Dear Comrade
Reading your interesting mails I suppose there is some technical problem
with your site. I receive some of your mails double sometimes triple. The
last two ones were received uncomplete. Your News weekly ±40 interrupted
after the first item and then after the 4 item (Harpers Ferry). Can you send
me again the complete issue please ?
I send you the most complete of your last mail? perhaps it may help you to
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From: heikki sipilä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: wwnews Digest #40
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> > WW News Service Digest #40
> >
> > 1) Environmentalists hit Gore in expulsion of U'wa people
> > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 2) Cops shot Diallo while he was on the ground
> > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 3) Albert Nuh Washington: "I am a political prisoner"
> > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 4) A must read: "A Voice From Harper's Ferry"
> > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 5) Serbian composer dedicates performance piece to Mumia
> > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 6) Feb. 19 protests in U.S. to demand Elian's return
> > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 7) Canadian student strike!
> > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Subject: [WW] Environmentalists hit Gore in expulsion of U'wa people
> >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:21:02 -0500
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> >Via Workers World News Service
> >Reprinted from the Feb. 17, 2000
> >issue of Workers World newspaper
> >-------------------------
> >
> >OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM IN COLOMBIA:
> >
> >ENVIRONMENTALISTS HIT GORE
> >IN EXPULSION OF U'WA PEOPLE
> >
> >By Deirdre Griswold
> >
> >Occidental Petroleum's expulsion of Indigenous U'wa people
> >from their land in the cloud forests of Colombia has sparked
> >protests in the United States and around the world--and
> >brought to light Vice President Al Gore's oil company
> >connections.
> >
> >Gore, the front-runner for the Democratic Party's
> >presidential nomination, has for years positioned himself as
> >an environmentalist. He is author of the best-selling book
> >"Earth in the Balance," from which he has earned over a
> >million dollars in royalties.
> >
> >But Gore also has close connections to Big Oil, which
> >environmental scientists see as the most important obstacle
> >to reversing serious climate change caused by global
> >warming. For over a decade, the oil and coal companies have
> >been obstructing any international agreements that would
> >impose limits on emission of "greenhouse" gases, caused by
> >burning oil and coal, or would focus government monies on
> >developing alternative energy sources.
> >
> >The recently published book "The Carbon War" by petroleum
> >scientist Jeremy Leggett, available only in Britain, details
> >the intense lobbying by the oil giants at every
> >international conference on global warming over the last
> >decade.
> >
> >Gore's father, Sen. Albert Gore Sr., became known as the
> >senator from Occidental Petroleum. When he lost his Senate
> >seat in 1970, Oxy CEO Armand Hammer made him president of
> >Island Creek Coal--at that time the third-biggest coal
> >company in the United States and owned by Oxy.
> >
> >Later, Gore senior became vice president and board member
> >of the oil giant itself, at an annual salary of $750,000.
> >
> >The current Oxy CEO, Ray Irani, has been a frequent
> >visitor to the Clinton-Gore White House. After one of those
> >fabled nights in the Lincoln bedroom in 1996, he donated
> >$100,000 to the Democratic National Committee.
> >
> >Over the last 25 years, Gore junior has received over
> >$450,000 in royalties from Union Zinc for the rights to mine
> >his 88-acre farm in Tennessee. His father originally
> >acquired the land and the mineral rights from Armand Hammer
> >on what according to the Sept. 29, 1999, Wall Street Journal
> >appeared to be "highly favorable terms."
> >
> >Gore is also reported to own as much as a half-million
> >dollars worth of Oxy stock.
> >
> >According to the U'wa Defense Working Group, Occidental
> >Petroleum began moving the Indigenous people off their
> >ancestral lands in Colombia on Jan. 25 in order to start
> >drilling in search of an estimated 1.5 billion barrels of
> >oil.
> >
> >Stephen Kretzmann of Amazon Watch says that Gore, who owns
> >so much Oxy stock, "could stop the drilling with a phone
> >call, and if he doesn't do something about this he will lose
> >the environmental and human-rights vote."
> >
> >When the Colombian government issued a drilling license to
> >Oxy last fall, members of environmental groups demonstrated
> >in 21 cities around the world.
> >
> >The 5,000 surviving U'was have threatened to commit mass
> >suicide if oil drilling on their lands begins in earnest.
> >
> >For 40 years Colombia has been locked in a civil war that
> >is essentially over whether the country's riches will be
> >used for the people's benefit or for the profit of a few
> >capitalists, at home and abroad.
> >
> >In the federal budget just announced, the Clinton
> >administration seeks to increase aid to the Colombian
> >government--most of it military aid--to $1.3 billion. That
> >would make Colombia the third-biggest recipient of U.S.
