Bay Area United Against War

BAUAW MEETING WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 7:00 p.m.
1380 VALENCIA STREET
(Between 24th & 25th Streets, SF)

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1) Quinto Sol at Youth & Power Event
@ Cabrillo College, Oct. 2nd!
From: "Jon Previtali"

2) John Kerry: Statement of Principles on U.S. Cuba Policy
June 5, 2004
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0605a.html

3) Cost Free Campaigning:
From: "Eric Schiller"
To: BAUAW
Mon, 20 Sep 2004

4) CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY PRISONERS JUST KEEP DYING

5) Here is the story that Scripps Howard covered:
Million Worker March to Voice Labor Movement Concerns
by Rebecca Trela

6) WHAT THE WORLD THINKS OF THIS EMPIRE
[Col. Writ. 8/28/04] Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

7) REMEMBERING TOM PAINE
[Col. Writ. 8/29/04] Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

8) THE HORRORS OF CHECHNYA -- AGAIN!
[Col. Writ. 9/4/04] Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

9) "WORKING PEOPLE YES! WAR NO!
HAVE YOU GOTTEN YOUR BUSES FOR OCT 17 WASHINGTON DC?
Anti-War 4 the Million Worker March
http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org

10) Reuters Asks a Chain to Remove Its Bylines
By IAN AUSTEN
September 20, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/business/media/20reuters.html

11) International Council for Humanity Film showing
Every Wednesday night in October @7pm
The Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street,
Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph

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1) Quinto Sol at Youth & Power Event
@ Cabrillo College, Oct. 2nd!
From: "Jon Previtali"

Youth and Power

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2004
CABRILLO COLLEGE
6500 SOQUEL DRIVE, APTOS, CA
EVENTS START @ 1p.m. until 11p.m.
In The College Theater

For more info, hit up: www.nonviolentprotester.com

Live Music by:
quinto sol,EL VUH, Sandfly, Dubwise, Psykoflavor, Silvio

ALSO FEATURING: Activist workshops, Danza Azteca Ixtatutli, Native Drumming, Brazilian Music, Spoken Word ,Open Mic, Dance Performers

Participating Organizations:

Watsonville Brown Berets, Global Exchange, Santa Cruz Cuba
Study Group, Youth Empowerment Project! (YEP!), Resource
Center for Nonviolence, Cabrillo College Student Senate,
Commemoration Committee of the Black Panther Party (CCBPP),
Books Not Bars, 94.1 KPFA- La Onda Bajita, Triangle Speakers,
Barrios Unidos, Cabrillo College MEChA, Youth In Focus, White
Hawk Aztec Danza, Art in Action, FMLN, Code Pink, Free Radio
Santa Cruz 101.1, Santa Cruz Copwatch, and more to be announced!!

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!!!

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2) John Kerry: Statement of Principles on U.S. Cuba Policy
June 5, 2004
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0605a.html

I am committed to seeing the end to the Castro regime, which I have
long condemned for its flagrant human rights abuse and political
oppression. There is no excuse for the Castro regime to hold down
over 11 million talented and hardworking citizens of the Americas,
some of our closest neighbors. Let there be no mistake about my
view: I will support effective and peaceful strategies that will hasten
the end of the Castro regime as soon as possible, and enable the
Cuban people to take their rightful place in the democratic community
of the Americas. But the policy of this Administration punishes and
isolates the Cuban people while leaving Castro and his consorts
unharmed, free to blame the United States for their own failures.

I want to work with all Americans, especially the broad and diverse
Cuban-American community, others in the Latino community, the
United States Congress, our neighbors in this hemisphere, and the
international community, to bring about a peaceful transition to
democracy in Cuba, putting the focus on Castro's failures instead
of our policy.

