From slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de Thu Feb 1 06:36:01 1996 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:36:00 +0100 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Leineweber) Subject: ERRATA to Remark on Auschwitz Anniversay In preparing my remark, I unfortunately misspelled the name of the abhorent Auschwitz camp. There is only a single 's'. Anyone unfamiliar with the meaning of that name can find out more from a WWW-page named 'An Auschwitz Alphabet' under URL http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html. S.L. From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Thu Feb 1 13:08:59 1996 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 15:02:47 EST From: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) Reply-To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK , revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: bLACK hISTORY bLUES Black History Month and its "celebrations" for many has become a burdensome exercise in lethargy. While the messages we glean from beneath the screen of our screams that "they" deem is worthy of their time. Just as long as we pay for the line with one silver dime. Sing a song of paradoxes - we shall overcome as soon as we overcome. Sing a song of freedom as soon as we are free. Sing a song of survival as soon as we learn to survive. Sing a song of hope as soon as we find hope. Lethargic because all too often this period is spent bemoaning the victim status of blacks, re-identifying the age-old problems that confront us, hearing tired old speeches of events all too often and too quickly forgotten; buying that dress or that tie, that book or that art work - overpriced, overly gaudy, and made in China. I've got the cure, I've got what you need, I've got the answer - vote for me cause I'm all you've got. Lethargic because all my white colleagues, feigning, sensitivity want to talk about black issues, the newspapers suddenly discover black feature stories, black leaders, academicians, and preachers in high demand to speak to the masses about blackness. Hey, come on over...lets talk awhile tell me bout your problems I'll cry for you... Lethargic because many will play semantical games about what is the appropriate name for blacks of African origins living in Amerika. Are we black, colored, negro, African American, or what is the flavor of today. The flavor for today is chocolate, but beige will do..now don't you try to be too black that just won't do. Lethargic because the networks and local stations, dusting off the only black films they have in their collection -we'll see Roots, Malcolm X, Lady Sings the Blues...Do the Right thing...over and over again...did you say Shaft -well shut your mouth...but I'm talking about shaft... Overly pompous asses getting fat on my pain, selling me this crap - yesterday's stain. Sad refrain, Missy Jane...still looking for Cane...but he died last year in the rain. Moesha, poor little Moesha...my heart goes out for you, trite expressions and stereotypes of what we used to be like, viewed today, but we're not like that now. Mr. Bo Jangles, won't ya dance for us...smile that smile that hides your grief...Shirley T" really didn't like Mr. T..but he was so cute with all that gold you see. Local programs, national assemblies, public displays of tokenism gone astray. The dreamer reduced to a mere sound bite "I have a dream" Malcolm reduced to a mere letter "X". No angela, no stokely, no bell hooks, James W. Johnson -cringing as off pitched voices make a half-hearted attempt to sing...make sure the words are printed ... it is our national anthem..but we've forgotten the theme. The meaning lost midst the buying and selling of that noble dream. It might be unfortunate to be black, but it is verrry commercial a thing... Black makeup, black hair products, black art, poetry...bet (i.e., BET) Michael wasn't good enough for the king's daughter...goes back to the closet... Teachers will instruct their students on this weary assignment, find the black, find the cause, present the issue. Preachers extolling the virtues of long suffering, endure the strife, endure the pain, endure your plight. A million did march, but what the hell...no plan, no action, no evidence of presence - another fatherless child, abused wife, misused life...and crack sells still on an all time high... Problems, problems, please don't invite me to supper...i'm tired of the freedom bird, ray charles, and your idle banter...the poor blacks...have you heard this one...another lost soul...lets save the blind, spotted, crippled whale...poor blacks...why don't they just get over it...poor blacks...poor blacks...February..........why February: Its the most unique of all Months...only one every four years has an extra day...what will you do with that extra day this year 7 suggestions for making this celebration meaningful 1) Don't buy anything "Black" made in China, Korea -or by any one who isn't black 2) Don't say or do anything that you wouldn't ordinarily do (hypocrisy is especially bad during black history month). 3) Make this celebration an Afro-centric one....where past, present and future coincide...rather than concentrating on the past (successes/failures), look at how these impact on the present, and devise solutions that will reconcile these in the future. 4) Parents seek out your children, let them know you love, support and care for them and their future. 5) Children seek out your parents, let them know that you love, understand and need them and that you will be there for their future. 6) Teachers commit yourselves to excellence, high moral standards, and your students -Your vocation is a sacred one, for the future rest in your hands. 7) Students commit yourselves to learning, achievement, high moral standards. You are our last, best hope - for the future is you. "Only when lions have Historians will hunters cease being heroes." African Proverb UMOJA, Still in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio - 45056 PH: 513-5291235 From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Thu Feb 1 16:18:44 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:18:26 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Quiet? War Crimes? Things are a little quiet on REVS these days. The war in Bosnia may have stopped for the time being, but the stresses that are being manipulated are still very explosive in many parts of the world. There is something that bothers me about all this talk of "war crimes" during the war in Bosnia. I share with many people the conviction that anyone who executes unarmed civilians is guilty of war crimes, and I have no problem with such people being punished after some reasonable due process to ascertain their guilt. But am I the only one who gets annoyed at the sanctimonious, self-righteous chatter from politicians and the press about war crimes in Bosnia, when there is no doubt that the U.S. committed many, many such crimes during the war against Vietnam? The vast majority of people killed were unarmed civilians, killed by the U.S. forces. Similarly, the tens of thousands of unarmed civilians executed by military forces in Guatemala, and the tens of thousands of unarmed civilians executed by military forces in El Salvador-- in both cases with the aid of the U.S. government-----surely these qualify as war crimes. The actions of the Indonesian government towards East Timor, with hundreds slaughtered (not to mention a half million murdered by that government with the aid of the CIA and West European governments in the mid-1960's-----all this should raise some questions about just WHO is qualified to judge war criminals. I realize that this argument can be use to deflect/diffuse criticisms of those who have committed war crimes in Bosnia. I have no intention of softening any criticism of those criminals. I just don't like it when, either explicitly or by implication, criticisms of OTHER war criminals are muted or ignored. Alan Spector ############################################################################ Alan Spector, Ph.D. Phone: 219-989-2387 Behavioral Sciences Department FAX : 219-989-2008 Purdue University Calumet E-Mail: SPECTOR@CALUMET.PURDUE.EDU Hammond, IN 46323 USA {Editor of REVS--- an international email network for Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies} ############################################################################ From jfanders@indiana.edu Fri Feb 2 07:35:56 1996 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:35:52 -0500 (EST) From: jfanders To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: War Crimes I fully agree with Allen Spector on the ubiquity of war crimes in all wars on all sides. I get especially heated when there is condemnation of killing unarmed civilians on the ground, but bombing them from the air is somehow acceptable. The delivery vehicle for the death sentence insulates the killer and somehow absolves him/her from any responsibility. The excuse is that we do not INTEND to kill the civilians as we bomb, but only soldiers. This we say as we bomb cities and villages. Such blatant hypocrisy and self-delusionment. And of course nuclear weapons are the most indiscriminate of all. How is incinieration in a fire ball that much different from incineration in an oven? The insidious isolation of technology somehow absolves us? The unarmed civilians are just as dead! Yours in disgust, Jonathan Anderson School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Fri Feb 2 13:33:47 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 14:32:48 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu, okamoto@shudo-u.ac.jp >From Alan Spector: To the REVS network: The following message was sent to me personally in response to my comments about war crimes, Bosnia, and Vietnam. I believe that the writer of the following comments makes excellent points. I confined my comments to Vietnam because I was actively involved in opposing that war and because it is not always possible to address every issue in every message. The bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, (and non-nuclear saturation bombing of other civilian targets) are, in my opinion, other examples of war crimes. Sometimes I ask my students: "Do you think any country will ever use nuclear weapons against another country?" Some say yes, many say no. Then I point out to them that someone already HAS "dropped the bomb"---- -----used nuclear weapons against civilians....the U.S. government did. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Below is the text of the message that commented on my original message: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ <>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.. =================================================== From fredr@hawaii.edu Sat Feb 3 12:14:09 1996 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:13:36 -1000 From: Fred Riggs To: ETHNIC-L CAPTI-L , "R.E.V.NET" , bruno giorgi Subject: THE MULTI-CULTURAL TIMES Bruno Giorgi informs us about the MULTI-CULTURAL TIMES and his interest in participating in one or more of the lists or groups in the ETHNIC-L network. Can you please help him? Thanks. Fred ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:16:50 -1000 From: Bruno Giorgi To: Fred Riggs Dear Fred, I was trying to subscribe to a group on ethnic minorities and migrations which is advertised in the WWW Virtual Library, section Migration & Ethnic communities. I am the editor of The Multi-Cultural Times and a social psychologist. I would be very happy to have contributions from your people in Hawaii. Best regards. bg From mail.usa.net@usa.net Sat Feb 3 17:21:34 1996 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 17:21:23 -0700 Reply-To: Mark Weigand From: mail.usa.net@usa.net Subject: Re: War Crimes To: jfanders@indiana.edu, Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies I have an interest in military history and agree that modern technology makes war more impersonal, except for the soldier on the ground who must engage in face-to-face combat. I have heard of a study which stated that military generals feel less guilt about their wartime actions than those on the front lines, because they are more isolated from the carnage. I have viewed segments of a previously banned documentary which showed World War II veterans who were suffering from "shell shock" and other psychological problems. These negative effects upon soldiers were largely hidden from the general public during and after WWII. There is also a documentary about WWII bomber crews who deserted to Sweeden because the losses of aircrews over Europe were so high. Another video about the Vietnam air war mentioned that at one point, some American pilots refused to fly bombing missions. It never stated what happened to those who refused to fly. Because the Gulf War was the most censored war in U.S. history, I expect that there will be new revelations coming to light about this war as well. From su4834mo@uscolo.edu Sun Feb 4 13:53:04 1996 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 13:56:05 -0700 (MST) From: "(Confused), Mohammad Shoaib Sultan" To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Gen. Rose guilty of murder ? After reading this article, I just have to ask myself, shouldn't Gen. Rose stand trial together with other war-criminals ? **************************** ======================================================================== B o s N e t - February 1, 1996 ======================================================================== January 29, 1996 article in "Guardian" "BOSNIA: THE SECRET WAR." This is the headline of an article in the 29 January edition of the British daily The Guardian, which deals with politics of another kind. It is no secret to those who have followed the conflict closely that different governments within NATO were pursuing very different agendas in the Wars of the Yugoslav Succession, but this article sheds some light on the particularly glaring differences between Washington and London in 1994. Probably even before the fighting began, elements of the British Conservative government and that of French President Francois Mitterrand seem to have concluded that the chief threat