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[Fwd: The abolitionist black clergy]
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Omar Tyree
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Tell Me A Story
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Congressional Apology for Slavery & Juneteenth Coast to C..
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Re: Do you know who makes your products?
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Elian Gozalez - A Blessing In Disguise For Cuba.
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From: sida...@emirates.net.ae
Subject: [Fwd: The abolitionist black clergy]
The Washington Times
03/07/00
The abolitionist black clergy
Nat Hentoff
While the president and the secretary of state have ignored slavery
and genocide in Sudan, a group of distinguished black members of the
clergy from around the country have issued an urgent plea to the
Congressional Black Caucus to help these black victims in Africa. But I
have seen hardly any mention of this passionate renewal of the American
abolitionist tradition. Dated June 1, the letter, addressed to James
Clyburn, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, reads: "This is the
year 2000, and there are tens of thousands of black slaves (and) two
million people in Sudan have lost their lives in a brutal civil war
propelled by a regime in Khartoum (the National Islamic Front), which
our government has placed on a short list of terrorist nations. More
people have died in Sudan than in Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia and Rwanda
combined. The U.S. Committee on Refugees, the Senate and the House have
called events in Africa's largest nation a 'genocide.' Yet world
leaders, including President Clinton, remain silent. . . . The West has
abandoned these people." The letter then focused on this country's black
members of Congress. "We, African-American pastors from around the
nation, write to ask the Congressional Black Caucus to come to the front
of this battle. As the descendants of African slaves, we must not rest
until those now held in bondage are freed - until the African villages
in Sudan are protected from murderous slave raids, until the Sudan air
force is made to stop bombing African schools, churches and hospitals."
The pastors asked the Congressional Black Caucus to meet with
President Clinton about this genocide against blacks. Donald Payne of
New Jersey, a member of the Caucus, has been active in calling attention
to these horrors, and so have a few others - but where is the rest of
the Caucus? And where are the white liberals in Congress who profess
such concern for civil rights? The great majority are silent; but a
conservative white senator, Sam Brownback of Kansas, has actually gone
to Sudan to see for himself and is active in the new abolitionist
movement.
Also in the pastors' petition is a request that the Congressional
Black Caucus appoint a delegation to meet with Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright, who has said that the anguish in Sudan is not
"marketable to the American people."
How can it be "marketable" when the president is silent, along with
this year's presidential candidates, most white religious leaders,
educators, prominent columnists and the hosts of the Sunday morning talk
shows? And where is Ted Koppel? There have been scattered stories on
Sudan in the press, but little sustained focus on slavery there. The
network camera crews that were so evident in Bosnia and Kosovo (but not
in Rwanda) are not to be found in Sudan.
The African-American pastors also ask the Congressional Black
Caucus to "investigate the role of oil companies in the genocide in
Sudan." That role is outlined in the recently released report of the
President's Commission on International Religious Freedom: "Western oil
companies, in partnership with Khartoum, use U.S. capital markets to
fund their Greater Nile Oil Project (which is ethnically cleansing
Africans from their oil fields), providing petrol to fuel air force
bombers which strike schools, churches and hospitals."
The pastors also address a scandal that has escaped notice in most
of the American press. They want the president - if he can take a break
from attending fund-raisers and burnishing his legacy by flying around
the world - "to appoint a Special Coordinator for delivering food and
medical aid (directly) to villages and areas that Khartoum wants
destroyed. U.S. food and medical aid has been blocked by Khartoum (the
seat of the National Islamic Front) because the United Nations'
'Operation Lifeline Sudan' allows Khartoum to dictate to (many leading)
humanitarian agencies who shall and who shall not be fed. This policy of
forced famine has resulted, according to U.S. agencies, in the deaths of
tens of thousands."
The pastors' letter to the Congressional Black Caucus ends: "We
believe these actions and recommendations we make to you represent the
interests of Africans in Africa's largest nation and express the duty of
those of us who are the descendants and the brothers and sisters of
these besieged and beleaguered people."
Where will slavery fit in William Jefferson Clinton's legacy?
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From: omar8...@aol.com
Subject: Omar Tyree
Flyy Girl Returns!
For The Love of Money
Tuesday August 15, 2000
After the original publication of Flyy Girl back in 1993 -- the
coming-of-age
story of the adventurous Tracy Ellison during the 1980s hip-hop era of
Philadelphia -- I moved on to other characters, issues and story ideas
that
I figured were important to the African-American community at large. On a
national level, sisters wanted to know, How can I find A Do Right Man who
is my lifetime soul mate? So I wrote a book on it. Sisters also
expressed that
I am a Single Mom struggling to raise my kids on my own, while looking
forward to brighter days for myself and for my children. So I wrote a book
that reflected the importance of family, motherhood and fatherhood.
