-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 72 - October, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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QUOTE:
" The so-called "defense" corporations are multinational conglomerates
that have no great loyalty to the United States; they are in fact no longer
U.S. corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves. "
--John Stockwell, former CIA official and author
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Contents:
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--Critics of global economy meet in Tijuana
--Probers Hunt Facts & Faces
--Mideast violence prompts rallies in U.S. cities
--Citizens protest closed debate
--Cold War Warriors Turn Circus Performers
--NRLB Ruling on Temps Could Shake Up Silicon Valley
Linked stories:
*Trafficking in human flesh
*Married ... With Email
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Critics of global economy meet in Tijuana
By Diane Lindquist
STAFF WRITER, Union-Tribune Publishing Co.
October 15, 2000
TIJUANA -- More than 150 globalization critics gathered yesterday in Tijuana,
declaring the city and the local border region "the open wound" of a
worldwide corporate system that operates on profit and greed.
On the third day of a four-day meeting called Festival of the Globalphobics,
attendees focused on Baja California's maquiladora industry, illegal border
crossings, environmental deterioration, indigenous population, and violence
and public safety.
The event was sponsored by at least a dozen organizations on both sides of
the border, including Amnesty International, the Committee for Solidarity in
the Americas, the Environmental Health Coalition, Global Exchange and the Red
Action Front Against Free Trade.
In the past year, some of the groups took part in demonstrations at meetings
of the World Trade Organization in Seattle and the International Monetary
Fund and World Bank in Washington, D.C., and Prague, Czech Republic.
Because of those events, said Gerry Condon of the San Diego chapter of the
Committee for Solidarity in the Americas, "the whole consciousness about
globalization has reached a higher level."
Many of those attending said they were there to spread more understanding
about individuals on the lowest rungs of the global market system.
Eliseo Jimenez, a Nahuatl Indian, said he is one of those at the bottom.
"For 50 years, we have been discriminated against," said Jimenez, 33. "There
are many reasons for this, but it denies us much of the basics."
Jimenez, an artisan and father of three, sells hammocks and woven baby cribs
on the streets of Ensenada, where he moved with his wife 15 years ago from
the village of Copaillo in Guerrero. When tourists are few and living is
difficult, he takes jobs in the city's maquiladora factories.
"The indigenous don't need a lot of money to live well -- some food and
schools for our children," he said. "But we're left out. We need markets in
the United States and all over the world for our goods. There's free trade
for everyone but us."
Dan La Botz, a meeting organizer and director of Global Exchange's human
rights program in San Francisco, said groups taking part favor a more just
and sustainable globalization that puts equity, nondiscrimination, human
rights, economic justice and the environment above commercial interests.
"This is a conference to give the bottom-up view," he said.
Another reason was simply to build cross-border relations.
"This is pretty much a new thing," Condon said. "Here we are in Tijuana,
which has had some ugly ramifications where corporations have come to make
profits. I think we have to have some resistance to that."
Enrique D�valos, Condon's Tijuana counterpart, said: "What is most important
is to have communication between both sides of the border. It's not easy for
us because of the culture and the linguistics."
D�valos said a network of individuals, artists and social activist
organizations could affect local issues as well as join larger mobilizations,
such as demonstrations planned for April in Quebec for a multinational
meeting to extend the North American Free Trade Agreement throughout the
hemisphere.
The issues already are on the political radar, judging by the presence of two
staffers -- one with the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on
International Operations and Human Rights, the other with the California
Senate's Select Committee on California's Role in Global Trade Policy.
Jeffrey Pilch said the House panel is aware of activities and incidents in
the San Diego-Tijuana border region. The maquiladoras, environment,
undocumented migrants -- all attract attention.
"We see human rights violations happening here, particularly with Operation
Gatekeeper," he said. "We're very concerned."
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Probers Hunt Facts & Faces
Sift evidence, tap informers and satellites
<http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-10-14/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-84193.asp?last6days=1>
by RICHARD SISK
Daily News Washington Bureau, 10/15/2000
FBI and military investigators yesterday quickly turned the waters of an
ancient Yemeni port into a crime scene, while U.S. undercover agents began
calling in markers from a network of informers.
The intense hunt focused on suspects sophisticated in the bloody work and
coordination of mass murder aimed at the destroyer Cole, with fugitive
millionaire and terror bankroller Osama Bin Laden at the top of the list.
"This kind of attack could not have occurred without a great deal of
planning and knowledge about where our movements were going to be and when
the ship was going to arrive," said U.S. Adm. Vern Clark, chief of naval
operations.
