>a fine and one-year supervised probation for being given a summons by a >Park Ranger for "failure to obey a lawful order" at a protest demonstration >for Mumia last July. > >If the government thinks we are going to stop working for Mumia, they are >wrong! Join us from 9 to 10 am on Tuesday morning and send the government a >message. Then when you get to work, send Probation Officer Macolino another >message. His fax number is 718-330-7131. > >* * * >____________________________________________________________________ > >TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT JUDY KISSINGER >____________________________________________________________________ > >>From Judy Miller Kissinger >- Friday, 2 June 2000 - > >As you have probably heard by now, there has been a move by the government >(in the guise of one year's supervised probation with severe restrictions) >on some leaders of the Mumia movement, including against Clark Kissinger, >my husband. One aspect of this attack has been to demand of him detailed >personal financial information which would force him to divulge the names >of all those who have contributed to his work, enabling him to devote >nearly full time to this battle, rather than having to work to support >himself. > >Shortly after he was told this, I was served with two subpoenas by federal >agents (at my work) to turn over ten years of all financial records (taxes, >bank statements, checks, credit card statements, loans, etc., which are of >course joint with Clark's), and to appear before a grand jury, supposedly >related to an investigation of a former employer. I only worked at the >place for two years (1996-1998), and, as far as we can tell, none of the >other employees have been asked for this type of information. We can only >assume that this is a giant fishing expedition, using every legal mechanism >to bring pressure on a key leader of the Mumia movement at this most >decisive point in the battle to stop his execution -- trying to find out >everything possible about our finances and personal activity. > >I have worked in clinical and research labs of various kinds since 1963. At >this job, as lab supervisor, I had responsibility for the technical >functioning of the lab, but no involvement in any financial, billing >matters, and the government knows this. This "amazing coincidence" of both >of us being asked for this information can only be viewed by us as an >attack on us and on the entire Mumia movement. I have nothing to hide about >the work I did at this lab, but the government has no business going into >our personal affairs. It is up to them to prove that they are truly >interested only in what happened at this lab. > >My attorneys are in contact with the assistant US attorney, but it is >urgently important that he know that people are watching this case. I need >for you to contact them -- to tell them that you know me as a person of >principles and integrity, and that intrusion into our personal finances for >political reasons is unacceptable. [Note: the subpoenas are in my >professional/maiden name of Judy Miller] > >His name and address: > >Keir N. Dougall, AUSA (assistant US attorney) U.S. Attorney's Office - >E.D.N.Y. >1 Pierrepont Plaza - 15th floor >Brooklyn, NY 11201 >(718) 254-6544 Fax: (718) 854-6321 > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >IRELAND: ORANGE MARCHING SEASON STARTS >____________________________________________________________________ > >>From an AFIB reader, Dublin >- Friday, 2 June 2000 - > >A report on the latest activity of Loyalists in Portadown, Ireland, where >the Orange Order are still demanding their 'right' to march down the >Nationalist Garvaghy Road. The 'marching season' for 2000 is just starting >now and will go on all Summer. It will cause the usual civil conflict, >attacks on homes of catholics and physical assaults on persons the >loyalists perceive to be nationalists. > >Progressive activists worldwide can keep track of events by checking the >Garvaghy Road website at: http://www.gravaghyroad.org > >* * * > >AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS >58 Parnell Square >Dublin 1, Eire >Tel: +353-1-8733611 >Fax: +353-18733074 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web: http://www.irlnet.com/aprn >- Thursday, 1 June 2000 - > >----- >____________________________________________________________________ > >LOYALISTS TERRORISE PORTADOWN CROSS-COMMUNITY EVENT >____________________________________________________________________ > >It was a night that the Catholic pupils of Drumcree College and their >Protestant counterparts from Portadown College were looking forward to. A >concert held on Tuesday in Portadown featuring Irish flautist James Galway >and Maire Brennan from Clannad was intended to help the pupils raise funds >for a trip to Canada. > >It was in a spirit of openness and tolerance that over 1,000 people, >including Orangeman and Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and British >Secretary of State Peter Mandelson attended the concert in St John's Chapel >on the Garvaghy Road. > >During the concert, however, Orangemen and loyalist supporters engaged in a >simultaneous drum-banging contest on Drumcree hill, a stone's throw from >the function. Eight Lambeg drums could be heard in the distance. > >The cross-community event then turned into a nightmare when over 300 >loyalist protestors turned up for the