However,
sisters continued to express that the brothers in their lives did not
desire
to love them back. So I wrote an old-school love story called Sweet St.
Louis
to reevaluate the black-on-black love that seems to have been lost in the
1990s.
And while my last three novels -- Single Mom, A Do Right Man, and Sweet
St.
Louis -- were well received, at all of my book signings and appearances,
readers continued to ask me what happened to Tracy Ellison and Victor
Hinson of Flyy Girl. I received hundreds of continuous letters and
e-mails,
and they were coming from younger and younger readers. I had really
started
something with this Flyy Girl book and the readers just wouldn=92t let go!
I didn't end Flyy Girl with a cliff hanging ending on purpose, but many
readers, some of them as young as 13, demanded to know more: Did Tracy
get back together with her boyfriend Victor after he got out of jail? Did
she stay away from drugs and the lure of the streets? What else did she do
with
her life? Because I considered Flyy Girl complete, I didn't have answers
to
these questions myself.
Finally, I realized that there was still life after Flyy Girl for Tracy
Ellison, her friends, family and loved ones. And what I started seven
years
ago with Flyy Girl, Tracy will now continue in the long-awaited sequel,
For the Love of Money. In her own words and flavor, Tracy will answer all
of the questions that went unanswered the first time. But now she faces
many new
challenges while chasing the fame and fortune of Hollywood, a place that
is
often tougher than the streets of Philadelphia! Does she have what it
takes
to stay real to herself and to her many fans? What compromises will she
make?
How large can Tracy get? Can she handle all of the pressure? Could you?
For the answers to these questions and many more, you'll have to read
Tracy's
sequel -- For the Love of Money -- in book stores nationally -- Tuesday,
August 15, 2000. So get ready for Flyy Girl's return, and SPREAD THE WORD!
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From: sge...@aol.com
Subject: Tell Me A Story
Vol. 7 No. 17 July 1, 2000
Tell Me a Story
By Amanuel Sahle
The first children story I heard in school was when I was in Grade 3. It
was
about the wolf and the lamb. Mrs. Zedal, our teacher, told it in such a
way
that the table in front of us assumed the shape of a church pulpit and the
blackboard was transformed into an alter. When finally the bad wolf ate
the
kindly lamb as dictated by the scheme of things and the story came to an
end,
we waited to see the expression on our teacher's face before deciding
whether
to laugh or to cry. We decided to laugh.
No sooner had we started to giggle than we heard a sobbing sound from the
back of the benches. Heads swiveled and eyes stared in disbelief. It was
Astier. The girl with a tender heart and calculated opportunism.
" You children of damnation! If everybody were like Astier, the world
would
have been a paradise," Mrs. Zedal observed.
Astier, it seemed, was crying out of sheer pity for the poor lamb. I
thought
she was exaggerating a bit.
" No! She is not exaggerating a bit. You haven't got a trace of the
Christian
pity in your souls for a poor lamb," continued Mrs. Zedal with a righteous
indignation.
All this time, Astier kept on sniveling. I felt that I missed the
significance of the story altogether. I had heard many stories about the
hyena and the donkey before with the latter ending inside the stomach of
the
former. What then made this lamb so special?
By way of ending the lesson, Mrs. Zedal asked us for the moral of the
story.
Everybody raised their hands.
" We have to be kind to animals," roared the class with eyes fixed at the
still sobbing Astier.
" Dear little Astier, would you be kind enough as to tell the class the
moral
of the story?" intoned Mrs. Zedal.
" We have to possess a kind heart," affirmed Astier.
" God bless you," murmured Mrs. Zedal
Mrs. Zedal also told us many stories from the Bible such as the fall of
man
and about Cain, the first murderer in the history of the world. However,
we
were more at ease with stories where hyenas and foxes played the main
actors
than with abstruse ones extracted from the Book of Genesis.
After bad wolves and saintly lambs, would come along the ubiquitous hyena.
Symbol of greed, stupidity and sloth, the Eritrean hyena is the central
figure in most Eritrean children stories. So much so, that most of the
time,
if you ask Eritrean children to tell you a story, they will start by
saying:
" Once upon a time there was a hyena=D6" Thus, the animals we loved to
hate
came in the following order: the fox, the hare, the monkey, the lion, the
donkey etc.
