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Alternative | 1 Feb 2003 02:20
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Ahora Periódico Frontlines También en Español


THIS MESSAGE IS ONLY IN SPANISH ANNOUNCING THE SPANISH EDITION OF
FRONTLINES
Este Mensaje es solo en español anunciando la edición en español de
Frontlines.

Queridos Amigos:

FRONTLINES es el periódico de izquierda de mayor circulación en los EEUU
con 60,000 lectores.
FRONTLINES es el más polémico de los periódicos norteamericanos,
oponiéndose a la guerra, organizando entre los trabajadores, respetado
en las comunidades negra y latina, entre los jóvenes y estudiantes ...
Ahora en Español.

Léalo en http://www.sf-frontlines.com

Libro sobre Argentina para descargar o leer:

Argentina:
CRISIS, REVOLUCIÓN, CONTRARREVOLUCIÓN Y LA IZQUIERDA.
Entrevista y Diálogo con Carlos Petroni

Tabla de contenidos:

1. El Significado y el Método del Internacionalismo
2. Latinoamérica y el Mundo después del 11 de Septiembre
3. Las Condiciones para Formar una Nueva Organización Revolucionaria en
Argentina
4. Piqueteros: ¿Un Nuevo ‘Sujeto de la Revolución’ o un Aliado
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Hunter Gray | 1 Feb 2003 15:55
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VIEWS AND VISTAS ON THE REPARATIONS TRAIL

VIEWS AND VISTAS ON THE REPARATIONS TRAIL

Published in the January/February 2003 issue of the excellent socialist
journal, Against the Current

[An earlier post of mine, giving the full listing of this ATC issue's
contributions on Reparations, follows my article.]

By Hunter Gray [Hunterbear]

These are my Native American thoughts on reparations.  Some
involve our generally deplorable Native socio-economic situation --
as well as that faced by others.  I'm also tendering some procedural
suggestions for handling funds such as reparations -- based on roughly
analogous experiences some Indian tribes have had in land claims cases.

I'm writing this on a yellow tablet from a high-up point, flanked by pines
and junipers and sage, and looking over at snow covered-mountain ranges.
But this essentially idyllic setting -- Audubon's "perfection of
primitiveness" -- could never block the cruel realities of which I and
many, many others of all ethnicities are so vividly and brutally aware.

I strongly support reparations -- and would like to see these flow
effectively to the broadest possible coverage of contemporary
victims within those groups which have been historically struck by
the devastating  and tragically enduring impact of racism, genocide,
slavery and consequent economic exploitation and deprivation.

I was born of a full-blooded Native father [Micmac, St. Francis Abenaki, and
St. Regis Mohawk] and an Anglo mother from an old Western family -- and
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Hunter Gray | 1 Feb 2003 16:21
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GI reacts badly to smallpox vaccine

"Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health
affairs, said the reactions were not surprising. "We can expect additional
reactions to occur; some will be significant reactions," he said in a
statement. "

GI reacts badly to smallpox vaccine
The Commercial Appeal ^ | 1/31/03 | Laura Meckler/AP

GI reacts badly to smallpox vaccine

By Laura Meckler, The Associated Press February 1, 2003

WASHINGTON - One soldier inoculated against smallpox has suffered a
potentially serious skin reaction to the vaccine, and officials are
investigating whether a second ill soldier also is reacting to the shot, the
Pentagon said Friday.

It was the first report of any serious reaction among Americans receiving
the vaccinations, which began in December for the military and are just now
getting under way for civilians.

The first case, a 30-year-old Army soldier at a U.S. base, was a skin
reaction called generalized vaccinia, and officials were confident it was
linked to the man's vaccination 10 days earlier.

In the second case, a 26-year-old Army soldier was admitted to an overseas
military hospital for encephalitis, a brain disease that can cause paralysis
or permanent neurological damage.

Diagnostic studies could not confirm that his reaction was due to his
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ProLibertad Campaign | 1 Feb 2003 17:20
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Yuri Kochiyama Visit-Feb. 8th

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, the Free Mumia Coalition, and Critical 
Resistance are happy to announce that our sister,
friend, comrade and ever-present ally Yuri Kochiyama will be visiting New 
York City!!  All three groups are organizing a special People's Reception on 
Saturday February 8th, 2003 for Yuri!!