President Bush's recent election-year move to significantly restrict
cash remittances to Cuban families and virtually eliminate family
travel must be seen for what it is -- a cynical and misguided ploy
for a few Florida votes. This move will not pressure Castro. But it
will pressure Cuban-Americans and their often elderly relatives
across the straits. I am not going to pander and promise something
no president in the last 45 years has been able to deliver. I want to
take steps to help all of us, including Cubans and their families in
Cuba, work toward a democratic solution and the ultimate end to
the Castro regime in a peaceful and democratic way. President Bush,
on the other hand, has asked Cuban-Americans to choose between
their government and their families on the island, steps widely
denounced not only by Cuban families, but also by leading
dissidents on the island. When the President's proposals take
effect, the misery of the Cuban people, not of Castro, is sure to rise.

Instead, we should promote the interchanges of ideas that will
begin now to lay the foundations for economic prosperity and an
independent civil society that I believe are so critical to peace and
democracy. I would begin by encouraging principled travel. George
Bush wants to end most travel to Cuba. Cuban-American families
are the most positive force for change in Cuba today. Why limit their
freedom to press for change? Humanitarian trade in food and
medicine is another powerful way to strengthen the foundation
of freedom and democracy. And we have a bipartisan consensus
in the Congress for such steps.

Indeed, I have consistently joined my colleagues on both sides of
the aisle in votes with bipartisan majorities to end the travel ban
and to permit the sale of food and medicine, while voting to censure
Cuba for human rights violations. Last year, both houses of Congress
voted in favor of lifting the travel ban - and only Bush Administration
opposition prevented the bipartisan will of Congress from becoming
law. These votes signal my belief and that of the Congress that selective
engagement, not isolation, is the best way for the American people
to send real, not just rhetorical, hope for a better future to the
Cuban people.

I have also consistently supported remittances because I believe
they can become a powerful tool for all Cuban-Americans and all
Americans to help Cubans on the island not just to survive, but also
to start small businesses and thereby gain a measure of autonomy
from the crushing repression of the Cuban state. We should lift
the remittance cap and allow all Americans to send remittances
to households and humanitarian institutions. The Bush announcement
to curb travel and remittances, will not only hurt Cuban families, but
will also prompt the Castro regime again to blame the United States
for the Cuban people's suffering.

I also support the free flow of information to Cuba. Enhancing
communication through news bureaus, people-to-people contact,
effective support for dissidents and civil society, and an accessible,
soundly managed, fair and balanced Radio and TV MartÃ can help
reduce the isolation of the Cuban people. But at the end of the day,
the best way to communicate American ideals to Cubans is to let
Americans and Cubans talk face to face.

Let me be clear - I do not support lifting the embargo or
recognizing Castro's dictatorial regime. While reducing the
economic isolation of the Cuban people, I want to work with
the international community to increase political and diplomatic
pressure on the Castro regime to release all political prisoners,
support civil society, and begin a process of genuine political
reform.

This effort will come as part of a broader initiative to restore
American credibility with our allies. President Bush on the other
hand is now considering implementing extra territorial aspects
of the Helms-Burton law, aimed at punishing foreign countries
and companies for investing in Cuba. This will further strain
relations with Canada and our European allies when, frankly,
we most need them. With American credibility abroad suffering
from this White House's smug disregard for world opinion, extra-
territorial steps will only make matters worse. Instead, I will work
to craft a policy toward Cuba that our allies can join and support.

Over the last forty-five years our government has tried everything
from invasion and covert operations to economic sanctions and
international pressure to bring about change in Cuba. The American
taxpayer has spent billions of dollars on the cause, to no avail. For
example, under the Bush administration, far more manpower at
the Treasury is dedicated to enforcing the Cuba travel ban than
to tracking down terrorist financing. A policy of isolation and
deprivation sends the wrong message to the Cuban people and
strengthens Castro and the hardliners around him, allowing them
to manipulate information about America's intentions.

As President, I will seek to reverse that equation and show
Cubans on the island that the United States government and
all of its citizens, including Cuban-Americans, can be positive
partners for the island's free and democratic future.

