A-Infos (en) [EXCERPTS] The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tue, 18 May 99 -- 3:38 (#266)

[Paul Kneisel <tallpaul@nyct.net>]

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             The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 18 May 99
                       Vol. 3, Numbers 38 (#266)
                   ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT #80:
            GENERAL AMNESTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS
                        New York, 28 May, 8 AM

8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. at 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan
(Broadway at Worth Street, take A/C, N/R or 6 trains to Canal or
Chambers/City Hall, or 1/9 to Franklin St)

The call for this demonstration was originally made by the members of
the UNITE Garment Workers Justice Center (212-819-0959). The
demonstration is also being backed by the Latino Workers Center
(212-473-6103), Asociacion Tepeyac (212-633-7108) and many other
organizations. 

Please do everything you can to spread the word about this
action. For more information, contact us at 212-254-2591. 

<snip>

Amnesty International, "Ecuador: State of emergency cannot justify
human rights abuses," 17 Mar 99, "A state of emergency cannot be used
as an excuse for disregarding fundamental human rights, Amnesty
International said today in a letter to the President of Ecuador Jamil
Mahuad Witt, following the enforcement of a national state of emergency
last week. "No matter how exceptional the circumstances, abuses such as
summary killings, torture, ill-treatment and arbitrary arrests should
not be tolerated," the organization said. <story920.txt>

Stephen Steinberg (New Politics), "Confronting The Misuse of Class-
Based Affirmative Action," Winter 1999, "Affirmative Action policy was
forged out of the caldron of black insurgency. It was the mobilization
of black protest, beginning with the civil rights movement and the
ensuing upsurge of black militancy, that engendered the political
pressure for the policy initiatives that came to be known as
"affirmative action."  <story921.txt>

Michael Cooper (New York Times), "141 Arrested in Protest of Police
Killing of Unarmed Man," 23 Mar 99, "As Police Commissioner Howard
Safir came under mounting criticism, 141 people, including State
Comptroller H. Carl McCall, were arrested Monday in the largest act of
civil disobedience yet protesting the police shooting of Amadou
Diallo." <story922.txt>

S. Brian Willson, "Who Are The REAL Terrorists? Why Some Veterans
Oppose Counter-'Terrorist' Exercises," March 1999, "Why do many
veterans, including members of Veterans For Peace, a national
organization with local chapters, oppose the U.S. Marine Corps Urban
Warrior exercises and similar counter-"terrorist" trainings by Army
Delta forces and Navy Seals conducted in various U.S. cities? Continued
policies of militarism, ad nauseum, and the assumptions and pretexts
that underlie and rationalize them, respectively, urgently require
thoughtful questioning if lasting global peace is to be achieved. A
sincere effort by the United States to promote genuine justice around
the world would signal an honest longing for such peace."
<story923.txt>

Fred Hirsch (AME-Zion Church: San Jose, CA), "Paul Robeson and Labor,"
12 Apr 99, "Paul Robeson was a musical artist, orator, renowned actor,
student of languages and a scholar of African culture and the worldwide
web of influence that grew from those roots, but he drew his strength
from being a worker and a man of struggle, and that's what he was.  He
told the UAW (1947):  'I have always put my faith and confidence in the
working people in all countries and of all colors.  I truly believe
that they constitute the greatest force in the world for the
advancement of all people'." <story924.txt>

IA Progressives, "IATSE Studio Workers Protest the Honoring of Elia
Kazan," 21 Mar 99, "HOLLYWOOD ---- Just as the name of Elia Kazan will
be forever linked in shame with the Hollywood Blacklist, so too will
the 1999 Academy Awards be remembered in history as the 'Blacklist
Oscars'.  The IA Progressives condemn the actions of the Motion Picture
Academy in honoring this most notorious of all Blacklisters and in
their de facto endorsement of the Hollywood Blacklist." <story925.txt>

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, "ABC Erased Protesters From the Oscar
Picture," 25 Mar 99, "In its broadcast of the Oscar ceremony and the
long-awaited Elia Kazan protest, ABC chose to offer millions of TV
viewers a distorted view of what happened." <story926.txt>

Tom Shelley (Irish Republican Socialist Party), "Sinn Fein and
homophobia (Letter to the Irish News and Republican News)," 19 Mar 99,
"It recently came to my attention that two senior Sinn Fein members,
Alex Maskey and Bairbre DeBruin, were part of the Irish Northern Aid
contingent in the NY City St.  Patrick's Day Parade. This, and also the
participation of Irish Northern Aid, greatly concerns me. The sponsors
of the parade, the (NY) Ancient Order of Hibernians, have consistently
barred the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization from participating in
this parade." <story927.txt>

Eamonn McCann (Belfast Telegraph), "Time to clean up this dirty war,"
17 Mar 99, "Tony Blair says that "no effort will be spared" in pursuing
the killers of Rosemary Nelson. But how does he know? One of the
reasons Ms Nelson was a thorn in the side of the authorities had to do
with her insistence that no serious effort had been made to pursue the
killers of, for example, Pat Finucane or Robert Hamill." <story928.txt>

Bernard Lagan and Ben Power (Sydney Morning Herald), "[Australian spy
agency] ASIO cleared to hack into computers," 26 Mar 99, "Australia's
domestic spy agency, ASIO, will be given sweeping powers to hack into
computers and place tracking devices on people and cars."
<story929.txt>


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