From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Mon Apr 1 09:59:47 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies" , "eero@sofi.su.se" Date: Mon, 01 Apr 96 11:48:09 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Re: collective guilt? On Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:30:15 EST, eero@sofi.su.se wrote: >To Rodney et al, > I understand why you reacted the way you did to the Sudan >posting, but I actually think that the examples you took up confirm >that there's a core of truth to Stephan's argument. Irish-American >leadership should indeed in my opinion be playing a stronger role >than they have until now in getting the Northern Ireland peace talks >back on track. The fact that the IRA derives a considerable portion >of its funding from American sources would seem to indicate that >there's need for such leadership and that the Irish-American commu- >nity indeed bears part of the responsibility for the current situ- >ation. In the same way, leadership elites in the countries which >supported minority dictatorships have a special responsibility to >take distance from this policy legacy--as indeed, I believe, >African and African-American oppositional forces have a special >responsibility to take a stand on long-standing civil conflicts, >and violations of basic human rights in African countries. This >for a simple political reason--I think that policy criticism from >"within" the responsible leaders' own communities either in country >or in diaspora is more difficult for either them or an interested >public to dismiss. What do you all think? >Eero C. >P.S. Note that no notion of COLLECTIVE RACIAL guilt is being advo- >cated here, just a notion of community responsibility which is >in the last analysis binding on everybody who wants to advance >the cause of justice. Your comments are indeed valid, however-I must hasten to add --we are all charged with righting wrongs, we must all speak out. As I read the post, it appeared that the author (and Stephen was not the author, he merely forwarded it) conlcuded that because AA leadership has not (to their satisfaction -sic paternalism) responded and are therefore bankrupt --I found most offensive. umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de Wed Apr 3 02:54:49 1996 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:20:37 +0100 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Leineweber) Subject: collective responsibility! To all on REVS net: I forwarded the article "SLAVE TRADE IN THE SUDAN" primarily because I was shocked and disgusted at the fact, that slavery is obviously still reality in our days. It was my urge to discuss this information with other participants of the list, hoping for comments. The text clippings I cited, blaming black leaderships both in America and Africa for beeing unable to deal appropriately with that issue of course appeared provoking. I admit, that this was my intention, although the author's opinion is partially not identical to my own. I think that Rodney Coates is right to point out deficiencies of other (white) communities and their leaderships regarding to (white) problems as the current Bosnia conflict, IRA bombing in Ireland, or the genocide of the jewish and other minorities by former nazi Germany. Nevertheless, racist, ethnic or religous violence is neither a black nor a white problem. It should be a matter of all human rights activists from all races, creeds, and nationalities. In the case of Sudan the descendants of the slavery-maltreated might be the most competent. I would also appreciate opinions of muslim representatives. In early February Rodney uttered depressed words on this network about a lethargic emotional state of many Blacks in the U.S. in his "bLACK hISTORY bLUES". He bemoaned their bleary consciousness in celebrating commemorations during the February, the 'Black History Month'. And he criticized his white colleagues and the mass media for worrying about black issues in a hypocritical manner. Each nation or ethnic group bears its very own history. We all should endeavor seriously to inquire into the coherencies of their historical incidents. I'm becoming aware, that it's a fortune for those, who live in a relative wealthy democratic societiy, who have the possibility to live an unhurried life, to have also the great facilities to gather multiple information. They should at last recognize their damned joint responsibility towards those facing unbearable conditions in many dictatorial countries, in which survival is the only hard fact for the people there ! Stephan L. From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Wed Apr 3 14:48:27 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies" , "slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de" Date: Wed, 03 Apr 96 16:28:21 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Re: collective responsibility! My problem, as indicated before had to do with its paternalistic and overtly racist tone. Yes, Stephen, we are all responsible for pointing out and attempting to remedy such problems. But my frustration runs deeper, why is it that when children do bad its the mothers who must do something (or by implication if they were not working the problems would mysteriously go away). Why do we talk about black on black crime, while white crime apparently has no face. Why is it that whenever something is wrong in Africa, or in the black community...its the black or African American (or African black community) which is blamed. Most of the problems that surface in Africa are a direct result of colonial (to include post and neo) attitudes, structures and events. It would be better to blame the International Banking community, the European imperialism that fosters such a system, American public and international policies. Consequently, rather than pointing the finger of blame at Black and African American leaders the blame should be toward Clinton, Majors and others. Damn, this notion that these problems surface in a time of vacuum...void of history, global economics, racism, and etc. just boggles my bind.... rodney c... From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Thu Apr 4 16:21:18 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 17:18:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Sexual harrassment (fwd) Note from Alan Spector: The following message was forwarded to me with the request that I foward it on to organizations with members that might be interested in this issue. If you are interested, please respond directly to the names and addresses at the end of this post, rather than to me. Thank you. Forwarded message follows: =================================================== > > ATTENTION: If you have received a similar message, please go over the details > about "how you can help" again: we are adding new addresses so that you can > send your protest letter to Brazilian institutions. > > SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITY BECOMES POLITICAL WAR - YOU CAN HELP II > > ========================================================= > This message is about a serious case of sexual harassment in Brazil. We are > asking for the HELP of > concerned people and organizations. Please forward this message to whom you > think appropriate. > ========================================================= > > This account is about power and about its abuse. It is about the unwritten prohibition of stating sexual harassment, spurious allegiances and other power games freely played by some > university professors, > protected from truth by their violent corporate practices. Vera Helena Monezi > is an administrative > worker at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) since 1981. She used to work at > the Biology Department, at > the Institute of Biosciences and she also had regular political activity in > her local Union. In October 19, > 1993, she was forced to report sexual harassment at the police department: the > head of her department had > been insistently harassing her and, in face of her open refusals, he made her > life in her workplace > unbearable. Finally, he threatened to fire her. Vera had a witness to one of > her boss's strikes: a colleague > of hers. What followed her report was an incredible series of attacks. First, > they threatened her witness > until he denied having seen or heard anything that could impute guilt on their > boss. Then they refused to > transfer her if she didn't agree to withdraw her denounce. The agreement where > they stated their > conditions is properly documented. With no witness and - documents attest it - > the interference of > influential people in high courts of the country, the charge was filed in > march 1994. Vera was transferred > this same month to the Center of Marine Biology of the USP, in a little town > about three hours from Sao > Paulo. The director revealed herself a server of the Institute's policy > towards Vera's reports: despite the > acknowledged competence of this worker (and the director wrote letters stating > her position), she was put > "in disposability" in June, 1994. Well, the electoral period in Brazil started > in may 1994 and the law is > clear about the impossibility of transferring public workers for seven months > around the election. > Although illegal, the University's official moves couldn't be revoked. The > Union's attorneys were > powerless against its strength. Police and judges are condescending and > probably intimidated by this > University - the most important one in the country, the home of our president, > a kind of sacred institution. > In January 1995, VEJA magazine (an important weekly magazine, like Times or > Newsweek) went after > Vera for a news story about sexual harassment. It was published in march 1995. > Supported by powerful > and renown professors of the USP and with obscure political forces interceding > in his favor, the head of > department sued Vera for "calumny, defamation and perjury" and also > "calumnious denunciation". The > sentence for the first law suit has already been divulged and the second one > is also concluded. Although > the evidences exhibited during both trials strongly demonstrated Vera's > innocence, she was considered > guilty in the first case. Observers have found the sentence to lack legal > basis and to indicate strong external > interference. The statement emphasizes the professor's academic and social > position as an argument in > his favor, in a prejudiced and immoral text. > > WHAT WE ASK: > 1. You can help by stating your objection to that sentence, protesting against > the procedures and > demanding its correction. The larger the number of organizations that put > forward their indignation > towards this sort of treatment of sexual harassment, the better for our cause. > 2. You can also help by forwarding this message to all the organizations and > people you know that might > add to this campaign. If anyone has an e-mail list of organizations concerned > with sexual harassment and > violence against women in general, please send it to > mcoutinho@originet.com.br. > 3. Finally, you can help by keeping in touch and not leaving us alone. > > WHAT TO DO: > 1. First, send a COPY of your protest by fax or snail mail to: > Vera H. Monezi > SINTUSP - Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da USP > Universidade de Sao Paulo > Travessa J, 374 - Cidade Universitaria > CEP 05508-900 - Sao Paulo, SP > Fax: (55-11) 814 57 89 > > 2. Send letters to Brazilian important newspapers asking them to give the > necessary attention to this story: > A FOLHA DE SAO PAULO: folhaweb@folha.com.br > O ESTADO DE SAO PAULO: webmaster@estado.com.br > O GLOBO: oglobo@embratel.net.br > JORNAL DO BRASIL: jb@ax.apc.org > > 3. Send a letter to Amnesty International. The e-mail of our regional office > is: szaitune@bra000.canal-vip.onsp.br > > 4. Send a letter to the "Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil" (OAB - Order of > Brazilian Lawyers), asking them to gather efforts to CHANGE THE LEGISLATION > ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT (There is no specific law for that): > Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil - Seccao Sao Paulo > Praca da Se 385 - 8o. andar > CEP: 01001-001 - Sao Paulo, SP > Brazil > > 5. Send a letter to the "Conselho da Condicao Feminina" (Counsel for Feminine > Condition): > Conselho Estadual da Condicao Feminina > Rua Antonio Godoi 122 - 6o. andar > CEP: 01034-001 > Sao Paulo, SP > Brazil > > 6. Send a letter to the University of Sao Paulo. The head of this institution > is Dr. Flavio Fava de Morais and the e-mail is: mcsilva@spider.usp.br > > 7. Send a confirmation of your correspondence to: > mcoutinho@originet.com.br > with the subject: "harassment" > > THANK YOU! > > > From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Thu Apr 4 15:45:52 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies" Date: Thu, 04 Apr 96 17:28:21 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Connect the Dots Connect the Dots Rodney Coates/96 Mae Jemison attacked by cops for being black in the wrong space Another pair of shoes, starter jackets to go, ignorance and dropouts at an all time high Watch the blood, keep getting high and connect the dots. Rape stains Emory walls, three black heroes cast in jail Wrong time, another book unread, class not taken. Teen pregnancies and unemployment stepping high Watch the tube, keep those drinks coming and connect the dots. Thirty-two percent black males in jail, on probation or dieing a slow death Sistas looking hard for a good man waiting to exhale. Doctors selling drugs, preachers stealing tithes, politicians need that vote Watch that boy, keep him out and connect the dots. Two white boys just having fun - blow darts in the back Black pain, cheap thrills, hit them up again. Racism up, hope down, despair runs like water Watch that girl, keep her down and connect the dots. Black novels collecting dust, INTERNET chatter- lock and load the depraved continuous to breed, white power, freeman wanting to kill the freedman Move burnt in 2 nights, but we gotta be patient like asses - they's white you know Watch the polls, keep your faith and connect the dots. Hate will rot your brains, crack will seal your fate, ignorance will kill by eight. Seven young blacks burned alive, twenty black churches burned in silence Six geese a laying, five children a playing - with guns in the bedroom. Watch the blood, keep it flowing and connect the dots. Connect the dots, forget watts, E.St. Louis is by the Nile Mississippi born, muddy waters sings of this stain Sade would but she's forgotten the words, and Miles is away this week OH mercy mercy me, getta grip, and connect the dots. umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de Fri Apr 5 12:31:32 1996 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:33:26 +0100 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Leineweber) Subject: An Idea.. Hello to all: After dealing with the questinon of collective violence for a while I wonder why we often not become aware of such incidents until its full eruption. Each violent conflict develops/developed from a sequence of specific events. It should be possible to detect those coherencies, which are likely to lead into collective violence -- before being late. My idea is to track out the most common reasons, which raises/raised -apparent unexpected- outburst of riots. A result could be a set of basic hypothesises to dicuss.. This might be helpful to understand, foresee and possibly to mitigate imminent atrocities. I suppose, that there are a number of comparable processes which refers to many occurences throughout the history and today. What do YOU think ?? Stephan L. From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Fri Apr 5 12:48:17 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "revs@csf.colorado.edu" , "slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de" Date: Fri, 05 Apr 96 14:34:54 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Re: An Idea.. On Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:33:26 +0100, Stephan Leineweber wrote: > > > Hello to all: > >After dealing with the questinon of collective violence for a while I wonder >why we often not become aware of such incidents until its full eruption. >Each violent conflict develops/developed from a sequence of specific events. >It should be possible to detect those coherencies, which are likely to lead >into collective violence -- before being late. > >My idea is to track out the most common reasons, which raises/raised -apparent >unexpected- outburst of riots. A result could be a set of basic hypothesises >to dicuss.. > >This might be helpful to understand, foresee and possibly to mitigate imminent >atrocities. > >I suppose, that there are a number of comparable processes which refers to many >occurences throughout the history and today. > >What do YOU think ?? > > > Stephan L. > > There has been some work along these lines associated with the various riots and commissions (eg. Kerner Commission on Civil Unrest) in this country. This is a good idea..I wonder if through cross-cultural analysis we might come up with some universals... umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Sat Apr 6 09:28:03 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:26:11 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Racism at UK -atackers unknown Note from Alan Spector, REVS editor/manager REVS listmember Rodney Coates posted this to another network. I thought it might be interesting for those who have illusions that these kinds of things only happen in Yugoslavia or Germany. ================================================== From: "Rodney Coates" Date: Fri, 05 Apr 96 15:23:40 +0 To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Subject: Racism at UK -atackers unknown Just when I thought it was safe to go home for the day this just in from UK what the hell is happening...blacks under attack from the Kentucky Kernal (Univrsity of Kentucky -Lexington, KY student newspaper) Attackers threaten UK student by Brenna Reilly A student's life was threatened on campus yesterday morning while she was walking to clas. According to UK Police, Tanya-Marie Cole was approached by two white males at about 11 am outside the back entrance of Kastle Hall. "Two white males pushed here into the hall and said if she didn't like her life here they could end it for her," said UK Police Chief W.H. McComas. McComas said one of the suspects held the knife to Cole's face. Cole was not phycisally hurt, but was emotionally upset, McComas said. "I was very mad," said Cole, a biology junior. "I think it is funny that after all of the men who wrote, they decided to go after a female." Police beleive the incident may be related to a letter to the editor in Thursday's Kentucky Kernel that was written by Cole. She wrote the letter in response to previous letters to the editor about columinist Boyce Watkins. In her letter, Cole talkded about what it is like being a black person at UK and how black students have to work harder for respect. Cole said the men turned her around so she couldn't see their faces. "There is no way they could have attached my name to my face, Cole said. She said she beleives the suspects know her or are in one of her classes. snip ..snip.. Cole said she thinks the men were only trying to scare her and were not going to hurt her. She said she thinks they wanted her to stop writing letters." In her letter last week Cole wrote: "Slavery may be over but the tremors from the aftermath are being felt everywhere." My point was proven today," Coles said yesterday, "People don't believe it happens, maybe now they will. .... what can i say.. and the struggle continues still umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From mpred@usa.pipeline.com Fri Apr 5 22:13:34 1996 Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 05:13:26 GMT To: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de Subject: Re: An Idea.. From: mpred@usa.pipeline.com (Ted Daniels) On Apr 05, 1996 21:33:26, 'slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Leineweber)' wrote: >What do YOU think ?? I think the process is so complex and has so many intervening variables and unpredictabilities that it will be almost impossible to find clear-cut predicters that will reliably generalize. As it happens, I'm working on a paper about what look to me like fairly likely predicters in very narrowly defined contexts, but it's not ready to go public yet. -- Ted Daniels, Ph.D. Director Millennium Watch Institute PO Box 34021 Philadelphia, PA 19101-4021 USA 800/666-4694 mpred@usa.pipeline.com From mweigand@usa.net Sat Apr 6 08:47:40 1996 From: mweigand@usa.net Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 08:47:20 -0700 Reply-To: Mark Weigand Subject: Re: An Idea.. To: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de, Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies In-Reply-To: Certainly a worthy effort. One book which may be helpful is called Religion and Violence by Robert McAfee Brown at Stanford (probably out of print but in libraries). He discusses several types of violence found in society: personal overt physical assault, institutionalized overt physical assault, personal covert violence and institutionalized covert violence. He especially discusses these types with reference to racial groups in society. He also discusses violence in war and the concept of a "just war". One very instructive concept is that of "structural violence", or the violence of the apparently peaceful status quo. Racism in an otherwise peaceful society is an example of structural violence, as is discrimination when it becomes "business as usual". I hope this is helpful. From SSHANK@iunhaw1.iun.indiana.edu Mon Apr 8 09:27:09 1996 From: "Stephanie Shanks-Meile" Organization: Indiana University Northwest To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 10:26:01 CST Subject: call for papers Call for Papers: The Association for Humanist Sociology will meet October 31-November 3, 1996 in Hartford, CT. I have been asked to develop a session on contemporary fascism and the racist right. I would be interested in receiving paper presentation topics and titles by April 15th from those interested in attending the conference and wanting to participate in this session. Thanks in advance. Stephanie Shanks-Meile, Associate Professor of Sociology E-Mail Address: SSHANK@IUNHAW1.INDIANA.EDU Telephone: 219-980-6787 From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Mon Apr 8 11:18:45 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "revs@csf.colorado.edu"@rose.muohio.edu, " "@csf.Colorado.EDU Date: Mon, 08 Apr 96 12:07:22 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Fwd: Stop Custer Monument at Washita (FWD) = i forward this from another lst because of its relevance...rodney c.. =================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Received: from SpoolDir by CASSERVER1 (Mercury 1.21); 6 Apr 96 01:10:49 -5 >Return-path: >Received: from csf.Colorado.EDU by casmail.muohio.edu (Mercury 1.21); > 6 Apr 96 01:10:41 -5 >Received: from host (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU >Received: from genesee.freenet.org (genesee.freenet.org [192.138.137.113]) by ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 09:49:08 -0700 >Received: by genesee.freenet.org (SMI-8.6/2.25) >Message-Id: >Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:48:59 -0500 (EST) >Reply-To: wfarrell@genesee.freenet.org >Sender: owner-psn@csf.colorado.