Paid for and authorized by Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc.

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3) Cost Free Campaigning:
From: "Eric Schiller"
To: BAUAW
Mon, 20 Sep 2004

I have a meeting in Berkeley at 5, so might not be able to
get to the meeting.

You might want to circulate my suggestion on cost-free campaigning:

1. Get (or make) a 1-sheet flyer or information sheet against Bush

2. Collect all the postage-paid business reply envelopes
from your junk mail
3. Place flyer in envelope, seal and mail

These envelopes are opened by low-wage workers who tend not to be
politically active.

Many of them live in "swing" states.

Let the corporate goons subsidize this campaign to kick their boy out
of the White House!

Eric Schiller
www.ericschiller.com
.........

Dear Eric,

While I don't support "lesser of two evils politics" I think this
is a great way to use those postage-paid mailer envelops for
circulating antiwar information to those we would not
reach otherwise...Bonnie Weinstein

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4) CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY PRISONERS JUST KEEP DYING

About four dozen protesters endured wet weather Sunday as they
marched and chanted for a mile to the California Youth Authority
facility near Stockton. The march was in response to the latest
death of a ward at the facility and to advocate for the youth prison
to be shut down. "Stop the deaths! Stop the lies! CYA ruins lives!"
said the protesters, who included members of Books Not Bars, a
statewide campaign fighting to redirect California's public
resources away from punishment of young people and toward
opportunity through rehabilitation.

"We are not getting any answers from them (CYA)," Twanisha Brewer,
22, said during the protest. "When he got here, he was healthy, and
that's the way he should have come home. We need to know what
happened to my brother," she said.

Dyron Mandell Brewer, 24, of Berkeley was found dead at 3:45 a.m.
Sept. 5 in his cell at the N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional
Facility, southeast of Stockton. Brewer's is the fourth death in CYA
custody this year. Two wards, ages 17 and 18, hung themselves in
January in a cell they shared at a facility in Ione; another,
Roberto Lombana, 18, died later that month at Chad after ingesting
cleaning fluid. The Stockton facility also drew fire in April from
critics pushing for reforms to the youth prisons after California
State Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles) released a videotape that
showed prison guards beating two wards at the site.

Jakada Imani, program director of the Ella Baker Center for Human
Rights, said a photograph of Brewer was "deeply alarming" to the
family: They were barred from seeing the body at the coroner's
office, and instead were shown a Polaroid picture of his face. They
could hardly recognize Brewer in the photograph, they said, but they
would not specify what he looked like other than to say his face was
swollen. "We need answers, we need to know why [he died]," said
Twanisha Brewer. "That was my heart, and that was ripped from me,"
she said.

At the CYA in Stockton, Brewer's family and friends said he
complained during phone conversations about being picked on by
guards. He told them the guards were trying to get him in trouble so
they could add time to his sentence. They said he was also confused
about why he was back in CYA and pleaded with them to contact his
parole officer to find out.

Dyron had no history of seizures, heart trouble, asthma, high blood
pressure, drug abuse, or the like. Yet CYA officials claim that
Dyron went to sleep in his cell as a perfectly healthy 24-year-old
and simply never woke up.

Unable to get answers about what had happened, the family teamed up
with Books Not Bars, a human rights advocacy organization that
focuses on incarcerated youth. Together they are demanding that CYA
release any information they have that would add to the coroner's
report. They said they are going to file a freedom of information
request for all documents related to the death and the treatment of
wards in the facilities. "Given the CYA's horrible track record of
neglect, abuse, and cover up, we need a full investigation of how
Dyron lost his life," said Lenore Anderson, the director of Books
Not Bars. "The CYA should release its reports on this incident and
let the family know what happened to their son."

"CYA needs to be shut down," Twanisha Brewer said. "It's not just
our family, but other families need to know why these kids are dead.
They need answers, too."