follow-up reception at Portadown >College on the Killicomaine road. Teachers, parents and pupils were trapped >in the school as mayhem erupted around them. The RUC and British Army were >deployed in force as loyalists shouted abuse and threw missiles at the RUC >lines and the school. Several cars were damaged during the protest. > >Many nationalists who were participating in the event had to abandon their >plans to attend the reception when they were turned back at RUC >check-points and told that their security couldn't be guaranteed if they >travelled to the school for the reception. > >The traumatic experience has added to the tensions that have already been >running high after a series of attacks on Catholic homes in Portadown on 17 >March. News that the Portadown Orange Lodge is holding a mass rally at >Drumcree hill on Saturday has also increased fears of further trouble. >Residents had already been placed under curfew for over 24 hours following >the Parades Commission's decision to allow a junior Orange march to take >place at the bottom of Garvaghy Road last Saturday. > >Before midnight on Friday the British Army and RUC moved into the Garvaghy >estate in force. By mid afternoon, armoured vehicles, heavily armed British >paratroopers and the RUC riot squad are already deployed along the Garvaghy >Road. Inside the local park, lines of RUC Land Rovers and British Army >armoured Saxons line the pathway from the nationalist Obins area of >Portadown to Garvaghy Road. > >All this to allow a handful of members of the junior Orange Order to parade >where they're not welcome. Indeed, the main Orange parade had been held in >Belfast earlier in the day. Garvaghy Road was a 30-mile detour, but who's >counting when there's an opportunity to harass the 'taigs'? > >"Asking the Orange Order not to march in nationalist areas is like asking >the Ku Klux Klan to burn crosses on their own front lawn," says a resident, >"What would be the point?" > >There was no protest rally organised but inevitably local people gathered >as the Orange parade is due to take place. At the entrance to the Garvaghy >Road, the British Army erected a 30- foot armoured partition. RUC officers >in full riot gear stood behind riot shields, their batons and plastic >bullet guns at the ready. > >On the Garvaghy Road, elderly pensioners, parents with their children and >young people faced the hostility of the Crown forces. Amongst the crowd >were residents' spokesperson Breandan MacCionnaith and others, local >representatives and monitors from a human rights group. > >Inevitably a few children threw a few stones. The RUC were furious but this >time they do not respond. Inside the park, a stand off between a handful of >local teenagers and the RUC almost escalated into a more dangerous >situation. > >On a narrow bridge which straddles the river, the RUC riot squad regrouped >and brought out their dogs. More RUC Land Rovers arrived through a side >entrance and the crowd suddenly feared it was going to be cut off and >ambushed. > >A few yards away, a children's playground, with its swings and slides, >remained empty. There's an Orange march at the bottom of the Garvaghy Road; >there'll be no playing today. > >***** > >ANTI-FASCIST ACTION >Box BM 1734 >London, WC1N 3XX >Tel: 0976-406-870 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5602 >- Wednesday, 31 May 2000 - > >----- >____________________________________________________________________ > >GERRY ADAMS SPEAKS OUT ON ASYLUM SEEKERS >____________________________________________________________________ > >As militant anti-fascists in Britain we welcome the recent comments from >Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, in relation to the asylum issue in >Ireland. Speaking at a meeting in Ireland on 17th May, he said: "Not only >has the [Irish] government failed to address the needs and rights of >refugees and asylum seekers, it has also ignored the needs and rights of >urban and rural communities. Communities have a right to be consulted and >to expect adequate resources and supports. But communities also have >obligations and responsibilities as human beings." He added that "racism >does not grow by accident. Everywhere it has taken hold it is because >unscrupulous people in politics and other spheres of society have nurtured >it for their own cynical interests." > >These comments are just as accurate in relation to the situation in >Britain. A failure to demand adequate resources along with the rights of >refugees can only, as in many communities in Britain, pit the most wretched >against the most disadvantaged. For liberals and professional anti-racists >to then "take sides" on the issue of resources without addressing the £30 >million shortfall by the New Labour government in recompensing local >authorities compounds the problem. A fourfold increase in support for the >Far Right in the May elections in London and a doubling of race attacks are >some of the consequences. > >To our knowledge the Sinn Fein president is the first political leader to >promote an anti-racist strategy that is not perceived to be anti-working >class, and through that has hopefully helped move anti-racist thinking from >the purely moral to the strategic. If so it will prove to be a timely >intervention. > >Order Fighting Talk in print. Prices for 4 Issues by land mail: > >UK: Individuals £4/ Institutions & Organisations £14 >Overseas: