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Keith
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From: heikki sipil� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 4:12 AM
Subject: wwnews Digest #119
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>>strawberry workers their right to genuine union
>>representation.
>>
>>In this hostile climate, the boss-supported "Farm Workers
>>Committee" won a contested election last year. The Farm
>>Workers promptly filed over 200 objections, initiating a
>>lengthy hearing process. The union withdrew its objections
>>on May 3, a day before the labor board's decision. Union
>>leaders said they made this decision so bargaining could
>>move forward, and to avoid a long and bitter fight.
>>
>> "Now our only objective is seeing strawberry pickers work
>>to produce genuine improvements in their lives through
>>union contracts," said Farm Workers President Arturo
>>Rodriguez.
>>
>>The company union represents more workers. But the Farm
>>Workers union now represents pickers in Coastal Berry's
>>fastest-growing operation, along with another 40 workers at
>>Swanson Berry Farms, California's largest organic
>>strawberry farm. This constitutes a hard-won foothold for
>>the Farm Workers, given the vicious campaign the bosses
>>have waged against the union.
>>
>>
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>>From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: [WW] NYPD blues: Springsteen vs. cop racism
>>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:17:46 -0400
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>>Via Workers World News Service
>>Reprinted from the June 29, 2000
>>issue of Workers World newspaper
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>>
>>NYPD BLUES: SPRINGSTEEN VS. COP RACISM
>>
>>By John Catalinotto
>>New York
>>
>>The U.S. Commission on Human Rights has charged the New
>>York Police Department with using "racial profiling" to
>>stop and question people. According to a report issued June
>>16 by an advisory panel of the USCHR, this tactic is a
>>factor in racial tensions that can lead to "tragic and
>>unnecessary" incidents like the February 1998 shooting of
>>Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo in the Bronx.
>>
>>President Bill Clinton was forced to appoint the panel
>>after mass protests and civil disobedience shook New York
>>in the wake of Diallo's death.
>>
>>While the panel was making it findings public, the NYPD
>>was expressing outrage over a new Bruce Springsteen song
>>aired at an Atlanta concert for the first time on June 4.
>>The song is subtitled "41 shots"--obviously about the
>>shooting of Diallo, although it doesn't mention him by
>>name.
>>
>>A jury in Albany, N.Y., earlier this year acquitted the
>>four cops who shot Diallo. But few in the South Bronx
>>believes the police story that the shooting was justified.
>>
>>The lyrics of Springsteen's song simply describe an
>>overall atmosphere that makes contact with the police
>>dangerous for people of color in this country.
>>
>>Springsteen is a popular rock singer who first rose to
>>stardom in the 1970s. Many of his songs are sympathetic
>>with blue-collar workers. But the singer is not known as
>>anti-cop, and had even recently given a concert to honor a
>>police officer killed on the job.
>>
>>That didn't stop New York police spokespeople from
>>reacting in fury to this song.
>>
>>Bob Lucente, who was then president of the New York state
>>chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, on June 9 called
>>Springsteen a "f---ing dirtbag." After adding an anti-gay
>>epithet, he said, "He goes on the boycott list."
>>
>>A week later Lucente handed in his badge. His bigoted
>>remarks outraged people of color, the lesbian, gay, bi and
>>trans communities, and other New Yorkers. Lucente was
>>forced to resign.
>>
>>Patrick Lynch, president of the New York City Patrolmen's
>>Benevolent Association, sent a letter to city cops asking
>>them to refuse to work security at Springsteen's concerts
>>in Madison Square Garden starting June 19. Lynch and other
>>cop defenders claim that the Diallo killing had nothing to
>>do with racism.
>>
>>Diallo's mother, Kadiatou Diallo, had a different opinion.
>>"I am delighted that people are opening up their eyes and
>>hearts about these cases," she said June 12. "It shows that
>>people really care about what happened to Amadou."
>>
>>Siakou Diallo, Amadou's father, also said he appreciated
>>"anything that people do to keep his memory alive."