At the end of Sunday's protest, carnations were placed on the barbed-
wire fence around Chaderjian to memorialize the wards' deaths.
Sources: Books Not Bars, Berkeley Daily Planet, IMC/Bay Area,
Stockton Record

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5) Here is the story that Scripps Howard covered:
Million Worker March to Voice Labor Movement Concerns
by Rebecca Trela

(From: "sharon black"
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 8:51:3 -0400)

Americans are expected to gather at the Lincoln Memorial Oct. 17 for the
Million Worker March, mobilizing union workers and anti-war
demonstrators in a show of election-related concerns.

Sept 16, 2004 (AXcess News) Washington - Thousands of Americans are
expected to gather at the Lincoln Memorial Oct. 17 for the Million
Worker March, mobilizing union workers and anti-war demonstrators in a
show of election-related concerns.

"We see the Million Worker March as an integral part of putting this
country back on the right track,"said Chris Silvera, president of the
National Black Teamsters Caucus, at a news conference Thursday.

March organizers cited universal health care, pension plans, the future
of Social Security and the withdrawal of troops from Iraq as key issues
to set before legislators.

Sponsors of the march include the National Education Association; the
Green Party; the Teamsters National Black Caucus; the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union; the American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees; the American Postal Workers Union; and Rep.
Barbara Lee, D-Calif.

Recently, AFL-CIO Field Mobilization Director Marilyn C. Sneiderman was
criticized by some union workers for public remarks discouraging union
members from attending the march.

A spokeswoman for the labor union coalition, however, attempted on
Thursday to clarify its position:

"We've never said that we're against the march," said Lane Windham.
"Certainly we support the goals, but we don't think this is the right
time. We think that all the labor movement's efforts should be going
into battleground states." Windham suggested a Washington event after
the election.

March organizers estimated on their permit application that the march
would draw 100,000 demonstrators, according to Warren Suyderhoud
of the National ! Park Ser vice permit department.

March Co-Chair Clarence Thomas, a Longshore and Warehouse Union
official, said he hopes to achieve that number.

"We're not saying that there will be a million people there, but a
million people will be represented," he said.

Thomas indicated that, although some unions involved in the march have
endorsed candidates for the election, the march organization has
remained neutral to host an all-inclusive event.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. E. Randall Osburn of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference will speak. The event will also include
special interest and advocacy group tents on the Mall.

Source: Scripps Howard Foundation Wire

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6) WHAT THE WORLD THINKS OF THIS EMPIRE
[Col. Writ. 8/28/04] Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

The announcement, and the subsequent retraction, of
the news that US Secretary of State, Colin Powell would,
and then would not attend the closing ceremonies of the
Olympics in Athens gives us some idea of what millions
of people think, not just in Greece, but all around the
world, about the world's sole superpower.'

It also shows that the administration is leery of
showing what the world thinks, and this, with perhaps
the most popular member of the administration.

The world is angry at the US for its imperial
invasion of Iraq on the now-faded pretext, of
'weapons of mass destruction.' This may be seen
at the chorus of boos showered on American
athletes in Athens, something that is quite rare.

If we believe the corporate media, we see the
world in sharp, binary shades; much like Bush
suggested after September 11, 2001:'... they're
either for us, or against us.'

Military dictatorships and quasi-democracies
the world over, are using this simplistic 'for us
or against us' formula to target a slew of domestic
political opponents, in much the same way that
they used it during the Cold War. Today, their
opponents aren't called 'communists', or
'subversives' -- they're called 'terrorists.' Thus
trade unionists, human rights activists, and
various representatives of nationalist, cultural,
and ethnic movements are targeted by their
governments, often with the support of the
US government, as the newest 'enemy':
'terrorists.'

A recent book on the dark and dangerous
ties between Colombia and the US shows
the latest features of this trend.

Written by scholar and veteran journalist,
Mario A. Murillo, a Colombian-American
who teaches at Hofstra and the NYU, the
picture that emerges of Colombia is of
rampant corruption and sheer opportunism.
Murillo is especially critical of the press,
which, as it has done in the opening of the
Iraq War, routinely serves as an important
ally of the government, often without question.

