Right wing Cuban exile groups continue to rake in tens of thousands of
dollars from the Eli_n Gonz_lez case.
A "Trust" fund supposedly to pay for legal expenses such a photocopies
has now topped $200,000 according to Armando GutiErrez, spokesperson for
the
distant relatives who are keeping Eli_n despite his father's insistent
demands that he be returned to him.
Full details in the Miami Herald:
http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/dade/digdocs/074663.htm
n
in the middle had a VERY PINK penis.
While the couple was scratching their heads trying to figure this out,
the artist walked by and noticed the couple's confusion. "Can I help
you with this painting?" he asked.
"Well, yes" said the gentleman. "We were curious about this picture
of the black men on the bench. Why is it that the man in the middle
has a pink penis?"
"Oh" said the artist. "I'm afraid you've misinterpreted the painting.
The three men are not black, they're coal miners, and the fellow in
the middle went home for lunch!"
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17. Mayday Listening
On Monday May 1 2000, KPFA in conjunction with LaborNet and LaborFest
will be programming a day devoted to working class issues. From writer
Tillie Olson and Mumia and labor to South Africa and El Salvador, make
sure you and your fellow brothers & sisters are tuned in for this
exciting and historic day of labor programming.
You can also find the full schedule for the programming at
www.labornet.org.
Solidarity Has No Borders!
Tentative Schedule of Programs
Listen Live World Wide On www.kpfa.org
Monday May 1, 2000
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18. May Day Procession and Mask Making Workshops
PRESS RELEASE
DATE: March 28, 2000
CONTACT: Michael Schwartz 520-388-9553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For Immediate Release
May Day Procession and Mask Making Workshops !
The Tucson Arts Brigade announces the third annual May Day Puppet
Procession
and Mask making workshops. Workshops are every Monday and Wednesday in
April
from 6-8pm. Special family workshops are on Friday's from 2:30 to 5pm
(April
7, 14, 21, 28) Workshops are held at the Community Arts Lab (CAL) located
at
901 13th Ave (west on 2nd St from Stone in the Splinter Brothers Studios)
There is a requested $2 donation for classes. Tucson Tokens are accepted.
Call 388-9553, or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information.
On SATURDAY APRIL 29, 5pm we will gather at the Dunbar Spring Community
Garden , located on University Ave. just east of Main St. for a colorful
May
Day Procession and Carnival !
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19. May 7th Day for Mumia at Madison Square Garden
MAY 7 TICKETS AVAILABLE!
Tickets for the May 7th Day for Mumia rally at the Theater at
Madison Square Garden are now available at the International
Action Center office and at the web site www.leftbooks.com.
General admission is $15. The group rate is $10 each for 10 or
more tickets.
There are three ways to purchase tickets:
On-lineat www.leftbooks.com: You can purchase individual or
group tickets with your credit card. There is a $1 service charge per
ticket for ordering on-line.
By mail: Send orders by mail to the International Action Center,
39 W. 14 St., #206 NY, NY 10011. Make checks payable to
"May 7th Mobilization."
Walk-into our office at 39 W. 14 St., #206. We're open
weekdays from 11 am to 8 pm for ticket sales.
These tickets have been selling quickly so buy your tickets as soon
as possible. We have a limited number of group seats. (Tickets will not
be available from the box office.)
International Action Center
39 West 14th Street, Room 206
New York, NY 10011
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: www.iacenter.org
CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE www.mumia2000.org
phone: 212 633-6646
fax: 212 633-2889
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20. The Escaped Giraffe
A Zookeeper was walking through the zoo one day, checking on all the
animals. When he passed near the Giraffe pen, he noticed a woman
standing near the fence that contained the giraffes.
One of the largest giraffes had walked up to the woman and stood in
front of her on the other side of the fence. Suddenly, the giraffe
reared up and jumped over the fence and raced away through the zoo.
The Zookeeper ran over to the woman. "My God Lady, what happened to
the giraffe?"
The woman turned to the Zookeeper and said, "All I did was reach
through the bars and tickle his balls."
With that the Zookeeper dropped his own pants around his ankles and
said, "Tickle mine, I gotta catch him."
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21. Digital Community Mural Query
Mike Mosher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is interested in hearing from artists who
use digital technology to create community murals. He is curious about
ways the computer or Web and the community mural come together.
