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Nick Morcinek | 1 Apr 2002 02:10

[R-G] Text of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon televised address

Ariel Sharon is now, without a doubt, insane. Just reading this speech makes
that quite clear.

Citizens of Israel: The state of Israel is in a war, a war against
terrorism. This is a war that was imposed on us. It is not a war that we
decided to embark upon. This is a war over our home.

The state of Israel, under my direction, made all the efforts to arrive at a
ceasefire. All the time, since I was elected, in the midst of a wave of
Palestinian terror, we placed before us the goal of doing everything to
achieve calm and arrive at political accords.

We cooperated with the U.S. envoy, Anthony Zinni, and we received terrorism
in return. We acted together with Vice President Dick Cheney, and we
received terrorism in return.

We decided to advance the prospects of a ceasefire and concede my demand for
seven days of quiet, and we received terrorism in return. We withdrew
military forces from the cities, and we received terrorism in return.
Everything we received in return for our efforts was terrorism, terrorism
and more terrorism.

We must fight against this terrorism, fight with no compromise, pull up
these wild plants by the roots, smash their infrastructure, because there is
no compromise with terrorism. It is impossible to compromise with one who is
prepared, like the suicide bombers on the streets of Israel's cities, and in
the twin towers in the United States, to die only to kill innocent
civilians, children, women and infants. To die in order to cause fear and
horror.
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Lysander Zimmerman | 1 Apr 2002 20:22
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[R-G] International Non-Violent Activists Attacked with Live Gunfire

images from todays protest shootings in beit jalla
by Gary Anderson . Monday April 01, 2002 at 09:57 AM

James Budd leaving the Al Hussein hospital in Bethleham after having been
shot at by IDF soldiers during a non violent protest

 http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/2250.php

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April 01, 2002 1645: Internationals Attacked with Live Gunfire

Moments ago international civilians and two members of the Palestinian press
were wounded by live fire in Beit Jalla.The internationals were attempting
to visit the people in homes that have been taken over by the Occupation
Forces.
Among the wounded are:
- British citizen: Aisa Kiysue, Kunle Ibidun, Chris Dunham
- Australian citizen: Kate Irving (currently undergoing surgey)
- American citizen: Said Khulil
Wounded have been taken to Al Huissen Hospital in Bethlehem.

Word from the hospital staff is people were hit in the back of the head,
face and one was hit in the upper thigh and knees. The Palestinians were hit
in the chest.

http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/

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Lysander Zimmerman | 1 Apr 2002 20:28
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[R-G] Israeli army reduces Ramallah to concentration camp

Israeli army reduces Ramallah to concentration camp
by PIC . Monday April 01, 2002 at 12:47 AM

Occupied Jerusalem - The Israeli occupation army continued to rampage
throughout the city of Ramallah in the west Bank, terrorizing townspeople
and vandalizing private and public property. The invading army also severed
electricity and water supplies to the city and cut off telephone
communications to the headquarters of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat.

Full article: http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/2125.php

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Macdonald Stainsby | 1 Apr 2002 22:15
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[R-G] New US paper aims at Afghan war truth

Can someone please tell me where I can order this? In Vancouver, we have a
tri-weekly that produces some 10 000 copies, but this seems wonderful!

Macdonald, get in touch with me at: mstainsby <at> tao.ca

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  http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,676269,00.html
  New US paper aims at Afghan war truth Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

  [Friday March 29 2002]  The Guardian
  A newspaper aimed at providing news of the war in Afghanistan is to be
launched this month. Its editors argue that the mainstream media in the US are
not providing a full picture of the war and its effects.

  War Times, produced in San Francisco, will make its first bi-weekly appearance
on April 12. It will be published in English and Spanish and will be distributed
throughout the US.
  Its editors say it is a response to a demand for more information about what
is happening in Afghanistan and the possibility of conflict elsewhere.

  The venture is supported by a number of academics, including Noam Chomsky,
labour organisations and anti-war groups.
  Its managing editor, Bob Wing, said the response to the idea had been
extraordinary. "We originally planned to print only 7,500 copies of the pilot,"
he said, "but the demand was so great that we printed and distributed 100,000."

