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Free Mumia Abu-Jamall
Political Prisoner
denying that there even are political prisoners is a way of burying
people who fight against the system
it's a way of trying to bury what's wrong with the system.
all the ways people are oppressed
the the peoples who are oppressed
all the ways people fight against oppression
people aren't going to agree with the ways people have chosen
to struggle
but we must remember it's the system that's criminal elana levy
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In This Issue:
Happy May Day . You know, Spring,
Labor and all things sunny . Well, it seems PEACE NEWSLETTER May 1995
Michael H. spent some time in Nagasaki that PNL 631.
left an impression (a left impression, if you
will) . Captain Rockwood is done no dis- Table of Contents
service by Nancy R, as he deals with massive
press and infamy . Ed K . talks Fast. All sorts Letters 4
of community stuff, animals, and bombs and SPC Page 5
stuff. What to do about the Death Penalty, A Visit to Nagasaki by Michael Hovey 6
comes from Paul F., but don't neglect Mumia
and the "About the Cover" on this very page.
The Court Martial of Captain Rockwood by Nancy Rhodes 8
Because we can't seem to leave Ogden Mar- On the Fast Track by Ed Kinane 11
; tin alone, Ryan G. takes another stab. Joan G. Community Update 12
updates J . Harburry, Karen H. "rings out," Unclassifieds 13
Christine D. talks about Green war, and then
you can plan your month on the calendar.
Central American/Caribbean Coalition by Paul welchselbaum 14
Yip. A Matter of Life or Death by Paul Frazier 14
Money to Burn by Ryan Goldberg 16
The Peace Newsletter (PNL) is published
monthly by the Syracuse Peace Council . SPC, Conspiracy of Silence by Joan Goldberg 17
founded in 1936, is the oldest community-based In the Corner Stands a Boxer by Karen Han 16
peace and justice organization in the United States.
The PNL strives to serve some basic func- Judi Bari Survives Bomb by Linda Destefano 19
tionsas the internal organ of SPC and as aforum for In Review: The War Against the Greens by Christine Detwiler 21
articles which discuss issues of concern to the
peace movement. The opinions expressed in the Community Calendar 23
PNL reflect the diversity of opinions within SPC
itself. While we are not able to print every possible
viewpoint, we do welcome letter and article sub-
missions as well as suggestions and assistance.
The PNL has very reasonable ad rates ; call
or write for our rates . Movement groups are free to About the cover : Mumia Abu-ejamal
reprintarticles and graphics, but please give cred-
its . For-profit groups, please inquire.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an African-American political prisoner currently on death
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LETTERS
After returning to Berlin, PNL photogra- seriously good photographers . By the way, the Mostar update: There was shelling about
$+her and volunteer Jurgen Scheer traveled to main language was English even though we threeweeks ago ineast Most& after theBosnian
Mostar, Bosnia tofacilitate photography work- had to have everything translated into Bosnian army attacked a Serbian military camp. About
shops with teens there. What follows is some for three of them in the east . Lucky enough we 14 shells and a grenade hit the city. Again there
text from a recent FAX about the project: had Blue Cards, identifying us as members of was shelling last night. This is the war raging
Hi, the UNHCR, which made crossing to the east between Muslims and Serbs . The front-line
As you might have expected, the pictures easier. Basically we had no major problems Croats and Muslims are quiet right now, but,
are not ready yet... In whole we set up two with the authorities. If there were any, it was thekids at our housetell us that it will breakout
darkrooms, one in the east and one in the west. usually from the Croatian police. again. East Mostar is in ruins but people are
Same with the photography groups. The dark- The way the photography classes worked, quite busy rebuilding it, and within the six
room in the west was pretty easy to realize was that we explained the cameras, gave them weeks of staying there I saw major progress...,
because we had an extra room in the Mladi- film and told them to come back with a full roll All humanitarian aid is delivered through
Most house. Same thing with the students . By of film. Once the pictures were taken, we major cities like Mostar . Therefore there is no
the time we got there everybody knew about explained the darkroom-thing and made them real shortage of goods in the city. This looks
our project, and instead of the planned six work. So just before our departure the kids way different once you go cross-country. A lot
students we had twelve. In the east we hooked (about 15-18) had their own exhibition. Be- ofsmallvillages are short of everything. Every-
up with Mary Stopes International and ended cause of the divided city there had to be one in body thinks that the war in Bosnia is over and
up misusing their bathroom five days a week. the east and one in the west . Unfortunately if therefore do not donate enough All the hu-
The whole project. lasted way longer than ex- you are male and over the age of 16 you cannot manitarian aid organizations are complaining-
pected, and the way it looks now, it even keeps cross the border from one side to he other, so about this ...
going after we are gone. this part of our group was not able to come visit. The outlook forthe future isbad. There are
Nicole, a friend of mine from Boston, is Due to the fact that our group in the east was only small enclaves of Muslim territories left,
working with the groups right now . She is held at a women's center it was mostly women and the Muslim generals say that by now they
planning on exhibitions in NYC and Boston, and more than half the group came for an are trying to get the surrounding countries into
so I am pretty positive that there will be some- exchange to the west the war as theironly hope to survive and push
thing crossing the ocean even if I am not going Totally unexpected we had two members the Serbs back. With that goal in mind they
to make it. of the German Parliament and Hans Koschik, started their offensive three weeks ago. And
After a short phase in the beginning where the EU Admisnistrator of Mostar, at the open- who is to suffer? The civililns in Mostar...
they all took pictures only of each other and ing in the east. The opening in the west I missed In Peace,
Jurgen Scheer
their dogs, some of them turned out to be by a day.
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"We're finally reaping the violence we've sown abroad ..."
"to give the government new powers to fight enforcement, something that has been
These were the words that alerted me to terrorism." They list the following : prohibited in the US for over a hundred ,
the recent tragedy in Oklahoma City . I was • Legislation to establish a Domestic Counter- years.
working in the office when my friend (and SPC terrorism Center to be headed by the FBI.
volunteer bookkeeper) Duane came in, slowly • Legislation to give the FBI increased author- Be assured, it is not enough to assume you
repeating this sentence " . ..we're finally reaping ity to comb through hotel and motel registers, live a legal life . In fact legal may soon have-
the violence we've sown abroad." to search phone logs and to gain access to credit, very little to do with living . We must remain
It took a few minutes for what he was card records. vigilant . We cannot allow the state to use
saying to sink in, as he explained what he had • Pressing for passage of the administration's mass-constructed fear to increase their powers i
heard about the bombing of the federal build- Omnibus Counter-terrorism Act, which would at the cost of what freedom to organize we ,
ing . At that time it was mostly vague reports give the government more power to fight ter- have . More to the point, organizations cur
about numbers missing and children's day care, rorism and greater authority to protect the rently considered "terrorist" by the US govern-?
but it was clear that the damage was severe. confidentiality of sources in official proceed- ment and the FBI include the environmental,
The word "terrorist" comes easily off the ings. EarthFirst! and the radical, and mostly youth-
lips these days. How often can you go through Like most mainstream news sources, the based, animal rights group PETA.
a day without having the word -jump off a article goes into detail in all the wrong places. When culture is defined through fear, and,
printed page, or slide smoothly off an anchor- So to get a sense of what we may be facing in protection defines policy, activists risk defmi-i
person's tongue . But some words are tricky and the way of political repression, I'll quote an tion as the enemy . Historically the US govern-
need to be treated carefully. If we hear them too item from the April 1995 Progressive Review ment has imprisoned, deported or murdered
often we may stop listening to what they mean, called "Land of the Free": activists in labor and liberation movements ..
or worse, we may miss what was meant by . . .Senators Biden and Specter, along with For "domestic security" it doesn't matter if it's
them . Words are delicate, and run the danger of Rep . Schumer and Dicks, have introduced right-wing extremists, teenagers liberating
losing their identity through familiarity. an anti-civil liberties bill that would provide animals from a medical lab, or "Arabs" (the?
A federal building was bombed. A build- a maximum ten year sentence for those body count was 800-1,000 dead from the pre-
ing of the state. And people lost their lives. who support the lawful activities of an cision bombing of the Amariyah shelter in'
organization the president has declared to Baghdad, again "civilians"—women and chil-'
Many, far too many people were victims of the be a terrorist group. In the past, such.
explosion. And these victims implied terror- organizations might well have included the dren) . We stand to lose what was hard-bought
ists . (The word "people" includes children. African National Congress, the IRA or th, with centuries of blood and struggle.
Among so-called civilian populations we still PLO. There would be no appeal to tho Mourn the tragedies, but remember also
try to divide casualties in to the deserving and President's ruling . The bill also authorizes to raise your voices before we face Newt
the undeserving, the innocent and the not so secret trials for immigrants accused of Gingrich presiding over the latest witch trial.
innocent. These definitions are relics from what supporting such organizations. And it would Those in power will fight to protect what they
suspend the posse comitatus act and claim is theirs.
some would call "civilized war") allow the use of military in domestic law
Foremost is an expression of concern and In Peace, Bill
grief for those who were lost, their friends and
their families . No one deserves to have their life
torn from them through violence.
However, beyond the grief and the pain I
feel a gnawing fear. Not a fear that the Syracuse
Federal Building will be next, despite the local
media comparing city-sizes and relative "vul-
nerability ." Neither is my fear based in poten-
pte tW6ee0z
lease, I want the newsletter sent to my,. home:
tial danger if I leave my house, or worse, if I
travel. I remain well aware that "American" is Name :
not a popular term abroad. Address:
Instead my fear takes hold as I watch our City: State Zip
liberties erode beneath our feet . Home grown jI Phone (
terrorists will only hasten this trend, endanger- ) _---
ing us as citizens, most especially those with
little power and those who define themselves 0 Enclosed $12 for one Year Mailto J
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5/95 Peace Newsletter 5
A Visit to Nagasaki
A Report From Ground Zero atomic blast were Father Saburo Nishida and
ten parishioners attending Mass at 11 :02 AM
Michael W. Hovey city, the Japanese "window to the West" in the on August 9, 1945.
