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01 Kapellari: Islam ist „radikal“
From: selbstbestimmungsrechtderfrau@gmx.net
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Aus dem Standard vom 22./23.9.01 Kapellari: Islam ist „radikal“ Graz – Der steirische Diözesanbischof Egon Kapellari hält den Islam laut Samstag-Ausgabe der Kleinen Zeitung für eine „radikale Religion mit einer begrenzten Toleranz“. Zwar sei es richtig, dem Islam die Tür zu öffnen – nicht zuletzt, da eine Abschottung „idiotisch“ wäre - , allerdings müsse zuvor die „eigene Identität“ gestärkt werden: „Wenn in manchen deutschen Städten der Muezzin bald vom Minarett rufen wird, warum dürfen dann in Kuwait nicht einmal hinter den verschlossenen Türen eines Hotelzimmers italienische Gastarbeiter mit einem eingereisten Kaplan die Messe feiern?“ Kapellari spricht sich für mehr „Realismus“ im Umgang mit dem aus: „Er achtet keine schwache, ausgelaugte Gesellschaft. Ich kenne viele Moslems, die sagen: Der Westen ist kaputt. Keine Kinder, die Ehen zerbrechen, nur noch Technik, eine verrottete Gesellschaft. Die Muslime würden ein lebendigeres Christentum auch mehr achten.“ (APA) Dazu ist anzumerken: Wir kennen viele ultra-rechte katholische Kleriker, angefangen mit dem Papst persönlich, die sich gegen Sexualaufklärung, gegen Verhütung, gegen Abtreibung, gegen Feministinnen als die Wurzel des Übels, gegen Lesben und Schwule, gegen den Islam, aber auch gegen das Judentum richten, weil es ihrer Auffassung nach jüdische Ärzte und Feministinnen sind, die die Abtreibung forcieren... Es wäre vielleicht besser, vor der eigenen Tür zu kehren, bevor allzugrosse Töne gespuckt werden. -- Aktionskomittee für das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Frau Selbstbestimmungsrechtderfrau@gmx.net

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02 Stereotyping Arabs
From: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous <sensenig@cyberia.net.lb>
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Post WTC - Call for
Suggestions
The international conference on stereotyping Arabs and Muslims to be
held at the Lebanese American University this fall wishes to, in some
way, reflect the
affect of the WTC attack on this topic of scientific endeavour. The
Lebanon based participants will be meeting to discuss this next week.
Please send any suggestions to the conference's director professor Ramez
Maluf, communications dept. <rzmaaluf@lau.edu.lb> or to Dima
Dabbous-Sensenig <dimadab@cyberia.net.lb>.
Yours Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous
PS: Beirut is a very safe city and Lebanon is definitely worth a visit,
so please consider attending this - unfortunately even more - timely
conference.
==================== Preliminary Program _ November 5
to 9, 2001
Monday Nov. 5
5:30 p.m. Reception/Registration Faculty Lounge
6:00 p.m. Cocktail
6:30 p.m. Documentary (Niam Etany)
Tuesday Nov. 6:
8:30 a.m.- Registration
9:00 a.m.
Session 1 - Plenary Session Gulbenkian
- LAU Welcome: Nabil Haidar
- Objectives of the Conference: Ramez Maluf.
- Keynote speaker Jack Shaheen
"Hurtful and Harmful Stereotypes Do Not Exist in a Vacuum. Continuously
Repeated, They Denigrate Peoples, Narrow our Vision and Blur Reality."
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m.
Session 2A Politics and Stereotyping Conference Room A
a. Stereotypes in Islamic Law: Ritual as a Mechanism of Authorization
(Brannon Wheeler)
b. Seeing Arabs as Anti Democratic (James Ketterer)
c. The Devil in the Details: European Views of Islamists and the
Formulation of Policy Towards Algeria (Karim Mezran)
d. Circulating Violence: Language, Translation and Stereotyping in Paul
Bowles (Brian Edwards)
Session 2B Arab American Stereotyping Conference Room B
a. One Culture, Two Frameworks: Dual US Media Coverage of Arabs at Home
and Abroad (Mary Ann Weston & Marda Dunsky)
b. American Arabs and their Stereotypes: One Step Forward, Two steps
Back. (Barbara Rizk Nimri).
c. Stories We Tell: Self-Stereotyping by Arab Americans (Evelyn Shakir)

1:00 p.m. Lunch Cafeteria
2:30 p.m.