  He said the aim was to bring more information about the war into the public
debate and "to report hidden truths, to put a human face on events, and explore
the real interests behind the 'permanent war'."
  The pilot issue carried an interview with the actor Danny Glover, who said:
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shniad | 2 Apr 2002 00:32
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[R-G] Will Sharon exorcize dybbuk Arafat, or beatify him? Haaretz

Haaretz 									
	 April 2, 2002 

Will Sharon exorcize dybbuk Arafat, or beatify him?

By Bradley Burston, Ha'aretz Correspondent

Israelis of all political stripes questioned the aims of the IDF offensive
in the West 
Bank, prompting speculation that if Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's goal was
to exorcize 
his personal dybbuk Yasser Arafat, Israel's focus on Arafat as the godhead
of terror 
could backfire, with the Palestinian leader already taking on the mantle of
a living, 
breathing martyr. 

Israel has repeatedly stressed that the massive IDF operation was meant to
head off 
Palestinian suicide attacks and other terror strikes which have rocked
Israel to the 
core. But world attention had focused on the plight of Arafat, holding court
in an 
ever-shrinking area of his Israeli-surrounded and occupied headquarters
compound in 
the West Bank city of Ramallah. 

"All in all, you could call these operations the Peace for Arafat War,"
remarks Ha'aretz 
commentator Danny Rubinstein. "We [Israelis] ourselves did this. We turned
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Yoshie Furuhashi | 2 Apr 2002 06:42
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[R-G] Tue., April 9: _Lumumba_

Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires

Screening: _Lumumba_
(Dir. Raoul Peck, 2000)

Tue., April 9, 7:30 p.m.
264 MacQuigg Lab, OSU
105 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH

At the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African 
continent.  The Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II 
of Belgium.  On June 30, 1960, a young self-taught nationalist, 
Patrice Lumumba, became, at age 36, the first head of government of 
the new independent state.  He would last two months in office.  This 
is a true story.

_Lumumba_ is a gripping political thriller which tells the story of 
the legendary African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba.  The brilliant 
and charismatic Lumumba rose rapidly to the office of Prime Minister 
when Belgium conceded the Congo's independence in June, 1960. 
Lumumba's populist and anti-imperialist vision of a united Africa 
gained him powerful enemies: the Belgian authorities, who sought to 
perpetuate neo-colonial control in their former colony's affairs, and 
the CIA, who supported Joseph Mobutu in order to protect U.S. 
business interests in Congo's vast resources and ensure U.S. 
dominance in the Cold War.  The ruthless machinations behind 
Lumumba's brutal assassination in 1961 (a mere nine months after he 
became the country's first Prime Minister) are dramatized for the 
first time in _Lumumba_.
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Hunter Gray | 2 Apr 2002 17:35
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[R-G] Colorado blood and Four Corners Uranium: The Utes Say No

Note by Hunterbear:

"Nothing lives long / Only the Earth and the Mountains,"  was the death song
sung by a Cheyenne leader as the blood-thirsty Colorado militia legions of
Colonel John Chivington [an ordained Methodist preacher] closed in and shot
down at least 450 unarmed Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children at
their village on Sand Creek in eastern Colorado in 1864.  Chivington
defended this hideous, massive atrocity, stating that Indians are "vermin
deserving of extermination" and, on the specific matter of murdering dozens
and dozens of small children, "Nits breed lice." See Dee Brown's, Bury My
Heart at Wounded Knee [New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971 -- many
editions]; and Duane Schultz, Month of the Freezing Moon:  The Sand Creek
Massacre [New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1990].

This, of course, presaged the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 in which the Colorado
militia and Rockefeller gunmen murdered many striking multi-ethnic coal
miners [the total number has never really been determined] and at least two
of the strikers' women and eleven of their children -- and, again, in
Colorado, the Columbine Massacre of 1927 when state police machine-gunned
striking coal miners, killing six and injuring dozens.