> >military aid in the world.
> >
> >The excuse given for this huge increase is the "war on
> >drugs." But even the New York Times admitted, in a front-
> >page article on Feb. 6: "U.S. Antidrug Plan to Aid Colombia
> >Faces Skepticism."
> >
> >It reported that many in the Pentagon, remembering
> >Vietnam, fear becoming embroiled in the guerrilla war in
> >Colombia. There, as in Southeast Asia, the leaders are
> >seasoned Marxists who have a strong base of support among
> >the workers and peasants.
> >
> >Gore stands to personally benefit from U.S. intervention
> >in Colombia, since he is intimately connected to a
> >corporation with vast material interest in exploiting the
> >resources.
> >
> >Occidental Petroleum's pipelines have often been the
> >targets of guerrilla actions by those fighting the
> >government.
> >
> >George W. Bush would have a hard time openly making an
> >issue of Gore's Oxy connections, since he himself comes from
> >a family closely tied to the oil industry. His father waged
> >the Gulf War on behalf of Big Oil, and much of the funding
> >in his current race for the Republican nomination comes
> >directly from oil companies.
> >
> >The Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition
> >in Austin, Texas, says that, as governor, Bush has
> >essentially allowed companies like Exxon to write their own
> >lax rules about oil and chemical plant pollution in his
> >state.
> >
> >But while Bush isn't likely to focus on Gore's connections
> >in the campaign, he would not be averse to publicity that
> >could cost Gore environmental votes.
> >
> >With two oil company candidates on the ballot, many
> >environmentalists will be looking to direct action this year
> >instead of the capitalist elections as they fight for the
> >U'wa people and the earth itself.
> >
> >[Much of the factual information in this article came from
> >the Rainforest Action Network's Web site, www.ran.org, which
> >has links to various news sources.]
> >
> > - END -
> >
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> >Message-ID: <009a01bf74f7$d3c52500$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: [WW] Cops shot Diallo while he was on the ground
> >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:23:19 -0500
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> >Via Workers World News Service
> >Reprinted from the Feb. 17, 2000
> >issue of Workers World newspaper
> >-------------------------
> >
> >HUNDREDS MARCH IN ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY:
> >
> >"COPS SHOT DIALLO
> >WHILE HE WAS ON THE GROUND"
> >
> >On Feb. 4--the first anniversary of the police shooting of
> >Amadou Diallo--400 to 500 people gathered at the site where
> >the West African immigrant was gunned down. The candlelight
> >vigil was held in front of Diallo's home on Wheeler Avenue
> >in the Bronx, N.Y.
> >
> >Hundreds more had protested in Albany, N.Y., just four
> >days before. On Jan. 31, the trial of the four cops charged
> >with spraying 41 bullets at the unarmed Diallo opened. The
> >trial's venue had been moved from the multinational Bronx to
> >the predominantly white city of Albany. All the judges there
> >are white men.
> >
> >On Feb. 7, Supreme Court Judge Joseph Teresi ruled that
> >jurors will not hear testimony from Diallo's neighbor Ida
> >Vincent. Vincent said that moments after they shot Diallo,
> >she heard one of the cops say, "We're just going to say
> >this. . . "
> >
> >Several witnesses testified that they heard a pause during
> >the police barrage of gunfire, and then firing resumed.
> >
> >And in the most damning testimony of all, Bronx Medical
> >Examiner Dr. Joseph Cohen said on Feb. 8 that some of the
> >bullets that hit Diallo show that he was prone and paralyzed
> >while the police were shooting at him.
> >
> > - END -
> >
> >(Copyleft Workers World Service. Everyone is permitted to
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> >
> >
> >Message-ID: <009b01bf74f7$eb0c9e00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: [WW] Albert Nuh Washington: "I am a political prisoner"
> >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:24:32 -0500
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> >Via Workers World News Service
> >Reprinted from the Feb. 17, 2000
> >issue of Workers World newspaper
> >-------------------------
> >
> >"I AM A POLITICAL PRISONER":
> >
> >STATEMENT FROM ALBERT NUH
> >WASHINGTON AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS
> >
> >By Leslie Feinberg
> >
> >Black freedom fighter and political prisoner Albert Nuh
> >Washington has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer,
> >and is expected to live from 3 to 10 more months.
> >
> >Nuh, one of the New York 3 defendants, has served 28 years
> >of a 25-to-life sentence. The New York 3--Albert Nuh
> >Washington, Anthony Jalil Bottom and Herman Bell--were
> >victims of the U.S. government's ongoing war against the
> >Black liberation movement.
> >
> >Although the three were tried and convicted in a New York
> >state court for the murder of two New York City police
> >officers, the orchestration of this case was designed in the
> >White House with the help of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.
