Youth Activism Gathering, April 19-21

From Tim Sullivan" Scholarships for "Peacemaking in the 21st Century: Inner Peace, Outer Action" are available for those on low income, including students, who would like to attend the Peace Conference on June 18-20 at UM. Please contact Hugh Curran at hugh.curran@umit.maine.edu for more information. More information on the UM Peace Studies Program conference: http://dll.umaine.edu:16080/peace/conferences/index.html From invert@acadia.net Thu Apr 1 09:37:16 2004 From: invert@acadia.net (Larry Dansinger) Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:37:16 +0000 Subject: [Megan] Youth Activism Gathering, April 19-21 Message-ID: <20040401193621.TJCB7930.mta1@[142.167.35.171]> > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3163657042_340178_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hello to Youth and friends of Youth, Please pass this invitation on to teens you think might be interested. Ther= e is still time to register and space for more youth. On-line registration is at the end. Contact person is Breanna at 948-5535 (new phone, evenings/weekends are best) or breannaannaerb@justice.com. Fourth Annual YOUTH ACTIVISM GATHERING For youth to come together, organize, and share ideas. April 19th-21st Hallowell, ME -meet organizers from around the state -have a voice in our communities -share skills and information to empower ourselves Come to workshops and discussions on: -Racism -Current American History -STD Prevention -Patriarchy/Gender -Do It Yourself Media -Unschooling/Youth Empowerment -Organizing -Domestic Violence -Maine Native American History -Depression -The War and Much, Much More!!! Besides organizing, the schedule includes: -Icebreakers -Open MIC Night -Talent Shows -Meals -Food Cookoff -Fun and Games So remember to bring: -Musical instruments like guitars, drums, songs, and voices -Frisbees, soccer balls -Art supplies -Bedding, sleeping supplies -Flyers and info on what=92s going on -Good ideas -Books and literature -Stories Who is the Youth Activism Gathering For? -We welcome people from all ages. During the last three years people have been mostly teens along with a few in their twenties who are organizing. Please come to the Youth Activism Gathering with an open mind to share ideas and meet great people. Meals will be vegetarian/Vegan (meat can be requested in advance) Directions to the YAG will be sent to pre-registrants. Registration at the door is available as space permits. ( call first ) For More INFO: e-mail Josh jlambert@justice.com Or Breanna breannaannaerb@justice.com On-line Registration Form Name: Address: Telephone: E-mail: Organization (if any): ( ) I can pay $5-10 per day or $20 for all three days. I will pay at the door ( ) sign me up, waive the fee (we want you to come regardless of finances) ( ) I want to host/organize a workshop/discussion (please specify): ( ) I need a ride, please call me ( ) I can offer a ride, please call me ( ) I have diet needs (please specify) ( ) I have other needs/requests (example: childcare) Return this email to: Breanna: breannaannaerb@justice.com --MS_Mac_OE_3163657042_340178_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Youth Activism Gathering, April 19-21 Hello to Youth and friends of Youth, Please pass this invitation on to teens you think might be interested. Ther= e is still time to register and space for more youth. On-line registration i= s at the end. Contact person is Breanna at 948-5535 (new phone, evenings/wee= kends are best) or breannaannaerb@justice.com. Fourth AnnualYOUTH ACTIVISM GATHERING
For youth to come together, organize, and share ideas. April 19th-21st Hallowell, ME-meet organizers from around the state -have a voice in our communities -share skills and information to empower ourselves Come to workshops and discussions on: -Racism -Current American History -STD Prevention -Patriarchy/Gender -Do It Yourself Media -Unschooling/Youth Empowerment -Organizing -Domestic Violence -Maine Native American History -Depression -The War and Much, Much More!!! Besides organizing, the schedule includes: -Icebreakers -Open MIC Night -Talent Shows -Meals -Food Cookoff -Fun and Games So remember to bring: -Musical instruments like guitars, drums, songs, and voices -Frisbees, soccer balls -Art supplies -Bedding, sleeping supplies -Flyers and info on what=92s going on -Good ideas -Books and literature -Stories Who is the Youth Activism Gathering For? -We welcome people from all ages. During the last three years people have been mostly teens along with a few in their twenties who are organizing. Please come to the Youth Activism Gathering with an open mind to share ideas and meet great people. Meals will be vegetarian/Vegan (meat can be requested in advance) Directions to the YAG will be sent to pre-registrants. Registration at the door is available as space permits. ( call first )For More INFO: e-mail Josh jlambert@ju= stice.com
Or Breanna breannaannaerb@justice.com
On-line Registration Form Name: Address: Telephone: E-mail: Organization (if any): ( ) I can pay $5-10 per day or $20 for all three days. I will pay at the door ( ) sign me up, waive the fee (we want you to come regardless of finances) ( ) I want to host/organize a workshop/discussion (please specify): ( ) I need a ride, please call me ( ) I can offer a ride, please call me ( ) I have diet needs (please specify) ( ) I have other needs/requests (example: childcare)Return this email to:Breanna: breannaannaerb= @justice.com
--MS_Mac_OE_3163657042_340178_MIME_Part-- From Tim Sullivan" ----- Original Message ----- From: Erica Quin-Easter quineast@mlgpa.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- LD 1579 Passes Senate - Encounters Opposition in House ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- After narrowly passing its second reading in the Senate, LD 1579 was tabled today in the House. Our opponents have been pounding the pavement to discredit basic rights for domestic partners and LGBT families, and we are down to the wire. We need you to call your Representative TONIGHT and encourage their support for inheritance rights for all committed families. LD 1579 needs you! Call the House Message Center now at 1-800-423-2900. The message center is open 24/7 and your message will make a difference. (If you don't know who your representative is, go to http://janus.state.me.us/house/townlist.htm.) More info on LD 1579: http://mlgpa.org (Click on "Issues") From Tim Sullivan" http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm/ID/419919 By Tom Groening, Bangor Daily News Last updated: Friday, April 2, 2004 Author: Invest in local firms Adviser writes on benefits of creating self-reliant communities ROCKPORT - Forget the warm and fuzzy reasons for shopping locally and investing in homegrown businesses. You don't need them, argues Michael Shuman, author of "Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities." Instead, there are plenty of sound and quantifiable reasons to support local businesses over big-box stores and out-of-state-based manufacturers, he said. Rather than "chasing smokestacks around the world" as many towns have, seeking the new plant or mill to solve its unemployment woes, Shuman advocates investing in businesses that began locally and continue to operate locally. If $10,000 tax breaks are given to an out-of-state-based company and to a local business, the money invested locally yields 15 times more jobs, he said, because the local money is repeatedly spent in the local economy. Shuman, director of Community Ventures, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., spoke Thursday morning at the Samoset Resort to members of Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility, and the Camden-area and Rockland-area Chambers of Commerce. A study in Austin, Texas, revealed that $100 spent in a Borders bookstore resulted in $13 recirculated locally, while the $100 spent at a locally owned bookstore yielded $43 recirculated through the community. "That's triple the local economic benefit and triple the tax benefits," he said. Shuman several times referred to the state's highly publicized efforts to save paper mills in Millinocket, Lincoln and Brewer. He is working as a consultant with Bangor-based Training and Development Corp. to the Katahdin region, and has advocated building a self-reliant economy, one which plugs the "leaks" of money leaving and products coming in. Typically, the biggest imports are food, insurance, energy and credit, which means the millions spent on them leave the area. Shuman said the Millinocket area in one year imported food equivalent to 1,213 beef cattle, 2,977 pigs, 168 sheep and lambs and 155,149 chickens. A local farmer could provide the region's chicken needs, he argued. It's something Shuman knows something about, because he has created a small poultry operation in eastern Maryland. In answer to a question, he said it is not necessarily cheaper to produce food in large farms out of state. He is writing his next book about that subject. Shuman also suggested creating a local credit card, with 1 percent of the profits going to discounts to users, and 1 percent to a "buy local" ad campaign. Rather than investing billions in a national electrical grid, a better move would be for regions to create solar and wind power for local users, he said. "Every time you import something from outside your community you are hurting your economy," Shuman said. "The more self-reliant you are, the less vulnerable you are to surprises," such as OPEC price hikes. If the Millinocket region achieved even the U.S. average of a self-reliant economy, Shuman said, it would add 1,500 jobs, which translates to $35 million in annual payroll. "This is not small potatoes for rural Maine," he said. Rather than courting another out-of-state owner for mills, he believes, a better alternative would be to sell the business to workers and other local investors. The situation is similar to the National Football League Cleveland Browns, whose owner wanted the city to invest $100 million in the team to keep it in the city. The owner took the team to Baltimore instead. A better model, Shuman said, is the NFL's Green Bay Packers, a team whose stock is owned by fans and others in Wisconsin. When ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry's first sold stock, it was available only to Vermont residents, he said, which keeps income in-state. Subsidizing mills with tax breaks is "a ludicrous policy," Shuman said. Instead, money should be invested in 100 local businesses, of which about 25 eventually will begin exporting products, he said. According to Shuman, local businesses: - Tend to adapt to changing conditions, and therefore survive. - Tend not to have destructive exits like out-of-state-based firms. - Pay more in taxes to local governments. - Have higher standards in treatment of the community and workers. - Are long-term producers of wealth. From rleisnerrfm@yahoo.com Fri Apr 2 17:58:22 2004 From: rleisnerrfm@yahoo.com (Roger Leisner) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:58:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Megan] Black Historian Manning Marable speaks out on Structural Unemployment, Mass Incarceration and Disenfranchisement Message-ID: <20040402175822.51113.qmail@web40303.mail.yahoo.com> Radio Free Maine presents Manning Marable speaking on Structural Racism and the Challenge of Black Leadership: The Challenge to Youth Leadership Dr. Manning Marable, one of America's most influential historians and political interpreters of the black experience, delivered the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture in the Social Sciences. The talk was entitled "Structural Racism and the Challenge of Black Leadership: The Challenge to Youth Leadership", which is the title of Marable's new book. Manning Marable started his talk with the observation that while the question of the 20th century was RACE, the question of the 21st century will be GLOBAL APARTHEID. He inquired of his audience if they would be the last generation to live under white racism, if they could visualize life without racism. While "Jim Crow" laws and segregation are in the past, color blind racism is the situation today. Citing the terrible triangle of structural unemployment, mass incarceration and disenfranchisement, Marable wondered whether or not race relations were improving or deteriorating. Marable referred back to his growing up black in Dayton, Ohio, where his father, a WWII veteran, faced discrimination in employment and housing on a daily basis. Citing his own experience, Marable spoke of how he almost died trying to catch a cab in New York City to go to the emergency room. During the Q&A period, I asked about the myth of non-violence in the civil rights movement. As Marable struggles to answer this question, you can see the dichotomy of non-violence and self-defense. Recorded by Roger Leisner on March 31, 2004 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Running time for speech: One hour Running time for Q&A period: 30 minutes VHS video and DVD video also features remarks by Manning Marable at the Closing Plenary of the 2004 Socialist Scholars Conference "The World Is Not For Sale! Rethinking the Common Good." at Cooper Union in New York City on March 14, 2004. Available on audiotape cassette for $11.00, audio CD for $12.50, VHS videotape for $20.00 and DVD video for $20.00. Please make check payable to Roger Leisner and mail to Radio Free Maine P.O. Box 2705 Augusta, Maine 04338 ******************************************************* Dr. Manning Marable is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars of the black experience. Since 1993, Dr. Marable has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University in New York City. For ten years, Dr. Marable was founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, from 1993 to 2003. Under Dr. Marable’s direction, the Institute has become one of the nation’s most prestigious centers of scholarship on the black American experience. Born in 1950, Dr. Marable has written over 250 journal articles, and has authored and edited nearly twenty books and scholarly anthologies, including: The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (New York: Basic, 2003); general editor, Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003); co-editor, with Leith Mullings, Freedom (London: Phaidon, 2002); co-editor, with Leith Mullings, Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African-American Anthology, (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); editor, Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Black Leadership (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); Black Liberation in Conservative America (Boston, South End Press, 1997); Speaking Truth to Power (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996); Beyond Black and White (London: Verso, 1995); Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991); W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986); Black American Politics (London: Verso, 1985); How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Boston: South End Press, 1983). His books-in-progress include: a full-length biography of African-American leader Malcolm X; an edited volume documenting the historical writings by black scholars and prisoners on racism in the criminal justice system; a critical interpretation of the various meanings of justice to black Americans, entitled Imagining Justice, and a book-length project examining the various ways racial groups and people of divergent backgrounds construct and interpret their memory and experiences, which has as its working title, Living Black History: Memory, Identity, and the Struggle for Black Consciousness. Dr. Marable is also the Director of the newly established Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University. The Center’s projects include: the Malcolm X Project, that is constructing a web-based, multimedia version of The Autobiography of Malcolm X; the Africana Criminal Justice Project that focuses on strategies to empower ex-prisoners and communities devastated by mass incarceration; and the quarterly academic publication Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, edited by Dr. Marable and distributed by Taylor and Francis. Since 1976, Dr. Marable has written a political commentary series, “Along the Color Line,” that appears in over four hundred newspapers and journals worldwide. He is regularly featured in national and international media. He donates much of his time fundraising and speaking on behalf of prisoners’ rights, labor, civil rights, faith-based institutions, and other social justice organizations. Dr. Marable lectures frequently in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, in a Master’s Degree Program for prisoners ===== Roger LeisnerRadio Free MaineP.O. Box 2705Augusta, Maine 04338http://www.radiofreemaine.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ From robbins@downeast.net Fri Apr 2 20:10:12 2004 From: robbins@downeast.net (J&P Robbins) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:10:12 -0500 Subject: [Megan] Boston: Conference on Political Prisoners Message-ID: <007b01c418ee$933e6740$58ff6442@computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_007C_01C418C4.AA685F40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Boston Political Prisoners Conference! Pam Africa of the MOVE Organization and ICFFMAJ will present on Mumia Abu-Jamal's case and struggle. Please come out if you're in the Boston, MA area! -ICFFMAJ # # # Set the Captives Free! Conference on Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War and Racially profiled Detainees in the U.S. Friday, April 16th, 2004 Concert Lipke Auditorium UMass Boston 7pm-11pm dead prez FTP The Foundation Reflect & Strengthen Curtis King Simone & Wagner Iesha Knight BCR Presente! Saturday, April 17th, 2004 Conference Lipke Auditorium UMass Boston 9am - 4pm Pam Africa Fred Hampton jr. Linda Evans Russell Shoats III Netdahe Williams Marquita Peltier Rakhshanda Saleem Rawan Baraki Kamel Bell Lourdes Lugo Soffiyah Elijah Nancy Murray Prof. Robert Hall $15 for Friday Concert, $10 for Saturday Conference, $20 for both days Aged 15 and under FREE! No one will be truned away from the conference for lack of funds Herbert Lipke Auditorium is in the Science Building on the second floor, 100 Morrissey Blvd. If you take the Red Line to JFK/UMass Station. A free shuttle bus will carry you to the campus. Directions to reach the University of Massachusetts Boston by public and private transportation is available at http://www.umb.edu/about_umb/directions.html info:617-288-1433, freedomnow20042000@yahoo.com Sponsored by The Joyner Center/UMass Boston, the jericho Movement, Int'l Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, AFSC, and PRESENTE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- "Women, children, and the poor must be the subjects, not the objects, of history. They must sit at the decision-making tables and fill the halls of power. They must occupy the radio and airwaves, talking to and calling to account their elected leaders. Their participation will democratize democracy." ~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide ------=_NextPart_000_007C_01C418C4.AA685F40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message

