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[Paul Kneisel <tallpaul@nyct.net>]

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            The Internet Anti-Fascist: Wednesday, 6 May 98 
                       Vol. 2, Number 27 (#109) 
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                      ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT #38
                       Ann Arbor anti-Klan Action


Those supporting a same-time/same-place march and rally against the KKK
who are slated to appear in Ann Arbor Sat. 5/9 will be gathering at 11am
on the steps of the Union and then marching as close to the rally site
(City Hall) as possible.  Several different groups are organizing for
this including several chapters of Anti-Racist Action (ARA) and NWROC as
well as other groups.  Please bring signs, noisemakers, etc.  Cameras and
video cameras are also important esp. if for documenting any possible
police misconduct as was rampant in 1996.  There will be legal observers
on hand as well.

The KKK is scheduled to appear at 1pm at City Hall which is at Huron and
Fifth.  Hundreds of police are mobilizing and they plan to block off 6
city blocks, including Huron St., to accomodate the Klan.  

ALL OUT TO STOP THE KKK!

Paul Lefrak
Free Mumia Coalition/ARA Ann Arbor

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     DETECTING EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Many of the social effects of racial differences and economic
differences are very subtle and often times directly related to peoples
discomfort with cross cultural interactions.  While these differences
are subtle this does not mean that they are not deadly.  For example:  
In a recent study it was found that during periods of unexpectedly high
unemployment women were less likely to detect and report lumps in their
breasts.  It was also shown that African-American women were three
times less likely to detect lumps and seek medical attention than were
non-Hispanic White women.

In addition to needing more African-American women physicians we need
to becoming more comfortable communicating cross culturally.  The
subtle resistance to cross cultural communication does kill.

For more information on this research "Unemployment and the Likelihood
of Detecting Early-Stage Breast Cancer "

Ralph A. Catalano, PhD, and William A. Satariano, PhD 
(American  Journal  of Public Health. 1998;88:586-589
[via Jim Cole --  tallpaul]
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                 [VANCOUVER] MEMORIAL MEETING PLANNED
                FOR IRREPRESSIBLE FEMINIST CLARA FRASER

[The Freedom Socialist Party/Radical Women, which Fraser founded, were
the only two left groups to specifically support the recent anti-
fascist organizing effort on the net. Whatever we may think of Fraser's
other politics, she certainly knew how to train and educate anti-
fascists. Here life is thus of importance to other anti-hate activists
even if they don't fully share Fraser's views.  --  tallpaul]

A public meeting celebrating the life of Clara Fraser, author, labour,
civil rights agitator and a leader of the women's movement will be held
Sunday, May 17. She died in Seattle on February 24 of emphysema.

Fraser reshaped North American politics through her pioneering work
which connect feminism, socialism, ethnic, lesbian/gay and labour
struggles. Long before diversity and multiculturalism were catch words,
Fraser advocated the interconnected nature of various forms of
oppression and the pivotal leadership role of women of colour in all
the social movements. She co-authored Revolutionary Integration, a
groundbreaking analysis of the Black freedom struggle.

Fraser taught socialist economics courses in Vancouver in the late '50s
and early '60s at the behest of League for Socialist Action organizer
and NDP activist Ruth Bullock. Fraser and Bullock's ardent defense of
women's rights during this period helped set the stage for the mass
feminist movement which followed.

"Clara imparted a simple message that real equality for the masses of
women under the private profit system is an impossibility. We have to
work for women's liberation and for fundamental social change at the
same time. She was an inspiring role model for the kind of gutsy,
tenacious woman out to achieve both," says Vancouver youth activist
Shawna Hellenius, of Radical Women an organization Fraser co-founded.

Raised in East Los Angeles by Jewish immigrant parents, she studied
literature and education at UCLA. She worked briefly as a screen
writer, then joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). In 1946, Fraser
moved to Seattle to help build its branch there. A leader in the 1948
Boeing strike, she pressured the union to represent women and
minorities. When the strike was broken, Fraser was blacklisted and
hounded from job to job by the FBI.

In 1965, Fraser helped lead the Seattle branch of the SWP in an exodus
from the national organization, founding the Freedom Socialist Party
(FSP). In 1967, she and her friend Gloria Martin co-founded Radical
Women (RW) to teach a new generation of young women leadership skills,
theoretical know-how, and workingclass consciousness.

For three decades she shepherded Radical Women and the party as they
grew from small, local groups into international organizations with
affiliates in Canada and Australia.

"When FSP and RW first took root in Vancouver in the early '90s, Clara
was at our side sharing her enormous insights into Canada's unique
conditions, wisdom she had acquired during her rich collaboration with
Ruth Bullock. Her affinity, humour and guidance were crucial to our
development," recalls Marcel Hatch, Vancouver FSP organizer.

South of the border, Fraser is best known as the woman who beat Seattle
City Light in a 7-year-long sex and political discrimination case. The
utility fired her in retaliation for her leading role in a massive 11-
day wildcat strike and her defense of a first-of-its-kind program she
designed to bring women into the electrical trades.