> >
> >The three continuously contended that they were being set
> >up and framed, but were not allowed to raise this during
> >trial because they had no evidence.
> >
> >It wasn't until after the Church Commission hearings on
> >the FBI's covert domestic operations known as COINTELPRO
> >were held that the frame up was confirmed. Ballistic
> >evidence that had been under wraps was revealed. Lies told
> >by police officers were uncovered.
> >
> >Yet the state has continued to hold the New York 3 behind
> >bars.
> >
> >A concerted effort is underway to get Nuh released on
> >grounds of terminal illness, despite the fact that New York
> >State does not allow "mercy release" for those serving life
> >sentences.
> >
> >In a message sent on Jan. 26, political prisoner Sundiata
> >Acoli urges those in the movement to "demand that New York
> >Governor Pataki sees that Nuh is released. Also urge your
> >pastors, church members, Imams, Mosque members, family,
> >friends and comrades to do the same.
> >
> >"Nuh is most beloved by all of us PP/POWs, and he's highly
> >respected. I sincerely urge everyone to do all that's
> >possible to get Nuh released."
> >
> >Arrangements for a Muslim funeral are underway. Donations
> >toward a cemetery plot and headstone would be appreciated.
> >Checks clearly marked "For Nuh Washington's Headstone" can
> >be sent to Jericho Amnesty Movement, P.O. Box 650, N.Y.,
> >N.Y. 10009.
> >
> >Messages to Nuh can be sent to: Albert Nuh Washington
> >#77A1528, Great Meadows Correctional Facility, Box 51,
> >Comstock, NY 12821.
> >
> >Nuh sent an eloquent statement from prison to the
> >movement. Following are excerpts:
> >
> >"My name is Albert Washington. I am a political prisoner.
> >I am called Nuh (Noah), and like a handful of others, I am
> >one of the longest held political prisoners in this country.
> >
> >"As a member of the Black Panther Party, I worked to raise
> >the political consciousness of Black people and teach them
> >self-defense. The government-sponsored COINTELPRO created
> >situations that led to the split in the Black Panther Party
> >and forced many of us underground.
> >
> >"Underground we became the Black Liberation Army and
> >engaged in active self-defense. In defending the Black
> >community in San Francisco, I was shot and captured along
> >with Jalil Abdul Muntaquin. Later I was charged with killing
> >two New York City police officers with Jalil and Herman
> >Bell.
> >
> >"The State has conceded that I have committed no act but
> >that I taught political education classes. For that I have
> >been sentenced to life imprisonment and subjected to the
> >tightest security, not only in the states of California and
> >New York, but in the country as well.
> >
> >"I am a political prisoner because I spoke out against
> >racism and oppression."
> >
> >`STILL I AM IN COMMAND OF MY POLITICS'
> >
> >"My family instilled in me values and a sense of pride in
> >myself, family, and people. They were always there. I am not
> >allowed family reunion visits because I am considered a
> >high-security escape risk, while others, who have escaped,
> >can get them. It is now harder for my mother to visit me. My
> >friends must make plans to get here. I have not held my wife
> >in a long time.
> >
> >"I tell jokes and educate my fellow prisoners, which is
> >why I am transferred a lot. The Black Panther Party is
> >physically gone but the spirit lives in a lot of us. Just
> >recently a brother asked me for the goals and rules of the
> >Black Panther Party, and a few people wish to be part of it
> >again.
> >
> >"After 20+ years as a prisoner, the memory of being with
> >the people still brings a smile to my face and it is
> >something I share with my fellow prisoners: The concept of
> >unity, movement, and love.
> >
> >"I am a Prisoner of War as well as a Political Prisoner
> >because of the historical and contemporary acts of war
> >carried out against Blacks/New Afrikan people inside and
> >outside these United States by the government and those who
> >believe in white supremacy.
> >
> >"There is very little in here of me yet it is all me. I am
> >kind to my fellow prisoners and I feel for others. I would
> >like to take a walk at night and hug my baby. I'd like to do
> >all the things that people take for granted in their so-
> >called freedom.
> >
> >"Not being able to touch and share special moments with
> >another makes one generalize. I tell myself I am all right.
> >But who can be all right after all these years under these
> >conditions?
> >
> >"Still I am in command of my politics. I can laugh and
> >love, so the damage is not that bad. Whatever strength I
> >have comes from the knowledge that I am a political prisoner
> >and the things we stand for were/are correct."