1500s, when Dutch traders and Portuguese My friends and I walked in silence along
Jesuit missionaries walked its streets, and the the flower beds, watching other visitors do the
center of Japanese Christianity for centuries, same, and entered the museum at the other end
showed no signs of age. On its surface at least, of the park. Inside were large photos of the
the city glittered with newness. scenes of destruction around the city and arti-
HE LATE MAY morning was sunny and A sense of heaviness settled upon us as facts found in the rubble: pictures of children
pleasant as my friends and I boarded the we entered Peace Park . To the left, at the far broiled to death by the blistering atomic fire;
train for our first visit to Nagasaki . It was end of a football-field length of flower beds, silhouettes of men whose bodily image was
1974. We were stationed at the US Navy base stood a stark black obelisk, slowly twisting as burned onto walls by the atomic flash just
in Sasebo, 20 miles north of the bombed city. it rose . It marked "ground zero," the point at before they were vaporized; pictures of women
Six months after our arrival on the island of which the bomb exploded 1,800 feet above the whose breasts are drawn into a pucker by
Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four earth . Just 30 feet to the right of the granite keloid burns ; bottles and rwindows fused to
main islands, my boss, his wife and I decided fmger I saw, to my surprise, the remains of the brick walls; clocks stopped forever at 11 :02.
it was time to check out some of the local entry arch to the Catholic cathedral . A statue Even though I had only been in the coun-
sights . The ancient and of course more re- of the Virgin Mary was perched precariously try for six months, I knew how unusual and
cent—historical significance of Nagasaki and on a pedestal in the archway, her hands clasped unlikely it was to see any public display of
its proximity to Sasebo made it a good "day to her breast, her eyes looking mournfully emotion among the Japanese people . It was
trip .' upward . Little did the sculptor know, I thought, therefore especially startling to see middle-
The train ride took us through the beauti- how appropriate her expression would be- aged and elderly men and women break down
ful Nagasaki Prefecture countryside. The scen- come . We would learn later, in the museum, with sobs as they viewed the scenes of misery
ery is similar to that found along Route 20 that among the first persons to be killed by the and death . I, too, broke down when I came to
between Cazenovia and Skaneateles in New a picture of the charred body of a young boy,
York State; lots of rolling hills and small clutching his throat as the air was sucked out
mountains, valleys that stretch for miles, farms of him by the firestorm.
dotting the way (although Japanese farms are My most vivid memory of our visit to the
more compact and often ascend in terraces up museum is of a comment my boss made as we
the hillside) . As is customary in Japan, chil- looked at a map of the city, with its concentric
dren were in school that Saturday morning, so circles showing the power of the blast and
the only people we saw as the train passed number of casualties . With a temperature of
through the fields were elderly women and around 300,000 degrees Centigrade at its epi-
men dressed in gray kimonos and sun hats, center, the atomic burst immediately caused
bent with age and from a lifetime of farm nearly 70,000 deaths—almost all civilians—
work. And perhaps, memories of war. and an equal number of wounded. Thousands
In spite of the peaceful surroundings, more died in the next few months from radia-
however, I felt increasingly anxious as we tion sickness and related lingering effects of
approached the central train station in the bombing. As we studied these mind-bog-
Nagasaki . Since few foreigners visited gling numbers, my boss remarked, matter of
Nagasaki in those days—the city is over 900 factly, "You know, the bomb missed its in-
miles from Tokyo—I was sure that I would be tended target . It was supposed to explode
assumed to be a"Bei-kai-gunjin"(aUS sailor). above a munitions factory, not a church."
For several days before our trip, anticipating Stunned, I looked at him and asked softly,
my discomfort, I practiced a sentence in Japa- "After all we've seen, that's all you can say?"
nese in case someone asked where I was from:
"Watashi wa Ingurish-jin desu (I am an En- That visit to Nagasaki, and a few more
glishman)." No one ever asked. that followed, changed my life. Until then, I
We walked from the train station up the had been able to ignore the horror of the
hilly streets to the Peace Park, at least a kilo- Vietnam war—and my participation in it. Fac-
meter. As we talked about some of the other ing the draft, and unaware of how the process
sights we should see that day (like the house of conscientious objection worked, I uneasily
where Puccini wrote the opera "Madame But- enlisted in the Navy in January 1971, hoping
terfly," as he looked out over Nagasaki har- to avoid direct combat and orders to kill . My
bor), I sadly realized that everything around gamble worked ; during my first year of duty,
me was built in the past 30 years. This ancient Obelisk at Ground Zero, Nagasaki I was assigned to a jet bomber training squad-
photo by M. Hovey
6 Peace Newsletter 5/95
ron in California as a personnel clerk . I was the bombs because the lives of American The "taproot of
then trained as a drug and alcohol abuse coun- soldiers who might otherwise have been killed violence" in
selor and stationed, first in California, and in an invasion of Japan were saved, or because America, he has
later in Japan. I never came face-to-face with they believe the bombings hastened the war's written, is the
the reality of war until my visits to Nagasaki. end, justify and ignore the immense suffering willing accep-
Finally, after several visits to Nagasaki and and death inflicted upon tens of thousands of tance of the use
many long nights of wrestling with my newly innocent civilians . Compare this insensitivity ofnuclearweap-
awakened conscience, I requested a discharge with the tremendous outpouring of sadness ons. The impli-
as a conscientious objector on July 15, 1975. and sympathy for the victims of the recent cations of this
Following a series of interviews and interro- bombing in Oklahoma City ; people are out- insight are staggering. If we are morally pre-
gations by Navy officials in Japan and almost raged at the murder of innocents, especially pared to annihilate entire cities, why should
the children. Where is the sadness, where is semi-automatic weapons on our streets be of
three months of impatient waiting for the
Pentagon to act, I was honorably discharged - the outrage over the killing of the innocents, any concern?
from the Navy on February 11, 1976 . I including the children, of Hiroshima and The Fellowship of Reconciliation is cir-
viewed—and continue to view—my act of Nagasaki? culating a "call for repentance and reconcilia-
conscientious objection as an act of personal Even though Bill Clinton has refused to tion" for signatures, and a delegation will
penance and reconciliation with the Japanese offer an official apology on behalf of the present the call to the people of Hiroshima and
United States, to the government or the people Nagasaki this August. Along with all your
people. I also view it as the first step in a life-
long commitment to seeking nonviolent ways of Japan, we ordinary citizens can do so. I other good work on behalf of peace in this year
of resolving conflict on every level of society, believe we must do so, not only for the people of sad anniversaries, I urge you to consider
of Japan, but for the people of the United signing and distributing this simple, eloquent
and to work for the abolition of war in any
States . In their 1983 pastoral letter on war and expression of sorrow and commitment to build-
form . As an activist/educator, I have taken on
peace, the US Catholic bishops called for a ing an international "culture of peace ."
the task of joining with others to promote
understanding and acceptance of conscien- major effort "to shape the climate of opinion
Michael Hovey is a Ph .D . candidate at
tious objection to war and military service in which will make it possible for our country to Syracuse University. His dissertation is on the
this country and abroad. express profound sorrow over the atomic international human right of conscientious
Especially because of my personal his- bombing in 1945 . Without that sorrow, there objection . He will be representing Pax Christi
tory, I have found the recent controversies is no possibility of finding a way to repudiate USA on the delegation mentioned above to
future use of nuclear weapons or of conven- present statements of apology to the
over the proposed US postage stamp com- people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki In
memorating the atomic bombings and the now tional weapons .. .. " Jesuit theologian Richard August. For copies of the statement, contact
sabotaged Smithsonian exhibit to be painful McSorley sees another profound aspect of our him at443-5293 .
and frustrating . Those who defend the use of society's inability to apologize for the bomb : d
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THIS 1 3 1 1* , EPI -CENTER OF THE ATOMIC BOR.
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5/95 Peace Newsletter 7
The Court Martial of Captain Rockwood
Officer Punished for Challenging US on Human Rights in Haitian Prisons
Nancy Rhodes officer with Fort Drum's 10th Mountain Divi - reimpose a gag order on Rockwood that was
sion under the command of Maj . Gen. David lifted January 10 . The national ACLU office is
Meade, also supreme commander of the mul- assisting him on this issue . He says this "tac-
tinational forces (MNF) in Haiti. tical blunder" by the Army could work to his
On April 4 Rockwood wrote in the Wall advantage as so much coverage will hit just as
Street Journal that his defense will be that he any gag order is imposed.
N THE FIRE THIS TIME (1992), former "witnessed, and tried to stop, serious—if not At the hearing Rockwood will ask that
V US Attorney General Ramsey Clark writes,
"The very purpose of law is peace ." Yet many
criminal—negligence by my superiors ." His
op-ed appeared as President Clinton had just
Maj . Gen. David Meade be replaced as the
court-martialling authority for conflict of in-
lawyers find international law "too exotic, if transferred US military operations in Haiti to terest . This could mean the trial is moved, or
not embarrassing, to contemplate," and most United Nations command. an officer from outside the 10th Mountain
US courts decline to consider its arguments. Only a day or so prior to that, the US was Division is brought in.
Inaction in such tribunals as the Inter-Ameri- pushed to give a formal accounting of its But most critical is the prosecution's
can Court for Human Rights at San Jose, human rights record for the first time ever to motion that Rockwood cannot raise issues of
Costa Rica, "stems from the lack of participa- the United Nations to comply with the 1992 command negligence or dereliction of duty for
tion" by the US, he writes . "One consequence International Covenant on Civil and Political what he has termed his superior's "inexpli-
is widespread human rights violations through- Rights . Indeed the Rockwood case may be cable indifference" in not seeking an account-
out the hemisphere ." On the page facing this occurring in the context of a growing human ing of Haitian confinement facilities.
remark is a photo of himself as a young man at rights movement buttressed by increasing Rockwood says this motion could se-
the Nuremberg Trials. awareness of US responsibilities to comply verely restrict what evidence he could ask for
Ramsey Clark is also current civilian with international treaties. Besides this . 1992 and which witnesses he could call.
defense counsel for US Army Capt. Lawrence Covenant (ignoring prison abuses would vio- The Army at first was trying to show me
Rockwood, whose court-martial trial is set for late at least eight of its articles), in 1990 the US as an eccentric individual—a Buddhist and
May 8 at Fort Drum in Watertown, NY. Clark Senate ratified the Convention Against Tor- all that—in allowing the discussion of mo-
agreed to defend him pro bono less than 24 ture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading tive. But now they'd like to avoid all men-
Treatment or Punishment . This Convention's tion of motive, human rights or otherwise,"
hours after Rockwood managed to call Am-
text seems to indicate that ignoring the Na- said Capt. Rockwood on the evening of
nesty International's 800 number during a 20-
tional Penitentiary's abuses violated at least April 17. 'This could be very hard on my
minute delay at Syracuse's Hancock Airport initial defense, though it would lay strong
during his escort back to Fort Drum on Octo- five of its Articles. .It sets clear directives on grounds for an appeal . I have a number of
ber 2 from Haiti . Rockwood passed two Army the responsibility to proactively prevent abuses individuals who would testify regarding
psychiatric exams, but now faces up to ten in any territory under a nation's control . In human rights and international law, and
years in Leavenworth as a consequence of 1994 the US Senate also ratified the Conven- today I received word from Hugh Thomp-
trying to inspect the National Penitentiary in tion on Elimination of All Forms of Racial son that he will support my case too.
