July 9, 2001 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleagues, As you know, The Narco News Bulletin temporarily suspended publication of new reports last month in order to dedicate our full-time effort to the upcoming Court hearing in New York City, July 20th (details of that important date, to which you are invited, appear below.) We remain busy with our legal deadlines to file briefs this week and appear in Court on the 20th. However, during this time we have continued to recieve hundreds of requests for information, interviews and questions about the drug war in Latin America, as well as about these important legal proceedings. In order to facilitate communication, and comment on current events throughout our América, we have accepted an invitation from the citizens who populate the New York Times Drug Policy Forum to answer all your questions tomorrow: Tuesday evening, July 10th, at 8 p.m. Eastern Time New York Times Drug Policy Forum: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^0@.f0c5fae (Note: To view or participate in this citizen-journalist press conference, you must register - it's still free - with the NY Times.) Our participation in this forum does not constitute an endorsement of The New York Times nor of the veracity of its reports from Latin America; to the contrary, we will not refrain from criticizing that disgraced institution in its own forum or anywhere. Of the eight Narco News Bulletin commentaries for which we are being sued by the National Bank of Mexico ("Banamex") in the New York Supreme Court, 3 of those 8 commentaries were critiques of the unprofessional behavior of (now ex) New York Times correspondents in Mexico. So, we go Tuesday night to the belly of the beast, and invite even that institution's agents to join the discussion, which is open to all. Please join us Tuesday night, July 10th, at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, as we show the New York Times a thing or two about authentic citizen journalism, and discuss the reality of the US-imposed war on drugs in Latin America: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^0@.f0c5fae Special thanks to Dean Becker and the Drug Policy Forum of Texas for graciously extending to us this invitation. >From somewhere in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher-On-Leave Full-time Free Speech Defendant The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our Upcoming Court hearing is also Open to the Public: Friday, July 20, 2001 9:30 a.m. New York State Supreme Court 71 Thomas Street, Room 205 Manhattan, New York Justice Paula Omansky, presiding _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
