AGITPROP NEWS: 2.26.00
Alewitz, Mike (Art)
LaBOR aRT & MuRAL PRoJECT
AGITPROP NEWS: 2.26.00
In this issue:
1. We're Back
2. Land of the Free
3. The Wit and Wisdom of Rudolf Giuliani
4. The Wit and Wisdom of George Bush Jr.
5. Actual Classifieds
6. Artists Protest Austrian Government
7. The Terminator Weighs In
8. Glibido
9. Involuntary Muscle Functions
10. The WTO History Project
11, AFL-CIO Takes a Step Forward
12. AFL-CIO Takes a Step Backward: Back Bosses Candidates
13. April 15 Road Show
14. The Color of Justice
15. Art Against Prisons
16. Penile Colony
17. Sculpture Demolished
18. Wouldst Thou Boycott?
19. Through Cuban Eyes: Artists, Art, Faith and Culture
20. United States Arms Perpetuate African war
21. A Conference for Humanity and Against Neo-Liberalism.
22. 30th Commemoration Of The Chicano Moratorium
23. S & M
24. Quote
25. This Weak in History
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1. We're Back
We know you have missed your AgitProp over the last few weeks. But we're
back now.
We have relocating to New Britain, CT, where LAMP Artistic Director Mike
Alewitz been organizing and teaching in the recently initiated mural
painting program at Central CT State University.
There may be a few more delays over the next few months, but rest assured:
this move is part of our master plan to bring the ruling class to it's
knees.
More Later
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2. Land of the Free
LOS ANGELES - Vigils are being mounted today in more than 30 major cities in
the United States to draw attention to the arrival of the two millionth
inmate in American jails. The US? comprises 5% of the global population yet
it is responsible for 25% of the world's prisoners. It has a higher
proportion of its citizens in jail than any other country in history,
according to the November Coalition, an alliance of civil rights
campaigners, justice policy workers and drug law? reformers.
The coalition is co-ordinating protests across the US to draw attention to
what they feel is a trend for locking up ever more offenders, most of them
non-violent.
"Incarceration should be the last resort of a civilised society, not the
first," said Michael Gelacak, a former vice-chairman of the US sentencing
commission. "We have it backwards and it's time we realised that."
"Two million is too many," said Nora Callahan of the coalition, which is
calling for alternatives to? prison for the country's 500,000 non-violent
drug offenders.
"We are calling on state and federal governments to stop breaking up
families and destroying our communities. Prison is not the solution to every
social problem," she said.
In New York city, the Prison Moratorium Project will focus on the fact that
one in three black youths is either in custody or on parole. Kevin Pranis,
of the project, said: "New York state is diverting millions of dollars from
colleges and universities to pay for prisons we can't afford."
Criminal justice is already a campaign issue in the presidential race. The
Republican frontrunner George W Bush, governor of Texas, is a staunch
supporter of both the death penalty and stiffer sentencing for drug
offences.
Since he took over in Texas, the prison population there is up from 41,000
to 150,000, much of this as a result of locking up people for drug
possession. This is one of the reasons that? commentators have pressed Bush
to be more open about his own alleged drug use in the past.
(excerpts) by Duncan Campbell
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3. The Wit and Wisdom of Rudolf Giuliani
1. "Freedom is about authority."
Mayor Giuliani, NY Times 3/17/94
2. "You don't have a right not to be identified".
Giuliani-N.Y. Times 12/17/98 "Giuliani Backs DNA Testing of
Newborns for Identification"
3. "An exhibition of paintings is not as communicative as speech,
literature or live entertainment, and the artists' constitutional
interest is thus minimal."
- Giuliani appeal brief 's argument against street artists having
First Amendment rights, Giuliani v Lederman et al and Giuliani v
Bery et al, filed with the U.S. Supreme Court 2/24/97.
4. "Civilization has been about trying to find the right place to
put excrement."