Port-au-Prince for human rights violations on Discrimination.
September 30, 1994 (see March, 1995, PNL, As we go to press, Capt . Rockwood is On March 16, 1968, Chief Warrant Of-
pg . 15 ). preparing for a crucial April 22 hearing in ficer Hugh C . Thompson, Jr ., a helicopter
. Contrary to some reports that he was which lawyers will argue motions about the pilot, ordered his gunner to fire on US troops
interrupted by an Army attache' "catching up" scope of the upcoming trial before military to halt the killing during the My Lai massacre.
with him, Rockwood wanted the Army noti- judge advocate Lt. Col . Robert D . Newberry For this he later received the Distinguished
tied of his whereabouts . He hoped to provoke of Fort Rutger, Alabama. Flying Cross . In the 1973 Military Court of
the arrival of troops who would be forced to In the face of growing international me- Appeals decision against Lt. William Calley
take over the prison once they were physically dia coverage of his case, the military will try to for My Lai, the court
"in the presence of" noted in response to
abuses. He was not al- the classic defense of
lowed to see the main obedience that "a
cell block, but in the soldier is areason-
infirmary he glimpsed ing agent ." '
iwo dozen male and
female inmates, un- Setting the
shaven, skeletal, Stage
crammed in a tiny cell. Hugh Thompson
At this time is a Rockwood hero,
Rockwood was a along with German
counterintelligence Col . Claus von
I
8 Peace Newsletter 5/95
Stauffenberg, who led the 1944 attempt to Bragg, and never asked what he found in the General (who urged him
assassinate Hitler, and French counterintelli- National Penitentiary or why he went there. to complain anony-
gence officer Col . Georges Maria Picard, im- Indeed, Pede asserted there had been "no mously and thus save his
prisoned for exposing the anti-Semitic scheme specific" evidence of human rights abuses in 15-year career as a com-
to railroad Capt . Alfred Drayfess on espio- the National Penitentiary. missioned officer), the
nage charges in 1894. On her first trip to Haiti, after the Febru- same day he decided he
Rockwood often notes another precedent: ary hearing, Anna Husarska discovered from would act alone . The
the 1945 death sentence of Gen . Tomoyuki Gen Meade's successor there, Gen. Hill, that Pentagon material sup-
Yamashita, former commander of Japanese the 10th Mountain Division didn't mention ported the some 70 "hair-
forces in the Philippines, who failed to prevent actually inspecting the National Penitentiary raising" reports daily
his subordinates committing atrocities, though in its "situation reports" until December 19. crossing his desk regard-
he neither approved nor even knew of their Gen. Hill had assumed the MNF would have ing abuses against Hai-
acts . This standard of responsibility was up- gone into prisons right away, "absolutely," tians, not threats to US
held by the US Supreme Court in 1946. before he asked an aide to get the exact date. forces.
I first heard of Lawrence Rockwood about For more than three months, 20,000 US sol- On September 27,
a week before his "Chapter 32b hearing" at diers patrolled Haiti without being ordered to Rockwood's company received word of the
Fort Drum on February 22 (equivalent to a inspect the largest—and by accounts of Dan- US Army's discovery of shocking prison con-
grand jury) . Jail activist Kathleen Rumpf ish investigators, worst prison in the coun- ditions at Les Cayes, outside Port-au-Prince,
handed me some clippings, including a Febru- try . and he briefly thought he could organize an
ary 5 Washington Post Prior to the US official inspection team for the National Peni-
article by Anna invasion in Sep- tentiary . He now says the Les Cayes report
Husarska (who's since "For the last 28 years we haven't tember .1994, added definite momentum to his own course.
written a lengthy pro- taken seriously what we thrust on Rockwood had Ironically, on October 1 The New York
file in the April 11 Vil- the rest of the world at Nuremberg ." spent two months Times printed an article on another Port-au-
lage Voice andreturned at Fort Drum pre: Prince prison used as a Cedras stronghold,
to Haiti twice for fur- paring . He fours Fort Dimanche, "the Auschwitz of Haiti ." On
ther research), and a copy of Rockwood's Army sources misinformed—vague ab€t tober 10, the Miami Herald printed an ex-
November 18 letter to Gen . Meade . Apologiz- abuses by military and police but he se of the squalid prisons at both Les Cayes
ing for "approximations" since his notes were weighted toward fearsome, detailed ac*ii4 . . an Aquin as US Special Forces ordered clean-
taken from him, Rockwood proceeds in eight of Aristide supporters as "mobs ." An ex ?up . On the 12th, the Washington Post printed
single-spaced pages to detail exactly what sive March 20, 1995 article by Dan Cot more details about torture in Les Cayes .,
thorough, systematic efforts he made to go from Haiti Progres (now on Internet) al Rockwood notes also that there have been
through channels to effect an inspection of the details the Army's habit of categorizing vi comparisons between the Green Berets out:
five detention centers around Port-au-Prince lence against Haitian poor as simply "Haiti > uide Port-au-Prince and the 10th Mountain
that most concerned him, from his first work- on-Haitian ." This equating the two side';; Division in the capital . On March 13, Presi=
ing shift upon arrival on September 23 . He. ;(FRAPH versus Lavalas) is somewhat rerr i dent Aristide's new "Truth and Justice Com-
details how he was thwarted by his superiors :tiscent of Holocaust deniers claiming they mission" invited Rockwood to testify on these
repeated assertion that their primary objectjl d merely another equally viable opinion. and other matters as soon as they begin public
was "force protection." He lays out his #titer sources, especially Amnesty Interna- hearings in Haiti.
basis for action in President Clinton's ep-` oij~wl, had clearly reported the horrific prison Capt. Rockwood insists military profes-
tember 15 directive to stop atrocities, his tf nditions well before the invasion. (As we go sionalism has to do with service and the capac -
tary oath of office, historical precedent andth o press, the Amnesty International investiga- ity to be self-regulating. "I'm taken aback by
written directives of both the US military and or in London is completing an updated report the idea that an officer is an executive, a
his own Division . 'Finally, he refuses to dis- Haitian prison conditions since the return businessman . It rubs me the wrong way," he
avow military service wholesale for what he Aristide .) Once in Haiti, Rockwood discov- says . He further decries the model of intense
sees as "aberrations" in Vietnam and Haiti. ered his new intelligence reports on abuses competition for promotion since 1973 in the
were being filtered out of the "all source wake of Vietnam.
Testimony analysis" daily summary for his superiors. Rockwood's father, an Air Force intelli-
The tiny courtroom was packed that win- He's since observed that the "enthusi- gence officer who had help liberate a Nazi
try day . Even mentioning tropical Haiti seemed asm" he saw among US soldiers for anti- death camp, later took his young son to visit
incongruous. Periodically we civilians had to Communist projects while serving in the Hon- Dachau in Germany . In the May 95 issue of
vacate into the hall during discussions of clas- duras was generally lacking for Haiti . On Shambala Sun, a Canadian-based journal, prac -
sified material . The military prosecutor (who August 10 Rockwood requested material from ticing Tibetan Buddhist Rockwood says that
jauntily identified himself throughout as Ma- the Pentagon about conditions in Haiti's con- experience "became the key to my whole
jor Chuck Pede) spent much time discussing finement facilities . He didn't get an answer belief system . That's what `All men are cre-
the tone of Capt . Rockwood's voice during until September 30, the same day he com- "key beliefs" cont'd on page 10
one exchange with his superior, Lt . Col . Frank plained formally to his division's Inspector
5/95 Peace Newsletter 9
On the Fast Track
An Activist's Guide to Fasting
Ed Kinane Salvador by graduates of the US Army School folks from DC and around the country came to
of the Americas. fast or otherwise provide support for one or a
Now when I find myself in jail, I always few days. There was lots of good conversation
is not this the fast that I choose: refuse food . A couple of years ago during the and networking. Such solidarity makes a fast
to loose the bonds of wickedness, to Colraine, Massachusetts war tax resistance less arduous.
campaign, I consumed only water during my Some folks in DC and elsewhere fasted
undo the thongs of the yoke, to let
ten days in jail. Last year with about a dozen on their own, apart from the main group on the
the oppressed go free, and to break
others I did a 40 day juice-only fast on the steps, which must be a much tougher way to
every yoke?" —Isaiah 58:6 go . Remarkably,
steps of the Capitol
in Washington, DC. Harvey Pinyoun of
We were protesting fasting makes us more mind- Plymouth Church
(ONCE SPENT A YEAR teaching at a one the School of the fui of our addictions and fasted on his own last ,
room Quaker school in a remote hamlet in Americas (S.O.A .). over-consumption year in Syracuse for 85
the highlands of Kenya . It was a drought year; For some months be- days to protest US
like my students and the family I boarded with, fore and after that fast, policy towards Haitian
I ate only twice a day . The nearest grocery was my partner Ann and I would fast one day a refugees.