Unfortunately, every good story had to have a moral to it. I hated that.
It
was a killjoy. What moral values can one extract from greedy hyenas and
malicious monkeys?
In my young days, Eritrean children who refused to go to bed were not told
stories to make them sleep. There was a more effective way for that. You
simply beat up the reluctant child, and he sobbed himself to sleep.
A month or two ago, I was busy collecting Eritrean children stories for a
project. I had to collect children stories from the nine ethnic groups of
Eritrea. I succeeded in getting all I wanted except for Hedareb and
Rashaida
" Hedareb children are not told stories by their parents," told me an
elderly
man from the same ethnic group.
I was really puzzled by his strange assertions. What do their children do
at
dusk as they wait for dinner? I asked myself. I decided to check again.
Anyway, I came to learn that Eritrean children stories have the following
elements in them: forced marriages, birds that interfered in human
affairs,
folk explanations for strange happenings, good prevailing over evil, toil
that comes before success and married couples living happily ever after.
At
the end of every narration, the children are told not to forget the story
lest death forgets them and they turn into vegetables.
Talking about dusk, that was the prime time for telling and listening to
stories. Stories were seldom told in the morning or before five o'clock.
Imagination and fantasy start to ferment with the setting of the sun. The
wolves and lambs in children stories live in the moon and roam among the
stars. They come down from the sky only when a story is told. Once the
narrator ends the story, the various animals return to the sky and start
chasing comets and howling at distant galaxies.
Sometimes, innocent looking animals in the story paid you a visit at night
when everyone was asleep, and you had a nightmare and woke up in horror.
" Don't tell your brother scary tales at night!" shouted a concerned
mother.
In the compound where I used to live as a child, there was an old man who
was
hired by the Ministry of Education to guard the school premises by night.
If
he lived to be ninety, it was partly thanks to the kindly burglars and
merciful muggers in the area. He arrived at around 6 p.m, took off his
overcoat and reclined on his lice-infested mattress near the gate. We,
young
children, were attracted to him like moths to candles.
" Please Mr. Night guard, tell us more about Trubuli ( Tripoli )," we
would
implore him.
The old man liked to tell tall stories in the manner of Baron Von
Munchhausen
and Abu Nuwas.
" When I fought in Libya as a Bulukbashi in the Italian colonial army, I
used
to cut to pieces tanks along with their occupants with only a sword in
hand."
" How about the Libyans? How did they fight?"
" They threw hand grenades at us which we caught, kissed and threw back at
them."
" Why did you kiss the hand grenades, Mr. Night guard?"
" You rascals! Don't ask too many questions or else I stop here."
The story telling would go on and on until we were called for dinner. We
would then leave Mr. Night guard in the cold taking his strange and weird
worlds along with us to bed.
As we grew up, innocent children stories began to get embellished with
pornographic elements and suggestive remarks. The hyenas and lions that
simply killed and ate donkeys and goats without regard to gender and
ethnicity at first, suddenly started to get fresh ideas.
With the passage of time they were transformed into sex maniacs. The days
of
innocence were over.
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From: myers...@aol.com
Subject: Congressional Apology for Slavery & Juneteenth Coast to C..
> From: MYERS...@aol.com
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:14:13 EDT
Subject: News Release - Congressional Apology for Slavery & Juneteenth
Coast to Coast
For Immediate Release (July 3, 2000)
Topic: Congressional Apology for Slavery & Juneteenth Coast to Coast
From: Trudy Coleman
Juneteenth America, Inc.
909-947-4346
email: junete...@earthlink.net
(Ontario, CA) - Washington Juneteenth 2000 was an unprecedented historic
event as Congressman Tony Hall (D-Ohio) read the announcement of the
Congressi
onal Apology for Slavery, House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 356. Dr.
Ronald
Myers, Sr., Chairman of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation
(NJOF),
in collaboration with John Thompson, Sr., Founder & CEO of Juneteenth
America, Inc., (JAI).
Juneteenth is the celebration of the announcement of freedom through the
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to the last group of slaves still
in
bondage, in Galveston, TX, on June 19, 1865. The NJOF consist of numerous
Jun
eteenth affiliates in communities across America. The goal of the NJOF is
to
establish Juneteenth as a national Holiday through the issuance of a
Presidential Proclamation by President Clinton. Currently four states
have Ju
neteenth as state holiday. Those states are Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and
Delaware. JAI has requested State Senator Nell Soto (D-CA) to introduce
the
California Juneteenth State Holiday Bill in January 2001.