Giuliani quoted in NY Times, 10/13/99 Civilization, Sanitation
and the Mayor
5. "The whole school system should be blown up, and a new one
put in its place. I feel like a prophet today."
Giuliani-Daily News 4/23/99 "Rudy Unveils 35B Budget Plans
school vouchers, tax cuts & more cops"
6. "When they make the decision to shoot they have to shoot to
kill".
Mayor Giuliani on NYPD policy CBS News 9/2/99
7. "When people ask me about my private life, I don't tell them
about it. It's none of their business".
Giuliani -NY Times 8/29/99, "Unusual Scrutiny for a Senate
Race: This Time It's Personal"
8. "Let's say somebody is acquitted, and it's one of those
acquittals in which the person was guilty, but there is just not
quite enough evidence beyond a reasonable doubt," the Mayor
said. "That might be a situation in which the car would still be
forfeited."
- Giuliani, NY Times 2/23/99 "Police Seize Three Cars in
Crackdown"
9. ."Streets do not exist in civilized cities for the purpose of
people sleeping there. Bedrooms are for sleeping."
Giuliani -Daily News 11/20/99 Enough, Rudy Says Vows he'll
rid streets of sleeping homeless people
10. "The comparisons to Adolf Hitler and fascism have to stop".
-Giuliani. NY Times 3/28/99
Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
ARTIS...@aol.com
excerpts
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4. The Wit and Wisdom of George Bush Jr.
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew
exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was
clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they
are, but we know they're there."
-- Texas Gov. George W. Bush, presidential candidate.
"Food on the family."
-- George W. Bush listing one of the priorities of his
future administration.
"This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This
is what you do when you run for president. You've got to
preserve."
-- George W. Bush to several hundred children at an
elementary school in Nashua that was celebrating what it
called Perseverance Month (not Preservation Month).
"Is your children learning?"
-- George W. Bush on education.
"Some people have too much freedom."
-- George W. Bush
"The Grecians."
-- George W. Bush on Greek people.
"What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas,
quotas that basically delineate based upon whatever.
However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society."
-- George W. Bush, meaning to say "balkanize," not
"vulcanize" -- we think -- and something about quotas
(Austin American-Statesman 3/23/99).
"Sitting down and reading a 500-page book on public policy
or philosophy or something."
-- George W. Bush when asked to name something he isn't good
at (Talk magazine,
September 1999).
"Please! Don't kill me."
-- George W. Bush to Larry King, mocking what Karla Faye
Tucker said when asked "What would you say to Governor
Bush?" prior to her execution by lethal
injection (as reported by Talk magazine, September 1999).
"Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not
have made."
-- George W. Bush
"Just make sure you put in there, 'He was real tired, too."'
-- George W. Bush on the press reporting his verbal miscues.
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5. Actual Classifieds
FREE PUPPIES: 1/2 COCKER SPANIEL - 1/2 SNEAKY NEIGHBOR'S DOG
FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER. 8 YEARS OLD. UNPLEASANT LITTLE DOG.
1 MAN, 7 WOMAN HOT TUB -- $850/offer
AMANA WASHER $100. OWNED BY CLEAN BACHELOR WHO SELDOM WASHED.
SNOW BLOWER FOR SALE... ONLY USED ON SNOWY DAYS.
FREE PUPPIES...PART GERMAN SHEPHERD - PART STUPID DOG
2 WIRE MESH BUTCHERING GLOVES:
1 5-finger, 1 3-finger, PAIR: $15
TICKLE ME ELMO, STILL IN BOX, COMES WITH ITS OWN 1988 MUSTANG, 5L,
AUTO, EXCELLENT CONDITION $6800
COWS, CALVES NEVER BRED... ALSO 1 GAY BULL FOR SALE.
83 TOYOTA HUNCHBACK -- $2000
STAR WARS JOB OF THE HUT - $15
SOFT & GENITAL BATH TISSUES OR FACIAL TISSUE 89 cents
GERMAN SHEPHERD 85 lbs. NEUTERED. SPEAKS GERMAN. FREE.
