and
> management experience," said Shawn Dove,
> editor-in-chief of Harlem Overheard. "The center
> will not only provide Harlem residents with a
> community-based fitness facility, it will be a
> cutting-edge youth development enterprise."
>
> Published by Rheedlen Centers for Children and
> Families, Harlem Overheard is published quarterly
> and has a city-wide circulation of 25,000. Since its
> creation in 1996, Harlem Overheard has trained over
> 200 youth in journalism, advertising sales, graphic
> design, marketing, promotions and computer literacy.
> Besides its HOPE division, Harlem Overheard has a
> youth theater company called HOT Works (Harlem
> Overheard Theater Works).

---
This is a dynamic group of young entrepreneurs!!! They will be featured
in our upcoming summer cyberzine, Word On The Net.

==

Peace.

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From: tri...@porus.com
Subject: NAMD Just A Reminder June

Just a Reminders

1. Urban Network Brooklyn Museum from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
2. Real Men Cook for Charities is looking for COOKS
3. MARKETING MONDAY'S , Black Music Month
4. The 2nd Annual "Who's The Boss" Business Conference
5. Health, Beauty & Fitness 2000 Renew Your Mind, Body and Spirit

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On Thursday June 1, the Urban Network (the same folks that bring you the
Summer Sizzler each year) will host a networking reception for Black
professionals and entrepreneurs at the Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern
Pkwy.),
from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

This will be a unique networking opportunity to meet and mingle with folks
from the New York area's premier Black professional groups: Association of
Black Women Attorneys, Black Bar Association of Bronx County, Black Data
Processing Associates, Health Visions Forum, National Association of Black
Accountants, Inc., National Black MBA Association, Inc., National Alliance
of Market Developers, National Society of Black Engineers, New York
Association of Black Journalists, New York Coalition of Black Architects,
Tri-State Howard University Law Alumni and the Urban Bankers Coalition,
Inc.

It is an opportunity to connect with other likeminded professionals and
business owners (without the music!). So bring plenty of business cards
and
a friend. Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served. There's no cost
to
attend.

RSVP's are required. Please call the NAMD hotline or email your
confirmation
(name & phone number) to cfra...@kipbusinessreport.com. BE SURE TO PLACE
IN THE SUBJECT LINE: "RSVP Urban Network"

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Real Men Cook for Charities is looking for:

COOKS - Men who can burn or just want be involved by serving their
favorite
dish lovingly prepared by their wife, girlfriend, significant other,
mother, grandmoter, cousin, friend, etc,-you get the picture.
VOLUNTEERS - Men and Women who want to donate their time to a worthy cause
and help make a great event successful. The next meeting is scheduled for
Thursday June 1 at 7 PM at the Met Life Bldg. (125th Street/Adam Clayton
Powell)

IN-KIND DONATIONS - Donations of goods and services are always
appreciated.
Please call either Norman Suber at 516-285-0163 or Yvette Harris at
212-831-1846 to coordinate the donations.

Thanking you in advance. Please Feel Free To Forward This Information.

Peace,

Norm

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EVENT: MARKETING MONDAY'S
DATE: June 12, 2000
TIME: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
LOCATION: MetLife Harlem Financial Services Center
203-07 west 125th Street, New York
PROGRAM: BLACK MUSIC MONTH
PARTICIPANTS: CDGalaxy.com, Lucent Tech, Geroge Allen, Senior
Engineer Gavfam Music, Inc
Must more to come. Keep reading your
e-mails.

OUTLINE
WHAT IS NAMD?
Established in 1998, under the auspices of The National Association of
Market Developers with 47 years of national community marketing, the
National Alliance of Market Developers is a professional organization
committed to being a catalyst for positive and progressive change for
African-Americans. Our focus is the African-American consumer market.
Members are found largely in the areas of marketing, management,
advertising, sales, public relations, urban affairs, and other related
fields. NAMD recognizes the vital role of individuals in these areas of
communication and offers a vehicle that enables them to exchange
knowledge, information, experience and know-how about the marketplace.