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: "William J. Farrell" >To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK >Subject: Stop Custer Monument at Washita (FWD) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >X-To: PSN-CAFE@csf.colorado.edu >X-Listprocessor-Version: 7.1 -- ListProcessor by CREN > This is from the NATIVE_L list. My wife's uncle remarded that, building a monument ot Custer at Washita was like building a monument to McVey in Oklahoma City. Bill Farrell Univ. of Michigan-Flint ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 14:15:59 -0800 From: Joseph Thompson Subject: Stop Custer Monument at Washita (FWD) !!!ALERT!!! Help Us Stop the Monument to Custer at Washita! Dear Friends, An e-mail campaign is now under way. Please lend your support to help: STOP THE MONUMENT TO CUSTER AT WASHITA On November 27, 1868, General Custer led his army on a pre-dawn raid on a peaceful Cheyenne encampment on the Whasita which resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Cheyenne women, children and men. Governor Frank Keating and U. S. Representative Frank Lucas initiated a meeting of a western Oklahoma citizens group to discuss how to spend $250,000 which has been set aside in the Fiscal Year 1997 Oklahoma budget for the Washita Historic Battlefield. Because of the special significance of the Washita site to the Cheyenne Tribe, Tribal officials sought to be included in the meeting. After much stonewalling by the Oklahoma politicians, the Tribe was finally informed that they would not be invited to the meeting. The Elk City newspaper subsequently reported on this meeting, stating that the Oklahoma citizens group wanted to declare the Washita site as a Custer National Battlefield Site. It was discussed that George Custer would be the drawing card, not the Indians slain, and the monument should be in his name. Please forward this entire message far and wide. Please e-mail the following message to Oklahoma Governor Keating and to U. S. Senator Don Nickles. (Note: Rep. Lucas' has no public e-mail address) Please include a Cc to: cheyarap@mind.net Copy and Paste the Following --------------------------------------------------------------- To: Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating To: U. S. Senator Don Nickles To: U. S. Rep. Frank Lucas Dear Sirs, The proposed construction of a monument to General George A. Custer at the Washita Historic Site is a desecration of this solemn place and an affront to the entire Native American community. A state which takes pride in proclaiming itself "Native America" has the power to lead the way to a national reconciliation with the Native American community. This proposed action will only serve to further the divisions. Please rescind this action, immediately and publicly. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ End Copy and Paste HOW TO REGISTER YOUR SUPPORT To e-mail this letter of support to Keating and Lucas, please follow these steps: 1.) Type your name into the space provided in the above letter of support. 2.) "Copy" and "paste" this letter of support into your e-mail program as a "new message" (Please copy only the material between the dotted lines above. ) 3.) Add any additional words of support or leave as is. 4.) Write in the subject "Stop Custer Monument at Washita" 5.) Write in Governor Keating's e-mail address which is: Frank.A.Keating@oklaosf.state.ok.us 6.) Write in U. S. Senator Nickles' e-mail address which is: nickles@rpc.senate.gov 7.) Please include the following e-mail address as a "Cc". This will help us gauge the volume of support letters going out. cheyarap@mind.net 7.) "Send" the message. Thank you in advance for supporting this important cause. Sincerely, Joseph Thompson thompson@mind.net ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From united@antenna.nl Tue Apr 9 05:39:35 1996 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:07:32 +0200 To: united@antenna.nl From: united@antenna.nl (UNITED) Subject: REFUGEES/CALENDAR --========================_14159810==_ Dear friends, Herewith we send you our latest mailing by e-mail, including an invitation to the conference on refugees 'Speak out for refugees' rights!', as well as the latest Calendar of Internationalism (attached). Please let us know it anything goes wrong with the transmission. Keep sending us information on your activities, about deaths of refugees trying to enter fortress Europe and about detention centers for refugees and illegal immigrants around Europe! With best wishes, Saskia Daru **************************************************************************** UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees with the support of the Green Group and the Socialist Group in the European Parliament ************************************************************************ Conference - Invitation: ************************************************************************ SPEAK OUT FOR REFUGEES' RIGHTS ! offensive for a "harmonisation of European asylum laws" on the basis of safe refuge under humanitarian conditions European Parliament Bruxelles June 13-14 1996 ************************************************************************ ----- Attacks on refugees in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, a series of suicides in German detention centres, horrible conditions in the Hungarian detention camp of Gy=F6r, massive cutting down of social benefits in Britain= =8A And we actually see the European governments and Ministers of Internal Affairs concentrating their efforts on the "harmonisation of asylum laws", which will be of course on the lowest possible level. To oppose these intentions we think it's high time to combine all forces that stand for refugees' rights and to express clearly the need for safe refuge under humanitarian conditions.----- ************************************************************************* PROGRAM THURSDAY 13/6 14.30-18.00 chair: Claudia Roth (MEP Greens) Saskia Daru (UNITED) Welcome Introduction: The UNITED refugee campaign J=FCrgen Sch=E4fer (UNITED - Amsterdam) Construction of a "Fortress Europe" Glyn Ford / Wilmya Zimmermann (MEPs PSE - Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs) (Schengen, TREVI, Dublin, Europol, safe third countries, visa policy...) Economic justice and migration Sawkat Choudhury (Amnesty International Slovakia) (reasons for seeking refuge...) Discussion Break Effects of "Fortress Europe" for refugees =46rances Webber (Institute of Race Relations - London) (militarisation, deaths, criminalisation, detention, ex-territorial zones, chain expulsions...) Hot spots of human tragedies Helmut Dietrich (Forschungsstelle Flucht und Migration FFM - Berlin) (Ceuta/Spain, Gy=F6r/Hungary, Szczecin/Poland...) New "Apartheid" in Europe David Forbes (Kairos Europe Migration Programme) (cutting of social benefits, living conditions, medical care, citizens' righ= ts=8A) Discussion _______________________________________________________________ =46RIDAY 14/6 9.30-13.00 chair: Wilmya Zimmermann (MEP PSE) J=FCrgen Sch=E4fer (UNITED) Harmonisation of refugee/asylum policy of the governments Claudia Roth (MEP - President Green Group - Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs) (IGC /Maastricht, "definition" of refugee, minimum guarantees of asylum procedures, cutting social benefits, citizens' rights...) Amnesty for rejected asylum seekers and "illegal" immigrants - The actual regularisation in Portugal B=E1rbara Mesquita (Portuguese Refugee Council - Lisbon) Protection of asylum seekers and the question of "illegal" immigration Philip Rudge (ECRE - Secretary General European Council on Refugees and Exiles - London) Discussion Break The lobbying approach: 10 minimum demands for fair and satisfactory asylum procedures in Europe Sandrine Grenier (Amnesty International - EU Association - Brussels) The grass-roots approach: Direct support for (illegal) refugees Rick van Amersfoort (Autonoom Centrum - Amsterdam) The campaigning approach: 21 demands for European harmonisation of asylum la= ws =46rances Webber (Basso-Tribunal - Berlin / IRR London) Discussion Possibilities for cooperation of all forces that stand for refugees' rights Closure _______________________________________________________________ TECHNICAL INFORMATION Program: There will be 4x3 experts inputs of 15 minutes each. Each block followed by 45 minutes of discussion. Place: Conference place is the European Parliament in Brussels, room MAE 2, 97-113 rue Belliard. Languages: Simultaneous interpretation is foreseen in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Participation fee: Thanks to the support of the Green and the Socialist Group in the EP we don't have to charge a participation fee. But accomodation and travel costs can unfortunately not be reimbursed. If you have good contact to a MEP from your country he might support your travel costs from his special budget. Nominations: To this open Conference we invite all MEPs and their assistants who want to support refugees, all refugee NGOs from inside and outside the UNITED network, anti-racist and human rights groups, journalists of all media=8A Organisations may nominate several delegates. A limited number of interested individuals might also be welcomed. YOU HAVE TO NOMINATE TO UNITED, OTHERWISE YOU CANNOT GET ACCESS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Please send a short letter to UNITED with the name(s) of your delegate(s) and the complete address of your organisation. More detailed information will be send after your nomination, such as proposals for cheap hostels / accomodation. UNITED for Intercultural Action is with 380 organisations from 41 European countries the biggest European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees= .. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The UNITED Refugees Campaign The situation for refugees in Europe is rapidly becoming worse More and more people look desperately for safe refuge in Europe. But they see their well-founded reasons to flee ignored by the rich states of the "Fortress Europe". The official figure of people seeking asylum is permanently decreasing in Western Europe, whilst the problem is partly transferred to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. About 5 million refugees and migrants of all kinds in the territory of the former Soviet Union show the enormous dimension of this concern The answer of the EU-governments is quite simple: stop all legal possibilities to enter our countries. And those who have against all odds succeeded to arrive, are declared to be "illegal" and Europe changes its laws etc. so that 95 % can be expelled. We at UNITED are not sure whether a harmonisation of asylum laws at the European level is of any advantage for refugees, even if we have the chance of influencing the process. Maybe gaps in national legislation are sometimes the only chance for protection. But we are totally sure that we have to become more active and support the victims of persecution of all kinds. Activities of the Campaign The UNITED Refugees Campaign was launched a year ago during the UNITED Conference in Luxembourg (2/95), in response to growing concern for the high number of refugees who died trying to enter Fortress Europe. We have documented 276 refugee deaths since January 1993. =46rom the start the campaign had 2 main elements - to prevent more deaths and to lobby for the demands of the Basso-Tribunal, for humane asylum policy, which was held in Berlin, December 1994, to investigate refugee policies and Fortress Europe. Many refugee and human rights organisations, as well as members of European Parliament and national parliamentarians, joined the Campaign and are actively taking part. Seeing as June 16 was already the Refugee Day in half of the Western European countries, while in the others it was held in varying months, we concentrated our efforts on June 16 as "International Refugee Day". With the slogan "Fortress Europe: No more deaths! Open Borders - Open Minds!" on 16/6/95 we organised a European-wide bombardement with protest faxes of the Interior Ministries of Germany, Great-Britain, France, Spain and Italy, as being the countries with the most restrictive policy towards refugees. Dozens of other activities were organised all over Europe on this day to show solidarity with refugees. In 1995, UNITED delegates were invited to various meetings at the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, where we had the chance to present the elements of the Campaign. On 9/11/95 was the commemoration of "Kristallnacht", where antifascist, Jewish and refugee support organisations in 28 countries held hundreds of activities on the theme of refuge in Europe 1938-1995. This unique cooperation made a historic parallel between 1938 when Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were refused entry into safe countries and today, when =46ortress Europe prevents refugees from entering safe European countries. Members of the UNITED network having witnessed the horrible conditions in the detention centres of Ceuta (Spain/Morroco) and Gy=F6r (Hungary), decided at the UNITED Conference in Budapest (10/95) to start a research on detention centres in Europe, which is planned to be followed by special campaign activities. In support of this Campaign 60.000 posters, 30.000 stickers and 1.500 brochures of the Basso-Tribunal have been distributed. They can still be ordered from UNITED. Now UNITED is mobilising for June 16, 1996 "International Refugee Day", around which a lot of local and national activities shall be organised. And on an international level we are holding a Conference on June 13-14 at the European Parliament. We ask you to join us and "Speak out for refugees' rights!" We want to organise an offensive for a "harmonisation of European asylum laws" on the basis of safe refuge under humanitarian conditions. Refugee deaths through Fortress Europe In this info-pack you will find documentation on 276 refugee deaths since 1993, as well as press clippings on some tragic and shocking shocking fates. All the deaths listed can be put down to Fortress Europe. They are the result of border militarisation and restrictions in asylum laws, which make the legal entry impossible. Refugees are forced to find always more dangerous ways. Dependent on unscrupulous traffickers and searched by uniformed man-hunters, they take small boats from Albania to Italy, unable to swim they cross rivers between Poland and Germany, walk on steep footpaths in the Alpes during night, travel in sealed containers and as stowaways. If they are fortunate enough to arrive, their life is still not safe. Primitive conditions of accomodation make them targets of racist arson attacks, inhuman detention and deportation policy often ends in desperate suicides=8A Of course the documented 276 deaths is only the tip of the iceberg. It is difficult to document all deaths, which we estimate up to 1-2.000, because the EU Commission does not feel responsible and therefore does not collect information. They say, given where deaths have occured it is the responsibility of the national governments to investigate. As everybody can imagine national governments show the same desinterest. We ask you to keep sending us press cuttings and other information about the deaths - we continue compiling the list. The problem is not only a European one. The University of Houston (USA) has researched that each year 300 people drown when they try to cross the Rio Grande between Mexico and Texas. When they try to flee from their desperate situation they have to look for dangerous crossings at the 1.000 km part of the river, which is not heavily guarded. 3.200 people have drowned in the last 10 years. Most of them are never identified and buried within 24 hours in unmarked pauper's graves. Many of their relatives are still waiting=8A Research on detention in Europe The existence of Fortress Europe produces not only endless numbers of deaths and tragic consequences in the lives of those desperately seeking safety, but also restrictive measures against the "lucky" who succeed in arriving. The aim of the official policy is to protect Europe from refugees. So why not treat refugees as criminals and by putting them into detention they hope to deter all the others who intend to flee to Europe? The European Ministers of Interior are very creative in finding lots of reasons to keep refugees in detention centres. And they learn from each other: During the last years all the large international airports got their "ex-territorial zones" - prisons have been discovered as ideal places to accomodate refugees etc. We have to ask, who is the criminal? Those who flee from threatening persecution with the only wish to live in safety or those who throw these desperate people into prisons? The European estimate shows several tens of thousand refugees detained, among them up to 4.000 in Germany and 1.000 in Britain. We think it is high time to do research on this development and we ask you to help us to enlarge our list of 79 detention centres in Europe by filling in the enclosed questionnaire. International conventions and national legislation demand from most of the countries not to use detention as punitive or disciplinary measures, to prohibit the detention of minors, to give access to UNHCR officials etc. But this is not enough! Detention is in no way acceptable. We have to fight for the complete closing down of all detention centres! Harmonisation of European asylum laws Ministers who construct the Fortress Europe cannot only be stopped by extra-parliamentarian movements who protest against flagrant violations of human rights. There must be intensive lobbying of politicians, parties and those civil servants in the ministries who show an open attitude to the needs of refugees. We have to convince them that the harmonisation process is only acceptable, when it is based on the demands of safe refuge under humanitarian conditions, as it is laid down in the 21 demands of the Basso-Tribunal. Instead of defending what is left of the rights of asylum seekers, we have to go in an offensive and speak out for what is really needed. On June 13-14 in Bruxelles we want to discuss with all organisations and members of European Parliament how we can successfully join in this fight. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Detention in Europe 1996 "The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status." Art. 