11 miles down a rough dirt road ; and the week in solidarity with the people of Haiti. Politically, public fasting can be useful.
roundtrip fare into town would cost me half a This March a group of us fasted for a week on When a fast is in DC or some state capital, it
day's wage. Often I would go to bed hungry. the steps of. the Capitol, again to protest the can provide the occasion for legislative lobby-
I lost lots of weight and eventually caught S.O.A ., that school of assassins. ing. The fast can capture some (though usually
hepatitis. Apart from some normal hunger, most of not much) media attention and thereby help
For years afterward I hoarded food . At the time during the S .O.A. fasts my body publicize the issue . It draws in activists and
home here in Syracuse, I always kept my didn't seem to know it was going without concerned citizens, whether to fast or provide
refrigerator, and even my backpack, well food . Not being new to me, and not being support and solidarity, thus strengthening the
stocked. I still get anxious when our cupboard outside my control, the S .O.A. fasting wasn't movement.
thins out . You could say I have some baggage a shock to my system. Besides, a juice fast is In the case of the S .O.A. fasts, our pres-
around food. far less demanding and risky than a water fast. ence at the Capitol, along with our banners,
But the baggage is diminishing. I think V-8 and fruit juice are remarkably sustaining. leaflets, and conversation, helped educate the
that's because of my experience with volun- Also, having come from out of town, we thousands who tour the Capitol everyday.
tary fasting. Several years ago some of us weren't drained or distracted by daily respon- Most of the public we talked to had never
lhsted for a week in front of the Cathedral . We sibilities. heard of the S .O.A., and when they learned
did so to protest the 1989 assassination of, Both this year and last year hundreds of
among so many others, the six Jesuits in El
!'heroes" cont'd from identifies with and relies heavily upon the haven't taken seriously what we thrust on the
military, and she says the most moving re- rest of the world at Nuremberg ."
page 9 sponses are from other vets—that she is study- The evening of the February 22nd hear-
led equal' means ." Indeed it forced a crisis ing this further and would welcome comments ing, the CNY Chapter ofthe ACLU decided to
fpr him because Christianity did not explain from other citizens . She also speculates whether award Lawrence Rockwood this year' sKharas
ich things . Elsewhere he's said, "If you stud- it's "odd" that peace and human rights groups Award for civil liberties. The award dinner
i$d the lives of people like the concentration "who are stereotyped as being anti-military" takes place Wednesday, May17, at the Carou-
camp commandants, the problem is they are would rally to his cause . This reminded me of sel Skydec . Ramsey Clark ' s keynote address
tot evil. They're your next door neighbor ." charges that citizens seeking police account- at 8 pm . is free and open to the public. Local
The same of course has been said of those who ability are only "cop-bashing." Perhaps it is Amnesty International is working on this event
rescued Holocaust victims, who—like the ultimate inadequacy of such dichotomies as well. Forfurther information about dinner
.ockwood himself—vigorously claim not to that the discipline of Buddhism resolves for tickets, sponsored tables and arrangements
be "heroes." Lawrence Rockwood. for limited incomes, call the ACLU office at
Professor Rebecca Riehm at Jefferson Recently I asked him how, as a trained 471-2821.
Community College in Watertown has re- military historian, he sees his situation . He
0
ctently had Rockwood speak to her classes said, "This really addresses principles the Army Nancy works with the Syracuse Task
Force on Community & Police Relations, and
several times. She is so struck by the 70-85% decided not to adhere to during Vietnam. But the Coalition for Justice In the Jail. She edits
approval rating of his actions among her stu- the dilemma is, these standards are still legal Policing by Consent for the National
dents—from a conservative area that both in international law . For the last 28 years we Coalition on Police Accountability.
10 Peace Newsletter 5/95
about it, many were aghast. Some then agreed, fast not for a mere 40 days, but for five centu-
while they were visiting Washington, to lobby ries . As we go to press the Fast
their Congress people to close the School.
01 to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is
Fasting also has personal value . Like Ed is a member of the Peace Newsletter going on at the UN.
many other North Americans I eat too much: i
edtorial committee.
Daniel Ellsberg and the other or-
fasting probably improves my health . Be- ganizers are asking world political and
cause of the discipline and self-knowledge religious leaders, outstanding figures
that comes with fasting, I'm less grouchy or Here are some rules for fasting:
in the arts, in the sciences, and con-
immobilized now when a meal is delayed. cerned citizens to fast for at least one
This greater resiliency is empowering. • Pace yourself . Avoid the strenuous
day during the period of the Non-Prolif-
As an embodied metaphor for non-at- and get enough rest and sleep.
eration Treaty (NPT) Review and Re-
tachment and reducing consumption gener- • When it's chilly, have extra layers of
newal Conference taking place at the
ally, fasting makes us more mindful of our clothing at hand . Fasters are vulner-
UN from April 17 to May 12.
addictions and over-consumption. Over-con- able to the cold.
The purpose of the Fast and asso-
sumption is an immense threat to the planet • Drink plenty of water . Drink enough
ciated activities, is to demand that—
and its creatures . In the US, our over-con- so that you urinate frequently and
before or during the NPT Renewal
sumption is directly linked to the US imperium your urine is clear.
Conference itself—the US and other
perpetrated by the School of the Americas. • On a long fast get monitored medi-
nuclear weapons states take concrete
The S .O .A . does this by training Latin Ameri- cally . During our 40 day fast, thanks
steps to free the world of nuclear weap-
can military officers to torture and kill workers to the Community for Creative Non-
ons . Specifically such states should
and peasants seeking wage and land reform in violence clinic, we all had two or
immediately schedule multilateral ne-
their own countries . Such reform threatens US three medical check-ups.
gotiations toward this goal.
corporate profit. • Be careful going off the fast . Go off
Those taking part in the Fast are
Fasting—and the "time out" that goes slowly, gradually—eating clear
asked to inform their local community
with it—helps me focus on the issue and soups and broths, etc . for afew days
and media, their political representa-
deepens my investment in it . I feel closer to until your stomach gets used to food
tives, others who might wish to join,
those in the Caribbean and Latin America who again . Avoid fatty food . Resuming
and the nuclear Age Peace Founda-
often go hungry thanks to US trade and labor regular eating habits too quickly can
tion, (805) 965-3443, FAX (805) 568-
policy . And to US subversion. In Latin America result in prostration and painful
0166 .
workers and peasants have been on a coerced cramping .
5/95 Peace Newsletter 11,
After seven to nine months of intensive
confinement the minks are killed and skinned.
ADL
Animal Defense League
Our organization, the Animal Defense League,
has video footage of a mink rancher killing the
animals by breaking their necks. The animals
r . ,ca. w do not die instantly and the video shows them
writhing in agony as they lie on the floor to die.
Ah, Spring! Flowers.. .and Fleas Kris Qua It is estimated that 85 percent of the smaller
Linda DeStefano With winter behind us, the fur/anti-fur mink farms, and one-third of the large ones,
With the joys of spring come unwelcome debate is heating up. Activists in Syracuse kill by neck-breaking. One reason for this and
guests. How do we rid ourselves of fleas continue to slam Bonwit Teller for selling furs other killing methods is cost efficiency.
without harming our companion animal, our- and are rejoicing at store projections of a bad Other farms gas the animals . This can be
self or the environment? My own experience season. Meanwhile at the national level fur done with carbon monoxide or carbon diox-
shows me it's important to act quickly before farms are being attacked for using genital ide. Some mink farmers' handbooks recom-
there is a serious infestation. My cats are electrocution to kill animals, even as the fur mend using carbon monoxide from a car ex-
strictly indoor felines so it's much easier to industry runs a multi-million dollar media- haust pipe. Carbon dioxide kills by suffoca-
control the few fleas which are carried in on blitz to brighten its tarnished image tion. These unfiltered gases burn the eyes and
people's shoes or clothes (probably as eggs). For example, genital electrocution is an lungs of animals. Often times, not enough gas
If I do see suspicious scratching by Jas- industry standard for chinchillas, with the is used and the animal is sill alive when the
mine or Sombra, I groom them with a flea Chinchilla Industry Council arguing that the skinning process begins.
comb (available at pet supply stores) . I then practice is humane . This claim is countered by Fox farmers kill by anal electrocution,
dunk the caught flea in a nearby glass of warm, the American Veterinary Medical Associa- although the American fur industry claims US
soapy water where s/he seems to die quickly tion who point out that the animal feels full fox farms kill by lethal injection . This public
without prolonged distress (Yes, I do have pain of cardiac arrest for two minutes . Re- relations tactic is used to deceive the public.
some sympathy for the fleas; I don't want to member that approximately 100 chinchillas Lethal injection is perceived to be humane
cause them unnecessary pain) . If you don't die to make one full-length coat. because animal shelters often euthanasia ani-
drown the fleas, they may jump back on your Although our- attention is currently on mals with this method. However, animal shel-
dog or cat. chinchilla, keep in mind that 80 percent of all ters use sodium phenobarbital which is rather
I follow this routine almost daily until I furs sold are made from minks . Minks are an expensive . Most fox farms use magnesium
see no more fleas . Meantime, I sprinkle table active, solitary furbearer. They have a range in sulfate, nicotine sulfate, curarifonn drugs or
salt and Borax Laundry Booster in a ration of the wild of five square miles but are confined strychnine . These chemicals all cause pro-
roughly 26 oz . salt to 84 oz. of Borax . I then to cages 10 to 18 inches in length on fur farms. longed, painful death.
sweep or brush it into the rug . Quantity de- As semi-aquatic animals they normally spend In reality, even if US fox farmers did kill
pends on the size of your home . This seems to 65 to 70 percent of their time in the water. by painless means, it wouldn't make much of
kill the fleas at all stages of development. However, on fur farms they are denied water an impact. US fox farmers produce less that
Even with weekly vacuuming, this doesn't beyond drinking needs . Without water to cool two percent of the world's fox. Ranchers in
seem to need reapplication for weeks, months, off during the hot summer months, their body other nations don't hide the fact that they kill
or until there is a new flea sighting. temperatures reach unbearable highs and as by anal electrocution . And regardless, investi-
Scooping up fleas or flea eggs with a dry- many as ten percent die from heat-related gators still found that some US fox farmers kill
bag vacuum can result in eggs hatching in the diseases. by anal electrocution.
bag . For this reason I use a Rainbow Vac, with All of this should provide reason enough
a water receptacle which I empty down the apply it lightly and no more than once a week. to not buy or wear fur. ADL believes killing an
drain. It continues, "Some animals may be sensitive animal for 'vanity is fundamentally wrong.