to their "interests" in the post-cold-war Europe somehow came from their primary allies of the previous half century, namely the U.S. and Germany. Accordingly, the Serbs came to be regarded by some in London and Paris as allies of sorts against Washington and Bonn -- and those two countries' presumed Balkan stalking horses, Croatia and Bosnia. In concrete terms, this meant that London and Paris opposed foreign intervention and backed "a negotiated solution," which effectively left the Serbs with a free hand on the battlefield. The latest article explores how British special forces -- the SAS -- worked with the British commander and former SAS officer General Sir Michael Rose to thwart NATO plans for airstrikes against Bosnian Serb military targets. The result was a Serbian tank onslaught against Bihac. The article goes on to show how the U.S. embarked on an agenda of its own, which led to the reversal of fortunes on the battlefield -- and ultimately brought the Serbs to the conference table in Dayton in 1995. -- Patrick Moore The Guardian January 29, 1996 HEADLINE: HOW THE CIA INTERCEPTED SAS SIGNALS; US intelligence was involved in a fierce backstage struggle with its 'reluctant' allies at the height of the conflict, writes Ed Vulliamy THE American secret services - notably the CIA - embark on their first publicly -sanctioned mission in Bosnia this week, to shield Nato soldiers from hostile paramilitaries and help war crimes investigators. But, despite official denials, these agencies, including the CIA's Pentagon cousin the DIA, have been engaged deep within Bosnia's war since its inception. Among their surveillance targets were top-secret communications between the high command of the United Nations military operation in Sarajevo and the British special forces, the SAS, operating under deep cover. What the Americans discovered was that the UN command was engaged in neutralising Nato air strikes against the Serbs. US intelligence became enmeshed in the war as the Americans became increasingly exasperated by what they saw as the thwarting of a robust stand against the Serbs, stemming from the reluctance of the European Union, Britain in particular. The outcome was a fierce backstage struggle between the Americans and their European and British allies, each pursuing radically diverse agendas. American frustration was most acute during 1994, a period of cautious authority in the field exercised by General Sir Michael Rose, a former SAS commander. The tension arose most acutely from the American belief that Nato air strikes should be used to bomb the Serbs to the negotiating table. The United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia - and especially Gen Rose - was sceptical, and feared that air strikes would endanger its soldiers on the ground. The American strategy, and its thwarting by Unprofor and the British, turned the issue of air strikes into a covert backstage confrontation between secret services, commandos in the field and diplomats at the highest levels. Now American intelligence sources have revealed what they found when they eavesdropped on communications between Gen Rose's headquarters in Sarajevo and SAS scouts deep inside Serb-held territory, near the besieged Bosnian town of Bihac, during the ferocious Serbian advance on that UN "safe area" late in1 994. THE communication line was established so that the undercover SAS teams, assigned to the UN as forward air controllers, could identify Serb artillery positions and relay the co-ordinates to headquarters and the pilots of Nato bombers. But a controversial order came over the air from Gen Rose's command to the SAS: hold off, do not identify the targets, thus neutralising the air strike. The Nato pilots were shown nothing; their planes came and went, impotent. It was a measured instruction, highly secret, defiant of Nato. But it was not a private one. It was overheard, not by an enemy but by the Americans. Gen Rose could not be reached for comment on the eavesdropping allegations yesterday at his headquarters at Trenchard Lines, Wiltshire. Sir Michael has argued that aggressive use of air power would have threatened the safety of UN soldiers on the ground and jeopardised Unprofor's humanitarian mission. The general did order Nato air and ground strikes against the Serbs around Gorazde in 1994, and was then eager to use close air support to defend his SAS men trapped in the enclave, but was overruled by the UN envoy, Yasushi Akashi. It was fundamental to Gen Roses's debate with the Americans that the UN "cannot be used to alter the military balance in a civil war . . . a peacekeeping force cannot allow itself to be hijacked by political pressures and become involved in the conflict". He wrote: "There exist obvious limitations on the use of air power in any confused civil war situation. It is simply not possible to secure safe areas . . . by the use of air power alone." The handling of the Bihac crisis was a dramatic illustration of how the Western "allies" were at each other's throats over Bosnia, with the Americans determined to override what they saw as the sabotaging of Nato efforts to bomb the Serbs into a peace deal. BIHAC had been under siege for 30 months. A French Unprofor battalion had pulled out and been replaced by one from Bangladesh, by then marooned and virtually unarmed. Humanitarian aid convoys had been throttled since May. Halfway through November the Serbian assault came. A relentless bombardment included the first reported use of naplam in the war. Serbian planes mocked the "no-fly zone" by cluster-bombing the safe area. Bihac was about to shrivel, or else collapse completely. Nato intervened. There was an air strike against a Serb air field in Croatia. The UN commander in Zagreb, General Bertrand de Lapresle, insisted on the strike being limited to damaging runways and anti - -aircraft missiles and not the planes themselves. B ut Nato's commander in southern Europe, Admiral Leighton Smith, told the Pentagon: "My hope is that we will not have to go back." The Western alliance creaked, then the drama began. Gen Rose told the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, that unless the raids stopped Serbian positions overlooking Bihac would be attacked. Mr Karadzic replied by fax on November 23, telling the UN that the Serbs were now on a hill called Drebelac, which turned out to be inside the safe area. Gen Rose rushed to Pale, the Bosnian Serb "capital" near Sarajevo, the next day and then on to the Croatian capital, Zagreb. He concluded that the UN should call in air strikes. There was an American air force observer at UN headquarters in Zagreb and he was worried about reports from US intelligence in the field that the Bosnian Serbs had aquired a fresh arsenal of Russian SAM anti-aircraft missiles, sent via Belgrade. Gen Rose put the air strike request on hold, and set about negotiating a ceasefire instead. But the Americans were stepping up the pressure. On that Friday, November 25, the US ambassador to Sarajevo, Victor Jakovic, visited Gen Rose to discuss reports that Serb tanks were heading for the heart of Bihac city itself. Gen Rose told him he believed there was little the UN could do. Mr Jakovec putin an early call to the state department. The call prompted a diplomatic flurry. The state department contacted the US ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright. She in turn bent the ear of the UN's head of peacekeeping in New York, Kofi Annan. The message was clear: the US government was insisting on Gen Rose calling air strikes, and Mr Annan duly conveyed it to him. Newspapers on Saturday November 26 were bewildered after "confused reports of Nato air activity over Bihac last night". The state department spokeswoman, Christine Shelly, said the ceasefire brokered by Gen Rose in Bihac was by no means holding, but added that Nato should not be blamed for its failure. This is what had happened. Gen Rose heeded Kofi Annan's request for close air support from Nato - an intervention within the strict rules stipulating that the pilot had to find a smoking gun before he could strike. The men responsible for locating the smoking gun were the SAS teams, in radio contact with Gen Rose's headquarters. That night Nato planes took off from the US air force base at Aviano in Italy. This was the showdown between Gen Rose's philosophy of cautious mediation and the Americans' interventionism. For Gen Rose's command, there was only one way to stop the bombing: they would have to tell the SAS scouts not to identify the target for Nato to bomb. The rules of engagement were clear: no target, no bombs. The American intelligence sources now allege that this is what the Unprofor command did. It was a careful decision and a controversial one; by the end of the weekend, Serb tanks were blasting their way through the suburbs of Bihac. The Bihac debacle had confronted the Clinton administration with a gesture of defiance, forcing the president to choose between maintaining the Atlantic alliance and continuing his support for the Bosnian government. In public Mr Clinton chose the Nato alliance. Within two days the administration had offered concessions to the Serbs and 10 days later it agreed to recognise the "Republika Srpska". But while Washington overtly courted the Europeans, the US intelligence operation was now entrenched, pushing new strategies for Bosnia. The DIA/CIA station was based at the Zagreb embassy, where the US ambassador, Peter Galbraith, was welding the alliance with Croatia, and where the military attache, Colonel Richard Herrick, boasted an unusually generous staff of 19. On top of this the Virginia-based military consultancy MPRI was retraining the Croatian army. The MPRI executive overseeing the contract with Croatia was an old-time master of intelligence, Ed Soyster, a former DIA director. AN extraordinary correspondence, seen by the Guardian, led to the contract. It began in November 1994 with the hawkish Croatian defence minister, Gojko Susak, writing to the US deputy defence secretary John Deutsch asking for direct US aid to the Croatian military. Mr Deutsch replied explaining that the embargo prevented such direct involvement, but that it could be organised through a private consultancy. Such genuflection to the rules, however, did not seem to inhibit assistance to the Bosnians, though this could not be delivered publicly. The next task for US intelligence advance parties was to clear the ground for an assault by the Bosnian army on the capital, Sarajevo. For this, American intelligence organised the famous Tuzla air drops of weapons and military equipment to the Bosnian army, in breach of the embargo. The received wisdom is that there were two such drops, on February 10 and 12, spotted by Norwegian UN personnel. In fact there were four. A C130 transport flew over, escorted by four American F18 fighters. The material dropped included radar equipment and anti-tank missiles. Nato held an "internal inquiry" into the episode once it became public knowledge. The four-man inquiry team was all American and its report said that the Norwegian "paramedics" who made the sightings could confused them with civilian air traffic in and out of Belgrade. But there was no civilian air traffic going in and out of Belgrade, and no night traffic at all. The Norwegians were not paramedics. But by this time, about April, the war was starting to go the Americans' way. There was a new UN commander, General Rupert Smith, who favoured air strikes which damaged the Serbs. Some months later, to the Americans' delight, Gen Smith swung his authority behind the "defining moment", - the air strikes against Serb targets in Bosnia last summer. This time, as the bombs found their prey, there was a loud cheer in the US embassy in Zagreb. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *----------------------------------------------------------------* * Mohammad Shoaib Sultan * * Student at : * * University of Southeren Colorado * * Department : ASET * * (Applied Science & Engeenering Technology) * * Electrical Engeenering * * With Computer applications * *----------------------------------------------------------------* * irc-nick : shoby * * e-mail : su4834mo@uscolo.edu * * snail mail : 1701 east 16th. street Apt#1 * * Pueblo 81001, Colorado, USA * * home page : http://meteor.uscolo.edu/su4834mo * * Telephone : (719)542-6638 * *----------------------------------------------------------------* "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the prise of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." From ha2957ja@uscolo.edu Sun Feb 4 20:55:08 1996 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 20:58:04 -0700 (MST) From: jammer To: revs@csf.colorado.edu, Political Islam Hi there!!! I am writing a paper on discrimination in America against people of any nationality and race and religion and acts of voilence in this regard. Anyone with comments or possible information is welcomed to send in his opinion. Hope u can help me out.. Regards Jamal Hashmi 223 Bonnymede Rd. Pueblo, CO 81001 (719)-583-8489 ********************************************************** .' / | \\ __ / / * / ____ / | \`\.