Murillo has written Colombia and the
United States: War, Unrest and Destabilization
(New York: Seven Stories Press/Open
Media, 2004), which, among other things,
shows us how the major media serves the
power elites (both in the US *and* Colombia!)
by misrepresenting radical, and nationalist
movements, and indeed, by ignoring history
in support of a series of myths.

They do this by the formula of appearing
to be fair and objective, while using the
journalistic technique of slant, to favor the
established, state forces, against those who
oppose that state.

One example of this may be shown quickly
in a reference to the guerrilla movement known
as FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia). While Murillo is critical of FARC's
shortcomings and errors (especially where
peasants and workers were hurt), he points
out that rightist paramilitaries, like the
much lesser-known AUC (*A*utodefensas
*U*nidas de *C*olombia) were responsible
for over 75% of civilian casualties, torture
and rapes. It also goes largely unreported that
they are quite close to the State, and often work
hand-in-glove with them.

Also virtually unreported is the racial
composition of the Colombian people.
Murillo writes: "Colombia has a large black
population, ranging anywhere between 20
and 45 percent of the total, depending on
which figures you read and how you interpret
them." [p. 40] Afro-Colombians, many of
whom dwell in the rural and coastal areas,
are among the poorest, and most violently
repressed people of the country, both by
the state and the paramilitaries.

While most of us who read, hear, or
watch major media may have a skewed
perspective of Colombia, and how the
Colombian people view the US, and their
political leaders, Murillo tells of one
occasion when a Colombian politician
sent a powerful, public message to the
president, Uribe, that leapt the translation
barrier. On the floor of the chamber
of representatives, an independent
politician presented Uribe and his ministers
with a pair of knee pads, emblazoned
with American flags on them.

No one, it seems, loves an Empire.

(Prof. Murillo's book is available from:
Seven Stories Press, 140 Watts St.,
NY, NY 10013. On the web:
www.sevenstories.com. Seven Stories
has also published some of the writings
of Mr. Jamal.)

Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

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7) REMEMBERING TOM PAINE
[Col. Writ. 8/29/04] Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

"A little matter will move a party, but it must be
something great that moves a nation."
-- Thomas Paine, *Rights of Man* (1791-92)

The name Tom Paine may be known here in America,
but it is not revered.

If he is seen as a so-called 'founding father', he
is a forgotten one, who gets few accolades, when
one compares him to his contemporaries, like
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or
Ben Franklin.

The faces of these men emblazon U.S. currency,
and there are universities, hospitals and other
institutions that proudly bear their names.

There is a state and, of course, the nation's
capital, that bears Washington's name.

If one looks at the counties of this nation's
50 states, at least 30 states have a Washington
County; 25 counties boast a Jefferson County;
and Franklin brings up the rear with 20 counties
named after the Philadelphia scientist.

Thomas Paine, the powerful pamphleteer
who wrote the best-selling *Common Sense*,
and *Rights of Man*, writings which stirred
the hearts of American colonials against
Britain, gets nothing (while Oklahoma has a
'Payne' County, its spelling suggests it has
little to do with the revolutionary).

Paine was a poor man, who, in his 37th
year, was a failure at business, and marriage.
When his pamphlet, *Common Sense* took
off, selling about 120,000 copies in the Colonies,
he found his niche in life. It is from his writings,
that the words 'Declaration of Independence'
were first found in print, and this English-born
scribe coined the phrase, "United States of
America."

He went to France shortly after the
American Revolution, to join in the anti-royal
struggle there, later writing to Washington,
"A share in two revolutions is living to some
purpose."

Today, almost 200 years since his death,
his words, his brilliance, his clear prose and
true radicalism is little known.

I have found his works in right-wing and
libertarian book catalogs; yet few leftists quote
him, far fewer seem to study him, and few pore
through his works (outside of occasional
graduate courses).