"We are urging people throughout the country to support HCR 356. This
affects all Americans. This apology is a catalyst for reconciliation and
healing between the races and allows all of us to embrace racial healing.
Jun
eteenth means freedom of all Americans from the mindset of superiority,
inferiority, racial inequality, prejudice and hatred," states Dr. Myers.
Following the announcement of the apology, Thompson stated, "African
Americans help build this great country and should have a chance to be a
part
of the American Dream by way of the 13th and 14th Amendments of the United
States Constitution."
Thompson then announced that JAI will host the 3rd Annual National
Juneteenth
Convention/Expo & Career Symposium in the Ontario Convention Center,
August
26 & 27, 2000, in Ontario, CA. The objective of JAI is to be inclusive of
all Americans in this diverse society. This event will showcase business
&
health education seminars, Youth-at-risk Empowerment Programs, Career
opportunities with the Police youth at risk empowerment programs, career
opportunities with police and sheriff departments, e-commerce and other
entrepreneurial business opportunities.
During the free and open to the public two-day Convention/Expo event, Rev.
Ronald V. Myers, Sr., MD will convene a symposium on Juneteenth and the
Congressional Apology For Slavery. Dr. Myers is also Chairman of the
National
Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC). Invited participants
include Rep. Tony Hall (D-Ohio), sponsor of HCR 356, the Congressional
Apology for Slavery, Congressman Joe Baca (D-CA), State Senator Nell Soto
(D-CA), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rev.
Ron
Gibson, Pastor of LIFE COGIC.
Other activities include a JAI "kick-off", on Friday, August 25, 2000,
it's
American Unity 2000, 3rd Annual Emancipation Proclamation Awards Dinner
Ceremony", honoring the "Emancipated Women", at the Doubletree Hotel in
Ontario, CA. Senator Nell Soto and other outstanding community leaders
from
the Inland Empire area will be honored, representing the fields of
Politics,
Education, Business, Religion and Media. Other distinguished honorees
will
be Colonel Ralph Smith, former USAF Tuskegee Airman, for his outstanding
charitable community and civic work, along
with Reverend Ronald V. Myers, Sr., MD, who has been a medical physician
missionary for over 12 years, in the Mississippi Delta, the poorest area
in
the country. Also included will be 1st Lady Mrs. Evette Gibson, of LIFE
COGIC, in Riverside, CA and Ms. Barbara Dent-Giles of the Los Angeles
Urban
League, Pomona Branch, Honorary Chairpersons, T'Keyah Crystal Keymah,
actress
of CBS's "Cosby" and veteran actor Stephen Macht.
"The efforts to establish Juneteenth as a National Holiday are at critical
stage," states Thompson. "We urge you to write, e-mail or call
Congressman
Tony Hall, Congressman Joe Baca and Senator Nell Soto in support of
Juneteenth
and HCR 356."
Congressman Tony Hall
1432 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-6465
Contact: Deborah Young 202-225-1217
web site: www.house.gov/tonyhall/
Congressman Joe Baca
201 N. "E" Street, #102
San Bernandino, CA 92401
909-885-5959
State Senator Nell Soto
822 N. Euclid Ave.
Ontario, CA 91762
909-984-7741
"We will be available during the symposium, if you are interested in
becoming
a NJOF affiliate," said Thompson. For those interested in becoming a
sponsor, having a career booth, being a small business exhibitor,
attending
the seminars or dinner, call the JAI headquarters at 909-947-4346. Call
soon
because space is limited!
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Subject: Re: Do you know who makes your products?
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From: joshua....@accglobal.net
Subject: Elian Gozalez - A Blessing In Disguise For Cuba.
Every well-thinking individual would obviously and naturally respect a
father's claim to custody of his child in the event that its(his/her)
natural mother passes on. This reveals the hypocracy that exists among
peoples of this planet. Politics is used to twist and brainwash a vast
number of peoples on planet earth and the Elian Gonzalez situation is /was
a
useful example.
I , however, believe that the capitalist,one-sided system of the United
States loses a lot politically in this struggle and the U.S. Courts had no
choice but to hastily rule against Elian residing with distance relatives
in
the this capitalist economy. The justice system had no choice. The longer
they kept Elian in the U.S. the more damage was done politically on the
part
of Uncle Sam. The brainwashed citizens of the U.S. had begun to question
the
so-called wicked labels placed on the honourable, Dr Fidel Castro and his
regime. How comes, despite sanctions and other descriminations meted out
to
these great citizens,they seem to have been quering, were they able to
stand
so strong and proud of their country,leader and political system? Elian's
dad stayed in Cuba with his immediate family and their was absolutely no
intention on his part to defect and from the limited glimpses, exposures
and
reactions we got from the media of the Cubans , it was obvious that the
vast majority was anxiously awaiting the return of this lad and was deeply
in love with their wonderful though struggling nation.