Among her many other achievements, she helped write Washington state's
first divorce-reform bill, led the state's first abortion rights rally,
fought on behalf of tribal fishing rights, protested apartheid in South
Africa, campaigned for childcare and defended the Black Panther Party.

A popularizer of socialist ideas, Fraser wrote a regular column for the
Freedom Socialist newspaper. These witty, analytical and optimistic
columns, along with numerous never-before-published speeches, are
collected in her new book Revolution, She Wrote.

Politically active to her final day, Fraser died peacefully at home
after a long struggle with emphysema. She is survived by her sons, Marc
Krasnowsky and Jon Fraser, daughter-in-law Moira Ferguson, sister and
brother-in-law Flory and Bennie Adler, three grandchildren, four nieces
and nephews, their spouses and children.

The memorial begins at 2:00pm on Sunday 17 May at Rebel Centre, 2278
East 24th Avenue, Vancouver (one block west of Nanaimo SkyTrain
station). Colleagues and community activists will honour her through
poetry, music and reminiscences, followed by a meal of her favourite
foods. All are welcome. Remembrances may be sent to Red Letter Press
for the Clara Fraser Memorial Publications Fund at Rebel Centre. For
more information or childcare call 604 874-9041.

          #     #     #

More information on Clara Fraser's life can be found at:
<http://www.socialism.com/Clarasmemorial.html>

R A D I C A L   W O M E N
Rebel Centre, 2278 E 24 Ave, Vancouver, BC  V5N 2V2
Tel 604 874.9041, Fax 604 874.9058, 
Email shawna@portal.ca

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                  U.S JOURNALIST THREATENED IN MEXICO
        by Darrin Wood, Director, Nuevo Amanecer Press - Europa

May 6th, 1998

As an investigative journalist and United States citizen who legally
resides in Spain, I am writing concerning accusations made against me
by a member of the Mexican Congress which I consider to be an attack on
the freedom of expression and a threat to my personal safety.

Yesterday, the Mexican government-run news agency "Notimex" released a
dispatch which dealt with declarations made by members of the ruling
party in Mexico, the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional), in the
Congressional Commission on Indigenous Affairs. The congressmen made
public a list of 163 foreigners that they consider to be "international
destabilizers" involved the conflict in the state of Chiapas.  My name
is included on that list.

Notimex states that "these persons register in Mexican embassies
accredited in other nations distinct from their [countries of] origin,
to try and "mislead the migration services and pass unnoticed".  One of
the examples cited is "Darrin James Wood, who entered [Mexico] from
Madrid". The only reason I entered Mexico from Madrid is that I have
been a legal resident in Spain for years now with up to date working
papers as a journalist.  If I wanted to "mislead the migration services
and pass unnoticed" I wouldn’t have gone to the Mexican Embassy in
Madrid in February of this year to get a migration document as a human
rights observer and give embassy officials my photograph, address,
telephone number, place of work and itinerary for my stay in Mexico as
the official representative of the Spanish Human Rights Association
which took part in an international Human Rights commission to Chiapas
at that time. 

The following is a translation of part of the Notimex dispatch: 

"According the the legislators, "it is known that these foreigners come
to Chiapas after being in some of the other guerrilla movements in
Central America, and, obviously, they play a protagonist role of
orientation in what is the guerrilla movement in Chiapas.
It is thought, they added, that "fundamentally these groups come with
the idea of destabilizing the Army, our institutions, the government,
and to exploit our natural resources."

The Secretary of the Indigenous Affairs Commission in Congress, Enrique
Ku Herrera, emphasized that "not only these people should be
investigated. It is known that nearly three thousand foreigners have
entered the country and have had some kind of relation with the state
of Chiapas."

"Many come in groups with humanitarian aid, others as observers, but
there are also many that are openly proselytizing in favor of the
guerrilla movement and the EZLN."

According to Ku Herrera, they have been following how these
destabilizing groups apply their strategy in indigenous regions of
Brasil, Colombia and part of Ecuador where there are great reserves of
natural resources.  They promote, he added, processes of insurgency,
guerrilla rebellion, as in Chiapas, "as part of an international
network of international organizations that, more than anything, are
looking to take over our natural resources.

The strategy in Chiapas, he assured, is getting clearer all the time:
it has the intention of gaining a national and international base to
generate an open conflict against the government and it hides itself
behind a movement that has nothing to do with the indigenous."

The accusations made against me are absolutely ridiculous. I have not
now, nor have I ever been, involved in any guerrilla movement in
Central America. I have never even visited a Central American country.
I also find it rather absurd that I am somehow directing or "orienting"
the indigenous rebellion in Chiapas from my apartment in Spain.