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Introduction "Fortress Europe" has become a synonymous with EU asylum and migration policy, deportation and detention, criminalization, forced measures and control. Even if the European state lacks political structure and has no real democratic control, Europe is seen to migrants and refugees as a unified state with strongly defended borders. Due to recent changes in the laws and an enlarged practice of detention, the detaining of asylum seekers has become an issue of public concern in several European countries (UK, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Denmark). In other countries public attention has been appeased by improvements in legislation and practice (Luxembourg, Netherlands and Norway), whereas particularly in those countries where expulsions are not usually accompanied by forceful deportation orders (Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal), there is little public awareness of the problem. Hunger strikes of detained asylum seekers, demonstrations and protests against the conditions of detention have been reported frequently especially in Switzerland and Germany. The list of deaths compiled by UNITED for Intercultural Action indicates an increasing number of deaths and suicides in recent years. These dramatic and unusual stories make their way into the press. However, they are not just random, unconnected incidents but examples of a deficient practice. Detention itself is becoming standard practice in some countries. It is a direct consequence of the state policy to restrict migrants entering Western Europe and their scant regard for asylum seekers' need for international protection. Procedures for 'manifestly unfounded' solicitations, the Dublin Convention (country of first asylum in the EU), 'safe third country' removals and denial of social welfare benefits, together have implications for the detention practice. Increased detention figures have recently been reported by several UNHCR Branch Officers in Western Europe, notably from Austria, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. Only in Norway has the use of detention diminished. Several countries have recently amended, or are in the process of amending their legislation, to increase their power to detain asylum seekers or authorise longer detention periods: - Due to the revision of the German Alien Act in 1990, which enlarges the potential detainment period from three months up to 18 months, the number of detainees has increased by 1000% between 1992 and 1994. The UK Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 gives the immigration officers broad powers to detain without a right to appeal to the courts. The UK Asylum Law in process to be renewed in 1996 will become more restrictive also in regard to the 'safe third country' rule. - In Switzerland, the Federal Law on Coercive Measures in Aliens Law, which came into force in February 1995 authorises imprisonment for up to 12 months for persons above the age of 15 when found without valid residence permits, regardless of whether or not they have committed a crime. Similar legal provisions are currently under debate in Belgium. - In 1994 France introduced an amendment to its legislation, creating international waiting zones, especially in airports, which in practical terms means detention for up to 20 days. Detainees may be transferred from one zone to another. - The amendment of the Danish Alien Act, passed in Parliament in 1994, was declared unconstitutional by the courts in January 1995 and was subsequently suspended. It provided powers of detention in the 'manifestly unfounded' procedure. - The Netherlands and Luxembourg revised their aliens legislation in 1994. The maximum length of detention is four weeks in the Netherlands and 6 months in Luxembourg. - Sweden has recently raised the age limit of detention of minors from 16 to 18 years. The establishment of new detention centres and/or the enlargement of existing ones is another indication of the intention of the European governments to continue their policy of detaining asylum seekers. Such plans can be found in a number of countries like Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Currently four types of detention exist in practice: Detention prior to admission This applies to asylum seekers who are detained while awaiting a decision on their admissibility to the determination procedures and hence to the territory of the country concerned. The introduction of accelerated procedures for 'manifestly unfounded' and 'safe third country' cases has made this type of detention an increasingly common practice. This form of detention is predominantly used by border countries such as Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom. The increasing use made of these procedures at European borders is a direct product of measures agreed on by EU Member States, such as visa restrictions and carrier sanctions and restricting legal access to the respective national territories. Denmark, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy practice a supposedly short-term detention. In practice pre-admission detention can last for weeks or even months. Detention in airports Airport detention with unlimited length has become common practice in some countries throughout Europe. The methods of 'detention prior to admission' and 'detention prior to deportation in airports' have become increasingly indistinguishable. The Austrian Constitutional Court as well as the French and Belgian authorities have maintained that detention in airports is not really 'detention' because asylum seekers are supposedly free to leave the country whenever they wish! Detention during the determination procedure During determination procedures, asylum seekers in western Europe generally may be detained only when there is serious reason to believe that they will not cooperate with the procedure or resist deportation if rejected. This type of detention is particularly common in the United Kingdom, where all asylum seekers detained on pre-admission grounds stay in detention, even after their application has been declared admissible. Appeals in courts are not possible. Danger of detention is greatest for those asylum seekers likely to be rejected and deported. The grounds for detention are not very clearly defined in any European state. The only power to detain an asylum seeker given leave to enter Germany is through the criminal justice system; however, this apparently liberal position should be seen in the context of detention prior to deportation which is used on a massive scale. Detention prior to deportation The trend in several Western European countries (in particular Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland) can be summarised as one of extending duration of detention prior to deportation, and the use of broad and increasingly vague criteria for judging that persons subject to deportation orders may attempt to flee. A serious problem in pre-deportation detention is that hardly any difference is being made between rejected asylum seekers and other migrants and foreigners convicted of crimes. In public perception and political debate detention itself turns out to be a means of criminalization. Even though detention in Germany is not legally permitted if expulsion cannot be carried out within three months, Kurds have been nonetheless detained for up to eleven months. Human rights Human rights organisations have good reason to believe that the great majority of detained asylum seekers in Western Europe today are being deprived of their liberty on the basis of arbitrary decisions and unclear legal procedures and practices. In the absence of fair asylum procedures in Western Europe many genuine refugees will inevitably be rejected and thus possibly detained. The human suffering through detention cannot be overstated: the detained asylum seeker is prey to a sense of insecurity, of being an object in an uncertain process. The feeling of powerlessness, passivity. humiliation, fear of the unknown and the possibility of being returned to the country where he/she may be at risk of persecution result in depression, aggressiveness, even self-mutilation and suicide. --- J=FCrg L=FCdi (Arbeitsstelle f=FCr Asylfragen - Switzerland) --- --- March 1996 --- --========================_14159810==_ UNITED for Intercultural Action __________________________________________________ --- CALENDAR OF INTERNATIONALISM 4/96 --- __________________________________________________ until 26.04.96 "52th Session - Commission on Human Rights" contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, J. Moller, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9173378 until 15.06.96 "Without Invitation...a Journey Not Like the Others" Interactive Exhibition and role game in Bruxelles (B) organised by Centre d'Initiation pour Refugies et Etrangers This project will allow its visitors to 'live' the journey of an asylum seek= er. contact: CIRE, 205 chaussee de Wavre , B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6441717, fax +32-2-6468591 30.03.96-06.04.96 "Intercultural Training for European Young Leaders" - in Faro (P) organised by Intercambio Europeu de Jovens Training course how to work with people from various cultures for young lead= ers Themes: intercultural learning, games and their methods, planning and organising activities... contact: Intercambio Europeu de Jovens, Rua Comdte Augusto Cardoso 29, P-1500 Lisboa,phone/fax +351-1-7601451 31.03.96-09.04.96 "The Long Echo of National Socialism - Long Ago but not Over" German - English Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 April 1996 "Colloquium on Schengen" - in Bruxelles (B) organised by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Theme: application of the provisions of the Schengen Agreement relating to asylum and refugees in the Benelux Countries in the light of international protection principles... contact: UNHCR, Rue van Eyck 11b, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6490153, fax +32-2-6419005 April 1996 "Criminalisation of the Anti-Fascist Resistance" Anti-Fascist Week in Goettingen (D) organised by Autonome Antifa (M) events, actions, concerts and a demonstration... contact: Autonome Antifa (M), c/o Buchladen Rote Strasse 10, D-37073 Goettingen, phone +49-551-394569, fax +49-551-394564, e.mail aam@paxo.nadir.org April 1996 "International Cooperation" International Conference in Bialystok (PL) organised by Brotherhood of Orthodox Youth participants from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus contact: European Youth Campaign Against Racism=8A - Poland, ul. Ok=F3lnik 11/1, PL-00368, Warszawa, phone +48-22-279465, fax +48-22-2789= 38 April 1996 "Impact of Tolerance on the Construction of Europe Through the Imagination" International Seminar in Massy (F) organised by Youth for the World - Jeunes pour le Monde Themes: define the concept of tolerance, Europe of the future... contact: Youth for the World, El. Axiomaticon Street 29, GR-16233 Athinai, phone +30-1-7255646, fax +30-1-7255646 April 1996 "Young YWCA Struggling Against Racism" International Seminar for Women in Strasbourg (F) organised by European Young Women's Christian Association Themes: prejudices, woman and racism, how to handle concrete situations, info on organisations against racism at European level... contact: YWCA, 94, avenue Brugmann, B-1060 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-3449861, fax +32-2-3465946 April/May 1996"Religion and Minority in Europe" International Seminar in Central/Eastern Europe organised by World Student Christian Federation - Europe Office Themes: religious minorities, human rights in Europe... contact: WSCF, Prins Hendriklaan 37, NL-1075 BA Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6754921, fax +31-20-6755736 04.04.96-07.04.96 "Right-Wing Extremism and Violence" Seminar for young people in Ainhofen near Dachau (D) Contact: Foerderverein Dachau, Zur Alten Schiessstatt 1, D-85221 Dachhau, phone +49-8131-83303 07.04.96-12.04.96 "Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination" International Seminar in Antwerpen (B) organised by Pax Christi Youth Forum - International Themes: European youth living in multi-ethnic states, structural solutions, rights of minorities... contact: PCYF, 21, rue du Vieux Marche aux Grains, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5025550, fax +32-2-5024626 09.04.96-14.04.96 "Seek Traces - Secure Traces" International Youth Work Camp in former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen (D) organised by DGB Landesbezirk Niedersachsen Themes: reconstruction work, history and documentation, photo and video documentation, meetings with eye-witnesses, discussions.... contact: DGB Landesbezirk Niedersachsen, Charly Braun, Dreyerstra=DFe 6, D-30169 Hannover, phone +49-511-456252, fax +49-511-126015713.04.96-28.04.96"Non-Violence in the Context of War or Armed Conflict" International Training in Wustrow (D) organised by Kurve Wustrow and International Fellowship of Reconciliation Themes: observing and reporting human rights violations, principles of non-violence and non-violent direct action, political analysis and non-violent strategy development, cultural sensitivity... contact: Kurve Wustrow, Kirchstrasse 14, D-29462 Wustrow, phone +49-5843-507, fax +49-5843-1405 15.04.96-21.04.96 "Self-Confident and in Solidarity" Women Seminar in Tinje / Tainach (A) Themes: ethnic minorities... Contact: Kath. Sozialakademie, Schottenring 35/DG, A-1010 Wien, phone +43-1-3105159, fax +43-1-3106828 16.04.96-19.04.96 "Constitutional, Legal and Administrative Aspects of the Freedom of Religion= " International Conference in Warsaw (PL) organised by OSCE - Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights contact: ODIHR, Krucza 36 / Wsp=F3lna 6, PL-00522 Warszawa, phone +48-2-6257040, fax +48-2-6254357, e.mail odihrosc@atos.warman.com.pl 17.04.96 "The War in Yugoslavia: Humanitarian, Political and Economic Consequences" Conference in Madrid (E) contact: Dialogo Europeo, Fuencarral 74-2 J, E-28004 Madrid, phone +34-1-5218063, fax +34-1-23211100 18.04.96-20.04.96 "Security Policy of the European Union: Migration Policy, Schengen..." International Conference in Austria contact: Renner-Instituut, phone +43-1-8046501/28 18.04.96-20.04.96 "New Migration in Europe: Social Constructions and Social Realities" 2nd International ERCOMER Conference in Utrecht (NL) organised by European Research/Documentation Centre on Migration & Ethnic Relations Themes: migrant networks and migration systems, women in migration, asylum seekers and refugees, undocumented migrants, migration and new identities... contact: ERCOMER, Postbus 80140, NL-3508 TC Utrecht, phone +31-30-539220, fax +31-30-539280, e-mail ERCOMER@FSW.RUU.NL 19.04.96-21.04.96 "The End of Wisdom - From Anti-Racism to Intercultural Understanding" Educational Seminar near Berlin (D) contact: Internationale Begegnungsstaette Schloss Glienicke, phone +49-30-80010, fax +49-30--8050156 19.04.96-21.04.96 "Hidden People - 'Illegal' Refugees" Conference in Helmstedt (D) for workers from refugee and migrant support groups contact: Niedersaechsische Landeszentrale fuer politische Bildung, Reinhard Witt, Hohenzollernstrasse 46, D-30163 Hannover, phone +49-511-3901282, fax +49-511-3901290 19.04.96-21.04.96 "One Race - Human Race" Seminar in Hilders/Rhoen (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. in cooperation with IG Metall Themes: laws against foreigners, practical strategies against racism, multiculturalism, youth work, anti-discrimination work... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 19.04.96-21.04.96 "Ethnic Minorities as Victims of Crimes" Conference in Loccum (D) contact: Ev. Akademie Loccum, phone +49-5766-81/025.04.96 "Free Speech / Free Media - Human Rights in Danger?" International Hearing in the European Parliament in Bruxelles (B) organised by Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs speakers: Wole Soyinka, Rupert Neudeck, Jacques Derrida... contact: Europabuero Koeln, fax +49-221-728419 26.04.96-27.04.96 "Dance on the Think Floor - Moving Visions on Women in an Inter-Ethnical Society" International Conference in Amsterdam (NL) organised by Netwerk voor Inter-Ethnische Vrouwen Studies Themes: international connections, education and training... contact: NIEUWS, Plantage Muidergracht 12, NL-1018 TV Amsterdam, phone +31-20-5255086, fax +31-20-5255040 May 1996 "Removing Racist Graffiti-Campaign" - in Helsinki and Lohja (SF) contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi May 1996 "Migrant Policies and Right of Asylum" International Seminar in Utrecht (NL) organised by European Young Christian Democrats Themes: changed European borders, right of asylum, human right dimension, Maastricht Treaty... contact: EYCD, 16, rue de la Victoire , B-1060 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5374147, fax +32-2-5345028 May or June 1996 "CIS Conference" organised by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights and the International Organisation for Migration Themes: the range and complex nature of the mass movements taking place, (5 million people have migrated throughout the former Soviet republics), problems of involuntary population displacement in the former Soviet-Union, devise a comprehensive strategy at national, regional and international levels, analyse population movements... contact: UNHCR, Rue van Eyck 11b, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6490153, fax +32-2-6419005 03.05.96 "Labour Market and Migration" Action Day in Wien (A) Contact: SOS-Mitmensch, Muenzwardeingasse 2/2, A-1060 Wien, phone +43-5860132, fax +43-1-5860131 03.05.96-05.05.96 "Women in the Religions - Women Resist the Religions" Women Forum of the Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung in Schloss Friedenwald (D) Themes: dialogue of women from East and West Germany, migrant women and black women about the influences of Christianity and Islam on women... contact: Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung, Brueckenstrasse 5-11, D-50667 Koeln, phone +49-221-207110, fax +49-221-2071151 05.05.96 "National Celebration of the Liberation" - in Amsterdam and Maastricht (NL) organised by Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei Themes: discussions 'ideals around freedom', party, cultural program... contact: Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei, Rapenburgstraat 109, NL-1011 VL Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6209688, fax +31-20-6205620 05.05.96 "Provincial Celebration of the Liberation" - in many cities in the Netherlan= ds organised by Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei Themes: discussions 'peace asks for maintenance', world music, party, cultural program... contact: Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei, Rapenburgstraat 109, NL-1011 VL Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6209688, fax +31-20-6205620f 08.05.96-10.05.96 "The Multicultural Neighbourhood - Our Multi-Ethnic Society of Today and Tomorrow" International Conference in Copenhagen (DK) organised by the Board for Ethnic Equality, Ministry of the Interior Themes: British minority policies, aliens in Denmark - between under representation and over visualisation, social and cultural life in the 'ghettos', young ethnic minorities in an urban and multicultural society, dynamics behind prejudice and racism... contact: DSB Conference Services, DSB Reventlowsgade 10, DK-1651 Copenhagen = V, phone +45-3314-8099, fax +45-3122-0377 10.05.96-12.05.96 "The (Im)Possibility of Seeking Asylum in the European Union" Seminar in Muenster (D) organised by Akademie Franz Hitze Haus =46or teachers and students interested in development policy contact: Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Kardinal-von-Galen-Ring 50, D-48149 Muen= ster 10.05.-12.05.96 !!!!!!! "Anti-Discrimination Work" !!!!!!! --- UNITED - Training session in Budapest (H) --- for anti-nationalist and human rights activists in Hungary organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action and Martin Luther King Organisa= tion Themes: research and archives, organising actions, legislation, how to prioritise casework... contact: MLKO, Zsombolyai =FA. 3, H-1113 Budapest, phone +36-1-1665770, fax +36-1-1665770 12.05.96-19.05.96 "Women, Men and Society: About Inequalities and Differences..." Intercultural Seminar in Amsterdam (NL) organised by International Young Nature Friends in cooperation with minority organisations Themes: different roles in the economics, different laws, different structures of encouragement and constrain... contact: IYNF, Prinses Elisabethlaan 167, B-1030 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-2160933, fax +32-2-2160841, e-mail IYNF@unicall.be 13.05.96-17.05.96 "About the Third and One World - Learning From Foreigners" Seminar in Vlotho (D) organised by Jugendhof Vlotho, Oeynhausenerstr. 