A complete run of the Antifa Info-Bulletin is available through Friday. It is in a zip file at <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/>. The file is "afib.zip" and is about 4.6 Mb in length. _________________________________________________________________________ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 14 March 2000 Vol. 4, Number 22 (#400) __________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Action Alerts AFAA #102: Los Angeles: Demo Against Police Brutality, 15 Mar AFAA #103: Nazi "annuity" contracts -- Heimeinkaufsvertrag FBI Dossiers On Anti-Fascists, Anti-Militarists, etc. Released More News On Austria Melissa Eddy (Associated Press), "Anti-Semitism Is Issue in Lawsuit," 6 Mar 00 David Lewin (Search & Unite), "Blatant anti-Semitism in the Austrian Press," 8 Mar 00 FTP Supplement #153: St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Christian Identity FTP Supplement #154: News On the World Church of the Creator What's Worth Checking: 15 stories -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT #102: Against Police Brutality & For Community Control of Police Los Angeles: Wednesday, 15 Mar GATHER 4:00 PM, DA Garcetti's Office, Criminal Courts Bldg., Temple & Spring St. MARCH to City Hall East City Council Offices. PICKET 5:00 PM, Parker Center, LAPD Headquarters, Los Angeles & Temple St. The news of crimes by cops in LAPD's CRASH unit at the Rampart Division didn't surprise people who've faced police brutality. Cops operate in a racist manner under color of authority. Their 'us against them' mentality is protected by a code of silence, and by authorities allowing a 'margin of error' on police violence. The Dalton Street raids exposed the criminal nature of CRASH years ago. The jailhouse informant scandal exposed the DA's complicity with perjury. The Rodney King beating exposed the culture of racism, sexism and violence at the LAPD. What's different this time is that it's clear to everyone that it's not just a few cops, it's not just Rampart, it's the system! The courts, the DA, the police brass are all part of the problem. The confessions of a cop caught stealing and selling cocaine have exposed so many frame-ups, the shooting and killing of unarmed men, planting drugs and guns to justify those crimes, perjury, 1000's of cases may be overturned. How many of those were second or third strikes? Judges forced innocent men to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit with the threat of long sentences. Chief Parks claims he didn't have enough resources to supervise the cops, but there were enough for Operation Hammer and other kinds of racial profiling to criminalize thousands of Black and Latino young people. D.A. Garcetti says he doesn't have enough resources to investigate and prosecute criminal cops, but he had enough to lock up more "third strikers" than any other DA, and to secure gang injunctions on perjured police testimony! Now they want to stick it to the taxpayers to clean up the mess they made! Mayor Riordan wants to steal the money from the tobacco settlement, meant for health and education projects, to pay damages. We say, No Way! Make the cops pay! Let the liability come out of their pockets and their department. Why throw more money into police coffers, when their internal investigation can never solve the problem? Community Control of Police -- Now! The cops can't be trusted to investigate themselves. Too much is enough! We're tired of phony solutions that just make the problem worse. Only an aroused community exerting its control over the police can put an end to police brutality and racism! We demand the DA indict the killer cops and sheriff's deputies who have taken the lives of people like Margaret Mitchell, Tyisha Miller, Ken Callis, Amadou Diallo, Julio Castillo, Juan Saldana, Ricardo Clos and others. We need a permanent independent special prosecutor who will focus on nothing but police corruption, brutality, racism and misconduct. We need community assemblies that can watchdog the police in every division, and put forward people's policies to control police practices, pending the development of independent elected civilian review boardswith subpoena power and the authority to discipline the cops. If not, cops will follow their unwritten customs and protect and serve only the rich! End the militarization of the police, and stop police spying on community organizations and disruption of gang truce efforts. When Sen. Hayden took testimony about police harassment from gang-truce advocates, the LAPD came out to identify those trying to maintain a truce. They eventually arrested and framed up a number of activists, one of whom they turned over to the INS for deportation to try to quash his testimony exposing another Rampart Division frame-up. Dismantle the CRASH units city-wide, now! We demand mental health intervention and training, so cops won't use their guns on mentally ill or disturbed people. Individual cops must pay for the damage they do. When the cops are individually accountable for punitive damages, they will be more responsible with their power. Don't rob our kids of parks, libraries, health care and social services to pay for police abuse! It's past time to get organized and fight back against police repression, racism and brutality! The Campaign for Community Control of the Police is a new grass-roots coalition aimed at educating and mobilizing the community to exert its power and authority over the police who are supposed to serve us. The March 15th demonstration against police brutality and for community control of the police is not a one-day affair, but the beginning of a concerted and consistent campaign. We're building a pro-active movement that can force the LAPD