>
>-------------------------
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>Reprinted from the May 18, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
>-------------------------
>
>MORE OBSTACLES AHEAD BEFORE ELIAN CAN GO HOME?
>
>By Gloria La Riva
>
>Activists struggling for the rightful return of Elian
>Gonzalez and his family to Cuba are calling on supporters
>to be ready to mobilize to defend the family's right to
>return home.
>
>Leaders of the movement to return the child to his
>homeland warn that the government could even try to
>separate Elian from his father and other family members if
>the federal court rules against Juan Miguel Gonzalez.
>
>Although real justice would make such a possibility
>unlikely, Attorney General Janet Reno herself admitted that
>she would be willing to separate Elian and return him to
>Miami if a court so ruled.
>
>This was the point Cuban President Fidel Castro drove home
>in his speech to the May 1 International Workers' Day rally
>in Havana when he said: "The danger that this court will
>decide that the child has a right to asylum is real.
>
>"What guarantee does the father now have that the reunion
>with his son will be final? None!"
>
>In his speech, Castro related a meeting of 11 U.S.
>senators and Reno, reported in the Miami-based Nuevo Herald
>on April 26.
>
>Castro noted, "When she was asked what would happen if the
>Atlanta Court of Appeals or any other court decided that
>the child should be granted asylum, the attorney general
>answered, `Then I believe we will have to send him back to
>Miami.'"
>
>The Cuban president continued, "Nobody could guess the
>reaction of the international public and the public in the
>United States itself if Eli n were torn away from Juan
>Miguel and sent back to the living hell of the Gonz lez
>home now that they have seen everything that was done to
>the child in Miami and witnessed the moving images of the
>father and son's reunion."
>
>The immediate obstacle to Eli n's return is a motion filed
>in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta by Eli n's
>former captors urging "asylum" for the 6 year old. The
>court already ordered Eli n to be held in the United States
>until the court appeal is resolved. Oral arguments are
>scheduled to be heard on May 11.
>
>There has been widespread condemnation of the appeal since
>many believe that a 6-year-old is not mature enough to
>understand what asylum is, much less sign a document. Eli n
>does not read or speak English.
>
>Yet the Atlanta court's preliminary three-judge panel
>dared to give it credence, and later denied Juan Miguel
>Gonzalez' request to be recognized as Eli n's sole
>representative. These are signs that the panel could
>possibly rule that Eli n be granted "asylum."
>
>And even if the judges do not outright grant asylum in
>this ruling, they may continue to tie up the family in
>bureaucratic red tape that keeps them from returning to
>their country.
>
>As the date for a decision nears, activists from the
>National Committee to Return Eli n Home to His Father in
>Cuba warn that more maneuvers and delays by the Miami and
>government right wing could be used to prevent his rightful
>return home.
>
>"The overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. want
>Eli n, Juan Miguel, Nercy and Hianny to be able to return
>home to Cuba immediately," said Teresa Gutierrez of the
>National Committee to Return Eli n Home.
>
>"It's what the family wants. And to insist that they stay
>in the U.S. against their will is an insult to their
>dignity as Cubans."
>
> - END -
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>Subject: [WW] Haiti: Tensions and violence grow because of U.S. maneuvers
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:25:19 -0400
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>
>HAITI: TENSIONS AND VIOLENCE GROW BECAUSE OF U.S. MANEUVERS
>
>By G. Dunkel
>
>The United States has spent $3 billion in Haiti since
>1995. In this period the poorest country in the Western
>Hemisphere has slipped deeper into economic decay, violence
>and political instability. The world saw its desperate
>situation recently when some 300 Haitian boat people were
>discovered clinging to life on an uninhabited island in the
>Bahamas after their sailboat sank.
>
>The United States has spent the $3 billion controlling
>Haiti, not helping it.
>
>Some went for the military occupation of Haiti by the U.S.
>Army, euphemistically dubbed a United Nations force. Some
>was spent on building up a police force.
>
>The money was not put into productive projects to benefit
>the country.
>
>A chunk of the money was spent on registering people for
>elections.
>
>Washington claims to be building the structures for
>"democracy" in Haiti. When the people did have the
>opportunity to vote for a candidate of their choice in
>December 1990, they overwhelmingly elected Jean-Bertrand
>Aristide--to the surprise and consternation of the United
>States, which had pushed for its own World-Bank-connected
>candidate.