Other individuals and groups considered to have the resources, sinister
motive and connections to Yemen to carry out the bombing were Iraqi
strongman Saddam Hussein, the shadowy Islamic Army of Aden and the
Palestinian group Hamas.
Special interest was also focused on the group called Egyptian Islamic
Jihad, which has a presence in Yemen and has been known to use small boats
in terror attacks.
Security and intelligence specialists said the hunt for suspects behind the
killing of 17 U.S. sailors would proceed on two levels, with FBI Director
Louis Freeh overseeing the operation from his lead-lined command center off
Pennsylvania Ave.
The first order of business was the grunt work of recovering clues from the
scene in the deep-water port of Aden at the foot of the Saudi peninsula,
where a small craft of the type that has serviced Navy ships in the past
allegedly exploded Thursday alongside the Cole.
"This will be like the World Trade Center [bombing investigation], a pretty
elaborate undertaking. It's going to take time," said Joseph Clabby,
longtime Army security consultant.
At the same time, CIA and military intelligence types will be leaning on
their informers for tips, said former NYPD Capt. Stephen Davis, now an
international security consultant with the Fairfax Group.
"These are people you normally would not want to rub elbows with," Davis
said. "But when something like this happens, these are the people you've got
to turn to."
To aid in that work, the signals-intercept operatives of the super-secret
U.S. National Security Agency will be going over tapes from spy satellites
for any hint of a conversation linked to the Cole bombing, Davis said.
In Aden, Navy divers expert in demolitions disposal were already at work
under the ship's hull and will be joined later by Navy SEAL divers to search
the port bottom for remnants of the explosive device and the craft that
carried it, as well as the remains of the bombers themselves.
U.S. Marines secured three floors of a downtown Aden hotel to await the
arrival of more than 100 FBI forensics and investigations specialists.
They will secure and label every piece recovered from the Cole and the port
bottom to establish an evidence trail for criminal prosecution and send the
clues back to Washington for lab analysis.
The success of the investigation ultimately will depend on the global reach
Freeh has worked to develop.
Even his harshest critics give Freeh credit for putting agents in more than
more than 70 embassies around the world and setting up working relationships
with local police and authorities.
"Idealists say it might be wrong to do business that way," security
consultant Davis said, "but it's the only way to do business."
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Mideast violence prompts rallies in U.S. cities
<http://europe.cnn.com/2000/US/10/13/us.mideast.rallies.02/>
Thousands of Palestinians and their supporters march down Second Avenue in
New York on Friday on their way to a park near the United Nations building
October 14, 2000
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The violence in the Middle East prompted supporters of
both sides to take to the streets Friday in several cities across the United
States.
Roughly 15,000 pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of New York
City, blasting Israeli military strikes against Palestinian targets,
faulting the United States for its support of Israel and calling for peace
in the Middle East.
Smaller crowds of Palestinian supporters gathered in Philadelphia,
Cleveland, Atlanta and Washington. Near the White House, Arab-American
demonstrators were outnumbered by about 1,000 Jewish-American protesters.
The New York protesters, under heavy police escort, began marching shortly
after 12:30 p.m. in midtown Manhattan and headed toward a plaza across from
the United Nations where they planned to hold a prayer service.
The mood of the crowd varied. Many expressed anger at Israel, and some young
men stomped on an Israeli flag. They compared Israel's treatment of
Palestinians to a holocaust. One sign compared the Star of David to a
swastika.
Other demonstrators focused on the United States, saying Washington has been
too pro-Israeli over the years and needed to take a harder line against its
ally.
Ahmed Alkhatib, president of the National Muslim Merchants Association, said
thousands of Palestinian-Americans were watching how U.S. leaders responded
to the Middle East crisis.
"We will remember in November," he said.
Competing demonstrations in D.C.
In Washington, more than 1,000 Jewish-Americans and several hundred
Arab-Americans held competing demonstrations within a few hundred yards of
each other in Lafayette Park, just across from the White House.
A heavy police presence kept the two groups apart, but occasionally there
were confrontations.
With television cameras rolling, two men argued until the pro-Palestinian
demonstrator shooed his rival away.
"We don't want to talk to you. Just go, go," he said.
Chicago mayor appeals for dialogue
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched in downtown Chicago on
Friday.
The protest came one day after several attacks against Jews in the city.
A Jewish rabbi narrowly escaped injury Thursday when his car was sprayed by
bullets in a drive-by shooting.