What not to do to control fleas? Try to to ingredients in this or similar pesticide prod- ADL does not believe a living, feeling being
avoid using commercial pesticides on your cat ucts . Pets should be observed following treat- should lose his or her life so that someone can
or dog . If you do use them, please read and ment . If salivation, tremors or vomiting occur dress up in the victim's skirls for a night on the
follow the directions carefully . One danger- after treatment, pets should immediately be town.
ous example is Hartz Blockade Flea and Tick bathed with a non-pesticide shampoo and If the truth about the fur trade makes you
Spray. According to various sources Block- wrapped in a towel to prevent chilling and angry and you want to do something about it,
ade caused many poisonings when it was taken to a veterinarian, with the product con- contact the Animal Defense League, P.O . Box
introduced in 1987 . The director of the Na- tainer." Why chance using such a product on 6845, Syracuse, NY 13217.
tional Animal Poison Control Center told me you trusting companion animal? The A .D .L . is asking that people boy-
that although the formula hasn't changed, in Meanwhile, perhaps you have some ad- cott Bonwit Teller until it stops selling fur.
his opinion it was now acceptable because vice to share with us . Have you tried any of the To express your concern in writing you can
there is a new warning label. "natural" flea control products? What has or contact:
The warning label tells you not to use the hasn't worked for you? Contact us at People Mr. Murray Daitchman
product on pregnant cats, cats under one year, for Animal Rights, PO Box 35B, Syracuse, 9569 Carousel Center
puppies under three months, old animals, sick NY 13215, 488-PURR (7877) between 9 AM Syracuse, NY 13290.
animals or debilitated animals. It tells you to and 10 :45 PM.
12 Peace Newsletter 5/95 OMMUNI1v UPDATE
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Why does Peace Action, an organization (BB) is a small, independent. grassroots orga- Fightback! a unique course teaching
to works towards the long term vision of the nization serving Central New York. BB is physical and emotional self-defense skills for
olition of nuclear weapons, oppose indefi- based in the near South Side of Syracuse. women, will be offering another class starting
:e extension of the Non-proliferation Treaty Through the vehicle of planning, fund-raising, in May . The class consists of 25 hours of
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It seems obvious that everyone wants to we get diverse Central New Yorkers meeting following evenings and weekends—May 13,
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e name implies, is the purpose of the Non- lationships ripen among those who otherwise Dr. Martin Luther King School on West Castle
oliferation Treaty . But the purpose of - the would be separated by barriers of race, culture Street in Syracuse.
nay is not just to keep weapons out of new and class. The Fightback! curriculum is nationally
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iclear "haves . " Peace Action calls for lim- borhoods and from distinct ethnic and class 20 years around the country . The female in-
xl extension of the treaty with periodic re- backgrounds. While we are now made up of structor teaches a knock-out defense against a
Lew to check for progress on Article VI which Euro- and African-Americans from various single unarmed assailant in real-life scenarios.
,ells out the responsibility of nuclear nations socio-economic strata, our 1995 goal is to The course focuses on empowerment and over-
disarm: recruit two members of Syracuse's Latino coming the fear which prevents women from
Each of the parties to the Treaty un- community. responding with the power they already have.
dertakes to pursue negotiations in good Each year we work hand in hand with a Any women can do it, there are no age or
faith on effective measures relating to the community in another region or in another physical limitations.
cessation of the nuclear arms race at an culture helping it to meet a basic need it has The course fee for 25 hours of training is
early date and to nuclear disarmament, defined . In 1994 BB spent three weeks help- $325 and financial arrangements are possible.
and on a treaty on a general and complete ing to build a technical school in Ghana, West If you are interested in this class, please con-
disarmament under strict and effective Africa . In '95 we will take part in a tree tact Fightback! at 422-0555.
international controls.
planting and rehabbing project in Nicoy a, Costa
Rica. UNOLMSIREDS
Many nations feel that the nuclear pow- For Adloptlon --Loveable, neurotic dog;
BB is committed to making participation
rs have not acted in good faith to fulfill this half husky, half collie, male, nuetered, 6
feasible for highly motivated low income indi-
peaty obligation . Even after the US and Rus- yrs . old ; good with children, cats, & some
viduals . While BB's major aim is to break
ia fully implement the START II treaty in dogs ; well trained, housebroken, affec-
down barriers here in Syracuse, it is undoubt-
003, they will have about the same number of edly the promise of educational, cross-cul- tionate, hates linoleum floors . (On limited
trategic nuClear warheads as when the NPT income, cannot keep) (315)423-4783
tural experience abroad that attracts most re-
vent into effect. China, France and the United cruits . To make this possible, BB submits
ingdom all have increased their nuclear ar- grants and organizes two fund-raisers : an art
enals since that time. Wrangling over the auction (on May 7, see flyer) and a dinner . Our (315) 478-6214
omprehensive Test Ban continues, and is not fund-raising events involve a wide diversity of
sear a conclusion. Central New Yorkers to further BB's goal of
Review of the NPT is now underway at eroding the barriers of race, class and culture
he United Nations. Peace Action members
tom Syracuse will be attending the Interna-
that divide Syracuse.
For more information about Beyond Meg Sullivan - Chin
ional Citizens Assembly to Stop the Spread of
Weapons during the review conference in
Boundaries or the upcoming art auction, call
Aggie Lane at 478-4571.
MA, CSW
nfew York City, and will have the opportunity
o speak to people from all over the world who Certified Social Worker
Daniel Ellsberg, Joanna Macy, Bishop Tho-
lave come to the UN during the review ses- Certified Reiki Practitioner
mas Gumbleton and other prominent peace-
sion about a global view of the treaty. makers who will be fasting during the NPT
Our May 2 program will be a report on review calling for nuclear abolition . Fasters
fiews of the treaty from around the world . We will gather at 6:30 PM for mutual support
nvite everyone to this program, at May Me- before the 'meting. Promoting Mind, Body,
norial, 3800 E . Genesee St., at 7 :30 PM . You Don't forget to also join us for a great Spirit Connection
ire also invited to join a solidarity fast on May concert on May 6. See the enclosed flyer and
!, to support Rev. William Sloane Coffin, please post it for others .
€ $IMuN/7Y 1/M4Te 5/95 Peace Newsletter 13
LBENT Az AME,e/cAN/eAPB'EAN CBOAU7/ON
Central America / Caribbeam Coalition Update
portJennifer Harbury's and others' efforts to for $10 each . The funds support day care
have a full accounting of US involvement in centers in La Estancia.
torture and political repression in Guatemala
April was another active month in Cen- (see page 17 of this PNL) . By time you read • Witness for Peace : Witness for Peace
tral America Work : this it will probably still be relevant to call the has its Mid-Atlantic Regional Retreat on May
White House comment line at (202) 456-1111 19-21 at Bucknell University . For more infor-
Haiti : Haiti continues to generate great to request that all CIA documents on Guate- mation, please contact Richard Gardner (472-
concern, as violence has escalated there and mala be declassified. The School of the Ameri- 9942).
planned elections have been postponed until cas trained many of the Guatemalan officers
June . People from the Syracuse area are still involved in torture. The Central America/Caribbean Coali-
expected to participate in delegations through tion had its long-promised discussion on pro-
Peace Brigades International and Witness For Peace Brigades International: There cess . Two major points emerged. One is that
Peace. In refugee news, Haitian youth are will be a PBI delegation to Colombia from we make decisions by a process of developing
being detained at Guantanamo, Cuba in very June 30 to July 11, and Ed Griffen-Nolan can consensus, and two is that we need to continue
difficult conditions, even when they have rela- be contacted for more information about that. a discussion about our identity and role. When
tives willing and able to sponsor them in the CACC was formed, the various Central
US . The threat is that they will be held until • Syracuse / La Estancia Sister Commu- America activist groups generally held meet-
they are 18 years old (and some are young nity Project: The Estancia project is working ings immediately following the CACC gath-
children), at which time they can be deported. on a newsletter to be sent out in May . On April ering; only Estancia consistently meets at that
30 there will have been an evaluation meeting time now . Those of us present felt that coali-
• Cuba : Mary Sopchek has applied to join to consider a plan for the next year . We have tions are an essential and vital part of left/
the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment delega- a supply of woven bags (matatas) which sell activist organizing . Along the way of discuss-
tion which will go to Cuba at the end of June. UNWED SWIM ing process, we reached consensus to formally
CENTRAL AMERICA
Contact her at 426-0730 if you have any ma-` AND THE CARIBBEAN express our support for the Coalition for the
terial aid, particularly school supplies, to send Common Good in the struggle against the
with the caravan . On a cultural note, Doug Contract on America and for humane priori-
Igelsrud is exploring whether the Cuban band ties at home and abroad
Mezcla can be brought here for a concert on
June 24. Next CACC meeting : Wednes-
day, May 10, 1995, at 6 PM, at
• Guatemala : Ed Kinane was among nine Plymouth Church . Potluck while
people arrested in March at the Guatemalan eeting, followed by Estancia
embassy. Solidarity work continues to sup-
and possibly other meetings.
Dr. Douglas Dickson
-Podiatrist
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(315) 454-3320 (315) 487-1114
I4 Peace Newsletter 5/95 eOMfl///VM/ t/DDATE
Matter of Life or Death
vocal Organizing Against the Death Penalty Shifts Gears
out Frazier and the immensely complex legal/procedural turned,- the Legislature will not enact a new
issues connected to the death penalty. Such one."
issues include; understanding the exact nature According to Linda Thurston, Death Pen-
of the bill, learning about constitutional is- alty Coordinator at Amensty International,
sues; developing clarity regarding the role the U.S.A., "Amnesty International opposes the
local district attorney death penalty be-
4 0RE THAN 200 Central New Yorkers
braved freezing February temperatures
otesting the death penalty at Columbus
plays in a possible capi- "Death penalty supporters
tal punishment case,
and understanding the
cause of its long-
may believe that their battle is standingrights . The
human
support for
rcle. Their rallying cry joined New Yorkers economics of prosecut- over, but opponents know death penalty is a
tte-wide as organizing efforts against state- ing a death penalty case that is not the case." violation of human
actibned executions move into higher gear. and Appeals Court tie- rights standards ."