Session 3 Plenary Palestinian Stereotype Gulbenkian
a. The Side of Black October: Stereotyping and Self-Image of the1948
Palestinians (Isabelle Bennet Humphries)
b. An Assessment of the Impact of the Second Palestinian Intifada on the
Construction of the Arab Image (Oumayma Abdel-Latif)
c. Television News and the Palestinian Israeli Conflict: An Analysis of
Framing (Rasha Kamhawi)
d. Stereotypes Against Arabs: a Tool of US Arab Relations ( Sami Ofeish)
Wednesday Nov. 7
9:00 a.m.
Session 4A Unavoidable Conflict? Conference Room A
a. Beyond Antipathy: Dialogic Approach to Conflict Between Arab and
Western Cultures. (Allen Palmer)
b. Is Stereotyping Unavoidable? (Michael Pickering)
c. Beyond Stereotyping: East and West (Abdullah Al Dabbagh)
d. Negative Effects of Stereotyping (Nedret Kuran Burcoglu)
Session 4B Workshop Conference Room B
a. A workshop: How to Defeat the Arab Stereotype (Loubna Ismail)
b. Combating Arab Stereotyping in Australia (Ray Jureidini)
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.
Session 5A Identity Conference Room A
a. An Orientalist Identity (Ralph Hage)
b. This is not Beirut; Libanisation, National Image and Consequences
(Evans Devidre Pritchard)
c. The Effects of Stereotyping on Bicultural Lebanese Youth (Raed
Mohsen)
d. Arab Identity: A Psychological Analysis (Nathan Taylor)
Session 5B Dressing Up-Speaking Out Conference Room B
a. Shaping the Image of the Femme Fatale (Latif Zeituni)
b. Fashionable Islamic Dress: Orientalism (Alexandru Balasescu)
c. Palestinian Women and the Intifada: Strategies of Representation
(Alia Arasoughly)
d. Replacing Dominant Stereotypes Through Self-Representation: Arab
Women Speak Out (Bushra Jabre & Carol Underwood)
e. Male and Female Stereotyping in Advertisement (Anissa el Amine Merhi)
1:00 p.m. Lunch Cafeteria
2:30 p.m.
Session 6A: Hollywood Plenary - LRC
a. The Representation of Islamic Fundamentalism in Hollywood and
Egyptian Cinema (Lina Khatib)
b. Transporting Central Europe Orientalism via the “English Patient”
(Eugene Dabbous-Sensenig)
c. Orientalist Imagery in the Visual Arts - Hollywood Harem- a film
(Tania Kamal El-Din)
d. The Sheik of Araby Goes to Hollywood (Jamal Abdul-Hamid Urban).
Thursday Nov. 8
9:00 a.m.
Session 7 Plenary Peasants and Heroes Gulbekian
a. Stereotyping the Peasant in Egyptian Cinema. (Houssam Touqan)
b. Stereotyping the Lead Role in the Egyptian Cinema - A Personal
Experience (Yahya Al Fakharani)
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.
Session 8A: Stereotyping in Lebanon Conference Room
a. The Stereotype of the Syrians in Lebanon (Fawaz Trabulsi)
b. Revisiting Artin in Beirut (Arda Arsenian Ekmekji)
c. How Lebanese Youth Externalize Negative Events: The Case of Poverty
(Kamal Abouchedid & Ramzi Nasser)
d. Images of the West in Contemporary Lebanese Fiction (Samira Aghacy)
Session 8B: Gulf Arabs Copnference Room B
a. Imagining a Bedouin Past: Stereotypes and Cultural Representation in
the Contemporary United Arab Emirates (Ronald Hawker)
b. Not All Hadar are Hawla: Attributes toward Social Differentiation and
Residential Patterning in Qatar (Nagy Sharon)
c. Media and Community: Stereotypes and Arab Consciousness in the United
Arab Emirates (James Piecowye)1:00 p.m. Lunch Cafeteria2:30 p.m.
Session 9 Plenary: Visual and Performing Arts Gulbenkian
a. Stereotyping in Shadow Plays (Mona Knio)
b. Stereotyping in the Syrian Theater (Maysoun Ali)
c. Between the Search of “Authenticity” and the Temptation of
Neo-Orientalism- Arabs Painting Arabs (1950-1990) (Silvia Naef)
d. Seeing in Stereo: The Appreciation and Redeployment of Orientalist
Stereotypes in Lebanese Art (L. Scheid Kirsten)
e. Stereotyping Arabic Music: Rai in France and Europe (Gabriele
Marranci)Friday Nov. 9
9:00 a.m.
