> WW News Service Digest #110
>
> 1) WWP: 'U.S. Navy out of Vieques'
> by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2) Leftbooks.com is expanding
> by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 3) 'Dr. Laura' spikes a fever of protests
> by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 4) Boston labor, community fight anti-gay firings
> by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 5) Campaign to free Leonard Peltier
> by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 6) Racist lynchings in Texas & Arizona
> by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 7) Hague tribunal denounced for exonerating NATO war criminals
> by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the June 15, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
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>
> WWP MESSAGE: `U.S. NAVY OUT OF VIEQUES'
>
>On June 11, thousands of Puerto Rican people from the Big
>Island, from Vieques, and from states in the Northeast will
>converge on New York City in what has been dubbed the
>biggest rally ever against the U.S. Navy presence in
>Vieques. This year's Puerto Rican Day Parade has been
>dedicated to Puerto Rican Nationalist hero Albizu Campos
>and to Vieques.
>
>Workers World Party joins in the celebration of one full
>year in which the bombings of Vieques were suspended, and
>offers unconditional solidarity to the people of Puerto
>Rico in their courageous quest to oust the U.S. Navy from
>the tiny island.
>
>We condemn Clinton's Presidential Directive aimed at
>renewing U.S. military exercises in Vieques against the
>wishes of its people. This act of utmost imperialist
>arrogance goes against every international law on self-
>determination. It is designed to be an action hostile to
>the people of Vieques, to Puerto Rico and to all the
>peoples of the world who stand for peace and self-
>determination against imperialism.
>
>The United States has waged war against every poor country
>in the world, either directly with live ammunition through
>the Pentagon or indirectly with blockades, sanctions and
>Wall Street's economic strangulation.
>
>It has also declared a war against the poor and the
>oppressed at home. Even as the U.S. economy has soared,
>aided by trade pacts that secure the penetration of foreign
>markets to the detriment of those countries, the gap
>between rich and poor here has grown ever wider.
>
>The wealth created and accumulated by the ruling class
>over centuries, first by slavery and the theft of land and
>then by the exploitation of workers in the industrial era,
>has not reached the majority of the population. In a
>country where the richest 10 percent of the people own 73
>percent of all the wealth, according to AFL-CIO figures,
>many children survive thanks to soup kitchens. A whole
>industry has been created to maintain 2 million people
>behind bars, mostly African Americans, Latinos and Native
>people, overwhelmingly the poor.
>
>But the challenge to this system is growing. High
>technology has also created a new layer of workers--more
>oppressed nationalities, more women--who survive on very
>low wages, sometimes with no benefits. These are people who
>have "nothing to lose but their chains." Their
>revolutionary potential holds out the promise of a better
>world, a socialist society that will bring peace and
>economic justice.
>
>The struggle of Vieques is not only the struggle of the
>Puerto Rican people. As Albizu Campos said in 1926: "Our
>painful situation under U.S. imperialism is the situation
>that the U.S. is trying to impose on all the other sister
>nations in the continent. Our cause is a continental
>cause."
>
>It is no accident that this parade, an act of national
>pride and a challenge to the U.S. military, happens in New
>York City. More than a century ago revolutionaries from
>Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly from Cuba and
>Puerto Rico, lived and struggled together in this city for
>the liberation of their countries.
>
>In a letter dated May 18, 1895, Cuban hero Jos� Mart�
>wrote: "It is my duty--inasmuch as I realize it and have
>the spirit to fulfill it--to prevent, by the independence
>of Cuba, the United States from spreading over the West
>Indies and falling, with that added weight, upon other
>lands of our America. All I have done up to now, and shall
>do hereafter, is to that end. I have lived inside the
>monster and know its entrails--and my weapon is only the
>slingshot of David."
>
>U.S. Navy out of Vieques now! Pentagon out of Puerto Rico!
>Viva Puerto Rico libre!
>
> - END -
>
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>Message-ID: <029d01bfd3b2$84f74420$0a00a8c0@home>
>From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [WW] Leftbooks.com is expanding
>Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 10:37:07 -0400
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>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the June 15, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
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>KNOWLEDGE IS POWER:
>LEFTBOOKS.COM ADDS EXCITING NEW TITLES
>
>Special to Workers World
>
>Leftbooks.com, a growing source for progressive books and
>videos, has added 16 new titles.