FULL SIZED MATTRESS. 20 YR. WARRANTY. LIKE NEW. SLIGHT URINE SMELL.
FREE 1 CAN OF PORK & BEANS WITH PURCHASE OF 3 BR 2 BATH HOME.
FOR SALE: LEE MAJORS (6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN) - $50
NORDIC TRACK $300 HARDLY USED *************CALL CHUBBIE
BILL'S SEPTIC CLEANING "WE HAUL AMERICAN MADE PRODUCTS"
SHAKESPEARE'S PIZZA - FREE CHOPSTICKS
FOUND: DIRTY WHITE DOG. LOOKS LIKE A RAT..BEEN OUT AWHILE..
BETTER BE REWARD.
HUMMELS - LARGEST SELECTION EVER "IF IT'S IN STOCK, WE HAVE IT!"
GET A LITTLE JOHN: THE TRAVELING URINAL HOLDS 2 1/2 BOTTLES OF BEER.
HARRISBURG POSTAL EMPLOYEES GUN CLUB
GEORGIA PEACHES CALIFORNIA GROWN - 89 cents lb.
NICE PARACHUTE: NEVER OPENED - USED ONCE SLIGHTLY STAINED
FREE: FARM KITTENS. READY TO EAT.
AMERICAN FLAG 60 STARS - POLE INCLUDED $100
TIRED OF WORKING FOR ONLY $9.75 PER HOUR? WE OFFER PROFIT SHARING AND
FLEXIBLE HOURS. STARTING PAY: $7 - $9 PER HOUR.
EXERCISE EQUIPMENT: QUEEN SIZE MATTRESS & BOX SPRINGS -$175.
JOINING NUDIST COLONY! MUST SELL WASHER & DRYER $300.
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6. Artists Protest Austrian Government
Artists and cultural workers including curator Robert Fleck,
playwright Elfride Jelenik, Salzburg Festival director Gerard
Mortier, and Wolfgang Staehle/re:austria in New York City are
protesting the inclusion of Joerg Haider's far right Freedom Party
in the new Austrian coalition government.
"Austria got today the first federal government since the end of
World War Second with a big participation of Nazis,"
curator Robert Fleck stated in an email communication to the
Self-Organization of the Information Society. (SOIS)
Fleck urges international artists and curators to no longer
exhibit in Austria.
"It has now become absolutely impossible, in moral terms, for any
artist, gallerist, museum curator or collector, to exhibit any
longer in Austria, or to cooperate with any Austrian institution,"
he states. "There is only one question to ask: would you have
exhibited in Nazi-Germany? Only with a complete boycott of the
local artlife, we can help the Austrian artists to survive."
In New York City, Wolfgang Staehle/re:austria called for an action
last weekend in front of the Austrian Consulate "in order to
oppose the new government and the rise of the right."
"We, an open group of concerned artists, cultural workers and
friends living in the NY area, declare our solidarity and will
stage a peaceful protest in front of the Austrian Consulate in New
York," Staehle stated. "....This demonstration will be the first
in a series of events in response to the new developments in
Austria."
"Can a man like Herr Haider be toppled by the roar of literary
lions?" Roger Boyes asks in the London Times. "Common sense
dictates otherwise, but the vocabulary of Austria's rebel artists
is strikingly similar to that used by white South Africans who
opposed apartheid or the dissidents of Eastern Europe."
Arts Wire CURRENT (excerpts)
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7. The Terminator Weighs In
Schwarzenegger Speaks Out Against Austria's Haider
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Austrian-born movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger has
joined the chorus of critics against Joerg Haider, leader of Austria's
rightist Freedom Party, saying he had no place in government because of his
anti-immigrant remarks. 'As an immigrant myself I am offended by anyone who
makes anti-immigrant statements and it is my opinion that someone who makes
statements like Haider's has no place in government,' Schwarzenegger, who
emigrated to the United States more than 20 years ago, said Friday in a
statement posted on his Web site, www.schwarzenegger.com.