and the Sheriff's Department to respect the rules and civil and human rights that already exist, like the requirement that LAPD officers give a business card with their name, badge number and supervisor's name and phone number to anyone they detain and release; or the court-ordered prohibition on political spying by the LAPD against community groups, especially those involved in police reform efforts. We cannot fight for you, but we will fight with you! We want to help form Justice Committees for victims of police violence, and Defense Committees for victims of police frame-ups. We want to include you in building neighborhood assemblies that can watchdog the cops and prevent these crimes from happening in the first place. This is a campaign for winning some long-overdue justice in this city and this society. We will jam up the City Council, the Police Commission, the Advisory Councils created by the police brass, until we get some real solutions. There can't be any effective community-based policing until there is some real community control of the police! If you're frustrated by the lack of police accountability, if you're fired up about police abuse, and can't take it any more, join the Campaign for Community Control of Police! We meet Thursdays at 7:00 pm at: Coalition Against Police Abuse 2824 S. Western Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90018 Contact us at 323-733-2107 or by email at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. - - - - - ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT #103: Nazi "annuity" contracts -- Heimeinkaufsvertrag In preparation for the mass deportations to 'the East' and to 'Theresienstadt', the RSHA organisers devised a particularly devilish plan circa 1940: The purpose was to divert the (still substantial) Jewish owned cash from the then practiced/established confiscation procedure for the account of the Reich in general, by way of the Finanzamt and to re-direct great sums into the ever-empty coffres of the RSHA. According to this plan, the deportation-designated Jews had to pay in advance for their room and board at the designated camp -- prior to deportation -- in addition to RM 50 per person for travelling expenses. Most often, a fixed amount was demanded from them which -- coincidentally - - was identical to their bank balance on the day of the deportation. Regardless of the individual's state of health, the victims had to calculate RM 150 per month from that day on until an expected 'average' age of 85 for care, housing, food etc. If you are a survivor or the heir of camp survivors and have knowledge of your personal or your loved ones' Heimeinkaufsvertrag , if you have proof, witnesses, access to details, please send this information to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> attention: Shimon Samuels. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FBI DOSSIERS ON ANTI-FASCISTS, ANTI-MILITARISTS, ETC. RELEASED The FBI has published on the net a number of documents concerning their spying on various anti-fascists, anti-militarists, and civil rights groups. You can read them at: The Electronic Reading Room of the Federal Bureau of Investigation <http://foia.fbi.gov/alpha.htm> The targets of the FBI included: American Friends Service Committee; Baker, Josephine; Black Panther Party - - Winston Salem, NC; Brecht, Bertolt; Chavez, Cesar and United Far Workers; Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam; Darrow, Clarence; DuBois, W.E.B.; Einstein, Albery; Gay Activists Alliance; Hoffman, Abbie (Abbott); King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Krivitsky, Walter G.; Lennon, John; Lewis, John L.; Little [sic], Malcom X; London, Jack; Marcantonio, Vito; Marshall, Thurgood; Picasso, Pablo; Reich, Wilhelm; Robeson, Paul and Eslanda; Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel; Sacco/Vanzetti Case; Steinbeck, John; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Tresca, Carlos; Trotsky, Leon; Wright, Richard Nathaniel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE NEWS ON AUSTRIA Anti-Semitism Is Issue in Lawsuit Melissa Eddy (Associated Press) 6 Mar 00 VIENNA, Austria -- The president of Vienna's Jewish Community said Monday he would use a libel suit filed by Joerg Haider as a chance to prove the former Freedom Party leader's anti-Semitism. Haider filed the lawsuit against Ariel Muzicant and News weekly for publishing an interview in which the Jewish leader called Haider an anti- Semite for denying that Jews had suffered more harassment during the Freedom Party's election campaign last summer. On Monday, Muzicant said he was compiling examples of Haider's anti-Semitic rhetoric since the start of his political career, as well as finding linguists and other experts, to support the statements he made in the November interview. "I will not be gagged," Muzicant said. In the runup to Austria's national elections Oct. 3, Muzicant told local media there had been an increase in attacks on Jews. Haider, who recently stepped down as head of the far-right Freedom Party but remains governor of Carinthia province, told News in an interview published Oct. 28 he'd seen no proof of such incidents. "Before I see a concrete example, I don't believe it," he was quoted as saying. "I don't know if these alleged attacks actually happened. There is no reason for them." Muzicant responded the following week in News, calling Haider's statement "snotty, irresponsible and anti-Semitic," and alleging that Haider used lies as a political instrument. The Freedom Party, which came in second in national elections, told the Austria Press Agency on Monday that it found the remarks "discrediting," and has consequently filed suit. The trial is to begin next week. - - - - - Blatant