>
>"Some of these books will never make it to your local
>bookstore," said Deirdre Sinnott, developer of the web
>site. "You can order them now at http://www.leftbooks.com .
>
>"It's our goal to do a lot of the searching and sorting
>work for people," she explained. "Because large bookstores
>select titles based solely on the bottom line--profit--many
>smaller publishers have been wiped out or marginalized.
>Political books and books about the revolutionary struggle
>hardly get the shelf space that a novel by super-patriot
>Tom Clancy might get."
>
>Sinnott said: "One of the most important and hard to find
>books is titled `FARC-EP Historical Outline.' It gives a
>historical account of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
>Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP), one of the main
>insurgencies in Colombia, from the civil war of 1948 to the
>present. It also includes political and programmatic
>documents that outline the FARC-EP's vision of a new
>Colombia, without exploiters or exploited."
>
>Also new on the list is "Censored 2000," a collection of
>this year's 25 top censored or underreported news stories.
>"If you want to find out what stories didn't make the
>nightly news or the newspapers this is an important book to
>see," Sinnott said.
>
>Leftbooks.com has also added books about Latin America and
>the Caribbean--an area of vital interest for both new
>activists and long-time organizers. There are new titles on
>Cuba, like "Washington on Trial: The People of Cuba vs.
>U.S. Government," or the classic reference text no Cuba
>activist should be without, "Cuba and the United States: a
>Chronological History."
>
>Newly released is "The Jos� Mart� Reader: Writings on the
>Americas." It's an outstanding new anthology of the
>writings, poetry and letters of Jos� Mart�--one of the most
>brilliant and impassioned Latin American intellectuals of
>the 19th century.
>
>Also added is the inspirational memoir "I Was Never Alone:
>A Prison Diary from El Salvador." Guerrilla Commander Nidia
>D�az tells the story of her 190-day prison ordeal. And
>copies of "Che in Africa: Che Guevara's Congo Diary" are
>in.
>
>"We have also added former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand
>Aristide's new book `Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for
>the Poor in the Age of Globalization,'" Sinnott said. "And
>the 1998 book by John Ross, `The Annexation of Mexico: From
>the Aztecs to the I.M.F.'"
>
>Also available is "The Roots of Lesbian & Gay Oppression:
>A Marxist View." This groundbreaking book was originally
>published as a pamphlet in 1976, during the first flush of
>the young gay liberation movement. Its unparalleled
>achievement is its historical analysis of when, where, why
>and how lesbian and gay oppression developed.
>
>"Read Che Guevara's police dossier in `Che and the FBI,'
>`ZR Rifle: The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro,' or `Deadly
>Deceits' about Ralph McGehee's 25 years in the CIA if you
>want to know the truth about what actions the U.S.
>government carries out in your name," stressed Sinnott.
>
>"You may have a copy of some classic anti-imperialist
>books like `Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA
>Interventions Since World War II.' But you also may know
>someone who is about to join the military who needs this
>kind of information right away.
>
>"Knowledge is power and we at leftbooks.com want to get
>the power into the hands of the people," Sinnott concluded.
>
> - END -
>
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>Message-ID: <02a301bfd3b2$9b639f60$0a00a8c0@home>
>From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [WW] 'Dr. Laura' spikes a fever of protests
>Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 10:37:44 -0400
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>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the June 15, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
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>
>HOMOPHOBIC SNAKE OIL:
>"DR. LAURA" SPIKES A FEVER OF PROTESTS
>
>By Gery Armsby
>
>Providence, R.I., and Boston. New York and Washington.
>Orlando, Fla, and Atlanta. Cincinnati, Ohio, and Chicago.
>Dallas and St. Louis. Tucson, Ariz., and Denver. Seattle,
>San Francisco and Los Angeles. All over the country--and
>all over cyberspace, too.
>
>That's where you'll find lesbian, gay, bi, and trans
>activists and their straight allies mobilizing to keep "Dr.