Individuals £10/ Institutions & Organisations £17 >Cheques/orders payable to 'Anti-Fascist Action' >Fighting Talk, BM 1734, London, WC1N 3XX > >***** > >PAN-AFRICAN NEWS WIRE >The Pan-African Research and Documentation Center >211 SCB Box 47, Wayne State University >Detroit, MI 48202 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >- Weekly Dispatch II, Tuesday, 30 May 2000 - > >----- >____________________________________________________________________ > >PATHFINDER BOOKSTORE VANDALIZED AFTER POLICE BRUTALITY FORUM >Socialist Candidate Says He Believes Attack Was Politically Motivated >____________________________________________________________________ > >By A PANW Correspondent > >DETROIT, 30 May (PANW)--Early Monday morning the front glass window was >smashed at the Pathfinder Bookstore on Woodward avenue in the New Center >Area in Detroit. > >There have been no reported witnesses to the incident which took place >sometime after 2:00 am on Memorial Day, according to representatives of the >bookstore which is supported by the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP). > >On Saturday evening, a well attended meeting was held at the bookstore >sponsored by the Militant Labor Forum, a socialist education series >organized weekly by the SWP. The supporters of the bookstore said at a >press conference today, that the incident was politically motivated and >designed to intimidate the organization and others who are fighting against >police brutality in Detroit. > >A featured speaker at the Militant Labor Forum on Saturday evening was >Arnetta Grable, the national chairperson of the October 22nd Coalition >Against Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a >Generation. Ms. Grable is also a leading figure in the local Detroit >Coalition Against Police Brutality, an affiliate of the National October >22nd Coalition. > >Ms. Grable's son, Lamar Wayne Grable, was murdered by Detroit police >officer Eugene Brown in September of 1996. Brown is also responsible in the >deaths of another two unarmed civilians as well as the wounding of six >others over the last five years. Recent revelations in the Detroit media, >both African-American and corporate, has exposed the continuing problem of >police brutality and its concommitant cover up by city officials under >Mayor Dennis Archer and former police official, Gilbert Hill, who is >currently the president of the City Council. > >Two other panelists at the meeting were Abayomi Azikiwe of the Detroit >Coalition to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal and John Sarge, the >Socialist Worker's Party candidate for the Congressional race in the 15th >District. > >At a press conference on Tuesday held at the Pathfinder Bookstore, John >Sarge issued the following statement: > >"A window of the Pathfinder Bookstore, the location of the Socialist >Workers Campaign and my campaign for Congress in the 15th District, was >shattered sometime after 2:00am, Monday, May 29. The damage was discovered >when I and some of my supporters arrived at the offices at 9:30am on >yesterday. > >On Saturday night the Pathfinder Bookstore was the location of a forum >against police brutality that included Arnetta Grable, the mother of one of >the victims of police officer Eugene Brown. Her case against this brutal >cop was in court today. The panel also included Abayomi Azikiwe, who is >organizing support for Mumia Abu-Jamal in his fight against the death >penalty, and myself. Panelists at the forum reported that activists who >stand up against police brutality have faced harassment in Detroit. > >The vandalism of my campaign headquarters is clearly a political attack >designed to intimidate and silence me and supporters of the Socialist >Workers campaign, as well as other fighters against police brutality. But >it won't work. My campaign will continue to speak out against police >brutality and the death penalty, and support the struggles and resistance >of working people today. You can tell the vandal, this will not intimidate >me. > >This morning, I joined the Grable family and other opponents of police >brutality in circuit court and watched Judge Isidore Torres attempt to >intimidate people by ordering Henry Dudzinski, 76, and his 82-year-old >wife, Mary, to remove the anti-brutality sweatshirts they had on. When >Henry Dudzinski argued that he had a first amendment right to wear his >shirt, five sheriff's deputies removed him. Later the judge ordered the >seizure of a camera from a "Michigan Citizen" reporter. > >Last week I joined in the massive celebrations in Dearborn after the >collapse of Isreali control of South Lebanon. In March, I traveled to >Mansfield, Ohio to offer solidarity to locked-out members of the United >Steelworkers of America, fighting both the company-hired goons and the >local cops and courts. Some of my supporters traveled to Washington, D.C. >on May 17 to join coal miners at a rally to defend health-care benefits as >a social right. In two weeks I plan to join other Detroit area residents in >welcoming the Second Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section to the area. > >Wherever working people, farmers, and youth are standing up for justice, >I'll be there to support them. This attack will not intimidate me." > >Pan-African News Wire articles may be freely distributed for non-profit >educational and research purposes. We request that the