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Set the Captives Free!

Conference on Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War

and Racially profiled Detainees in the U.S.

Friday, April 16th, 2004

Concert

Lipke Auditorium

UMass Boston

7pm-11pm

dead prez

FTP

The Foundation

Reflect & Strengthen

Curtis King

Simone & Wagner

Iesha Knight

BCR

Presente!

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

Conference

Lipke Auditorium

UMass Boston

9am - 4pm

Pam Africa

Fred Hampton jr.

Linda Evans

Russell Shoats III

Netdahe Williams

Marquita Peltier

Rakhshanda Saleem

Rawan Baraki

Kamel Bell

Lourdes Lugo

Soffiyah Elijah

Nancy Murray

Prof. Robert Hall

$15 for Friday Concert, $10 for Saturday Conference,

$20 for both days

Aged 15 and under FREE!

No one will be truned away from the conference for

lack of funds

Herbert Lipke Auditorium is in the Science Building on

the second floor, 100 Morrissey Blvd. If you take the

Red Line to JFK/UMass Station. A free shuttle bus will

carry you to the campus.

Directions to reach the University of Massachusetts

Boston by public and private transportation is

available at

http://www.umb.edu/about_umb/directions.html

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info:617-288-1433, freedomnow20042000@yahoo.com

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of Mumia Abu-Jamal, AFSC, and PRESENTE!