"Death penalty supporters may believe ups. Noting that the trend internationally is to abol-
at their battle is over," stated Damaris Local educational/action strategies that ish the death penalty, she states, "Sadly the
cGuire, Executive Director of New Yorkers fight against state=sanctioned executions nec- United States is heading in the opposite direc-
gainst the Death Penalty, "but opponents essarily follow . There's something for every- tion. New York should join the rest of the
low that is not the case . Our ultimate goal is one . world."
at New York does not execute. The passage We are all connected. The students who CNY People Against the Death Penalty
the death penalty bill is a setback, but by no march to the Federal Building protesting bud- has given support to two major events within
cans an insurmountable setback ." get cuts. The citizens protesting crime and the next two months: a state-wide March
Norman Siegel, Executive Director of the drugs. The support people who keep sending and Rally at Sing-Sing Prison, Saturday,
ew York Civil Liberties Union, states : "We in those small, essential contributions that May 20 and a "Syracuse EVENT" against
e committed to a visible, vocal and activist make mailings possible and trips to Central the death penalty on Sunday, June 4 . At-
mpaign to invalidate and repeal the new America a reality . Those who visit prisoners tend the organizing meeting May 1, at 3049
ath penalty law. Governor Pataki must un- with messages of nonviolence. A long list, E Genesee St, 7 PM. Tom Mueller (422-
rstand that the signing of the death penalty indeed. 1679) is the contact person for rides to Sing
gislation did not end the debate surrounding As one of several who work with the Sing ; Lance Hogan (425-1480) is the con-
e issue of whether New York should engage CNY People Against the Death Penalty Com- tact person for the June 4 "EVENT ."
the business of premeditated executions of mittee, my hope is you will also "take a turn" The Syracuse EVENT will be a part of a
tr citizens ." for a little while in a way that sense for you. network of state-wide Anti-Death Penalty ac-
Following the February Rally, Central You could help ; help organize the upcoming tivities on June 4. Hundreds of local commu-
ew Yorkers have committed to a schedule of events, learn about the legal issues, clarify the nity anti-death penalty activities, ranging from
nonthly education/businessmeeting on death different bases for opposition to the death public education forums, religious sermons,
malty organizing, with an in-between, bi- penalty, or helpdevelop a long-range strategy peaceful picketing, marches, block parties, art
eekly "nuts-and-bolts" meeting. that will keep executions from originating exhibits, performances, concerts and demon-
On the first Monday of each month, within the courts of Central New York. strations will take place.
IS CNY People Against the Death Pen- Opposition to the death penalty comes The time for regular, steady, organized
lty meets at 3049 E . Genesee Street from many different directions . Ron Tabak, protest and educational work is here. Come be
ack door across from Nottingham President of New Yorkers Against the Death a part of making history for the 21st century.
ugh school) for a one-hour business Penalty, is convinced the recently signed law Paul is a Syracuse agricultural and
looting and a one- is so badly flawed political activist. d'
our educational no one will be ex- Recomended Reading
rum, beginning at ecuted under it. "We • Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Ac-
PM and ending will work to make count of the Death Penalty in the United
tomptly at 9 PM. sure there are no ex- States, by Sr. Helen Prejean
Se next meeting is ecutions under this • In Spite of Innocence (1992), by M.
b Monday, May 1. statute and endorse Radeiet, H . Bedau & C. Putnam
The exciting part the broader effort to • A Punishment In Search of a Crime:
this educational/or- educate the public Americans Speak Out Against the Death
mg work is the about the real prob- Penalty (1989), by . Ian Gray & Moira
ique combination of lems of capital pun- Stanley (For Amnesty International
ethical/moral/po- ishment, so that af- U .S .A .)
lcal views about a ter this law is over- • The Execution Protocol: Inside America's
ate-sanctioned act Capital Punishment Industry (1993), by
Stephen Trombley
5/95 Peace Newsletter 15
Money to Burn
Ogden Martin Tied to Incinerator Scam in Lee County,Florida
campaign won by 500 votes, and anti-incin- merce to facilitate an unlawful activity: Lnkis,
erator commissioners Vicki Lopez-Wolfe and now Vicki's husband, is accused of providing
Ray 'Judah took office in January of 1991, money to Lopez-Wolfe in exchange for assis-
amidst celebrations that Ogden Martin had tance for his clients, Goldman-Sachs Com-
been defeated. At this time Ogden Martin pany and Ogden Projects Inc . Yes, Ogden
began a large scale grass-roots campaign urg - Projects is the parent company of OgdenMar-
Tu NAME OGDEN MARTIN conjures
p many images for central New Yorkers.
The largest of which is probably the connec-
ing residents to change their commissioners tin, and now with these indictments released it
minds, about the incinerator. This campaign raises serious questions as to what actually
included full page occurred in order to
tion to the 810 ton-per-day incinerator burning newspaper ' ads and what Ogden Martin really get the Lee County In
in Onondaga County right now . Unfortunately, telephone canvassing cares about is that their cinerator running.
leaving central New York does not get you which told people' These indict
outside of Ogden Martin's realm, for they are about the supposed incinerator is up and running ments also include an
the number one operator of municipal trash upcoming county accusation against
incinerators in the United States, controlling landfill crisis, and how, if the incineratorwasn't Lopez-Wolfe and Lukis that they extorted
26% of the trash incineration market . Many built, economic catastrophe would befall the against 1992 Lee County Commissioner can-
across the country are familiar with the name county. didate Susan Anthony. Anthony was running
Ogden Martin. Ogden Martin had previously worked as an anti-incinerator commissioner when she
One group all too familiar with Ogden with its sponsor Smith Barney, in Fort Meyers was approached by Lopez-Wolfe and Lukis
Martin is the residents of Lee County, Florida. on how to get an incinerator in place with the who claimed that they had an uncomplimen-
In November of 1990 the residents fought hard least amount of public opposition . They also tary video of Anthony and Waste Manage-
to defeat Ogden Martin's plans to build a held a secret symposium in Philadelphia, again ment lobbyist Bruce Strayhom. Coinciden-
1,200 ton-per-day incinerator in Fort Meyers, with Smith Barney, educating the experts on tally, Lopez-Wolfe was involved in an inti-
Florida, a city in Lee County. A signed con- the benefits of an incinerator and how few mate relationship with Strayhom from around
tract between Lee County and Ogden Martin negative possibilities existed . This sympo- the fall of 1990 to the fall of 1992 . Lopez-
made the possibility of defeating the incinera- sium was attended by individuals hand picked Wolfe then began an intimate relationship
tor slim. However, the residents of Lee County by Ogden Martin itself, while others who with Sylvester Lukis, the Ogden Martin lob-
saw hope when in September of 1990, Vicki wished to participate were'forbidden because byist, which later developed into marriage. If
Lopez-Wolfe began campaigning as an anti- Ogden Martin claimed they lacked the "ability Lopez-Wolfe and Lukis are convicted on the
incinerator candidate for the position of Lee to be impartial ." eleven counts for which they are charged, they
County Commissioner. The anti-incinerator Apparently, Ogden Martin achieved some could spend up to five years in prison and a
level of success, because five months later, fine of up to $350,000 on each count charged
after threatening to sue Lee County on breach except the bribery charge which carries a
of contract, the incinerator project was up and maximum of ten years incarceration . There
running again. This reversal was also due to are also more indictments pending.
two key commissioners who changed their Currently, Lopez-Wolfe lives near Wash-
minds about the incinerator issue. Ray Judah ington DC, where she is involved in another
and Vicki Lopez-Wolfe were now pro-incin- incinerator battle . Again, she claims to be
erator. Both had campaigned against the in- against the 1,800 ton-per-day incinerator that
cinerator, and both made it possible for the Lee Ogden Martin wants to build in Montgomery
County incinerator to begin burning in the fall County, Maryland. She has even offered her
of last year. assistance to local environmentaigroups get-
It is odd that individuals who were so ting signatures on petitions against the incin-
against the incinerator project were the ones erator . Lopez-Wolfe said she opposes the
who helped push it through. Apparently the Montgomery County incinerator because she
FBI thought so too, because on March 6,1995, doesn't think the taxpayers can afford it, since
the United States Attorney for the Middle the county has already borrowed $400 million
District of Florida announced that a federal and has a population of 700,000. Lee County
grand jury returned an eleven count indict- had to borrow $197 million, but they have a
ment against formed Lee County commis- population half the size of Montgomery county,
sioner Vicki Lopez-Wolfe, AKA Vicki Lopez- at 350,000. How could Lopez-Wolfe claim
Lukis, and Washington DC lobbyist Sylvester that Montgomery County residents can't af-
Lukis ; charging than with mail fraud, bribery, ford the incinerator when she was responsible
and use of a private carrier in interstate com- cont'd on next page
16 Peace Newsletter 5/95
Conspiracy of Silence
Evidence of CIA Complicity in Everado's Disappearance and Death
Compiled by Joan Goldberg case all these years . Worse yet, Alpirez was a simply declassify them. We must insist that
CIA contact. . .and had been for years. He had this is a necessary step in order to restore
ordered the killing of Michael Devine . . .and an public confidence in our own government,
investigation had been called off. Then in and to promote justice . Please call the White
1992 he was given a large sum of money right House and demand this. Call (212) 456-1111.
about the time they say Everado We must also ask for:
ENIFER HARBURY, a US lawyer, spent was killed. To date I have been • In depth Senate and Congressional
1985-6 in Guatemala documenting hu- given no documents or any hearings on CIA and State De-
man rights abuse testimony . Returning in 1990 further information . I do not partment misconduct in Cen-
she met and subsequently married Efrain know where or how he died or tral America during the last
Bamaca Velasquez, a URNG resistance com- where he is buried. But I cer- twenty years.