__/-~~ ~~\ _/' * /-'~ ~~~~~---__ | ~-/~ \ * \_| / _)-<--\) * '~~--_/ _->---<--\ * --Jamal Hashmi {\__--_/} / \_>---<__\ * /' (_/ _-~ | |__>--<__* e-mail address: | _/O )-~ | |__>--<__* ha2957ja@uscolo.edu / /~ ,_/ / /__>---<__* *****************************o-o _//********************** (^(~ ,/| ,//('( ( ( ')) From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Mon Feb 5 14:08:21 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:55:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Re: Syllabus wanted >From Alan Spector, REVS Editor/Manager The following message was sent to me by Professor Schmid. If anyone on the REVS network (or PSN) has information that can help him, please respond (If you are on PSN, please respond directly to him or to me. I don't think Prof. Schmid is on PSN.) Thanks--A.S. ------------------------------ From: PIOOM@rulfsw.fsw.LeidenUniv.nl Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 20:36:05 +0100 (MET) To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Subject: Re: Syllabus wanted Dear Colleagues, I am new on this network and I hope not to violate user rules with this simple request. I am planning to teach a new course next year with the tentative working title 'Social Cohesion: What keeps states and societies together and what breaks them up" I am thinking of looking at a number of state failures, civil wars and want to contrast these with multi-national and multi-ethnic states where societies manage to live in relative peaceful coexistence together. If anyone has taught such a course before I would appreciate to obtain a syllabus or literature suggestions. Thanks in advance! Dr. Alex P. Schmid Extraordinary Professor of Conflict Resolution Erasmus University Rotterdam From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Tue Feb 6 14:09:04 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:08:17 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: useful syllabi ------------------------------ From: spcohen@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stephen P. Cohen) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 18:52:20 -0600 To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Subject: useful syllabi In response to Prof. Schmid's request for syllabi dealing with states, state breakup, and ethnic groups I'm pleased to announce that the syllabus I circulated last year (on mass death and politics) has been somewhat revised, under the title of "Pathological States: The Origin, Detection, and Treatment of Dysfunctional Societies." Yes, I know its an overambitious subject, and perhaps a pretentious title, but REVS readers might find it interesting; I certainly would welcome comments and suggestions for readings (bearing in mind that it's too long now). It can be accessed at the home page of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security of the University of Illinois, ; after you reach the first page go to ACDIS Courses, and then open up Political Science 489. You'll also find an annotated bibliography (again, suggestions welcomed) and a link to our course newsgroup. If you don't have access to the WWW (which, I must immodestly note, can be navigated best by University of Illinois software), please contact me directly and I'll send you an e-mail version. With regards, Stephen Cohen Stephen P. Cohen, Director, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, & Int'l Security U. of Illinois, 359 Armory Building Champaign, IL 61820 Tel: (217) 333-7086, e-mail Visit the ACDIS home page at From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Tue Feb 6 14:45:02 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:44:00 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Notes on a campus newspaper >From Alan Spector, REVS editor: I received the following message, which I am forwarding to the e-mail list. Perhaps someone on the list can offer some help to the writer. Please feel free to respond directly to SANTI@hws.edu ------------------------------ From: SANTI@hws.edu Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 10:52:09 -0400 (EDT) To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Subject: Notes on a campus newspaper Every Thursday the main campus newspaper comes out, everytime it comes out I open it to the political commentary and view the same rhetoric from the same writer, and everwhere I look I find my brothers and sisters angered and hurt. Personally I believe the best way to make change in the newspaper is to write articles for them, thus creating a dialogue IN the paper. Unfortunetely when students of color submit articles too the paper one of two things happens: ! 1) they do not get printed 2) they come out drastically different. I have heard many years ago that the paper DID incorparate the voices of all, BUT that was MANY years ago. What the solution was been in many peoples eyes, was to start up another newspaper, the problem with this is that on a campus of 1800 you only have so many writers interested in making a difference plus we have neither the resources nor the budget to make another paper. The campus newspaper (the herald) has 10,664 dollars allocated per term (we're on the trimester) to them. My campus newspaper is allocated (664, pert per term). My argument is that if the campus newspapers are ran by students and for students, and newspapers are supposed to represent the voices of all people, and since the newspaper is allocated a budget from ALL students taxes shouldnt they be REQUIRED to equally represent everyones voice? This paper is not a profit organization and is not out to make money off of the students but is currently ripping the students off. Let me give an example of normal political commentary usually in the paper: " But what was Malcolm X's message?... Well, Malcolm X believed that whites were essentially racist and there was little point in converting them (gieb jan. 12, 96)" "The civil rights community has gone from Martin Luther King jr.s ideals to idolizing Malcolm X and rejecting King's beliefs to accepting Louis Farrakhan as a leader" -next article- "racism is ofetn given as the main reason for the problems faced by blacks today," "America is not a racist nation, and it can only get better not worse. "Blacks represent what America was, and what America can be. Blacks are the true cultural indicators of our countrys moral worth. Together, as a nation, we can live up to the ideals that America was born with," (Gieb Jan. 26th, 1996) -next article-"Next up th eapartment complexes and hotels. The only reason many people live in these places is because they are on welfare, and their housing allowance is so small they cannot afford anything else. (On the inner cities) Had enough? So please help me My request from you is to help me with any information that can prove to be u useful not necessarily fighting this paper but creating an argument against the approach they have chosen to use. Is there any information about requirements for student newspapers? Standards for journalism? On editing actual letters to the editor? I await any and all comments from the REVS group. Alexis Enrico Santi Hobart And William Smith Colleges In%"santi@hws.edu" box 3095 scandling center Geneva, New York 144566 life is a question without an answer thats what keeps us living. A.E.S. From smks@look1.apmaths.uwo.ca Thu Feb 8 08:07:57 1996 From: smks@look1.apmaths.uwo.ca (Sultan Sial) To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: looking for report of special rapporteur Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 10:04:42 -0500 Would anyone know hwo to obtain the report of the UN rapporteur mentioned in the following? The local UN office was not able to help. Sultan Sial smks@look1.apmaths.uwo.ca http://look1.apmaths.uwo.ca (found on soc.culture.pakistan) GENEVA 1-30-96- A United Nations human rights investigator said Tuesday that Pakistan's laws encouraged intolerance against religious minorities and urged Islamabad to draft ``new, more just legislation'' for all citizens. Abdelfattah Amor, a Tunisian who serves as U.N. special rapporteur on religious intolerance, specifically urged Pakistan to modify its legislation on blasphemy as the death sentence appeared to be ``disproportionate and even unacceptable.'' Amor's 23-page report, based on a mission last June, was the first by a U.N. human rights investigator to Pakistan. He examined the situation of Christians, Hindis and Ahmadis there. He urged the Islamic state's authorities to ensure that ordinances for crimes such as adultery and alcohol consumption were compatible with human rights, and requested that they not be applied against non-Muslims. He also called for religious identification to be removed from passports. Amor encouraged the government to stem religious extremism and to ``take appropriate measures in conformity with law.'' ``The special rapporteur...considers that the country's current legislation applicable to religious minorities...is of a nature to encourage intolerance or to develop it in the heart of society,'' Amor wrote. Legislation applicable specifically to the Ahmadi minority, a banned Islamic sect, was ``particularly questionable and even frankly objectionable,'' according to the U.N. investigator. Amor said: ``Protecting freedoms of thought and worship is a necessity, while the application of the death sentence for blasphemy appears disproportionate and even unacceptable, especially as blasphemy often reflects a low level of education and culture which is not ascribable only to the person who blasphemes.'' He acknowledged that much of Pakistan's legislation had been inherited from the past, including ``periods of dictatorship.'' The U.N. investigator also cited allegations that women and young girls, especially members of religious minorities, including Christians and Hindis, were raped and kidnapped ``in order to convert them by force to the Muslim religion.'' From eero@sofi.su.se Fri Feb 9 02:00:39 1996 From: eero@sofi.su.se Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 09:53:50 EST To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: attack Luebeck coverup? To all, This just in from a European antiracism list. Apologies for any cross-postings. Eero Carroll ----- Begin message from MX%"DEBRA@OLN.comlink.apc.org" 9-Feb-96 From: MX%"DEBRA@OLN.comlink.apc.org" 9-FEB-1996 02:16 To: MX%"antiracism-eur-l@mail.comlink.apc.org" CC: Subj: Antifa Info-Bulletin / Supplement 96/01/23 Return-Path: Feb 96 02:04 MEZ; (Smail3.1.28.1) 9 Feb 96 02:09 MET Sender: owner-antiracism-eur-l@sonne.comlink.apc.org (Smail3.1.29.1 #11) id m0tkhKd-000KgUC; Fri, 9 Feb 96 02:08 MET To: antiracism-eur-l@mail.comlink.apc.org From: DEBRA@OLN.comlink.apc.org (Debra Guzman) X-ZC-ROT-vor-Gateway-Path: oln.comlink.apc.org!DEBRA Organization: HRNet - Human Rights Info Network Subject: Antifa Info-Bulletin / Supplement 96/01/23 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 07:51:00 +0100 Reply-To: DEBRA@OLN.comlink.apc.org (Debra Guzman) X-Gateway: ZCONNECT UA SONNE.comlink.apc.org [UNIX/Connect v0.73/MB] Lines: 114 Sender: owner-antiracism-eur-l@mail.comlink.apc.org ## author : counter@francenet.fr ## date : 01.02.96 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||| A N T I F A ||| ||| I N F O - B U L L E T I N ||| ||| * News * Analysis * Research * Action * ||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 GERMANY ALERT THE FREE FLOW OF UNCENSORED FACTS EVIDENCE MOUNTS THAT GERMANY IS STAGING COVER-UP OF MURDEROUS LUEBECK ATTACK Witness denies government claims that arrested man argued with him on night before deadly firebombing LUEBECK. Germany's attempt to pin the murder of ten refugees on a 21 year old Lebanese resident is beginning to look as suspicious as the killer blaze itself. An attorney Safwan Eid, who has been arrested and charged with the 10 murders, says his client, who was injured while escaping the inferno, was asleep when the firebombing took place. Much more damning to the government's claims, however, comes in a statement from Gustaf Sossou, an African refugee who German officials say got into a fight with Eid on the night before the blaze. Sosson told reporters that he had not even argued with Eid. Speaking through his lawyer, Eid said that he, his parents and six brothers and sisters were all asleep when the fire began. Eid's mother and a sister were seriously injured while trying to escape the raging fire. The disintegrating government story has led to further speculation that Germany is staging a massive attempt to cover-up for neo-Nazis who had threatened the refugees on numerous occasions and are believed by many to have firebombed the four-storey building. Three Germans, all reportedly identified with the neo-Nazi scene, were detained after the killer blaze but later released because, according to government claims, that had an alibi. Among the ten dead in the Luebeck fire were four children. Refugees from Lebanon, Syria, Zaire, Togo and Poland were attacked as they slept. Survivors said they fear Germany is staging a cover-up to deflect international outrage at the pogrom. Skinheads shouting fascist slogans and other Germans wearing Nazi armbands had on numerous occasions threatened to murder the refugees, but the government refused requests for security guards, they said. Fire officials and a local prosecutor said Thursday that multiple fires set off the inferno. Survivors spoke of smelling an odor like kerosene - frequently used in Nazi attacks -- as they fled the raging inferno. But on Friday some government officials tried claiming the refugees may have died from an "electrical fire." Luebeck's police chief said the fire began on the first floor of the gutted apartment complex. Then, on Sunday, officials claimed the blaze started on the fourth floor, and was set by Eid. Meanwhile in Bonn, PDS parliamentarian Ulla Jelpke revealed hundreds of attacks that had previously gone unreported. From last January through November there were 406 racist, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi attacks in Germany, government figures obtained by Jelpke disclosed. They included 33 anti-foreigner and 2 anti-Semitic firebombings, 282 anti-foreigner and 8 anti-Semitic attacks against persons, 31 anti-Semitic cemetery desecrations, and 50 anti-Semitic attacks that caused property damage. The government figures disclosed an additional 1,248 "anti-foreigner and right-wing-extremist" and 662 other anti-Semitic crimes had been commited. Jelpke revealed government statistics documenting 351 persons who had been injured in the attacks. The refugees Luebeck were fire bombed about 3:30a.m. Thursday as most of them lay sleeping in the turn of the century structure. Eyewitnesses said one of those killed in the pogrom, an African woman, died when she jumped out of an upper floor window while holding a baby in her arms. The infant was reported alive but seriously injured. On Friday, German police freed four neo-Nazis who had been held as suspects in the attack. They had been seen in the area of the refugees' home only minutes after the firebombing but claimed they had an alibi. Luebeck is the same western German port city where Nazis firebombed a synagogue during the 1994 Jewish Passover holiday. Before the new murderous attack, Germany's worst anti-foreigner attack was in Solingen, where five Turkish women and children were murdered. From mark@mbcltd.demon.co.uk Thu Feb 8 16:43:36 1996 id bb27242; 8 Feb 96 22:55 GMT id aa07588; 8 Feb 96 22:51 GMT (router,WinSmtp -Win32- V1.07beta1.3.s(unregistered)); Wed, 07 Feb 1996 00:40:34 (158.152.94.213::mail daemon; unverified,WinSmtp -Win32- V1.07beta1.3.s); Wed, 07 Feb 1996 00:40:20 From: mark To: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies Subject: RE: Racism ... remember? Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:37:55 -0000 Two recent items in the 'discussion' caught my eye. The first refers to war crimes, prompted by Alan Spector. The mistake = people always make is to see 'war crimes' in their own terms: they may = have butchered some of us, but we butchered some of them. They feel = quite radical when critcising their own government for being 'as bad as = the rest'. But war is war. There will always be butchery. Whether it becomes a war = crime or not depends on which country you are in when you look at the = war. In this country it was sacrilige to mention that British soldiers = cut off the ears of Argentinian soldiers as souveniors, or that the = 'Road to Basra' was a turkey-shoot of 100,000 Iraqis. The point is to challenge that arrogance of the Western powers who = believe they have the right to do whatever they want, whenever they = want, to whoever they want. For example, the Japs were bombed at = Hiroshima and Nagosaki because they were 'monkeys' in the eyes of the US = and Britain, not because the techonology 'distanced' the bombers or the = generals from their victims, as some have said in this forum. At the end = of the day war crimes are about whose side you are on, and your racial = make-up. How many of those in this forum who have criticised the States = for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki are at the same time supporting the = US pursual of so-called war criminals in the Balkans? Given all of this, it did surprise me that Rodney Coates' response to = racism - that experienced by the Japanese in WW2 and Black Americans = today, is to have a Black - sorry, Afro-centric - History day, on which = he recommends the participants purchase nothing from China or Korea. So Rodney says 'buy American'. The same place that bombed Korea, Vietnam, Japan and Iraq, to name a = few? On your extra day, Rodney, remember the reason Muhammed Ali gave for not = 'fighting for his country' during the Vietnam war. He said it wasn't = 'his' country to fight for. After all, he said, "no Viet Kong ever = called me nigger." From mail.usa.net@usa.net Fri Feb 9 16:38:30 1996 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:38:16 -0700 Reply-To: Mark Weigand From: mail.usa.net@usa.net Subject: RE: Racism ... remember? To: mark@mbcltd.demon.co.uk, Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies Once again I would recommend that anyone interested in the concept of war cirmes see the video or the book of the same title called "Faces of the Enemy" by the philosopher Sam Keen, available on most college campuses. It deals with the universal tendency of governments to demonize the enemy in order to facilitate genocidal programs, among other things. Another untold story until recently concerning World War II: the ten Japanese internment camps inside the U.S. which incarcerated about 110,000 Japanese American civilians, most of whom were American citizens by birth. When I was growing up, this was never mentioned in history books. In fact, I was in graduate school before I learned of these events. It makes me wonder what other untold stories exist about more recent wars in Korea, Vietnam, Granada, El Salvador, etc. I did see a television program called "The 90's" which interviewed civilians in Central America about the use of experimental weapons there by the U.S. during the 1980's. I also want to make the obvious point that racism is not exclusive to the U.S. or to modern times. Anti-Chinese racism was a part of Japanese policy during World War II, etc. No culture is innocent. And speaking of war crimes or state crimes against civilians, how should we evaluate the many radiation experiments performed upon unknowing American citizens during the cold war? Or in addition, the small towns in Nevada and Utah which were downwind of atmospheric nuclear tests whose citizens were regarded as guinea pigs for testing the effects of nuclear fallout? What about the citizens of San Fransisco who were intentionally exposed to biological warfare chemicals as an experiment? Ameican soldiers have been unknowingly exposed to chemical agents and radiation hazards so that scientists could measure the results. Does this sound any different than the government policies which American politicians criticized in the former Soviet Union? It seems that there is a lot of hypocrisy here. Another related concern: In the Gulf War, U.S. soldiers were involuntarily given as many as twenty injections, some of which were experimental and supposed to counter the effects of chemical agents. It is possible that the "Gulf war syndrome" health problems could be related to these injections, but I have heard of no studies to investigate this possibility. From slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de Tue Feb 20 11:13:27 1996 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:13:01 +0100 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Leineweber) Subject: RE^2: Racism ... remember? Hello to all: Here I want to lose some words regarding the comments of Mark he sent around Feb 8, 96. Mark wrote: > The mistake people always make is to see 'war crimes' in their own terms: > they may have butchered some of us, but we butchered some of them. They feel > quite radical when critcising their own government for being 'as bad as the > rest'. Is it really a mistake if people on this forum - not only Alan Spector - reminds us of war crimes and other offences against humanity that were committed by their own governments or societies? No nation should ever forget those dark incidents in its history. It's an essential supposition for possibly creating a livable future. Not enough? > The point is to challenge that arrogance of the Western powers who believe > they have the right to do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whoever > they want. Right. But who are the 'Western Powers'? You may say the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, France, who else? It's neither you nor me. So can someone show me THOSE persons of the west who overbearingly do whatever they want, who believe to have at their disposal hundreds of thousands of young men and women and by demand the whole of nations. Who wants to persuade us of something like a 'right to war'? Who has the last authority to decide what is a 'war crime'? The UN Organization wouldn't be able to. (Let me refer explicitly to Andrew Varvel's "Genocide and International Law" he posted in Oct 95 to REVS list). > For example, the Japs were bombed at Hiroshima and Nagosaki because > they were 'monkeys' in the eyes of the US and Britain, not because the > techonology 'distanced' the bombers or the generals from their victims, > as some have said in this forum. Sorry: 'Japs'? I cannot assess the dimension of hatred among the combatants at that time. But for sure you cannot say 'the U.S.' or 'Britain' saw the Japanese as 'monkeys'. Nevertheless in the U.S. particular military and governmental circles act regardless of the freedom and health of unknowing civilians and soldiers. Warfare related experiments were done in former days as well as nowadays. The location of such crime seems to depend on the most suitable opportunity to perform, not on a 'selection' of a dedicated country or race. Experiments are run inside and outside the USA. The first atom bomb was blasted in Nevada, the following two were 'tested' in Japan under 'real war condition'. Today they continue by computer simulations. For what? However, there has been a very confusing development of things in the history which led at last to that horrible end of the U.S.-Japan war. I'm just reading a book "Heller als tausend Sonnen" ("Brighter than a thousand suns") written by Robert Jungk in 1964. The author describes the lives of the atom researchers at those days from the twenties over the years of WW2. A truly seizing and amazing story. They played the key role in developing atomic weapons. At the same time they became victims of a fatal concoction of pioneering scientific discoveries, political intrigues and racism. A lengthy chain of human misunderstandings and false political estimations preceded the disasters of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'd like to discuss more about these issues. That's all for now, Stephan Leineweber From email.list@sipri.se Thu Feb 22 09:36:22 1996 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 17:34:13 +0100 To: REVS@csf.colorado.edu From: email.list@sipri.se (Don Odom) Subject: SIPRI email mailing list The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is pleased to announce that new publication announcements/SIPRI press releases are now available via email. 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Sincerely, Don Odom Email List Coordinator ________________________________________________________________ SIPRI email: email.list@sipri.se Froesunda Telefax: +46-8-655 97 33 S-17153 Solna Telephone: +46-8-655 97 00 (switchboard) SWEDEN Internet URL: http://www.sipri.se ________________________________________________________________ From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Fri Feb 23 14:51:39 1996 23 Feb 96 16:41:32 -5 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 16:40:57 EST From: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) Reply-To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) To: AFAM-L@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu, AFROAM-L@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU, ABSLST-L@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU, Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies Subject: Check it out, information you can use Dear Colleagues: Check it out, information you can use: This will be an exciting conference as we debate these issues less than one month from the 1996 Presidential Election. W.E.B. Du Bois Conference on Conservatism, Affirmative Action, Gender, and Public Policy Issues in the 21st Century Gender, and Public Policy Issues in the 21st Century October 17-19, 1996 Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435 Conference Overview America is witnessing a dramatic transformation of its urban population. Experts estimate that by the year 2050 white non-Hispanic Americans will compose more than 50% of the population. Given this fact, it appears that the social, economic, and political forces of our society have begun to ready themselves for economic, and political forces of our society have begun to ready themselves for either a reversal of this trend or an incorporation of nonwhite Americans into its sociopolitical and legal structures (i.e., political correctness, diversity, enterprise zones, immigration policies). What is clear from this forecast is that we are likely to see an increase in ethnocentric, racist and sexist reactions to demographic shifts in the American population. As the Conservative Right begins to address these concerns what was once politically incorrect may become politically correct, signaling the end of more than thirty years of liberal progressive policies. This conference will survey the social, economic, and political climate of the U.S. by examining contemporary issues of race/ethnicity, immigration, gender and public policy. Scholars presenting papers on these issues are: Joe R. Feagin, University of Florida Nancy A. Denton, University at Albany John R. Logan, University at Albany Cedric Herring, University of Illinois at Chicago Sharon M. Collins, University of Illinois at Chicago Edna Bonacich, University of California at Riverside James E. Jacob, University of California at Chico Karyn Loscocco, University at Albany Anne R. Roschelle, University of San Francisco Willie Avon Drake, Virginia Commonwealth University John Sibley Butler, University of Texas at Austin You may contact Holiday Inn, Fairborn, Ohio (513) 426-7800 for room Reservations under the Conference Name Du Bois. For more information E-mail MDurr@Desire.Wright.Edu "Only when lions have Historians will hunters cease being heroes." African Proverb UMOJA, Still in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio - 45056 PH: 513-5291235 From united@antenna.nl Tue Feb 27 04:11:21 1996 To: united3.list@antenna.nl Subject: Latest update action week March From: united@antenna.nl (United Int. Action) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 11:35:34 GMT Organization: Mailed via Antenna, APC Service for the Netherlands UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees PB 413, NL-100 AK, Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582 ONE RACE - HUMAN RACE March 21st International Day Against Racism On March 21st 1960 the South African police forces murdered in a massacre 70 demonstrants in Sharpeville, who wanted to protest peacefully against pass legislation. On December 13th 1967 the General Assembly of the United Nations declared the 21st of March to an annual memorial day against all forms of racism and discrimination. EUROPEAN-WIDE ACTION WEEK AGAINST RACISM ONE RACE - HUMAN RACE March 16-24, 1996 This year's "European-wide Action Week Against Racism" (March 16-24, 1996) follows the successfull weeks in 1993, 1994 and 1995 being coordinated by UNITED, the European network against racism. In March 1994 hundreds of thousands stood up against racism. This successful outcome lead the UN to the enlargement of their memorial day to an "UN Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination". And the Council of Europe started the highlight period of its "All Different-All Equal - European Youth Campaign against Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism and Intolerance". In February 1996, 80 organisations from 35 European countries met during UNITED's Conference in