______________________________ ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN News * Analysis * Research * Action ______________________________ - AFIB No. 258, July 9, 2000 - PART 2 ***** REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES LIBERATION FRONT (DHKC) [Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi] DHKC Information Center E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc List info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thursday, 6 July 2000 - ----- ____________________________________________________________________ TURKEY: STATE ATTACKS POLITICAL PRISONERS AT BURDUR PRISON ____________________________________________________________________ PRESS STATEMENT While the Human Rights Commission of Turkey's Parliament was discussing human rights violations in the country's prisons, the state itself was attacking prisoners at Burdur this morning (Wednesday July 5). (Burdur is in southwestern Turkey, 370 km from Istanbul.) According to reports, soldiers, police and Special Forces surrounded the prison late last night and full-scale operations started at 9:30 this morning. The attack started from the roof and the hall doors. Prisoners resisted the attack by building barricades at key points inside the prison. Latest information is that 38 prisoners have been injured and removed to hospital, while 12 others have been relatively lightly injured. The jail is full of soldiers and police but has been emptied of prisoners. More information is expected tomorrow, July 6. The state's massacre at Ulucanlar Prison last September when 10 political prisoners were killed shows what it is capable of. Burdur is one of the prisons where there have been serious internal problems, with the Governor, Katip Ozen, doing his best to aggravate the situation. A heavy military presence has also increased tension. Attacks on political prisoners' rights have become more extensive in the last six months. These include bans on receiving newspapers, not being allowed to see their families and beatings and torture during transfer to and from hospital or court. About two months ago, soldiers attacked five political prisoners during transfer, and three of the prisoners were seriously hurt. Following this, political prisoners announced: "If the safety of our lives is not guaranteed, we will refuse to go to court or to hospital." According to our sources, the Prison Administration also threatened prisoners, saying: "You will go to court, otherwise you will be physically attacked." These threats have become a reality today. Cell-type prisons are on the agenda of the state in Turkey. This attack could be part of an attempt to put political prisoners into the cell-type prisons. So far there is no news of deaths in Burdur Prison, but we well know the methods the state uses and is likely to use in future. If they get the opportunity they will kill the prisoners. So we should not wait to hear of further deaths in prison. We call on all persons of sensitivity to take action against these inhuman attacks by the state in Turkey. Please send protest faxes to the numbers below, with a copy of any fax you send to go to the London Solidarity Committee. President of Republic of Turkey: 0090 312 213 1616 Prime Minister: 0090 312 417 0476 Justice Ministry: 0090 312 411 3434 Interior Ministry: 0090 312 419 7108 London Embassy: 0044 0 207 393 0066 LONDON SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS IN TURKEY Contact Tel: 020 7249 9983; Fax: 020 7254 2407; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***** THE NAZISM EXPOSED PROJECT Web: http://www.ekran.no/html/nazismexposed E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thursday, 6 July 2000 - ----- ____________________________________________________________________ SWEDISH NAZI-CRIMES STILL ON A RISE ____________________________________________________________________ Source: Dagbladet - http://www.dagbladet.no/ According to a report by the national security police in Sweden (Sapo), the increase of right extremist and Nazi crime increased in 1999. Examples of this is the killing of two policemen in Malexander in May last year, the bomb against a journalist couple in Nacka and the killing of an Union leader in Satra in October. The number of crimes committed by right extremists are increasing, but not as much as they increased in 1997 and 1998, says the Swedish newspaper "Expressen." Last year there were 2703 incidents where the main drive was of racist origin, that was reported to the police. 13% of these were connected to right extremist groups. Sapo also reports that the trend within extreme left wing groups are turning in the other direction. There where considerably fewer illegal actions by animal rights defenders and environmentalists. Illegal actions against the porno industry, however, increased. ***** PEOPLE AGAINST RACIST TERROR (PART) P.O. Box 1055 Culver City, CA 90232 Tel: 310-288-5003 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://people.we.mediaone.net/part2001/index.html - Thursday, 6 July 2000 - ----- ____________________________________________________________________ SUMMER 2000 ISSUE OF 'TURNING THE TIDE' OUT NOW! ____________________________________________________________________ The latest issue of "Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education," Volume 13 #2, Summer 2000, is now available from People Against Racist Terror (PART). >From the front cover, with an image of Arizona rancher Don Barnett in the camouflage fatigues of the self-proclaimed "U.S. Patriot Patrol" over the slogan "Stop Border Vigilantes!" to the back cover feature on the case (and cookbook) of Sara Jane Olson, facing a vindictive