This, in my mind, is a political victory for Dr. Castro and his Cuban
citizens and I would no more be surprised if this simple phenomenon serves
as a catalyst to the total lifting of sanctions by the U.S. than if after
having intercourse with my wife, she were to be pronounced pregnant by our
family doctor!
Joshua Spencer B.A., T.T.Dip
Personal Support Co-ordinator,
N.A.B.O.R.S., Toronto, Canada.
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:37:34 -0400
From: "TheBlackList -eMail News" <TBLe...@earthlink.net>
Subject: Where is Irian Jaya? And why should you care?
Remember East Timor?
Welcome to Irian Jaya.
This is Irian Jaya
http://www.irja.com/index2.shtml
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/98/01/02/980102_8.htm
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports98/biak/
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Sunday, July 5, 1998 Published at 22:52 GMT 23:52 UK
World: Asia-Pacific
Indonesian troops open fire in Irian Jaya
Reports from the eastern Indonesian province of Irian Jaya say troops opened
fire
on demonstrators who raised a pro-independence flag on top of a health
centre in
the port of Biak earlier this week.
The reports said there were a number of casualties.
A human rights activist in the provincial capital, Jayapura accused troops
of firing
indiscriminately at ordinary people in the town.
He said protests were also continuing at a university campus in Jayapura by
students
demanding independence for Irian Jaya.
>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
========================================
Received from Joyo Indonesian News
The Guardian [UK]
Monday July 3, 2000
Papuans renew their drive for freedom
-- Indonesian province determined to secede by peaceful means
John Aglionby in Jayapura
The independence movement in Papua, Indonesia's eastern-most
province, is holding talks with President Abdurrahman Wahid after a
year of reorganisation and consensus-building in which it has
already won the right to call the area by its old name.
Members of the Papuan Praesidium Council are in Jakarta for their
first round of negotiations with the president, knowing that the
vast majority of the 2.3m people in the province Indonesia used to
call Irian Jaya are fully behind their renewed call for secession.
That was made abundantly clear at a colourful congress in the
provincial capital, Jayapura, last month. Thousands of people from
all the 254 indigenous tribes and representatives of the migrants
who live in the province, which shares the island of New Guinea with
the independent state of Papua New Guinea, decided unanimously to
campaign for their own immediate independence.
Many of the delegates, dressed only in penis sheaths and feathered
headdresses, trekked for more than a week across glacier-covered
mountains and barely penetrable virgin rainforest to call for an end
to 31 years of Indonesian rule.
"It is not just me but all Papuans who are satisfied by the result
of the congress," the praesidium chairman, Theys Eluay, said.
"We succeeded in reaching a consensus on our aspirations and the
praesidium now has the legitimacy to take the struggle forward."
Mr Eluay stressed that, in contrast to its own past activity and
that of independence movements in East Timor and Aceh, the new
Papuan campaign would be peaceful.
"We want to succeed through dialogue and negotiation," he said. "We
are determined not to resort to violence."
Contrary to many reports in the Jakarta press, the congress's
resolution did not commit the treasonable offence of declaring
independence.
Rather, it stated that the Papuan people obtained their independence
on December 1 1961, when the Dutch finally left the last of the
colonies formerly known as the Dutch East Indies.
It also rejected the 1969 "Act of Free Choice", the UN-sponsored
process in which 1,025 community leaders voted unanimously to
integrate with President Suharto's Indonesia, on the grounds that it
was "conducted to the accompaniment of threats, intimidation,
sadistic killings, military violence and amoral deeds that gravely
violated humanitarian principles".
Mr Eluay, who was one of the signatories, said they had little
choice but to sign.
"If we had not voted for integration our houses would have been
burned and our families slaughtered."
In the past two years the level of oppression has declined
significantly, although armed militia supporting the Indonesian
connection are starting to operate in the far west of the territory,
just as they did in East Timor.
They have been involved in several violent incidents, particularly
in the town of Fak-fak. One day during the congress security guards
seized 14 pistols and two homemade bombs from people trying to
enter.
"It is the army and the political elite in Jakarta trying to stir up
conflict among us so they will then have an excuse to intervene,"
said Denny Yomaki, a senior figure in several local organisations.