He, as a man among the poor, wrote and
spoke about the boiling, burning issues of the
day; he opposed slavery; he opposed capital
punishment; he opposed kings and much of
organized religion with equal vigor. During
the French Revolution, he spoke out against
the execution of Louis XVI, and earned himself
a date with the guillotine. By chance, he
survived, until the cold lawyer, Robespierre
was beheaded, and in the euphoria of that
event Paine, and other political prisoners, were
freed. He never forgave his fellow American
rebels, Washington, nor Gouverneur Morris
(then U.S. representative to Paris), for not
lifting a finger to help him during his wait
for the guillotine. He would write a bitter
*Letter to Washington* (1796) where he
accused him of treachery and incompetence:

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in
private friendship (for so you have been
to me, and that in the day of danger) and
hypocrite in public life, the world will be
puzzled to decide whether you are
an apostate or an imposter; whether you
have abandoned good principles, or
whether you ever had any.

Thoroughly radical, a believer in international
revolution, an opponent of slavery, anti-death
penalty, and advocate for the poor, Thomas
Paine embodied some of the most humanistic
movements of his time.

He shouldn't be the 'forgotten founding father',
but a model of radical, and even revolutionary
activism for millions of folks today.

Ultimately, it really doesn't matter if there
are no counties named after him, or universities.
It would mean much if his radical vision lived
in the minds and hearts of young people, in
America and beyond.

Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

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8) THE HORRORS OF CHECHNYA -- AGAIN!
[Col. Writ. 9/4/04] Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

The horrific images emerging from the shattered,
gaping ruins of a school in southern Russia, and the
catastrophe of over 300 people -- women and
children among them -- dead, has become a graphic
backdrop for the perpetual media search for
reflections of the ephemeral 'war on terror.'

Americans, never comfortable with their own
real, unvarnished history, cares even less about the
history of other nations. If you ask the average
American about 'Chechnya', he'll probably think
you're talking about a dish at the neighborhood
Chinese restaurant.

But, Chechnya is a real place; and like
real places, it has a complex, long history with
Russia, the roots of which exploded on the
world's stage in recent days.

Behind the regional hatreds lie imperial
ambitions, colonialism, and blind, brutal
repression.

The *Toronto Star's* Eric Margolis has
written that the Russians have brutally ruled
the various Muslim peoples of the Caucasus
regions for 300 years, among them the
Chechens. Russia has crushed all opposition
"with ruthless ferocity", Margolis writes,
adding Russia has "twice attempted genocide."

According to Margolis, "... [In] the 1940s,
Stalin deported nearly all the 1.5 million
Chechen to Siberian concentration camps,
where 25% died." [*Source*: Enver Masud,
*The War on Islam*, (Arlington, Va.:
Madrasah Bks., 2000), pp. 150-51]

Some 2 million other Soviet Muslims
met similar fates.

According to Margolis, "Hitler used gas;
Stalin used the Russian winter" (p. 126).

This soul-shattering history, of centuries
of foreign colonization, repression, and
attempted genocide, cannot fit into
Washington's facile 'war against terror' -
but if we depend on the Bush Regime,
the corporate media, and the Putin regime,
we would think exactly that.

From the time of the Czars, to the present,
the people of Chechnya have been under
the Russian boot. Their 'leaders' were, as
often as not, hand-picked puppets chosen
in Moscow.

In light of the Bush-proclaimed 'war on
terror', the West now looks approvingly at
virtually any action targeting Muslims, the
world over.

When Chechens seek independence from
the Russian Empire, they are painted as
terrorists, with the West's approval, and
the might of the Russian state may be
arrayed against them.

How are they to respond to their colonizers--
vote for them?

Thus, 250 years disappears into the smoke
of 9-11, and the media prints editorials
against the Great Evil: Terrorism.