>Laura" Schlessinger's bigoted rhetoric off the television
>airwaves.
>
>Many women and gay people have disdained Schlessinger's
>pop-psychology radio talk show for years, with her frequent
>references to gays as "biological errors" and her
>antagonism to working, single and poor mothers.
>
>But when Paramount Television announced it would schedule
>a national TV show featuring Schlessinger, a grassroots
>movement sprang up to demand that the show be cancelled
>before it even airs.
>
>One of the first demonstrations was held in March at
>Paramount Studios in Hollywood. It drew hundreds. An April
>15 protest in Chicago and one in San Francisco May 7 each
>drew about 100 people.
>
>The momentum has been building at subsequent rallies,
>bringing fired-up crowds.
>
>A May 24 protest in downtown Boston began at rush hour
>with activists passing out leaflets to commuters and
>shoppers. By 6 p.m. a crowd of nearly 400 had gathered for
>a rally.
>
>Speakers included organizer Stacey Montgomery and Wanbo
>Woo of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
>Representatives from Parents and Friends of Lesbians and
>Gays and the Fenway Health Community Center also addressed
>the demonstration.
>
>Protesters chanted, "Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Dr. Laura's got to
>go!" and, "2-4-6-8, Channel 5, stop the hate!" WCVB Channel
>5 has a contract with Paramount to broadcast Schlessinger's
>show this fall.
>
>`THEY ARE FEELING THE PRESSURE'
>
>Workers World spoke with Montgomery, a transsexual woman
>and member of the Boston Lesbian Avengers. Asked whether
>the ABC-TV affiliate was likely to pull Schlessinger's show
>off the lineup, Montgomery said, "We're not sure exactly
>where they stand right now, but one thing is for certain--
>they are definitely feeling the pressure from us."
>
>Montgomery said the Lesbian Avengers will take the message
>"Stop Dr. Laura" to the streets again at their annual Dyke
>March June 9.
>
>A New York speak-out against Schlessinger was held June 5
>outside WCBS-TV. The action was sponsored by a coalition
>including the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
>Discrimination, Empire State Pride Agenda, National
>Organization of Women-New York, Gay Men of African Descent
>and People of Color in Crisis.
>
>In answer to those arguing in favor of Schlessinger's
>"free speech" rights, speakers pointed out that nobody has
>a First Amendment right to a national television program.
>Even less should anyone have the right to promote
>oppressive and reactionary lies about women and gays, as
>Schlessinger does.
>
>Activists have launched a Web site--www.stopdrlaura.com--
>to distribute up-to-date information and materials to
>organizers working to keep Schlessinger off TV and get her
>off the radio.
>
>Five national groups, including NOW and GLAAD, ran full-
>page ads in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times May 24
>urging advertisers not to buy ad time during Schlessinger's
>shows.
>
>In May Procter & Gamble canceled its commercials during
>Schlessinger's upcoming TV show and the current radio
>program. Lesbian, gay, bi, trans and straight P&G employees
>had demanded it.
>
> - END -
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>Message-ID: <02a901bfd3b2$b0b42a60$0a00a8c0@home>
>From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [WW] Boston labor, community fight anti-gay firings
>Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 10:38:20 -0400
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>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the June 15, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
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>
>BOSTON: LABOR, COMMUNITY FIGHT ANTI-GAY FIRINGS
>
>By Imani Henry
>
>On June 1, some 150 lesbian, gay, bi and trans activists
>and union members picketed the Massachusetts Department of
>Education headquarters in Malden, Mass. Service Employees
>Local 509 called the demonstration to protest the May 19
>firing of HIV/AIDS educator Margot Abels and the forced
>resignation of Julie Netherland by Education Commissioner
>David Driscoll. Abels, a member of Local 509, was fired
>without the due process guaranteed by her union contract.
>
>Members of other unions, including the Teachers and
>Government Employees, along with members of the Service
>Employees Lavender Caucus and Pride At Work came out to
>show support.
>
>The two workers were fired after an anti-gay group aired
>an audio tape made during a youth workshop on lesbian, gay,
>bi and trans sexuality at the "Teach Out 2000" conference.
>
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