original source be >cited when the dispatches are circulated. Distribution for profit is >strictly prohibited without the expressed consent of the Pan-African News >Wire. > >***** > >COMITE PRO RESCATE Y DESARROLLO DE VIEQUES >Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques >Apartado 1424 Vieques, PR 00765 >Tel: (787) 741-0716 >Cel. 375-0525 >- Tuesday, 30 May 2000 - > >----- >____________________________________________________________________ > >REPORT FROM VIEQUES >____________________________________________________________________ > >by Robert L. Rabin Siegal > >Friends in Solidarity with the People of Vieques. > >Warm greetings of solidarity from Vieques. Our community continues its >actions to denounce the military presence. Besides the incursions into >military lands on 13 May, in which 54 people were arrested, every day there >are incidents on the civilian roads here involving military vehicles - our >people yell at them, honk their horns, and in some cases temporarily stop >convoys. Here, in front of the Navy base, Camp GarcÌa - we maintain a 24 >hour presence keeping track of Navy vehicles, personnel and equipment and >carrying out constant protest activity. > >On Saturday, 27 May, over 250 Viequenses and a couple dozen friends from >the main island, particpated in the Saturday Night Vigil we have held in >front of the gate to Camp GarcÌa. This particular vigil was dedicated to >the 58 people recently arrested - the 54 on 13 May; RubÈn BerrÌos and Jorge >Fern·ndez of the Puerto Rico Independence Party; and the ZenÛn brothers - >Cacimar and Pedro. Several of those arrested participated spoke at last >nights vigil of their commitment to be arrested again if necesarry. Several >mentioned they were in Vieques in open violation of the court imposed >restriction on their returning to Vieques. > >RadamÈs Tirado, past mayor of Vieques (1976-80), offered a strong >criticismo of the Government of Puerto Rico¥s decision to assign Puerto >Rico police to help the Navy repress our struggle - the same Navy, Tirado >said, that is the real criminal who violates the rights of the people of >Vieques. > >Vieques art teacher, Glorimar Ojeda together with a group of Vieques >children, handed to the approximately 30 Riot Police stationed in front of >the gates to Camp GarcÌa -- copies of her students drawings from an exhibit >titled, THE CHILDREN WANT PEACE - with the expressed hope the policemen and >women would give the drawings to their children so they might know why we >are protesting. The police agents also received flowers as a symbol of our >position that the struggle of Vieques is directed at the US Navy, and not >these Puerto Ricans who have been ordered to fulfill an inmoral mission by >their superiors. > >During the vigil it was mentioned that the Navy had announced a few days >earlier they would soon be carrying out dangerous activity in Vieques >waters. In a warning to fishermen, dated 24 May, the Navy informed that >from 29 May until 2 June and from 2 to 4 in the afternoon, their activities >would be dangerous for fishermen, their boats and equipment. > >In a separate document from the Planning Board dated 9 May and received by >the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques (CRDV) this past >Thursday, we learned the Navy is requesting Certification of Federal >Compatibility with the Coastal Zone Management Program of Puerto Rico. The >Navy¥s project, for which it asks certification, is described as follows: >recertification of a ship and a few Navy aircraft. Navy action will include >the shooting of less than 50 rounds of 5 inch shells from a ship and the >firing of 50 inert bombs from jets. > >On Sunday, 28 May we held a Caravan for Peace and Health to denounce the >Navy¥s intention to carry out these exercises. More than 200 cars passed >through all the barrios of Vieques, ending in a concentration at Peace and >Justice Camp in front of the entrance to Camp GarcÌa. Ismael Guadalupe, >principle spokesman for the CRDV, explained the need to increase pressure >through continued civil disobedience actions, entering into Navy lands in >larger and larger groups. > >The struggle continues. We urge all those individuals and organiztions in >solidarity with the people of Vieques to continue your protest actions in >your communities. It¥s important to continue to flood the telephone lines >at the White House and in Congress with calls, faxes and emails in support >of Peace in Vieques, which is only attainable with the immediate and >permanent end to all military activity here. > >Source: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >***** > >PINOCHET WATCH >Institute for Policy Studies >733 15th St. NW, Suite 1020 >Washington, D.C. 20005-2112 >Tel: (202) 234-9382 >Fax: (202) 387-7915 >http://www.tni.org/campaigns/pinochet/watch/watch20.htm >- No. 20, 24 May 2000 - > >----- >____________________________________________________________________ > >PINOCHET SERVED PAPERS FOR PRATS CASE: Townley Admits Detonating Bomb >____________________________________________________________________ > >On May 5, Chilean judge JoaquÌn Billard delivered papers to Pinochet's home >in the Santiago suburb of La Dehesa, informing him that he has been >indicted in the 1974 Buenos Aires car-bomb assassination of Chilean General > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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