Lost in this rubble is the simple, human
right of independence, because those who
seek it are Muslims, and those who opposed
it are U.S. "allies" in this mad war, that
even Emperor Bush has recently admitted
is unwinnable (although, to be fair, he
changed his mind again a few days later).

This mad, quasi-war has empowered
every dictatorship in the world, with the
blessings (and arms sales!) of Washington,
to reduce nationalist and independence
movements to rubble.

We saw Russia's response to the opera
theater takeover in Moscow, in Oct. 2002.
As clumsy, as heavy-handed as the Keystone
Kops. This latest Russian show of force
almost triples the casualties.

There's one sure way of ending this
bloodletting: it's for the Russian empire to
release the Chechens from the imperial
grasp.

Isn't that 'liberty'?

Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal

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9) "WORKING PEOPLE YES! WAR NO!
HAVE YOU GOTTEN YOUR BUSES FOR OCT 17 WASHINGTON DC?
Anti-War 4 the Million Worker March
http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org

A new website, "Anti-War for the Million Worker March"
(http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org) , has just been
launched as an organizing tool for the thousands who are
planning to go to DC on October 17 to say "Bring the
Troops Home Now! Jobs, Healthcare, and Workers' Rights,
not War!"

At the new website, you can:

1) Sign up to be listed as an organizing center
(http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org/organingcenters.htm)

2) Download PDF's of fliers and help get the word out
(http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org/pdfdownload.htm)

3) Donate to help pay for buses, printing fliers, and
many other expenses.
(http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org)

4) View an updated list of endorsers
(http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org/endorsers.htm)

Also, coming soon:
*Detailed logistical information
*Updated transportation, including bus parking in DC
*Updated organizing centers

***Help Build the Million Worker March!***

Momentum is growing for the Million Worker March!

Organizing centers
(http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org/organizingcenters.htm)
are springing up across the country as workers, anti-war
activists, students, veterans, and communities of faith
answer the call to march on Washington, DC and organize in
our own name.

The Growing List of Endorsers includes: Congresswoman
Barbara Lee, Jesse Jackson, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition,
Global Women's Strike, United for Peace & Justice,
District Council 37 AFSCME, the United States Green Party,
American Postal Workers Union International,
and many others.

This historic march and movement needs your help. It is
only by organizing in our own name and building our own
independent mobilization of working people that we can
open the way to addressing our needs and our agenda.

We need your help in the following ways:

Donate! The massive mobilization on October 17 will incur
enormous expenses, including transportation, stage &
sound, and the printing of thousands of leaflets, among
others. You can help with these expenses by donating
online at http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org.

Become an Organizer! We need hundreds of local activists
to organize buses and vans. If you are interested in
becoming a local organizer, sign up at
http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org/organizingcenters.htm.

Help Get the Word Out! Download leaflets from
http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org/pdfdownload.htm
and take them to your workplace, union, community center,
school, or place of worship.

If you are coming to washington on oct 17 in buses, vans
etc - let us know ASAP so that we can list you
http://antiwar4themillionworkermarch.org/organizingcenters.htm

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10) Reuters Asks a Chain to Remove Its Bylines
By IAN AUSTEN
September 20, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/business/media/20reuters.html

Having their bylines appear in newspapers is an unexpected bonus for
news agency reporters. But now Reuters has asked Canada's largest
newspaper chain to remove its writers' names from some articles.

The dispute centers on a policy adopted earlier this year by CanWest
Global Communications - the publisher of 13 daily newspapers
including The National Post in Toronto and The Calgary Herald,
which both use Reuters dispatches - to substitute the word "terrorist"
in articles for terms like "insurgents" and "rebels."

"Our editorial policy is that we don't use emotive words when labeling
someone," said David A. Schlesinger, Reuters' global managing editor.
"Any paper can change copy and do whatever they want. But if a paper
wants to change our copy that way, we would be more comfortable if
they remove the byline."