Mr Wahid's policy somersaults seem to show Jakarta's growing unease
at the developments in Irian Jaya. At first he supported the
congress to the extent of promising to open it, then pulled out at
the last minute, although he still gave 1bn rupiahs (=A375,400) to
help finance it.
Since the congress ended, he has led the vocal disapproval of its
resolution. But he has intensified development programmes in the
province, and agreed to let the Papuans fly their flag, the Morning
Star, in public as long as it is together with and below the
Indonesian flag.
In December he declared that the province should revert to its
original name, Papua. An independent commission will be set up to
investigate past human rights abuses. But it is doubtful whether all
this will be enough to sway Papuans from their desire for
independence.
"The basic problem here is not one of money or development," said
Yohanes Bonay, director of Jayapura office of the Institute for
Human Rights Studies and Advocacy. "It is all about the sovereignty
of the Papuan people over their own land. If the people think they
have to separate from Indonesia in order to achieve that, then they
will continue their struggle until they do. It's up to Indonesia to
come up with an alternative."
Despite Mr Wahid's concessions, he is determined to hang on to
Papua, not only because of the billions of dollars a year Jakarta
gets from the area, but also because he does not want it to
precipitate national disintegration.
But national cohesiveness holds little sway in Papua.
"We know that our cause is just and so we are prepared to take as
long as is necessary," Mr Eluay said. "But we are determined that it
will only be a matter of time before we are completely free."
Some Links to Irian Jaya (West Papua)
http://www.irja.com/index2.shtml
http://net.cs.utexas.edu/users/boyer/fp/feld-950927.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/98/01/02/980102_8.htm
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports98/biak/
http://www.crazy-man.org/irian/irianproposal.html
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From: "Dr. Nathan Hare" <nh...@blackthinktank.com>
Subject: Re: [soa] africa:its whats for dinner.
I also see the point, but you don't just haul off and start a war. As you
well know, there must be a period of preparation for war or revelation.
I'm
very gratified with all the consciousness I see on the internet, flaws and
all, after such a long and fallow period of silence and inaction. I also
believe we would have loved this for stirring up "grassroots
communication"
and consciousness in the 1960s. Of course, anything can be overdone, and
misdone, and too much of a good thing is bad; but we have to start
somewhere, and I would say, for the time being, let it all hang out.
Secrecy is only one ingredient, and one whose value changes according to
the
purpose, time and situation.
Just thought I'd put my two cents worth in here.
Later,
Nathan Hare
----- Original Message -----
From: "shelley corbin" <svco...@usol.com>
To: "Kenneth Travitt"
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [soa] africa:its whats for dinner.
> i see your point, rhetorically. however unless we develop some kind of
> melanin- telepathic network its gonna be well nigh impossible to get
> ideas accross.
>
>
> This is so sad of a situation. Yet, we here in North
> America suffer the
> exact same situations on a minor scale all of the time.
> These tactics are
> going to have to be dealt with wisely; AND NOT BY
> BROADCASTING OUR TACTICS
> ON THE NET, PAPER, OR BY PRESS CONFERENCE! War is a matter
> of deception (Sun
> Tzu)
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From: THE WATCHER <SIS...@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
Presented by the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and
to
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent
respect
to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that
among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to
secure
these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as
to
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should
not
be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience
hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they
are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it
is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to
provide
new Guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now
the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of
Government.
The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history
of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let
Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for
the
public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be
obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to
them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts
of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of
Representation
in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants
only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable,
and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole
purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others
to
be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation,
have
returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in
the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and
convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that
purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to
pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the
conditions
of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to
Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their
offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the
consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the
Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their
Acts
of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which
they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province,
establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries
so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing
the
same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and
altering
fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested
with
power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and
waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and
destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to
complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with
circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to
bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their
friends
and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to
bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages,
whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages,
sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the
most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act
which
may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to
extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and
settlement
here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have
conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these
usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and
correspondence.
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our
Separation,
and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace
Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in
General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world
for
the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the authority of
the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare.
That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and
Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the
British Crown,
and that all political connection between them and the State of Great
Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved;
and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War,
conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce,
and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right
do.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
Lives,
our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
The signers of the Declaration represented the new states as follows:
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham
Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George
Clymer,
James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison,
Thomas
Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
For additional information about the Declaration of Independence, see
these
sites:
National Archives and Records Administration: Declaration of Independence
Library of Congress: About the Declaration of Independence
Updated: 23 June 1999
URL: http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
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