Join us for food, entertainment and wonderful conversation with Yuri!!

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8TH, 2003 AT 7:30PM-10PM
ST. MARY'S CHURCH 521 W126TH ST.
BETWEEN AMSTERDAM AVENUE AND BROADWAY
TAKE THE 1 OR 9 TRAIN TO W125TH ST AND BROADWAY

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YURI'S BIOGRAPHY AND A SPECIAL PEOPLE'S NOTE:

Yuri Kochiyama

Yuri Kochiyama is one of the most revered and beloved activists our movement 
has known.  She spans decades of activism and worlds of cultures and 
political movements.  Born in 1921 in San Pedro California, by the time she 
was 21, Yuri was interned in one of the concentration camps set up for 
Japanese-Americans during World War II.  She was  in Jerome, Arkansas.  She 
spent two years in that camp, from 1942 - 1944.  After that she went to 
Hattisburg, Mississippi, working for the USO specifically to help 
Japanese-American soldiers.   When the war ended Yuri was happy to reunite 
with Bill Kochiyama, her lifelong partner, who returned from fighting with 
the 442 Battalion, an all Japanese-American combat unit acclaimed as one of 
the most courageous infantry groups in US history.
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Hunter Gray | 1 Feb 2003 18:01
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Blood, birthplace or beliefs? Indians struggle over Indian blood

Note by Hunterbear:

The Shoshone-Bannock Res adjoins Pocatello -- near here.  From the Idaho
State Journal, Feb 1, 2003:

"Shoshone-Bannock tribal members voted Friday not to require new tribal
members to prove they have at least one quarter Native American blood . .
.[Of those who voted], 542 voted against the change and 326 voted for it."

Blood, birthplace or beliefs? Indians struggle over Indian blood

AP Photo staffing

By REBECCA BOONE
http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=84260
Associated Press Writer

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Viola Rodriguez's fellow Shoshone-Bannock tribal members
were voting Friday to see if her great-grandchild is Indian enough to be
counted as a member.

The child is one-eighth Shoshone-Bannock, and the proposed change would
require one-quarter Shoshone-Bannock blood to qualify for tribal membership.
The boy is just one of many tribal descendants who will be in or out
depending on the outcome.

It's a question that is more complicated than it may seem - raising issues
of race, culture and a system some believe was developed to breed Indians
out of existence.
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Hunter Gray | 2 Feb 2003 00:41
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Moderator's note: Virus matters

A list member has indicated in a couple of related and thoughtful
messages -- off-list -- that he's gotten an alert involving an
attachment-with-probable-virus  that has the name of another list member.
As I've indicated, both this list -- and the companion Redbadbear list -- do
not accept attachments of any kind under any circumstances. The lists
themselves are quite secure.

As I assume most [if not all of us] do, I have top-of-the-line anti-virus
protection and, in my case, it's Norton which also checks all of my outgoing
messages as well as those incoming.  I imagine this is a common
characteristic of the protection most now have.

I've gotten a number of messages from the person whose name is on the virus
[ someone that I've known well for 25 years and a top computer specialist]
mostly via our list and at least once very recently off list. My Norton
system has sounded no alarms on any of this person's communications.  I've
alerted him -- but I'm sure he's not the inadvertent source. While this
could come -- inadvertently -- from any List member, it could also come, I
understand, from any one of a number of other non-list sources. Viruses
apparently are super-eclectic. I've gotten as many as three or four a day --
with all sorts of phony labels.

Again, our List itself accepts nothing questionable in nature.

List members may want to check their systems simply to make certain that
everything is OK.