Session 10A Internet Games and Comic Strips Conference Room A
a. Framing Arabs: the Stereotypology of Comic Books and Weekly News
Magazines (Dima Dabbous-Sensenig)
b. Arab On-Line Communities and Cyber-Activism (Helga Tawil)
c. The Depiction of the Arab in Combat Video Games (Ibrahim Marashi)
d. Comic Books Stereotyping (Dima Issa)
e. How Internet and Information Technology Change in the Pattern of
Political and
Social Change (Serajul I. Bhuiyan)
Session 10B: Stereotyping Blackness Conference Room B
a. Black Stereotypes in the Arab World (Mark Lloyd Perry)
b. The Perception of the Arabs in the African Literature (Benaouda
Lebdai)
c. The Moor: a Neighbor Under Suspicion. Maintenance of Colonial
Ambiguous Stereotypes in the Relations Between Spain and Morocco. (Abel
Albet &
Luis Ruidor).
10:45 p.m. Coffee Break11:00 a.m.
Session 11A: Literature Conference Room
a. Travel Accounts in the 19th Century (Miranda Francis)
b. The Arabs in the Reinterpretation of the Mythology in “Shahname”, the
Heroic Poem of Abdul-Qasim Firdowsi, National of Iranians (Marek
Smurzynski)
c. The Travel Brochure’s: Representation of an Authentic Morocco
(Patricia Caille)
d. Arab Perception of the West in the Writings of Eighteenth Century
Historians of Bilad Al Sham (Hayat Bualwan)Session 11B: What's Fit to Print Conference Room
a. How Arabs are Seen in American Newspapers (Serajul I. Bhuiyan)
b. The New York Times and the Conflict in the Middle East (Cinzia
Padovani)
c. Journalists: Culprits or Victims? (Wolfgang Kohler)1:00 p.m. Lunch CafeteriaFor the afternoon, a panel is being organized with "stereotypemakers" -
i.e. people from TV, film, advertising agencies and newspaper. Those
interested in
joining in, could also help draft a sum-up.8:00 Dinner Somewehere Nice

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03 <nadir-aktuell-abo> Berlin: CCC spricht sich gegen Angriffe auf
Kommunikationssysteme aus
From: aktuell@nadir.org
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>
>
> - Völkerverständigung jetzt noch wichtiger als zuvor
>
> In der Hackerszene kursiert im Moment als Reaktion auf die
> unfassbaren Mordanschläge in den USA ein Aufruf, Webseiten und
andere
> über das Internet erreichbaren Kommunikationssysteme in
islamischen
> Ländern bzw. bei islamischen Organisationen zu zerstören.
>
> Der Chaos Computer Club spricht sich gegen diesen Aufruf aus und
> fordert dazu auf, diesen und ähnliche Aufrufe zu ignorieren. Als
> galaktische Vereinigung ist es für uns unvorstellbar, jetzt die
Welt
> in gut und böse zu teilen und ausgerechnet Religion als Maßstab
für
> eine solche Trennung zu nehmen.
>
> Die Ereignisse sind für jeden Menschen auf diesem Planeten im
> globalen Dorf schwer zu verarbeiten. Als Hacker sollten wir
jedoch
> das nun anstehende World Processing im Sinne der Menschheit
> versuchen. "Wir stehen hilflos vor der Macht der Zerstörung. Aber
wir
> glauben an die Macht der Kommunikation, die sich letztendlich
immer
> als positiver und stärker gezeigt hat als Hass", so Jens Ohlig,
> Sprecher des CCC.
>
> "Elektronische Kommunikationsstrukturen wie das Internet können
> gerade jetzt einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Volkerverständigung
leisten.
> In der verständlicherweise angespannten Situation darf es nicht
dazu
> kommen, jetzt Komm
> unikationslinien zu kappen und damit dem Unverständniss noch mehr
> Grundlage zu liefern." fasste CCC-Sprecher Andy Müller-Maguhn
> zusammen.
>
> Der Chaos Computer Club, der derzeit sein 20 jähriges Jubiläum
> feiert, setzt sich laut Satzung für Informationsfreiheit und ein
> Menschenrecht auf mindestens weltweite ungehinderte Kommunikation
> ein.