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------=_NextPart_000_007C_01C418C4.AA685F40-- From llofchie@yahoo.com Fri Apr 2 21:01:13 2004 From: llofchie@yahoo.com (lloukie lofchie) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:01:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Megan] unsubscription Message-ID: <20040402210113.29288.qmail@web60302.mail.yahoo.com> Because I will be out of the country in April through May 12 I need to unsubscribe from your list. Loukie Lofchie llofchie@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ From robbins@downeast.net Tue Apr 6 02:05:09 2004 From: robbins@downeast.net (J&P Robbins) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:05:09 -0400 Subject: [Megan] FW: [dnc2004] DNC A Quagmire Message-ID: <001f01c41b73$3a43d710$3eff6442@computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C41B51.B3323710 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: Bl(A)ck Tea Society [mailto:nodnc04@hush.com] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:50 PM To: dnc2004@lists.riseup.net Subject: [dnc2004] DNC A Quagmire This past week, the Secret Service and DNC organizing committee, announced that for the convention, North Station and Interstate 93 will be closed due to security. This has caused a sizable uproar as these are the two biggest transportation hubs in Boston. http://blackteasociety.org/news/ Read details on the closures and the reactions: Boston convention a quagmire AP Wire 4-4-04 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040405/ap_on_el_pr/d emocratic_convention_3 Will The T be ready for an onslaught? Boston Globe 4-4-04 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2004 /04/04/will_the_t_be_ready_for_an_onslaught/ Dems running into roadblocks in Boston M-Live 4-4-04 http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.s sf?/cgi- free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0529_BC_DemocraticConvention&&news&election2004 I-93 to close from 7-11pm during DNC Boston Globe 4-3-04 http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/04/03/i_93 _to_close_7_11_pm_for_convention/ DNC will disrupt downeaster train Maine Today 4-1-04 http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/040401downeaster.shtml Downtown Boston scramble to make plans before DNC Miami Herald 4-1-04 http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8330239.htm Convetion Wisdom Boston Globe 4-1-04 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2 004/04/01/convention_wisdom/ Tits on a boar Weekly Dig 3-31-04 http://www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/6248.aspx DNC will be no party for commuters Boston Channel 3-31-04 http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/2963765/detail.html Convention To Impact Boston's Traffic Mercury News 3-31-04 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8321173.htm Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Free, ultra-private instant messaging with Hush Messenger https://www.hushmail.com/services.php?subloc=messenger&l=434 Promote security and make money with the Hushmail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliate&l=427 ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C41B51.B3323710 Content-Type: text/plain; name="message-footer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="message-footer.txt" ---------------- nodnc04@hush.com *** www.blackteasociety.org ------=_NextPart_000_0020_01C41B51.B3323710-- From Tim Sullivan" Hi all - The next meeting for the Maine Coalition for Peace and Justice is April 10th, 10am at the Mediation Center on King Street in Augusta (King Street is a few blocks South of the Statehouse). A potluck will be held at noon - please bring something to eat or drink. All are welcome! Discussion topics will be a follow-up on March 20th March for Truth, Earth Day, the Boston Social Forum http://www.bostonsocialforum.org (and an informational May meeting in Maine), follow-up on a possible Palestine/Israel forum, and a social forum/conference of our own here in Maine later in the year. And of course outreach. Thanks - see you Saturday! Tim Maine Coalition for Peace and Justice http://www.mepj.org 207-542-0696 From Tim Sullivan" There will be a demonstration at the Statehouse in Augusta, this Saturday April 10th at NOON. Meet in front of the State Library. This will not be a permitted march or rally, but neither was this illegal and immoral war. 40 people killed in a mosque today - blood on the hands of the President, his Cabinet and all of Congress. If you have any questions, email me at sullboat@gwi.net or call 542-0696. We can decide what to do as a group on Saturday, or split into affinity groups as folks wish. We must take back our country. For America, Iraq and the rest of the world. Thanks, Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "A.N.S.W.E.R." *EMERGENCY IRAQ PROTESTS* NATIONALLY-COORDINATED DAYS OF ACTION Friday, April 9 - Monday, April 12 To demand: - U.S. OUT OF IRAQ - Bring the Troops Home Now - Money for jobs, education and healthcare - Not for wars of aggression *Call initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition* See below for details of protests in New York City, Washington DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles, downloadable flyers, and a link to a form to list your city's action on the website and in future emails. * * * * * IRAQ AT THE BOILING POINT The Iraqi revolt against occupation is spreading in qualitative developments. The Pentagon is reacting with a murderous iron fist that is making the popular Iraqi position increasingly clear to the world: that the occupation forces are indeed an enemy - not liberators. In the last 72 hours, as the colonial force attempts to hold the country in a tight grip, the number of casualties has mounted, as Iraqi cities are besieged and bombed by missiles and tanks. Street fighting is raging throughout the country. In a classic demonstration of colonial practices, the U.S. is conducting a widespread reign of terror. In fact, the U.S. and its allies are now conducting military operations in Ramadi, Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Sadr, Adamiya, Kufa, Kut, Karabla, Amarah, Kirkuk, Mosul, Nasiriyah, Shula, and other cities and towns. The city of Fallujah has been exceptionally targeted. This is the same city where in the first weeks of the occupation U.S. troops took over a local school and killed 15 residents who were protesting the takeover of the facility. Yet, this is not exactly George W. Bush's Vietnam. During Vietnam it took years for the majority of the people and most soldiers to turn against the war. This time, the people of the United States have learned within the span of only one year that the war against Iraq is not only based on outright fabrications and lies. One year after the occupation, and even before, the people of this country and the world are and have been turning against the occupation and the warmakers. Although an allegation has been made that this is isolated "trouble" within a "Sunni Triangle," the revolt is in reality over an entire Iraqi rectangle encompassing nearly all areas - from north to south. Over the past three days, the previously simmering rejection of foreign occupation has evolved into a near full-scale revolt that has spread to many cities in the south of Iraq. All while the U.S. has implemented collective punishment against the people of Fallujah and other cities in the central part of the country. In a predictable attempt at molding public opinion, the U.S. media continues to use racist stereotyping to characterize those who are resisting. The constant designation of the Iraqi people as "Sunnis" or "Shiites" is carefully calculated language designed to conceal the single most important fact: that the Iraqi people (Sunni and Shiite) believe that their country has been seized by foreign imperialist occupying forces and that they - as one people - are fighting to evict them. If the analogy with Vietnam has validity, it is this: U.S. political leaders, again emboldened by arrogance and drunk with power, falsely believe that their possession of high tech weapons is sufficient to subdue small Third World countries seeking independence and sovereignty. The words associated with Vietnam - "debacle," "quagmire," etc. - are certainly apt for Bush's war and the occupation of Iraq. But there are fundamental differences between the war in Vietnam and Iraq. The most important one being that the United States could, at the end of the day, disengage from Southeast Asia and withdraw from Vietnam. The policy planners and decision makers for the U.S. imperial establishment know full well that the United States military, political and economic structures will never voluntarily withdraw from Western Asia and Northern Africa, also known as the Middle East. This is where the oil is. Not just in Iraq, but also throughout the Gulf region where two-thirds of the world's known petroleum reserves are located. This region is also the gateway to the rapidly expanding economies of East and Southeast Asia, the northern entrance to the African continent from Europe, and the where several strategic waterways are located: the Suez Canal, Gibraltar Strait, the Red Sea, and the Gulf. The Arab portion of that region is also simmering with a popular notion of unity and desire for full sovereignty spanning northern Africa and western Asia. It is where the Palestinian struggle anchors a populist anti-colonial sentiment, and where imposed proxy regimes are dependent in their existence directly on the U.S. In the heart of that region, there is Israel, the U.S.'s most important ally and power broker, functioning as a spearhead that simultaneously requires a political, economic and diplomatic cover and support from the U.S. Absolute control - military control - over these highly strategic resources is the key to the exercise of hegemony in the world capitalist economy. If the United States were to leave, Japan, Germany, Britain, France would be quick to attempt to fill the void. Therefore, Bush does not contemplate withdrawing from Iraq as an option, nor would it be a considered option if Kerry replaces Bush in November. The Bush gang opted to use naked military force as a means of further consolidating an existing U.S. dictatorship over the region. The project in Iraq was designed not only to crush the Iraqi government, it was seen as a means to a larger end. The plan was to build large-scale U.S. military bases in Iraq, establish in Baghdad the largest U.S. embassy (more than 3,000 personnel) in the world, and use Iraq as the launching pad for regime change throughout the region - the imposition of a true Pax Americana. Earlier U.S. governments, including the Clinton administration, also declared regime change in Iraq as the top priority in U.S-Iraq relations. The Bush administration, however, saw Iraq in a different light: that the conquest and takeover of Iraq would be used as a strategic pivot for the long-term reorganization and globalization of this region under U.S. authority. This was not the first time the U.S. has utilized Iraq for this purpose. In 1955, the Baghdad Pact was orchestrated by Britain and the U.S. as a response to the emergence of the non-aligned movement that was established in Bandung, Indonesia by decolonizing movements and nations. The Iraqi people have never accepted that they should be pawns in someone else's geo-strategic chess board. They have always resisted colonialism. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have died already as their country was invaded and occupied. It is clear from the events of the recent days that so many Iraqis are enraged and disgusted with the occupation of their country that thousands and thousands of people are prepared to give their life rather than accept foreign domination. The Iraqis are paying with their lives rather than be colonial subjects. Meanwhile, the young men and women of the foreign occupying forces, including U.S. troops, really just want to go home. They and their families know that contrary to the assertions of Rumsfeld, the U.S. forces are not considered liberators by the people. This is the classic equation for an unwinnable imperialist war. In this sense too, the conflict resembles Vietnam. The Vietnamese people were prepared to endure immeasurable sacrifice to reclaim control over the country against foreign occupying forces that, in turn, only wanted only to return to their families in one piece. In the recent days, the U.S. media establishment has been filled with analysis and stories reflecting the grave concern within the political establishment that Bush's Iraq design may be creating the biggest crisis for U.S. imperialism since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The actions of Bush and Rumsfeld have catalyzed a revolt that is moving from an embryonic stage to a potential full-scale rebellion. Unable to prevent the spread of the rebellion by other means, the U.S. military is carrying out more murderous repression against the people, which in turn will inflame the situation in Iraq and throughout the region. Under these conditions, there is no actual exit or withdrawal strategy in site. Even should the U.S. succeed in outsourcing the occupation authority from Paul Bremmer to his hand picked Iraqi proxies, there will be no actual exit of U.S. military forces from Iraq. Even the phony exit strategy is collapsing as the Pentagon brass ponders the current need, like General Westmoreland did 1967, to send thousands of additional troops to crush a rebellion that has its roots in the anti-colonial yearnings of an occupied people. Rumsfeld has said publicly that he is considering sending additional troops to Iraq. The Pentagon has relied not only on the 120,000-plus U.S. military forces but, according to Nightline on April 6, an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 "guns for hire" - U.S., British and South African mercenaries - that are now fighting in Iraq under the euphemistic label "private contractors." The people of the world, including the people of the U.S., created an unprecedented mass movement in the last 18 months opposing Bush's war and subsequent occupation of Iraq. At this critical time it is urgent to take to the streets in emergency mobilizations to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq; Bring the Troops Home Now; Money for jobs, education and healthcare - Not for wars of aggression. From Friday April 9 through Monday April 12 there will be nationally-coordinated emergency local demonstrations in cities and towns throughout the country. Organize an action in your local area. To list your local action on the website and in future emails, fill out the easy-to-use form at http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a10/event.html NEW YORK CITY Friday, April 9 4:30 pm Times Square 212-633-6646 WASHINGTON DC Saturday, April 10 12 noon White House (Lafayette Park) 202-544-3389 LOS ANGELES Friday, April 9 5 pm Westwood Federal Building (Wilshire & Veteran) 213-487-2368 SAN FRANCISCO Saturday, April 10 12 noon UN Plaza (Market St. between 7th St. and Hyde. Civic Center BART) 415-821-6545 Downloadable flyers, other literature and more can be found at: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a10/index.html LIST YOUR LOCAL ACTION: Fill out the easy-to-use form at http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/a10/event.html to list your city's or campus's event! A list of national actions will be available soon. -------------------------- A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Act Now to Stop War & End Racism FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.InternationalANSWER.org info@internationalanswer.org New York 212-633-6646 Washington 202-544-3389 Los Angeles 213-487-2368 San Francisco 415-821-6545 Sign up to receive updates (low volume): http://www.internationalanswer.org/subscribelist.html To make a tax-deductible donation, go to http://www.internationalanswer.org/donate.html _______________________________________________ ANSWER.general mailing list Anyone can subscribe. Send an email request to: mailto:ANSWER.general-subscribe@organizerweb.com To unsubscribe mailto:ANSWER.general-unsubscribe@organizerweb.com Subscribing and unsubscribing can also be done on the Web at http://www.organizerweb.com/mailman/listinfo/answer.general From lwilliamslaw@earthlink.net Wed Apr 7 16:35:14 2004 From: lwilliamslaw@earthlink.net (lwilliamslaw@earthlink.net) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:35:14 -0400 Subject: [Megan] legal observers Message-ID: <293580-22004437153514972@M2W093.mail2web.com> In view of the fact that Saturday's demonstration at noon at the capitol i= s not permittted, it is crucial that we have legal observers there=2E If an= y of you who I've trained (or even if you are not trained but can come a bit= early) can attend please let me know=2E Lynne Williams, LWILLIAMSLAW@earthlink=2Enet -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E From lwill@earthlink.net Mon Apr 5 12:32:09 2004 From: lwill@earthlink.net (Lynne Williams) Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 07:32:09 -0400 Subject: [Megan] Lynne Stewart in Portland Message-ID: On Monday, April 19th the National Lawyers Guild will be hosting a talk wit= h Lynne Stewart, a New York City criminal defense attorney with a long histor= y of representing unpopular and controversial clients and causes. She was par= t of the court-appointed defense team for Sheik Abdel Rahman, who was convicted in connection with the 1993 WTC bombing. Stewart continued to represent Rahman after his incarceration. After wire-tapping her conversations with her client, Attorney General John Ashcroft indicted her on conspiracy charges alleging that she violated Special Administrative Measures in the course of her representation. Stewart=B9s trial is scheduled for May.