All best - H
Hunter Gray  [Hunterbear]
www.hunterbear.org
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Easy | 2 Feb 2003 03:15

198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION


    THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION

(from Gene Sharp, The Methods of Nonviolent Action, Boston 1973)

http://www.peacemagazine.org/198.htm

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      THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION

FORMAL STATEMENTS
1. Public speeches
2. Letters of opposition or support
3. Declarations by organizations and institutions
4. Signed public declarations
5. Declarations of indictment and intention
6. Group or mass petitions
COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIDER AUDIENCE
7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
10. Newspapers and journals
11. Records, radio, and television
12. Skywriting and earthwriting
GROUP REPRESENTATIONS
13. Deputations
14. Mock awards

The rest are at:
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Hunter Gray | 2 Feb 2003 12:03
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Bush Rule Change Could End Some Overtime

      Saturday February 1, 10:15 PM   Reuters
      Bush Rule Change Could End Some Overtime
      A Bush administration overhaul of decades-old labor regulations could
force many Americans to work longer hours without overtime pay.

      The administration argues that the pillars of American labor law,
which established the 40-hour work week, a minimum wage and overtime pay,
are antiquated.

      The changes, Labor Department officials say, would make more
lower-income workers eligible for overtime.

      But labor unions fear changes would severely restrict who is legally
required to be paid for overtime work.

      "Nothing prohibits employers from requiring as many hours as they
want," said Chris Owens, public policy director for the AFL-CIO. "The
overtime pay requirement is the only thing that acts as a brake on excessive
work hours."

      It is just one of several changes the administration is pursuing to
workplace regulations and programs, including the Family Medical Leave Act,
job training programs and unemployment insurance.

      The overtime changes are confined to a section of the 1938 Fair Labor
Standards Act that defines blue-collar and white-collar workers and
determines who must be paid an hourly rate of time-and-a-half for working
beyond 40 hours a week. About 80 million workers now are covered by the
overtime rules.
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W W | 2 Feb 2003 12:18
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Weekly Worker 465 (30/1/03): Imperialism Split Over Bush's War

Weekly Worker 465 - Towards a Socialist Alliance
Party!

In this week's Weekly Worker, paper of the Communist
Party of Great Britain;

Imperialism Split Over Bush’s War

The report by the leaders of the UN weapons inspection
teams have, entirely predictably, been jumped on by
the Bush and Blair governments in an attempt to
bolster their diplomatic position in favour of war
with Iraq.

Although the report failed to establish that the
Baghdad regime has any ‘weapons of mass destruction’,
the fact that it has not explained fully what has
happened to the weaponry it is known to have possessed
is deemed sufficient by the US and Britain to declare
Iraq to be in “material breach” of UN resolution 1441,
which threatens Iraq with “serious consequences” (the
code word for invasion and war) if such a breach is
deemed to have taken place.

Bush himself did not let a little thing like lack of
evidence spoil his ‘state of the union’ address. After
all, “It would take just one phial, one canister, one
crate slipped into this country to bring a day of
horror like none we have ever known”. He even revived
once more the absurd notion that Saddam Hussein and
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Hunter Gray | 2 Feb 2003 21:55
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Uranium tragedy: three articles -- almost 50 years -- and many, many deaths

Note by Hunterbear:

The three attached articles, one by me under my "original" name of John R
Salter, Jr in The American Socialist magazine, September, 1957, and one of
mine in Labor Notes, July 22 1980 -- and this current piece by Ms. Sararesa
Begay in The Navajo Times, January 31 2003 -- span almost half a century.
My first discusses the beginnings of capitalistic oil and uranium
"development" [exploitation] in Navajoland -- with blatant Federal
encouragement and deep involvement -- and my second deals with the hideously
lethal effects of uranium mining, milling, and refining on Native uranium
workers. [Over the years, I've written a number of articles on this on-going
tragedy.] Ms. Begay's piece concerns current studies being done on the
extremely negative impact of old uranium mines and waste dumps and other
workings [one step of a great many demanded by this deadly situation.]

Today, Navajo Nation numbers a quarter of a million people and the somewhat
expanded reservation is bigger than West Virginia.  Economic conditions have
improved  -- but unemployment and sub-employment and economic marginality
remain very heavy.  Racism continues to be rife in the Anglo border towns.
Uranium development has all but ended -- and Native opposition to any
resumption is pervasive and very strong.

There are now many bones under the turquoise sky.  The death toll from
uranium has been extremely heavy. And it's all continuing.

Compensation continues always to be too little, too late.

One of many personal uranium memories of mine:

In the late '70s and early '80s, I saw the effects on drinking water of
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