>
> Bereits 1999 hat sich der CCC zusammen mit einer Koalition
bekannter
> Hackergruppen (Cult of the Dead Cow, 2600, L0pht, Phrack, Pulhas,
> Toxyn, !Hispahack und Mitgliedern der niederländischen
> Hackergemeinschaft) gegen den Einsatz der Netze als
elektronisches
> Schlachtfeld ausgesprochen: "Beteiligt euch nicht an
kriegerischen
> Handlungen im sogenannten 'Cyber-War'. Haltet die Netze, die für
die
> Kommunikation da sind, am Leben. Sie sind das Nervensystem des
> menschlichen Fortschritts."
>
> Die Infopeace-Erklärung ist unter
> http://www.ccc.de/CRD/CRD19990107.html im Original zu lesen.
>

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04 Nukes on Afghanistan?
From: mark.cutts <mark.cutts@tinyworld.co.uk>
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Nukes on Afghanistan?

"Small Is Beautiful" Attack Bolsters Nuke Lite Lobby
By Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn
CounterPunchhttp://www.counterpunch.org/nukelite.html
Make the desert glow for a thousand years. Wipe them off the face of
the
Earth. Pulverize them. Such is the unrestrained blood lust that
masquerades as military punditry these days. The Washington Times has
called on the Bush administration the use of nuclear weapons against
Afghanistan and Iraq. Absurd? Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld had the
question put to them directly and neither would rule out the use of
nuclear
bombs as an option. Rumsfeld's deputy, the blood-thirsty Paul
Wolfowitz,
has warned that the Pentagon is poised to unleash "a very big hammer", a
hammer capable of "ending states that support terrorism." (Rumsfeld says
the Pentagon has identified nearly 60 such states.)
"At a bare minimum, tactical nuclear capabilites should be used against
the
bin Laden camps in the desert of Afghanistan. To do less would be
rightly
seen by the poisoned minds that orchestrated these attacks as cowardice
on
the part of the United States and the current administration." These are
not
the words of a columnist for the rabidly pro-war New York Post. No.
These are the considered sentiments of Thomas Woodrow, a former officer
at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
We now find ourselves closer to the unthinkable possibility of launching
a
nuclear first strike than at any time since the thawing of the Cold War.
What is important to understand is the fact that there are people inside
the
Pentagon and the nuclear labs who have been urging just such a posture,
even before the events of 9/11.
The Pentagon has come to a remarkable conclusion with regard to the
nuclear weapons: smaller is better. These days the Wizards of
Armageddon
are palpably anxious to develop a new class of nuclear weapons, the
so-called "deep penetrator" warheads. These are relatively low-yield
weapons, packing warheads as small as 10 kilotons. Rear Admiral George
P. Nanos excitedly refers to this new breed of nukes as "hard target
killers".
During testimony before the House in May, General John A. Gordon,
director
of the National Nuclear Security Administration, groused that for the
past
decade the Pentagon had not been able to actively pursue new weapons
designs. He said he wanted to "reinvigorate" planning for a new
generation of "advanced nuclear warheads".
"This is not a proposal to develop new weapons in the absence of
requirements", Gordon told the committee in a gem of Pentagon
doublespeak.
"But I am not now exercising design capabilities, and because of that, I
believe this capacity and capability is atrophying rapidly".
Gordon wasn't being truthful. Over the past decade the Pentagon and its
weapons designers have been quietly busy crafting a variety of new
weapons.
Indeed, although the Clinton administration generated a lot of hoopla by
supporting the comprehensive test ban treaty (which it promptly violated
with a string of subcritical tests), the Department of Energy and the
Pentagon were busy developing new breeds of weapons. In 1997, they
unveiled and deployed the B61-11, described as a mere modification of
the
old B61-7 gravity bomb. In reality, it was largely a new "package", the
prototype for the "low-yield" bunker blasting nuke that the weaponeers
see
as the future of the US arsenal.
The nuclear priesthood is salivating at the prospect of a new generation
of nukes and new infusions of cash under the Bush regime, which has been
stockpiled with nuclear hawks, ranging from Richard Armitage and Paul
Wolfowitz to Assistant Secretary of Defense Jack Couch, who a couple of
years ago wrote that the US should consider dropping a small nuke on
North
Korea to teach them a lesson.
The Pentagon, of course, isn't the only one pushing new bombs. So are
the
nuclear labs and their legions of contractors. "There's an overwhelming
desire to develop new nuclear weapons and there are a lot of rationales
put forward to justify the expenditure and the risks", says Don Moniak,
an
organizer with the Blue Ridge Environmental League in Aiken, South
Carolina.