In the two other incidents a few blocks apart, people in a van slung marbles
by slingshot at two men, one of whom was asked, "Hey, are you Jewish?"
Neither victim was hit and three teen-agers were being questioned, a police
spokeswoman said.
Police would not speculate on whether the incidents were related to
heightened tensions in the Middle East.
The director of a local Jewish organization said the attacks were clearly
connected to events overseas.
"Once again, when things flare up there, Arabs and Muslims act in solidarity
with their brethren with illegal acts here," said Jay Tcath, director of the
Jewish Community Relations Council.
But Arab-American leaders condemned the incidents and staged protests and a
strike of their own.
"We don't condone those attacks at all. We are not encouraging any incidents
like that," said Ray Hanania, the publisher of an Arab-American newspaper.
"We're doing all we can to quell emotions, to try to direct them into
productive protest."
Some of the protests in Chicago were aimed at U.S. media outlets that
Arab-American groups feel are biased against the Palestinians.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley appealed for dialogue and police superintendent
Terry Hillard said more officers would be assigned in the northwest side
community where the attacks occurred.
N.Y. police on 'Bravo' alert
A New York police spokesman also said its force had been put on "Bravo"
status, meaning that security would be tighter at all police and government
buildings, as well as at some landmarks, tourist attractions and religious
buildings and any location associated with the Israeli government or the
Palestinian Authority.
That includes the Israeli consulate in midtown Manhattan, which was the site
of rallies and demonstrations, both for and against Israel over the past few
days.
In an unusual move, mosques in the New York area were closed Friday so that
Muslims from around the region could attend the rally at the United Nations,
the New York Times reported.
Mosques, where the most devout Muslims gather five times a day to pray,
rarely close.
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Citizens protest closed debate
A protester confronts riot police at the entrance of Wake Forest University.
By Eamon Martin
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Oct. 11
As presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush enjoyed an exclusive,
televised debate deep within the fortified citadel of Wake Forest
University, about 850 demonstrators rallied outside of the campus.
Paradoxically, the protesters were high-spirited but entirely peaceful for
people who came to express their collective outrage at a democracy they say
has been hijacked by corporate finance. After a rally and a two and a half
mile march to the University gates, demonstrators were confronted by
hundreds of gas masked state troopers armed to the teeth in riot gear. Five
people were arrested though there were no altercations between protesters
and police.
Let Ralph debate or I don't eat. That was Steve Ham of Port Townsend,
Washington. Ham, who appeared noticeably gaunt but no less determined, has
been literally following the debates from city to city. He has been fasting
in protest of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) pointed
exclusion of candidate Ralph Nader from the campaign events.
I've been fasting since September 30th. I haven't had anything to eat and
intend to fast right on through until the 17th (of November) unless the CPD
capitulates and lets Nader into the debates.
Unknown to many American voters, the Commission is a private, corporate
entity, jointly sponsored by the Republican and Democratic national parties
and corporate contributors such as Anheiser-Busch and US Airways. The
debates are considered to be the most widely accessible and followed events
during the presidential campaigns. Last week, an estimated 55 million
viewers tuned into the first round held in Boston. Yet, in 1988, the League
of Women Voters, aghast at the two parties attempts to manipulate the
American public by monopolizing the debates, withdrew their sponsorship of
the debates because the demands of the two campaign organizations would
perpetrate a fraud on the American voter. It has become clear to us that
the candidates organizations aim to add debates to their list of
campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and answers to
tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to
the hoodwinking of the American public.
However, the CPD wasn't the only institution trying to control what the
American people saw and heard today. Weeks previously, Wake Forest
University put into place seemingly every possible inconvenience it could
as a disincentive to demonstrate. On private property, apparently the first
amendment is solely for sale.
Those interested in demonstrating were informed that they must be
affiliated with a group that would need to pay a fee for a permit. Group
participants would then be required to wear bracelets identifying the group
with which they were affiliated and not allowed to mingle with other groups
or stray from the designated demonstration area. The area a so-called
protest pit was a small, fenced-in animal pen, located far away from the
debate site. Further, if Wake Forest officials disagreed with any message
on demonstrators signs, the school reserved the right to promptly eject the
offending person(s) from the campus.
With the exception of a gaggle of Libertarian party members and Hare
Krishnas who found this patronizing, self-abasement agreeable, the hundreds
who thronged into Winston-Salem had no intention of honoring these free
speech constrictions. The University s actions only seemed to reinforce the
activists convictions.