Prague. They confirmed to organise and mobilize for the Week. Many other organisations throughout Europe have already joined and have sent information on their actions. More information will be collected permanently. UNITED, which distributes 30.000 posters for the campaign, will serve as an information and coordination point for the activities. There will be 2 mass demonstrations in Bruxelles (B) and Amsterdam (NL), other manifestations will be held in Helsinki(SF), Warsaw (PL), Luxemburg (LUX), St. Petersburg (RUS) and many other places. Hundreds of other actions will take place in many European countries, such as school weeks, festivals, demonstrations, radio series, torchlight marches, public debates, discussions, conferences, film presentations, intercultural meetings, multicultural days, university activities, seminars, memorial minutesII Provisional Overview (27.02.96): Europe-wide Action Week Against Racism ONE RACE - HUMAN RACE *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* MARCH 16 - 24 1996 including March 21st, UN day against racism This is the first provisional list of activities (as of 26.02.96). We expect: Hundreds of actions in about 30 countries. The European-wide Action Week Against Racism will be coordinated by UNITED for Intercultural Action Please send and fax all information that is missing up to now (fax +31-20-6834582) (united@antenna.nl) ************************** Austria 21.03.96 - 23.03.96 "Wege zur Identitaet - Rassismus und Diskriminierung in Oesterreich" - in Vienna (A) Conference organised by SOS Mitmensch and others Themes: National and group identity, culture, discourse, youthwork and education contact: SOS Mitmensch, Muenzwardeingasse 2/2, A-1060 Wien, Austria, phone +43-1-5860132, fax +43-1-5860131 ************************* Belarus 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "One Race - Human Race" Conference (19.03.96), open letter to the government, publications... organised by the Belarussian Interconfessional Association contact: Belorussian Interconfessional Association (BIA), P.O. Box 286, BY-Minsk 220100, Belarus phone +375-172-328589, fax +375-172-328589, e-mail board@bia.belpak.minsk.by ************************* Belgium 24.03.96 "National Demonstration Against Racism and for Equal Rights - Now!" - in Bruxelles (B) organised by Objektief 479.917 contact: Objektief 479.917, Kazernestraat 68, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5138346, fax +32-2-5139831 01.03.96-25.03.96 "John Heartfield Exhibition" Travelling through Belgium The expo-train will stop in the railway stations of: Antwerpen, Hasselt, Brugge, Gent, Aalst, Mechelen, Leuven and Bruxelles in each city there will be films, debates, initiatives... organised by CSC Vormingswerk - De Wereld van Anne Frank contact: CSC, Postbus 877 - Keizerslaan 13, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5026401, fax +32-2-5483476 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Action Week Against Racism" - in Mechelen (B) Various activities organised by ICOM /MTR contact: Intercultureel Overleg Mechelen / Mechelen Tegen Racisme, ICOM/MTR, Wollemarkt 7-9, B-2800 Mechelen, Belgium phone +32-15-206483, fax +32-15-201113 ************************* Finland 21.03.96 "National Demonstration Against Racism" - in Helsinki (SF) organised by Finnish Antifa Coalition party afterwards, school campaign... contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi March 1996 "Drawing Contest in Schools" - in Lathi (SF) organised by Finnish Antifa Coalition and Amnesty International contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi 21.03.96 "Open Doors at the International Meeting Point" - in Vaasa (SF) organised by Finnish Antifa Coalition demonstration, concert... contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi 23.03.96 "School Campaign / Youth Concert Against Racism" - in Lohja (SF) organised by Finnish Antifa Coalition contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi ************************* France 18.03.96 - 23.03.96 "Week of Education" National schoolweek against racism with local actions in Pau, Metz, Orleans, Nord-Pas de Calais, Troyes, Rouen, Saint Nazare, Paris region, etc. etc. organised by the French ministry of national education, MRAP and others Themes:Tackling racism in schools, how to deal with the fact that in several cities the Front National is in power. contact: Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitie entre les peuples (MRAP), 89, rue Oberkampf, F-75543 Paris CEDEX 11, France phone +33-1-43148353, fax +33-1-43148350, minitel:3615 mrap 21.03.96 "International Media Action Day Against Racism and Intolerance" to focus attention of the public on these important matters organised by European Youth Campaign against Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism and Intolerance Every broadcaster, newspaper or periodical, journalism school or training institute, professional organisation or NGO (big, small, international or local) can explore themes and arrangements that are most suitable in the light of its situation and possibilities. contact: RAXI, Mikko Lohikoski, c/o Conseil de l'Europe, F-67075, Strasbourg CEDEX phone +33-88-412960, fax +33-88-412742, e.mail 100706.3343@compuserve.com 21.03.96 "Presention of the IFJ Prize - A Celebration of Tolerance in Journalism"- in Strasbourg (F) International Media Award to recognise journalism which raises awareness over racism and which promotes better understanding of the different faces of multicultural society... organised by International Federation of Journalists - WG against Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism and Intolerance Open to all journalists and programme makers (under 35) in any journalistic medium. The work must have been published or transmitted during 1995. Closing date for entries is January 31 1996 contact: IFJ, 266 rue Royale, B-1210 Bruxelles , phone +32-2-2232265, fax +32-2-2192976, e.mail ifjsafenet@gn.apc.org 15.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Anti Racism Week" - in Bourges (F) Music concerts, debates, films, book-presentation organised by Emmetrop Themes: neo-nazism, ex-Yugoslavia... contact: EMMETROP, 26, route de la Chapelle, F-18000 Bourges, France, phone +33-48503861, fax +33-48205501 ************************** Germany 15.03.96-17.03.96 "Bridges Between Minorities & Majority. Old & New Ways Against Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism & Intolerance" National Conference in Germany for members of educational centres, associations, initiatives, youth organisations... organised by Deutsches Komite der Jugendkampagne des Europarates and Informations Dokumentations + AktionszentrumIfuer eine multikulturelle Zukunft Themes: evaluation, discussions and perspectives of anti-racist struggle, reports, information market... contact: Deutsches Komite der Jugendkampagne des Europarates, Haager Weg 44, D-53127 Bonn phone +49-228-9102131, fax +49-228-9102122 or IDA, Friedrichstrasse 61a, D-40217 Duesseldorf, phone +49-211-371026, fax +49-211-382188 17.03.96 "Unite & Act: dialogue between religions" - in Berlin (D) Seminar organised by B'nai Br'ith Youth Organization - Germany (BBYO) Themes: how to bring about a peaceful, multicultural future, history and future of Jerusalem... contact: B'nai Br'ith Youth Organization - Germany (BBYO), Fasanenstrasse 79, D-10623 Berlin , Germany, phone +49-30-2829869 12.03.96-19.03.96 "International Day Against Racism" Four One-Day-Seminars in Thueringen (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. Themes: What is racism? why racism in a region with 0,8% foreigners, comparison Germany-Britain-Italy, starting-line initiative... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt , phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-596444 ************************* Ireland 19.03.96 "Official launch of the 'cities against racism' project" - in Dublin (IRL) 19.03.96 "Multi-cultural 'session' of the Maguires" 24.03.96 "Benefit concert 'Caliban'" organised by the Irish Refugee Council contact: Irish Refugee Council (IRC), Arran House, 35/36 Arran Quay, IRL- Dublin 7, Ireland phone +353-1-8724424, fax +353-1-8724411, e-mail REFUGEE@IOL.ie March 1996 "National Bill-Board Advertising Campaign Against Racism" 21.03.96 "Youth Awareness Day for the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination" contact: European Youth Campaign against Racism / Irish Campaign Committee, 3 Montague Street, IRL-Dublin 2 phone +353-1-4784122, fax +353-1-4783974 ************************* Italy 24.03.96 "Fight racism and the death penalty" - in Rome (I) Concert, party... organised by Amnesty International Rome contact: Amnesty International - Italian Section, Viale Mazzini 146, I-00195 Roma, Italy, phone +39-6-37514860, fax + 39-6-37515406 ************************* Lithuania 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "The menace of fascism in Lithuania" - in Vilnius (LT) Conference organised by Lithuanian Young Falcons, Trade Unions Youth, Social Democratic Youth and Liberal Youth contact: Lithuanian Young Falcon Union, J. Basanaviciaus 16/5, LT-2009 Vilnius, Lithuania, phone +370-2-652311, fax +370-2-652157 ************************* Luxemburg 16.03.96 - 17.03.96 "Immigration Festival" - in Luxemburg (L) Concerts, discussions... organised by CLAE and ASTI contact: Association de Soutien aux Travailleurs Immigres (ASTI), 10, rue Auguste Laval, L-1922 Luxembourg, Luxembourg phone +352-438333, fax +352-420871, e-mail ASTI/serge.kollwelter@ci.educ.lu Comite de Liaison et d'Action des Etrangers (CLAE), 10, rue Auguste Laval, L-1922 Luxembourg, Luxembourg phone +352-432345, fax +352-428610 ************************** Netherlands 23.03.96 "National Demonstration Against Racism" - in Amsterdam (NL) Big Demonstration, departure at the Dam Square in Amsterdam (NL) with speakers, music... Themes: the positive side of a multi-cultural society, legal discrimination... organised by Nederland Bekent Kleur contact: NBK, Postbus 55588, NL-1007 NB Amsterdam, Netherlands, phone +31-20-6766710, fax +31-20-6763931, e-mail nbk@dds.nl 16.03.96 - 22.03.96 "Action Week Against Racism" Silent protest, popfestivals, discussions, study sessions, local activities in: Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Delft, Doetinchem, Dordrecht, Eindhoven, Enschede, Gouda, Groningen, Den Haag, Haarlem, Hengelo, Joure, Leeuwarden, Leiden, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Nieuwegein, Rhenen, Rotterdam, Sittard, Tiel, Tilburg, Uden, Utrecht, Vlissingen, Zaanstreek, Zoetermeer, Zwolle organised by dozens of organisations contact: NBK, Postbus 55588, NL-1007 NB Amsterdam, Netherlands, phone +31-20-6766710, fax +31-20-6763931, e-mail nbk@dds.nl 15.03.96 "Fair of Colourful Holland" - in Utrecht (NL) Info-Market with debates, lectures, workshops, multicultural party... for everybody who fights racism organised by Nederland Bekent Kleur contact: NBK, Postbus 55588, NL-1007 NB Amsterdam, Netherlands, phone +31-20-6766710, fax +31-20-6763931, e-mail nbk@dds.nl March 1996 "Anti-Racist Bus Tour Through the Netherlands" during the Action Week Against Racism the bus will stop in 6 cities where there will be actions, activities, music... organised by Nederland Bekent Kleur contact: NBK, Postbus 55588, NL-1007 NB Amsterdam, Netherlands, phone +31-20-6766710, fax +31-20-6763931, e-mail nbk@dds.nl 16.03.96-24.03.96 "The Reconciliation" Special Poster / Information magazine and campaign to support sport groups and others who want to organise something for the Anti-Racism Week. To order the materials or for information: contact: Provinciaal Platform Anti-Racisme Zuid-Holland (SPPAR), Turfmarkt 30, NL-2801 HA Gouda, Netherlands phone +31-182-524802, fax +31-182-583825 18.03.96 - 22.03.96 "Training for Trainers" - in Eindhoven (NL) Training by Jane Eliot from the "Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes" project organised by School Zonder Racisme and Magenta Themes: anti-racism, consciousness raising... contact: School Zonder Racisme, Willemstraat 59, NL-5611 HC Eindhoven, Netherlands, phone +31-40-2359999, fax +31-40-2445712, e.mail migrant1@pi.net ************************** Poland 19.03.96 "Concert for Tolerance" - in Warsaw (PL) 21.03.96 "National Media Day against Racism" - in Poland 23.03.96 "Graffiti competition" - in Warsaw (PL) 23.03.96 "TV TcDc Against Racism" - in Warsaw (PL) organised by Anti-Nazi Front contact: Anti Nazi Front, c/o Sofokles - PO Box 2242, PL-54414 Wroclaw 47, Poland, phone +48-71-723058, fax +48-71-723058 13.03.96 "Multiculturalism and democracy" - in Warsaw (PL) One day seminar promoting multiculturalism and democracy organised by European Ecological Centre contact: European Ecological Centre, ul. Wlodarzewska 13/15, PL-02384 Warszawa, Poland phone +48-2-6580135, fax +48-2-6580135 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Faces of the Holocaust" - in Warsaw (PL) Exhibition organised by Kolektyw Autonomistow Torun contact: Anti Nazi Front, c/o Sofokles - PO Box 2242, PL-54414 Wroclaw 47, Poland, phone +48-71-723058, fax +48-71-723058 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Action Week Against Racism"- in Warsaw (PL) Manifestation, concert... organised by Youth Against Racism Europe contact: Anti Nazi Front, c/o Sofokles - PO Box 2242, PL-54414 Wroclaw 47, Poland, phone +48-71-723058, fax +48-71-723058 21.03.96 "Manifestation against Racism" - in Warsaw (PL) organised by RAAF Szczecin contact: Anti Nazi Front, c/o Sofokles - PO Box 2242, PL-54414 Wroclaw 47, Poland, phone +48-71-723058, fax +48-71-723058 21.03.96 "Concert and Media Day against Racism" - in Warsaw (PL) organised by Kolektyw Autonomistow Torun contact: Anti Nazi Front, c/o Sofokles - PO Box 2242, PL-54414 Wroclaw 47, Poland, phone +48-71-723058, fax +48-71-723058 21.03.96 "Feast of Spring and Tolerance" contact: European Youth Campaign Against RacismI - Poland, ul. Oklnik 11/1, PL-00368 Warszawa, Poland phone +48-22-279465, fax +48-22-278938 ************************* Romania 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Action Week Against Racism"- in Cluj (RO) round tables, meeting with students in schools, candle light demonstration (21.03.96), church bell