>
>Since then, there has been a right-wing coup against
>Aristide followed by a U.S. invasion, supposedly to restore
>him but really to protect the coup makers from the wrath of
>the people and hobble the forces behind Aristide.
>
>The U.S. State Department's Agency for International
>Development has been providing the financing to set up a
>new electoral system through its "private" subcontractor,
>the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
>However, the Haitian election board has had to repeatedly
>postpone parliamentary elections in good part because this
>new system has not registered a substantial proportion of
>the population.
>
>Now the United States, France and Canada have criticized
>the Haitian government as undemocratic. They are
>withholding aid. The Haitian government replies that it's
>not democratic to hold elections when 25 percent of the
>people--most of them poor--haven't been registered.
>
>If the parliamentary elections are postponed until
>November, it will be more difficult for the Haitian
>bourgeoisie and their imperialist masters to get a
>parliament that will hobble Aristide. He is running for
>president again and is widely expected to win.
>
>Another chunk of the $3 billion was spent on hiring cops
>from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other bastions of
>police brutality in the United States to build a new
>Haitian police force. Meanwhile, the FRAPH and Macoute
>death squads, responsible for about 5,000 killings during
>the coup years of 1991 to 1994, were not disarmed. These
>groups are known to have long-standing connections to the
>U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
>
>When U.S. troops invaded Haiti in September 1994, they
>seized 160,000 pages of documents and hundreds of
>videotapes that detail the crimes of the death squads. That
>material was sent to the United States to prevent its
>falling into the people's hands. The right-wing killers are
>still free to roam the streets of Haiti, still available to
>the highest bidder and to their U.S. controllers.
>
>Pentagon troops are also deployed on the Haiti-Dominican
>border. The progressive movements in both countries are
>apprehensive that the troops' role is to back up Dominican
>troops that could invade Haiti if the ruling classes feel
>political instability might give way to revolutionary mass
>action.
>
> - END -
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>From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [WW] The Love Bug
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:25:51 -0400
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>
>EDITORIAL: THE LOVE BUG
>
>The ILOVEYOU worm that spread through computer systems
>around the globe reveals monopoly capitalism's untenable
>contradictions.
>
>The Love Bug, as the media are now calling it, spreads
>by accessing email address books and then sending a copy
>of itself to every address in the book. Damage from the
>Love Bug and its variants are estimated at $5 billion,
>and could reach $10 billion before it is completely
>eradicated, according to the U.S. firm Computer
>Economics.
>
>What is almost never mentioned in the media reports is
>that the sole reason for the destructive power of the
>Love Bug is Microsoft's monopoly. Why are all the big
>media engaged in what is really a cover-up for Microsoft?
>
>While media reports leave the impression that all
>computer systems were vulnerable, only computer networks
>running Microsoft's Exchange software as the mail server
>and Microsoft Outlook as the user email program were able
>to spread the worm to other systems around the world. For
>example, organizations that use Outlook for email but use
>Linux mail servers may have had individual infections
>from incoming emails, but they could not spread the Love
>Bug to others.
>
>The Love Bug takes advantage of a "feature" that is only
>available on all-Microsoft systems.
>
>It is Microsoft's global domination that made the Love
>Bug possible.
>
>Microsoft has completely socialized computer systems
>worldwide. The chaos inherent in competition was reduced
>by the standards imposed by Microsoft. Many technological
>developments would have been impossible without the
>imposition of monopoly standards.
>
>But because of the private ownership of the means of
>production, there is a Microsoft dictatorship that leaves
>everyone vulnerable.
>
>Stratfor (www.stratfor.com)--an Internet-based
>"intelligence consulting firm" for U.S. businesses--
>pointed out Microsoft's imperialist role in a May 1
>report on "The Geopolitics of Microsoft":
>
>"Microsoft has helped spread American culture, the use
>of the English language as the new lingua franca and
>given the United States unparalleled dominance in
>computing around the world." The report concluded that it
>would be against U.S. business interests to break up
>Microsoft.
>
>That's not necessarily the conclusion of the biggest
>U.S. business interests--the military-industrial complex.