>>
>>HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CHARGES `RACIAL PROFILING'
>>
>>Springsteen's lyrics were far closer to the USCHR report
>>on the NYPD than were the cop spokespeople's statements.
>>
>>The report pointed out that in Staten Island, where the
>>population is only 9 percent Black, 51 percent of the
>>people stopped and searched by police were African
>>American.
>>
>>According to Chris Phillips, editor-in-chief of a pro-
>>Springsteen magazine called Backstreets, the song struck a
>>chord in the Atlanta audience. By the song's end, they were
>>singing along with the refrain, "41 shots."
>>
>>"For everyone in the crowd to get it so quickly is really
>>incredible," said Phillips. "It was probably the strongest
>>reaction by a crowd to an unknown song that I've ever
>>seen."
>>
>>No wonder the cops tried to intimidate Springsteen and the
>>management of the Garden. They know how guilty they are of
>>racist terror, and they know that millions in this country
>>know it too.
>>
>>The police also know that a song from a rock star that can
>>keep filling Madison Square Garden makes a bigger impact
>>than a report from a commission. And both the song and the
>>report carry a similar message.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: [WW] COINTELPRO-style break-in at Mumia office
>>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:18:39 -0400
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>>Via Workers World News Service
>>Reprinted from the June 29, 2000
>>issue of Workers World newspaper
>>-------------------------
>>
>>COINTELPRO-STYLE BREAK-IN AT MUMIA OFFICE
>>
>>By Greg Butterfield
>>
>>On the night of June 8, International Concerned Family &
>>Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal reported, its Philadelphia
>>office was subject to a "COINTELPRO-style burglary . when
>>an unknown person or persons made off with important
>>files." The stolen files contain financial records and the
>>names of high-profile contacts.
>>
>>"I believe this was a government plan to disrupt our
>>work," said Pam Africa, the coordinator of Concerned Family
>>& Friends.
>>
>>The theft of financial records is especially significant
>>because Concerned Family & Friends is struggling to obtain
>>full tax-exempt non-profit status for Abu-Jamal's legal
>>defense fund.
>>
>>Last year a witch hunt by state and local government
>>forced the Black United Fund to withdraw as the defense
>>fund's sponsor.
>>
>>Africa said the office's one entrance is kept locked, so
>>the burglars must have used a lock pick or a key to the
>>office. No office equipment or other items of value were
>>taken.
>>
>>Africa cautioned groups working on Abu-Jamal's case to be
>>prepared in case they are targeted for similar burglaries.
>>
>>Pennsylvania death-row activist Abu-Jamal has played a big
>>part in galvanizing the movement to abolish the racist
>>death penalty and save Texas prisoner Gary Graham/Shaka
>>Sankofa.
>>
>>As a result, proponents of legal lynching are zeroing in
>>on his supporters for attack.
>>
>>The break-in came just weeks after Abu-Jamal's literary
>>agent Frances Goldin, Clark Kissinger of Refuse & Resist,
>>and six other Free Mumia activists were sentenced to
>>supervised probation for their participation in a civil-
>>disobedience action at Philadelphia's Liberty Bell last
>>July 3.
>>
>>"Supervised probation" means the activists can't travel
>>without permission from their parole officers. They must
>>present detailed records of their activities and finances.
>>They are not allowed to visit Abu-Jamal or associate with
>>anyone who has a criminal record.
>>
>>At a June 6 news conference at the Brooklyn, N.Y.,
>>probation office, Kis singer said he would "draw a line"
>>and refuse to hand over required paperwork. Goldin,
>>Kissinger and 25 others held an impromptu demonstration
>>inside the probation office.
>>
>>Kissinger invited everyone to come back and protest on
>>July 11, when he is required to appear again.
>>
>>SOYINKA SPEAKS OUT
>>
>>Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka visited
>>Abu-Jamal on death row June 9. The next day he spoke with
>>death-penalty foes in Pittsburgh, where he called for a new
>>trial for the former Black Panther.
>>
>>Soyinka said he was "still waiting for a reply" to the
>>letter he and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote
>>last year to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, asking for a
>>review of Abu-Jamal's case.