OUR MISSION
Our mission is to learn, teach and network for success. We seek to
cultivate those aspects of the Black experience that can produce results
for both the African-American community and institutions, private and
public.

MARKETING MONDAY'S

Every second Monday of each month, NAMD presents Marketing Monday's.
Marketing Monday's is an event, which focuses on gathering executives,
business owners, marketers and promoters for an evening of business
opportunities among each other. During the evening, our guests are
served mini appetizers, as they network among each other. Finally the
evening concludes by all guests introducing him or herself, who they
are, what they do and how can we be of service to each other. Marketing
Monday's has help direct executives and business owners in a positive
and productive direction, which has had strong influence towards their
business. Marketing Monday's is a great opportunity to meet and greet
new business and business
owner. Products and services may also take this opportunity to be
introduced.

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E-MAIL TRI...@PORUS.COM and receive a $5 dollar discount.

The 2nd Annual "Who's The Boss" Business Conference
Annual Event Presented by Women In The Black and The American Women's
Economic Development Corporation. Two of New York's Foremost Women's
Entrepreneurial Organizations.

New York - Over 200 of the tri-state area's female entrepreneurs will
join Women In The Black, an African American entrepreneurial
organization, and The American Women's Economic Development Corporation
(AWED) for the "Who's The Boss" Business Conference at the Harlem State
Office Building in New York City on Saturday June 3, 2000. This day long
event will be filled with an exciting keynote address with over 12
targeted workshops by some of New York's preeminent business leaders,
followed by a networking reception sponsored by Met Life's Harlem
Financial Center.

Princess Jenkins, the Founder and President of Women In The Black, says
"For ten years we have supported the entrepreneurial efforts of women
business owners." Participants will find this conference motivating,
empowering and filled with practical strategies for business success.

Conference registration is $75 per person and includes a continental
breakfast, seminar materials, luncheon and after conference network
reception hosted by the Met Life Harlem Financial Center. (AWED, NAMD,
UBAC, and NAMD members -- early registration $60.)

For more information call (212) 631-1022, e-mail
WomenIn...@Yahoo.com or visit our website at
www.WomenInTheBlack.bigstep.com.

Conference Sponsors Include:
* Fleet Bank
* American Women's Economic Development Corporation
* Urban Business Assistance Corporation
* National Association of Market Developers
* WBLS and WLIB Radios
* The Metlife Harlem Financial Center

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From: bro...@lava.net
Subject: Analysis; Ethiopia increasingly desperate, retreats from west,