1, D-32602 Vlotho 15.05.96-19.05.96 "International Ethnographic Film Festival" - in Goettingen (D) organised by Institute fuer den Wissenschaftlichen Film more than 30 new ethnographic films will be presented and a first prize for the best student film will be awarded contact: IWF, c/o GIEFF, Nonnenstieg 72, D-37075 Goettingen, phone +49-551-5024160, fax +49-551-5024400, e-mail 16.05.96-19.05.96 "International Youth Forum Interweek" International Conference in Novosibirsk (RUS) organised by Siberian Youth Initiative Themes: development, federalism, UN reforms, youth work... contact: Int. Youth Forum Interweek, Pirogova st. #2, RUS-Novosibirsk 630090= , phone +7-3832-353941, fax +7-3832-352653, e-mail root@youth.nsu.nsk.su 17.05.96-24.05.96 "European Cultural Minorities" International Seminar in Utsjoki (SF) organised by Federation des Jeunes Ecologistes Europeens Themes: European minority cultures, Saami, Romany, Basque and Russian tribes= .... contact: FJEE, 12, rue Charles VI, B-1030 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-2175290 18.05.96-19.05.96 "The Rights of Refugees Under International Law" International Course in Oxford (GB) organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: refugee rights in international and domestic legislation, human rights, minority rights, ethnic relations... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 19.05.96 and 24.05.96 "Living and Living Together in Multi-Ethnical and Multi-Religious Societies" Symposium in Den Haag (NL) organised by Stichting UDAY contact: UDAY, Postbus 52101, NL-2505 CC Den Haag, phone +31-70-3914380 20.05.96 and 20.06.96 "Asylum in Germany - Education Seminar for Full Time and Voluntary Workers from Asylum Counselling Agencies" - Seminar in Vlotho (D) organised by Jugendhof Vlotho, Oeynhausenerstr. 1, D-32602 Vlotho20.05.96-21.06.96"Anti-Racism Boat" Educational Boat Tour along 25 Dutch cities organised by Magenta and School Without Racism Themes: exhibition about racism and the struggle against it through the ages, information from anti-racism organisations, art project... contact: Magenta, phone +31-20-6236756, fax +31-20-6235929, e.mail mag2@euronet.nl School Zonder Racisme, Willemstraat 59, NL-5611 HC Eindhoven, phone +31-40-2359999, fax +31-40-2445712, e.mail migrant1@pi.net 24.05.96-27.05.96 "International Culture Workshop" Seminar in Hamburg (D) organised by Haus am Schueberg, Wulfsdorfer Weg 33, D-22949 Ammersbek/Hoisbuettel, phone +49-40-6050028 25.05.96 "Drawing Borders - Grenzziehungen" Conference in Paderborn (D) Themes: detention centres, deportation, persecution of Roma, racism... contact: Projektbereich Eine Welt, c/o Asta der Uni / GH, Wartburgerstr. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, phone +49-5251-730337 26.05.96 "Demonstration against the Detention Centre in Bueren" Demonstration in Bueren (D) contact: Projektbereich Eine Welt, c/o Asta der Uni / GH, Wartburgerstr. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, phone +49-5251-730337 "Europe Moves to the Right - Social Psychological Reasons for Radical Right-Wing Attitudes" =46rench-German Seminar and Training in Chantilly (F) organised by Fraenkische Bildungswerk fuer Friedensarbeit 27.05.96-30.05.96 "Social Therapeutically Training" Themes: fear, aggression, hate, communication with racists, how to work with intercultural groups... 30.05.96-02.06.96 "Seminar - Europe Moves to the Right" Themes: political situation in Europe, experiences from other countries, social-psychological aspects, perspectives of common activities... contact: Fraenkische Bildungswerk fuer Friedensarbeit, Hessestrasse 4, D-90443 Nuernberg, phone +49-911-288500 28.05.96-02.06.96 "Meeting the Intercultural Challenge" International Congress in Muenchen (D) organised by Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research Themes: research, education, training, community interaction... contact: SIETAR, c/o Uni Jyvaeskylae/Dep.Comm. POB 35, SF-40351 Jyvaeskylae, phone +358-41-601531, fax +358-41-601541, e-mail sietareu@jyu.fi 29.05.96-30.05.96 "Local Integration of Immigrants - Call for Case Studies" International Workshop in Strasbourg (F) for different types of actors involved in the local policy of integration organised by Agence pour le Developpement des Relations Interculturelles Themes: economic integration, social housing and local integration, economic development in the countries of origin, education and intercultural actions, religious practices local environment... contact: ADRI, 4 rue Rene Villerme, F-75011 Paris, phone +33-1-43484919, fax +33-1-43482517 2nd half 1996"Domination and Liberation in the New World Society: Racism - Migration - Self-Organisation" Conference in Germany organised by Bundeskongress Entwicklungspolitischer Aktionsgruppen Themes: ethnic conflicts, migration as social movement, self-organisation as alternative to integration... contact: BUKO, Nernstweg 32-34, D-22765 Hamburg, phone +49-40-393156, +49-40-3907520 Summer 1997"Tolerance and Peace" International Summer Camp in Poland 1000 participants from all European Countries organised by Polish National Committee for the European Youth Campaign against Racism, Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia and Intolerance contact: Campaign against RAXI, c/o Sofokles - PO Box 2242, PL-54414 Wroclaw 47, phone +48-71-723058, fax +48-71-723058 June 1996"Racism and Solidarity" International Seminar in Krakow (PL) organised by European Good Templar Youth Federation Themes: prejudices, racism, xenophobia, intolerance, multicultural identities, minorities in Europe, nationalism, ethnicity, intercultural learning... contact: EGTYF, Markveien 35C, N-0554 Oslo, phone +47-22385807, fax +47-2238= 0371 02.06.96 "Openings Manifestation Festival Mundial - One World...One Future" International Music Festival in Tilburg (NL) organised by Centrum voor Internationale Samenwerking international music, composing competition 'Brabant as a Multicultural Province'... contact: COS/VWW, Stationsstraat 39, NL-5038 EC Tilburg, phone +31-13-5431335, fax +31-13-5437096 04.06.96-05.06.96 "Refugees: the Future in Europe After 1996?" International Conference in Lisbon (P) organised by Conselho Portugu=EAs para os Refugiados Themes: European asylum policy within the framework of the EU conference on the reform of the Maastricht Treaty, reception conditions to asylum seekers and refugees at the national and European level... contact: CPR, Rua Viriato 27-2=B0 A, P-1050 Lisboa, phone +351-1-3159847, fax +351-1-3537692 05.06.96-14.06.96 "Everyday Racism" German - Finnish Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 08.06.96-09.06.96 "Graensloesa Festival" Anti-Racist Festival in Stockholm (S) with music, exhibitions, discussions, workshops, children's activities, happenings, films... organised by Hasans vaenner - mot vald och rasism contact: Hasans vaenner, Box 34, S-12921 Haegersten, phone +46-8-979899, fax +46-8-979899 09.06.96-16.06.96 "Europe in the 1990s: Creating a Common European Identity?" International Seminar in Thessaloniki (GR) organised by Young European Federalists Themes: a united Europe, identity shaping aspects, language, culture, religion, political thoughts... contact: JEF, 1 place du Luxembourg, B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5120053, fax +32-2-5126673, e-mail Jef.Europe@agora.stm.it 09.06.96-16.06.96 "Festival Mundial 1996 - One World...One Future" International Music Festival in Tilburg (NL) organised by Centrum voor Internationale Samenwerking voices of the world, new folk / roots evening, music groups from all over the world, information, international food, children games, dancing... contact: COS/VWW, Stationsstraat 39, NL-5038 EC Tilburg, phone +31-13-5431335, fax +31-13-5437096 10.06.96-12.06.96 "Youth Work in a Multicultural Society - Problems and Practical Initiatives" Seminar in Vlotho (D) organised by Jugendhof Vlotho, Oeynhausenerstr. 1, D-32602 Vlotho 13.06-14.06.96 !!!!!!! "Speak Out for Refugees' Rights - Offensive for a 'Harmonisation of= European asylum Laws' on the Basis of Safe Refuge under Humanitarian= Conditions" !!!!!!! --- International Meeting in the European Parliament, Bruxelles (B) for all organisations and politicians interested in active support for refug= ees organised by UNITED with the support of many NGOs and the Green Group and the Socialist Group in the EP --- 12 important speakers will discuss with the participants on: =46ortress Europe, economic justice and migration, hot spots of human tragedies, protection for war refugees, harmonisation of the governments, amnesty for "illegal" immigrants, protection of asylum seekers, minimum demands for asylum procedures, direct support for (illegal) refugees, demands of Basso-Tribunal, possibilities for cooperation=8A send nominations to: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 14.06.96-20.06.96 "Me and the Other - Youth From Germany and France Discuss About Prejudices and Racism" German - French Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 15.06.96-07.07.96 "Sura Za Africa Festival '96" Cultural events and Seminars in Wien (A) Themes: relation Africa - Austria... Contact: Sura Za Afrika '96, Favoritenstrasse 29-31/28, A-1040 Wien, phone +43-222-5032510 16.06.96 !!!!!!! "International Refugee Day" !!!!!!! --- Around this day dozens of activities will be organised by many refugee support organisations taking part in the UNITED Refugee Campaign --- Themes: European-wide asylum policy, deportation and detention, deaths through Fortress Europe... information at UNITED for Intercultural Action Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 16.06.96 "National Anti-Racist Demonstration" - in Helsinki (SF) contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi 22.06.96-29.06.96 "Who's the Target!?" Week of Events in Maloja (CH) ..Themes: exclusion, xenophobia, racist violence... Contact: Stiftung Salecina, CH-7516 Maloja 27.06.96-29.06.96 "Asylum in Europe" International Symposium in Wien (A) Contact: Asylkoordination OEsterreich, Trattnerhof 2/14, A-1010 Wien, phone +43-1-5321291, fax +43-1-5337752 28.06.96-30.06.96 !!!!!!! "Communication Skills" !!!!!!! --- UNITED - Training Session in Romania for Anti-Nationalist and human rightsactivists in Romania --- Themes: conflict resolution, media work, dealing with authorities... organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action, Students' Association for Struggle against Racism (ASLIR) and Youth Action for Peace (YAP-MCP) contact: ASLIR, Dr Burghelea 10A, sect. 2 Bucharest, Romania, phone +40-1-3125097, fax +40-1-3125097 or YAP-MCP, PO Box 457, RO-3400 Cluj, phone +40-64-194623, fax +40-64-192474 28.06.96-06.07.96 17.11.96-26.11.96 "With an Eye on Germany - Youngsters Discuss Cultural Differences and the Meaning of the Holocaust in the 90s" Dutch - German Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 30.06.96-07.07.96 "Searching for Traces in Europe - Long-Term Effects of Fascism" International Conference in St. St. Andreasberg (D) Themes: planning of the Holocaust, health policy, visit of former KZ Mittelbau Dora, culture in fascism... contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 July 1996 "Network Development Focusing on Youth Issues in the Roma, Gypsy and Traveller Communities in Europe" International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) or Budapest (H) organised by Sheffield Gypsy & Traveller Support Group, Platf. de Juvenes Gitanos da Aragon, Otherness Foundation.. Themes: build mutual support systems, European structures, strengthen beliefs in their cultures... contact: Sheffield Gypsy & Traveller Support Group, 697 Attercliffe Road, GB- Sheffield, phone +44-114-2444377 01.07.96-26.07.96 "Forced Migration and Humanitarian Assistance" International Summer School in Oxford (GB) for experienced managers, administrators, fieldworkers involved in programmes of assistance and/or policy making in the humanitarian field organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: broad theoretical background to forced migration and assistance in practice, effectiveness of aid programmes, aspects of forcible displacement=8A contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 05.07.96-12.07.96 "Lets Get Organised" International Conference in Budapest (H) organised by International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation Themes: human rights, international youth work... contact: IGLYO, Postbus 542, NL-1000 AM Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6188172, fax +31-20-6169017, e.mail iglyo@intex.ie 07.07.96-13.07.96 "Human Rights and Citizenship: Approaches to Teaching and Learning" International Training Session in Geneva (CH) organised by International Training Centre on Human Rights and Peace Teachin= g Themes: legal and educational aspects of human rights conventions, non violent resolution of conflicts, to network with other human rights educators... contact: CIFEDHOP, 5 rue du Simplon, CH-1207 Geneva, phone +-41-22-7352422, fax +41-22-7350653 08.07.96-26.07.96 "57th Session - Human Rights Committee" - in Geneva (CH) contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, E. Tistounet, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9173965 09.07.96-12.07.96 "Roma Studies" - International Conference in London (GB) for those who work for Travellers and/or Roma organised by University of Greenwich contact: Thomas Acton, School of Social Science, phone +44-181-3318923, fax +44-181-3318905 22.07.96-28.07.96 "The Power of Solidarity" World Festival 1996 in Bonn (D) organised by International Union of Socialist Youth 4000 young socialists and social democrats from all over the world will spend a week of political, cultural and social activities contact: IUSY, Neustiftgasse 3, A-1070 Wien, phone +43-1-5231267, fax+ 43-1-52695849, e.mail IUSY@blackbox.ping.at 26.07.96-17.08.96 "Remember - Meet - Understand - Planning the Future" International Youth Camp in Dachau (D) Contact: Kreisjugendring Dachau, Augsburgerstrasse 46, D-85221 Dachau, fax +49-8131-79244 27.07.96-30.07.96 "Envisioning Human Rights Education" 2nd International Pedagogic Peace-Conference in Lillehammer (N) organised by Paedagoginnen und Paedagogen fuer den Frieden Contact: Aud Elisabeth Wasa, Thv. Kisersv. 2, N-2400 Elverum 29.07.96-02.08.96 "Indigenous Population" International Working Group in Geneva (CH) organised by Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, J. Burger, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9173413 until 30.07.96 "Quite Enough for That! All Against Violence" Campaign in Spain organised by Plataforma J=F3venes contra la Intolerancia Themes: acts against violence and intolerance, support to victims of violence, spreading of bulletins, radio programs and educational materials against racism and violence, cooperation with different NGO's... contact: Plataforma J=F3venes contra la Intolerancia-Secr.Tecnica, PJCI, c/ Larra 16-2=B0 izda., E-28004 Madrid, phone +34-1-5944920, fax +34-1-4452707 01.08.96-19.08.96 "Arte Diem - Tolerance Amongst the European Youth Using Culture as a Tool for Awareness Raising" International Seminar in Belgium organised by Youth Action for Peace Themes: prepare performances for an international festival on all different ideas about promoting tolerance in Europe, by the means of literature poetry, theatre, dance, music and visual arts... contact: YAP/MCP, 3 avenue du Parc Royal, B-1020 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-4789410, fax +32-2-4789432 03.08.96-11.08.96 "Living With Your Neighbour in Multiethnic States" International Walking Tour through Hungary, Romania, Croatia and the =46ederal Republic of Yugoslavia organised by Pax Christi Youth Forum - International 03.08.96-04.08.96"Opening Weekend in Budapest" 05.08.96-09.08.96"Sub-routes in Hungary, Romania, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" 10.08.96-11.08.96"Closing Weekend in Szeged" Themes: mutual understanding, rights of minorities, tolerance... contact: PCYF, 21, rue du Vieux Marche aux Grains, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5025550, fax +32-2-5024626 05.08.96-19.08.96 "European Anti-Racist Anti-War Tour and Youth Exchange" 10.08.96-12.08.96"Summer Camp" - in Frankfurt (D) 18.08.96-19.08.96"International Youth Conference" - in Strasbourg (F) for 16-19 years old and youth organisations interested in combating racism and militarism in Europe coordinated by School Campaign Against Militarism Themes: treatment of immigrants, combating Holocaust revisionism, controls on youth, joint activities and discussions in Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Strasbourg... contact: SCAM, 3/4 Dakota Buildings, James Street, GB-Birmingham B3 1SD,phone +44-121-2330970, fax 4713854 05.08.96-30.08.96 "48th Session - Subcommission on Human Rights" contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, J. Pace, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9171093 09.08.96-17.08.96 "Youth Dialogue Program" - in Istanbul (TR) organised by Helsinki Citizens Assembly Turkey Themes: European citizenship, Europe & NGOs, integration from below, Europe & civic involvement.. contact: Ebru Kunt, fax +90-212-2464946 11.08.96-18.08.96 "Contact to Minorities" German - Hungarian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 14.08.96 "Start of the Trial Against 17 Assumed Members of the Autonome Antifa (M)" (foreseen)contact: Autonome Antifa (M), c/o Buchladen Rote Strasse 10, D-37073 Goettingen, phone +49-551-394569, fax +49-551-394564, e.mail aam@paxo.nadir.org 18.08.96 "Racism Beat It 1996" Annual Pop-Festival in recreation area Spaarnwoude near Amsterdam (NL) contact: Pop Against Racism, Nieuwe Kerkstraat 37, NL-1018 DX Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6277766, fax 4205446 24.08.96-07.09.96 "Ethno-Religious Tolerance as a Prerequisite for Social Work; An Example - Bulgaria" International Seminar in different cities in Bulgaria organised by Youth Express Network Themes: theoretical and practical consideration of a multi-cultural and multi-religious society... contact: Youth Express Network, 16 rue du Chateau d'Angleterre, F-67300 Schiltigheim, phone +33-88-620998, fax +33-88-371936 25.08.96-14.09.96 "Peoples Diplomacy - Non-Violence and Migration" International Course in Rovereto (I) organised by International University of Peoples Institutions for Peace Themes: peoples diplomacy, non-violence, human costs of migration, legal aspects of migration, economics of migration, non-violent resolution of the ethnic conflicts in Trentino Alto Adige... contact: IUPIP, c/o Opera Campana dei Caduti, Colle di Miravalle, I-38068 Rovereto (TN), phone +39-464-434412, fax +39-464-434084 25.08.96-31.08.96 "The Right to be Different Today in a Building European Society" International Seminar in Czech Republic organised by European Union of Jewish Students Themes: relation between Jews and European neighbours through history, Jew's legal status (civil rights, emancipa-tion), implication of new politics towards national groups... contact: EUJS, 89 chaussee de Vleurgat, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6477279, fax +32-2-6482431 27.08.96-31.08.96 "Health Promotion for Older Migrants" International Conference in Heidelberg (D) organised by Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg and the European Network on Ageing and Ethnicity Themes: models of health promotion on an international basis, implications for a European network of health promotion for older migrants... contact: G. Conrad, Uissigheimer Strasse 10, D-97956 Gamburg, phone +49-9348-1381, fax +49-9348-1360, e.mail paas@urz.uni-heidelberg.de 27.08.96-01.09.96 "The Role of the Mediator in a Cross Cultural Conflict" International Seminar in Trysil (Norway) organised by European Educational Exchanges - Youth for Understanding Themes: solving conflicts between immigrants and autochtones, peaceful= conflict solving... contact: EEE-YFU, Van Geertstraat 69, B-2140 Borgerhout, phone +32-3-2360636, fax +32-3-2361457 31.08.96-08.09.96 "Racism and Right-Wing Extremism in Germany and Italy - No Way Out?" German - Italian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 September 1996 "Non-Violence - the Road to a Peaceful Europe" (foreseen)International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) or Budapest (H) organised by Federation of Young European Greens Themes: conflict prevention and resolution, conflict in the Balkans, non-violence... contact: FYEG, 12, rue Charles VI ,B-1030 Bruxelles, fax +32-2-217529 08.09.96 "Racial Justice Sunday" - in Great Britain contact: Churches Commission for Racial Justice. 35-41 Lower Marsh, GB-London SE1 7RL, phone +44-171-6204444, fax +44-171-9280010 09.09.96-13.09 96 "Reconstructing Livelihoods Towards a New Model of Resettlement for Development Displacees and Refugees" International Course in Oxford (GB) organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: separation between studies of disaster-related refugees and studies of populations uprooted by development projects... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 10.09.96-12.09.96 "Tolerance and Intolerance" International Conference in Southampton (GB) organised by Centre for the Study of Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish peoples at the University of Southampton Themes: Jewish/non Jewish relations, patterns of toleration, 'aliens' then and now, religion, tolerance and intolerance, fighting intolerance... contact: Sian Jones, Dep. of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, GB-Southampton SO17 1BJ, phone +44-1703-592202, fax +44-1703-593032 14.09.96-15.09 96 "Asylum in a Frontier-Free Europe" International Course in Oxford (GB) organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: recent developments of the European Commission/Court of Human Rights and Committee on the UN Torture Convention, application of the Schengen and Dublin Conventions across Europe... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 16.09.96-20.0.96 "Re-Thinking Psycho-Social Interventions" International Course in Oxford (GB) for those who design, implement and fund programmes in the field of mental health organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: trauma of violent conflict and forced displacement, cultural relativity, targeting particular types of trauma, present a social development framework... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 20.09.96-22.09.96 !!!!!!! "Fundraising" !!!!!!! --- UNITED - Training Session in Praha (CZ) --- for anti-nationalist and human rights activists in the Czech Republic organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action and DUHA Rainbow Association Themes: international resources, national government subventions, sponsorship, writing applications, lobbying funders, networking... contact: UNITED - Praha Office / DUHA, Senov=E1zne n=E1m. 24, CZ-11647 Praha= 1, phone +42-2-24102469, fax +42-2-24102375, e-mail Prokes.Miroslav@ecn.gn.apc.= org 24.09.96-27.09.96 "Constitutional and Legal Issues Concerning Protection of National Minoritie= s" International Conference in Warsaw (PL) organised by OSCE - Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights contact: ODIHR, Krucza 36 / Wsp=F3lna 6, PL-00522 Warszawa, phone +48-2-6257040, fax +48-2-6254357, e.mail odihrosc@atos.warman.com.pl 24.09.96-28.09.96 "Refugee Day" =46ive One-Day-Seminars in Thueringen (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. Themes: reasons for refuge, ethnic conflicts, civil wars, ex-Yugoslavia, asylum policy in Germany and Europe... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 29.09.96-05.10.96 "All Together for Justice" Intercultural Week / Week for Foreigners in Germany organised by churches, migrant organisations, Stiftung Mitarbeit... contact: Stiftung Mitarbeit, Bornheimer Strasse 37, D-53111 Bonn, phone +49-228-630023, fax +49-228-695421 October 1996 "Citizenship-Citoyennete-Staatsbuergerschaft: The Identity and Mobility of Young People in Europe" (foreseen)International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) or Budapest (H) organised by European Federation of Youth Service Organisations Themes: search for identity, difficulty of mobility, place in society and in associations... contact: EFYSO, 3, rue Recamier, F-75341 Paris CEDEX 07, phone +33-1-43589797, fax +33-1-43589788 October 1996 "Present and Future Role of Minority Women in Europe" (foreseen)International Seminar in Budapest (H) organised by Young Women from Minorities Network as a follow up of the "All Different - All Equal" campaign Themes: intercultural challenges and opportunities, European networks and solidarity, exchanges and discussions, analysis of methods and approaches to play a role in their community... contact: WFM, c/o Nadia Banno, Multicultural Centre, Vaerdshusvaegen 46, S-14785 Tumba, phone +46-8-53062569, fax +46-8-53062550 October 1996 "Multicultural Societies: The Case of Switzerland" International Seminar in Switzerland organised by International Christian Youth Exchange - Europe Themes: Swiss situation as study case, understand consequences of a multicultural Europe... contact: ICYE, Naamsesteenweg 164, B-3001 Leuven, phone +32-16-233762, fax +32-16-295099 04.10.96-12.10.96 "Local, National, European - How Many Homes do we Need?" German - English Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 05.10.96 "Christian Racial Justice Forum" =46orum in Manchester (GB) contact: Churches Commission for Racial Justice, 35-41 Lower Marsh, GB-London SE1 7RL, phone +44-171-6204444, fax +44-171-9280010 09.10-13.10.96 !!!!!!! "Europe United! - Cooperation Against Nationalism and Racism" !!!!! --- UNITED - Conference in Stockholm (S) --- organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action Delegates from Central and East European anti-nationalist and human rights organisations will meet with their Western counterparts to discuss common strategies for action. contact: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 20.10.96-26.10.96 "Violence and Racism" =46rench - German Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) Theatre role games... contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 20.10.96-27.10.96 "Racism and Discrimination Here - A Multicultural Society Elsewhere. How Different are our Societies?" German - English Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 21.10.96-08.11.96 "58th Session - Human Rights Committee" - in Geneva (CH) contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, E. Tistounet, CH-1211 Geneve 10, phone +41-22-9173965 26.10.96-02.11.96 "Youth Without Borders - Working for International Understanding" International Seminar in Lublin (PL) organised by World Organisation of Young Esperantists Themes: nationalism, internationalism, youth campaigning for international understanding... contact: TEJO, Nieuwe Binnenweg 176, NL-3015 BJ Rotterdam, phone +31-10-4361044, fax +31-10-4361751 November 1996 "60th Anniversary of the Defence of Madrid Against the Fascists" International Meeting in Madrid (E) November 1996 "The Borders of Europe - A Human Scrapyard?" International Seminar in Hungary organised by Service Civil International Themes: campaign for fairer legislation and policies, develop concrete actions, mobilise the voluntary services in Central and Eastern Europe, fight for refugee's rights... contact: SCI, European Office, Draakstraat 37, B-2018 Antwerpen, phone +32-3-2359473, fax +32-3-2352973, e.mail SCISEED@SCI.KNOOPPUNT.BE November 1996 "Dialogue....Towards Cooperation with and Between the Countries of Former Yugoslavia" (foreseen)International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) organised by Council of European National Youth Committees Themes: tolerance, conflict resolution and reconciliation, future actions... contact: CENYC, 517-519, chaussee de Wavre, B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6489101, fax +32-2-6489640, e.mail CENYC@blackbox.ping.at November 1996 "The Balkans and the Right to Refuse to Kill" (foreseen)International Seminar in Budapest (H) organised by European Bureau for Conscientious Objection Themes: non-violence, conscientious objectors in Western Europe and in the Balkans.. contact: EBCO, 35, rue Van Elewyck, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6485220, fax 8400774, e.mail ebco@ gn.apc.org 06.11.96-12.11.96 "Intercultural Awareness" International Seminar on Cyprus organised by World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts contact: WAGGGS, Olave Centre - 12c Lyndhurst Road, GB- London NW3 5PQ, phone +44-171-7941181, fax +44-171-4313764 07.11.96-09.11.96 "Broadcasting for a Multicultural Society" 8th European Television and Film Forum in Amsterdam (NL) and the first award ceremony of the Prix Iris, media awards for a multicultural Europe organised by European Institute for the Media and Anti Discriminatie Overleg contact: European Institute for the Media, Kaistrasse 13, D-40221 Duesseldor= f, phone +49-211-9010479, fax +49-211-9010456 9.11.96 !!!!!!! "Commemoration of the Kristallnacht - International Day Against =46ascism and Antisemitism" !!!!!!! --- Joint campaign of anti-fascist, anti-racist, human rights and Jewish organisations both inside and outside the UNITED network. --- The main focus will be on the persecution of Jews and the denial of the worsening situation of refugees and Roma as well as the situation of gays and handicapped people. UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 09.11.96 "Anti-Semitism and Racism in Past and Present" Commemoration Day in Erfurt (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. Themes: memorial activities, history, racism and anti-semitism... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 11.11.96-15.11.96 "Don't Call us Zigeuner/Gypsies" Seminar in Koeln (D) organised by OEkologie-Stiftung Themes: Roma and Sinti in Germany... contact: OEkologie-Stiftung NRW, Union Gewerbehof - Huckarder Str. 12, D-44147 Dortmund, phone +49-231-7214082, fax +49-2317214085 19.11.96-24.11.96 "Refugee and Immigration Policies" International Seminar in Bucharest (RO) organised by International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth Themes: history of migration, case studies, situation and rights of refugees and migrants, the right of asylum, how to improve the situation of refugees and migrants... contact: IFLRY, PO Box 781, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5124457, fax +32-2-5024122, e.mail IFLRY@unicall.be 22.11.96-24.11.96 "Anti-Semitism" Seminar in Berbra-Weiterode (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. in cooperation with IG Metall Themes: anti-semitic attitudes in Germany, history of anti-semitism after 1945... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 27.11.96-06.12.96 "The Typical and the Unknown - Europe Between Integration and Exclusion" German - Italian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 01.12.96-06.12.96 "The Citizen and the Police in Europe" German - English Conference in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 08.12.96-13.12.96 "Intercultural Communication" German - English Training for youth and social workers in St. Andreasberg (D= ) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 1997 "European Year Against Racism" proposed by European Commission to the European Council Dec 96/ Jan 97 (foreseen) !!!!!!! "UNITED-Conference in Bratislava" (Slovakia) !!!!!!! --- organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action --- Delegates from Central and East European anti-nationalist and human rights organisations will meet with their Western counterparts to discuss common strategies for action= .. contact: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 17.08.97-21.08.97 "Violence and Human Coexistence" World Congress in Dublin (IRL) organised by Department Sociology / University College Dublin Theme: violence and the future of society, human rights, minority rights and ethnic relations, culture and violence... contact: Jessica Bates, Dept. Sociology / University College Dublin, Belfield, IRL-Dublin 4, fax +353-1-7061125, e.mail jess.bates@ucd.ie ____________________________________________________ 1996 "Sessions of the european Parliament" - in Strasbourg and Bruxelles 15-19 April (Strasb) 08-09 May (Brux) 20-24 May (Strasb) 05-06 June (Brux) 17-21 June (Strasb) 03-04 July (Brux) 15-19 July (Strasb) 04-05 September (Brux) 16-20 September (Strasb) 21-25 October (Strasb) 11-15 November (Strasb) 27-28 November (Brux) 09-13 December (Strasb) 1996-2000 "EU Presidencies" 1996 Italy, Ireland 1997 Netherlands, Luxembourg 1998 Britain, Austria 1999 Germany, Finland 2000 Portugal, ? --========================_14159810==_ ********************************************************* UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees Postbus 413 NL-1000 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands tel.no. +31-20-6834778 fax. no. +31-20-6834582 e-mail united@antenna.nl ******************************************************** Speak out for refugees rights! 16 JUNE 1996 International Refugee Day ******************************************************** --========================_14159810==_-- From slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de Tue Apr 9 06:29:13 1996 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:29:06 +0200 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Leineweber) Subject: Bosnia - what's going on..? Now that Bosnia has been devided into two artificial parts due to the Dayton Accord, 60,000 Ifor 'peacekeepers' struggle to keep up something, what is fare from peace at that region. * ongoing strifes about suspected war criminals to be brought to trial, * war crime revelations turning up at trials, * numerous assumed or discovered mass-graves, * countless persons, who have lost or are missing family members, * Millions of refugees and displaced persons, facing uncertain fates, ...all that stirs up the emotions of all sides in Bosnia. At the same time the U.S., Turkey and other countries have launched a multimillion-dollar arm-and-train program towards the Muslim-Croat Federation, which is one part of the new Bosnia. A new army is created, composed of Muslims and Croats which were opponents of the recent civil war, and are now recipients of additional modern warfare equipment. The other part of Bosnia, the serbian 'Republika Srpska' will maintain its own army, assume the powers and functions of an independent state and develop "special relations" with Serbia... An U.N. tribunal has estimated the government of Serbia recently as being criminal because of its protection of serbian war criminals. Question: * What will happen in Bosnia after the withdrawal of 'Ifor' troops in the end of year ?? ---------- PS: (Please be patient regarding odd words or grammatical faults -- english is not my native tongue). From mweigand@usa.net Tue Apr 9 16:12:26 1996 From: mweigand@usa.net Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 16:12:13 -0600 Reply-To: Mark Weigand Subject: Re: An Idea.. To: zapata@together.net, mweigand@usa.net Thanks for your reply. By an "otherwise peaceful society" I meant that according to Brown, violence against persons, both overt and covert, can occur during peacetime and during times when society is not undergoing a clearly visible crisis or domestic conflict such as mass rioting in the streets or mass civil disobedience as was common in the 1960's. For example, the 1950's were a very peaceful time domestically, but racism and sexism were more severe than today. Society seemed tranquil and orderly to the majority of Americans, but for minority Americans life was more oppressive. Of course, structual violence benefits those in power and control. From slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de Wed Apr 10 10:48:39 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:48:24 +0200 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Leineweber) Subject: Bosnia - Latest Developments (Fwd.) The following is published by 'The Christian Science Monitor' on the Internet, URL The report may be interesting information to all REVS members ---------------------------Begin forwarded message----------------------------- February 8, 1996 US Plans to Retool Bosnia Army May Hit Ethnic Splits By Jonathan S. Landay, WASHINGTON AND ZENICA, BOSNIA When Admir Jahic joined the Bosnian Army after war erupted in 1992, he had only a shotgun to fight with. Now the young soldier could be in line to learn how to fly a US F-16. Lieutenant Jahic is one of three Bosnian Muslims applying to the US Air Force Academy as part of a Clinton administration program to equip and train the military of Bosnia's new Muslim-Croat Federation. "I think it is the best way to become a great pilot," Jahic says. "I liked 'Top Gun,' because it shows the capability of a young man for combat." The arm-and-train program is a key part of the Dayton accord, which divided Bosnia into a Muslim-Croat Federation and a Serbian Republic. It aims to create a power balance between the Federation military and the better-armed Bosnian Serb forces. Achieving that goal is seen as necessary for the departure of the 60,000 NATO peacekeepers within a one-year time frame. But as the US gears up the multimillion-dollar program, the future shape of the Army it will help build is far from clear. Muslim and Croat leaders say they want a force free of politics. But some are laying the ground for a politicized Army divided along ethnic and religious lines. Since a military's doctrine and makeup often reflect the society it protects, the Federation Army's uncertain future holds deep implications for the military aid program and success of the Dayton accord. US officials say the program will teach democratic values and other lessons that can help bridge the animosities that persist from Muslim-Croat fighting in 1993-94 and shape a US-style Army that in time might even be considered for NATO membership. But the program could also end up providing modern weapons and top-notch combat skills to an Army with only a veneer of unity. Many top Muslim and Croat officers are members of the Federation's ruling nationalist parties and, as during the days of Communist rule, might serve their political masters and not the constitution. Therein could lie the seeds of new strife. "We could be creating units who are not loyal to citizens or loyal to the state, but loyal to the party and loyal to the ethnic group," says Janos Bugajski of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "We could be going back to square 1, except with much more capable forces and dangerous firepower." US officials warn that if Muslim or Croat leaders resist the arm-and-train program's Western-style military doctrines, it could be terminated. "The training program ... will talk about the role of a military in a democratic society," a US official says. "If they want a military that is competent, they are going to have to pay attention to what we are offering." US officials are also wary about the extent to which foreign Muslim radicals, most of whom are believed to have left Bosnia, have spread radical Islam within the overwhelmingly Muslim Bosnian Army. This issue is embodied in Brig. Dzemal Merdan, the Bosnian Army chief of training, a position that involves him closely in the US program. He was also reportedly the Bosnian Army's liaison with foreign Islamic fighters. In an interview, Brigadier Merdan stressed his desire for a Western-style Army divorced from politics and religion. But his assertion contrasts sharply with two small flags on his bookshelf: One is a banner of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), the Muslim nationalist party of President Alija Izetbegovic; the other is an Iranian flag that has a picture of the late Ayatollah Khomeini pinned to it. Furthermore, Merdan says he sees nothing wrong with an ethnically compartmented Army in which there could be "a Muslim brigade, a Croat brigade, and a Serb brigade as long as they fight for one Bosnia." In addition to arms-control measures, the US-led program will provide the Bosnian Army with weapons and skills it lacks. In a $400,000 study last year, a Pentagon consultant found the Bosnian Army needed just under $1 billion worth of equipment. The Clinton administration is now soliciting US allies, including Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, to join it in donating the weapons. It is also seeking funds the Bosnian government is expected to use to contract retired US military officers to oversee the training effort. Two armies collide The Federation Army is to be formed from a merger of the Bosnian Army and the Croatian Defense Council, the Bosnian Croat militia (HVO), which was well- armed, trained, and financed by neighboring Croatia. The process began after the US in March 1994 brokered an end to fighting between the two. But despite US pressure, they have yet to form a single defense ministry. And they insist on a high command with two chief commanders, one Muslim and one Croat. It remains unclear how that framework will accommodate Serbs, who stayed loyal to the Muslim-led Sarajevo government. Encouraged by the government's claim to support Bosnia's traditional multiethnic ethos, hundreds of Serbs fought in the Bosnian Army to thwart their rebel kins' attempt to conquer an ethnically pure state. Now, however, Serbs have reportedly been purged from the commands of six of the Bosnian Army's seven corps. Contrary to Western militaries, the HVO and Bosnian Army officer corps are highly politicized. The HVO began as the militia of the Bosnian chapter of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, and its high command remains a creature of his defense ministry. While Mr. Tudjman insists that he backs an integrated Federation Army, he has done little to erase key obstacles, including removing the Bosnian HDZ chief, Dario Kordic, who has been indicted by the UN War Crimes Tribunal in connection with a 1993 massacre of Muslims. Until recently, the HVO was considered the main hindrance to integration. But the Bosnian Army is now the focus of serious questions. These include the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim nationalism among a soldiery that after withstanding almost four years of aggression