anti-Semitism in the Austrian Press David Lewin (Search & Unite) 8 Mar 00 On 16 February 2000 Neue Krone Zeitung took it upon itself to publish a piece by Wolf Martin. He writes quite regularly for the Kronen Zeitung. He wrote: Dass Juden jetzt aus Oesterreich fluechten steht zu befuerchten wohl mitnichten Denn selbst fuer aergste Haider-Fresser Lebt es sich wohl um Haeuser besser Im << Nazi-Land >> der blauen << Schande >> Als im gelobten heil'gen Lande. This form of hate and incitement brings nothing but shame on Austria. While expressing my personal disgust at such events, I ask you to voice your protest with the Editor of the paper Mr Hans Dichand Neue Krone Zeitung Muthgasse 2 A-1190 Wien Austria Translated, this "poem" means: I do not think one has to fear that Jews will flee from Austria now. Even the worst Haider-Hater knows very well that he is much better off in the "Nazi country" of the blue "disgrace" than in the cherished holy land * * * * * David in London and Margret in Munich run a small Search & Unite office attempting to help the many who suspect that despite the passage of so many years since World War II, someone may still exist "out there" http://remember.org/unite/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet Anti-Fascist: Sunday, 12 March 2000 FTP Supplement #153 (#398): St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Christian Identity CONTENTS 1) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "What is the Christian Identity Church movement?," 5 Mar 00 2) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The FBI calls it the nation's most dangerous hate group. And it's growing in Missouri," 5 Mar 00 3) Carolyn Tuft and Joe Holleman (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), "Reporters manage to get in conference of Christian Identity, but they stand out," 5 Mar 00 4) Carolyn Tuft and Joe Holleman (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), "Inside the Christian Identity Movement," 5 Mar 00 5) Carolyn Tuft and Joe Holleman (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), "Jewish man who has attended gatherings of group says, 'These guys are very smart'," 5 Mar 00 6) Patricia Rice (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), "The movement "is not Christian," says minister who heads ecumenical group in St. Louis," 5 Mar 00 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf398.txt> - - - - - The Internet Anti-Fascist: Monday, 13 March 2000 FTP Supplement #154 (#399): News On World Church of the Creator CONTENTS 1) Kellie B. Gormly (Peoria Journal Star), "Supremacist's meeting greeted by protesters: Hale's World Church gathering attracts about 30 followers," 12 Mar 00 2) John Holland (Knight Ridder / Tribune News Service), "Florida targeted Hale's church -- Prosecutors: Racial beating suspect helped convict group's leaders," 11 Mar 00 3) Michael Miller (Journal Star, "Congregations sow the seeds of respect: Peoria-area religious leaders urge groups to show tolerance," 11 Mar 00 4) Alex Curtis (The Nationalist Observer), "Eat, Meet and Retreat in a Den of Government Informants" 5) Sara Baker (AP), "Bill ignites controversy: Incendiary speech issue raises constitutional questions," 13 Mar 00 6) Jerry Lawrence (Chicago Tribune), "Group Hopes To Turn Hate Into Helping Hand," 13 Mar 00 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf399.txt> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT'S WORTH CHECKING stories via <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story5/> AP , "Holocaust Archive Inaugurated," 7 Mar 00, "The world's largest archive of material documenting the murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi regime was inaugurated Tuesday by Israel's Holocaust memorial authority." <1451.txt> Stephen Brown (Reuters), "Argentina's Astiz Sentenced for 'Dirty War' Boasts," 8 Mar 00, "One of the most infamous death squad leaders of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, Alfredo Astiz, received a three-year suspended jail sentence on Wednesday for boasting about his crimes to a magazine. The fired Navy captain, known as 'The Blond Angel' for his cherubic looks, listened stonily as a federal court in Buenos Aires found him guilty of trying to justify the horrifying human rights crimes of the 1976-83 military dictatorship. He told Trespuntos magazine in 1998, in what he claimed was just an off-the-record chat, that he was 'the best-trained man in Argentina to kill journalists and politicians'." <1452.txt> AP, "Cops Confiscate Nazi-Themed Float," 11 Mar 00, "Police in northern Italy on Saturday confiscated an Auschwitz-themed Mardi Gras float featuring dancing concentration camp inmates and Nazi guards, blocking it from appearing in another parade." <1453.txt> Paul Geitner (AP), "German Accused of Xenophobic Slogan," 11 Mar 00, "A leading conservative politician hoping to become governor of Germany's most populous state was accused Saturday of running an 'anti-foreigner' campaign along the lines of Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider. Juergen Ruettgers, who served as education minister under former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, adopted a campaign slogan this week calling for Germany to focus its high-tech efforts on its own 'children instead of Indians' - 'Kinder statt Inder' in German." <1454.txt> Philip Pullella (Reuters), "Pope in Historic Pardon Request From Jews, Others," 12 Mar 00, "In one of the most significant acts of his papacy, Pope John Paul asked forgiveness on Sunday for the many past sins of his Church, including its treatment of Jews, heretics, women and native peoples. It was the first time in the history of the Catholic Church that one of its leaders has sought