[CTRL] HELP INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS TO GET TO HAGUE CONFERENCE

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From: "viviane lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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From: Zohl de Ishtar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Abolition Caucus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 11:22 PM
Subject: Assistance for Indigenous People to get to HAP


>INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN AND PACIFIC ACTIVISTS REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
>TO ATTEND INTERNATIONAL FORUM
>
>Dear
>
>I am writing to you to gain your financial sponsorship for ten
>Indigenous Australian and Pacific activists to enable them to attend the
>Hague Appeal for Peace Conference - the end of millenium peace
>conference being held in The Hague from May 11-16, 1999.
>
>The Hague Appeal for Peace Conference to be held May 11-16, 1999, is a
>major end-of-century international campaign and conference for peace and
>justice. It will commemorate the centenary of the First Hague Peace
>Conference, and will complete an extraordinary sequence of world
>conferences and summits convened during the last decade. Aiming to
>delegitimize war, the conference will bring together all sectors of
>international civil society to develop specific global strategies for
>disarmament and nuclear abolition, the peaceful settlement of disputes
>and the development of international humanitarian law.  The program
>covers four substantive themes: disarmament, conflict
>prevention/resolution, humanitarian law, and culture of peace. Organized
>by civil society rather than governments, documentation from this
>conference - tabled as "The Hague Agenda for Peace" - will be presented
>to world governments at the parallel intergovernmental process, which
>will comprise high-level meetings in 1999 in The Hague, St. Petersburg,
>Geneva and New York.
>
>Through participating in this conference Indigenous Australian and
>Pacific activists will be able to place on "The Hague Agenda for Peace"
>issues such as: Native Title rights in Australia, Bougainvillean Peace
>Process, French occupation and nuclearisation of Te Ao Maohi (aka French
>Polynesia), the Indonesian illegal occupation and military violence in
>West Papua, , racism, human rights violations, uranium and other mineral
>mining, the proposed international nuclear waste repository planned for
>southern Australia, US military bases, the impacts of nuclear testing,
>and many other issues of the independence and nuclear free campaign of
>our region. The lasting effects of such an achievement can be expected
>to be felt for many decades into the future. Without the Indigenous
>Pacific contribution to this conference it will fail in its attempt to
>represent a global perspective.
>
>The Indigenous Australian and Pacific activists represent 4 nations:
>Aboriginal Australia, Bougainville, Te Ao Maohi (aka French Polynesia)
>and West Papua (aka Irian Jaya). These nations will join delegations
>from Ka Pae’aina (aka Hawai’i) and Aotearoa (aka New Zealand).
>
>The individuals involved are:
>
>Aboriginal Australia - Kathy Malera-Bandjalan (Malera-Bandjalan
>traditional custodian of Timbarra under threat of gold mining); Jacqui
>Katona (Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corp./ uranium mining at Jabiluka-Kakadu
>World Heritage Park); Christine Christopherson (Mirrar woman from
>Jabiluka area); Joan Wingfield (Kokotha/Arabunna people/threatened Billa
>Kallina nuclear waste repository).
>
>Bougainville: Lucy Madoi (Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom,
>President); Marcelline Tunim (Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom,
>Vice-President).  (Survivors of nine year long Papua New Guinea imposed
>war; involved in Bougainvillean initiated Peace Process.)
>
>Te Ao Maohi (aka French Polynesia): Oscar Temaru (Tavini Huirratira,
>President); Lucie Pereire (Tavini Huirratira, Women’s Association),
>Marie Bopp Du Pont (Tavini Huirratira, Youth) (Campaigning for
>independence, end of French colonisation and ending of military
>occupation, including cleanup and compensation following French nuclear
>testing program.)
>
>West Papua (aka Irian Jaya): John Otto Ondawame (Organisasi Papua
>Merdeka/Free Papua Movement); Win Zonggonau (Organisasi Papua
>Merdeka/Free Papua Movement, NANGO-PNG) (Campaigning for independence,
>against Indonesian illegal occupation, removal of Indonesian military
>forces, ending of human right violations.)
>
>Together these people represent some of the most significant Indigenous
>Australian and Pacific issues of decolonisation, demilitarisation,
>denuclearisation, peace and justice and reconciliation issues facing the
>world today.
>
>Funds Required:
>
>The full amount required is $34114. This consists of:
>
>Australia: It will cost each of these 4 women $2760 to attend the
>conference. Total = $11,040.
>
>Bougainville: It will cost each of these 2 women $4432. Total = $8864.
>(This is so high because these women have to travel to Sydney first as
>it is dangerous for them to travel through Port Moresby, Papua New
>Guinea.)
>
>Te Ao Maohi (aka French Polynesia): It will cost each of these 3 people
>$2850. Total = $8550.
>
>West Papua: 