This might be use of digital output on billboard vinyl fabric and other
synthetic substrates; the computer used to assemble hand-drawn and
photographic images; community cyberspace development that uses muralists'
techniques & processes; neighborhood mural projects that grew out of
websites and email; computers imbedded in muralized walls or painted
kiosks.
Mike's three-panel "Market Street Carnival" murals
<http://www.ylem.org/artists/mmosher/grant0.html> in San Francisco include
an 8' x 12' panel celebrating labor organizing 1880-1930. These murals
can be viewed at the lobby of the Grant Building, 1095 Market Street,
weekdays during office hours. Cloverleaf Multimedia, nonprofit developers
of the radical history CD-ROM "Shaping San Francisco" have their office in
the building, as do the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.
Mike Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Community Art Machines & Other Big Ideas Visualized
http://www.ylem.org/artists/mmosher/Opening.html
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22. Fun Facts About US Human Rights Abuses
From: Common Courage Political Literacy Course
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Every country on earth has ratified the United Nations' Convention on the
Rights of the Child, which prohibits the death penalty for juvenile
offenders, with two exceptions: Somalia, which effectively has no
government, and the U.S.. Even China, one of the world's most enthusiastic
criminal-killers, recently banned juvenile executions."
--"Wasted Youth," The Mojo Wire, December 23, 1999
"(T)he U.S.A. is also one of only a handful of countries that have not
ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women."
--Amnesty International "United States of America--Rights for All,"
October 1998
"The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, meeting in Geneva in
April, called for a moratorium on all executions. The resolution was
co-sponsored by 63 nations. The U.S. was one of the few countries to
oppose it, along with such countries as Bangladesh, China, South Korea and
Rwanda."
--Death Penalty Information Center "The Death Penalty in 1998: Year End
Report," December 1998
"And the United States was one of only seven states voting against the
statute creating the ICC [International Criminal Court] at the Rome
Diplomatic Conference in July; 120 states voted for the treaty."
--Human Rights Watch "World Report 1999, United States," explaining how
the U.S. opposed the creation of the legal entity which it then cynically
proceeded to use to promote the war effort in Kosovo.
"In the case of landmines, the United States refused to join the 133
nations, including nearly every major U.S. ally, that had already signed
the treaty by October 1998."
--Human Rights Watch "World Report 1999, United States"
(This material is compiled in David McGowan's, "Derailing Democracy," now
available from Common Courage Press at
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/mcgowan_derailing.html )
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23. More Fun Facts About US Human Rights Abuses
Common Courage Political Literacy Course -
http://www.commoncouragepress.com
"The U.S., which has 5% of the world population, will have a quarter of
its prisoners in the year 2000."
o Justice Policy Institute "The Punishing
Decade," December 1999
"The United States now imprisons more people than any other country in the
world n perhaps half a million more than Communist China."
o Atlantic Monthly "The Prison-Industrial
Complex," December 1998
"Our incarceration rate plays such a distorting role in the labor market,
one study found that the U.S. unemployment rate would be 2% higher if
prisoners and jail inmates were counted."
o Justice Policy Institute "The Punishing
Decade," December 1999
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24. Yep - Still More
Some background to the incarceration of the mentally ill in the US prison
system
By Debra Watson
6 March 2000
In February the United States reached a benchmark of 2 million individuals
in its prisons and jails. The US incarcerates the greatest number of
people of any country in the world, and has become a worldwide example of
prison abuse, especially in the use of the death penalty. In state after
state growing numbers of juveniles are being tried and sentenced as
adults.
The US Department of Justice has estimated that 283,800 mentally ill
offenders were held in state and federal prisons and local jails at
mid-year 1998. Additionally 547,800 mentally ill persons were on
probation. Seven percent of federal inmates and 16 percent of those in
state prisons or local jails or on probation said they either had a mental
condition or stayed overnight in a mental hospital, unit or treatment
program.
A Michigan Community Health Department survey indicates the number of
mentally ill suffering in prison may be even higher than the Justice
Department figures. The Justice in Mental Health Organization refers to
statistics in the 1999 Michigan survey of three state jail systems. They
note that while the number of prisoners that screened positive for mental
health concerns using standard survey methods was 12 percent, the number
rose to 34 percent when a psychologist interviewed each inmate in depth.