News Analysis
by Thomas C. Mountain
Hawaii Black History Committee

Ethiopia, beginning to feel the effects of massive casualties in its
invasion of Eritrea, has been forced to withdraw the bulk of its forces
from
western Eritrea to reinforce the central, eastern and southern fronts. In
a
sign of its growing desperation, Ethiopia bombed the airport in the
Eritrean
capital of Asmara, threatening air shipments of food aid from the west.
As previously reported here, Ethiopia has been experiencing extremely
heavy casualties (as shown on Eritrean TV) and continues to be unable to
defeat the Eritrean military. In the west, after the initial suprise
breakthrough by the Ethiopians, the Eritrean military withdrew to
tactically
advantageous positions and has since completely halted the Ethiopian
militarys advance south.
In the central front, Ethiopian advances have been halted, and in some
cases reversed, with enormous Ethiopian casualties incurred. I must
stress,
all "advances" made by the Ethiopian military have been as a direct result
of tactical withdrawals dictated by strategic or diplomatic reasons.
Historically, Eritrean forces have won their greatest victories by
carrying out a series of strategic withdrawals in the face of
"overwhelming"
Ethiopian military forces, inflicting major losses, then, with their enemy
exhausted and overextended, striking suddenly and in concentrated force,
in
major, highly mobile counterattacks. The Ethiopian military leadership
knows
well this history, and is increasingly desperate to breakthrough Eritrean
defenses. Unable to do so and facing continued losses, they have now been
forced to withdraw the bulk of their army in the west of Eritrea to try
and
make their breakthroughs.
This analysis, of course, differs greatly from most of the rest of the
western press covering the so called "border war". Reports from as
recently
as last week had Eritrea on the verge of defeat. Most writers chose to
ignore the history of Eritrean military strategy as well as the evidence
of
enormous Ethiopian losses. Not one press agency has yet to report the
Eritrean television footage of Ethiopian casualties.
Western press reports are only now beginning to reflect the inability
of
the Ethiopian army to inflict any significant damage to the Eritrean
military. The Ethiopians themselves have publically confirmed this by
stating that their aim now is "to incapcitate the Eritrean military",
something they have failed completely to do. Eritrea still has most of its
tanks and mobile artillery in reserve, ready for their major counter
offensive. When this comes be prepared for a frenzy of anti-Eritrean
invective by western reporters with great globs of egg on their face,
being
forced to divert attention from their own very biased and in many cases
ignorant reports by accusing Eritrea of "breaking the peace" and
"continued
aggression against Ethiopia".
The question we must begin to address is "when Eritrea has routed the
Ethiopian military, at what point in the destruction of the Ethiopian
military will Eritrean national security have been assured? Will this
entail
the necessity of crossing into Ethiopian territory to finish the job?"
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From: the_asi...@hotmail.com
Subject: COINTELPRO Revisited - COINTELPRO and Qubilah Shabazz

COINTELPRO Revisited - COINTELPRO and Qubilah Shabazz

by Rebecca Hill and Nikolas Kautz

The New York Three. The New York Twenty-One. The Chicago Seven/Eight.
COINTELPRO, the government's campaign to thwart potentially
revolutionary social movements with tactics both "legal" and illegal,
has long been associated with larger US cities. Even the recent case
of the Minnesota Eight, in which eight African-American menuniformly
described in the mainstream press as Vice Lordsgot snatched up after
the shooting of a white police officer, barely put these cities of
less than 2 million on the political-repression map. Then came Qubilah
Shabazz. Observers around the world, and many people here, are
scratching their heads about how the dubious indictment of Malcolm X's
second daughter happened to go down in this overgrown cow town.

But don't let "Minnesota Nice" fool you. As the life-long shenanigans
of infiltrator Michael Fitzpatrick became known, casting doubt on the
government's contention that Qubilah Shabazz hired Fitzpatrick to kill
Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Justice Department in Washington, DC
tried to play the "local yokel" card. For about a day, the national
press quoted unnamed government lawyers vaguely insinuating that
Minnesota's US attorney, a fresh-scrubbed fellow with the excellent
name Lillehaug, was a naive Midwestern clodhopper, hoodwinked by a
con-man informer. Then Attorney General Janet Reno stepped in dispel
all the nonsense and stamp her approval on the frame-up. Reno knows.
The COINTELPRO credentials of the authorities here are perfectly in
order.

The War on AIM

The FBI office here is named for the two agents killed on the Pine
Ridge Lakota Sioux reservation in 1975; Leonard Peltier was framed for
their shootings and still sits in prison. Much of the government's war
against the American Indian Movement has been planned here. The
government waged that war in large part with infiltrators a tad better
at their jobs than Fitzpatrick. The Native casualty count far
outnumbered the government's.

Among the murdered was Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, an AIM organizer gunned
down in 1976. Now, the government claims to be re-opening her unsolved
case. Instead of investigating themselves (duh), or the pro-government
Indian "GOON squads" that ran the reservation, they say AIM members
suspected that Aquash was an informer, and killed her. As the FBI's
own documents show, and as several excellent books recount, the Feds
tried to feed disinformation to AIM that Aquash was working for them.
This tactic is known as "badjacketing," or putting a "snitch jacket"
on someone. In both the Shabazz and the Aquash cases, the government
wants to manipulate emotions around a powerful unifying force in
popular movements: martyrs. They want to sow division. They want to
blame the movements themselves for murders by the "agents of
repression." Will we let them?