"For example, the nuclear labs have said they make new design weapons if
only to maintain design expertise". Moniak monitors weapons production
and
plutonium storage and reprocessing at the Department of Energy's
Savannah
River Site, which Moniak says is being geared up to begin producing
plutonium pits, the triggers for hydrogen bombs.
This spring the labs made a big pitch for the Bush administration to
overhaul the nation's nuclear policy. The plea came in the form of a
white
paper by Paul Robinson, the director of the Sandia National Labs in
Albuquerque. Robinson titled his essay Pursuing a New Nuclear Policy
for
the 21st Century and began thus: "I recently began to worry that because
there were few public statements by US officials in reaffirming the
unique
role which nuclear weapons play in ensuring US and world security, far
too
many people (including many in our own armed forces) were beginning to
believe that perhaps nuclear weapons no longer had value".
Robinson doesn't want to let go a single part of the nuclear arsenal. He
even argues that Russia remains a threat, although he inverts the
alleged
source from that of an opposing superpower to that of a disintegrating
nation. As backup for this rationale he quotes US National Security
Advisor
Condoleeza Rice: "America is threatened less by Russia's strength than
by
its weakness and incoherence". This stretch is used to justify an
upgrading
of the most destructive and expensive weapons in the US arsenal, the
so-called Category I strategic weapons capable of incinerating
large-scale
cities.
Robinson also sees no reason to scale-back the US stockpile of Category
II
weapons, the kind of all-purpose nuclear missile that Robinson dubs the
"To Whom It May Concern Force". Robinson hedges identifying exactly who
the targets of these weapons might be, but he eventually concedes that
they
include the other nuclear and near-nuclear nations, China, India,
Pakistan,
North Korea, Iran and, presumably, France, though definitely not Israel.
These weapons, primarily low-yield single rocket missiles, would mainly
be
an investment in the Navy's submarine-launched arsenal to give the US
the
all-important "forward-basing" advantage-which mainly means that the US
wouldn't have to worry about the touchy diplomatic issue of launching
nuclear bombs over the territory of non-combatants. (Apparently, this
good
neighbor policy hasn't infected the Bush Star Wars team, which is
toiling
away on a contraption that would, if it works, knock incoming missiles
down
and onto the fields of the Poland, Germany and France.)
But Robinson's real passion is for the Category III weapon, the
bunker-busting nuke that is designed for the assassination of the
leadership of "rogue regime", a not so subtle code word for Iraq,
although it
really does serve as a stand-in for any troublesome non-nuclear nation.
Robinson, in a scenario that perhaps even Edward Teller himself may not
have
envisioned, wants the Bush administration to publicly change its policy
to
target heads of state with nuclear bombs. "I believe it will be
important
to make a part o our declaratory policy that the United States' ultimate
intent, should it ever have to unleash a nuclear attack against any
aggressor, would be to threaten the survival of the regime leading the
state", Robinson writes. "Unless that state's leaders are deterred from
the
acts we are seeking to deter, our war aims would be single-minded-to
destroy
that leadership's ability to govern".
And now we see the prospect of nuclear weapons being used not against a
regime, but against an indistinct enemy, largely untargetable, couched
in
the forbidding recesses of the Hindu Kush, one the world's most hostile
natural landscapes. The only possible objective for their use would be
to
kill broadly and indiscriminately and to obliterate the distinction
between
intentional and collateral damage.

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05 Women, war and the World Trade Center
From: pedro negro <pedro.negro@chello.at>
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Subject: Women, war and the World Trade Center
Women and war
While the media's response to the destruction in
America has been deafening, the voices of women have
grown strangely quiet
Special report: terrorism in the US
Madeleine Bunting
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/story/0,3604,554794,00.html>
Thursday September 20, 2001
The Guardian
Not for over a generation has an event so transfixed
the world. Everywhere, on buses, at corner shops,
offices, school gates and hairdressers, men and women
seem able to think and talk of only one thing - the
terrorist attacks on America. Yet, what is rapidly
becoming clear is that in a crisis like this, many of
the gender differences between men and women are thrown
into sharp relief.
The most striking of these is the different attitudes
towards a military attack on Afghanistan as revealed in
recent polls. The Guardian's ICM poll on Tuesday showed
a remarkable consistency of attitudes across age and
political affiliation; the one big gap was between men
and women: 74% of men support air strikes and only 58%
of women. Whereas 55 % of men were prepared to
contemplate war, 32% of women opposed any military
action if it meant war.