>The May 9 Wall Street Journal reported that Pentagon
>"think tanks" have emerged as primary proponents of
>"diversity in computer operating systems," saying that it
>is necessary just like biodiversity is necessary for the
>environment. That means breaking up Microsoft. Such
>diversity is the only way to prevent global disasters
>like the one created by the Love Bug.
>
>The fact is that Microsoft has already conquered world
>computer systems, and the new technologies introduced by
>the Internet have changed the playing field so that
>Microsoft cannot dominate as it has in the past.
>
>The new technologies will lead to new monopolies. The
>only way to break the dictatorship of monopolies like
>Microsoft is to break private capitalist ownership.
>Workers' control of the already-socialized systems is the
>only way to end this ruthless cycle of monopoly
>dictatorship.
>
> - END -
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>Subject: [WW] Put the war criminals in the dock
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:26:24 -0400
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>
>EDITORIAL: PUT THE WAR CRIMINALS IN THE DOCK
>
>The U.S. and NATO leaders thought they would get away with
>the war against Yugoslavia.
>
>They scraped through a 78-day war they had expected to win
>in three days. They planned and provoked the war. They
>bombed civilian targets. They used outlawed weapons. They
>forced the Yugoslav government to draw its army out of its
>own province, Kosovo.
>
>And they thought they were home free.
>
>Clinton, Albright, Gen. Wesley Clark, and their
>counterparts in Western Europe hoped they had heard the end
>of protests against their dirty war against Yugoslavia.
>
>But by last July, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey
>Clark and the International Action Center were charging
>U.S./NATO leaders with 19 counts of war crimes, crimes
>against peace and crimes against humanity.
>
>By October, tens of thousands of people protesting in
>Athens made it clear that Clinton was a war criminal and
>unwelcome.
>
>Others in 14 countries from Russia to Australia held
>popular tribunal hearings that called the NATO political
>and military leaders war criminals. These hearings showed
>that Washington had planned the war for 10 years. They
>showed that the "massacre" charges against the Belgrade
>government were lies.
>
>They showed that U.S. and German intelligence agencies
>built up the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army--a terrorist
>gang. They showed that the so-called Racak massacre was a
>provocation by U.S. agent William Walker and the KLA. They
>showed that the Rambouillet "Accord" was an ultimatum to
>Yugoslavia that no government could accept.
>
>Now these hearings are reaching a climax. In Rome and
>Berlin on June 2-3, and in New York on June 10, the
>International Tribunals on U.S./NATO War Crimes in
>Yugoslavia will take place. The tribunal will prove to the
>world and to history that these political and military
>leaders are indeed war criminals.
>
>The progressive movement in the United States should give
>its full support to this tribunal and make sure that the
>June 10 public hearing plays before a packed house.
>
> - END -
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>Subject: [WW] Sports superstars won't scab
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:26:53 -0400
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>issue of Workers World newspaper
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>
>TIGER WOODS, NORMAR GARCIAPARRA:
>SPORTS SUPERSTARS WON'T SCAB
>
>
>On May 2 golfing superstar Tiger Woods, who has a contract
>for $60 million for Nike advertising over the next five
>years, refused to cross a Screen Actors Guild picket line
>to shoot a commercial.
>
>SAG members are striking to demand a "pay-per-play"
>formula for TV commercials made for cable like those
>currently shown on broadcast networks. The actors get a
>residual payment each time a commercial is played on a
>broadcast network. Currently they only get a fixed one-time
>fee for cable commercials.
>
>Actors' fees make up only a small percentage of the total
>costs of producing a commercial. Yet the advertisers are
>trying to squeeze the actors even harder by extending the
>flat fee from cable to the networks.
>
>Commenting on Woods' action, SAG spokesperson Greg Krizman
>said, "We deeply appreciate the support of this
>international superstar."
>
>Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra demonstrated
>that he was a team player, too. On May 4 he canceled a
>Dunkin' Donuts commercial shoot scheduled at Fenway Park in
>Boston.
>
>Garciaparra said of the actors: "That's their living.
>You've got to respect that."
>
>SAG President William Daniels said that Garciaparra "hit a
>home fun for us, and that's what we're seeing from all of
>our members."
>
>--John Catalinotto
>
> - END -
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