political trial in Los Angeles 25 years after the fact over her alleged connections to the Symbionese Liberation Army, this issue is chock-full of material you won't find elsewhere about the repressive strategies of the state and the efforts and approaches of liberation movements. A special center section, including a 17X22 pull-out poster, focuses on the upcoming demonstrations at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia, the Buchanan/Reform Party nomination in Long Beach, CA, and the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. This includes PART's perspective: "Strike Back Against the Empire!" and an analysis of combating the colonial criminal injustice system by TTT editor Michael Novick. Other articles include an analysis of the Liebman Report on the broken death penalty by Mumia Abu Jamal, documents from indigenous Chamorro people's land struggle on Guam, a U.S. colony in the Pacific, and a report from the Anti-Olympics Alliance in Australia about the struggle against racism and repression in Sydney for the 2000 Olympics. "Beyond Welfare Queens," a two-part study of the convergence of race, class and gender in issues of welfare "reform," by Chris Crass, concludes in this issue. Vik Chaubey of PART contributes a piece on campus racism, focuses on the struggle this year against anti-Asian hate crimes at SUNY-Binghamton. Daryl Lamont Jenkins reports on the struggle against white supremacist Richard Butler and the overt and covert racists in the New Jersey "Right to Life" anti-abortion movement. Plus there is info on "Sisterphyre 2000," a gathering of women in hip-hop, and on the response of Scouting For All to the US Supreme Court decision upholding the "right" of the Boy Scouts of America to exclude openly gay scouts. And there's lots more, including reflections on armed struggle in Canada and the history of the Vancouver 5 by Jim Campbell of PNS, and a piece on the implications for South Africa of the struggle over white-held land in Zimbabwe, by Lesego Sechaba Mogotsi of AZAPO, the Azanian People's Organization. Plus book reviews, original graphics by the "apocalypse twins," and more. The centerfold image of Bush and Gore as a pair of jackals might be worth the cost of an issue by itself, but you can get a free sample and decide for yourself if "Turning the Tide" is worth supporting with a subscription, by sending your name and street address to PART at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or PART, PO Box 1055, Culver City CA 90232 (where you could also send your subscription if you want to save a step). TTT is $15 a year for four quarterly issues and has been coming out for 13 years without government funds, partisan subsidies, or corporate or foundation grants -- just the support of its readers. Join the "stop police abuse" list at: http://www.egroups.com/group/stop-polabuse Mumia Must Live! End the racist death penalty! Free Leonard Peltier, Linda Evans, Mutulu Shakur, Oscar Lopez and all political prisoners and P.O.W.'s in U.S. prisons! ***** ____________________________________________________________________ SOLDIER IN DIRTY TRICKS UNIT ARRESTED ____________________________________________________________________ THE SUNDAY TIMES News: Britain Sunday, 9 July 2000 http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/07/09/stinwenws01035.html Liam Clarke A SOLDIER being persecuted for allegedly revealing intelligence secrets to The Sunday Times has helped police achieve a breakthrough in their inquiry into an army dirty tricks campaign. The soldier was a member of the Force Research Unit (FRU, now the Field Reconnaissance Unit), a secretive army intelligence outfit that recruited moles within Ulster terrorist groups in the 1980s. The unit is now at the centre of an official inquiry headed by Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan police commissioner, into collusion over murders between the army and paramilitary groups. The soldier, interviewed over several weeks, has provided a detailed picture of the FRU's activities. Partly as a result of his interviews, the Stevens inquiry last week made its first arrest of a former member of the FRU in connection with the murder of Catholics in Northern Ireland. "I am not holding back," the soldier said last night. "I am trying to help them unravel a huge official cover-up of dirty tricks. I would advise other former agent handlers to make a clean breast of it. This investigation is not going away." The soldier is accused of being Martin Ingram, a source who revealed details of FRU dirty tricks in The Sunday Times last year. Ingram said that the FRU used another specialist military intelligence unit to break into a Northern Ireland police station and burn files belonging to Stevens during an earlier inquiry. He said the purpose was to buy time before the arrest of Brian Nelson, an FRU informant within the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), later jailed for conspiracy to commit murder. The Ministry of Defence won injunctions against The Sunday Times and Ingram to prevent publication of further details and claimed it could not identify any "public interest which demands publication of such material". Since The Sunday Times articles, the Metropolitan police special branch has been leading an investigation to find and charge Ingram under the Official Secrets Act. The injunctions preventing him from discussing his service career, however, were relaxed to allow him to speak to the Stevens team. This newspaper and its journalists are still subject to gagging orders. Last week the man alleged to be the whistleblower signed a detailed statement for Stevens covering much of the ground already outlined in this