=20 Stewart=B9s talk will be held at The University of Maine School of Law, Moot Court Room, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with a talk by Stewart to be followed by a reception in the law school=B9s Berman Lounge. The talk is free and open to the public. In order to raise funds for Stewart=B9s defense, the cost of the wine and hors d=B9oeuvre reception will be $35.00 for lawyers and members of the public and $15.00 for the university community. The Law School is located at 246 Deering Ave., Portland. For more information contact Lisa Whittier at wordsofwhit@yahoo.com or Lynn= e Williams at lwilliamslaw@earthlink.net. From Tim Sullivan" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Burke" > Flyers are available for the Augusta demo on Sat...If you can't print > out the attachment, I'll have a stack here for anyone who has time to > hang a few....slap 'em up on anything that's not moving...S Flyer is online at http://www.sullboat.com/MEPJ/april10.pdf From sky@maineindymedia.org Thu Apr 8 06:31:47 2004 From: sky@maineindymedia.org (sky) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 01:31:47 -0400 Subject: [Megan] AP NEWS: Timoney Three have been acquitted!!!! In-Reply-To: <04b301c41ccd$bfcb9480$a49ec3d8@hppav> References: <04b301c41ccd$bfcb9480$a49ec3d8@hppav> Message-ID: Great news for these three! We won this time! Thanks to all the hard work people did for the last 4 years supporting all the Philly RNC defendants. Timoney is a creep. sky By DAVID B. CARUSO The Associated Press 4/6/2004, 6:39 p.m. ET PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge cleared three activists Tuesday of charges that they brawled with a police unit led by the city's former police commissioner during street demonstrations at the 2000 Republican National Convention. Judge William J. Mazzola acquitted the trio of charges including riot and assault after viewing a videotape of the fracas shot by a protester. Defense attorneys said the tape showed that one of the defendants, Camilo Viveiros, acted peacefully as he was grabbed and hit by police despite testimony by the officers that he had resisted arrest. Prosecutors said the tape was inconclusive, and had asked the judge to believe the officers who said Viveiros, Darby Landy, and Eric Steinberg had instigated a fight. "I feel vindicated," said Viveiros, 34, a housing-rights activist from Somerset, Mass. "I feel like the victory today was dependent on the solidarity of people who were out on the streets videotaping police interactions," he said. "Without that video, it would have been more difficult. It would have been my testimony against the testimony of three or four different officers." About 400 people were arrested during the protests, most of which occurred several miles from the arena in which Republicans met to nominate George W. Bush. Police officers battled scores of anarchists who vandalized property and tried to set fires during the demonstrations, but organizers said many of those arrested were innocent bystanders. Only a few people were convicted, although many accepted a plea bargain that placed them on probation for a short period in exchange for a clean record. The trial for Viveiros, Landy and Steinberg was delayed for several years. The verdict came despite the testimony of former police commissioner John Timoney, now the police chief in Miami. Timoney said he and other police officers who were on bicycles wrestled with protesters as they tried to stop a group from overturning a car. Prosecutors alleged that during the melee, Viveiros raised a bicycle over his head and tossed it at a group of officers. One officer, Raymond Felder, was struck and suffered a concussion. Timoney said in his testimony that he did not see the person who threw the bike. "We thought that our evidence was very strong, and we are disappointed in Judge William Mazzola's decision," said Cathie Abookire, a spokeswoman for the district attorney. Viveiros said he was looking forward to peacefully demonstrating at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. http://pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1081291450178040.xml From Tim Sullivan" Hi all - Bob Schaible, a member of Maine Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine, is interested in showing the video, "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land" around the state (as far North as Bangor) and lead a discussion afterwards. Below is a description of the film. If you or your group is interested, please contact Bob at 642-4304(home), 753-6592(work) or email schaible@usm.maine.edu or rmschaible43@hotmail.com Thanks! Tim Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/PeacePropaganda This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies--exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides an historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion. Interviewees include Seth Ackerman, Mjr. Stav Adivi, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Dr. Neve Gordon, Toufic Haddad, Sam Husseini, Hussein Ibish, Robert Jensen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Karen Pfeifer, Alisa Solomon, and Gila Svirsky. From rleisnerrfm@yahoo.com Thu Apr 8 22:51:10 2004 From: rleisnerrfm@yahoo.com (Roger Leisner) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Megan] Listing of RFM Recordings of the 2004 Socialist Scholars Conference Message-ID: <20040408215110.6038.qmail@web40310.mail.yahoo.com> Besides audiotape cassettes, VHS videos, audio CDs and DVDs, there are also 81 photos of the 2004 Socialist Scholars Conference available on Photo CD for $15.00. Radio Free Maine presents recordings of The World Is Not For Sale Rethinking the Common Good 2004 Socialist Scholars Conference March 12-14, 2004 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art New York City Sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America *******************************************************The Socialist Scholars Conference, held every spring in New York City for the last 23 years, is the largest event of the U.S. Left. Every year, I get a chance to record some of the thousands of radical activists, socialists, feminists, anarchists, union organizers, black liberation advocates, alternative journalists and democratic scholars who gather for a weekend of spirited debate and dialogue. This is the best on-going conference in America. For listings of recordings from previous conferences, go to the RFM Web Site www.radiofreemaine.com For info about next year’s conference, go to www.socialistscholars.org ******************************************************* Opening Plenary The World Is Not For Sale! David Harvey currently teaches anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He formerly taught geography at the John Hopkins University and the University of Oxford. His books include The Limits to Capital; The Condition of Postmodernity; Spaces of Hope: Spaces of Capital; Paris, Capital of Modernity; and The New Imperialism. He also regularly teaches Marx's Capital at the graduate center in collaboration with the Brecht Forum. Luciana Castellina has been a participant in the Italian left since the 1970s. After leaving the leadership of the Communist Youth, she co-founded the political organization and daily newspaper, Il Manifesto, on whose directorate she remains. She has been elected to the Italian and European parliaments several times. Castellina is active in Italy’s Environmental League and in the International Network for Cultural Diversity. In the European Parliament she presided over the Committee on Culture and Media, and the Committee for International Economic Relations. As president of Italia Cinema, she promoted Italian films abroad. She is now president of No-War-TV. Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica Forum, a national non-profit organization organizing, educating and advocating for policies in favor of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. He was the Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center of the AFL-CIO. Prior to his stint at the George Meany Center, Bill served as Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. He has also authored and published in a variety of books, newspapers and magazines. Vittorio Agnoletto is an M.D. who heads the major Italian NGO working on the problem of AIDS. With his broad history of activism, which includes his earlier participation in the Catholic left, he has become the symbol of unity between the social movements (including its libertarian sectors) and the trade union movements, especially after the traumatic watershed of Genoa in 2001. He is respected by the center left, Rifondazione, the trade unions and social movements, and as such is a strategic figure in Italy. He is the principal Italian representative to the International Council of the WSF, and was elected the spokesperson for the united Italian Social Forum. Barbara Garson has long combined activism and writing. During the Vietnam War she wrote Macbird, the play that sold over half a million copies. She also worked in an anti-war coffee house for GIs near the Fort Lewis Army Base. Today she is active in the Global Justice Movement and her latest book is called Money Makes the World Go Around:One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy (Penguin 2002). Miles Rapoport has been a leader in progressive community organizing, prodemocracy efforts, and electoral politics for 30 years. From 1995-1999, Rapoport served as the Secretary of the State of Connecticut and also served in the Connecticut General Assembly from 1985-1994. Before serving in the legislature, Rapoport was Director of Connecticut Citizen Action Group from 1979-1984. He also founded Northeast Action in 1985. Naomi Klein is the author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Picador) and, most recently, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (Picador). Available on two audiotape cassettes for $22.00, two audio CDs for $20.00, VHS video for $20.00 and DVD video for $20.00. ******************************************************* Panel #1 The Future of Multilateralism Sponsored by Socialist Scholars Conference Chair: Ian Williams has been a member of the British Labour Party for over twenty years, and of DSA for ten years since he moved to New York. A former executive member of the British Railworkers union, he is the U.S. correspondent of Tribune, the UN correspondent for The Nation magazine and a contributor to the online news magazine Salon among many other outlets. He is author of The Alms Trade, a study of charities and The UN for Beginners. For five years he was U.S. editor of Balkan War Report. Philip S. Golub is a Contributing Editor of Le Monde Diplomatique and teaches international relations at the Institut d'études européennes, Université Paris 8, and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP). He is a specialist of international political economy with a research focus on hegemonic dynamics and US foreign policy in the post Cold War. His most recent work is synthesized in an article, "From Globalisation to Militarism: The American Hegemonic Cycle and System Wide Crisis," to appear in a collective book this Spring published by Palgrave and the Review of International Political Economy, Global Regulation After the Imperial Turn. Jan Kavan, President of the Fifty Seventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly served as the Czech Republic Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign and Security Policy and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 and 2002. He is a deputy in the Czech Parliament. An advocate of democracy and human rights and active member of various Czech and International NGOs, he was forced to leave Czechoslovakia for Great Britain after the Warsaw Pact invasion, assisting Czech opposition activists from abroad. On returning from political exile, he joined the political movement for democracy in Czechoslovakia and was elected to the then parliament, becoming a member of its foreign affairs committee for the Social Democratic Party. Mr. Kavan is a recipient of a number of medals for his contribution to human rights and democracy in his country and author of numerous publications. Pierre Schori is ambassador and permanent representative of Sweden to the United Nations, and has had a long and distinguished career of service as a social democrat in the Swedish government. Jürgen Dedring received his Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard and Dartmouth College and worked for UNITAR (1972-74) and the UN New York (1975-1996). Since 1997 he has taught international relations and comparative politics at NYU and CUNY. He conducts research and writes on the UN and multilateralism, peacemaking, conflict resolution and prevention. Available on audiotape cassette for $11.00, audio CD for $12.50, VHS video for $20,00 and DVD video for $20.00. ******************************************************* Panel #12 Geneva Accord and More: How Do We Get There? Sponsored by Meretz USA Chair: Lilly Rivlin (abd) trained as a political scientist specializing in International Relations and Indian Studies (Nonviolent Conflict Resolution) at the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked as a consultant to foundations, journalist, writer, filmmaker and group facilitator both internationally and in the U.S. Rivlin's film credits include writer/director/producer of three independent documentaries, First Place winner of the National Family Relations Media 2002 award, Gimme a Kiss (2000), Miriam's Daughter's Now (1986) and The Tribe (1984), shown on PBS, Israeli and Italian TV and We’re Still Here! - The Jews Of Russia And Ukraine (1999). Naomi Chazan, former Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset (parliament), represented the Meretz-Democratic Israel party in the Knesset for eleven years, from 1992 to 2003. She was chosen by her colleagues last year to head the platform drafting committee of YACHAD, the new Social Democratic party superceding Meretz. Professor Chazan is currently the Robert Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies at MIT, specializing in Political Science and African studies. She has been Chair of the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She has authored and edited eight books on comparative politics, and written numerous articles on African politics, Arab-Israeli relations, Israeli politics, and women and politics. Yoav Peled is Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and, in 2003-2004, an External Fellow at CCACC at Rutgers University. His work has dealt with citizenship and ethnic politics in Israel and with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. His book, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, coauthored with Gershon Shafir (Cambridge 2002), won the Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America for the best book on the Middle East in 2002. Robi Damelin belongs to a group of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian parents known as Parents Circle Family Forum and has worked for many years in the area of public relations, representing several coexistence projects, including Peace Child and an Arab Israeli youth orchestra. Robi Damelin lost her son, who was also a peace activist, to a sniper on March 3, 2002 while doing his reserve duties. Available on audiotape cassette for $11.00, audio CD for $12.50, VHS video for $20,00 and DVD video for $20.00. ******************************************************* Panel #24 Democracy for Sale: The U.S. Electoral Process Today Sponsored by Socialist Scholars Conference Chair: Jeffrey Gold Democratic Socialists of America, Working Families Party of New York and IRUN Institute for Rational Urban Mobility. Sarah Tobias is the editor of Democracy Dispatches, and is a co-author of Expanding the Vote: The Practice and Promise of Election Day Registration. The focus of her current work is on enriching and expanding democratic participation. Prior to joining Demos Tobias worked as a consultant to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, where she co-authored Family Policy: Issues Affecting Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Families (2002). A feminist theorist by training and inclination, her scholarly writings include "Toward a Feminist Ethic of War and Peace" in Terry Nardin (ed.), The Ethics of War And Peace (Princeton University Press, 1996), and "Several Steps Behind: Lesbian and Gay Adoption" in Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt (eds.), Adoption Matters: Feminist and Philosophical Essays (Cornell University Press, forthcoming). Tobias has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University, England. Laura Flanders is the author of BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species, an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Flanders writes regularly for Tompaine.com, the Nation, Ms. Magazine and Znet. Her op-ed pieces have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle. Flanders has been a regular panelist on the Fox News Channel's "Fox News Watch," and PBS's women's discussion program, "To the Contrary." Other TV appearances include "The O'Reilly Factor," "Hannity and Colmes," and CSPAN's "Washington Journal," as well as the MSNBC program, "Donahue," "Good Morning America" and the Canadian news discussion program "CounterSpin," on CBC. Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR's nationally-syndicated radio program. Flanders is also the author of Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Common Courage Press, 1997) about which Susan Faludi wrote, "If only there were a hundred of her." Edward A. Hailes, Jr. is an experienced civil rights attorney and an ordained Baptist minister. Hailes now serves as the Power and Democracy Director for Advancement Project. He formerly served as the General Counsel for the United States Commission on Civil Rights, directing the federal agency’s historic investigation into allegations of voting irregularities in Florida during the November 2000 presidential election. Hailes also served for 10 years as legal counsel for the NAACP. Greg Palast is a BBC TV and Guardian UK reporter and author of the book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Palast broke the story of how Jeb Bush illegally removed thousands of black citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election. Katherine Harris calls Greg Palast, "Twisted and maniacal." Noam Chomsky says "Palast upsets all the right people." Available on audiotape cassette for $11.00, audio CD for $12.50, VHS video for $20,00 and DVD video for $20.00. ******************************************************* Panel #55 Revitalizing the Labor Movement Sponsored by Socialist Scholars Conference Chair: Michael Hirsch is on the editorial Board of New Politics. Kim Moody was a union organizer and activist in the 60s and 70s and a journalist and director for Labor Notes in the 80s and 90s. Moody has been a close observer of the trends and struggles he analyzes. In plain language, he deals with the complex forces facing unionism and the means for dealing with them. Héctor Figueroa has been part of SEIU Local 32BJ leadership team for the past three years, helping to bring this union representing 70,000 building service workers out of trusteeship and into democratic self-government. He is the director of the union's Education, Political and Community Action Programs. Figueroa came to Local 32BJ from the SEIU International Office in Washington, D.C., where he was Assistant Research Director and coordinated strategic research for the successful "Justice for Janitors" national campaign. Michael Zweig is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (Cornell University Press, 2000) and his new book, What's Class Got to Do with It? American Society in the Twenty-first Century, will be available from Cornell April 2004. Available on audiotape cassette for $11.00, audio CD for $12.50, VHS video for $20,00 and DVD video for $20.00. ******************************************************* Panel #74 The Internet and Mobilization: Can You Have a Virtual Movement? Sponsored by Socialist Scholars Conference Herb Boyd is an awarding winning author and journalist who has published eleven books and countless articles for national magazines and newspapers. Brotherman—The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology(OneWorld/Ballantine, 1995), co-edited with Robert Allen, won the American Book Award for nonfiction. He currently teaches African and African American history at the College of New Rochelle, and is the managing editor of The Black World Today, an online publication. Andrew Boyd, Billionaires for Bush Micah L.Sifry is senior analyst with Public Campaign, a non-profit, non-partisan organization working on comprehensive campaign finance reform. Prior to joining Public Campaign in 1997, Sifry was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years. He is the author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America (Routledge, 2002) and co-edited The Iraq War Reader (Touchstone, 2003) and The Gulf War Reader (Times Books, 1991). His next book, co-authored with Nancy Watzman, on how money in politics affects people in their everyday lives, is titled Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Ruy Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress. His is co-author, with John Judis, of The Emerging Democratic Majority , just re-issued in paperback with a new afterword on the 2002 edition. Available on audiotape cassette for $11.00, audio CD for $12.50, VHS video for $20,00 and DVD video for $20.00. ******************************************************* Final Plenary Left Futures Chair: Gregory Zucker is the Managing Editor of Logos Journal (www.LogosJournal.com) and is currently editing a book on the regressive policiesof the Bush administration. He is also a filmmaker and was formerly an organizer of the Socialist Scholars Conference. He now serves on the Board of Advisors of the Socialist Scholars Conference and of ArtTV. Frances Fox Piven teaches political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She known as a political activist and scholar, and is the author with Richard Cloward of Why Americans Still Don't Vote; Regulating the Poor, Poor People's Movements, The New Class War, and Labor Parties in Post-Industrial Societies. U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, Independent-Vermont Stephen Eric Bronner was born in 1949. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York and his Ph.D from the University of California: Berkeley. The Senior Editor of Logos, an interdisciplinary internet journal, his many works include: Socialism Unbound (Westview Press); A Rumor about the Jews: Anti-Semitism, Conspiracy, and the 'Protocols of Zion' (Oxford University Press); Imagining the Possible:Radical Politics for Conservative Times (Routledge) and the forthcoming Reclaiming the Enlightenment (Columbia University Press). Stephen Eric Bronner is currently Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. Hilary Wainwright is editor of Red Pepper magazine, now reaching its 10th anniversary, and Research Director of the New Politics Project of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. Books include Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism, with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynn Segal, Labour: A Tale of Two Parties, Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free- Market Right, and the recently published Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy. In the early 1980s, Wainwright was coordinator of the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council under Ken Livingstone. She is now active in the European Social Forum. Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and editor of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. Marable is the author of numerous books, including Black Leadership, Black Liberation in Conservative America, Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance, Beyond Black and White, The Crisis of Color in Democracy, Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990, African and Caribbean Politics, WEB DuBois: Black Radical Democrat, Black American Politics and How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. Barbara Bowen is president of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, the union of 20,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York. Part of a progressive caucus that won leadership of the union in 2000, Bowen has led the PSC's effort to build its political force in both economic and political struggles. The PSC has made contractual gains for its members, and at the same time emerged as a leading voice within organized labor for working-class students and against the war. Bowen is also a professor of English at CUNY and the author of several works of literary scholarship. Stanley Aronowitz teaches sociology and urban education at CUNY Graduate Center and his latest book is How Class Works (Yale 2003). Mark Seddon is editor of Tribune and an elected member of the Labour Party's ruling National Executive Committee. He contributes to a number of British newspapers and magazines and has produced a number of filmed reports for the BBC, reporting most recently from Iraq and North Korea. Available on audiotape cassette for $11.00, two audio CDs for $20.00, VHS video for $20.00 and DVD video for $20.00. ******************************************************* Unless otherwise noted, prices are as follows: Each audiotape cassette is $11.00. Each audio CD is $12.50. Canada & Mexico, add $1.00 for postage. All other countries, add $3.00. Each VHS video is $20.00. Each DVD video is $20.00 Canada & Mexico, add $2.00 for postage. All other countries, add $5.00. Free catalog with order. Without order, send SASE with $1.00 postage. Payment in US funds must accompany order. Allow 2 weeks for delivery. Please make check payable to Roger Leisner and mail to RADIO FREE MAINE P.O. Box 2705 Augusta, Maine 04338 ===== Roger LeisnerRadio Free MaineP.O. Box 2705Augusta, Maine 04338http://www.radiofreemaine.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ From Tim Sullivan" Hi all - We have received permission to use the Statehouse steps tomorrow (Saturday, April 10th), from noon to 3pm for the emergency rally. Please bring signs, banners, drums, and a friend or two. Also, we will have a PA system which will be open to all - tell Maine what you think of occupation and empire. Call a few folks you know who are not on email - get them to come to Augusta to support US withdrawal from Iraq! No more blood for oil!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: =========================================== ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 To subscribe, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email =========================================== ** Please read this urgent call to halt the U.S. military escalation in Iraqi cities. A call for international solidarity from the Baghdad-based International Occupation Watch Center follows. ** Calls for peace and an end to the occupation of Iraq are rising even as murderous violence escalates across Iraq. Hundreds of Iraqis and dozens of U.S. and international occupation troops are dying in what the Bush administration calls "liberated" Iraq. The U.S. military is now using massive 500-pound bombs against civilians - including on a Fallujah mosque compound killing at least 62 Iraqis. Sending in more troops is not the answer. Military occupation is not bringing peace, democracy or sovereignty to the people of Iraq who have already suffered for so long. It is clear that a huge portion of the Iraqi people want the U.S. out. The so-called "transfer of power" to Iraqis on June 30th will be meaningless as long as the U.S. military occupation continues. The escalation of violence in recent days, and the Pentagon's even more violent response -- including collective punishment, killings of civilians and other violations of international law and the Geneva Conventionss -- make a new approach to the crisis even more urgent. The entire world has a fundamental interest in ending this war and averting another life lost. We must bring the troops home now. TAKE ACTION 1) Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to speak with your Congresspersons. Press them to: * act immediately to lift the siege of civilian areas. Both military operations and the cutting off of electricity, water, supplies, and ambulances should end * call for an immediate pull-back of occupation forces from Iraqi cities and towns to put both Iraqis and occupation troops out of immediate danger * reject any calls for the deployment of more U.S. troops to Iraq * support the calls for Congressional hearings to determine why-one year after the fall of Saddam Hussein-the Coalition Provisional Authority has failed to produce a genuine plan that would allow the Iraqis to determine their own political future. * immediately convene an emergency joint session of Congress to address the crisis in Iraq and to change the course of U.S. action 2) Organize a vigil at a federal government building or military recruitment center to mourn the continued loss of life in this unnecessary war. While Congress is in recess, organize vigils outside Congressional home district offices or meetings with your Congressperson. Demand that President Bush take action to halt the killing of the Iraqi people, U.S. soldiers, and international troops. Post your events at http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar_gxinput.php The U.S. military occupation must be ended - it is illegal, and it is a failure. A true international mobilization of support to assist the people of Iraq will not happen until the U.S. is out. We join with people and governments around the world, who recognize the necessity of reclaiming international support for Iraq and ending military occupation, in calling on the United Nations and the international organizations of parliaments, to meet immediately in emergency session to address the Iraq crisis at this urgent moment. ************************************************* EMERGENCY CALL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE IRAQI PEOPLE April 8 2004 Eman Ahmed Khammas Director, International Occupation Watch Center Occupied Baghdad To the peoples of the world and their representatives at the United Nations: The Iraqi people call for international solidarity as they resist attacks by US-led Occupation Forces. It is clear that these attacks are designed to terrorize entire populations of Iraqi towns and neighborhoods. According to reports, in Falluja alone, over three hundred Iraqis have been killed and hundreds more injured since attacks began on Sunday, April 4. There is fighting in Baghdad, particularly in the neighborhoods of Sadr, Adaamiya, Shula, Yarmok, and the cities and towns of Falluja, Ramadi, Basrah, Nasiriya, Kerbala, Amarah, Kut, Kufa, Najaf, Diwaniya, Balad, and Baquba. Residences, hospitals, mosques and ambulances trying to transport the injured are being bombed and fired at by Occupation Forces' guns and tanks. Falluja and Adaamiya are currently under siege, surrounded by Occupation Forces, in contravention of the Geneva Convention that prohibits holding civilian communities under siege. Hospitals do not have access to sufficient medical aid, essential medicine and equipment or blood supplies. In Falluja, the hospitals have been surrounded by soldiers forcing doctors to establish field hospitals in private homes. Blood donors are not allowed to enter; consequently, mosques in both Baghdad and Falluja are collecting blood for the injured. Water and electricity have been cut off for the past several days. In Sadr City US helicopters have fired rockets into residential areas destroying homes. Although no curfew has officially been imposed, US soldiers have made a practice of aiming tank fire on cars they find moving through the streets after dark. On Tuesday night alone, at least 6 people were killed in this way. US forces continue to occupy and surround all the police stations and the Sadr municipal offices. While these attacks have escalated sharply over the past week, they are in no way a new phenomenon in occupied Iraq. The indiscriminate killing of civilians and the refusal to provide people with security, electricity and decent medical infrastructure have characterized the 'freedom' that Occupation Authorities have brought to Iraq. We call on the international community, civil society and the anti-war/anti-occupation movements to respond to this US-led war of terror with tangible displays of solidarity and support for Iraqi people facing this gruesome manifestation of the occupation. Please take to the streets to demand an end to the US-led aggression. Organize protests in front of US consulates and embassies around the world and demand: an immediate end to this massacre; an immediate end to the siege of Iraqi cities and neighborhoods; immediate access to humanitarian and medical aid organizations seeking to provide assistance to Iraqi people who are living under attack; and an end to the occupation of our nation. Cities in which demonstrations have already been organized include Milan, Montreal, Tokyo, Istanbul, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and New York City. To contact the International Occupation Watch Center in Baghdad, please call 001 914 360-9079 or 001 914 360-9080. You can also email eman@occupationwatch.org =========================================== ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 To subscribe, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email =========================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email4.php?p=unsubscribe&uid=793358 To update your preferences visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email4.php?p=preferences&uid=793358 -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com -- From Tim Sullivan" ----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Magnolia ldymgnolia@yahoo.com hey landlovers, I've got some people here at COA that can't/don't want to travel to DC for the women's rights stuff on the 25, but asked if I knew of anything going on in Maine in correlation to the DC march. Any of you guys know of anything "official" that's happening for sure? Thanks for the help!! -Ruth Magnolia From Tim Sullivan" Also, see article at http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm/ID/420366 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Schlobohm" PLEASE MAKE CALLS TO SUPPORT FUNDING FOR LD 1815 Hi folks- Our bill (LD 1815) was put on the Appropriations table yesterday. This means that the Appropriations committee, in very close consultation with Legislative leadership, will decide whether to fund the bill. The decision on funding will be made by next FRIDAY. WE NEED TO MAKE ONE LAST PUSH TO GENERATE AS MANY CALLS & EMAILS as possible to prove that the people want this bill funded. Please call the Speaker of the House, the Senate President and members of the Appropriations committee. The most important person for everyone to call is the Speaker of the House, Pat Colwell. MESSAGE: "Thanks for your support in passing this LD 1815. Please continue this support by fully funding LD 1815. This legislation is too important not to fund." If you want to, tell them why it is important to you to fund this bill. PLEASE CALL 1. Speaker of the House Pat Colwell At the Speakers office 287-1300 At home 582-5231 The House of Representatives Message Line 1-800-423-2900 By Email: RepPat.Colwell@legislature.maine.gov If you know anyone in the following towns please ask them to call Speaker Pat Colwell - Chelsea, Famingdale, Gardiner, Hallowell, Litchfield, Manchester, Monmouth, Pittston, Randolph, West Gardiner and Winthrop. 2. Senate President Bev Daggett At the Senate 287-1515 At home 622-9053 At the Senators Message Line 1-800-423-6900 By Email: senatorbdaggett@aol.com 3. Member of the Appropriations Committee Call any members of Appropriations who are your legislator. Senator Mary Cathcart (D - Penobscot county) Senator Peggy Rotundo (D- Lewiston) Senator Karl Turner (R - Cumberland county) Representative Richard Mailhot (D - Lewiston) Representative Scott Cowger (D - Hallowell) Representative Ben Dudley (D - Portland) Representative Sean Faircloth (D - Bangor) Representative Hannah Pingree (D - North Haven) Representative Richard Rosen (R - Bucksport) Representative Peter Mills (R - Cornville) Representative H. Sawin Millet, Jr. (R - Waterford) Representative Julie Ann O'Brien (R - Augusta) You can leave messages for any Representative at 1-800-423-2900 You can leave messages for any Senator at 1-800-423-6900 ********* Thanks for all of your great work. Every call makes a difference! In solidarity, Matt Schlobohm Maine Fair Trade Campaign 777-6387 From Tim Sullivan" Maine Peace and Justice News http://www.sullboat.com/MEPJ/news.htm ANTI-WAR RALLY IN AUGUSTA - WCSH-6, April 11, 2004 DEP approves Old Town landfill - AP, April 11, 2004 Death of a homeless man - Portland Press Herald, April 11, 2004 400 protest move MaineGeneral consolidation blasted at rally - Waterville Sentinel, April 11, 2004 Little joy on this Easter - Waterville Sentinel, April 11, 2004 Standing-room-only population tests prisons - Kennebec Journal, April 11, 2004 State trade commission awaits funds - Bangor Daily News, April 10, 2004 Union may fight factory's drug searches - Kennebec Journal, April 10, 2004 More Cives talks slated as strike enters Week 3 - Kennebec Journal, April 10, 2004 Baldacci orders state agencies to back civil rights - Kennebec Journal, April 10, 2004 Governor Bolsters Civil Rights of Immigrants - Maine Things Considered, April 9, 2004 Fair Play scores $2,000 grant - Times Record, April 9, 2004 Back from a goodwill mission to Peru - Times Record, April 9, 2004 Sprawl law could restrict hospital move - Kennebec Journal, April 9, 2004 Network hopes to help do good - Waterville Sentinel, April 9, 2004 Searsport wants Baldacci vow in writing - Bangor Daily News, April 9, 2004 Maine tax burden 2nd highest in U.S. - Bangor Daily News, April 9, 2004 Lawmakers support early-release bill - Portland Press Herald, April 9, 2004 Panel: Maine needs to address its health-care inequities - Portland Press Herald, April 9, 2004 From Tim Sullivan" A Gathering at Bath At 1 PM, on April 17th, Bath Iron Works will "christen" another Arleigh Burke Class destroyer, the USS Nimitz, DDG 94. It will be the 44th Aegis Weapon System to be built between Bath Iron Works and the Ingalls Ship Ya= rd in Mississippi. Maine Veterans Veterans For Peace, Pax Christi Maine, The Waldo County Peace and Justice Group and other Maine activist organizations and their members will, once again, meet in front of Bath Iron Works to protest the continued construction of these weapon systems. Costing approximately $1 billion each, with a nuclear capacity of 850 Hiroshima=92s, it is a weapon of mass destruction. Couldn=92t the monies = be better spent for building products of peace (hospital ships, floating classrooms, platforms for alternate power production) rather than buildin= g weapons of war whose only use is to kill something be it animal, vegetabl= e or mineral? Our answer is YES so join us on the April 17th and let the US Navy know how you feel. The ceremony is scheduled for 1 PM and gates open at 11 AM. We gather at 11 AM in front of the Bath Iron Works gate on Washington, between Spring and Castine, with appropriate signs and attitudes. Call Jack or Fay at 772-1442 or George or Maureen at 338-4776 for further information. From rleisnerrfm@yahoo.com Sun Apr 11 21:34:50 2004 From: rleisnerrfm@yahoo.com (Roger Leisner) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Megan] Two great links on the Kerry/Bush Crusade against the people of Iraq. Message-ID: <20040411203450.94284.qmail@web40301.mail.yahoo.com> Two great links on the Kerry/Bush Crusade against the people of Iraq. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html This is the photo of Bush with the photos of the Dead GIs. http://photomatt.net/archives/2004/04/07/mosaic/ ===== Roger LeisnerRadio Free MaineP.O. Box 2705Augusta, Maine 04338http://www.radiofreemaine.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html From robbins@downeast.net Mon Apr 12 01:49:53 2004 From: robbins@downeast.net (J&P Robbins) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:49:53 -0400 Subject: [Megan] PALESTINE film Blue Hill April 22 Message-ID: <000f01c42028$8ef15da0$efff6442@computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C42007.07DFBDA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PENINSULA PEACE & JUSTICE ANNOUNCES PALESTINE FILM & DISCUSSION APRIL 22, 2004, BLUE HILL "500 Dunam on the Moon" Peninsula Peace & Justice will present this extraordinary film directed by Rachel Leah Jones, France, 2002. 500 Dunam tells the story of Ayn Haid, a Palestinian village that was captured and depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war. It was later transformed into a Jewish artists' colony, known as Ein Hod, home to numerous galleries, exhibits and festivals, serving as a mecca of Israeli cultural production. Many of the village's original inhabitants settled 1.5 km away, naming their new home Ayn Hawd, a site designated by the Israeli government as an "unrecognized village." The film looks at the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed. The film will be shown at 6:30 pm on Thursday, April 22, at Liberty School on South Street in Blue Hill. A discussion will follow the film. All are welcome. For more information, please call 326-4405. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- "Women, children, and the poor must be the subjects, not the objects, of history. They must sit at the decision-making tables and fill the halls of power. They must occupy the radio and airwaves, talking to and calling to account their elected leaders. 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Peninsula Peace & Justice will present this = extraordinary film directed by Rachel Leah Jones,=20 France,=20 2002. 500 Dunam tells the story of Ayn Haid, a Palestinian village that = was=20 captured and depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war. It was later transformed into a = Jewish=20 artists’ colony, known as Ein Hod, home to numerous galleries, = exhibits and=20 festivals, serving as a mecca of Israeli cultural production. Many of = the=20 village’s original inhabitants settled 1.5 km away, naming their = new home Ayn=20 Hawd, a site designated by the Israeli government as an = “unrecognized village.”=20 The film looks at the art = of=20 dispossession and the creativity of the=20 dispossessed.

