>Chae Gyn Hoo added, "Now we are able to express our grief.
>Please give your effort so these atrocities will not happen
>again."
>
>The Executive Director of the NADRK in Chaegu Province
>explained how in May 1960, a military coup had been
>triggered by efforts to find the truth about U.S.
>involvement in these massacres. "The Korean people suspect
>that the U.S. government supported the Pak Chung Hee coup
>so U.S. atrocities during the war would not be revealed,"
>he charged.
>
>Chae Sim Ho of the Investigations Committee, who
>introduced himself as also a reporter for the local paper,
>said "We have investigated these massacres since 1994, but
>couldn't get it printed until last year."
>
>Chae told the guests that the next morning they would
>visit an old cobalt mine where at least 3,000 political
>prisoners had been shot, their bodies dumped down the mine
>shafts.
>
>Next: The cobalt mine at Kyengsan
>
> - END -
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>Subject: [WW] Protest hits Ft. Benning, Ga.
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:21:42 -0400
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>PROTEST HITS FT. BENNING, GA.:
>DIFFERENT NAME, SAME PENTAGON TERROR
>
>By Gery Armsby
>
>Police detained 13 protesters after a May 24 demonstration
>at Ft. Benning, Ga.--home to the School of the Americas.
>Activists had assembled and unfurled a banner listing
>atrocities carried out by graduates of the SOA, also known
>as "School of Assassins" to many in the progressive
>movement.
>
>The May 24 protest was part of a "national day of
>resistance" called in response to the May 19 congressional
>vote that fell short of closing down the infamous school.
>
>Although years of protest against the SOA have garnered
>widespread attention, recent attempts to pass legislation
>that would close it down were defeated in a closed Senate
>committee. Instead, the House voted to keep the school open
>with a different name: Defense Institute for Hemispheric
>Security Cooperation."
>
>Also, if the measure passes in the Senate, oversight of
>the SOA will pass from the Army to the Defense Department.
>
>"We are not fooled," said Martha Boldoni, one of the May
>24 protesters at Ft. Benning. "The SOA has a new name, but
>the same shame."
>
>It has been well documented that "combat trainees" from
>Latin American countries are routinely schooled in bribery,
>torture and other counterinsurgency tactics under the
>tutelage of U.S. military personnel at the SOA.
>
>Groups like Human Rights Watch have compiled reports
>detailing collaboration between the military here and SOA-
>trained paramilitary death squads in Colombia. Documents
>released in 1996 by the Pentagon also show how manuals
>developed and used at the SOA to train military and police
>officers from Latin America advocated strategies that
>included false imprisonment, "payment of bounties for enemy
>dead" and execution.
>
>What has the SOA meant for the people's movements of the
>Latin American countries?
>
>It has brought the Pentagon's latest technology and
>tactical support to anti-communist, pro-capitalist
>governments and paramilitaries throughout Central and South
>America. And this has eclipsed the sovereignty of many
>countries and resulted in enormous casualties for the
>popular and Indigenous peoples' movements of Mexico,
>Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and others over the last
>54 years.
>
>In response to the increasing state-sponsored violence in
>Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-
>EP) issued a 1998 statement addressed to progressive people
>in the United States. The statement pointed out that the
>Colombian military is "trained in the practice of death at
>the School of the Americas. They are taught the Theory of
>National Security, whereby all those who have the courage
>to call for justice ... are indiscriminately killed,
>tortured and disappeared.
>
>"The result is that today in Colombia, more than 30,000
>Colombians die each year; victims of the criminalization of
>social protest."
>
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>Subject: [WW] Socialist campaign takes off in Ohio
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:22:22 -0400
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>MOOREHEAD-LA RIVA 2000:
>SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN TAKES OFF IN OHIO
>
>By Workers World Cleveland bureau
>
>In 1996, Worker World Party's presidential and vice-
>presidential candidates received 29,000 votes nationwide.
>Nearly half of these pro-socialist votes were cast in Ohio.
>This election year, Ohio is once more a key state as
>Workers World Party again seeks ballot status in as many
>states as possible.
>
>"We launched our petition drive three weeks ago, and
>already we have over 800 signatures," says Ohio campaign
>coordinator Martha Grevatt.
>
>"You really get all kinds of responses. Sometimes a man
>will put his arm around a woman and say, `We're voting for
>Bush.' Once in a while a man will say that women belong at
>home. But by and large, the response is overwhelmingly
>positive, when people see who we are running."
>
>"Not your average candidates," reads a campaign brochure.
>"Workers. Women of color. Socialists. Union members."
>That's Monica Moorehead and Gloria La Riva, WWP's 2000
>candidates for president and vice president.
