[PEN-L:5829] Fw: cuban women communicators networking at beijing
-- From: Dorothy Kidd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 11 Jul 1995 14:58:26 -0700 (PDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cuban women communicators networking at beijing This is a copy of a fax passed on to me recently. Please forward it. Dorothy Kidd. - Women communicators intent on introducing gender approaches in products aimed at social communication have rallied forces in order to identify the main issues that link the will of today's Cuban women with the endeavours of women around the world. Recent times have been harsh for us: we have lost positions in Parliament and in the Government; we are burdened by the economic crisis; we are insufficiently represented in power and in general, the criteria of equity that have long been a part of our struggle have not sufficiently pervaded family life. We seldom are the protagonists of important events in the mass media, although among creators and producers a better understanding is beginning to emerge about the disadvantages women have endured as a result of the process of construction of gender differences. These realities are coupled with political circumstances that have kept us isolated for a long time, have made our lives much more difficult and our shortages less bearable. These same difficulties have prevented our voices from being heard in many forums and from reaching countries where our truth has been concealed and our intentions distorted. WE, Cuban communicators want to engage in dialogue and to expound: to listen and learn; to plan and dream together; to direct our actions and determine our goals; to lay out strategies and outline identities. As our resources are so meager, only the solidarity of our friends could render it possible for one of several of our candidates to attend the meeting at Beijing, the Chinese capital city. The Association of Women Communicators --MAGIN-- has brought together highly trained professionals who make up a force of the present that thinks in terms of the future. Given the nature of our daily tasks as journalists, radio and television producers, publicists, film and video-makers, academics, culture and community communications promoters, psychologists and sociologists, among others, we have the possibility of multiplying messages and outlining behaviours; of influencing the collective consciousness and of contributing to an adequate inter-gender construction to confront the violence and the injustice that victimize one half of humankind. Because it is an merging force, the Association of Women Communicators (MAGIN) does not yet have the status of an NGO, but already enjoys a high measure of prestige and public recognition. Its Managing Committee has decided to appoint six highly qualified members of the Association, capable of speaking for all of us, thinking for many of us and acting for the majority of us, as candidaites to attend the Beijing gathering. That in fact one or several of them can participate in that forum, will depend on the funds we can raise. We therefore, request your personal sponsorship, or that of your organization, for: Mirta Rodriguez Calderon, a journalist, who for many years, has placed the most ...(copy missing from this transmission. She writes for Bohemia, a Cuban journal. dk.) Bicerta Sanchez de Gonzalez Garcia, a sociologist who has introduced gender concepts in political studies programs, and identified gaps and differences. Irene Esther Ruiz Narvaez, a television producer who has explored the subjectivity of Cuban wome nowadays in documentaries and TV programs. Xiomara Blancl Gonzalez, a prestigious director of TV serials, who has succeeded in presenting, bold, intelligent and determined feminine characters on the small screen. Nora Quintana Ecehvarria, radio producer and consultant, who has set standards and paved the way to gender approaches on the radio, Rosalia Arnaez, a journalist and tlevision anchor in programs which attract large audiences, who is also a deputy to the People's Power National Assembly. If you or your organization decide to favour our presence in Biejin, to support our actions and to be with us in our trek towards the future, send us your contribution directly or through a check or money order to one of hese two bank accounts placed at our disposal by supportive friends: Banco BICSA, account number 32101032600, Client No. 326 Banco Financiero Internacional, account number 412-01-19. For your information, the most inexpensive air fare Havana-Beijing costs $US2200, and the least expensive registration, accomodation and internal transportation costs a little over $US800. Please notify your remittance
[PEN-L:5830] Protest Colombian Murderers as Diplomats in US