The only reason I am accused of such activities is because of my work
as a journalist investigating U.S. military aid and support to the
Mexican Army. The results of my investigations into Mexican graduates
of the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA) were first published in
the Mexican newsweekly PROCESO on March 6th, 1995.  I have not stopped
my investigations since then and the results have been published both
in Mexico and the United States. 

In November of last year I published, through Nuevo Amanecer Press, an
investigation concerning Mexican Special Forces receiving training at
Fort Bragg, North Carolina. A later version of the article, which
included an analysis of the use of Paramilitary groups in U.S.
counterinsurgency strategy, was published in the Sunday supplement of
the Mexican newspaper LA JORNADA on January 11th, 1998, shortly after
the brutal massacre of 45 indigenous men, women and children in the
village of Acteal.  I have also continued to point out the
participation of SOA graduates involved in human rights abuses in
Mexico. In fact, I am responsible for the identifications of all of the
Mexican School of the Americas graduates involved in Chiapas, as well
as other cases in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Jalisco.

In recent weeks there has been a renewed interest in the Mexican press
concerning these subjects. In fact, just two weeks before I was accused
of being an "International Destablizer" by members of the Mexican
ruling party, the PRI, I pointed out in an interview with PROCESO the
presence of an instructor of the School of the Americas in Mexican
territory. Several more articles based on my research appeared in print
in Mexico on May 3rd and May 4th.   On May 5th my name appeared on the
list I cited before. Hardly a coincidence. 

Another part of this situation that worries me is that information
regarding where and how I entered Mexico could only have been released
by the Mexican Interior Ministry, headed by Francisco Labastida Ochoa.
In the late 1980’s, Labastida Ochoa was the governor of the state of
Sinaloa. At the same time in Sinaloa, the military commander was
general Rodolfo Reta Trigos, who in 1966 was at the U.S. Army’s School
of the Americas receiving courses in "Military Intelligence" and
"Counter Intelligence".  As the military commander of Sinaloa, general
Reta Trigos legalized the "white guards" in the state, the armed goons
of the landowners.

I find the accusations made against me by the Mexican ruling party to
be extremely dangerous for my work as a journalist who plans to
continue visiting and writing about Mexico.  In February, before my
last visit, I received three threats against me. One of the least
pleasant was "We know your face. We are going to fuck you over alive"
("Conocemos tu cara. Te vamos a chingar vivamente").  Given the
subjects that I write about in my work and the latest attacks against
me for allegedly being involved in "the guerrilla movement in Chiapas",
I fear for my safety the next time I visit Mexico.

I am asking for the solidarity of my fellow journalists worldwide and
for the U.S. State Department and Congress to investigate the charges
made against me.

Address : 
Calle San Jorge 25-27, 2-I
50001 Zaragoza, SPAIN

tel : 34 - 976 39 00 47

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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Monday, 4 May 1998
FTP Supplement #32 (#108): Mayday Actions and Repressions

1) Alan MacSimóin, "The Anarchist Origins of Mayday," n.d. (rec'd 1 May
   98) 
2) Reuters (no author), "'Robocop' Police In Turkey Battle Militants,"
   1 May 98 
3) Anti-Fascist Action -- Stockholm (no author), "Police Harassment in
   Stockholm Mayday," 1 May 98 
4) The Arranging Collective (press release), "Illegal Raid Of Pickled
   Herring Lunch At Kaffe 44," 1 May 98 
5) K. Svenson, "Police Attack MayDay in Malmö, Sweden," 4 May 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf108.txt>

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                         WHAT'S WORTH CHECKING

Sarah McNaught (Boston Phoenix), "Hate on parade: With emotions running
high, there could be trouble when gays march in Lawrence," 16-23 Apr 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story227.txt>

AntiRacistAction (press release), "KKKOP Harassment," 15 Apr 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story228.txt>

United Press International (no author), "Indians Jailed For Gathering
Peyote," 13 Apr 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story229.txt>

Bruce Harris (Casa Alianza), "Beating of Twenty Street Children In
Mexico City By Police," 16 Apr 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story230.txt>

Associated Press (no author), "Neo-Nazi rally turns violent after
protesters show up," 18 Apr 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story231.txt>

Lani Guinier (NY Times Op Ed), "An Equal Chance," 23 Apr 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story232.txt>

Esak Garcia (Chiapas Action Center), "Yale Students organize for
Chiapas," n.d. (rec'd 24 Apr 98) 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story233.txt>

Anuradha Mittal (FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN) USA),
"Free Calls To U.S. Senate To Demand Economic Human Rights In the
U.S.," 23 Apr 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story234.txt>

no author (NYM press release), "No Prosecution -- Judge Orders Native
Youth Movement Protesters Freed," 23 Apr 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story235.txt>

Sandra L. Eyster (via Triangle), "Lesbian Couples Needed For
Relationship Study," n.d. rec'd  28 Apr 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story236.txt>

Mike King (The [Montreal] Gazette), "Moniker 'Ivory' making waves," 6
May 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story237.txt>

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