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TAKE ACTION ON FEBRUARY 6!

COORDINATE LOCAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Commemorate February 6th by enlisting your friends, family, and communities around "Until Freedom Is Won, the Campaign for Truth and Justice!" Hold events or facilitate activities that will spread awareness about the new strategies, while galvanizing active support. Here are some ideas which have worked well in the past:

Training Ban Under Attack

CALL TODAY!

The Pentagon and their congressional allies are making a last-minute attempt to undermine the legislated ban on military training for Indonesia. A ban on IMET (International Military Education and Training) has been in place since 1992.

At the behest of Admiral Dennis C. Blair, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command, Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) inserted a provision in the Department of Defense Appropriations bill that provides $21 million to establish a Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program to fund "foreign military officers to attend U.S. military educational institutions and selected regional centers for non-lethal training."

Anonymous Comrade writes: "Our Cry Will Be Heard!

Call to Mobilization for the Permanent International Camp
for Social Justice and the Dignity of the Peoples

Dear compa–eros y compa–eras:

From Quito, Ecuador, in the middle of the planet, we send you greetings of solidarity. We are calling on you to be part of the Permanent International Camp for Social Justice and the Dignity of the Peoples, whose aim is to develop a space of action and encounter between persons, organizations and social movements that dedicate ourselves to the construction of a world in which we can all be a part.

Alex LoCascio writes:

Comrades,

I'm very saddened to announce the passing of a veteran of American radicalism.

Martin Glaberman, professor emeritus of Social Science at Wayne State
University in Detroit, passed away on Sunday. An autoworker, shop steward,
and union comitteeman for twenty years, Marty was one of the greats of the
generation of radicals who had come to politics through the American
Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

A comrade of the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James, Marty had left the
Socialist Workers Party twice with his political co-thinkers. When they
broke with the Trotskyist movement definitively in the early 1950s, they
set about to reinvent Marxism in light of conditions in post-WWII America.
Inspired by the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, they had an unflagging faith
in the revolutionary potential of the working class, and denounced the
bureaucratic societies of the Eastern Bloc as simply another form of
capitalism.

Dear friends,

International Conference "The Public Eye on Davos" in New York
From January 31 February 3 2002 at the United Nations Church Center (UN Plaza)

Parallel to the World Economic Forum annual meeting, "The Public Eye on DavosÒ was organizing for the third time an independent international conference with representatives from Southern and Northern countries in Davos, when the WEF shifted site to New York. Having already organized various panels, the core group of "The Public Eye on Davos" decided to transfer their conference to New York too.

The thematic focus is on the negative impacts of a one-sided economic globalization, and alternatives to the neoliberal model that are oriented around a socially just and environmentally sustainable development. The program* is divided into thematic blocks. Each block contains a short presentation followed by a moderated panel discussion in which the audience can participate.

Seeing With One Eye

By Sabine Brandt

Orbituary from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

FRANKFURT. In spring 1996, about the time of his 83rd birthday, the writer
Stefan Heym had his last book published. The work titled Der Winter unseres
Mißvergnügens. (The Winter of our Discontent) described what had gone on
behind the propaganda scenes when the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann was
expelled from East Germany in 1976. In the introduction, Heym wrote,
"Looking back, I wish to say that this was the writing on the wall that
announced the end of real Socialism -- there were good reasons why this
precise term had been coined -- the end of this failed revolution, this
republic with no legitimacy."

Over four decades, Heym had repeatedly criticized the East German state,
sometimes acidly, that he had once deliberately chosen as his home, but he
always professed loyalty to it. It was only in this late diary, written at
the end of his life that he completely rejected the construction that would
always respond to his offer of solidarist comradeship with distrust, and in
the end, with blatant enmity.

javier writes: "
Several black communities in the pacific coast of Colombia are being killed
and displaced by paramilitaries in this very moment, in an operation which
will continue in the next days and weeks. This is happening in the same
region where between 100 and 300 people were massacred last Easter, with
the complicity and cooperation of the Colombian army, which is happening
again this time. The objective is to make room for transnational investment
in a region where black and indigenous communities have preserved the
highest density in biodiversity of the world, strategic oil reserves and
projected interoceanic transport megaprojects for international trade.