July 8, 1995 Call to Action! Oppose U.S. Acceptance of Colombian Diplomat and Consul Involved in Gross Human Rights Violations! Two Colombian military officers responsible for egregious human rights violations have been named by the Colombian government to diplomatic and consular positions in the U.S. These outrages call to the skies for a response. One, Major General Juan Salcedo Lora, was responsible for the extralegal disappearance of Colombian citizen Manuel Reyes Cardenas in 1988. Salcedo Lora has been named as Military Attache to the Colombian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The other, retired Colonel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega, is directly responsible for two of the worst repressive facts of recent Colombian history: the military's mass murder of the Colombian Supreme Court justices in November 1985 at the Palace of Justice (following the M19 guerrilla takeover of the building), and the formation of the death squad "M.A.S." in 1980 in league with the Drug Trafficker Rodriguez Gacha. Rodriquez Gacha was the military head of the Medellin Cartel, against which U.S. spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the 'war on drugs'! And now Gacha's associate Plazas Vega thinks he can waltz into San Francisco! Plazas Vega was named honorary Consul to Hamburg Germany in April 1995. The German government protested his appointment because of his horrendous human rights violations and forced the Colombian authorities to rescind his appointment. The Colombian authorities now have decided to name him Colombian Consul for San Francisco, California! These men are no strangers to the U.S. Government. In 1971, Salcedo Lora attended a mysterious School of the Americas course entitled "Special Maintenance Orientation" which many of the hemisphere's worst human rights violators attended. In 1979, he was an "invited instructor" at the School of the Americas. Plazas Vega attended the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth Kansas from 1983 to 1984. Both have used their high positions to escape legal proceedings initiated in Colombia. It is an outrage that U.S. taxpayers pay for murderers like these to come to U.S. institutions, receive all kinds of benefits and then gain, de facto, the "seal of the approval" from the U.S. for their command of subsequent disappearances and murders of 'opponents' in Colombia! Labor activists, critical journalists, community activists, third party candidates -- are being murdered in Colombia at a rate of 8 a day under the orders of military officers like Salcedo Lora and Plazas Vega. The U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, Myles Frechette, must be called to answer for failing to adequately screen out these two human rights violators. We call on all people of conscience to raise a bloody stink about these two criminals -- Demand their removal from these consular and diplomatic positions! Short letters or faxes from scores to hundreds of people will make a difference. The heat is on the Colombian government. Please write to: 1) U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher: 2201 C. St. NW,Washington, D.C. 20520; Fax: 202 647-7120 2) U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Myles Frechette: U.S. Embassy, Bogota, Colombia; Fax: 011 57 1 287 9397 3) U.S. President William Clinton: The White House, Washington, D.C. 20500 4) Colombian President Ernesto Samper: Palacio de Narino, Bogota, Colombia; Fax: 011 571 2867434 If possible, send copies of your letters to the editor of your local newspaper and to your local congressional representatives. Please also send a copy to the Colombia Support Network (CSN). For a copy of detailed charges against Salcedo Lora and Plazas Vega, contact CSN at P.O. Box 1505, Madison, WI 53701; 608 255-6554; fax 255-6621 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (They are posted on the electronic conferences hr.americas and reg.andes on Peacenet , as well as on the soc.culture.colombia Usenet group)
[PEN-L:5832] extended reproduction question
The extended reproduction of capital requires that the costs involved in capital goods production fall faster than the costs of consumer goods production. Does anyone know of a Marxist who makes the preceding argument, and if so, where ? John Gulick Sociology Grad Program UC-Santa Cruz research interest: eco-Marxist theory of the built environment
[PEN-L:5833] extended reproduction question
Marx himself said something like this in Capital I, Chapter 25,
pp. 773/4 in Random House edition:
This law of the progressive growth
of the constant part of capital in comparison
with the variable part
is confirmed at every step (as already said in the earlier development)
by the comparative analysis of the prices
of commodities, whether we compare different economic epochs
or different nations in the
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same epoch.
The relative magnitude of the part of the price
which represents the value of the means of production, or the constant
part of the capital,
is in direct proportion to the progress of accumulation,
whereas the relative magnitude of the other part of
the price, which represents the variable part of the capital, or the
payment made for labor, is in inverse proportion to the progress
of accumulation.