Among the excellent discussions of the Ludlow tragedy is John Reed's
oft-reprinted "The Colorado War" in John Stuart's nicely done The Education
of John Reed:  Selected Writings [New York:  International Publishers, 1955
and subsequent editions].  On the Columbine atrocity, see Ronald McMahon,
"Rang-U-Tang: The IWW and the 1927 Colorado Coal Strike" in Joe Conlin's At
the Point of Production -- The Local History of the IWW [Westport:
Greenwood, 1982].

Along with the Earth and the Mountains, the Death Aura of uranium lives very
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michael pugliese | 3 Apr 2002 02:06

[R-G] ISRAEL'S NEW ECONOMY AND THE INTIFADA


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Macdonald Stainsby | 3 Apr 2002 03:02
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[R-G] Calgary/G8 organising

Basis of Unity 

Solidarity Village is organized along the lines of the Basis of Unity 
adopted through the G8 Spokescouncil process in Alberta: 

    * We are a diverse and dynamic movement, united in our desire for 
self-determination and a just, equitable society. 

    * We are building local and global alternatives that are open, 
inclusive, and non-hierarchical. 

    * We assert that the direct participation of people is essential to 
ensure that society reflects their needs and desires. 

    * We reject the dehumanizing and antidemocratic system perpetuated by 
institutions like the G8. We reject a world vision where people, 
environments and culture are only valued as commodities to be exploited 
for profit. 

    * In order to eliminate the oppressive power of authoritarian 
structures, we support bold and creative actions that respect the natural 
environment and human safety. 

    * We encourage the involvement of other individuals and autonomous 
groups who affirm this basis of unity. 

        [ http://www.oxygensmith.com/~g8camp/home/index.php#basis 
        http://g8.activist.ca/basisofunity.html    ] 

A Call to Action:
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IJA | 3 Apr 2002 03:14
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[R-G] 02.04.2002 THE OIL PRICE & TERRORISM CONSPIRACY - STOP THE RUMORS!

PRESS RELEASE AND NOTE FROM THE
Anarchist International Embassy in Oslo
http://www.anarchy.no/embassy.html (published in IJ <at>  4(31))

THE OIL PRICE & TERRORISM CONSPIRACY - STOP THE RUMORS!

The rumors that some high ranking, mainly marxist Norwegians and their "useful" idiots, have given much
aid-money to Arafat, so he could support the terrorists, to make trouble in the Mid East and thus hike the
oil price (and tank-rates), must be seen as a 1st of April joke and nothing else. The Anarchy of Norway just
doesn't play politics so dirty, although the oil-price of course have hiked now as usual when there is
trouble in the Mid East, and the PLO-state of Arafat has gotten relatively much money in aid from Norway.
These events should not be seen combined, and introducing a (false) conspiracy theory is not correct. 

There are also other reasons for a hike in the oil-price, say, the USA's talks vis-à-vis Saddam Hussein,
and better economical conjunctures in general.

02.04.2002. Although the Conference on terrorism and IJ <at>  yesterday tried to stop the rumors, they
continue to grow. We must simply repeat that these growing rumors are not based on facts! The whole idea of
the so called secret operation, code name "Bongo from Congo" where 1. the Yes to EU-bureaucrats in the
Labor Party, some of them having got top jobs in Statoil without too much qualifications, 2. the UN's
"peace envoy for the Middle East" Terje "Red" Larsen plus Gro Harlem Brundtland and tops in  the Royal
Norwegian Foreign Ministry, UD; 3. the leaders of the "Red oil-workers unions", plus 4. the coming
bureaucrats of the Labor Party's Youth organization AUF, have a conspiracy with 5. Y. Arafat and the
PLO-State terrorists, to 6. hike the oil-price, and share the profit through different channels, aid
included, to make even more trouble in the Mid East and hike the oil-price even more, etc., in 7. an
oil-price&terrorism spiral, in a prolonged war with Israel, also including trade boycott etc. too make
it real long, that's 8. just far out! Although 9. the marxist influenced Norwegian media also write about a
long Mid East war today, and thus contribute perhaps to even more oil-price hike, there are no reasons to
believe that 10. the "Oil price & Terrorism Conspiracy" , code name "Bongo from Congo", really exists.
NACO demands such nonsense rumors should be stopped at once!
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