mander known as Everado (see January, 1995, tainly plan to fmd out. • An immediate phasing in of
PNL, pg. 12). Jennifer's story has once again In an added twist, it turns sanctions against the army if
reached international attention with evidence out that the military aid sup- human rights violations do not
surfacing of her husband's capture, torture and posedly cut off after Michael immediately cease . Examples of
death . Of particular note has been the implica- Devine's death was simply rechan- such sanctions would be : cancel-
tion of CIA involvement in the case. nelled to the Guatemalan army ling military visas to the US, can-
Following are some exerpts from a recent through the CIA . In other words, celling private sales of weapons
letter... my tax dollars went to kidnap- and mechanical parts, such as
ping, secretly imprisoning, tor- helicopter parts, halt all covert
Dear Friends, turing and then assassinating my aid, extradite military drug traf-
This is probably one of the most difficult own husband. fickers, withdraw the national
letters I have ever had to write. As most of you Everardo grew up starving guard, halt all training programs
have already heard, Everardo is dead . From and illiterate on a plantation. As of any kind.
what Congressman Torricelli has told me, he a Mayan, he was treated as if he In closing this letter, I want
was ordered to be executed sometime in 1992 were less than nothing . He to tell all of you how much your .
by Col . Julio Alpirez . The name is all too fought for seventeen years with support and caring has meant to
familiar . . .far back in 1993 the eye witness all his heart and soul to make me . It has kept me alive both
Santiago Cabrera Lopez, named Alpirez as the things change. His first wife literally and also emotionally . I
man bending, over Everado's torture table. died at his side during and miss all of you and hope that
Clearly the US Embassy staff didn't trouble ambush, his second wife was tortured to death very soon I will be able to see you in person
themselves too much with investigating the by the army. He outlived most of his dearest again . Meanwhile, there is much to be done.
friends . And yet he found his life rich and Let us work together to free Guatemala for
rewarding, and refused steadfastly to retire to once and for all .
a safer and softer position outside of the moun- Abrazos,
cont'd from last page tains . When it came to his values he was quiet Jennifer Harbury
for one of the most expensive public works
immutable . Now his life has been snuffed out, Joan is an adult education consultant
projects ever in Lee County?
his bones tossed who knows where . My own and a local activist with the Central
It is easy to make speculations as to what db
could have occurred during the Lee County life will never be whole again, but I know that America/Caribbean Coalition .
I am alive still for a
Commissioner elections of 1990 and 1992.
Obviously Vicki Lopez-Wolfe, Sylvester reason, and this is to
Lukis, Bruce Strayhorn, and Susan Anthony finish what he began . I
need your help.
know, as does Ogden Martin; but what Ogden
Martin really cares about is that their incineraL The Guatemalan
tor is up and running. They don't care about army and the CIA are
the pawns they use to help them achieve their both monsters of our
goal. After all, once an incinerator is built, making . We must pull Aunt Vikki's Pet Simnel
who is going to tear it down? Also important them out by the roots. 1st Rate Care, For Your Pets
is that Ogden Martin was initially defeated Let's get to work. For More Information Call
First of all we 488-6269 or 433-9714 (Beeper #)
after that first election. Big business can lose,
but unfortunately corruption can also win. must get hold of the
Ryan is a senior at Syracuse University files . This can be done
majoring in English Textual Studies. He is quickly by insisting
currently an intern with the Syracuse Peace that President Clinton
Council. O lt
5/95 Peace Newsletter I7
READING PRNIEDGE
In the Corner Stands a Boxer V
Or, What I Get From My Workouts
Karen Hall I Round 3 ing a bad day, or, if they don't know me, they
might think I'm rude, but rarely does my
IT'S MONDAY MORNINGand Charles behavior come to symbolize the behavior of
Round 1 is filling me in on how his fighters performed all middle class white women . If I express
in the weekend's tournament. One young anger connected toward men, I may run the
T HE MOMENT I SAW HER on the "Mike
Douglas Show," I knew that's what I
wanted to be, a woman professional boxer . I
fighter was warned by the referee to control
his temper or he would call the match. The
young man didn't control his temper and lost
risk of representing all man-hating lesbians,
but it's worth noting that only some types of
anger connect me to my identity, whereas
had spent hours in front of the television his bout . This makes me think of the sign I racism has taught us to be frightened of any
watching amateur fights on "Wide World of walk passed every day as I enter the gym, anger a black man expresses.
Sports ." I had watched Mohammed Ali win "Boxing, Martial Arts, Self-Improvement ." If My class and my white skin privilege
and lose his title, and I had watched Sugar-Ray self-improvement for him is at least in part give me access to anger, and because of this,
Leonard's Olympic and professional success. controlling his anger, what is it for me? I don't have to depend on the gym or my
Now this woman boxer's appearance as a workout to give me a safe place to express or
comic oddity on an afternoon talk show told When I started taking boxing lessons, be myself. I can expect wider realms of self-
me I could be a fighter too. friends asked me, "Why would you want some- improvement. Peter DePasquale's book; "The
Violence existed just beneath the surface one to hit you in the head?!" It's hard to Boxer's Workout : Fitness for the Civilized
in my childhood household, and I longed to explain why I like going to the gym, but it's not Man" begins with this dedication:
just get it over with. If they would only hit me,about hitting or getting hit. I like talking to the When you make a fist, something primal
I thought, I could duck, jab, and run. I wanted men I work out with about what Iron Mike happens--a return to your roots that sets
to be like the fighters in the rings on television
Tyson's release from prison means to his the stage for a deeper, more satisfying
who were determined, disciplined, and who boxing career and to the public perception of kind of fitness that will make you more
won and lost by rules they knew before they African American athletes . We've talked about effective in your professional life.
entered the ring. This book is dedicated to the growing
the treatment of Tyson versus the treatment of
legion of white-collar men who make a
OJ, and it was one of the few intelligent
boxer's workout an important part of their
conversations I've had about the Simpson professional success to their courage,
Round 2 trial. I like watching Charles interact with the elan, and continued good fortune.
I
man with Down's syndrome who comes in to
WHILE AT OHIO STATE University, I work out at the same time I do . Most of all I like Much to my dismay, my privilege places me
taught an English composition class for high- entering into a world that is supposed to be closer to DePasquale and the
risk students, many of whom were athletes. remote from my own and "white-collar men" pictured
During the same season that Dante Lee re- seeing the common in his book who are identified
turned more than one kick off for a touch- ground we stand on . How- in each caption by name, ex-
down, his girlfriend received anonymous phone ever, when Charles and I ecutive rank, and company
messages ; the callers threatened "to kill Dante discuss rising incarcera- than I am to most of the box-
Lee's nigger bitch girlfriend ." Raymont Har- tion rates and the fact that ers in my gym. DePasquale's
ris, who would be recruited by professional more African American notion that essential/primal
teams his junior year, would show me pictures males between the ages of man is violent is itself inher-
of his baby daughter and talk to me about 18 and 24 are in prison ently violent and racist. Men
working to support two families, his mother than in college, I remind like DePasquale are tourists
and younger siblings and his own wife and myself not to romanticize who come to a primitive world
daughter. Kevin Griffey, Ken Griffey's son, these connections. to explore and take home sou-
said very little . Due to his low SAT scores, he The privilege I live venirs which will be interest -
fell under the jurisdiction of Proposition 48, with makes the stakes of ing and helpful in their ca-
which meant he couldn't play, practice, or what we learn at the gym very different . In the reers . They use their privilege to travel to other
workout with the team, yet he was stripped of wider world, if Charles' young boxer doesn't worlds and amass more privilege . Many of
a year of eligibility . I could see the NCAA's control his anger, he stands for one of the mass you are saying, "Well what did you expect
rule was doing little good for this athlete ; he of frightening, angry young black men the from the world of boxing?!" I can only answer
was giving up before he was even issued a government and the media portrays routinely that I expect and receive a lot more.
locker. I was witness to how Division I athlet- when they want us to fund more prisons and The self-improvement I get from boxing
ics used this "stable of horses," as one sports more police because such men need to be plays itself out in board rooms' and grocery
writer referred to Coach Cooper's Buckeyes, controlled if they can't learn to control them- stores . My trips to the gym offer me an oppor-
and all I could do was try to teach them how to selves. And if I fail to control my anger? tunity to interrogate my privilege and how it
write a persuasive essay. Chances are people will think it's Karen hav-
cont'd on next page
18 Peace Newsletter 5/95
J~di Bari Survives Bomb Earth Firsts
FBI Violates Bill of Rights
Linda De Stefano the bomb was placed small town papers and con-
under the driver's seat fiscated letters from environ-
since that area of the mentalists . They interviewed
car was destroyed. local police, personnel from
The photo also shows the timber companies and the
that the back floor of anti-environmental "Wise
SALUTE JUDI BARI for maintaining her the car is intact even Use" movement, asking
I sanity, her courage and her determination
to seek truth after the terrible attempt on her
though some of the
FBI investigators ir-
them to submit names and
information about any and
life left this mother of two young children rationally claim that all environmentalists . They
permanently injured. In 1990 Judi felt a bomb the bomb was on the collected information on
tear through her body. She and fellow environ- back floor, placed about 150 people this way.
mentalists, Darryl Cherney, were on their way there by Judi . Another Nationally the FBI obtained
to a concert when the bomb exploded under example : analysis of the phone records of 14mem-
the driver's seat of the car Judi was driving. the fragments of the bomb show that it was bers of Earth First! and compiled a list of 634
The concert was part of Redwood Summer, a clearly designed to be triggered by the motion out-of-state calls they had made . They then
series of events organized by Earth First! to of the car ; thus Judi would have no motivation investigated each of these 634 phone num-
protect California forests fromdestructive tim- to place such a bomb in her car since she would bers, gathering information which included
bering. Judi describes the events as non-vio- be tempting suicide . Another finding : the FBI names, addresses, physical description, em-
lent, but the FBI calls Earth First! a terrorist has a Bomb School, which had a training ployment, criminal records and political asso-
organization and charged Judi and Darryl with session on how to investigate car bombings ciations.
planting the bomb which almost killed them! shortly before Judi and Darryl were attacked. In one memo to FBI headquarters, San
Refusing to be intimidated, Judi and Darryl This leads me to wonder whether the FBI Francisco FBI director Richard Held com-
brought suit against the FBI for false arrest and actually planted the bomb . At minimum, the plained about an article written by Santa Rosa
violation of civil rights. FBI used the bomb tragedy to try to discredit Press Democrat reporter Mike Geniella . In
In the process of preparing for the upcom- Judi, Darryl and Earth First! and to collect that article, Geniella had documented the FBI
ing trial, Judi and her attorneys have had information about environmental activists . In targeting of Earth First! in Arizona, Montana
access to government files and witnesses and at least one instance, they squashed the free- and California . Held states in his memo that he
have leaned many bizarre facts . For example, dom of the press . In California, the FBI looked intends to complain to the paper's editors and
a photo of the bombed car shows clearly that through the letters to the editors files of nine suggest that FBI chief William Sessions com-
plain to the parent newspaper, the New York
Times. A few weeks later, the reporter was
cont'd from last page options than the young boxer who lost his
match because he didn't control his anger has; disciplined by the Press Democrat and re-
moved from his position as timber reporter.
impacts my life and the lives of others. Sports he can. either learn his lessons of self-improve-
What to do about such outrages against
never had to symbolize a lottery ticket to a ment and control which will help make him
our Constitutional rights to freedom of speech,
better life for me. The many options I had in the "good black man" racist society wants him
press and association? Judi and her supporters
life freed me to enjoy sports in a wider variety to be, or he can continue to be angry, and thus
are seeking an investigation by the Justice
of ways than the men I watched on "Wide continue to lose.