At a panel discussion before the rally and march, Workers World Party
candidate for president, Monica Moorehead commented, The US will spend
close to $200 million dollars on opposition parties in Yugoslavia with the
purpose of recolonizing Yugoslavia and the Balkans. But it won t allow any
opposition party in this country. The US is praising anti-Milosevic
protests, but when it comes to demonstrations in Philadelphia, Seattle, DC,
and Prague against the forces of globalization we are beaten, arrested, and
we are vilified.
Bolstered by a cavalcade of giant Art and Revolution puppets that had
traveled from the Boston debate protests, the demonstration was a bold
flurry of color and statements of both naked condemnation and good humor.
At one point, a spokesperson for the Black Bloc claimed that the affinity
group would renounce property destruction and meet the corporate-sponsored
candidates on their own turf, and challenged Bush/Gore to a golf tournament.
Undaunted by police threats to respond aggressively to acts of civil
disobedience, the procession confronted the small army of riot police by
marching right up to the police line, sitting down, then demonstrating what
democracy looks like. Before those gathered politely dispersed, protesters
broke up into small groups to discuss what measures citizens could take to
restore democracy in the US. After a little while, a representative from
each group spoke to the crowd to share their conclusions.
Despite a terrifying state arsenal of tear gas, pepper spray, and an exotic
array of high-tech, rubber bullet guns at the ready to prevent
non-students/ticket holders from entering the campus, protesters seemed to
have a good time. Having traveled from throughout North Carolina and
beyond, many present expressed their extreme satisfaction with what they
considered to be an impressive and diverse turnout for what is normally
considered to be a quiet corner of the country for political dissent.
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Cold War Warriors Turn Circus Performers
The Ottawa Citizen, October 7, 2000
By Richard C. Paddock
SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine -- Mack, Vakh and Diana were once among the elite of
the Soviet navy. They were trained to locate underwater mines, detect enemy
frogmen and, according to some, kill without warning.
That was a decade ago, and the country they served no longer exists. Today,
they still live at the Kazachya Bay Naval Base on the Black Sea, but they
have a new job: helping cure children of their nightmares, phobias and
bed-wetting.
Call it military conversion, Ukrainian-style.
The three former Cold War warriors -- or should we say cold water warriors
-- were members of a select corps of 70 bottlenose dolphins lavished with
unlimited funds by the Soviet Union in its quest to create the ultimate
aquatic weapon.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the demand for combat
dolphins evaporated. The poverty- stricken Ukrainian navy, which inherited
the former Soviet naval base and more than two dozen dolphins stationed
there, was hard-pressed to find ways to maintain its highly trained assets.
And so it went into business.
Kazachya Bay used to be a top-secret base closed to all outsiders. Now, for
$10 U.S. a session, children can swim with Mack, Vakh or Diana in a
treatment program the navy says can cure a wide range of ailments.
In a nearby indoor pool once used for dolphin training, navy researchers
run circus shows for paying tourists. At the end of each show, the trainers
auction off pictures painted by the dolphins, for the equivalent of a few
dollars. The money, they say, buys fish to feed the animals.
Other dolphins and their former military trainers are dispatched under
contract to perform in aquatic shows in such places as Cyprus, Saudi
Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Russia and other parts of Ukraine.
''At Kazachya Bay, the people are the same. The dolphins are the same. The
facility is the same. Only the bookkeeping is different,'' says Igor
Borovichenko, a dolphin trainer who has worked in the naval program for 20
years, most recently in circus shows.
Many of the activities at the base are shrouded in secrecy, and the
distinction between military and civilian is fuzzy. All the administrators
at the base are naval officers, and the navy maintains control over the
animals.
Some harbour hope the military program will someday be revived.
The tricks the dolphins perform in aquatic shows are simpler than the
military manoeuvres they were taught, but many of the moves are rooted in
the same behaviour. For a dolphin, touching a paintbrush to paper is not
much different from attaching an explosive device to the hull of a ship.
Naval researchers say it would take only six months to bring the dolphins
back to top form.
The navy's success in training dolphins for military purposes once
symbolized Soviet might and helped boost national pride, much like the Mir
space station and the Soviet fleet of nuclear submarines.
But in practical terms, the dolphins were an expensive specialty squad used
primarily for retrieving objects from the sea floor and guarding the bay
outside their own base.
Today, with Ukraine in desperate straits, the dolphins must pay their way.
''We are trying to live in accordance with our means and tailor our demands
to what we actually make here,'' says Commodore Valery Vakar, deputy
director of the sea mammal training centre.
''Everything revolves around money.''
For now, the big moneymaker is treating children and adults for all manner
of ailments.
