> WW News Service Digest #171 > > 1) A program to shut it down: Fight capitalism! > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2) Moorehead-La Riva 2000: Where we stand > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 3) Message to the Nader movement > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 4) Behind 'racial profiling' > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 5) Protest hits corporate media control > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 6) Havana youths denounce U.S. Cuban Adjustment Act > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 7) Fidel Castro's speech to U.S. movement > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the Oct. 5, 2000 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >A program to shut it down > >FIGHT CAPITALISM! > >MOOREHEAD-LA RIVA 2000 CAMPAIGN: Stop plunder by >corporate bosses through solidarity & mass struggle > >Monica Moorehead & Gloria La Riva have been in the struggle >for social justice for over 25 years as members of Workers >World Party. Now they are running against the twin big >business candidates, Bush and Gore, to bring a message of >solidarity, struggle and socialism into the election. > >Bush and Gore got their political training in the corporate >boardrooms and political backrooms. > >Moorehead and La Riva got theirs at strikes and picket >lines, demonstrations, sit-downs and sit-ins against the >racist, exploiting system of capitalism. > >A vote for them is a protest against a system in which a $7 >trillion economy can leave 30 million people in poverty. >It's a vote of opposition to a system in which billions can >be made on the stock market while half the Black children >and 17 percent of all kids go to bed hungry. It's saying no >to the bosses piling up obscene wealth while workers' wages >are stuck at the 1970 level. > >Bush and Gore want to give the budget surplus to already >rich bondholders. Moorehead and La Riva say give everyone a >quality education, decent jobs, housing and childcare >instead. > >That leaves plenty of money for free, quality healthcare for >everyone, including medicines, and a secure retirement. Stop >corporate welfare and take back the $300 billion that the >Pentagon uses for imperialist war and intervention against >countries like Iraq, Yugoslavia, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Sudan >and Colombia. > >Racism and national oppression are poisonous tools of the >corporations to keep the workers divided. Unity means >fighting against the low wages and substandard living >conditions that are forced on Black, Latino, Asian, Arab and >Native people most of all. > >It's time to tear down the racist and inhuman prison- >industrial complex. Two million prisoners, most of them >Black and Latino, all of them poor, need real rehabilitation >under community control. Abolish the racist death penalty >and racial profiling. > >All this can be done--but not under capitalism. Most of the >vast wealth created by the workers in factories, offices, >mines and fields now flows steadily upward into the bank >accounts of the rich. > >Moorehead and La Riva know full well that you don't win >political rights or social and economic gains by voting. It >takes mass mobilization and militant struggle. Like the sit- >down strikes and labor struggles of the 1930s that won the >right to organize, welfare, social security and protective >labor laws. Like the civil rights movement that ended >segregation and won affirmative action. > >A new movement of militant resistance to global plunder by >giant corporations exploded on the streets of Seattle last >year. Moorehead, La Riva and Workers World Party have >participated in every phase of it. They were both arrested >April 15 in Wash ington, fighting the prison-industrial >complex, the IMF and the World Bank. > >They have been in the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, >Leonard Peltier and the Puerto Rican political prisoners; >the struggles for justice for Shaka Sankofa, Amadou Diallo, >Abner Louima, Matthew Shepard and Tyisha Miller. They have >opposed police brutality and the racist death penalty. They >have fought for a woman's right to abortion and for lesbian, >gay, bi and trans rights. > >They have fought to end the blockade of Cuba and to send >Eli�n Gonz�lez home. > >All these movements have put the power structure on the >defensive. Add to this a growing number of strikes where >workers are winning better wages and benefits and job >security. It all points to a new phase of the struggle here >that can push the ruling class back. > >But the root of global economic inequality is capitalism. >That's why the Moorehead/ La Riva campaign is for socialism-- >where the workers take over the economy and run it for human >need, not for profit. > >- END - > >(Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to >copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but >changing it is not allowed. For more information contact >Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) > > > > > >Message-ID: <034301c02cdf$51455000$0a00a8c0@linux> >From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [WW] Moorehead-La Riva 2000: Where we stand >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:11:52 -0400 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the Oct. 5, 2000 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >Moorehead-La Riva 2000: > >WHAT WE