-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: 15 Oct 1999 17:36:27 -0000 To: List Member <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Common Courage Political Literacy Course" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Facts for the Future Information about this email course appears at the bottom. More Steal These Facts! Just in case you think the society you live in is sane… read on. But first, here's a fact not in Bob Harris's "Steal This Book and Get Life Without Parole": The new execution date for Mumia Abu-Jamal, December 2, is the 140th anniversary of the execution of John Brown in 1859 (see email 26). 1. A new way to kill time--or at least torture it. There is now a paging service in Los Angeles that will, for a nominal fee, page you every time a televised police chase is occurring. 2. Turn-of-the-century-news-priorities department. At the close of this century, Princess Diana's death in a car crash received more press coverage--25% more--than any single event that happened during World War II, including the Nazi invasion of France, the disaster at Dunkirk, the bombing of London, the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, or the final surrender of Nazi forces. 3. The immigrant labor crisis. The United States rejects immigrants from Cuba--except those who can play ball. Consider Orlando Hernandez, older brother of Florida Marlins' pitcher Livan Hernandez, who is allegedly a better pitcher than his brother Livan, was accepted into the United States while several of his boat party were turned back to the Caribbean isle by U.S. immigration agents. 4. I-feel-your-pain department. Out of some 42,000 instances of human rights abuses and violations in Guatemala recently investigated by the United Nations' Independent Historical Clarification Commission, some 93% of them were carried out by government paramilitary forces--tacitly supported by the United States government through training, money, and other types of aid. On a recent trip to Guatemala, President Clinton responded to the findings by remarking that, "United States . . . support for military forces or intelligence units which engaged in violent and widespread repression . . . was wrong." 5. What your government gives to you. In 1998, the public helped pay for the construction of two centers vital to the survival of the republic: the "Paul Simon Public Policy Institute" in Carbondale, Illinois and the "Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Service" in Lawrence, Kansas. 6. Show me the money. The paper losses that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates suffered on October 1997's Black Monday were enough to install a basic computer lab in every high school in the entire United States. For more facts that make you laugh and cry at the same time, see "Steal This Book and Get Life Without Parole: Incendiary Insights by Investigative Humorist Bob Harris," a man who has been called a cross between Lenny Bruce and Noam Chomsky. Click on http://www.commoncouragepress.com/steal.html. NEXT WEEK: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky and Robert W. McChesney on the Political Economy of the Internet. MONDAY: What's not so new about the “new” media. This is the free Political Literacy Course from Common Courage Press: A backbone of facts to stand up to spineless power. Email 29, October 15 1999. 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