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------=_NextPart_000_0010_01C42007.07DFBDA0-- From Tim Sullivan" ----- Original Message ----- From: MWomenL@aol.com There are a number of events happening in Maine for those who cannot travel to DC. If you would like to do a march in Maine, you are welcome to sign up on http://www.marchforwomen.org and click on GET LOCAL and enter in a city in Maine and find out where local march(es) are happening.(you must register to get this info) The last time I checked there were 3; 2 in Portland and 1 in Westbrook. Contact Cara Bilodeau at MCLU cbidodeau@mclu.org Lauren Webster, Women's Studies Dept. USM, lwebster@hotmail.com and Cindy McGinn at MAINE NOW, mainenow@maine.rr.com There will also be a rally happening on Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 830pm to send off the buses leaving for the March in DC at the Marginal Way parking lot in Portland (across from Wild Oates and the Whole Grocer). From 295 take the Forest Ave Exit South. Turn left on Marginal Way and look for the Wild Oates sign. The parking lot will be on the other side of the street. Hope this helps! Feel free to contact us at 622-0851 for more information. Lauralee Raymond Maine Women's Lobby PO Box 15 Hallowell, Maine 04347 207-622-0851 fax: 621-2551 info@mainewomen.org www.mainewomen.org From ecolink@maineindymedia.org Mon Apr 12 23:58:03 2004 From: ecolink@maineindymedia.org (ecolink) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:58:03 -0400 Subject: [Megan] Fw: [MeIMC-discuss] IndyMedia equiptment needs a new home In-Reply-To: References: <20040412102857.21495.83407.Mailman@berogard.psouth.net> <20040412102857.21495.83407.Mailman@berogard.psouth.net> Message-ID: ------------- Forwarded message ------------- Hello- Right now there are a lot of loose ends to tie up with IMC equiptment. I am trying to get a sense of what there is, how much space it will take up, if we need it all and most importantly- where to put it. 1) what is the status of the Lewiston office space? Was IMC paying 50 bucks a month for it? Or was that just talked about and not followed through? If no one knows the answer who can I call to find out? 2)Is there someone in the central maine area who has space for a small office? An extra bedroom that you dont use? A garage space? It would be great if we could come up with a central place to do the paper out of and keep evrything in one spot. Thats all my questions for now. Many THanks Laura C PS. Could someone please post this to the megan list? I dont have their address. _______________________________________________ MeIMC-discuss mailing list MeIMC-discuss@lists.maineindymedia.org http://lists.maineindymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/meimc-discuss --- Zippy Sez: This is a SECRETE CODE! {d16949e4fb52305da43674bb2b59e413} From Tim Sullivan" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Logan Perkins" People's Free Space Resisting Empire and Sustainability School Tour May 2004 In May, the Frida Bus will be travelling around Maine putting on two presentations; during the day we will be presenting in schools sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and in the evening we will hold multimedia presentations called "Resisting Empire." In the schools, we will be presenting the ecological and social problems with our dependance on oil and other fossil fuels and the alternatives that currently exist such as biofuels, windpower, solar power and energy conservation. Our evening presentation "Resisting Empire" will critically look at the United States' addiction to War, Oil, Drugs, and Power. Through music, puppets, slides and discussion we will show how the US empire uses food, energy and war as mechanisms to control the people off the world. We will not just dwell on the negatives though, but will showcase inspiring examples of grassroots resistance and sustainable alternatives to the corporate domination of the planet. At the end of our presentation we will facilitate a community discussion about local issues and building regional solidarity. Our presentation lasts approximately 2 hours and can be held in any space. We will be travelling on the Frida Bus, our biodiesel powered mobile community space. It is a converted school bus that contains a kitchen, a library, couch, free box,and free information. This spring before the tour we will be converting the bus to run on straight vegetable oil (it currently runs on biodiesel) and will install solar panels. If you are interested in having this tour present in your community or your school or if you need more information please get in contact with us, so that we can schedule an appearance. We can be reached at: sustainabilitytour@peoplesfreespace.org, box 1582 Portland, ME 04104, (207) 761-2909 www.peoplesfreespace.org Our tentative schedule is as follows April 30: Student Sustainability Conference, Chewonki, Wiscasset May 3: Damariscotta May 4/5: Camden May 6: Belfast May 7/8: Blue Hill May 9/10: Mount Desert Island May 11/12: Waterville May 13: Skowhegan May 14: Farmington May 15/16: Lewiston/Auburn May 17-30: Presentations at Greater Portland/Cumberland County Schools. From invert@acadia.net Mon Apr 12 22:03:32 2004 From: invert@acadia.net (Larry Dansinger) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:03:32 +0000 Subject: [Megan] GROW New England June 10-13 Message-ID: <20040413010930.CFTY27885.mta1@[142.167.32.30]> > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3164648614_321921_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello Maine Global Action Network people, I hope you will want to come to this and send this "Save the Date" announcement out to people you know who might be interested in coming or spreading the word. A brochure and more information will come late this month. If you know anyone who wants to become a better organizer or should be doing more organizing, please especially pass this on to them. Larry Dansinger SAVE THE DATE SAVE THE DATE SAVE THE DATE GrassRoots Organizing Workshop (GROW) New England June 10-13, 2004 World Fellowship Center (near) Conway, New Hampshire Gathering of New and Experienced Organizers from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to: *Learn from Each Other *Understand the Big Picture of Social Change *Increase Skills in Working with Grassroots Groups *Be More Effective in Doing Social Action *Become Lifelong Organizers for Change with Good Food, Great Company, Beautiful White Mountains Location, Much More Intensive Pre-Weekend Workshops 5:00pm Thursday June 10th - 4:00 pm Friday June 11th Anti-Oppression Organizing (facilitated by Sha'an Mouliert, VT) Youth Organizing (Liana Foxvog, NH) Economic Human Rights (anti-poverty) Organizing (jesse leah vear, ME) Labor Organizing (Leslie Manning, ME) Plus weekend (Friday, June 11-Sunday, June 13) of workshops, fun, and networking with other new and experienced organizers. Cost: $0-60 (whatever you can pay) for the 3-4 days includes food and housing For a Flyer or More Information, contact: Sha'an Mouliert, (802) 744-2760, mouliert@vtlink.net (VT) Liana Foxvog, (603) 224-2407, lfoxvog@afsc.org (NH) Larry Dansinger, (207) 525-7776, invert@acadia.net (ME) --MS_Mac_OE_3164648614_321921_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable GROW New England June 10-13 Hello Maine Global Action Network people,=