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8. Glibido
The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from
the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and
then supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners.
GIRAFFITI
Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
SARCHASM
The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't
get it.
INOCULATTE
To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
HIPATITIS
Terminal coolness.
REINTARNATION
Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
OSTEOPORNOSIS
A degenerate disease.
GLIBIDO
All talk and no action.
DOPELER EFFECT
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you
rapidly.
INTAXICATION
Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was
your money to start with.
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9. Involuntary Muscle Functions
A young woman enrolled in nursing school was attending an anatomy class. The
subject of the day was involuntary muscle functions.
The class was not paying attention, so the instructor, hoping to perk up the
students a bit, asked the woman, "Do you know what your asshole does when
you're having an orgasm?"
"Sure," she says, "He's at home, taking care of the kids."
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10. The WTO History Project
The WTO History Project, organized by the University of Washington
Libraries and the UW Center for Labor Studies, is gathering materials
related to the World Trade Organization protests, leading up to, during, and
since the 1999 Seattle WTO Ministerial meetings. We would greatly appreciate
any materials your organization could contribute to this project.
We will gratefully accept anything related to WTO mobilizations,
including but not limited to:
Newsletters Personal correspondence
Position papers Meeting agendas or minutes
Flyers, leaflets, posters,
Buttons Photos Audio/Video recordings Pertinent web page addresses
We can pick up your donation in the Seattle area, and can reimburse
you for postage if you mail something in. To contribute materials by
mail, send them to WTO HISTORY PROJECT, P.O. BOX 45423, SEATTLE, WA 98145.
Feel free to contact us for more information.
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11, AFL-CIO Takes a Step Forward
BERKELEY, CA (2/21/00) -- This month, the AFL-CIO took a big step back
towards its progressive roots, embracing the immigrants whose energy and
radicalism have contributed to its best traditions. The federation's
executive council voted to call for the repeal of employer sanctions, for a
new amnesty for the undocumented, and for a broad new program to educate
immigrant workers about their rights.
The vote, reversing a nativist position held since the cold war, was a
victory for racial equality and inclusion. It reinforces the idea that all
workers need to be organized in a larger social movement - that unions are
more than just an exclusive club for a privileged few. In 1986, the AFL-CIO
strongly supported employer sanctions - that section of the Immigration
Reform and Control Act which makes it illegal for undocumented workers to
hold a job. Critics predicted that sanctions would cause discrimination
against any worker who looked or sounded foreign, and give employers a big
weapon to stop immigrants from organizing unions. Those predictions were
right.
But sanctions also violated one of the most basic human rights of all
workers -- the right to a job. Economic rights are human rights. In a
world where workers must sell their labor power to survive, where welfare
and social benefits are stripped away in the name of the work ethic, denying
immigrants the right to work denies their right to live and support their
families.
David Bacon (excerpts)
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12. AFL-CIO Takes a Step Backward: Back Bosses Candidates
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. said today that it would
spend more money than ever before
to help elect worker-friendly candidates to the
White House and Congress and
would devote more resources than in past
elections to mobilizing volunteers.
In a news conference at the labor
federation's winter meeting, John J.
Sweeney, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president, said
trade unions would focus on races
in 71 swing Congressional districts and on
electing Vice President Al Gore.
Mr. Sweeney said the labor movement had
enlisted 1,600 union officials and
members to coordinate labor's political
activities in 35 different states.
That is four times the number of coordinators in
1998, when unions played a big
role in helping the Democrats gain House seats.
Labor leaders said the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
planned to spend $40 million on
political campaigns this year and last, up from
$35 million in the 1996 campaign
cycle.
The New York Times
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13. April 15 Road Show
Howdy everyone, here is an updated itinerary for the east coast
caravan/roadshow, and a brief description of its content and goals.