such a sweeping pardon for its past sins." <1455.txt> Mark John (Reuters), "Auschwitz Doctor Declared Unfit for Murder Trial," 11 Mar 00, "Hans Muench, the last surviving doctor from the Auschwitz concentration camp in World War Two, has been declared unfit to stand trial on murder, German authorities said on Saturday. A Justice Ministry spokesman in the central state of Hesse confirmed a magazine report that public prosecutors there had dropped their investigation against Muench, 88, after medical examiners found he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease." <1456.txt> Reuters, "Berlin Court Permits Neo-Nazis' Pro-Haider March," 11 Mar 00, "A Berlin court on Saturday gave the go-ahead for the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) to march in support of the entry into the Austrian government of Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. But it ruled that Sunday's demonstration, taking place on the anniversary of the 1938 Nazi march into Austria, could not pass through the Brandenburg Gate as planned." <1457.txt> Reuters, "Neo-Nazis Begin Pro-Haider March in Berlin," 12 Mar 00, "Supporters of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) marched through Berlin Sunday in support of the entry into the Austrian government of Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. Eyewitnesses said around 300 protesters walked through the southern district of Kreuzberg, home to many of Berlin's large Turkish immigrant population, with some bearing placards with anti-foreigner and anti-European Union slogans." <1458.txt> Jeffrey Heller (Reuters), "Israeli Rabbi: Papal Apology Welcome But Not Enough," 12 Mar 00, "Israel's Chief Rabbi welcomed a plea by Pope John Paul Sunday for forgiveness for past sins of the Roman Catholic Church, but said he was disappointed it did not go further in addressing the evils inflicted on Jews. Rabbi Israel Meir Lau said he hoped the Pope would make amends with a more specific apology during an historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land this month that will include a visit to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem." <1459.txt> Erik Kirschbaum (Reuters), "Rocks Hurled at Berlin Pro-Haider Marchers," 12 Mar 00, "Police fired water cannon at demonstrators who hurled rocks and bottles at neo-Nazis rallying in Berlin in support of the new Austrian government Sunday. Several hundred supporters of the fringe far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) gathered by the Brandenburg Gate in the center of the city as around 1,000 counter-demonstrators screamed 'Nazis out' behind a police cordon." <1460.txt> Matthew Junker ([West Virginia] Tribune-Review), "Racist fliers draw quick reaction from area residents, businesses," 10 Mar 00, "Racist fliers, the first reported hate-group reaction to the shootings March 1 in Wilkinsburg, have surfaced in several Westmoreland County communities. The leaflets, which read 'Black Crime: White Victim' and call for whites to 'stand up and fight,' are being investigated by a number of local police departments and a state agency." <1461.txt> Bill Morlin ([Spokane] Spokesman-Review), "Racist pagans identified: Organization that idolizes The Order moves to Spokane," 12 Mar 00, "A racist pagan organization that idolizes terrorist members of The Order and its slain leader has moved its headquarters to the Spokane area. The White Order of Thule, headed by Nathan Pett, operates two Web sites and publishes a newsletter and journal -- all advocating white superiority. One of the newsletter's contributors is a convicted cocaine dealer from Maine who is a suspect in the killing of a 'race traitor' in a federal prison in Pennsylvania, authorities say." <1462.txt> Natalie Armstrong ([Canadian] National Post), "First Nation wins landmark treaty case: Manitoba natives entitled to 118 years of compensation as agreement breached," 2 Mar 00, "A First Nations group in southern Manitoba is lawfully entitled to compensation from the federal government for 'loss of use of reserve land' after it waited 118 years for acreage that was promised to them. The Indian Claims Commission, an independent body set up to settle First Nations claims when Ottawa has breached an agreement with aboriginals, recommended yesterday in a landmark decision that the federal government should also negotiate compensation with the Long Plain First Nation." <1463.txt> Tamar Lewin (New York Times), "Study Finds Racial Bias in Public Schools," 1 Mar 00, "Black students in public schools across the country are far more likely than whites to be suspended or expelled, and far less likely to be in gifted or advanced placement classes, according to a study of 12 large public school districts released yesterday by the Applied Research Center, a left-leaning nonprofit public policy group in Oakland, Calif." <1464.txt> Lorraine Adams and Petula Dvorak (Washington Post), "N.Y. Police Acquittals Protested: U.S. Vows Review," 3 Mar 00, "Federal prosecutors yesterday pledged a stringent review into the acquittal of four New York police officers in the shooting of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo, as busloads of protesters seeking federal action rallied outside the Justice Department." <1465.txt> * * * * * In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. __________________________________________________________________________ FASCISM: We have no ethical right to forgive, no historical right to forget. (No permission required for noncommercial reproduction) - - - - - back issues archived via: <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/> _________________________________________________________ Enlighten your in-box. http://www.topica.com/t/15