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[CTRL] URGENT CALL

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"URGENT NEED FOR $50,000 US IN ONE WEEK (BY THE 20th FEBRUARY)
If we have 500-1000 people each donating 50-100 dollars (also
bigger or smaller donations are of course very welcome !!!), we will
have it ! "

See bottom of e-mail for name of Bank and account for deposit~
 je

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Date:  Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:52:54 GMT
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From:  Inter Continental Caravan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:   The Inter Continental Caravan needs you !

To whom it may concern - an urgent appeal,

Dear recipients,

In May and June 600 Southern activists tour around Europe together with
European activists to demonstrate  against 93free trade94 and the
institutions pressing for it (the World Trade Organisation, the
International Chamber of Commerce, the European Commission etc.),
against dodgy multinationals, especially those involved in
biotechnology (Monsanto, Novartis...) and to meet and network with
different groups across the Continent. We are going to meet
with the Geld oder Leben (Money or Life) Bicycle Caravan and the
Caravan of Refugees and Migrants in Germany, the Euromarches, Farmers
movements in Eastern Europe... The Inter Continental Caravan will
join in the demonstrations against the NATO and Nuclear Weapons
organised by For Mother Earth and join the actions against the
EU-Summit and the G8-Summit in Cologne, and will coincide with the
International Day of Action at Financial Centers on the June 18th,
which will end the Caravan.

The Inter Continental Caravan for Solidarity and Resistance is an
initiat ive of the People's Global Action against free94 trade
and the WTO (PGA), a network of different people92s movements and
organisations around the world. The Caravan will consist mainly of
Indian peasants, since that's where idea originally came from.
There will be  activists from all biggest farmers movements from
India, and also anti-nuclear activists, indigenous people, landless,
and people fighting against the Narmada Dam project. From other parts
of the World, there will be people from Moviemento dos Sem Terra
(Landless movement in Brazil), Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of
the disappeared from Argentina), womens peasant movement from
Bangladesh, and there has been interest in Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua,
Columbia, Ecuador, Russia, Thailand, South Korea...

This project is not about bringing Southern activists for an
exhibition t our to Europe. It is about joining ours and theirs
struggles, about solidarity and common resistance. With this project
we hope to be able to built up stronger links within different
European movements, and between European and Southern Movements.

But this project needs everybodys involvement to become true !

Although there have already been extensive fundraising efforts, and
much money has already come in, there is still an URGENT NEED FOR 50
000 US DOLLARS IN ONE WEEK (BY THE 20th FEBRUARY), otherwise we will
loose the contracts with the busses we are planning to use.

This seems to be a very big amount of money, but if we have 500-1000
peop le each donating 50-100 dollars (also bigger or smaller
donations are of course very welcome !!!), we will have it ! If we
consider that all the Indian participants are each paying their own
airfare to participate in the Inter Continental Caravan, then such
donations of 50-100 dollars really are not so huge as they may seem,
in relation to a project of such magnitude.

Please spread this appeal around, publicise it in different
newsletters a nd magazines, call your relatives and people who
symphatize radical political activism With the EU having the
Agenda 2000, the WTOs Milennium round starting, this Caravan
really has to take place now - with a little bit of effort from
everyone we can make it !