and atrocities distrusts its former Serb and Croat neighbors and the Christian West. "Most of our soldiers and officers fought for a democratic, civic society. Others fought for an Islamic society," says Brig. Selmo Cikotic, the Bosnian military attache in Washington: But, he adds: "We want the United States to influence the development of our Army. We did not ask Iran to help us." Another form of 'ethnic cleansing' Another problem, say Western diplomats and some officers, is an effort by the Muslim SDA Party to consolidate its grip on the Bosnian Army officer corps to secure postwar political power. The Bosnian Army's top ranks are packed with SDA members, and loyalty to the party and profession to Islam are overtaking competence as measures for promotions. Last month, three of the most successful Muslim generals joined the SDA in what some experts saw as a move by the party to secure votes in elections later this year. -----------------------------end forwarded message----------------------------- From JBATES@macollamh.ucd.ie Wed Apr 10 11:33:13 1996 From: JBATES@macollamh.ucd.ie Wed, 10 Apr 96 18:25:19 +0100 (BST) Wed, 10 Apr 96 18:25:08 +0100 (BST) To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Date: 10 Apr 1996 18:34:05 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Bosnia REVs members - I am sure we are all aware of the shocking attacks that have been perpetrated against women in the former Yugoslavia. Today I heard from a colleague who had been talking to a Bonian female student who told how women in Bosnia are being sexually abused and raped by * UN * personnel and other Western peacekeeping forces. This is most shocking, disturbing, and unacceptable. Following from this another colleague replied that the US had a defense policy which supported this abuse as it prevented the American military from becoming homesick or sexually frustrated as these problems would affect their work capacity. This was the first I had heard of either occurance. The first I accept as fact (unfortunately), the second, does anyone know if this is true ? Surely the intertnational media must bring these disclosures to the knowledge of the public around the world. Jessica Bates University College Dublin Ireland. From sams@bullwinkle.econ.su.oz.au Tue Apr 16 00:00:49 1996 16 Apr 96 16:02:13 +1000 From: "Sam Stewart" Organization: Faculty of Economics, Sydney Uni. To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:58:54 +1000 Subject: NATIONALISM: Conference Sydney 15-17 July 96 Reply-To: sams@sue.econ.su.oz.au X-Confirm-Reading-To: sams@sue.econ.su.oz.au The Future of NATIONALISM and the State INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 15-17 July 1996 With over 70 presenters from countries including Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Israel, England, the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, the USA and Canada, the conference will offer a great opportunity to exchange ideas and develop theories in local and international contexts. This conference will focus on the rise of nationalism throughout our history and look at its impact on the state, civil society and the international system. Some papers will allow us to examine individual countries with a view to placing them within broader global patterns. Nationalism must also be seen in terms of its impact on states, people and global structures. In its latest phase, nationalism has led to the war in former Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, the bitter fighting in Chechnya, atrocities in Israel, and the list goes on. As social scientists we have the task of understanding and explaining these phenomena. Keynote Speaker: Liah Greenfeld, Boston University (The University Professors Seminar) Other major speakers include: Alexander Bligh-Yizreel Valley College, Israel Daniele Conversi-Syracuse University James Goodman-Social Sciences, Open University (UK) Patrick James-Political Science, Iowa State John Hutchinson-Humanities, Griffith University Stephanie Lawson-International Relations, ANU Marko Pavlyshyn-Slavic Section, Monash University Rudi Rizman-Sociology, University of Ljubjana Andrew Sanders & Ronnie Moore-Sociology, University of Ulster Dusko Sekulic-Sociology, Flinders University Sanjay Seth-Political Science, LaTrobe University Glenda Sluga-History, University of Sydney Patricia Springborg-Government, University of Sydney Pam Stavropoulos-Macquarie University Manju Subhash-Political Science, University of Delhi Vladimir Tikhomirov-Centre for Russian and Euro-Asian Studies, University of Melbourne Ben Tipton-Economic History, University of Sydney Program With the exception of our two plenary sessions, the conference will be held in the historic main quadrangle of the University of Sydney, which will provide a beautiful backdrop for our discussions. The conference will run over three days beginning with Liah Greenfeld's opening address at 4:30 pm on Monday 15 July. Following this, delegates may get to know each other as the Department of Government hosts a welcoming party, including alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and refreshments. Over the next two days sessions will be run concurrently from 9 am, with morning and afternoon tea provided. The conference will conclude with a closing plenary on Wednesday afternoon. Registration Fees Registration fees for the conference (before June 15) are: Standard Fee: $A120.00 Full-time Students: $A70.00 AIR TRAVEL Qantas has been appointed the official conference airline and is offering special discount fares. Domestic Fares Group fares of 45% of the normal full economy class airfares have been negotiated for delegates and their partners (subject to availability of V class seats). For associated airlines discounts may vary. Please quote the following reference number to receive this group discount: AUNSW443 Other special fares may become available, so please check with the QANTAS ASSOCIATION HELP DESK on (02)9951 4395 or 1800 650 200 (Australia wide). International Fares International delegates should call their nearest Qantas International office to obtain the best available discount fares to Australia. Please quote the following reference number: JFBXA8 For any further information or to obtain a Registration form please contact: Dr Diarmuid Maguire Conference Convenor Department of Government The University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA e-mail: diarmuid@sue.econ.su.oz.au fax: 61-2-351-3624 http://www.econ.su.oz.au/govt/natconf.htm If you would like to speak directly to a conference organiser, please telephone 61-2-351-2313 From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Tue Apr 16 13:21:10 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies" Date: Tue, 16 Apr 96 15:20:54 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Racist Imagery in Academia: What's in a Name Editor Miami Student Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 April 15, 1996 To the Editor of the Miami Student: Your most recent publication suggested that Prof. Peter Rose was beating a dead horse with his repeated and current attempt to change the name of the Miami Mascot. Perhaps you're right, but is it. I was taught it is evil to call that which is bad good, and for us to continue in this facade is more than shameful. Consider the definition of Redskin found in the American heritage Dictionary (1995, pg. 114). Redskin (Offensive slur) Used to demean or vulgarize one of Native American descent. But in your article you further suggested that we have more important things to do, but I ask What's In a Name to you. What's In a Name Rodney D. Coates/96 Got more fish to fry, more important issues to settle Redskin, redskin...we are the mighty, mighty redskins. How many injuns you speck we got here now -maybe 2 or 3. We love our Lil redskin boys and girls, skinning and grinning Chief "Grin A Lot" looks good on our hats- gotta study now. Redskin, redskin ...we be might, mighty proud that we be redskin. Honor them, bring out Chief"Grin A Lot"..let's see him dance Play it again Sam, grin some more O Chief "Grin A Lot" Cause we be the mighty, mighty - redskins. Sacred burial place of a noble people Far beneath this educational temple. The trail of blood and tears marks their way As we drove them out on that forgotten day. Scalped them, killed them, and buried them alive. No one cared, just savages then -Redskins now. Mascot, ignoble present, disdains a glorious present. Can we talk, you know talk about diversity. Politically correct, liberal bastards would destroy Our temple built upon these mounds. Condemn the ignorant they know not, we be the mighty, mighty redskins now. No scalps, no bounty, no prize too big - redskins forever the chant. But what of the pain, the guilt, the sorrow caused No one listens, the tree falls without a sound. Chief "Grin A lot" sho can sell some hats Keep your comments locked in a vat. I doubt if you will find space to print this, and of course I will understand. There is so much of importance which I'm sure will take precedence in your publication. In sorrow, Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology From chaya.bhuvaneswar@balliol.oxford.ac.uk Tue Apr 16 15:07:04 1996 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:06:49 +0100 (BST) From: Chaya Bhuvaneswar To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Racist Imagery in Academia: What's in a Name (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:56:36 +0100 (BST) From: Chaya Bhuvaneswar To: Rodney Coates Subject: Re: Racist Imagery in Academia: What's in a Name Dear Rodney Coates: Kudos to you for sending this letter. It's clear in many contexts that when people say a name isn't important enough to think about, what they mean is that they'd just prefer not to think about it because of the ugly meanings -- ugly aspects of their own language and history -- that it denotes. Denial. Let's hear it for confrontation as a form of therapy for those who deny the existence of racism in language -- and therapy for those want to heal the scars. Chaya Bhuvaneswar Student (American) University of Oxford Oxford, England On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Rodney Coates wrote: > Editor > Miami Student > Miami University > Oxford, Ohio 45056 > > > April 15, 1996 > > > To the Editor of the Miami Student: > > Your most recent publication suggested that Prof. Peter Rose was beating a dead > horse with his repeated and current attempt to change the name of the Miami > Mascot. Perhaps you're right, but is it. I was taught it is evil to call that > which is bad good, and for us to continue in this facade is more than shameful. > Consider the definition of Redskin found in the American heritage Dictionary > (1995, pg. 114). Redskin (Offensive slur) Used to demean or vulgarize one of > Native American descent. But in your article you further suggested that we have > more important things to do, but I ask What's In a Name to you. > > What's In a Name > Rodney D. Coates/96 > > > Got more fish to fry, more important issues to settle > Redskin, redskin...we are the mighty, mighty redskins. > How many injuns you speck we got here now -maybe 2 or 3. > We love our Lil redskin boys and girls, skinning and grinning > Chief "Grin A Lot" looks good on our hats- gotta study now. > > Redskin, redskin ...we be might, mighty proud that we be redskin. > Honor them, bring out Chief"Grin A Lot"..let's see him dance > Play it again Sam, grin some more O Chief "Grin A Lot" > Cause we be the mighty, mighty - redskins. > > Sacred burial place of a noble people > Far beneath this educational temple. > The trail of blood and tears marks their way > As we drove them out on that forgotten day. > > Scalped them, killed them, and buried them alive. > No one cared, just savages then -Redskins now. > Mascot, ignoble present, disdains a glorious present. > Can we talk, you know talk about diversity. > > Politically correct, liberal bastards would destroy > Our temple built upon these mounds. Condemn the ignorant > they know not, we be the mighty, mighty redskins now. > No scalps, no bounty, no prize too big - redskins forever the chant. > > But what of the pain, the guilt, the sorrow caused > No one listens, the tree falls without a sound. > Chief "Grin A lot" sho can sell some hats > Keep your comments locked in a vat. > > I doubt if you will find space to print this, and of course I will > understand. There is so much of importance which I'm sure will take precedence in > your publication. > > > In sorrow, > > > > Rodney D. Coates > Director of Black World Studies > Associate Professor of Sociology > > > > From kmills@yorku.ca Tue Apr 23 14:59:38 1996 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:00:44 -0400 To: forced-migration@mailbase.ac.uk, isafp@csf.colorado.edu, PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU, revs@csf.colorado.edu, acuns-io@brownvm.brown.edu, asylum-l@ccsdec1.ufsia.ac.be, bisa-un@mailbase.ac.uk, peacekeeping@gmu.edu, UNReform@chatsubo.com, anthap4@oakland.edu From: kmills@yorku.ca (Kurt Mills) Subject: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS We are looking for papers for a combined conference panel/book project provisionally entitled "Refugees in the Emerging Global Order: Changing Perceptions and International Responses." We plan to have three panels at the International Studies Association in Toronto, March 22-26, 1997. In addition, however, we plan to compile the books in an edited volume and hope to have at least one workshop in addition the ISA presentations to present and critique the papers of presenters. Project Overview Over the past two decades the number of refugees worldwide has increased dramatically. Concurrent with this, perceptions of the refugee crisis and reactions to refugees have changed. This project will examine three different dimensions of the changed refugee environment. First, it will look at changing perceptions of refugees, partially situated within broader discourses related to immigration. That is, it will examine the extent to which refugees are increasingly being constructed as threats -- politically, culturally and economically, as well as from broadened perspectives of security. This is related both to geopolitical factors and domestic neoliberal economic retrenchment. The second dimension of this issue is related to changing responses to refugee crisis. This involves, on the one hand, looking at international intervention in refugee crisis, and other reactions such as interdiction, non-entree policies and alliance strategies. On the other hand, domestic policies in the North have become more salient in dealing with refugee crises as more refugees (although still a minority) and other immigrants are able to make their way to the developed world, and states increasingly view this as a question of security. Thus, the connection between domestic policies and international action will also be addressed. The third dimension involves examining structures for greater cooperation among states, regional and international governmental organizations, and NGOs. Thus, the role of regional collective arrangements, such as NATO, the WEU, and OSCE, will be readdressed, as they will have to be concerned with matters that have generally been considered outside their original objectives, such as refugee crises. It is also important to examine the adequacy of the UNHCR and the IOM in dealing with this question. They need a long-term vision which combines both universal norms and practical politics, one that goes beyond immediate concerns for the plight of refugees. Furthermore, this section will address the role played by NGOs. As the role of the state is reappraised and alternatives are sought to solve problems, NGOs have emerged as one of a number of critical not for profit actors, private in form but public in purpose. Panel/Book Structure The panels and sections of the book will correspond to the three dimensions discussed above, and will include some or all of the subjects listed below. We are also interested in other related topics. Panel/Section 1: Changing Perceptions of Refugees -the construction of refugees as threats -societal and cultural factors Panel/Section 2: Changing Responses to Refugee Crises -international intervention in refugee crises -interdiction, non-entree, and alliance strategies -globalization and domestic-international linkages Panel/Section 3: The Role of International Governmental and Nongovernmental Organizations -security organizations -UNHCR/IOM -NGOs -coordinating international responses Proposals Proposals should include a 250 word abstract and all contact information, including affiliation and e-mail address. The deadline for paper proposals is June 1, 1996. Please send proposals to either of the individuals below: Kurt Mills Centre for Refugee Studies York University North York, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Phone: (416) 736-5663 Fax: (416) 736-5837 e-mail: kmills@yorku.ca Nazare Albuquerque Abell Centre for International and Strategic Studies York University North York, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Phone: (416) 736-5156 Fax: (416) 736-5752 e-mail: naabell@yorku.ca From A.Kundu@bradford.ac.uk Wed Apr 24 07:49:16 1996 To: south-asia-studies-l@coombs.anu.edu.au, H-ETHNIC@msu.edu, H-ASIA@msu.edu, antiracism-eur-l@sonne.comlink.apc.org, revs@csf.colorado.edu, socinfo From: Apurba Kundu Subject: SASRF: 'The Fourth National Survey on Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Insights and Observations' Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 14:51:21 +0100 (BST) SASRF - South Asian Social Researchers=92 Forum Lecture and Reception 'The Fourth National Survey on Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Insights and Observations' Dr. Tariq Modood Policy Studies Institute, London. The lecture will be followed by a buffet reception. Room 2E, University of London Union (ULU), Malet Street, London WC1E, UK. Cost: 3.00 pounds sterling in advance (send a cheque payable to 'SASRF' to SASRF, PO Box 8246, London W6 7WE to arrive by 29 May 1996) or 5.00 pounds sterling on the door. For further details, contact SASRF Chair Nadeem Hai by telephone at 0171-320-1000 ext. 1056 or email at n_hai@tvax.lgu.ac.uk From okamoto@shudo-u.ac.jp Thu Apr 25 04:23:37 1996 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 96 19:17:36 JST To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: okamoto@shudo-u.ac.jp (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCMixLXCEhOzBJVxsoQg==?=) Subject: faculty positions Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 15:35:12 JST To: okamoto@shudo-u.ac.jp (岡本　三夫) From: parker@shudo-u.ac.jp (Richard Parker) Subject: H-Japan(E): Job Opportunities (3) >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >Approved-By: H-Japan Editor >Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:02:07 -0400 >Reply-To: H-NET/KIAPS List for Japanese History >Sender: H-NET/KIAPS List for Japanese History >From: H-Japan Editor >Subject: H-Japan(E): Job Opportunities (3) > > H-JAPAN > April 21, 1996 > >From: Richard Parker >parker@shudo-u.ac.jp > >Dear H-Japan members, > >Our Dean has just mailed out the attached letters to a few universities in >the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. I will >answer informally by e-mail any questions people may have. > >Thank you. > >Sincerely yours, >Richard B. Parker >Professor of Law > > >1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > TENURED POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > TEACHING THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (seijigaku gairon) > > > > April 19, 1996 > > >Dear Sir or Madam: > >This is an announcement of a tenured position in a department of >international politics teaching the principles of political science >(seijigaku gairon). Please circulate this letter to anyone who may be >interested. > >Applications are invited for a permanent position teaching the principles >of political science (seijigaku gairon) in the Department of International >Politics, Faculty of Law, Hiroshima Shudo University. Applicants with a >PhD or those who will have completed doctoral studies before commencing >employment will be given preference. The PhD may be in political science, >international relations, history, or other relevant social science. > >The appointment will begin in April, 1997. Native or near-native ability >to write, read, and speak Japanese is essential. The appointee will give >his or her lectures and seminars in Japanese and will be expected to >participate fully in regular faculty committee work. In accord with normal >Japanese academic practice, the position is permanent upon appointment. >There is no probationary period. > >The position may be filled at the Professor, Associate Professor, or >Assistant Professor level. Rank and salary will be commensurate with >qualifications and experience. The salary ranges from Y14,800,000 to >Y8,000,000 for Professor (kyoju), Y11,800,000 to Y6,500,000 for Associate >Professor (jokyoju), and about Y6,500,000 for Assistant Professor (koshi). >An additional amount of Y826,000 per year will be paid for books, research >expenses, travel to conferences within and outside of Japan, xeroxing, and >office supplies. > >Applicants should send by mail two copies of their curriculum vitae (one in >Japanese and one in English), copies of publications and diplomas, and the >record of a medical examination to Professor Hiroshi Ueda, Dean, Faculty of >Law, Hiroshima Shudo University, 1717 Ohtsuka, Numata-cho, Asaminami-ku, >Hiroshima 731-31, Japan. All materials must be received by June 29, 1996. > > >Sincerely yours, > > > >Hiroshi Ueda >Dean > > >2)----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TENURED JUNIOR POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > TEACHING ABOUT INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS > > > > April 19, 1996 > > >Dear Sir or Madam: > >This is an announcement of a tenured junior position in a department of >international politics teaching about international organizations. Please >circulate this letter to anyone who may be interested. > >Applications are invited for a permanent position teaching about >international organizations in the Department of International Politics, >Faculty of Law, Hiroshima Shudo University. Applicants with a PhD or >those who will have completed doctoral studies before commencing employment >will be given preference. The PhD may be in political science, >international relations, history, or other relevant social science. > >The appointment will begin in April, 1997. Native or near-native ability >to write, read, and speak Japanese is essential. The appointee will give >his or her lectures and seminars in Japanese and will be expected to >participate fully in regular faculty committee work. In accord with normal >Japanese academic practice, the position is permanent upon appointment. >There is no probationary period. > >The position may be filled at the Associate Professor or Assistant >Professor level. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications >and experience. The salary ranges from Y11,800,000 to Y6,500,000 for >Associate Professor (jokyoju), and about Y6,500,000 for Assistant Professor >(koshi). An additional amount of Y826,000 per year will be paid for books, >research expenses, travel to conferences within and outside of Japan, >xeroxing, and office supplies. > >Applicants should send by mail two copies of their curriculum vitae (one in >Japanese and one in English), copies of publications and diplomas, and the >record of a medical examination to Professor Hiroshi Ueda, Dean, Faculty of >Law, Hiroshima Shudo University, 1717 Ohtsuka, Numata-cho, Asaminami-ku, >Hiroshima 731-31, Japan. All materials must be received by August 31, >1996. > > >Sincerely yours, > > > >Hiroshi Ueda >Dean > >3)-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>From parker@shudo-u.ac.jp Sun Apr 21 20:53:11 1996 > > TENURED JUNIOR POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > TEACHING THE HISTORY OF JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS > IN THE 20TH CENTURY > > > > April 19, 1996 > > >Dear Sir or Madam: > >This is an announcement of a tenured junior position in a department of >international politics teaching the history of Japanese international >relations in the 20th Century. Please circulate this letter to anyone who >may be interested. > >Applications are invited for a permanent position teaching the history of >Japanese international relations in the 20th Century in the Department of >International Politics, Faculty of Law, Hiroshima Shudo University. >Applicants with a PhD or those who will have completed doctoral studies >before commencing employment will be given preference. The PhD may be in >political science, international relations, history, or other relevant >social science. > >The appointment will begin in April, 1997. Native or near-native ability >to write, read, and speak Japanese is essential. The appointee will give >his or her lectures and seminars in Japanese and will be expected to >participate fully in regular faculty committee work. In accord with normal >Japanese academic practice, the position is permanent upon appointment. >There is no probationary period. > >The position may be filled at the Associate Professor or Assistant >Professor level. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications >and experience. The salary ranges from Y11,800,000 to Y6,500,000 for >Associate Professor (jokyoju), and about Y6,500,000 for Assistant Professor >(koshi). An additional amount of Y826,000 per year will be paid for books, >research expenses, travel to conferences within and outside of Japan, >xeroxing, and office supplies. > >Applicants should send by mail two copies of their curriculum vitae (one in >Japanese and one in English), copies of publications and diplomas, and the >record of a medical examination to Professor Hiroshi Ueda, Dean, Faculty of >Law, Hiroshima Shudo University, 1717 Ohtsuka, Numata-cho, Asaminami-ku, >Hiroshima 731-31, Japan. All materials must be received by August 31, >1996. > > >Sincerely yours, > > > >Hiroshi Ueda >Dean > >________ >Richard B. Parker >Faculty of Law >Hiroshima Shudo University >Asaminami-ku Hiroshima >Japan 731-31 >e-mail parker@shudo-u.ac.jp >Fax: (082) 848-7788 >Tel: (082) 830-1292 > > > > > >-------------------------End H-Japan Message------------------------ > > ________ Richard B. Parker Faculty of Law Hiroshima Shudo University Asaminami-ku Hiroshima Japan 731-31 e-mail parker@shudo-u.ac.jp Fax: (082) 848-7788 Tel: (082) 830-1292 From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Thu Apr 25 15:37:29 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:35:00 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: African Americans, Labor, and Society >From Alan Spector, REVS manager: The following appeared on another e-mail network. It may be of interest to REVS members. ============================================================== Subject: African Americans, Labor, and Society Fellow Netters: This message contains the program and other information related to the May 10-11, 1996 conference on "African Americans, Labor, and Society: Organi- zing for A New Agenda." This conference will be held at Wayne State University and is free, except a modest cost for meals. Please feel free to forward this message to other lists and other interested parties. Thank You, Patrick L. Mason, Conference Convenor. _______________________________________________________________________________ Friday (May 10, 1996) Welcome 8:30 - 9:00 Tilden G. Edelstein WSU, Vice-President for Academic Affairs Patrick L. Mason WSU, Conference Coordinator Panel #1 Is the Law Fair? 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 Clayola Brown -(Vice President, UNITE) Henry Nicholas (NUHHCE/AFSCME) William Lucy (Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME and President, CBTU) Lunch Noon - 2:00 p.m. Plenary/( First Keynote Address -- William Lucy) 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Panel #2 Economics of Race and Labor Organization 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. "Equality in the Steel Industry: An Unfinished Agenda" James Stewart, Department of Economics, Pennsylvannia State University "Ending Racial Discrimination at Work: A Comparison of Civil Rights Law, the National Labor Relations Act, and Collective Bargaining" Michael Yates, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown "Not for Profit Sector and Black Union-Nonunion Employment" Pier Rodgers, Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, New School for Social Research John Jeffries, Empowerment Zone Monitoring and Assistance Project, Columbia University "Trade, Race, and Employment" William Spriggs, Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress Dinner/(Second Keynote Address -- William Gould) 6:30 p.m. Saturday (May 11, 1996) Panel #3 Discrimination and Arbitration 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. "Arbitrating Anti-Discrimination Claims for Non-Union and Union Employees" Renee L. Bowser, Assistant General Council, United Food and Commercial Workers "Statutory Discrimination Claims: How They are Lost by Waiver and Mandatory Arbitration" Reginald Alleyne, School of Law, University of California at Los Angeles Jerome Culp, School of Law, Duke University "Discrimination Claims Involving Multiple Protected Categories" Carla Diggs, Law Clerk for Chief Judge Of U.S. District Court, District of Columbia Lunch (AFL-CIO Speaker 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Panel #4 Elements of A New Agenda 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. "We Know There's Racism, So What'll We Do?" Warren Whatley, Department of Economics, University of Michigan Juliane Malveaux, "The 104th Congress and Its War on Labor" "Worker Owned Establishments: the New Civil Rights Frontier" Leroy Clark, School of Law, Catholic University Dinner/Closing Plenary 4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. ------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE SPONSORS At Wayne State University Department of Africana Studies College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs College of Liberal Arts Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Walter Reuther Library Beyond the University Research Department of the AFL-CIO American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees ----------------------------------------------- African Americans, Labor, and Society All presentations are open to the public and are free of charge. However, conference visitors must pay a modest fee for attending conference luncheons and dinners. Please direct all questions about the conference to Professor Patrick L. Mason, Conference Coordinator, Department of Africana Studies, Wayne State University, (313) 577-2321. ---------------------------------------------------- ADVISORY BOARD Derrick Bell School of Law New York University Sheldon Friedman AFL-CIO Economic Research Department Washington, D.C. Ken Johnson Southern Regional Council James Jones School of Law University of Wisconsin Norman Hill, President A. Philip Randolph Institute Washington, D.C. William Lucy, Secretary-Treasurer American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Washington, D.C. Lawrence Mishel Economic Policy Institute Washington, D.C. Henry Nicolas American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Philadelphia, PA Rudy Oswald, Director AFL-CIO Economic Research Department Washington, D.C. William Spriggs Joint Economic Committee U.S. Congress Washington, D.C. Linda Williams Research Director CBCF Institute for Policy Research and Education Washington, D.C. Richard Womack, Director Department of Civil Rights, AFL-CIO Washington, D.C. From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Fri Apr 26 12:22:12 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:19:37 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: REVS@csf.colorado.edu >From Alan Spector, REVS editor/manager: The following message appeared on another e-mail network. I have forwarded it to REVS because it is relevant to REVS issues... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ===================================================================== THIS MESSAGE CONTAINS A LETTER FROM THE LANDLESS RURAL WORKERS MOVEMENT ABOUT > THE RECENT SLAUGHTER OF RURAL WORKERS IN BRAZIL AND A SUGGESTED TEXT (IN > ENGLISH AND IN PORTUGUESE) FOR A PETITION REQUIRING URGENT MEASURES. PLEASE > FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO WHOEVER YOU THINK WILL BE OF HELP. WE ALSO ASK YOU TO > CONFIRM THE POSTING OF YOUR MESSAGE TO BRAZILIAN AUTHORITIES, SENDING US A > MESSAGE TO: semterra@ax.apc.org > > ESTA MENSAGEM CONTEM UMA CARTA DO MOVIMENTO DOS TRABALHADORES RURAIS SEM TERRA > SOBRE O RECENTE MASSACRE DE TRABALHADORES RURAIS NO BRAZIL E UM TEXTO SUGERIDO > PARA ABAIXO-ASSINADO EXIGINDO MEDIDAS URGENTES (em ingles e em portugues). POR > FAVOR, ENCAMINHE ESTA MENSAGEM A TODOS AQUELES QUE POSSAM AJUDAR. TAMBEM > PEDIMOS QUE VOCE CONFIRME O ENVIO DE SUA MENSAGEM A AUTORIDADES BRASILEIRAS, > MANDANDO UMA MENSAGEM PARA: semterra@ax.apc.org > > > To our friends abroad: > > During the national convention of bishops at Itaici, the Land Pastoral > Commission of the catholic church (Comiss!o Pastoral da Terra - CPT) and the > Landless Rural Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra > - MST) have met and discussed the situation of the Para slaughter (where at > least 19 workers were murdered and many others were slain in April 17; for > more detail, see http://www.ibase.org.br or write us). > We are taking steps at the legal, political and action dimensions in a > national scale. The episodes of the massacre have produced a general commotion > in Brazil. > Nevertheless, despite all that, governmental authorities are seen to be moving > so that as soon as the indignation atmosphere is dispersed, once again the > guilty will be left unpunished. They have already tried to falsify medical > reports, few weapons have been apprehended and no one has been arrested up to > now. > > WHAT WE WILL DEMAND FROM THE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL > We are announcing here what we will formally demand at the meeting to be held > in April 29 between the National Direction of the MST and the president: > 1. Preventive detention of all involved. > 2. Federal intervention at the State of Para, since the governor Almir > Gabriel, who ordered the massacre, is also responsible. > 3. Dismissal of Minister of Justice Nelson Jobim, for incompetence and for > having been politically unwilling to act on the issue: he has not determined > responsibilities as to the previous Corumbiara slaughter, he has not prompted > the endorsement of important laws currently being considered at the Congress > and, furthermore, he has issued a decree against Indian reservations which > will certainly bring about other massacres. > 4. That the Federal Police takes on the investigation in this case. > 5. That the Federal Government mobilizes its congressmen to endorse three laws > that have been under consideration for a long time: > - !rito sum!rio!(!brief rite!, meaning speedy procedures) for land > expropriation > - Prohibition of collective eviction determined by judge in rural areas > - non-military judgment for military police crimes (unlike current military > judgments) > 6. Revocation of decree 1775/96, which determines the revision of previous > demarcations for Indian areas > > THEREFORE, WE ASK EVERYBODY!S SOLIDARITY TO TRIGGER AN INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN > Such a campaign could include the following activities: > a. public manifestation at Brazilian embassies > b. letters to the president Fernando Henrique Cardoso demanding that the > measures above be properly adopted > c. collection of signatures for a petition addressed to the president of the > Law Court of the State of Para, demanding the preventive detention of all > involved (suggested text bellow). > We thank you beforehand for your certain attention, > Yours, > > Pe. Irio Conti > National Secretary of the CTP > > Joao Pedro Stedile > National Direction of the MST > > (Suggested text for the petition - please print and post or send it by fax to > the president of the Law Court of the State of Para, address bellow) > > TO YOUR EXCELLENCE THE PRESIDENT OF THE LAW COURT OF THE STATE OF PARA > > Certain that the peace deserved by citizens is a consequence of Justice, that > being a responsibility of the Judiciary Power, we state our request: > Grieved, we took notice of the murder of nineteen landless rural workers by > members of the Para Military Police in April 17, at the city of Eldorado do > Carajas. > Worried, we heard that the Major Jose Maria Oliveira, an officer of that > corporation and commandant of the detachment placed at Parauapebas, lamented > the fact that other leaders of the Landless Rural Workers Movement were not > dead too. > Distressed, we read that the Colonel commanding the slaughter had attributed > the order for the execution of the workers to the governor of the State of > Para and that the Secretary of Public Security confirmed having given the > order to shoot !if necessary!. > Surprised, we watch the military policemen destroying the evidences of the > crime - apprehending video tapes and removing corpses from the site - and > obstructing the recognition of the authors - destroying weapon delivery > receipts and threatening witnesses. > Indignant with the traditional impunity involving crimes committed by military > policemen against defenseless workers, and in face of the indications that > once again authorities are revealing themselves unprepared and unconcerned > with the warrant of civil rights, > We require that you determine of the preventive arrestment of all the members > of the Parauapebas and Maraba detachments of the Military Police of the State > of Para, especially the officers and graduate policemen, who had participation > in the criminal facts here described. > > > Address for correspondence: > President Fernando Henrique Cardoso > Palacio do Planalto > e-mail: pr@cr.df.mp.br > fax: (55-61) 226 75 66 > > Desembargador Manoel de Cristo Alves - President of the Law Court of Para > Tribunal de Justica > Praca Felipe Patroni S/N > Para - Belem > Fax: (55-91) 241 29 70 > > (Texto em portugues) > EXMO. SR. DESEMBARGADOR PRESIDENTE DO TRIBUNAL DE JUSTICA DO ESTADO DO PARA > > Seguros de que a Paz que os cidadaos merecem decorre da Justica que e dever - > antes de mais nada - do Poder Judiciario prover, vimos manifestar nosso > pleito: > Consternados, tomamos conhecimento do assassinato de dezenove trabalhadores > rurais sem-terra por integrantes da Policia Militar do Estado do Para, no dia > 17 de abril p.p. no Municipio de Eldorado do Carajas. > Preocupados, soubemos que o Major Jose Maria Oliveira, oficial daquela > Corporacao e comandante do destacamento sediado em Paruapebas, lamentou o fato > de outros dirigentes do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra nao > estarem entre os mortos. > Angustiados, lemos que o coronel comendante da chacina atribuiu ao Governador > do Estado do Para a ordem para a execucao, e que o Secretario da Seguranca > Publica confirmava haver dado ordem para atirar !se necessario!. > Surpresos, vimos que os policiais militares estao destruindo as provas do > crime - apreendendo fitas de televisao e removendo os cadaveres do local dos > fatoes - e dificultando a identificacao dos autores - destruindo os recibos de > entrega das armas e ameacando testemunhas. > Inconformados com a impunidade que tradicionalmente tem cercado os crimes por > policiais militares contra os trabalhadores desprotegidos, e com os sinais de > que ainda desta vez as Autoridades vem se mostrando despreparadas e > despreocupadas com a garantia dos direitos dos cidadaos. > Requeremos de V.Exa. a decretacao das prisoes preventivas de todos os > integrantges dos destacamentos de Parauapebas e Maraba da Policia Militar do > Estado do Para, em particular dos oficiais e graduados, que tiveram > participacao nos fatos criminosos aqui descritos. > > > > > > From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Mon Apr 29 09:39:21 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "revs@csf.colorado.edu" , "spector@calumet.purdue.edu" Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 11:37:24 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: job posting this was sent to me to the lst...enjoy...rodney c.. Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 15:35:12 JST To: okamoto@shudo-u.ac.jp (岡本　三夫) From: parker@shudo-u.ac.jp (Richard Parker) Subject: H-Japan(E): Job Opportunities (3) >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >Approved-By: H-Japan Editor >Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:02:07 -0400 >Reply-To: H-NET/KIAPS List for Japanese History >Sender: H-NET/KIAPS List for Japanese History >From: H-Japan Editor >Subject: H-Japan(E): Job Opportunities (3) > > H-JAPAN > April 21, 1996 > >From: Richard Parker >parker@shudo-u.ac.jp > >Dear H-Japan members, > >Our Dean has just mailed out the attached letters to a few universities in >the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. I will >answer informally by e-mail any questions people may have. > >Thank you. > >Sincerely yours, >Richard B. Parker >Professor of Law > > >1)------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > TENURED POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > TEACHING THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (seijigaku gairon) > > > > April 19, 1996 > > >Dear Sir or Madam: > >This is an announcement of a tenured position in a department of >international politics teaching the principles of political science >(seijigaku gairon). Please circulate this letter to anyone who may be >interested. > >Applications are invited for a permanent position teaching the principles >of political science (seijigaku gairon) in the Department of International >Politics, Faculty of Law, Hiroshima Shudo University. Applicants with a >PhD or those who will have completed doctoral studies before commencing >employment will be given preference. The PhD may be in political science, >international relations, history, or other relevant social science. > >The appointment will begin in April, 1997. Native or near-native ability >to write, read, and speak Japanese is essential. The appointee will give >his or her lectures and seminars in Japanese and will be expected to >participate fully in regular faculty committee work. In accord with normal >Japanese academic practice, the position is permanent upon appointment. >There is no probationary period. > >The position may be filled at the Professor, Associate Professor, or >Assistant Professor level. Rank and salary will be commensurate with >qualifications and experience. The salary ranges from Y14,800,000 to >Y8,000,000 for Professor (kyoju), Y11,800,000 to Y6,500,000 for Associate >Professor (jokyoju), and about Y6,500,000 for Assistant Professor (koshi). >An additional amount of Y826,000 per year will be paid for books, research >expenses, travel to conferences within and outside of Japan, xeroxing, and >office supplies. > >Applicants should send by mail two copies of their curriculum vitae (one in >Japanese and one in English), copies of publications and diplomas, and the >record of a medical examination to Professor Hiroshi Ueda, Dean, Faculty of >Law, Hiroshima Shudo University, 1717 Ohtsuka, Numata-cho, Asaminami-ku, >Hiroshima 731-31, Japan. All materials must be received by June 29, 1996. > > >Sincerely yours, > > > >Hiroshi Ueda >Dean > > >2)----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TENURED JUNIOR POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > TEACHING ABOUT INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS > > > > April 19, 1996 > > >Dear Sir or Madam: > >This is an announcement of a tenured junior position in a department of >international politics teaching about international organizations. Please >circulate this letter to anyone who may be interested. > >Applications are invited for a permanent position teaching about >international organizations in the Department of International Politics, >Faculty of Law, Hiroshima Shudo University. Applicants with a PhD or >those who will have completed doctoral studies before commencing employment >will be given preference. The PhD may be in political science, >international relations, history, or other relevant social science. > >The appointment will begin in April, 1997. Native or near-native ability >to write, read, and speak Japanese is essential. The appointee will give >his or her lectures and seminars in Japanese and will be expected to >participate fully in regular faculty committee work. In accord with normal >Japanese academic practice, the position is permanent upon appointment. >There is no probationary period. > >The position may be filled at the Associate Professor or Assistant >Professor level. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications >and experience. The salary ranges from Y11,800,000 to Y6,500,000 for >Associate Professor (jokyoju), and about Y6,500,000 for Assistant Professor >(koshi). An additional amount of Y826,000 per year will be paid for books, >research expenses, travel to conferences within and outside of Japan, >xeroxing, and office supplies. > >Applicants should send by mail two copies of their curriculum vitae (one in >Japanese and one in English), copies of publications and diplomas, and the >record of a medical examination to Professor Hiroshi Ueda, Dean, Faculty of >Law, Hiroshima Shudo University, 1717 Ohtsuka, Numata-cho, Asaminami-ku, >Hiroshima 731-31, Japan. All materials must be received by August 31, >1996. > > >Sincerely yours, > > > >Hiroshi Ueda >Dean > >3)-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>From parker@shudo-u.ac.jp Sun Apr 21 20:53:11 1996 > > TENURED JUNIOR POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > TEACHING THE HISTORY OF JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS > IN THE 20TH CENTURY > > > > April 19, 1996 > > >Dear Sir or Madam: > >This is an announcement of a tenured junior position in a department of >international politics teaching the history of Japanese international >relations in the 20th Century. Please circulate this letter to anyone who >may be interested. > >Applications are invited for a permanent position teaching the history of >Japanese international relations in the 20th Century in the Department of >International Politics, Faculty of Law, Hiroshima Shudo University. >Applicants with a PhD or those who will have completed doctoral studies >before commencing employment will be given preference. The PhD may be in >political science, international relations, history, or other relevant >social science. > >The appointment will begin in April, 1997. Native or near-native ability >to write, read, and speak Japanese is essential. The appointee will give >his or her lectures and seminars in Japanese and will be expected to >participate fully in regular faculty committee work. In accord with normal >Japanese academic practice, the position is permanent upon appointment. >There is no probationary period. > >The position may be filled at the Associate Professor or Assistant >Professor level. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications >and experience. The salary ranges from Y11,800,000 to Y6,500,000 for >Associate Professor (jokyoju), and about Y6,500,000 for Assistant Professor >(koshi). An additional amount of Y826,000 per year will be paid for books, >research expenses, travel to conferences within and outside of Japan, >xeroxing, and office supplies. > >Applicants should send by mail two copies of their curriculum vitae (one in >Japanese and one in English), copies of publications and diplomas, and the >record of a medical examination to Professor Hiroshi Ueda, Dean, Faculty of >Law, Hiroshima Shudo University, 1717 Ohtsuka, Numata-cho, Asaminami-ku, >Hiroshima 731-31, Japan. All materials must be received by August 31, >1996. > > >Sincerely yours, > > > >Hiroshi Ueda >Dean > >________ >Richard B. Parker >Faculty of Law >Hiroshima Shudo University >Asaminami-ku Hiroshima >Japan 731-31 >e-mail parker@shudo-u.ac.jp >Fax: (082) 848-7788 >Tel: (082) 830-1292 > > > > > >-------------------------End H-Japan Message------------------------ > > ________ Richard B. Parker Faculty of Law Hiroshima Shudo University Asaminami-ku Hiroshima Japan 731-31 e-mail parker@shudo-u.ac.jp Fax: (082) 848-7788 Tel: (082) 830-1292 umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From smeznar@public.srce.hr Mon Apr 29 00:05:01 1996 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 08:02:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Silva Meznaric To: Kurt Mills Subject: Re: Call for Papers In-Reply-To: On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Kurt Mills wrote: > Thought you might be interested. Best, Fred Pearson > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > CALL FOR PAPERS > > We are looking for papers for a combined conference panel/book project > provisionally entitled "Refugees in the Emerging Global Order: Changing > Perceptions and International Responses." We plan to have three panels at > the International Studies Association in Toronto, March 22-26, 1997. In > addition, however, we plan to compile the books in an edited volume and > hope to have at least one workshop in addition the ISA presentations to > present and critique the papers of presenters. > > > Project Overview > > Over the past two decades the number of refugees worldwide has increased > dramatically. Concurrent with this, perceptions of the refugee crisis and > reactions to refugees have changed. This project will examine three > different dimensions of the changed refugee environment. First, it will > look at changing perceptions of refugees, partially situated within broader > discourses related to immigration. That is, it will examine the extent to > which refugees are increasingly being constructed as threats -- > politically, culturally and economically, as well as from broadened > perspectives of security. This is related both to geopolitical factors and > domestic neoliberal economic retrenchment. > > The second dimension of this issue is related to changing responses to > refugee crisis. This involves, on the one hand, looking at international > intervention in refugee crisis, and other reactions such as interdiction, > non-entree policies and alliance strategies. On the other hand, domestic > policies in the North have become more salient in dealing with refugee > crises as more refugees (although still a minority) and other immigrants > are able to make their way to the developed world, and states increasingly > view this as a question of security. Thus, the connection between domestic > policies and international action will also be addressed. > > The third dimension involves examining structures for greater cooperation > among states, regional and international governmental organizations, and > NGOs. Thus, the role of regional collective arrangements, such as NATO, the > WEU, and OSCE, will be readdressed, as they will have to be concerned with > matters that have generally been considered outside their original > objectives, such as refugee crises. It is also important to examine the > adequacy of the UNHCR and the IOM in dealing with this question. They need > a long-term vision which combines both universal norms and practical > politics, one that goes beyond immediate concerns for the plight of > refugees. Furthermore, this section will address the role played by NGOs. > As the role of the state is reappraised and alternatives are sought to > solve problems, NGOs have emerged as one of a number of critical not for > profit actors, private in form but public in purpose. > > > Panel/Book Structure > > The panels and sections of the book will correspond to the three dimensions > discussed above, and will include some or all of the subjects listed below. > We are also interested in other related topics. > > Panel/Section 1: Changing Perceptions of Refugees > > -the construction of refugees as threats > -societal and cultural factors > > Panel/Section 2: Changing Responses to Refugee Crises > > -international intervention in refugee crises > -interdiction, non-entree, and alliance strategies > -globalization and domestic-international linkages > > Panel/Section 3: The Role of International Governmental and Nongovernmental > Organizations > > -security organizations > -UNHCR/IOM > -NGOs > -coordinating international responses > > > Proposals > > Proposals should include a 250 word abstract and all contact information, > including affiliation and e-mail address. The deadline for paper proposals > is June 1, 1996. Please send proposals to either of the individuals below: > > Kurt Mills > Centre for Refugee Studies > York University > North York, Ontario > Canada M3J 1P3 > Phone: (416) 736-5663 > Fax: (416) 736-5837 > e-mail: kmills@yorku.ca > > Nazare Albuquerque Abell > Centre for International and Strategic Studies > York University > North York, Ontario > Canada M3J 1P3 > Phone: (416) 736-5156 > Fax: (416) 736-5752 > e-mail: naabell@yorku.ca > Dear Colleagues, thank you for this invitation. I will gladly participate in this project. Abstract follows in a week o two. Greetings, Silva Meznaric, Medvedgradska 29, Zagreb 10000, croatia. tel/fax 385 1 423 595. From spkumar@hawaii.edu Tue Apr 30 12:46:54 1996 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 08:42:28 -1000 From: S P Udayakumar To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Hate Crime: A Challenge >This article will be printed in the UCLA Asian Pacifica Coalition >>newsletter. >> >>Another Senseless (Hate) Crime >>By Mai Pham >> >> >>Tragedy befell the Vietnamese community on Jan 29, 1996, when Thien Minh >>Ly, a 24-year old Vietnamese man and former graduate of UCLA, was murdered >>while rollerblading in his Tustin hometown high school tennis court. Ly >>was found lying in a pool of blood the following morning by a janitor, >>maimed by an excessive number of stabbing wounds to various parts of his >>body, as well as slashing wounds to his throat. >> >>In the immediate aftermath of his death, friends, family, and >>acquaintances could not fathom the senselessness of the crime that ended >>Ly's life. All who knew him remembered him with love, respect, and >>admiration. A man of exemplary integrity, intelligence, confidence and >>spirit, Ly embodied the model Vietnamese American. He was a dutiful and >>loving son to his parents, a beloved older brother to his younger siblings, >>and a friend that one could always count on in times of need. he was an >>academic in endless pursuti of knowledge: at UCLA, he obtained both an >>English and a Biology degree in four years, had just completed a Master's >>in Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown, and was contemplating the >>study of Law just before his death. While at UCLA, Thien was a leader: he >>wholeheartedly dedicated himself to the UCLA Vietnmaese Students' >>Association (VSA) as VSA's Culture Night Director, VSA's newsletter >>editor, and finally, at the height of his VSA involvement, as VSA >>President '92-'93. >> >>Hundreds attended the candlelight vigil held for him the same week he was >>murdered. An article about his death hangs in the UCLA English counseling >>office. Flowers from all over the VN community overflowed the mortuary >>during his viewing and funeral. Tears flowed endlessly for Thien; his was >>a loss mourned by all. >> >>It was not until March 2, 1996 that the mystery surrounding Ly's murder >>ended. That day, police arrested Gunner Lindberg, age 21, and Dominic >>Christopher, age 17, after discovering a letter that LIndberg had written >>to a former prison inmate in New Mexico. The letter contained graphic >>details about the murder, as well as the writer's apparent insoucience >>about the whole incident. Sandwiched between birthday plans, news about a >>friend's baby, and talk about the need for a new tattoo was this boastful >>account of what happened the night of Jan 29th: >> >>"Oh I killed a jap a while ago I stabbed him to Death at Tustin High >>school I walked up to him Dominic was with me adn I seen this guy Roller >>blading and i had a knife. WE walk in the tennis court where he was I >>walked up to him. Dominic was right there I walked right up to him and he >>was scared I looked at him and said 'Oh I thought I knew you' and he got >>happy that he wasn't gona get jumped. then I hit him... >> >>"I pulled the knife out a butchar knife and he said 'no' then I put the >>knife to his throught and asked him Do you have a car And he grabed my >>hand that I had the knife in and looked at me, trying to get a discription >>of me so I stomped on his head 3 times and each time said 'STop loooking >>at me' then he was kinda knocked out Dazzed then I stabbed him in the side >>about 7 or 8 times he rolled over a little so I stabbed his back out 18 or >>19 times then he layed flat and I slit one side of his throught on his >>jugular vain. Oh, the sounds the guy was making were like Uhhh. then >>Dominic said 'do it again ' and I said 'I already Did. Dude. "Ya, Do it >>again' so I cut his other juggular vain, and Dominic said "Kill him Do it >>again' and I said 'he's already Dead' Dominic Said 'Stab him in the heart' >>So I stabbed him about 20 or 21 times in teh heart.... >> >>"Then I wanted to go back and look, so we Did and he was dieing just then >>taking in some bloody gasps of air so I nidged his face with my shoe a few >>times, then i told Dominic to kick him, so he kicked the f--- out of his >>face and he still has blood on his Shoes all over...then I ditched the >>knife, after whiping it clean onto the side of the 5 freeway...here's the >>clippings from the newspaper we were on all the channels." (LA. Times, >>Orange County, "Grisly Account of Ly Killing Believed Penned by Suspect," >>3/7/96) >> >>Since the time of arrest, both parties have confessed their part in the >>murder. The original arraignment date was set for March 22, 1996 for >>Lindberg, but has been pushed back to April 19, 1996. Likewise, >>Christopher's arraignment has been pushed back twice. It is not known yet >>whether Christopher will be tried as an adult. >> >>Was there racial motivation behind the crime? White supremecist >>paraphernalia were foudn at Lindberg's and Christopher's home. Lindberg >>carelessly referred to Ly as a "jap" in the letter he wrote to his friend. >>yet Lindberg staunchly denies a racial motive. The tustin police, too, >>seem reluctant to publicize the racial implications of the crime. For >>instance, the Tustin Weekly omitted the words "I killed a jap" in their >>rendition of Lindberg's letter (Tustin Weekly, "Graphic death scene >>details described," 3/8/96) Furthermore, both the Tustin Weekly and the LA >>Times have stated that the police attribute robbery as the motive for Ly's >>murder. >> >>In light of this information, the inference that can be made is obvious. >>Racial motivation undoubtedly played a part in the murder. For how could >>Gunner Lindberg and Dominic Christopher so easily, blithely, and violently >>kill Thien Minh Ly if they respected him as a human being? They "stomped" >>on him with about as much thought as they would step on an ant. They >>listened to his cries of pain and torture with sadistic delight. They >>continually attacked him when he was already helpless, and then, to add >>further insult to the injury, Christopher kicked Ly's bleeding face. To >>the two murderers, Thien was nothing but a "jap," a sub-human organism >>whose life they had a right to take. >> >>But what did Thien mean to those who loved him; how did they feel? They >>are heart-broken, bereft, angry that his death was caused by an >>unnecessary, random act of violence. And what about the Vietnamese >>Community? News about Ly's murder and the ensuing arrest of his two >>assailants have horrified and enraged the Vietnamese community in Orange >>county, so much so that the Vietnaese Community of Orange County (VNCOC), >>a non-profit human and social services group, and various other >>organizations throughout the VN community in Orange county, joined under >>the name of the Thien Minh Ly Ad Hoc Committee. Their purpose is to >>ensure that the murderers receive just punishment for taking Ly's life. >> >>A candlelight vigil was held April 6, 1996 by the Council of Asian Pacific >>Americans of Orange County to raise awareness about violence against >>Asian-Americans; one of the people being honored was Thien Minh >> >> >>Ly. >> >>WE must preserve Thien Minh Ly's name in order to remind others that no >>one is safe in the U.S while ignorance and racial hate run rampant. WE >>must strive to become more aware of the dangers facing Asain-Americans in >>present day American society adn educate others that all our cultures are >>beautiful. WE must cry out that a tragedy such as this could happen and >>work to teach everyone to respect all of humanity. >> >>You can voice your opinions and state your outrage by writing to any of >>the following people: >> >>-Mayor Jim Potts, 300 Centennial Way, Tustin, CA 92680 >> >>-W. Douglas Franks, Chief of Police, same address as above >> >>-Editor of the Tustin Weekly, 181 El Camino Real, Suite A, Tustin >>92680 >> >>WE would also like to establish a memorial/scholarship fund in honor of >>Thien Minh Ly. >> >>For details and info. Direct your email to Maister@UCLA.edu. >> >>- >> >>To whom it may concern: >> >>I have been looking for a way to publicize this info on the NEt, and was >>referred to you by someone who read a posting I made on the public net at >>Newsgroup soc.culture.vietnamese. I don't know much about the Net, butI >>think it is a powerful tool in terms of mobilization and worldwide >>communication. >> >>I am presently interested in creating a WEb homepage, possibly in re: to >>Thien, or possibly about Hate crimes in general. I don't know how to go >>about doing this, but would appreciate any advice on the matter. However, >>I think the most important objective at hand is to spread the news. If >>there is a way to post this article I sent you on the NET where people >>would be interested/sensitive to the subject, please help direct me to the >>appropriate source, since I'm a completely Net illiterate. >> >>Thank you, sincerely >> >>Mai Pham >> >>I believe this matter is being pursued by myself alone (on the Net, >>anyway). Thien was a very good friend, and he would have done the same >>for me. Please help me render do justice to his murder. > ________________________________________ "Teryayas v razreshenii sikh voprosov, reshayus ikh oboyti byezo bsyakogo razresheniya." - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Edilberto Antonio Soriano, Jr. Department of English University of California at Berkeley