The War on Young, Black Men

A more recent case, the Minnesota 8, should boost the local
authorities even higher in Reno's esteem. Eight African-American men
were accused in 1992 of being Vice Lords, and of killing a white
police officer and a suspected Vice Lord police informer. At trial, it
came out that the dead man, Ed Harris, was being set up to look like a
snitch. Officers including a well-known Black detective repeatedly
stopped him on the street, talked to him, and let him go. He was among
eight young, Black, male execution-slaying victims in a period of
weeks. Two and a half years later, suspicion persists in the community
that some or all of the men, possibly including Harris, were murdered
by the police as payback for the policeman's death. Court documents
show the quiet, background involvement of the FBI, who may have
planted one of the star witnesses. Loverine Harris, Ed Harris's wife,
had previously testified against a man in Illinois who went to prison
for murder. She was the FBI's "confidential, reliable informant" in
that case. Four convictions, two guilty pleas, one acquittal, and one
legal limbo later, the police have made short work of what was left of
the old Vice Lord leadership. Two men prominent in bringing the Vice
Lords into the gang coalition United for Peace are in custody, one for
supposedly holding a bunch of people at gunpoint in a garage because
his car repairs weren't to his satisfaction, the other for allegedly
ringing in the New Year with a few pistol shots from his balcony. With
that grim background report, let's welcome Qubilah Shabazz to the Twin
Cities.

Start of a New War?

Nobody with a lick of sense believes Qubilah Shabazz hired Michael
Fitzpatrick to kill Min. Farrakhan. The only question worth posing is
what the government is up to. Speculation includes the following,
starting with the most obvious point:

No matter how astutely the Nation of Islam handles this, Min.
Farrakhan can only lose popularity from a big, public reminder of his
rivalry with Malcolm.

Either Min. Farrakhan or Ms. Shabazz could be targets of violence now,
because of a plan cooked up by the government. Observers at her St.
Paul arraignment noted than anyone in the standing-room-only court
room could have had a weapon.

On one of the surveillance tapes, Ms. Shabazz is said to object to
Fitzpatrick's plan, worrying that Jews might be revenge targets after
Min. Farrakhan's assassination. Remember that Fitzpatrick infiltrated
the JDL, the group Rabbi Meir Kahane founded in direct opposition to
the Black Panthers. The government would like nothing better than a
shoot-out between JDL and NOI sympathizers.

The Nation has shown how it's going to play this. Min. Farrakhan's
first comments emphasized FBI hostility, downplayed his role in
Malcolm's murder, and sent sympathy to Ms. Shabazz. The Final Call,
the NOI paper, took a different tack: "Government, Jewish militant
linked to the plot to kill Farrakhan," its headline screamed the first
week in February. Let's not screw around. Michael Fitzpatrick is not a
"Jewish militant." I'm a Jewish militant. Michael Fitzpatrick is a
snitch. Anyway, whatever the government's plan, they're a lot less
able to carry it out if everyone is loudly doubting their story.
Demonstrations in support of Qubilah Shabazz should go down in a bunch
of cities before her next court appearance, postponed till sometime in
March.

UNITE FOR QUBILAH!

The Committee Seeking Equal Justice for the Minnesota 8 didn't need to
be told twice about deadly government trickery. No sooner had news of
Ms. Shabazz's indictment broken than busy Committee members were
strategizing about a campaign in her support. After her daughter
entered a not-guilty plea on January 18, Dr. Betty Shabazz greeted and
thanked half a dozen Committee members who had loitered outside the
St. Paul Federal Courthouse in sub-zero wind-chill. "United we stand!
The US government is the real hit man!" Committee members shouted,
trying to warm up the chilly national press corps. They held a banner
with the pictures of Malcolm, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Fred
Hampton, all COINTELPRO martyrs. The Committee's February 18 forum,
"Snitches, Frame-ups, and Provocateurs: Qubilah Shabazz, Malcolm X,
and the Making of Crime," helped build for a demonstration on the 30th
anniversary of Malcolm's murder, February 22. Events will continue
building up through Ms. Shabazz's trial. The group understands that
heavy local support will be critical in defeating the railroad.