Below you will find an edited version of the letter that the
Colombia-Canada Solidarity Campaign has sent to the Canadian minister of
foreign affaires, already adapted to be used as model for European groups.
There is also a letter to Pastrana (in Spanish only), sent in another
message. Obviously, non-European groups are also strongly encouraged to
write to your minister, you will have to get rid of the parts that are
specific to Europe.

We know that this sort of lobbying is not the usual form of action
discussed in these lists, but in this very urgent case it is a matter of
life or death; there are no guarantees that it will work, but it is better
than doing nothing. However, actions in (front of) Colombian embassies
and/or companies involved in business with Colombia are surely more effective.

World War III Report, #12

Bill Weinberg, Dec. 15, 2001

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. US Bombing Casualties Equal WTC Victims

2. Secret US Casualties?

3. More Acknowledged US Casualties--And a Near Miss

4. US Pressure Behind Bonn Accords

5. Orwellian Lies of the Bonn Accords

6. US Embroiled in Northern Alliance Faction Fight

7. Kandahar Faction Fight Simmers

8. Taliban POWs Face Cattle Cars and Desert Camps

9. US Bombs Critical Surviving Forest

10. Has Bin Laden Escaped?

11. Arab Skeptics: Video, Schmideo

12. Al-Qaeda Pledges Long, Bitter Resistance

13. Starvation Watch: Is Uzbek Border Really Open?

14. Last Two Jews in Kabul Kvetch at Chanukah Service

15. Media Have Field Day Using Taliban Dupe for Hippie-Bashing



THE MIDDLE EAST

1. Congress to OK Massive Air Attacks on Iraq?

2. Israel Bombs Quakers



THE WAR AT HOME

1. France to US: Don't Execute Our National!

2. JDL Busted in Terror Plot

3. Hundreds of Detainees Face Kafkaesque Nightmare

4. US Silent on Evidence in Raids of Muslim Charities



GLIMMERS OF HOPE

1. UK Anti-Terror Law Stalled



WHO IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?

1. Bush & Bin Laden: All in the Family

2. Osama's Friends Have Friends in High Places

GLOBALIZING JUSTICE

A Call for a National Student Mobilization Against the WEF

From Thursday, January 31st to Sunday, February 3rd 2002
at Columbia University in New York City

URL - http://www.studentsforglobaljustice.org

Mailing List - Globalizejustice-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

1. BACKGROUND ON THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM (WEF)

What is the WEF?

Every year, 1,000 top business leaders, come together to shape the global
agenda, while political elites and media luminaries gaze on admiringly. The
World Economic Forum (WEF) will hold its annual meeting at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel in New York City from January 31st to February 4th 2002. By
its own description, the WEF is a special club of elite business leaders,
whose annual meeting is the world's global business summit.

What is the WEF's agenda?

At the New York WEF summit, the world's richest CEOs will collaborate with
the world's most powerful politicians to set the global economic agenda.
Meanwhile, in the halls of Congress, the world's most powerful politicians
are collaborating with the world's richest CEOs to expand the "war on
terrorism".

YellowTimes.ORG writes: "
By Christopher Reilly

YellowTimes.ORG Journalist

(YellowTimes.ORG) – The Bush administration has been completely hypocritical in its attempts to stop terror groups. The US president announced to CNN that he would be cracking down on financiers of the radical Palestinian group Hamas; however, he completely failed to mention Saudi Arabia and other “moderate” gulf states as being financial and verbal supporters of the Palestinian terror group.


CNN reported yesterday that the president “froze the U.S. assets of a Texas-based Islamic foundation…alleging that the organization acts as a front to finance the militant wing of the Palestinian group Hamas.”