Bank details:
Account number: 3701010441
Bank number: 50090100, Okobank Berlin
Please specify all the money as "Busses for the Caravan"  AND
notify us when putting money into the account.

For more information:

Inter Continental Caravan
PO Box 2228, 2301 CE Leiden, Holland
tel/fax +31-71-517 3094
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [CTRL] Internet Censorship - what a bummer

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The Internet probably is the last hope for our planet.

But old-fashioned letters might become an alternate provisional solution, if
we organize properly before the censorship is a reality and/or the Y2K will
close down the Net:

After all, ultimately it is the trade unions and individuals in the
communication sector and not the corporations, their politicians and agencies
that decide WHICH ONE of the two antagonistic parties they want to serve and
in WHICH WAY, in either of the two situations.

In the ideal case the last mentioned situation might even turn out to be to our
advantage over the corporations.

Ole



Source - Richard skrev:
>
>  -Caveat Lector-
>
>  Well folks, after having a few conversations with some of my contacts, I’m 
>convinced that we should all just unsubscribe from the Net and go back to writing 
>good, old-fashioned letters. The internet, perhaps the last truly free means of 
>information exchange in the Western World, may soon be choked by censorship and 
>governmental controls. The circumscribing of the net may cause the death of what has 
>become the first people-to-people exchange of ideas and information on a world wide 
>basis. The forces behind this effort appear at first glance to be an unlikely 
>coalition of conspirators, the CIA, some Jewish Religious groups, and various foreign 
>governments. While this unholy alliance for censorship and control may seem unusual 
>to some, politics makes the bed for these strange fellows. Indisputably, an 
>international cabal of special interest groups both within and out of governments are 
>working both openly and secretly to end the unregulated direct exchange of 
>information between
> people. At stake is nothing less then the regaining of information control which the 
>internet has shattered. Up for grabs is nothing more than the thinking and decision 
>making abilities of informed men. You probably already have your own theories about 
>this little conspiracy, but I think it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee folks 
>(particularly those on AOL or AOL lists – oops, that’s us !!).
>
> Information has flowed from the top down for most of this century. Filtering of 
>information by middle men from government, newspapers, radio, and then television has 
>left most people depending upon Paul Harvey "for the rest of the story." Suddenly, 
>almost without warning, the internet mushroomed into popularity connecting people all 
>over the world together electronically and thereby threatening the power of those who 
>disseminate information. If
> information is power, then the control of information is more power. The ideas of 
>men are shaped by what they are told. For those who hope to erect a "New World Order" 
>upon what they view as the antiquated ashes of free speech, control of the internet 
>has jumped to near top of the list of "things to do." Governments and religious 
>groups manipulate and control people by what they are allowed to know or not know. A 
>decision has been made by the
> information brokers to end unregulated information exchange. Overnight the 
>propaganda begins as these forces build their case for control and censorship.
> Quickly the nightly news lights up with horror stories of pornography on the net (in 
>fact as I type the news is relaying yet another perpetrator). Minutes later the same 
>channel runs four hours of lurid programming bringing profanity, sex, sodomites and 
>violence into the homes of viewers who were just shocked about porno on the net 
>(Hello UK Channel 5). Newspapers carry feature length stories about children being 
>lured from home over the computer telephone line, as if somehow typing a request to a 
>child for sex over the phone line is
> more effective than saying it over the same phone line. The Anti-Defamation League 
>issues reports saying that bomb plans can be found on the net along with anti- Jewish 
>opinion. As if the same were not available in every public library in the United 
>States. Politicians in Washington began to talk about "protecting the children." The 
>same politicians who's destructive social policies and no win wars have destroyed 
>more mothers sons than all the pagan empires of the past. Rabbi Abraham Cooper calls 
>for censorship of politically incorrect ideas in Canada and asks for the 
>establishment of an "internet police." A delegation from the Nazi- hunting Simon 
>Wiesenthal Center in Vienna Austria, which has for the most part run out of eighty 
>year old former Nazis to hunt, takes on the new task of information censors and asks 
>Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini, European Union president to back World Jewish 
>Congress initiatives to stop those who disagree on the impact and importance of the
> holocaust from using the internet. Then in a joint effort of the ADL and the Simon 
>Wiesenthal Center letters are mailed to Internet service providers urging providers 
>not to carry messages that contain non-complimentary opinion