I hope you will want to come to this and send this "Save the Date"= ; announcement out to people you know who might be interested in coming or s= preading the word. A brochure and more information will come late this month= .

If you know anyone who wants to become a better organizer or should be doin= g more organizing, please especially pass this on to them.

Larry Dansinger

SAVE THE DATE SAVE THE DATE = ; SAVE THE DATE

GrassRoots Organizing Workshop (GROW)<= /FONT>
New England

June 10-13, 2004

World Fellowship Center
(near) Conway, New Hampshire
Gathering of New and Experienced Organizers
from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to:

*Learn from Each Other
*Understand the Big Picture of Social Change
*Increase Skills in Working with Grassroots Groups
*Be More Effective in Doing Social Action
*Become Lifelong Organizers for Change

with Good Food, Great Company, Beautiful White Mountains Location, Much Mor= e

Intensive Pre-Weekend Workshops
5:00pm Thursday June 10th - 4:00 pm Friday June 11th

Anti-Oppression Organizing (facilitated by Sha'an Mouliert, VT)
Youth Organizing (Liana Foxvog, NH)
Economic Human Rights (anti-poverty) Organizing (jesse leah vear, ME)
Labor Organizing (Leslie Manning, ME)

Plus weekend (Friday, June 11-Sunday, June 13) of workshops, fun, and netwo= rking with other new and experienced organizers.

Cost: $0-60 (whatever you can pay) for the 3-4 days includes food and housi= ng

For a Flyer or More Information, contact:

Sha'an Mouliert, (802) 744-2760, mouliert@vtlink.n= et (VT)
Liana Foxvog, (603) 224-2407, lfoxvog@afsc.org= (NH)
Larry Dansinger, (207) 525-7776, invert@acadia.net= (ME)
--MS_Mac_OE_3164648614_321921_MIME_Part-- From wolfspiritm@excite.com Tue Apr 13 13:28:51 2004 From: wolfspiritm@excite.com (Marie Zwicker) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:28:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Megan] FW: [pbpeace] Fwd: [Fwd: Upcoming Events - Please post widely] Message-ID: <20040413122851.307911E4E8@xprdmailfe24.nwk.excite.com> --EXCITEBOUNDARY_000__41cf68de3cd302ba31133758d9c2c3a3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! --EXCITEBOUNDARY_000__41cf68de3cd302ba31133758d9c2c3a3 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="[pbpeace] Fwd: [Fwd: Upcoming Events - Please post widely]"; Content-Description: [pbpeace] Fwd: [Fwd: Upcoming Events - Please post widely] Return-Path: Delivered-To: wolfspiritm@xprdmailbe.nwk.excite.com Received: (qmail 24821 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2004 00:15:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xprdmx23.nwk.excite.com) ([10.50.28.196]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Apr 2004 00:15:50 -0000 Return-Path: Received: from n7.grp.scd.yahoo.com (n7.grp.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.66.91]) by xprdmx23.nwk.excite.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 630C217FED for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:15:44 -0400 (EDT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-8249396-1485-1081815349-wolfspiritm=excite.com@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.29] by n7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Apr 2004 00:15:49 -0000 X-Sender: beadspot@yahoo.com X-Apparently-To: pbpeace@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 58131 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2004 00:15:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Apr 2004 00:15:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web13501.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.175.80) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Apr 2004 00:15:48 -0000 Message-ID: <20040413001544.38278.qmail@web13501.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.2.83.205] by web13501.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:15:44 PDT To: pbtc greens , Palm beach peace X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 216.136.175.80 From: Sarah X-Yahoo-Profile: beadspot MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list pbpeace@yahoogroups.com; contact pbpeace-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list pbpeace@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:15:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [pbpeace] Fwd: [Fwd: Upcoming Events - Please post widely] Reply-To: pbpeace@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-679322512-1081815344=:36984" X-FII-Tracking: 0.001687 --0-679322512-1081815344=:36984 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Laura Carnal wrote:Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:13:28 -0400 From: Laura Carnal Subject: [Fwd: Upcoming Events - Please post widely] To: Martha Nungesser , Maybel Flannery , Michelle Rau , Christine Smith , brent hopper , Bonnie for Kucinich , Echo Steiner Scroll down just to see what the conference is about this weekend. WOW!! I would really like to attend something like this one year, I think I should get a degree in political science......... Laura > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:41:32 -0400 From: info@leonardpeltier.org Subject: Upcoming Events - Please post widely To: lcarnal@sfwmd.gov From: peltiersupport@riseup.net [ mailto:peltiersupport@riseup.net] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:40 PM To: peltiersupport Subject: Peltier and Day to speak with others at 4/17 Boston Conference Boston Area Leonard Peltier Support Group 4/8/04 "I know for certain Leonard [Peltier] didn't execute the FBI agents. I was there. [These claims are] totally false. I was one of the three individuals that was the first to be by the side of the FBI agents." -- Robert "Bob" Robideau "The FBI should never be allowed to have exparte communications with a judge trying the case. Somehow our government permitted this to happen with impunity." -- Peltier attorney Barry Bachrach 1. SET THE CAPTIVES FREE Conference April 16th and 17th, Boston, MA 2. CAMILO VIVIEROS ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES 3. Text of sample letter to Judiciary Committees Support legal team's request for hearings on FBI misuse of informants, agent provocateurs against the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Peltier ATTN: Northwest Peltier Supporters Download these LPDC Judiciary Campaign materials and related docs Tips (on communicating with Members of Congress): http://www.peltiersupport.org/Welcome/Tips.html Sample Letter: http://www.peltiersupport.org/Welcome/SampleLetter.html ************************************************************* 1. SET THE CAPTIVES FREE Conference on Political Prisoners in the USA Coming up on Friday April 16 (7pm - 11pm) and Saturday April 17, 2004 (9am - 5pm) in Boston, Massachusetts at Lipke Auditorium, UMASS Boston Info and tickets: 617 - 288 - 1433 email: freedomnow20042000@yahoo.com SET THE CAPTIVES FREE Conference Join us for a working conference to build towards freedom for Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and Racially Profiled Detainees in the U.S. All have been targeted by the U.S. government. Some were victims of the FBI's vicious COINTELPRO program which lasted from the 50's to the 80's, in which government agents sowed distrust among members of Black Liberation, Puerto Rican Independence, and American Indian Movements, assassinated dozens of leaders in these movements, and imprisoned hundreds more. Many of our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War have been locked up for decades and are being singled out for persecution while behind bars. This disturbing trend continues today, and has now been expanded to include people of Arab and Middle Eastern descent. To date, tens of thousands of our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters have been subjected to racial harassment and unjust imprisonment without evidence of wrongdoing or access to lawyers. The COINTELPRO program is indicative of the government's "respect" for the right of speech and political action for those who struggle for true freedom for the colonized inhabitants of the United States, as well as those who are colonized abroad: If our dissent threatens to bring about the changes we seek, we're "fair game" for its policies of "neutralization"." Let's enforce our right of speech and dissent by coming together to *set the captives free.* Join us on Friday April 16 2004 (7pm - 11pm) for an evening of cultural edutainment with special musical guests Dead Prez, The Foundation, VCR, Blackout Boston, Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, FTP, Reflect & Strengthen, Curtis King, Simon & Wagner, and PRESENTE! And Join us on Saturday April 17 all day (9am - 5pm) for workshops on Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and Racially Profiled Detainees in the U.S with Pam Africa (MOVE), Fred Hampton, Jr., Linda Evans, Russell Shoates, III, Netdahe Williams, Rod Coronado, Mike Duan, (South Asian Coalition,) Rawan Barakat, (New England Committee to Defend Palestine), Kamel Bell, Michelle Morales, Soffiyah Elijah, Nancy Murray (Patriot Act & Homeland Security), Prof. Robert Hall, Nalda Vigezzi (The Cuban 5) and Jean Day and Marquetta Peltier. Both events will occur at Lipke Auditorium, UMASS Boston campus. accessible by red line subway, JFK/UMASS stop. Cost: $15 for Friday Concert, $10 for Saturday Conference, $20 for both days. KIDS 15 AND UNDER GET IN FREE. No one will be turned away from the Conference for lack of funds. Info and tickets: 617 - 288 - 1433 email: freedomnow20042000@yahoo.com Sponsored by the Boston Coalition to Free Political Prisoners in the U.S., the Joiner Center, The Jericho Movement, Mobarezeh Collective, Boston Area Leonard Peltier Support Group, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Int'l Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal, AFSC, and PRESENTE! PRESENTE! is a poetry and theatre collective that for the past three years has been conducting artistic performances calling attention to the plight of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War held within the borders of the United States. Many of these prisoners have been incarcerated for waging struggle against the U.S. Government's colonialist and racist policies here and abroad. They are leaders and combatants for Puerto Rican Independence, Native American rights, Black Liberation; some are North American Anti-Imperialists who interfered with their government's ability to wage war around the world. Some are of Arab and Moslem backgrounds, recent targets of "Homeland Security's" policies of racial profiling and disappearances, which are implemented to silence the most critical voices of protest against colonialism and genocide in the Middle East. Many of these prisoners have been handed down sentences which amount to life imprisonment -- sentences that are a great deal more severe than what is often imposed on child molesters, rapists, and racists who engage in hate crimes. Some, like the Arab and Moslem detainees have been subject to indefinite incarceration, without charges, the benefit of counsel, or access to their loved ones. Others, like Mumia Abu Jamal, are on death row. The responses of those who have seen our performances have been very positive. We have come to the conclusion however that our efforts are wasted if they do not yield the result of active and massive organizing to seek these prisoners' release from captivity. It is in the interest of transforming our artistic work into concrete action that would be useful in securing these prisoners' release, that we have decided to organize a Set the Captives Free Conference in Boston. We hope to bring together people from the communities the prisoners represent, as well as organizers and activists. Our goal is to acquaint those who still don't know of them with their history and plight, and develop strategies that will lead to their long overdue exit from prison. Info and tickets: 617 - 288 - 1433 email: freedomnow20042000@yahoo.com ************************************************************* 2. . CAMILO VIVIEROS ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES Camilo Vivieros, housing advocate and tireless worker for peace and social justice who was illegally arrested at the GOP national convention in Philadelphia and faced a prison sentence of up to 30 years, was acquitted today of all charges, following a massive letter-writing and lobbying campaign of concerned citizens in RI and around New England and the country. This news just came to me this afternoon in a brief phone call, so I'm sure that the details of the case and the ruling will be out soon. In the meantime, this is a triumph and is a cause for joy... Peace to you all. Molly Three protesters are acquitted of criminal charges By Linda K. Harris Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Friends and family of three men saddled with criminal charges for more than three years following the Republican National Convention wept openly in court today after the three were acquitted of all charges. To read the article http://www.waste.org/~roadrunner/writing/camilo/main.htm ************************************************************* Subject: Letter to Northwest Congressional representatives on pending FBI misconduct Hearings Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 10:54:47 -0400 From: info@leonardpeltier.org Please post widely Important sign on letter for Northwest (And All) supporters of Leonard Peltier. This letter will go to all Northwest Congress people and to all members of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. Please sign on at the bottom of the letter and return it to: < mailto:bayou@blarg.net> bayou@blarg.net. Thank you for your support. Arthur J. Miller Tacoma LPSG Dear Congressperson (We will place the different names here): In November 2003, it was reported by the media that the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, plans to hold hearings into the misuse of informants by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Pursuant to this, during the week of March 22, 2004, a group of civil rights attorneys submitted a formal request to the Committee for not only this purpose, but calling for the completion of investigations begun by the Church Committee in the 1970s. As you may recall, the Church Committee reported in 1976 that the goals of the COunter INTELligence PROgrams of the period from 1956 to the mid-1970s were to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" those persons or organizations that the FBI decided were "enemies of the State." Although the FBI's COINTELPRO programs officially ended in 1971, there have been many examples of counterintelligence-type operations against political dissidents since. The most notable exclusion from the list of dissident groups targeted by the FBI and investigated by the Church Committee was the American Indian Movement (AIM) - an Indigenous rights group founded in 1968 and committed to uniting all Native Peoples in an effort to uplift their communities, promote cultural pride, and ensure tribal sovereignty we feel that a full investigation of official misconduct against AIM is long overdue. Specifically, I recommend that the Committee investigate: 1. The FBI's use of informants and agent provocateurs against AIM from 1968 to the present. 2. The FBI's role in the Pine Ridge "Reign of Terror" (1973-1976), a place and time where the annual murder rate was 170 per 100,000, far exceeding the rate for Detroit (the reputed "murder capital of the United States") of 20.2 in 1974. The political murder rate at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during this time was roughly equivalent to that in Chile during the three years after the military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende. 3. Official misconduct across the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the case of Native American activist Leonard Peltier. The investigation should include: A.. Violation of international law, provision by the FBI and federal prosecutors of false affidavits to Canadian authorities to secure Peltier's extradition. B. Fabrication of evidence and intimidation of witnesses by the FBI to secure a conviction at Peltier's trial. C. FBI interference in Peltier's parole proceedings and his petition for Executive Clemency. D. The disposition of the Ethics Complaint concerning the Peltier case, filed in 2000 with the DOJ. 4. Actions on the part of the FBI and government prosecutors in 2004 to use court proceedings and, by extension, the media to intentionally provide as fact, false information to the public on AIM and Leonard Peltier. This has the effect of rewriting history with regard to AIM, in general, and Leonard Peltier, in particular, so as to prejudice the public against them. These actions have been taken to influence the outcome of pending federal prosecutions by potentially poisoning the jury pool, as well as preventing Peltier's release on parole in 2008. Why should Congress act now? On May 30, 2002, Attorney General Ashcroft effectively abolished restrictions first imposed (as a result of the Church Committee's findings) in 1976 on FBI surveillance of Americans' everyday lives. These regulations specifically were developed to counter the COINTELPRO domestic spying program that had led to massive civil rights era abuses during the 1960s and 1970s. Now, these restrictions no longer exist - and such abuses are repeating themselves. The work first undertaken by the Church Committee will be complete, only if a full investigation of the intelligence operation launched by the FBI against AIM is conducted, as the Committee had intended to do in 1975. We are asking you to support such an action on the part of the Committee on the Judiciary of either the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate (or both). We trust that such hearings will ultimately lead to a substantial increase in congressional oversight of FBI domestic security investigations, as well as legislation designed to ensure protection of fundamental rights for all Americans. We understand that the aforementioned attorneys offered to the Committee documentation of and witness testimony on official misconduct with respect to AIM and Mr. Peltier. If you would like to obtain further information, please contact: Barry Bachrach, Attorney at Law, Bowditch & Dewey, 311 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01615-0156; also by telephone at (508) 926-3403 or by E-mail: bbachrach@bowditch.com. We wish you success with this endeavor and trust that your subsequent actions will prevent the reoccurrence of such egregious misconduct. We look forward to hearing from you soon concerning your efforts towards that end. Sincerely, Arthur J. 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Laura Carnal <lcarnal@sfwmd.gov> wrote:

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:13:28 -0400
From: Laura Carnal
Subject: [Fwd: Upcoming Events - Please post widely]
To: Martha Nungesser ,
Maybel Flannery ,
Michelle Rau ,
Christine Smith ,
brent hopper ,
Bonnie for Kucinich ,
Echo Steiner

Scroll down just to see what the conference is about this weekend. WOW!!
I would really like to attend something like this one year, I think I
should get a degree in political science.........
Laura

> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:41:32 -0400
From: info@leonardpeltier.org
Subject: Upcoming Events - Please post widely
To: lcarnal@sfwmd.gov

From: peltiersupport@riseup.net [
mailto:peltiersupport@riseup.net]

Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:40 PM

To: peltiersupport

Subject: Peltier and Day to speak with others at 4/17 Boston Conference

Boston Area Leonard Peltier Support Group

4/8/04

"I know for certain Leonard [Peltier] didn't execute the FBI agents.

I was there. [These claims are] totally false. I was one of the three

individuals that was the first to be by the side of the FBI agents."

-- Robert "Bob" Robideau

"The FBI should never be allowed to have exparte

communications with a judge trying the case. Somehow

our government permitted this to happen with impunity."

-- Peltier attorney Barry Bachrach

1. SET THE CAPTIVES FREE Conference

April 16th and 17th, Boston, MA

2. CAMILO VIVIEROS ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES

3. Text of sample letter to Judiciary Committees

Support legal team's request for hearings on FBI

misuse of informants, agent provocateurs against

the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Peltier

ATTN: Northwest Peltier Supporters

Download these LPDC Judiciary Campaign materials and related docs Tips
(on communicating with Members of Congress):

http://www.peltiersupport.org/Welcome/Tips.html

Sample Letter:

http://www.peltiersupport.org/Welcome/SampleLetter.html

*************************************************************

1. SET THE CAPTIVES FREE Conference on Political Prisoners in the USA

Coming up on Friday April 16 (7pm - 11pm) and Saturday April 17, 2004
(9am -

5pm) in Boston, Massachusetts at Lipke Auditorium, UMASS Boston

Info and tickets: 617 - 288 - 1433 email:

freedomnow20042000@yahoo.com

SET THE CAPTIVES FREE Conference

Join us for a working conference to build towards freedom for Political
Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and Racially Profiled Detainees in the U.S.

All have been targeted by the U.S. government. Some were victims of the
FBI's vicious COINTELPRO program which lasted from the 50's to the 80's,
in which government agents sowed distrust among members of Black
Liberation, Puerto Rican Independence, and American Indian Movements,
assassinated dozens of leaders in these movements, and imprisoned
hundreds more.

Many of our Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War have been locked up
for decades and are being singled out for persecution while behind bars.
This disturbing trend continues today, and has now been expanded to
include people of Arab and Middle Eastern descent. To date, tens of
thousands of our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters have been subjected

to racial harassment and unjust imprisonment without evidence of
wrongdoing or access to lawyers.

The COINTELPRO program is indicative of the government's "respect" for
the right of speech and political action for those who struggle for true
freedom for the colonized inhabitants of the United States, as well as
those who are colonized abroad: If our dissent threatens to bring about
the changes we seek, we're "fair game" for its policies of
"neutralization"." Let's enforce our right of speech and dissent by
coming together to *set the captives free.*

Join us on Friday April 16 2004 (7pm - 11pm) for an evening of cultural
edutainment with special musical guests Dead Prez, The Foundation, VCR,
Blackout Boston, Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, FTP, Reflect & Strengthen, Curtis
King, Simon & Wagner, and PRESENTE!

And Join us on Saturday April 17 all day (9am - 5pm) for workshops on
Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and Racially Profiled Detainees
in the U.S with Pam Africa (MOVE), Fred Hampton, Jr., Linda Evans,
Russell Shoates, III, Netdahe Williams, Rod Coronado, Mike Duan, (South
Asian

Coalition,) Rawan Barakat, (New England Committee to Defend Palestine),
Kamel Bell, Michelle Morales, Soffiyah Elijah, Nancy Murray (Patriot Act
& Homeland Security), Prof. Robert Hall, Nalda Vigezzi (The Cuban 5) and
Jean Day and Marquetta Peltier.

Both events will occur at Lipke Auditorium, UMASS Boston campus.
accessible by red line subway, JFK/UMASS stop.

Cost: $15 for Friday Concert, $10 for Saturday Conference, $20 for both
days.

KIDS 15 AND UNDER GET IN FREE.

No one will be turned away from the Conference for lack of funds.

Info and tickets: 617 - 288 - 1433 email:

freedomnow20042000@yahoo.com

Sponsored by the Boston Coalition to Free Political Prisoners in the
U.S., the Joiner Center, The Jericho Movement, Mobarezeh Collective,
Boston Area Leonard Peltier Support Group, Leonard Peltier Defense
Committee, Int'l Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal, AFSC,
and PRESENTE!

PRESENTE! is a poetry and theatre collective that for the past three
years has been conducting artistic performances calling attention to the
plight of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War held within the
borders of the United States. Many of these prisoners have been
incarcerated for waging struggle against the U.S. Government's
colonialist and racist policies here and abroad. They are leaders and
combatants for Puerto Rican Independence, Native American rights, Black
Liberation; some are North American Anti-Imperialists who interfered
with their government's ability to wage war around the world. Some are
of Arab