Musicians, performers, speakers: please contact us if you would like to
join up with the roadshow for any part of the journey!!! We would love to
have you!
Host the roadshow in your community, and mobilize to challenge
the IMF and World Bank in Washington DC, April 16th! The a16
roadshow is a group of trainers and performers, offering a street
theater performance, music, and trainings in non-violence, media,
puppetry and street theater. Our goal is to creatively educate
communities about the role of the World Bank and the IMF in the
global corporate takeover, and offer skills in activism to mobilize
thousands to make the trip to DC to create a festival of resistance
on April 16th.
Our tentative itinerary: (these dates and locations are still up
in the air - any suggestions please let us know!)
3/19: Begin roadshow in Arcadia, FL
Gainesville, FL (other stops?)
3/20
3/21 Savanah, Georgia
3/22 Charleston, SC
3/23 Raleigh, NC
3/24 Williamsburg, VA Richmond, VA
3/25
3/26 Depart from DC, Baltimore
3/27 Harrisburg, PA
3/28 Albany, NY
3/29 arrive in Montreal
3/30
3/31 Burlington, VT
4/1 Concord, NH
4/2 Boston, Northampton, MA
4/3
4/4 Providence, RI Hartford, CT (New Haven?)
4/5 NYC
4/6 Trenton, NJ
4/7 Philadelphia, PA arrive back in DC
Sprout
liz...@hotmail.com
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14. The Color of Justice
Juveniles accused of serious crime are more likely to be
tried as adults in California if they are not white. That is
the disturbing central finding of a three-year study of
juvenile cases in Los Angeles County, where 40 percent of
the state's juvenile crime caseload is generated.
The race and ethnic disparity documented by the San
Francisco-based Justice Policy Institute in "The Color of
Justice" is truly astounding. According to the study, for
every 1,000 juvenile violent crime suspects arrested in each
ethnic category, 88 Latinos, 83.7 Asians and 72 African
Americans were deemed to be unsuitable for the juvenile
justice system and, instead, transferred to adult court.
That compares to a rate of 37.1 per 1,000 white violent
crime suspects arrested who were transferred to adult
courts.
After transfer, African American delinquents were found 18.4
times more likely to receive adult court sentences -- that
is, they were sentenced to be held in the California Youth
Authority until their 18th birthday and then transferred to
adult prison. Latinos were 7.3 times more likely and Asians
4.5 times more likely than their young white criminal
counterparts to receive adult sentences.
Sacramento Bee
February 16, 2000
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15. Art Against Prisons
If you liked Guerrilla Art for Mumia, check out this upcoming art show which
is being organized by many of the same folks who brought you last year's
Mumia event.
The Dry Hole / El Hoyo Seco: Art Against Prisons.
Visual Art * Music * Poetry * Spoken Word * Videos
Opening: Friday, February 25th * 8pm - 12am
Balazo/Mission Badlands Gallery * 2811 Mission St.
Near 24th St. in San Francisco. $3-6 donation. No one turned away.
Music: Descarte Namin & Lodo y Asfalto
Poetry/Spoken Word: Bato & the San Quentin Posse, Carl Hayword, Darren de
LeÛn, Poetry for the People & James Tracy
Presentations: Bo Brown, Christian Parenti & Gina Rossi
For more info Balazo: (415) 920-0896 or reply to me (Claude Moller) at
cla...@cyborganic.org
Show runs Feb 25 - March 12.
Sponsored by the Prison Activist Resource Center: (510) 843-4648
www.prisonactivist.org
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16. Penile Colony
A man goes into a doctor's office for his first visit. The nurse tells him
to strip and wait for the doctor. So he strips and waits.
The doctor enters, takes one look, and says, "Man you have five penises! How
do
your pants fit?"
"Like a glove," says the man.