STAND FOR > >* End racism and national oppression * Stop police brutality > >* Tear down the prison-industrial complex > >* Free Mumia Abu-Jamal >* Leonard Peltier, >* the Puerto Rican prisoners of war and all political >prisoners > >* Abolish the racist death penalty > >* No more wars for big business >* Abolish the Pentagon nStop the sanctions against Iraq & >Yugoslavia nEnd the blockade of Cuba nNo U.S. intervention >in Colombia or the Middle East * U.S. troops out of Korea >* U.S. Navy out of Vieques > >* Full rights for all immigrant workers and their families. >* The INS must go > >* Stop sweatshops. * Full pay, benefits, union rights for all >workers > >* Full rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. >* Legalize same-sex marriage > >* Union wages for prisoners. * Money for schools, housing and >childcare, not jails > >* Restore and expand affirmative action > >* Shut down the IMF and World Bank. >* Cancel the debt of poor countries * Reparations for the >underdeveloped countries and oppressed peoples > >* Force the pharmaceuticals to distribute drugs on demand to >turn around the AIDS crisis in Africa and elsewhere > >* Union jobs at a living wage for all >* Defend the right to organize >* Ban strike breaking > >* End workfare slavery and the scapegoating of poor women. >* Restore and expand welfare and social programs > >* Full rights for the disabled > >* Equal pay for equal work. >* Equal pay for comparable work >* Tax the rich. * Stop corporate welfare > >* Free, universal health care > >* Full reproductive rights, including abortion rights and no >forced sterilization > >* Save the environment. >* Make the corporations pay for clean-up > >More information on the Moorehead-La Riva 2000 campaign >is available on the Web site www.vote4workers.org. > >- END - > >(Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to >copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but >changing it is not allowed. For more information contact >Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) > > > > > >Message-ID: <034b01c02cdf$81760b20$0a00a8c0@linux> >From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [WW] Message to the Nader movement >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:13:19 -0400 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the Oct. 5, 2000 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >MESSAGE TO THE NADER MOVEMENT > >Ralph Nader is running a third-party presidential campaign >on the Green Party ticket. He points out that the Democrats >and the Republicans are captives of the corporations. He has >exposed corporate devastation of the environment, and >advocated for workers'rights to organize. He is promoting >universal health care. The Workers World Party campaign >totally agrees with him on all these points. > >Nader has been attacked for taking votes from Democrat Al >Gore. His attackers should be condemned for clinging to an >imperialist party that has just spent six years >collaborating with Newt Gingrich in attacking the people. > >But it takes more than Nader's program to build a truly >progressive, anti-monopoly movement in the United States. > >Racism, national oppression, sexism, and oppression of >lesbian/gay/bi/trans people not only cause untold mass >suffering, but they are a prime political weapon in the >arsenal of the monopolies to keep the workers divided. This >should be at the top of the agenda of any campaign against >the monopolies. > >The giant monopolies are behind militarism and war as part >of their quest for world domination--including the wars and >sanctions against Iraq and Yugoslavia. The Pentagon is their >instrument. The Pentagon should be abolished, not made >cheaper and more efficient as Nader advocates. > >China, despite dangerous capitalist inroads, is still a >sovereign socialist country representing one-fifth of the >human race. The monopolies now want to trade with China >after years of sanctions, but their aim is to destroy >Chinese socialism. The Pentagon has war plans against China. >Agitating against trade with China is protectionist and >dangerously panders to anti-communism. > >Any progressive election campaign must, in addition to >laying out a program, promote and agitate for mass >mobilization and militant solidarity, which is the only way >that workers and the oppressed have ever made any >fundamental gains under capitalism. > >Finally, technological development has laid the material >basis for global human prosperity. But in the hands of the >monopolies this growth has brought mass suffering and >degraded the environment. > >Nader's program is to go back to competitive capitalism. But >this is both unrealizable and undesirable, because >competitive capitalism is also a vicious form of class >exploitation. The workers need to take the productive forces >away from the monopolies and use them to fulfill human need. > >- END - > >(Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to >copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but >changing it is not allowed. For more information contact >Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) > > > > > >Message-ID: <035301c02cdf$c80258a0$0a00a8c0@linux> >From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [WW] Behind 'racial profiling' >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:15:18 -0400 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the Oct. 5, 2000 