Mr. Schlesinger said he was concerned that changes like those made
at CanWest could lead to "confusion" about what Reuters is reporting
and possibly endanger its reporters in volatile areas or situations.

"My goal is to protect our reporters and protect our editorial integrity,"
he said.

According to Mr. Schlesinger, members of Reuters' sales staff in
Canada have asked CanWest to remove writers' names to conform
to its guidelines for the use of "terrorist." Reuters has also asked that
CanWest add its name to that of Reuters as the source of revised
articles and to display that information only at the end of the articles.
Alternatively, Reuters suggests that its name not be used at all.

Scott Anderson, editor in chief of CanWest publications and an author
of the policy, said Reuters' rejection of his company's definition of
terrorism undermined journalistic principles.

"If you're couching language to protect people, are you telling the
truth?" asked Mr. Anderson, who is also editor in chief of The Ottawa
Citizen. "I understand their motives. But issues like this are why
newspapers have editors."

Mr. Anderson said the central definition in the policy was that
"terrorism is the deliberate targeting of civilians in pursuit of a
political goal."

The policy has caused Mr. Anderson's paper to issue two corrections
recently as the result of changes it made to articles provided by The
Associated Press. On Thursday, The Citizen changed an A.P. dispatch
to describe 6 of 10 Palestinians killed in the West Bank by Israeli troops
as
"terrorists," a description attributed to "Palestinian medical officials."
The Associated Press had called those people "fugitives."

The Citizen published a correction on Friday declaring it to be it an
editing error and describing the six dead as "militants." A week earlier,
the newspaper inserted the word terrorist seven times into an A.P.
article about the fighting between Iraqis and United States forces in
the city of Falluja. Mr. Anderson called the two episodes "silly errors."

Late Friday, a spokesman for The Associated Press, Jack Stokes,
issued a general statement about changes to its articles. "We
understand that customers need to edit our stories from time to
time," it said in part. "However, we do not endorse changes that
make an A.P. story unbalanced, unfair or inaccurate."

Mr. Anderson said he did not know how CanWest would deal with
the Reuters request. No one else at CanWest, The National Post or
The Calgary Herald was available for comment.

In an editorial published on Saturday, however, The National Post
said it would continue to follow its current policy.

"Mr. Schlesinger's broader implication - that the substantive
meaning of his reporters' stories are being universally vitiated
by our house style - is one we reject," it said. "The agency's use
of euphemisms merely serves to apply a misleading gloss of
political correctness. And we believe we owe it to our readers
to remove it before they see their newspaper every morning."

Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

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11) International Council for Humanity Film showing
Every Wednesday night in October @7pm
The Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street,
Oakland, between Broadway and Telegraph

Wed. Oct. 6th---To Serve & Protect-----

--------60 Minute documentary produced by UCSC students about
police brutality and the struggle to end it!
Move Confrontation---50 Minute documentary about the police
attack on the Move Organization in Philadelphia in 1978 and the
police bombing of the Move headquarters in 1985. Move is a
30 plus year powerful and liberating organization for the people
and all life

Wed. Oct. 13th-----Vanishing Prayer---15 Minute documentary
honoring the Dineh resistance in Big Mountain Arizona

The ZapatistaÂs Mayan Uprising---50 Minute

documentary about the beautiful people in Chiappas, Mexico

who have powerfully risen for the whole people.

Wed. Oct. 20th--The Framing & Execution of Mumia -A 60 Minute
video about the frame up of one of the planetÂs most popular
political prisoners.

The Arnold Beverly Confession----a short taped confession of
the man that killed the officer that Mumia is framed for killing

Wed. Oct. 27th-----Fahrenheit 911---Michael MooreÂs latest
work of political art regarding the Bush regime and the their
corrupt wars

Sliding scale $3-$5 no one turned away for lack of funds

The Humanist HallÂ390 27th StreetÂOakland

Between Broadway and Telegraph

Sponsored by International Council for HumanityÂ510-419-1405
buildingresistance@yahoo.com

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