------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> <FONT COLOR="#000099">We give away $70,000 a month! Come to iWin.com for your chance to win! </FONT><A HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/olMXHC/BJVCAA/4ihDAA/K4NVlB/TM"><B>Click Here!</B></A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> March 30, 2001 To our readers, correspondents and supporters; To the national and international press; CIVIL SOCIETY TO NARCO NEWS: Don't Give Up the Fight! NARCO NEWS TO CIVIL SOCIETY: On to New York City! ANNOUNCING APRIL 18th KICK-OFF IN NEW YORK CITY: THE DRUG WAR GOES ON TRIAL! Dear Colleagues, In recent weeks we have posed the question to our readers as to whether The Narco News Bulletin, and I as its publisher, both of us defendants in a sleazy and dishonest lawsuit brought in New York by Banco Nacional de Mexico S.A. ("Banamex"), will be able meet our April 9th deadline to respond to the lawsuit, or will have to default due to the unlevel playing field of an expensive court battle with the 289th wealthiest man in the world and his bank. We threw the question open last week in a live online and broadcast press conference on the "Let 'Em Talk" radio show in New York City hosted by Miss Joanie Moossy and Paul DiRienzo. We opened a defense fund titled Drug War on Trial. We published appeals for funds from respected colleagues Gary Webb and Michael C. Ruppert. And we read every word of advice you sent us by email. We hit the law books, and researched our chances to prevail even against all the money in the Plaintiff's vault. Many of you have sent checks. Some have sent one dollar or five dollars. Others have sent more. Some have been quite generous. And although we have not yet reached our minimum goal for the defense fund to put the Drug War on Trial in New York City, we are getting closer to it. We have reached the point of seriousness, of no turning back. That, and the passionate appeals from readers of all walks of life, from many different countries, of different political tendencies, who told us to keep publishing and to fight on in court. Obedience leads. We cannot ignore the faith and credibility that you have placed in us. We would not be able to live with ourselves if, after the tremendous outpouring of solidarity from the readers in these weeks, we did not live up to our mission, as presented in our Opening Statement on April 18, 2000: "We are out to break the manufactured consensus north of the border, where the illusion that the drug war is about combatting drugs remains the dominant discourse. In the South, as the stories we translate and summarize demonstrate, a new consensus, based on the reality of drug prohibition between nations and peoples, is already under construction." We wrote those words almost a year ago, on our first day of publication. We have just read them again. The entire Opening Statement appears at: http://www.narconews.com/opstate1.html We wrote those words before the President of Uruguay called for the legalization of drugs. We wrote those words before the President of Mexico agreed with him. We wrote those words on April 18, 2000, more than two million hits ago, setting forth our mission. And in one short year, we are many years closer, already, complying with that mission; to breaking the manufactured consensus of the drug war. Thus, The Narco News Bulletin makes the following public announcements: FIRST: Facing our April 9th deadline, only ten days from today, we felt we needed just a little more time to file our response. And so, yesterday, March 29th, we made a request of the adversary's lawyers, our first contact with them in many weeks. We asked for a mere 10 day extension, until April 19th, to file our response to the lawsuit. This evening, we received an email response from the adversary lawyer, consenting to that short extension. ON TO NEW YORK CITY! SECOND: Perhaps you have already noticed. April 19th is one day after our First Anniversary of Narco News. We are going to make it to our First Birthday. ON TO NEW YORK CITY! THIRD: On behalf of the entire Narco News Team, we cordially invite you to celebrate our First Birthday at a location yet to be determined on the island of Manhattan in New York City, on Wednesday evening, April 18th, 2001. ¡ADELANTE! ONWARD! ON TO NEW YORK CITY! FOURTH: The format, exact hour, and location of this event will be determined in the coming days, as well as special guests, including entertainers of conscience and talent. We welcome your energy and assistance in planning this celebration. ON! ON! ON! TO NYC! FIFTH: The following day, Thursday, April 19th, we will present our legal response to this frivilous and censorious lawsuit that has been perpetrated by the enemies of free speech and free societies. They thought they could silence us, but now we roar. They thought they could bury us, but we rise up. They thought they could gag us, but our truth, together with your truth, makes a bigger truth that will now place the narco-system in check. The drug war goes on trial. Please join us in New York City on Wednesday evening, April 18th, to fire a shot heard 'round the world. >From somewhere in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, we still need your continued support. Please make a check out to "Drug War on Trial" and send it to: Drug War on Trial c/o Attorney Thomas Lesser Lesser, Newman, Souweine and Nasser 39 Main Street Northampton, MA 01060 U.S.A. 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