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >Behind police tactic > >'RACIAL PROFILING AIMS TO DIVIDE WORKERS' > >>From a talk by Julius Dykes at a Buffalo, N.Y., Workers >World Party forum Sept. 16. > >In 1942, over 120,000 Americans were stripped of their >businesses and their homes and incarcerated for the duration >of World War II. They had committed no offense. They were >convicted of no crime. They were suspected, subjected to >curfews, arrested, had their property confiscated and were >imprisoned because of the color of their skin and their >national origin or the national origin of their parents. > >The internment of Japanese Americans in 1942 was an >egregious example of what can happen when skin color and >national origin are substituted for evidence and become, by >themselves, a basis for suspicion and punishment. > >But it was not the only egregious example. During the time >of the internment, Jim Crow laws and formal racial >segregation existed in the South and were so reified that >virtually no one could imagine it ending. > >Today, the internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent >is nearly universally recognized as something shameful--an >act of war hysteria and racism. Similarly, few today are >prepared to defend the formality of Jim Crow laws. > >But on highways and streets, in airports and at customs >checkpoints, skin color, irrespective of economic class, is >once again being used by law enforcement officials as a >cause for suspicion and a sufficient reason to violate >people's rights. > >Tool of racist repression > >First of all, let's establish right from the beginning that >racial profiling is and always has been just another racist, >repressive tool of the state to keep Black people and other >people of color oppressed, intimidated, in fear and always >in the midst of a potential frame-up. > >This policy, like many other anti-people policies, has been >intensified in the past decade or so for various reasons. > >One of the main reasons is to feed the ever-growing prison- >for-profit system. > >Another is the fact that more and more people are coming >into political consciousness and seeing this rotten corrupt >system for what it is, and resisting it! > >And this practice of profiling can serve as a subtle means >to divide us and leave us all vulnerable. > >Racial profiling may be a relatively new term, but it's >definitely an old concept. Tracey Maclin, a professor at >Boston University School of Law, says that the problem of >"driving while Black" can trace its historical roots to a >time in early U.S. society when court officials in cities >like Philadelphia permitted constables and ordinary citizens >the right to "take up" all Black persons seen "gadding >abroad" without their master's permission. > >And what are the consequences of racial profiling for >African Americans--or Asians, Arabs, Latinos--as a matter of >local, state or federal government practice? > >1976: Supreme Court >upholds profiling > >In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court supported the actions of the >U.S. Border Patrol agents who selected cars for inspection >in Southern California partly on the basis that drivers were >of Mexican descent. > >The Supreme Court maintained that since the intrusions by >the U.S. agents on selected drivers were "quite limited" and >only involved "a brief detention of travelers during which >all that is required ... is a response to a brief question >or two and possibly the production of a document," the >practice was upheld. > >And recently in upstate New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals >for the Second Circuit ruled that police officers did not >violate the Constitution when they stopped every Black man >in Oneonta on Sept. 4, 1992, after a white woman said she >had been attacked in her home by a young Black man. > >The controversy surrounding racial profiling is intense. In >the national spotlight are two New Jersey state troopers, >John Hogan and James Kenna. They were indicted on Sept. 7, >1999, on attempted-murder and assault charges resulting from >a shooting during a routine traffic stop on the New Jersey >Turnpike in 1998 that left three of the four unarmed young >Black and Latino men involved seriously wounded. > >The troopers were also indicted earlier that year on 19 >misdemeanor charges of falsifying their activity logs to >conceal the disproportionate number of minority drivers they >were accused of stopping on the highway. > >When you look at the disproportionate profiling of Blacks >and Latinos, you can clearly see that it equates Blacks with >crime, with wrong doings of some sort. > >And in recent years, this guise has been the "War on Drugs," >which is no more than a mass frame-up of African Americans >and other people of color. > >The real 'drug dealers' > >In the 1970s, when tons of heroin was being shipped from >Southeast Asia and brought into the United States, we saw >poor communities throughout the U.S. addicted to heroin. >This enabled the ruling class to further destabilize and >exploit African Americans and label them criminals. And this >gave the ruling class a political justification to wage war >against Black people. > >But we know who the real drug dealers are. We know it's this >U.S. government that makes arms deals and drug deals with >puppet governments set up by U.S. imperialism in Third World > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