Stung by criticism that the indigent mentally ill were being denied care
and forced instead into jails, Department of Community Health Director
James K. Havemann, Jr. did not release the full results of the survey.
excerpts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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25. Cruel and Unusual Punishment
United Press International
Cruel and unusual punishment? You decide -- a Detroit teenager was
sentenced Tuesday to listen to two hours of "Wayne Newton's Greatest
Hits."
18-year-old Justin Rushford had been convicted of blasting rap music
from a truck radio. The truck happened to be sitting next to a Troy,
Mich., police car.
The unusual sentence -- for violating the town's noise pollution
ordinance -- attracted a horde of local media to the courthouse,
turning Rushford into a minor celebrity. He appeared on CBS-TV's
"Early Show" Wednesday morning.
The sentence was imposed by District Judge Michael Martone, who told
the Detroit Free Press he "meant no disrespect" by choosing the music
of the Las Vegas crooner.
For his part, Rushford was apologetic after two hours of listening
to Newton. He told the newspaper, "I probably wouldn't appreciate it
if some old man drove past me blasting this music."
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26. Nazi Fun
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Nazi flags emblazoned with swastikas hang
from the ceiling and photographs of Adolf Hitler adorn the walls, along
with Nazi propaganda posters and military insignia.
It is all part of the theme of a bar named "Jae3JaeGuk," (pronounced
J-sahm-J-cook), or The Third Reich, located in Shinchon, a busy
commercial district in downtown Seoul.
There, young South Koreans frolic in dim light, sipping a rum cocktail
named "Adolf Hitler" that is served by waiters and waitresses wearing
mock black Nazi uniforms.
"There is nothing political about the bar. I only want to attract
people's attention for business," said Hyun sae-woog, who opened the
place a year ago.
In an interview late Monday, Hyun said he does not support Hitler. His
knowledge of the Nazi leader is limited to the "killing of some Jews."
But the presence of the bar -- which has provoked angry protests from
Israeli officials and a Jewish group -- appears to be another indication
of how little some Asians know about the scale of the atrocities the
Nazis committed against Jews during World War II.
For example, in Taiwan, the owners of a restaurant that had decorated
its walls with pictures of Nazi death camps removed them in January,
shortly after The Associated Press reported that Jewish and German
residents considered the decor offensive.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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27. Surrealists Joke
How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to turn the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with
multicolored clocks.
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28. What Are You?
The newly-hatched snake and the newly-born rabbit came face to face.
Both were so young their eyes had not yet opened. Neither knew what
the other was, so they decided to feel each other and make a guess.
First the snake slithered over the rabbit and then concluded: "You
have warm fur, whiskers and long ears. You must be a bunny."
Then the rabbit ran its paws over the snake. "You are slippery and
have no balls. You must be a politician."
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29. This Weak in History
1965 - US: First Vietnam teach-in, University of Michigan.
(Organized by SDS?) 500 participants were expected, but 3,000
showed up for an all-nighter.
Forty-nine faculty members started planning the all-night session
after the University president said they should trust "competent"
leaders like Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Defense Secretary
Robert McNamara. Students stay until eight in the morning to
listen to the speeches & seminars. Twice during the night, the
hall was evacuated because of bomb threats, but the teach-in
continued outside in freezing weather. In upcoming weeks, teach-
ins are held on hundreds of campuses across the country.
1988 - Israel: After a secret 7-month trial, Mordechai Vanunu, an
employee in a bomb-making factory, is convicted of espionage for
revealing details of Israel's atomic weapons program to the
"London Sunday Times".
His revelations show Israel's nuclear capability to be greater
than experts assumed, & that Israel could build up to 200 atomic
bombs as well as neutron & hydrogen bombs. He got 18 years in
prison & 10 years later, in 1998, was allowed out of solitary
confinement for the first time.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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30. Quote
"It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while
he's in love, drunk, or running for office."
-- Shirley MacLaine
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
--Louis Brandeis, United States Supreme Court Justice from 1916-1939
"I think that the targeting of innocent civilians is the worst thing about
modern conflicts today. And the extent to which more and more people seem
to believe it is legitimate to target innocent civilians to reach their
larger political goals, I think that's something that has to be resisted at
every turn."
Bill Clinton, at a recent speech given in India
__________________________________________
Mike Alewitz
LaBOR aRT & MuRAL PRoJECT
Department of Art
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
Phone: 860.832.2359
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