>
>"Elections don't change things. A working-class movement
>fighting in its own name does." Not your average election-
>year message, either.
>
>The Ohio campaign staff has petitioned in many different
>places, from neighborhood supermarkets to street festivals
>to college campuses. Students at Kent State University were
>particularly receptive. Many of them had just heard the
>voice of Mumia Abu-Jamal during the 30th anniversary
>commemoration of the May 4 killings.
>
>Those most willing to sign are women, especially women of
>color. But white men are also signing, some specifically
>because they see it as an anti-racist campaign.
>
>"While many white workers are still backward, there is a
>genuine anti-racist current developing in the working
>class, no doubt a reflection of its changing composition,"
>stated Grevatt. "This socialist campaign comes at a most
>opportune moment, when more workers than ever are alienated
>by the so-called two-party system."
>
>Another reason people are signing is the candidates'
>position in solidarity with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and
>transgender community. While petitioning at a small,
>working-class community college in the suburbs, a campaign
>supporter approached members of the Gay-Straight Alliance.
>She was spontaneously invited to speak at the group's
>meeting that day, and everyone at the meeting signed the
>petition.
>
>Despite the positive response, getting on the ballot will
>be no easy task. Readers who wish to help with petitioning
>should get in touch with the Workers World Party national
>office.
>
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>Subject: [WW] SEIU for new trial for Mumia
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:23:07 -0400
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>
>HISTORIC LABOR SOLIDARITY: SERVICE EMPLOYEES DEMAND A NEW
>TRIAL FOR MUMIA
>
>By Greg Butterfield
>
>On May 21, delegates to the annual convention of the
>Service Employees union voted unanimously to support a
>moratorium on executions and demand a new trial for Mumia
>Abu-Jamal.
>
>It was an historic decision and one that bodes well for
>uniting labor's struggle with the fight against racism. Up
>to now the big national unions and the AFL-CIO have held
>back from joining Abu-Jamal's struggle.
>
>Remarkably, the 1,100 Service Employees delegates were
>meeting in Pittsburgh, in the state that holds Abu-Jamal on
>death row and seeks his execution. The former Black Panther
>and radical journalist from Philadelphia was framed for the
>1981 shooting of a white cop, supporters assert.
>
>Abu-Jamal is a member of the Auto Workers Local 1981, the
>National Writers Union. From death row he has been an
>outspoken defender of the labor movement, extending
>solidarity to dock workers in Liverpool, England, and to
>locked-out ABC-TV employees in this country.
>
>The Service Employees union represents over 1.3 million
>workers, many of them concentrated in low-paying jobs as
>janitors, nursing-home workers and home-health aides. It
>has been one of the most vigorous unions in organizing
>women, people of color and immigrants.
>
>In April the union's militant "Justice for Janitors"
>campaign led a strike of 8,500 mostly Latino workers in Los
>Angeles fighting poverty wages at commercial buildings. The
>three-week strike, which had strong support from other
>unions and the public, won a settlement that pushed back
>the bosses nationwide.
>
>Two affiliates--1199 Health & Human Services Employees in
>New York and California Public Employees Local 1000--have
>long been active in the Free Mumia movement.
>
>With its largely African American, Carib bean, Latino and
>immigrant membership, it's right and just that SEIU has
>embraced Abu-Jamal's cause and the anti-death-penalty
>movement. These workers' communities are the ones most
>deeply effected by racist police terror, state-sponsored
>executions and the monstrous expansion of the prison
>system.
>
>In backing Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new trial, the Service
>Employees join other unions worldwide that collectively
>represent over 4.5 million workers, including the Congress
>of South African Trade Unions, French General Confederation
>of Workers, United Farm Workers and International Longshore
>and Warehouse Union.
>
>Hopefully the Service Employees' vote signals more support
>to come from large unions in this country.
>
>This important detachment of the organized working class
>has endorsed Abu-Jamal's struggle at the very moment when
>the unity of the capitalist bosses to uphold the death
>penalty is splintering. Mass actions like the May 7 rally
>at Madison Square Garden and the May 13 international day
>of protest have helped make the death penalty a hot issue.
>
>The union vote is testimony to what Abu-Jamal wrote about
>the movement in a May 17 letter to the organizers of the
>Madison Square Garden Day for Mumia: "We really are growing
>and broadening. We need to deepen it, for the battles and
>wars to come."
>
>The letter, addressed to rally coordinator Monica
>Moorehead of Millions for Mumia/International Action
>Center, said: "I just wanted to thank you and your comrades
>for your hard work in bringing together the event for the
>7th of May in Madison Square Garden. The corporationist
>media did its usual whitewash, of course, but from every
>indication that I've heard, it was `da bomb!'"
>
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