Department . Please add your voice to those
World of Sports." And the woman boxer I saw Do I really think about ideology in the
asking for this by writing to:
on television really was an oddity because, gym? Yes, I think about the young girl who
Attorney General Janet Reno
like me, she had many other options available. wanted to be a boxer, the young people I
Main Justice Building
But I learn more than how the sports industry taught who were at risk for more reasons than 10th and Constitutional Ave.
holds out a lottery ticket to people with fewer any teaching assistant or tutor could help them Washington, DC 20530
options than I ; my students at Ohio State had, solve, the other boxers who come the gym, and
after all, already taught me this. I think about ideology and how we can begin Meantime, Judi is continuing the lawsuit
I learn how even casual/amatuer athletics to create other options . I don't want to be a against the government and desperately needs
reenforce the systems and situations of rac- white collar boxer or a good white person, and contributions to pay court costs.
ism . If I don't think against racist training, I I don't want the young boxer whom I haven't Please send to contributions to:
run the risk of becoming a white collar boxer; even met to have to chose between being Redwood Summer Justice Project
an imperialist/tourist in every world I travel in. angry and losing or being numb . I expect my POB 14720
If I do think against racism, I have the option life and my writing and, yes, my boxing to Santa Rosa, CA 95402
of being "a good white person," one who create different options for all of us. (707)528-9042
Sympathizes, understands yet is still little more Karen Hall trains at Salt City Athletics, Linda is a local activist and a member
than a tourist . These are far more comfortable home of the Syracuse Boxing Club . of Peaople for Animal Rights .
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The War Against The Greens
A New Book Tracks the Environmental Backlash
Christine Detwiler tionals ; and loggers and developers who be- once and for
lieve ozone depletion, acid-rain, danger from all ." This ad-
Author: David Helvarg pesticides and toxic waste are myths, and that mirer of Ron
Publisher : Sierra Club global warming (if even real) is good for the Arnolds is
planet . Powerful and wealthy, these people Dole's deputy
'Between the best-and-worst-case sce- are not "nuts on the fringes" but personal chief of staff . Jason Sullivan 1995
narios, between the faith that we do have a friends and conspirators with Newt, Rush and An important point Halverg makes is the
future and today's backlash despair that Pat, extremely influencial in local and state anti-enviro's have a disproportionate influ-
says 'Take when you can , get while you can legislatures, and gaining ground rapidly in ence on politicians and legislatures compared
get it,' lies only the understanding, the heart Washington. to their lack of support from the people . "To
and the will of the American people." As noted in date, the strength of
the book, "thieves
run in gangs" and
Logging companies give their . anti-environmental-ism has been not in its
much is done in workers a paid day off, a bus membership rolls, but
S 0 ENDS David Helvary's The War
Against The Greens, published by the
Sierra Club. For those of us who still have the
secret as real mo-
tivations are hid-
den behind groups
ride, and a free packed lunch to its ability to mobilize
attend and sabotage Earth a network of core ac-
tivists to intervene and
heart and the will, Helvarg's treaties on "The with names like First! demonstrations politicize local con-
Wise-use movement, The New Right, and "Environmental flicts, creating a per-
Anti-Environmental Violence" is packed with Conservation" and "National Wetlands Coa- ception of power that they hope to use as a
valuable information for an expanded under- lition" who have learned from the left the springboard for further expansion ." They use
standipg of who the anti-enviro's are, where value and language of grass roots organizing fax campaigns that "skew a Sunday newspa-
they are coming from philosophically, and and net-working. per poll to suggest a majority of the readers
what their connections and modus operandi Halverg also familiarizes the reader with think environmentalism has gone too far ."
are. Helvarg also chronicles the many acts of lesser known strategists . He describes James Logging companies give their workers a paid
violence committed against those who have "Witt" Wittinghill, whose office around the day off, a bus ride, and a free packed lunch to
courageously spoken out to protect the land, corner from Bob Dole is decorated with a attend and sabotage Earth First! demonstra-
the water, the air and the plants and animals. WRA cap and contains a collection of his tions .
Included is the shocking story of Judi Ban and favorite books including an autobiography of Since Helvarg wrote this book we've had
Darryl Chemey and the subsequent cover-up James Watt written by "Wise-Use" leader elections that seems to prove these tactics
(see page 19; this PNL) . Helvarg writes, "It Ron Arnold, who once said, "We're out to kill have been enormously successful . In New
was hard for me to imagine the environmental the flickers . We're simply trying to eliminate York our new governor has recently appointed
conflict in the US might ever begin to re- them. Our goal is to destroy environmentalism Michael Zagata to head the D .E.C . Zagata is
semble soma of the haunting scenes former vice-president of Transco Energy
of violence and hatred I'd come to ' Co ., and an ex-employee of Tenneco Oil
know as a war correspondent in North Company and Transcontinental Gas Pipe
Ireland and Central America . But Line Co . Although Zagata worked for two
today, four years later, having seen years for the National Audobon Society in
the bomb and arson damage first the late '70s, Lee Wasserman of Environ-
hand and having met and talked to mental Advocates, a member of Pataki's
people who have been beaten, shot environmental transition team calls his
at and terrified, had their dogs muti- career there "short and undistinguished"
lated, their cars run off the road and and reveals that more recently he "has
their homes burned to the ground, been very active in justifying why industry
I'm not so certain." should be allowed to destroy wetlands and
Helvarg describes cattlemen, critical habitat." 1
direct descendants of the slayers of If your time is rationed and you want to
buffalo and Native Americans; "wel- learn a lot fast about the anti-enviros and
fare cowboys" who graze and de- the new right from a writer who will keep
stroy acres of National Forest pay- your attention : read this book . Available
ing way below the going rate to do from the Public Library.
so; flag waving gold miners whose Christine is an activist and volunteer
major profits go over-seas to South with the Syracuse Peace Council.
African white supremist multi-na-
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NY . gam-1 pm . $5-$10 donation. Genesee St . 7pm. from around the world' 7 :30pm. 478-7442.
A circle is a 4 hour gathering of May Memorial, 3800 E Genesee. PNL editorial mtg at Peace
people of diverse backgrounds. Council . 1-2pm. Come join in.
Discover what racism is and how Every Mon : Survivors of Incest Call for program topic : 478-7442. 472-5478 .
it works . Helps people talk at a Anonymous 12 step program To have your group's event or
level that defeats prejudice . 252- mtg . 6 7:30pm . Bishop Harrison Every Tuesday : Gay, Lesbian, Every Wed : Alliance member- 1st & 3rd Thursdays : Gay & meeting time listed, call or send
Center. 1342 Lancaster Ave. Bisexual Student Assoc . sodal. ship meeting. All welcome . At Lesbian Alliance meets at the info to SPC . 472-5478.
4983 to register or for details . ECOH, 2nd fl., corner of West- Trinity Parish House, 523 W
Men &women 18 and up . 8 :30pm-mid . 750 Ostrom Ave. Y June deadline: 5/26.
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Church Parish House. 7pm . "Faith, Fundamentalism & the Benefit dinner for Peace
Freedom to Choose" w/ Rev. PNL Committee meets Central America Ca► lebean Discussion of prize-winning Gay men 's Support G rog Council hosted by 'Cafe Zapata '
Tom Davis at Planned at 924 Burnet Ave . New Coalition potluck & mtg at Cuban film "Strawberry & meeting . Info : 422-5732. Ron Shuffler at ECOH just
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Peace Counci1.11 am, members always wet- Onondaga St . 6pm.
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bookstore week celebration at Limper,* reading poetry Coalition potluck &mfg at against the Death at
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Every Sunday . People's PNL Committee meets Peace Newsletter Council hosted Cafe Zapata'
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This was the third gathering for idea of using specific conflicts as examples for was mentioned that if something needed im-
the food-and-talk experience, and with new fording ways to solve conflicts in general. mediate attention, a subdivision of the group
food, new talk and a trickling in of new people could be formed at that time.
each time, it's well worth making it a once-a- First addressed was the issue of confiden- The last thing we touched on was how to
month ritual. tiality . So as to allow for safety in speaking make these agreements easily accessible to
The Brunch about a specific conflict, it was decided that new people. We talked about reading them off
Yes, Nick and Helen did it again . They we needed to formulate a "ground rule" on at the beginning of every meeting, having a
filled the table with a smorgasbord of good what can be openly discussed outside of the `nod' go-around to agree to them, and then
food, and when we stopped going to the kitchen group . Differing opinions on the definition leaving some leeway for change to include
for third or fourth or fifth helpings, they came (it's separate from secrecy, we need to process those who are new. What we ended with was
to us. Potato wedge homefries, strawberry and stuff with other people) and various scenarios that we are creating history, but not as a
orange fruit salad, fresh coffee and juice, and (unintentional harm done with words, we all weapon; we will have the history available for
increasingly fluffy pancakes with real maple make mistakes) were given. After all, "re- others to read in notes (which are at the SPC),
syrup happily filled our tummies as we chatted sponsibility is something we aspire to, not a and the rest is yet to be decided.
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