The Government's Tool

As for Fitzpatrick, he is an informer of the commonest, lowliest kind.
This is not a free-lance spy who directs his own operations. This is a
lifelong hot-dog and loser whose thrill is selling people bullshit.
Cops at every level, from celebrity US attorneys to the local
gang-unit officers, know how to control the con-man crook. In 1993,
Fitzpatrick was looking at five years for coke he'd been caught
holding. Qubilah Shabazz had for years been his fantasy "get out of
jail free" card. He remembered her from high school and thought she
just might kind of remember him. We don't know what Fitzpatrick may
get in return, but his drug charge seems to be in limbo, and he's
hanging out somewhere under government protection. The local straight
press has admitted that Fitzpatrick does most of the talking on the
video and audio tapes that will buttress his testimony against Ms.
Shabazz. The only thing about Fitzpatrick that isn't clear yet is just
when he became an informer.

At 18, he tried to blow up a Russian-language bookstore in New York,
for motives that remain obscure. His taste for the crazy side of life
may have hooked him up with cops or right-wingers who put him up to
it, or he may have cooked up that one on his own. But after that, with
FBI agents controlling him, he joined the crypto-fascist, racist
Jewish Defense League in New York, got some folks to agree to blow up
the Egyptian tourism office, and testified against the two JDLers who
went to prison. He went into witness protection, and from there into
chemical-dependency treatment. He wound up here.

Fitzpatrick's Minneapolis Adventure

Only dedicated media snoozers can have missed how Love and Rage's own
Christopher Day Gunderson helped bust Fitzpatrick out. Not long after
the first descriptions of Fitzpatrick hit the press, Christopher went,
"Hmm." A few phone calls to anarchists who'd been active in
Minneapolis in the mid-80s confirmed it. This was the same Michael,
the big, ugly "free-beers-for-everyone!" Michael, who'd started
hanging around Backroom Anarchist Books late in 1986.

Christopher's statement to William Kunstler, one of Ms. Shabazz's
lawyers, is excellent reading. It describes the arrival of a
tough-talking, tale-telling guy in his 20s who tried to sway a
nascent, mostly-teenage group to stop having candy-ass demos and start
blowing shit up. When no one took his bait, he urged the Backroomers
at least to start throwing shit around. "After a few hours we were all
intoxicated and all convinced by Michael of the merits of a plan to
attack a polling station with bags of human feces," Christopher
states. Sober in the morning, they instead went ahead with a mild
guerrilla theater protesting the 1986 election. Fitzpatrick planted a
can of mace in the bookstore moments before suburban cops burst in
looking for a runaway. They instantly found the mace behind the books
where the infiltrator had stashed it. He talked a man who was crashing
in the bookstore's loft, but was not formally in the collective, into
keeping a shotgun in the store, since things were getting so "heavy."
The collective talked the man into giving the gun back to Fitzpatrick.
If you're a convicted felon caught with a gun, you either go to prison
or you don't. It all depends on if you're a Vice Lord or a white
informer like Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick boasted to the anarchists of
having been in the Communist Workers Party, the group that an Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms undercover agent set up to get shot up by the
Klan in Greensboro, NC, in 1979. To a woman he wanted to impress, he
boasted he'd infiltrated the JDL. She passed word back to the
Backroomers, who threw him out forever in December 1986 or January
1987.

'Til the chickens Come Home to Roost

The authorities here are used to getting away with infiltration,
frames, and murder. Qubilah Shabazz's trial this spring will be an
opportunity to teach them a lesson. An international show of unity for
Ms. Shabazz will be necessary. Rest assured the movements here will be
inside the court room and out.
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