action, petitions, videofilms... organised by Youth Action for Peace - RO contact: Miscarea Tinerilor pentru Pace - Youth Action for Peace (YAP-RO), Of. postal 1, P.O. Box 457, RO-3400 Cluj, Romania phone +40-64-431824, fax +40-64-431824, e-mail yap@utcluj.ro 16.03.96 - 17.03.96 "Minorities rights in Romania" - in Bucharest (RO) Seminar with the representatives of the Jewish Communities Federation and the Union of Hungarian Youth Organisations of Romania organised by ASLIR, Students Assiociation for the Struggle against Racism Themes: minorities rights, behaviour of the Romanian people concerning the Hungarian and Jewish minorities contact: As. Student. de Lupta Impotrva Rasismului dn Romania (ASLIR), Dr. Burghelea 10 A, RO - Bucuresti sect. 2, Romania phone +40-1-6138866, fax +40-1-3113374 ************************* Russia 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Action Week Against Racism" - in St. Petersburg (RUS) Visit to refugee camp with the press, meetings, multi-cultural parties... organised by Memorial St. Petersburg contact: Memorial St. Petersburg, Izmajlovskij prospekt Nr. 8, RUS - St. Petersburg 198005, Russia phone +7-812-2599145, fax +7-812-2511732, e-mail memorial@glas.apc.org 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Action Week Against Racism" - in Moscow (RUS) Concerts, pan-regional conference 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Local activities" organised by Antifascist Youth Action contact: Anti-Fascist Youth Action (AYA), ul. Marshala Tuhachevskogo, 21-1-44, RUS - Moskva 123154, Russia phone +7-095-1979821, fax +7-095-9239127, e-mail ara@glas.apc.org ************************* Slowakia 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "Action Week Against Racism" Meetings, concerts, seminars for students, exhibition, concerts, performance of gypsy theatre... organised by Charta 77 Foundation and Slobodna alternativa/ Free Alternative contact: Charta 77 Foundation / Nadcia Charty 77, Staromestsk 6, SK-81103 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, phone +42-7-316448 Slobodna Alternativa - Free Alternative, Staromestsk 6, SK-81103 Bratislava, Slovak Republic 24.03.96 - 25.03.96 "Conference on Youth and Civic Society" - in Tatry (SK) contact: United Nations of Youth - Russia, 26 Kosmonautou Av. - GSP 135, RUS- Ekaterinburg 620040, Russia phone +7-3432-348982, fax +7-3432-349771, e-mail elena@SGPI.e-burg.SU ************************* Spain 21.03.96 "Debates in schools" 21.03.96 "National Anti-Racism Day on the Radio" Special one day radio programs against racism on all 17 radio stations in the country 21.03.96 "Clean up your Area" - in Spain Cleaning up the walls of the city, painting over racist graffiti 23.03.96 "Conference and festival against Racism" - in Madrid (E) Conference and festival with politicians, university teachers, writers, music concert organised by Jovenes contra la Intolerancia contact: Plataforma Jvenes contra la Intolerancia-Secr.Tcnica (PJCI), c/ Larra, 16-2! izda., E-28004 Madrid, Spain phone +34-1-5944920, fax +34-1-4452707 ************************* Sweden 14.03.96 - 23.03.96 "Anti-fascism, Anti-nazism Film Festival" - in Stockholm (S) Filmfestival, debates, meetings, demonstration, music, exhibitions... organised by Hasans Vaenner contact: Hasans Vaenner - mot vald och rasism, PO Box 34, S-12921 H ************************* Switzerland 21.03.96 "UN Day Against Racism" - in Geneva (CH) NGO round table, various activities organised by ARIS contact: Anti-Racism Information Service (ARIS), 14, avenue Trembley, CH-1209 Geneva, Switzerland phone +41-22-7403530, fax +41-22-7403565 ************************* Ukraine 22.03.96 - 23.03.96 "Ukraine: ethnopolitical and ethnocultural problems" - in Kiev (UA) International academic-practical conference organised by Association for Interethnic Peace and Harmony contact: Association for Interethnic Peace + Harmony in Ukraine, Murashko Street 4. Apt. 27, UA- Kiev 254050, Ukraine phone +7-044-2115472, fax +7-044-2906464 ************************* Uzbekistan 16.03.96 - 24.03.96 "One Race - Human Race" - in Samarkand (UZB) Exhibition of anti-racism posters and materials, distribution of materials to schools... organised by International Museum of Peace and Solidarity contact: International Museum of Peace and Solidarity, PO Box 76, UZB - Samarkand 703000, Uzbekistan *********************************** O N E R A C E -- H U M A N R A C E 3/ From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Thu Feb 29 10:59:40 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 11:40:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Tentative AAAS regional conference program -pls forward! Note from Alan Spector, REVS Editor/Manager: The following appeared on another e-mail network. It may be of interest to REVS listmembers ------------------------------ From: Ida Yoshinaga Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:44:47 -1000 To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Subject: Tentative AAAS regional conference program -pls forward! please forward to your respective imagined communities, including ethnic studies and english depts., women's studies/feminist communities, media, cult. studies groups, faculty and students, polsci and marxist lists, etc. Hawai'i/Pacific and Pacific Northwest Asian American Studies Joint Regional Conference March 24-26, 1996 Ala Moana Hotel Sunday, March 24 The Changing Filipino American Community in Hawai'i: Talking Story About Waipahu from the Plantation Days to the Present Hawai'i Plantation Village ($10, meet in hotel lobby at 10:30 a.m. for transportation) Moderator: Danilo Campos, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Panelists: Victor Agmata, Jr., Businessman Charlene Cuaresma, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Jane Dacanay, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Helen R. Nagtalon-Miller, Filipino Historical Society of Hawai'i Ferdenan Damo, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Ethnic Studies 25th Anniversary Lu'au ILWU Hall ($20, meet in hotel lobby at 5:45 p.m. for short walk) 451 Atkinson Drive Conference Registration, 3:30-5:30 p.m. at second floor foyer of hotel Monday, March 25, Session One: 9:00-10:30 1.1 The Chinaman: An American Creation Garden Lanai Chair/Discussant: Lorraine Dong, San Francisco State University "Rough on Rats"--Racism and Advertising in the Latter Half of 19th Century America James Chan, San Francisco State University The Coming Man, 19th Century American Illustrated Perceptions of the Chinese Philip P. Choy, San Francisco State University The Chinee Gal from Tokio: Racism and Exoticism in American Popular Songs (c. 1900-1930) Dennis Park and Dina Shek, San Francisco State University 1.2 New from Bamboo Ridge Anthurium Room Chair/Discussant: Eric Chock Readings by: Nora Cobb Keller Albert Saijo Joe Tsujimoto 1.3 Contemporary Psychological Studies on Filipino Americans in Hawai'i Pakalana Room Chair: Maria Eva T. Pangilinan, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Discussant: Sheila Forman, Office of Children and Youth Educational Attainment Among Filipino Americans in Hawai'i Maria Chun, University of Hawai'i at Manoa The Ethnocultural Identity of Filipino College Students in Hawai'i: Behavioral Influences from Manila or Manoa? Ann Marie Horvath, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Determinants of Health Behavior Among Newly Arrived and Local Born Filipino Mothers in Hawai'i Maria Eva T. Pangilinan, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Pakikisama: Towards Psychological Well-Being Among Students of Filipino Ancestry Darryl Salvador, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 1.4 Asian Immigrant Women Working in Diaspora Carnation Room Chair/Discussant: Evelyn Nakano Glenn? Intersectionality: Korean American Women in Los Angeles Ida Barnett, University of California, Santa Cruz The Obscured Link: Class, Health Care and Filipina Nurses Theresa B. Cenidoza, University of California, Los Angeles Korean American Women's Employment Patterns in Comparative Perspective Amy K. Lee, University of Michigan 1.5 Contemporary Pacific Island(er) Issues Plumeria Room Chair/Discussant: Ibrahim Aoude, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Between a Rock and the Deep Blue Sea: Filipino Overseas Contract Workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Dean Alegado, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Upside-down - The More You Turn Me Inside-Out and Round and Round: Methodological Issues on Being a "Native Anthropologist" Melani Anae, University of Auckland Incarceration Trends of Hawaiians, Maoris and Aborigines Mona Bernardino, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Cultural Magpies and Intellectual Property Karen O'Shea, University of Auckland Monday, March 25, Session Two: 10:45-12:15, Garden Lanai Plenary Session on Hawaiian Sovereignty Moderator: Panelists: Monday, March 25, Luncheon: 12:15-1:30, Hibiscus Ballroom I Remarks: Gail Nomura, President, Association for Asian American Studies Franklin Odo, Smithsonian Institution Keynote Address: Kilali Alailima, American Friends Service Committee Monday, March 25, Session Three: 1:45-3:15 3.1 Media and Popular Representations of Asians and Asian Americans Carnation Room Chair/Discussant: Karen Umemoto, University of Hawai'i at Manoa >From "Celestial" to "Model Minority": The Portrayal of Chinese Americans in the U.S. News Media Ann Auman, University of Hawai'i at Manoa A Critical Retrospective: Did the U.S. Press Contribute to the World War II Internment of Japanese Residents? Gerald Y. Kato, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Beverly Keever, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Reel Reality: Exploring Film Representations of Japanese Americans in Internment Campus Christine Quemuel, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Ethnicity, Identity, and the "Gook Syndrome": Soldiers of Color in the Vietnam War Linda Revilla, Veterans Administration Pacific Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 3.2 Tourism and Pacific Island Culture Plumeria Room Chair/Discussant: William Kauaiwiulaokalani Wallace III, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i Dilemmas in the Presentation of Culture at the Polynesian Cultural Center Vernice Wineera, Institute for Polynesian Studies Hula Girl Karina Kahananui Green, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i "Title TBA" Cy M. Bridges, Polynesian Cultural Center 3.3 Cultural Linkages Between Native Hawaiians and Native Americans Anthurium Room Chair/Discussant: The Sociolinguistic History of Hawaiian Loans in Northwestern North America Emanuel J. Drechsel, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Relatives Across the Bering Strait: American Indian Identity Issues Hilary N. Weaver, State University of New York at Buffalo 3.4 Multicultural Hawai'i Pakalana Room Chair: Royal Fruehling, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Discussant: Ralph Steuber, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Public Health Kekuni Blaisdell, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Media Helen Chapin, Hawaii Pacific University University Education Michael Haas, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Ethnic Residential Segregation Pattern Changes in Honolulu from 1940 to 1990 Yuanqing Li, Pacific Health Research Institute 3.5 Shore to Shore: Kanaka Maoli Communities in California and Hawaiian Sovereignty Activism Garden Lanai Panelists: Paul Kealoha Blake, East Bay Media Center Lisa Kahale Hall, University of California, Berkeley S. Nawahine LumHo, Ka Lahui Hawai'i, Bay Area J. Kehaulani Kauanui, University of California, Santa Cruz Lale Shaver, Ka Lahui Hawai'i, Los Angeles Monday, March 25, Session Four: 3:30-5:00 4.1 Privileging Hawai'i: Power, Class and Ethnicity in the Multicultural Model Carnation Room Chair/Discussant: Franklin Odo, Smithsonian Institute Hawai'i: Crisis, Power and the Democratic Agenda Ibrahim Aoude, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Economic, Political and Moral Bankruptcy in Hawai'i: The End of a Unique "Experiment" in Multiculturalism Noel J. Kent, University of Hawai'i at Manoa The Jangled Discourse of Race Relations in Hawai'i Jonathan Y. Okamura, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Stephen Philion, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 4.2 Diasporic Literature and Identity Anthurium Room Chair/Discussant: Laura Lyons, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Exploring Immigrant Identity Formation in the Joy Luck Club Michael Delucchi, University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu Pacific Crossings in Returning the Gift: Between Native America and Hawai'i Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Asian Diasporic Literature and Re-configuring American Regionalism Ruth Y. Hsu, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 4.3 Pacific Island Culture in Diaspora Plumeria Room Chair/Discussant: Ara Meha, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i? To Be Fijian in America Inoke Suguturaga, Polynesian Cultural Center Tongan Culture in Hawai'i 'Inoke F. Funaki, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i Hei Oranga mo te Iwi: The Role of Rituals in the Psychological and Emotional Well Being of Pacific Islander Americans Debbie Hippolite Wright, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i Ka Mate, Ka Ora! Through Death We Live Edwin Bryers Napia, University of Utah 4.4 Chinese Immigration Responses to Exclusion Pakalana Room Chair: Waverly B. Lowell, National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region Discussant: Slipping Through the Golden Gate: Chinese Immigration Under Exclusion Madeline Hsu, Yale University Challenging Exclusion in San Francisco: Relying on Family, Clan and Community in the Face of the Chinese Exclusion Laws Erika Lee, University of California, Berkeley Documenting Exclusion: Case Files and Community Waverly B. Lowell, National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region 4.5 Performance: Getting Somewheres: Working Class Women in Twentieth Century Hawai'i (Presentation of the Hawai'i Committee for the Humanities) Garden