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NRLB Ruling on Temps Could Shake Up Silicon Valley
by Raj Jayadev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A landmark National Relations Labor Board ruling could shake up Silicon
Valley -- if organized labor can seize the opportunity. So far, unions
have barely noticed the workers affected by the NLRB move.
Under the new ruling, temp workers at a business can join the union
representing the company's permanent employees without prior consent
from the employment agency which actually employs the temps. This breaks
a precedent set 27 years ago.
The ruling breaks carries particular weight in Silicon Valley, because
the "high-tech" employs more temporary workers than almost any other
sector of the economy.
Nancy Shiffer, of the AFL-CIO legal department, says the NLRB ruling
"opens the doors for temps to have the same protections as regular
employees. Before as a practical manner, they couldn't organize under
federal labor law."
William Goulde, former head of the NRLB, also sees the ruling as "a
great opportunity to organize temps." Acounts suggesting the
ruling will have only limited effect, he says, are incorrect. "It has
complete applicability, even at places without a pre-existing union."
In Silicon Valley, 32,000 people in a workforce of 800,000 are employed
through temp agencies.
With 250 temp agencies in Santa Clara County (the center of Silicon
Valley), the rate of temporary employment is three times the national
average. Organized labor, on the other hand, has witnessed a steady
decline, with only 10 percent of the labor force in the Valley belonging
to unions.
In the electronics industry, low-wage blue-collar workers are among the
most likely to work through temp agencies and least likely to belong to
a union. The approximately 7,000 "electronic assemblers" in Santa Clara
County work mostly in low-wage production line jobs that involve
manufacturING and assembly of standard computer parts.
Most are hired through temp agencies, which offer no health benefits or
job security, and offer an average pay of $7.00 an hour.
Since routine assembly and manufacturing are not commonly thought of as
part of the digital workforce, these workers have been excluded from
discussions of organizing in the "new economy." Indeed, there is so
little awareness of low-wage temporary workers that their exact number
is unknown.
"That's the number we are all looking for," said Van Harris, policy
director at the South Bay Labor Council, a coalition of over 110 unions
in the Valley. He blames the high level of job-shifting in the industry.
But Ruben Barrelas, head of Joint Ventures, a leading research firm,
says, "Nobody categorizes jobs like that in the Valley. If it was a sexy
kind of topic--like the number of dot-coms-- people would know."
The NLRB ruling itself came as a result of unions' efforts to build stay
alive in the flexible new economy -- efforts directed mostly at office
and highly-trained employees.
For example, the Communication Workers of America (CWA) now represents
"perm-a-temp" programmers at Microsoft and Amazon.com in the state of
Washington, and are trying to organize IBM office employees as well.
In the Silicon Valley, organized labor has put tremendous resources and
energy into the problems of moving into the white collar side of
computer technology.
Here the CWA has launched a "Network Professionals" training project
which gives participants -- all trained professionals -- networking
certification from Cisco Systems at a heavily discounted price if they
join the union. The program offers job placement at major Valley
companies upon completion.
Going even further, the South Bay Labor Council, among the country'S
most vocal advocates for temporary workers, has set up its own nonprofit
temporary agency called Solutions at Work, which offers union wages and
a portable benefits program.
However, this program, too, focuses mainly on office and clerical
employees rather than manufacturing and "low-skilled" assembly workers
-- again, because they are not considered to be part of the new
high-tech economy.
The distance between organized labor and the Valley's hidden workforce
is entrenched. Indeed, no union has held a significant presence in the
blue-collar side of high-tech for the last 20 years; Lost somewhere
between the old and new economy, this unseen workforce has consistently
been brushed aside by organized labor.
The Labor Council's Harris says this is changing. "We are trying to
start to go after some light-assembly in our temp program, we're about
80/20 (office vs. assembly) participation now," he says.
This sort of expansion could be the chance labor has been hoping for as
union participation declines.
Harris feels the organizing moment has come. The NLRB decision now says
temps can vote in certification elections and join the union.
"Even without a traditional organizing base, as a workforce they will be
looking to the union as the entity that fights for rights in the
workplace".
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Trafficking in human flesh
<http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/10/16/trafficking/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=662>
A landmark act passed by the Senate last week would increase
protection for slaves forced into prostitution. By Stephen Lemons
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Married ... With Email
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,39143,00.html?tw=wn20001016>
Living and working apart can be a strain on couples, but marriage
counselors say modern technology -- particularly the ability to
communicate regularly through email -- can strengthen relationships.
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