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17. Sculpture Demolished
I just heard from my former contractor's family in Fort Myers that my public
sculpture "Marianthe" at the Edison Community College
(ex-University of South Florida campus) HAS been demolished. They did not
notify any of the media that had asked for the date of the event -- so
nobody documented the demolition!
Protest Faxes can still be sent to:
Lee Modica, Florida's Art in State Buildings Program, FAX: 850-922-5259,
with a copy to: Susan Nichols, Save Outdoor Sculpture (SOS), FAX:
202-634-1435.
They may save other public sculpture in the future.
Athena Tacha, Professor of Art
Oberlin College, OH & Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
e-mail: at...@umail.umd.edu
WEB site: http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/athena/tacha.html
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18. Wouldst Thou Boycott?
Boycott! Boycott! Boycott!
We request all of the members of Shakespeare Milton Society (SMS) to BOYCOTT
www.funwin2k.com the Poetic Manual of Windows 2000.
Poetry is something that should be used to convey the real human feelings
and noble ideas.
We at SMS, REJECT the idea of using poetry to write manual for PCs and
Windows 2000.
We want to preserve heritage of poetry in its original form.
Please help and support SMS.
John Culkin
President
Shakespeare Milton Society
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19. Through Cuban Eyes: Artists, Art, Faith and Culture
The Puffin Room, located at 435 Broom St, (near Broadway), invites you to
the opening Sat night, 6:30-8:30 of their new show, "Through Cuban Eyes:
artists, Art, Faith and Culture".
The show will run from Feb 5 to March 18. Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun. 11:00 am
- 6:00 pm.
The Puffin Room, in keeping with its mission of creating a dialogue through
the arts to further understanding between all peoples, is proud to bring New
York a vibrant, unprecedented exhibition of contemporary Cuban Artists.
This is a dirvese collection of 31 paintings by 18 artists, curated by
Canadian Ray Dirks, which reflects upon the rich tradition of Cuban
modernism. Due to the tragedy of the economic embargo, New York has been
denied convenient access to the rich works of two generations of Cuban
artists. This exhibition will reveal to the public the talent and diversity
of these contemporary Cuban artists.
Also at the Puffin Room, the New York Friendshpment Committee is sponsoring
a series of Cuban videos, make Wed night your video night!
Feb 9: Strawberry & Chocolate
Feb 16: Memories of Underdevelopment
Feb 23: Guantanamera
March 8: Soy Cuba.
more events are scheduled on Sunday Feb 27 and Sat, March 5, stay tuned!
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)
Pastors for Peace
<http://www.ifconews.org>
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20. United States Arms Perpetuate African war
?? The Clinton administration declared January the ``month of Africa,''
hoping to focus attention on the continent, including the civil war in the
Congo. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking before the UN
Security Council, called the conflict ``Africa's first world war.''
?
?? Now the month has come and gone, but the attention must not fade. A new
report from the New York-based World Policy Institute implicates the United
States in the Congo war and other troubles besetting Africa.
?
?? The report documents the continuing trade in U.S. arms to Africa,
specifically the Congo, under the Clinton administration. Titled ``Deadly
Legacy: U.S. Arms to Africa and the Congo War,'' the report says the United
States played a significant role in propelling the ``cycles of violence and
economic problems'' that confront tens of millions in Africa. Through the
Cold War, the United States provided more than $1.5 billion in weaponry to
Africa. Between 1991 and 1998, the United States gave more than $227 million
worth of weapons and military training to the continent.
?
?? While denouncing the wreckages of war that have been visited upon Africa,
Clinton and Albright have not owned up to the U.S. role as a key supplier of
weapons. The United States is the second largest arms exporter to Central
Africa, where the Congo is located, according to the U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency's journal, World Military Expenditures and Arms
Transfers.
?
?? The current conflict involves the government of the Congo, led by Laurent
Kabila. He has the support of Namibia, Angola and Zimbabwe. Pitted against
them are a wide range of rebel forces, backed by Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi.