> >
> > - END -
> >
> >(Copyleft Workers World Service. Everyone is permitted to
> >copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but
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> >
> >
> >
> >Message-ID: <00a101bf74f8$07f08d60$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: [WW] A must read: "A Voice From Harper's Ferry"
> >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:25:21 -0500
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> >Via Workers World News Service
> >Reprinted from the Feb. 17, 2000
> >issue of Workers World newspaper
> >-------------------------
> >
> >A MUST READ: "A VOICE FROM HARPER'S FERRY"
> >With Essays by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Monical Moorehead & Vince
> >Copeland
> >
> >By Pam Parker
> >
> >"A Voice from Harper's Ferry" is a must read for any
> >serious student of the history of slavery, Black oppression
> >and rebellion in the United States.
> >
> >The pamphlet was written by Osborne P. Anderson, who was
> >the only surviving African American participant in the raid.
> >It includes essays by the late Vince Copeland, a founding
> >member of Workers World Party; Monica Moorehead, the 2000
> >presidential candidate of Workers World Party; and Mumia
> >Abu-Jamal, former Black Panther Party member and current
> >political prisoner.
> >
> >Contrary to popular belief, there were a tremendous number
> >of insurrections against slavery in the United States, Latin
> >America and the Caribbean. These insurrections ranged from
> >poisoning the slave masters to full-scale armed rebellions.
> >
> >One such rebellion that was pivotal to the struggle
> >against slavery was the raid on Harper's Ferry on Oct. 17,
> >1859.
> >
> >Osborne Anderson was a free man who, after surviving the
> >rebellion, fought as a noncommissioned officer on the side
> >of the Union Army in the Civil War. His first-hand account
> >of the raid on Harper's Ferry was originally published in
> >1861. This was right after the start of the Civil War.
> >
> >The manuscript was discovered in 1974 by Vince Copeland,
> >and reprinted with his help in 1980. His introduction to
> >that printing, "The Unfinished Revolution," appears again in
> >the new edition.
> >
> >Monica Moorehead gives a thorough definition of what
> >constitutes a nation. She writes that some may think that "a
> >nation is a group of people who share a common language,
> >common heritage, and common borders. But this gives only a
> >partial answer."
> >
> >She explains that many nations are oppressed inside of
> >other nations. Such was the plight of the African slave, and
> >still is of many oppressed nations within the United States
> >today.
> >
> >Mumia Abu-Jamal writes from his cell on death row that
> >Osborne P. Anderson's account of the raid "opens the door to
> >a history seldom seen."
> >
> >THE CAUSE OF BLACK LIBERATION
> >
> >This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of John
> >Brown. In 1854, Brown and six of his sons joined the anti-
> >slavery struggle in Kansas. They played a crucial role in
> >keeping Kansas free from slavery.
> >
> >Brown studied the slave uprisings of Nat Turner, Gabriel
> >Prosser, Denmark Vesey and others as he painstakingly
> >plotted the Harper's Ferry revolt. The plan was to capture
> >Harper's Ferry, a strategically located town in Virginia,
> >and use the huge arsenal there to arm the many slaves who
> >lived in the area.
> >
> >Anderson reflects on the natural tendency of humans to
> >reject being enslaved: "There is an unbroken chain of
> >sentiment and purpose from Moses _ to John Brown _ to _
> >Gabriel, and the Denmark Veseys, Nat Turners _ of the
> >Southern states" to reject slavery.
> >
> >He describes the participants in the rebellion, giving the
> >reader a glimpse into the personalities and backgrounds of
> >these courageous men.
> >
> >He speaks with great admiration of John Brown, the white
> >abolitionist who initiated the raid, looking past the fact
> >that his skin was of the same color as the slave masters'.
> >Anderson was inspired by the fact that this man was willing
> >to take up arms against the slavocracy in the cause of Black
> >liberation.
> >
> >He also speaks in admiration of the many Black men, some
> >"freed," who gave their lives to the struggle. Many of them
> >were offered arms shortly before the rebellion, and did not
> >hesitate to fight.
> >
> >In his account you don't get the feeling that these men
> >were on a suicide mission, but that theirs was one of many
> >well-planned and well-executed rebellions against the
> >cruelty and repression of slavery. Their intent was to
> >incite widespread uprisings.
> >
> >Anderson gives delightful accounts of the fear and
> >disbelief of the slaveholders as they were overtaken and
> >stripped of their arms by slaves. One of the plans was to
> >have a Southern colonel deliver his arms in surrender to
> >Anderson, because "it is proper that the South be taught a
> >lesson at this point."
> >
> >He explains that "Captain John Brown" lingered at the
> >ferry while considering the release of his prisoners. This
> >hesitation gave the "marines" the opportunity to close in on
> >them from all sides and smash the insurrection. Anderson
> >details the savage and merciless attack on his comrades by
> >the enemy.
> >
> >There were no regrets. And even in the face of a military
> >defeat, Anderson saw this battle as an example of what could
> >
>
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