[CTRL] Considerations for a Global Monsanto campaign

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Dear Frank,

You don't consider things in the class-struggle perspective, the only
one perspective that can bring understanding, if you check it with
the realities around you:

The conflict between labour and capital is antagonist. You will have
either a dictatorship of the capital as we have now, or you will have
the dictatorship of the people, until the development of technology /
productivity will allow for the state to be abandoned.

Until you possibly might follow my advice, I have to argue concretely.

Your alternative to the world parliament is: "We don't need to change
anything other than a few million minds."

In principle I agree with you (aside from "a few"), cf."The Peoples'
Channel", http://home4.inet.tele.dk/peoples

Although it should be possible to make all progressives contribute,
my experience confirms that the main problem with establishing an
alternative mass media of course is financial.

If you prefer an alternative to the world parliament concept, you
will have to overcome the problem with the corporations controlling
99 % of the printed and electronic mass media and thereby the public
opinion, the politicians, the UN, etc.

So far, the number of Internet-users in this connection is
insignificant. In Africa, for instance, there is absolutely no chance
for the peoples to become Internet-users within decades.

With best regards,

Ole Fjord Larsen



frank belsky skrev:
>
> Dear Mr. Secretary and Group,
>
>You can always cure bursitis by jumping off a bridge. But there are less painful
> treatments. Similary, our laws allow us to end corporate domination without
> adopting new systems.
>
>An example of a mechanism already in place, would be the FCC regulations. They
> assert that the public is controller of the airwaves. Programming must serve
> their needs. Perhaps lack of awareness has stimied this.  If so,
> on the one hand, we have a good system with a need to educate. On the
> other, your advocation that we overturn the current system and then
> start over again at the same place. That is, offer arguments to
> revamp radio and tv currently acceptable. Simply start by advocating
> changes right now.  This, probably the best system ever invented, allows
> and encourages this.
>
>Further, in every area where corporate self-interest supercedes public interest,
> our system offers avenues to change. But an unconcerned electorate fails to
> respond.
>
>"Campaign Finance Reform," for example, is dependent on votes in
> in Congress. Yet we happily elect a Congress that refuses
> to reform. The system and the People are fully empowered. We don't
> need to change anything other than a few million minds.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Frank Belsky
>
> "U.P.secr." wrote:
>
> > Now you are talking!
> >
> >  Eventually we have reached the stage with concrete discussion
> >  of the ways to deal with, i.e.terminate, the corporations.
> >
> >  The world parliament of the united peoples will constitute the
> >  necessary structure for focusing on long-range strategy as well
> >  as short-term tactics :
> >
> >  Internationalization of the corporations
> >
> >  - the only strategy for saving our planet.
> >
> >  http://home4.inet.tele.dk/peoples
> >
> >  Ole Fjord Larsen
> >  Secr.,the formative world parliament
> >
> >
> >
> > > Biotech Activists wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > Date Posted: 01/12/1999
> > > > Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > > Having focused much of my work over the past couple of years on Monsanto's
> > > > uniquely aggressive role in promoting GE in agriculture and elsewhere, I
> > > > appreciate Gary's thoughtful comments.  Before undertaking such a campaign,
> > > > though, I think it is important to focus on both our long-range and
> > > > short-term goals.
> > > >
> > > > It is vitally important to educate the public about how corporations such
> > > > as Monsanto exercise their influence, and put an end to the horrors being
> > > > perpetrated in Monsanto's name.  It is also important not to lose sight of
> > > > the bigger picture and the overarching problem of genetic engineering.
> > > > Monsanto is an important symbol, but in some ways only a symptom of a
> > > > larger problem.  If Monsanto buckles under and is bought by DuPont, for
> > > > example, as Ronnie has speculated, it could make things worse:  it could
> > > > reve