newspaper. His evidence relates to a number of killings, including that of Pat Finucane, a solicitor shot dead at his home by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989. He also confirmed the identity of the FRU member who was arrested last week under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and questioned for three days about a series of murder conspiracies involving Nelson. The suspect was questioned about statements he made under the pseudonym "Geoff" in a BBC documentary, Brits. "Geoff" is the first security force member to be arrested by the Stevens team. In his interview with the BBC, he admitted that Nelson had been involved in the murder conspiracies "at our behest", and to helping him. Other former FRU personnel, some of them now policemen and one a senior British diplomat in the Far East, who was known by the pseudonym "Colonel J" during his time commanding the FRU, are likely to be questioned soon. Commander Hugh Orde, who is leading the Stevens team day to day, said: "We will be following where the evidence leads." This widened remit brings the Stevens team to the heart of the secret war allegedly waged by the army and RUC against the paramilitaries, and the handling of agents or moles. It is understood that, following the interview with the Ingram suspect, the role of at least one agent within the IRA and other murders, including that of James Craig, a UDA member, will come under scrutiny. Last night the Ingram suspect said: "On the one hand the Metropolitan police special branch is accusing me of breaking the Official Secrets Act and threatening to jail me for allegedly talking to The Sunday Times. "At the same time an inquiry headed by the Metropolitan police commissioner is relying on me as a witness." He added he would continue to co-operate with the inquiry. Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd. ***** ____________________________________________________________________ WITCH-HUNT PUNISHES THOSE WHO DEFY HAIDER ____________________________________________________________________ THE OBSERVER International News Sunday, 9 July 2000 http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,341379,00.html by Denis Staunton In a few sparsely furnished rooms in Vienna's former imperial stables, a handful of artists and political activists are taking the opposition to Austria's right-wing government into cyberspace. But not for long. Public Netbase, which provides Internet facilities for more than 1,200 cultural and political projects, has had its public funding stopped and been told to get out of the building by April next year. Konrad Becker, one of the founders of Public Netbase, says his organisation is only one of many cultural institutions to face closure because they are judged by the government, which includes J�rg Haider's far-right Freedom Party, to be on the wrong side of the political tracks. 'As soon as the new government came into place, all project money was immediately withdrawn. They don't even talk to us now,' Becker said. Austrian artists, journalists and intellectuals describe a climate of fear and intimidation that they believe is part of a government attempt to silence opposition to the coalition government that has become the pariah of European politics. Journalists on the public service television channel �RF have been threatened with dismissal for being too critical of the government and some coalition politicians have called for weekly demonstrations in the centre of Vienna to be banned. Later this week the president of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg will nominate three 'wise men' to monitor Austria's treatment of minorities, immigrants and asylum-seekers and assess the evolution of the 'political nature' of the Freedom Party. If the report is favourable, Austria's 14 EU partners will lift the sanctions imposed in protest against the presence in government of Haider's party. Among the cases the wise men may care to examine is that of Anton Pelinka, Austria's most distinguished political scientist, who was convicted in a Vienna court in April of defaming Haider by accusing him of trivialising National Socialism. Pelinka, who is appealing against the verdict, claims that Haider is using the libel laws to silence his critics. 'Less privileged people than me will consider very carefully what they say in future. Because they don't want to spend five years in the courts until Strasbourg proves them right,' Pelinka said. Austria's Foreign Minister, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, last week dismissed the furore over Pelinka as a political interpretation of a private, legal matter. 'We have independent courts and maybe this was not a very fantastic judgement. But who are we to judge that?' she said. But other Austrian intellectuals claim that there is a pattern in the government's behaviour, and Walter Famler, who edits the literary magazine Wespennest (Wasps' Nest) says that the Pelinka case ought to ring alarm bells about the coalition's intentions. 'They really want to destroy the public standing of people like Pelinka with every means they can find. The hardcore Nazis in Germany threaten people with violence. Here they want to corrupt people,' Famler said. Ferrero-Waldner argues that, as the new government prunes back its public spending, everyone's budget is being cut and that most of the complaints by disgruntled artists and intellectuals are nothing more than the predictable gripes of disappointed people. But many of the casualties of the cuts, from community radio stations to independent theatre groups, have one thing in common - their opposition to the government. And while Ferrero-Waldner claims that her government's attempts to effect changes in political programming on television are aimed at creating more objectivity and efficiency, all the journalists who are being targeted are critical of the coalition. Although the Foreign Minister does not favour a ban on the demonstrations against her government that attract thousands each Thursday evening, she suggested that groups taking part in the protests could see their state subsidies disappear. 