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has provided more than $125
million in weaponry and training to six of the seven states with troops
involved in the conflict.
St Paul Pioneer Press
????
sada...@mail.ccsu.edu
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21. A Conference for Humanity and Against Neo-Liberalism.
The Modern Times Collective & Long Island Students for Peace and Justice as
part of the Long Island May Day 2000 Campaign present:
"Seattle Was Only The Beginning" Youth Conference.
Saturday March 4th
A Conference for Humanity and against Neo-Liberalism.
1pm - 6pm.
Free of charge.
@ the Ethical Humanist Building in Garden City.
Workshops include:
- History of Globalization
- Class in the US
- Civil Disobedience Training & Preparation for the Front Line
- Art and Revolution
- WTO round-up: how they did it!
- What the heck is the International Monetary Fund and World Bank?
You don't have to register but to make our lives easier email us!
This conference is for activists and young people concerned with the
future chosen for them. We are on the front line, the only choice now is to
fight back.
Contact: mayda...@aao.net ~ www.aao.net
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22. 30th Commemoration Of The Chicano Moratorium
30th Commemoration Of The Chicano Moratorium March
August 26, 2000
Belvedere Park to Salazar Park
East Los Angeles, Califas
and
Anti-Democratic Party National Convention Rally
August 14, 2000
More Information:
Web: http://ncmc_2000.tripod.com
E-Mail: ncmc...@hotmail.com
The Time To Join The Movimiento Is Now!
Organized By:
National Chicano Moratorium Committee
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23. S & M
One day mom was cleaning juniors room and in the closet she found a bondage
S+M magazine.
This was highly upsetting for her.
She hid the magazine until his father got home and showed it to him.
He looked at it and handed it back to her with out a word.
She finally asked him, " Well what should we do about this?"
Dad looked at her and said, "Well I don't think you should spank him."
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24. Quote
(On going to war over religion) "You're basically killing each other to see
who's got the better imaginary friend." -- Rich Jeni
"Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in."
-- Jeni
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25. This Weak in History
1817 - Black abolitionist, orator Frederick Douglass lives, born
a slave, founder of the influential The North Star newspaper in
Rochester, New York.
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess
to favor freedom & yet deprecate agitation are people who want
crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without
thunder & lightning. That struggle might be a moral one; it might
be a physical one; it might be both moral & physical, but it must
be struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never
did & never will. People might not get all that they work for in
this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
1848 - In London, 29 year old Karl Marx publishes "The Communist
Manifesto. " http://csf.colorado.edu:80/psn/marx/index.html
1912 - In the Bread & Roses Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts,
200 police draw their clubs & go after 100 women pickets,
knocking them to the ground & beating them.
1913 - IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Paterson Silk Strike
begins. http://www.patersongreatfalls.com/ix91his_stri.htm
http://iww.org/
1945 - Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, killing more than 200,000
German citizens, enters into its second day. Many die of
suffocation as fire storms, unleashed by the raids, consume all
the oxygen over large areas of the city.
http://www.duke.edu/~crh4/vonnegut/s-five.html
1968 - Discussing the war capacity of North Vietnam, a country
that had been fighting for 23 years & had just staged the massive
Tet Offensive, US General William C. Westmoreland states: "I do
not believe Hanoi can hold up under a long war."
1991 - U.S. air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop
fuel-air bombs & massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi personnel
on the Basra road from Kuwait.
1998 - US: About 300 Ohio State University students interrupt a
CNN infomercial for the Clinton Administration's planned military
strike on Iraq, both heckling White House representatives &
peppering them with tough (& unanswered) questions. The PR
debacle, broadcast live globally, galvanized anti-war efforts &
may have single-handedly stopped the attacks.
BleedMeister <rec...@eskimo.com>
Mike Alewitz
LaBOR aRT & MuRAL PRoJECT
Department of Art
Central Connecticut State University
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