Lanai Moderators: Michiko Kodama-Nishimoto, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Bob Buss, Hawai'i Committee for the Humanities Performers: Tuesday, March 26, Session Five: 8:30-10:00 5.1 Nineteenth Century Chinese Immigrant Communities Carnation Room Chair/Discussant: Fred Blake, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Class, Gender and Race: Chinese Servants in the North American West Terry Abraham, University of Idaho Ubi Sunt Qui Curatas?: Topophilia as a Factor in the Outmigration of Chinese Miners from 19th Century Idaho Samuel L. Couch, University of Idaho Chinese Porcellaneous Stonewares from Site B1-139, North Halawa Valley, O'ahu P. Christiaan Klieger, Bishop Museum Rice Bowls in the Diggings: Chinese Miners Near Granite, Oregon Priscilla Wegars, University of Idaho"Cultural Linkages 5.2 Asian American Issues: Affirmative Action, Immigration, Language Policy Plumeria Room English Literacy and Power in the United States: The Politics of the English Language in a Multilingual Society Pancho Delos Santos, University of Hawai'i at Manoa "Save our State": The Assault on Asian Immigrant Women Through the Anti-Immigrant Campaign and Welfare Policy 'Reform'" Lynn Fujiwara, University of California, Santa Cruz Asian Americans and the Affirmative Action Debate: Constructions and Race and Societal Image Belinda C. Lum, University of California, Santa Cruz Interplay Between Class and Race in American Society: Discrimination Against East Indians in California, First and Second Waves Nitasha Sharma, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 5.3 Surprises in Japanese American History Ilima Room Chair/Discussant: Eileen Tamura, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Race, Gender and Citizenship in Prewar Hawai'i Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California, Berkeley Not Just Picture Brides: Independent Japanese Women Immigrants Laurie Mengel, University of California, Berkeley Twice Immigrants: Kibei in America and Japan Paul Spickard, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i 5.4 Same-Sex Marriage in Hawai'i: Its Significance to Native Hawaiian and Japanese American Communities Garden Lanai Moderator: Camaron Miyamoto, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Investments in Same-Sex Marriage: Classism, Sexism and Tourism L. Ku'umeaaloha Gomes, State Commission on Sexual Orientation and the Law The Japanese American Citizens League, Same-Sex Marriage, and Civil Rights in Hawai'i Allicyn Hikeda Kasaka, Japanese American Citizens League, Honolulu Chapter A Testimony to Hawaii's Commisson on Sexual Orientation and the Law Kalei Puha, Na Mamo O Hawai'i Tuesday, March 26, Session Six: 10:15-11:45 6.1 Re-Thinking Location/Retelling Stories in Hawai'i: Diasporic Communities and Colonized Islands Ilima Room Chair: Geraldine E. Kosasa-Terry, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Discussant: Ida Yoshinaga, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Sights/Sites of (Mis)Recognition: Colonialism, Nationalism and Art Pedagogy in Hawai'i Karen K. Kosasa, University of Rochester Diasporic Spaces: Rethinking the Sites of Immigration/Countering the Narrative of a Nation Geraldine E. Kosasa-Terry, University of Hawai'i at Manoa "Local" in the Thirties: The Massie Case and Hawaii's Asian Pacific Americans John Chock Rosa, University of California, Irvine Tales of Settlers: Local Motion in Pake Writings Ming-Bao Yue, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6.2 Cultural Representations of Asians and Pacific Islanders Carnation Room Chair/Discussant: Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley Deconstructing Asian America: Cultural Identity and Ethnic Community Grace M. Cheng and Antonio L. Rappa, University of Hawai'i at Manoa The E Ticket to Pluralism: The Disneyification of Multiculturalism Barbara Ige, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Comedians of the Asian and Pacific Islander Diaspora Darby Li Po Price, University of California, Berkeley Games People Play: Lands, Spells and Nationalism Dana Y. Takagi, University of California, Santa Cruz 6.3 Southeast Asian Immigrants in Diaspora Plumeria Room Chair/Discussant: Jon Matsuoka, University of Hawai'i at Manoa A Comparison of Psychiatric Symptoms of Southeast Asian Immigrant and American Patients Jean L. Edman, Kapi'olani Community College The Lao Community of Kuilima: Organizing in the Past, Present and Future Sharlene B.C.L. Furuto, Brigham Young University Hawai'i Jimmy Inthasone Vietnamese Attitudes Towards HIV/AIDS Services, Knowledge and Risk Reduction Behaviors Cuong Quy Huynh, University of California, Los Angeles Social Dynamics of the Vietnamese Community in Hawai'i Valerie Yontz, Kokua Kalihi Valley 6.4 Embodiment of "Strength in Unity": Socialization and Club Development Garden Lanai Panelists: Janna L. Cecka, University of Western Washington L.J. Corpuz II, University of Western Washington Elena Fa'amoe, University of Western Washington Nadja Kookesh, University of Western Washington Christine Quemuel, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Tuesday, March 26, Luncheon: 11:45-1:30, Hibiscus Ballroom I Keynote Address: Michael Omi, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action Tuesday, March 26, Session Seven: 1:45-3:15 7.l Chinese American Identity in Diaspora Ilima Room Chair/Discussant: Ruth Hsu?, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Gravestones in the Chinese Diaspora Fred Blake, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Chinese Nationalism and Chinese American Identity Shehong Chen, University of Utah Chinatown Mortuary Rituals and the Art of Being Chinese American Linda Sun Crowder, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7.2 Local Migrations: Pioneers, Misfits and the Production of Hawaii's Literature Carnation Room Chair/Discussant: Candace Fujikane, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Social Misfits in the Diasporic Local Body Pamela Sachi Kido, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Asian, Americans, Hawaiians and the Contemporary Literature in Hawai'i Carolyn Lei-lanilau The Comic and Heroic in Milton Murayama's All I Asking For Is My Body and Five Years on a Rock Gary Pak, University of Hawai'i at Manoa The Future of the Non-Melting of the American Pot: Asian Americans and Hawaiians in Hawai'i Literature and Publishing Leialoha A. Perkins, University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu 7.3 Rural Hawaiian Communities: On the Edge of the Pacific Diaspora Plumeria Room Chair/Discussant: Ulla Hasager, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Lana'i: Paradigm for the Social/Cultural Impact of Resort Development Jon Matsuoka, University of Hawai'i at Manoa External Stresses Upon Hawaiian Cultural Landscapes Luciano Minerbi, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Stressing Hawaiian Subsistence Davianna McGregor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7.4 Working with Asian and Pacific Islander Elderly Garden Lanai Chair/Discussant: Valerie Yontz, Kokua Kalihi Valley? Migration Effects on Cultural Values: The Case of Samoan Families Caring for Their Elders in Hawai'i Jorge Delva-Tauiliili, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Obtaining Informed Consent from Traditional Japanese Elders for Treatment in Oncology: Queen's Medical Center Morris Saldov, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Social and Cultural Dynamics in Samoan and Filipino Elderly Communities Nia Aitaoto, Kokua Kalihi Valley Macrina Abenoja, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Tuesday, May 26, Session Eight: 3:30-5:00 8.1 Indigenous Peoples and Land Issues in the Pacific Carnation Room Chair/Discussant: Davianna MacGregor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa New Social Movements and Constructivist Theories of Culture in the Case of The Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement LeeRay Costa, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Real and Imagined Homelands: A Critical Perspective on Anthropological Theories of Globalization Ulla Hasager, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Territorial Conflict: The Struggle for Indigenous Land in the United States Jamae K.K. Kawauchi, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Causal Stories and U.S. Intervention in Forest Policy in the Territory of Hawai'i Brian Lym, University of California, Santa Cruz 8.2 Filipino American Identities in Diaspora Plumeria Room Chair/Discussant: Dean Alegado, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Religion and Identity for Immigrant Filipinos in America: Exploring a Prayer Ritual Roderick N. Labrador, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Personal Identities, Political Identities: Pride, Passion and Power in Our Diverse Pilipino Community Camaron Miyamoto, University of Hawai'i at Manoa "Typically Filipino" Albert Robillard, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 8.3 The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific Rim Ilima Room Chair/Discussant: Alvin So, University of Hawai'i at Manoa The Pacific Diaspora: Chinese in Hawai'i and Tahiti Carol C. Fan, University of Hawai'i at Manoa The Overseas Chinese at the University of Auckland Kwi Leng Lee, University of Auckland Chinese Business Migration to Canada: A Case of Transnational Migration Lloyd L. Wong, Okanagan University College 8.4 The Hawai'i AJA Community: Balancing Ethnic Self-Criticism and Ethnic Solidarity in the Wake of the Cindy Kobayashi Mackey "Nisei Debate" Garden Lanai Chair: Ida Yoshinaga, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Moderator: Joyce Chinen, University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu Panelists: Pamela Kido, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Geraldine E. Kosasa-Terry, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Mark Santoki, Hawaii Herald Eileen Tamura, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Ted Tsukiyama, Attorney From slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de Thu Feb 29 09:02:45 1996 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:04:34 +0100 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Leineweber) Subject: Two Recent Items.. Hello: On Wed, Feb 7 1996 Mark sent a message "RE: Racism ... remember?" around REVS list. He wrote: > Two recent items in the 'discussion' caught my eye. First he dealt with the the question, what criteria are applicable when war crimes are discussed and he criticized that war crimes are often judged in a racialist manner, depending on which side people are on. In his opinion REVS list members were not radical enough in their criticism of war crimes respective racism commited by their own countries. Mark uttered dissatisfaction particularly with an article sent before by Rodney Coates, the "bLACK hISTORY bLUES" (the second item). Rodney deplored the lethargic mood of Blacks in his country during the February, the 'Black History Month'. And he had some suggestions how to celebrate the 'Black History Month', especially on an 'Extra Day' on February, 29, more meaningfully. Two sentences in his article may have upset Mark: >> Lethargic because all too often this period is spent bemoaning the >> victim status of blacks, re-identifying the age-old problems that >> too quickly forgotten; buying that dress or that tie, that book or >> that art work - overpriced, overly gaudy, and made in China. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and: >> 1) Don't buy anything "Black" made in China, Korea -or by any one who >> isn't black Mark criticized: > Given all of this, it did surprise me that Rodney Coates' response to racism > - that experienced by the Japanese in WW2 and Black Americans today, is to > have a Black - sorry, Afro-centric - History day, on which he recommends the > participants purchase nothing from China or Korea. > > So Rodney says 'buy American'. > > The same place that bombed Korea, Vietnam, Japan and Iraq, to name a few? I don't see Mark's conclusion. I didn't hear Rodney say 'buy American'. And he didn't recommend purchasing *nothing* from China or Korea. He only said: 'Don't buy anything (pretending to be) "Black" from anywhere'. It's just a simile. You can buy a thing handmade of wood. And you can buy a thing looking the same made of plastic. What's the difference? Or you can have peas grown in your own garden. And you can have them purchased from the food industries. The latter will be greener as yours and will smell as peas can smell, but they won't have any nutritional value. Do you get the picture? After all, to discuss a bit caustically would be no loss! Greetings, Stephan Leineweber From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Thu Feb 29 11:43:44 1996 29 Feb 96 13:34:47 -5 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 13:34:23 EST From: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) Reply-To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) To: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de, revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Two Recent Items.. On Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:04:34 +0100 you wrote: > Hello: > >On Wed, Feb 7 1996 Mark sent a message "RE: Racism ... remember?" >around REVS list. > >He wrote: > > > Two recent items in the 'discussion' caught my eye. > >First he dealt with the the question, what criteria are applicable when >war crimes are discussed and he criticized that war crimes are often judged >in a racialist manner, depending on which side people are on. In his opinion >REVS list members were not radical enough in their criticism of war crimes >respective racism commited by their own countries. Mark uttered dissatisfaction particularly with an article sent before by Rodney Coates, the "bLACK hISTORY >bLUES" (the second item). Rodney deplored the lethargic mood of Blacks in his >country during the February, the 'Black History Month'. And he had some >suggestions how to celebrate the 'Black History Month', especially on an >'Extra Day' on February, 29, more meaningfully. > >Two sentences in his article may have upset Mark: > > >> Lethargic because all too often this period is spent bemoaning the > >> victim status of blacks, re-identifying the age-old problems that > >> too quickly forgotten; buying that dress or that tie, that book or > >> that art work - overpriced, overly gaudy, and made in China. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >and: > > >> 1) Don't buy anything "Black" made in China, Korea -or by any one who > >> isn't black > >Mark criticized: > > > Given all of this, it did surprise me that Rodney Coates' response to racism > > - that experienced by the Japanese in WW2 and Black Americans today, is to > > have a Black - sorry, Afro-centric - History day, on which he recommends the > > participants purchase nothing from China or Korea. > > > > So Rodney says 'buy American'. > > > > The same place that bombed Korea, Vietnam, Japan and Iraq, to name a few? > >I don't see Mark's conclusion. >I didn't hear Rodney say 'buy American'. And he didn't recommend purchasing >*nothing* from China or Korea. He only said: 'Don't buy anything (pretending >to be) "Black" from anywhere'. >It's just a simile. >You can buy a thing handmade of wood. And you can buy a thing looking the same >made of plastic. What's the difference? Or you can have peas grown in your own >garden. And you can have them purchased from the food industries. The latter >will be greener as yours and will smell as peas can smell, but they won't have >any nutritional value. Do you get the picture? > >After all, to discuss a bit caustically would be no loss! > > >Greetings, > > Stephan Leineweber > > > First of all Stephan thanks for coming to my defense, I have been busy grading papers and other bs associated with making a living.. And now Mark: Excuse me if I did not make myself clear, but understand this...a people, particularly an oppressed people, must understand the source, consequences and reasons for their oppression. The first act of oppression is to deny the reality of the oppressed, to deny them the ability to learn, and to deny them a platform from which to speak. I have a serious problem with a market/object oriented system that displaces original craftsmanship for that which is mass produced. I have a problem when a cultural item becomes the object of mass production where local craft is displaced. This becomes particularly ugly, in my mind, when it further involves the usurpation of a culture by organized business. Even more insulting when these cultural articles are mass produced by workers with no connection to the culture, where the members of that culture are duped into buying such. Further, when racial identity is marketed, pimped, and prostituted for the sake of mass marketing campaigns it further degenerates the group. If you do not understand that this is an aspect of oppression then you need to remove your head from wherever it is and smell the roses...later... "Only when lions have Historians will hunters cease being heroes." African Proverb UMOJA, Still in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio - 45056 PH: 513-5291235 From TODonoghue@aol.com Thu Feb 29 14:03:54 1996 From: TODonoghue@aol.com Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:03:46 -0500 To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu, revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: WAR CRIMES TRIALS SYMPOSIUM Lee College, Baytown, (30mins. from Houston) Texas, is hosting a Symposium on War Crimes, April 18,19,20 (Thurs,Fri,Sat), 1996. Thursday evening a viewing of "Judgement at Nuremburg" & discussion; Friday two Presentations (one each on German and Japanese War Crimes Trails) followed by panel discussions; Saturday two presentations (one on Serbia, Croatia, Rwanda; and one dealing with Ethical Implications associated with these War Crimes. Email me if you have any questions, queries. Tim O'Donoghue. From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Thu Feb 29 15:35:39 1996 29 Feb 96 17:26:13 -5 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 17:25:55 EST From: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) Reply-To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) To: revs@csf.colorado.edu, psn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Perpetration of Blackness: Three parts for Mark to not lik Several have asked that I repost these previous parts, so here it is, this time with spell check, and excuse the additional posts.and previous versions with their multitude of typographical errors..I think i got them all.... thanks eric for pointing this out to me...sorry...rdc Perpetration of Blackness: Part I Black is the continual actualization of self, regardless of obstacles to the contrary. Black perpetration is the process of convincing others of ones blackness when there is no substance to such. Black is an idea, a way of life, a belief in the immutable reality of a peoples existence. Black perpetration, often confused, lacking direction, assumes the stereotypical projection of racist as being accurate. Black is the act of being, the cognitive process by which potentials are realized. Black perpetration is the act of succumbing, the process of dissociation which dooms one to constant failure. Black is that sly grin, cocky self-assured arrogance that boldly goes where many dare to tread. Black perpetration is that dull look of complacency, self-effacing, shucking and jiving mentality that goes nowhere very fast. Black is that hip, down with it, the real deal, uncut funk that caused slaves in the bottom of a ship to sing o happy days. Black perpetration is that dumb, slow, plastic city rhyme with no reason, slaughter with no justice, abuse with no witnesses. Black is that spirit of achievement, endeavor, admiration that constantly reaches for more. Black perpetration is that false consciousness that constantly immolates all that is white in order to get by. Black is that heart and soul embodied in BB King, Ertha Kit, Moms Mabley, Nikki Franke, Lenny Lyles, Jimmy Hendrix, W.E.B. Du Bois, Wilma Rudolph, Arthur Ashe, Oscar Robinson,, Thurgood Marshall, Kwame Nkrumah, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Paul Robison, Martin Luther King, Ertha Kitt, Mary McLweod Bethune, Rosa Parks an others that walk these tedious miles before us. Black perpetration is that process whereby these and other great black heros become subsumed into one brief month of consumerism. (Have you bought your Black today?) Perpetration of Blackness: Part II Perpetration of Blackness Part II Black perpetration involves the process whereby other ethnic/racial groups must be putdown, dismissed or insulted in order that one's blackness can be realized, valued, or expressed. Being black involves the process whereby other ethnic/racial groups are honored and praised for their own intrinsic worth and joins them in the fabric of human existence. Perpetration of black utilizes racial and ethnic hatred as a call for unity. Being black utilizes love for all humanity as a central core of its call for unity. Perpetration of black is extremely critical other's "blackness", constantly plays a blacker than thou game. Being black understands that black is a process, which complements the development of others. Perpetration of black, hiding behind such labels as Afrocentricity, new wave knowledge or just plain stupidity attempts to revise history whereby new lies replace old lies..New lies regarding the genetic behavioral imperative of blackness and whiteness (i.e. children of the sun and of snow). Being black utilizes Afrocentric methods of research to complement other methods of analysis to correct the lies of omission and commission that exist. Perpetration of black, playing the racial reasoning game, dictates that all manor of evil, lies, and insanity must be acceptable just as long as it comes from "a black". Being black, coming from perspective of reason, asserts the value of truth regardless of source. Perpetration of black, constantly dwelling on the problems, projects those of the African diaspora as a continual state of victimization. Being black, understanding that all problems must have solutions, constantly projects the infinite possibilities and hope for the ultimate actualization of the African diaspora. Perpetration of black will tell you how to solve your problems for a price. Being black, being one with the struggle, provides advice for free. Perpetration of blackness serves to divide, while being black seeks to unite. Perpetration of blackness perpetrates lies such as Islam is the true and original religion of Africa. While being black recognizes that Judaism, followed by Christianity preceded Islam into Africa. Being Black caused Malcolm X to go to Mecca, admit his previous racist orientation and acknowledge that people of all races are of value, to denounce Elijah Mohammed for his pattern of sexual and child abuse, fornication, adultery, and to redefine his message in terms of the universal struggle of all humanity. Perpetration of Blackness:Part III: Black was Pedro Alonzo Nino who showed Christopher Columbus the way and represents the first principle of blackness - to explore new worlds, to acquire knowledge, and to excel. Perpetration of Blackness was Sandy, the root man, who turned in Frederick Douglass and co-conspirators -choosing to live in bondage then to seek freedom. This perpetrator sold out Douglass for a plate of biscuits and gravy. Hence we acknowledge the first principle of perpetration - become a traitor to your people and you can receive financial benefit. The Maroons were blacks -they evaded slavery in 1672 escaping into the mountains, swamps and forest of southern Virginia and established their own fortified communities. They frequently raided slave towns and plantations freeing all that would go. The Maroons represent a second principle of blackness - to struggle regardless of differentials of power, equipment, and other resources. To continue such struggle as long as we are not totally free. The perpetration of Blackness was the Ex-Coloured Man portrayed by James Weldon Johnson who relinquished his black birthright for a mundane existence of slum landlord, small time musician (catering to the needs and sentiments of whites) and forever fearful that his blackness would be discovered. Hence the second principle of perpetration of Blackness - deny ones ancestry, deny ones identity, strive to be white...in action, deeds, looks, and outlooks and then become an oppressor. As a predator--eat your own. Sell death, crack, self, family, ignorance - to ones own for the sake of survival and acceptance. Black was Martin Luther King, Jr. winning the Noble Prize in Peace, giving the prize to his people and the struggle. Black is the courage of an 109 year old black man in Florida, holding to his 60 acres in -even though he has been offered $2,000,000 and a new home by the state. Hence the third principle of blackness, its the struggle dummy, nothing but the struggle. No one can be free until we are all free. No one can enjoy comfort until all are comfortable. There is no price for dignity, justice, and freedom. Live free or die. Perpetration of Blackness is vote for me and I'll set you free, send me your money, your tithes, your dreams...I'll represent you to the whitey. I am your self-selected, white anointed king...listen to me--I'll tell you what to think. Perpetration of Blackness is those preachers (both old and new) who sells the vote, the people, and faith to the highest white bidder. And so the third principle of perpetration - become a sellout, promote assimilation, prostitute religion, the struggle, and all for your own vested interests. Black was Ida B. Wells -riding on segregated trains in racist southern towns to report on the latest lynching, the latest abuse and the latest plight inflicted on her people. Refusing to be bought off, frightened off, are intimidated - she set the standards for journalistic excellence, political activism, and social consciousness for all times. Hence the forth principle of blackness - the truth, and only the truth can set you free. Perpetration of Blackness is the black man who only sees sex when he looks in the eyes of my sister. Regardless of age, she is a target and object for his vicious abuse and misuse. Black is the protection of my sisters by those black men who are strong enough and wise enough to understand that they are the bearers of our people. Perpetration of blackness is the black woman who only sees a check when she looks into my brothers eyes. Before any significant encounter she wants to ensure that he has a job, with benefits and security, and able to keep her in the level that she would like to get accustomed to living. Black is the black woman who sees the man beneath the indignity of existing in a structured system that denies his very being. The black woman nurtures, leads, teaches and helps her black man reach a position of authority. Perpetration of blackness is the black man who would rule over his black woman, denying her the essence of her being, holding her back, refusing to allow her to develop to her full potential. Black is the black woman who leads by example, choosing to develop her intellectual, physical, and emotional potential to their maximum. She does not seek a man to fulfill her, for she is already fulfill, she does not seek one to make her loved, for she is the epitome of love, she does not seek a man to unite with for she is already whole. Perpetration of blackness is forever being the victim and seeking sympathy. Always apologizing for failure, accepting failure and planing for failure. Failure is a daily exercise for those who perpetrate blackness. Black is recognizing that failure is just a momentary setback, that with the fulness of time (even if it takes generations) success, achievement and excellence will be earned. Perpetration of blackness is forever waiting to be freed, waiting to be recognized, waiting to be. Black is the knowledge that freedom only comes through struggle, that justice must be demanded, and that happiness must be achieved. Black is black...... "Without struggle there is no progress." Frederick Douglass "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed" Stephen Biko umoja i still be me...rodney coates and the struggle continues...