'The demonstrations can go on forever, but on the other hand I think it's also a question sometimes of subsidies. Because these people have their stands here and so on. Maybe they get the money from somewhere. I don't know,' Ferrero-Waldner said. In the past, many independent cultural groups topped up their budgets and broadened their intellectual horizons by touring abroad, but Austria's current status as an international pariah has meant that many invitations have been cancelled and most groups are staying at home this summer. Combined with the budget cuts, the international boycott of Austria's independent voices represents a double blow. 'Nobody's called us from Western Europe at all this year. But maybe we'll go to Skopje in October - that will be our international tour,' said Baertl Gstetner, who runs Tanzhotel, a pioneering modern dance group in Vienna. Becker has given up hope of receiving any more public funding for Public Netbase, and as he watches the progress of Austria's new government he believes that he underestimated the threat to free speech. 'At the beginning, we were all quite happy to see a mobilisation of the public and it was very impressive to see so many people on the streets,' Becker said. 'But I'm very much afraid if this goes on for a long time. Austria doesn't have a very big tradition of dissenting democratic structures, and I'm very worried about the consequences,' he said. Public Netbase is at: http://www.t0.or.at and Wespennest is at: http://www.wespennest.at. Denis Staunton writes for the Irish Times. Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000 ***** ____________________________________________________________________ CHURCH HELPED NAZIS IN ITALY ____________________________________________________________________ THE GUARDIAN International News Monday, 3 July 2000 http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,339155,00.html Rory Carroll in Rome The Catholic church in Italy helped the Nazis by laundering money and supplying intelligence about allied invasion plans, according to declassified documents. Clerics collaborated with the secret service of Hitler's SS while their flock was rebelling against the retreating German army. Cardinal Ildebrando Schuster, Archbishop of Milan, agreed to transfer money to pay an SS agent, according to a message intercepted by allied code-breakers in October 1943. The documents, part of a collection of 400,000 second world war British and US intelligence reports declassified last week, raise fresh questions about the Vatican's relationship with the Nazis. In a dispatch to Berlin from the Rome headquarters of the SS, a Captain Peisner wrote that an agent called Basilus had contacted the cardinal. "And [Basilus] explained to me today how he intended to transfer 300,000 lire through Cardinal Schuster." The transcript is damaging because the cardinal was not previously thought to have been one of the church's Nazi sympathisers, said James Walston, a historian at the American University of Rome. "If true it is terrible. Schuster's behaviour was part of a wider pattern of church cooperation, motivated partly by a strong anti-communist ideology." Another document has cast doubt on the record of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, representative of the American Red Cross at the Vatican. Fr O'Flaherty, who was Irish, was hailed for helping Jews. But according to an SS report dated October 19 1943, he told one of their informants that two US divisions in Sardinia were preparing to land near Civitavecchia, a port north of Rome. The information was correct, though the allies later changed their plan and landed south of Rome at Anzio. Prof Walston said the evidence that Fr O'Flaherty was a spy was weak, however. "He may not have known he was talking to an informer. Everybody in Rome at that time would have been speculating about the invasion and Civitavecchia was an obvious guess. The SS agent would have known that quoting a Vatican official would make his report look more impressive to his bosses." The documents, decrypted by the British Enigma code-breaking operation, were held by the CIA in Maryland, Virginia and released under the auspices of the Nazi war criminal records inter-agency working group, set up in 1998. They bolstered claims that southern Italians aggressively resisted their allies-turned occupiers as British and US troops approached. The Germans rounded up 8,000 Jews in Rome in October 1943 but did not swoop south. "Because of the attitude in the town and uncertain conditions, action could not be carried through in Naples," a report sent to SS General Karl Wolff said. A new book by Aldo De Jaco, 1943: The Resistance of the South, claims that German atrocities galvanised the population into an uprising. In reality, only a handful of Jews were there, but Naples was one of the few European cities to successfully block the round-ups of Jews. Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000 ***** ____________________________________________________________________ 10 HELD IN PROTEST AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACIST ____________________________________________________________________ REUTERS Tuesday, July 4, 2000 9:15 PM ET MORRISTOWN, N.J. (Reuters) - Ten people were arrested Tuesday and a dozen were pepper-sprayed in scuffles with police when a white supremacist's Independence Day speech against affirmative action drew about 400 protesters. About 300 local police and county sheriff's officers, many in riot gear, lined the street in front of the Morris County courthouse as Richard Barrett, 56, leader of the Mississippi-based Nationalist Movement, spoke on a side street from the back of a white pickup truck. Protesters across the street shouted, ``Go home,'' twice pushing down metal barricades and rushing the truck. Some hurled rocks, golf balls and batteries. Two officers were struck by projectiles, and police shot pepper spray into the faces of the demonstrators. One of the 10 people arrested was taken to a local hospital. Barrett, an attorney, had circled the block with eight supporters carrying Nationalist Movement and American flags before criticizing Gov. Christine Todd Whitman's support of affirmative action and her firing of state police Superintendent Carl Williams. Williams was dismissed in February 1999 after targeting blacks in a report on drug trafficking and allegedly turning a blind eye on racial profiling by his force. ``Down with affirmative action and up with freedom,'' Barrett said on the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. ``(First U.S. President George) Washington could see, in his mind's eye, a nation without privilege. Nationalists see, as well, a nation without affirmative action.'' Mayor John Delaney speculated that Barrett was speaking in Morristown partly because it had served as Washington's military headquarters during part of the Revolutionary War. ``Personally I find (Barrett's) message repugnant, but he has a First Amendment right to express himself,'' he said. Copyright 2000 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. ***** ____________________________________________________________________ SNATCH AND GRAB IN CENTRAL PARK ____________________________________________________________________ By Mumia Abu-Jamal Column Written 6/26/2000 Source: Mark Clement, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Monday, 3 July 2000 - "Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having." - Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) The spectacle of hordes of young Black and Puerto-Rican men, wetting, grabbing and stripping young women in New York's famed Central Park in the waning hours of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, sent shock waves through the city, across the nation, and indeed, around the world. Almost as baffling was the lack of response by police, who told weeping, terrified, angry and barely-clothed women that they couldn't leave their posts, that they didn't have radios on them, or directing them to fill out complaints. This frenzied attack on over 40 young women would've been denied or ignored were it not for the power of videotape. Although for most of us a natural reaction to this unhealthy spectacle would be shock, denial, or even disbelief, another response, one informed by history, might have been more appropriate: it's logical, and therefore, foreseeable. Undoubtedly, a number of readers are asking serious questions at this point: "Logical? What?! Jamal, you must be crazy!" What is crazy is the deep and abiding hatred, fear, and envy of women that lies in the recesses of the American psyche. This resistance to the unleashing of female power is deeply rooted in the West, as revealed in the motto promoted by the Roman Catholic Church in the 12th and 13th century: "Woman is a temple built over a sewer." The infamous book Malleus Maleficarum ("The Witches' Hammer," publ. 1487) led to the torture, death and damning of thousands of women in Europe, in the name of witch-hunting. The name, Salem, proves this wasn't just a European phenomenon. "Ok, Jamal - What's this stuff got to do with what happened in Central Park, man?" America's history is a history of the domination of women, and where official domination is not allowed, unofficial ways of subordination will be found. What happened in Central Park in June of 2000 was not "clean fun," "wild boys," or an open form of erotic play. What happened was a mass attack on women, to humiliate them, and to subordinate them. It was an act designed to discipline them by instilling terror in them. It was an act of veiled hatred, that was seconded by the cavalier treatment the women received at the hands of the cops. It was an act motivated more by gender dynamics, than racial dynamics. But, there was another dynamic at work: that of mass psychology. Psychiatrists Frantz G. Alexander and Sheldon T. Selesnic, in The History of Psychiatry (1966) cited the work of French psychologist Gustave Le Bon, who wrote La Psychologie des Foules (1895) (The Psychology of Fools), for the idea that conscience is naturally diminished by mobs: "... Because the voice of the individual conscience is silent in a group. All that has been repressed, all that violates the standards of the conscience, is free to appear uninhibited." (p.204). What had been socially repressed? The deep-seated misogyny of the West, or hatred of women. It was lessons well-learned by teenaged boys, who were modeling not only disrespectful, and misogynistic videos, movies, and TV shows, but also a political culture that has, as one of its central themes, the hatred, demonization, and destabilization of poor women, especially women of color. It may not have been nice, but it was logical, in a society erected on domination. It is time to change the lessons we teach kids, by radically transforming society itself. 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