>>
>>Abu-Jamal's supporters are gearing up for a summer of
>>resistance. After June 22, Federal Judge William Yohn is
>>expected to announce a hearing in Philadelphia to consider
>>whether he will hear new evidence of Abu-Jamal's innocence.
>>
>>Death-penalty opponents plan to pack the courtroom and
>>demonstrate outside in support of a new trial.
>>
>>Major demonstrations will take place at the Republican
>>convention in Philadelphia July 29-Aug. 5 and at the
>>Democratic Convention in Los Angeles Aug. 13-17.
>>
>>For more information, readers can visit the Web site
>>www.mumia2000.org or call Millions for Mumia at (212) 633-
>>6646 in New York or (415) 821-6545 in San Francisco.
>>
>> - END -
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>>Message-ID: <007301bfdd69$80b89bf0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: [WW] Yugoslavia: Not so isolated after all
>>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:19:38 -0400
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>>Via Workers World News Service
>>Reprinted from the June 29, 2000
>>issue of Workers World newspaper
>>-------------------------
>>
>>EDITORIAL: YUGOSLAVIA: NOT SO ISOLATED AFTER ALL
>>
>>When NATO moved into the Serbian province of Kosovo and
>>Metohija a year ago on June 10, U.S. plans were to continue
>>to isolate and dismember what was left of Yugoslavia. The
>>"International Tribunal" in The Hague--set up and paid for
>>by U.S.-NATO forces--had indicted Yugoslav President
>>Slobodan Milosevic for alleged war crimes. It looked like
>>Montenegro, the remaining republic joined with Serbia to
>>form Yugoslavia, would be the next target.
>>
>>Now a year has passed, and it turns out Yugoslavia is not
>>so isolated after all.
>>
>>Li Peng, chairperson of the Standing Committee of the
>>National People's Congress of the People's Republic of
>>China, addressed a joint session of the Federal Assembly of
>>Yugoslavia this June.
>>
>>Li said the U.S. missile attack on the Chinese Embassy in
>>Belgrade 13 months ago that killed three Chinese
>>journalists and rendered the embassy building unusable is
>>"a case of grave international wrongdoing seldom seen in
>>the history of diplomacy and a gross violation of China's
>>sovereignty.''
>>
>>He attacked the U.S. and expressed solidarity with
>>Yugoslavia.
>>
>>The head of a Cuban Communist Party delegation visiting
>>the hometown of President Milosevic in June said the people
>>of Yugoslavia, "just like the Cubans, have shown they are
>>not ready to lose their identity no matter what price they
>>have to pay for that."
>>
>>He added that the Cubans "admire Yugoslav resistance" to
>>the "policy of hegemony of the West," during and after
>>NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia last year. "Both
>>Yugoslavia and Cuba have the same enemy, but it is most
>>important that we are not afraid of that enemy."
>>
>>So China and Cuba have reaffirmed their solidarity with
>>Yugoslavia. And other forces are chipping away at the U.S.
>>position. Even Amnesty International has accused U.S.-NATO
>>forces of war crimes.
>>
>>And then there is the story of Danish soccer star Peter
>>Schmeichel. After his team lost a match June 16 in the EURO
>>2000 games, Schmeichel made an astonishing announcement to
>>the media.
>>
>>He said, "Tonight I officially applied at the embassy of
>>the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for a Yugoslavian
>>passport. The Yugoslav football team is excellent, and it
>>is the only team I would like to play for. I personally
>>asked President Slobodan Milosevic to grant me Yugoslavian
>>National Passport, because I highly respect him and his
>>achievements in last year's war against NATO aggressors."
>>
>>It's hard to imagine a superstar athlete making such a
>>remark unless this reflects an attitude more widely held in
>>the population.
>>
>>And in Montenegro itself, local elections have put pro-
>>Yugoslavia and pro-Milosevic parties in office in some of
>>the most important cities, despite all the funds pumped
>>into the anti-Yugoslavia parties by the U.S. and its NATO
>>allies.
>>
>>Yugoslavia deserves all the solidarity it can get. And it
>>is getting some.
>>
>> - END -
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