This isn't a one-off. Polls in both the 1990 Gulf war
and the 1999 Kosovo war showed the same gap. In 1990,
61% of men and only 39% of women thought Britain should
agree to using British troops to get Iraq to withdraw
from Kuwait; nearly half of women (49%) opposed
military action. In Kosovo, the gap between men and
women narrowed after atrocities against Kosovan
Albanians were broadcast: 76% of men were in favour of
air strikes and 62% of women. A few days later, after
Nato mistakenly bombed a convoy of refugees, women's
support for air strikes fell sharply to 56% while men's
held steady. Equally intriguing is how women have been
wiped off many newspaper pages and television screens.
Despite significant advances in the number of women in
the media, the crisis has exposed how many of them are
in the "softer" areas of news such as features and
domestic stories. In a major crisis such as this,
virtually all the reporters have been men.
An analysis of the first five pages of five newspapers
(the Sun, Daily Mail, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and
Times) on Thursday and Friday, September 14 and 15,
bore this out. The Sun had no women writing on the
crisis on either day compared to their writing about a
third of the front of the paper on the previous Friday.
Likewise, the Mail on the Thursday, but by the Friday,
it had shifted to roughly 50/50 across the front pages
and comment with a strong human interest emphasis. This
was still a steep decline; in comparison the previous
Friday was dominated by women reporters (2,703 words to
men's 874) and comment pages were written entirely by
women.
The Times and the Guardian showed a similar sharp drop
in women writing; the former had no women in the first
five pages or on the comment page on Friday and the
Guardian had only one (1,215 words) which represented a
sharp drop from the previous week, when women wrote
5,850 words. Only the Telegraph recorded little change
in the number of articles - it was consistently low -
although the word count doubled, almost all of which
was accounted for by men.
This rough snapshot confirms what editors were becoming
increasingly aware of, but attempts to find women to
write were often frustrated. It wasn't just a shortage
of female diplomatic correspondents - it was across the
board. One female novelist, when approached to write a
piece, said she was too upset to do so, but male
novelists had no such hesitations. The consequence is a
curious, lopsided, mutated version of the event in
which men have dominated the debate, shaping our
understanding of what happened, how it happened and
what should happen next. Women have been marginalised
in a way which would have seemed barely possible only
two weeks ago.
This is reinforced by the impression that virtually all
the people involved in handling this crisis are men. It
is men who perpetrated this violence and men who
organise the response. The power structure is exposed
at such times, as the token women slide into the
background, leaving war to men. Condoleezza Rice seems
to be the one exception. Virtually the only female
faces in the media at the moment are the victims; women
are cast as passive.
The polls, the media coverage, the absence of major
women politicians in this crisis, breathe new life into
old debates. The polls seem to bear out some of the
oldest gender stereotypes about women's tendency to
nurture life rather than destroy it. It takes you back
to the long-running and unprovable theses about nurture
v nature: how little boys play war games and bomb their
Lego buildings while little girls look after babies.
Psychologist Oliver James argues that one persistent
difference between the genders across cultures is
attitudes towards violence. Women are less interested
in it and less likely to be violent, and he points to
the fact that while young women have caught up with
their male counterparts on a range of behaviour from
drugs to cigarettes, they are dramatically less
violent. Women are far more likely to internalise anger
in depression, from which they are twice as likely as
men to suffer.
Also significant in explaining how men have dominated
the coverage, James believes, is the way men are
socialised to intellectualise the world, analyse and
objectify it, in a bid to emotionally distance
themselves and control it. Women, brought up to
empathise, have fewer such distancing techniques. As
Alice Miles in the Times suggests, for many women the
"extent of the horror was in itself a bar to
certainty", while men have translated their "outrage
into concrete demands".

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06 Basic Indicators + Refugee/IDP Update + Food Update
(Afghanistan)"Afghanistan...is already suffering one of the world's most
serious humanitarian crises"
From: Maria Tolly <ma-tol@tollyhouse.freeserve.co.uk>
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Sources in Pakistan report the presence of two U.S. air force battalions
and
B-52 bombers http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/B_52_Stratofortress.html
Based on that and rhetoric from the White House and Defense Department,

it
seems likely that the U.S. will soon begin to bomb Afghanistan. The
data
and anecdotal evidence, from numerous UN agencies, NGOs and media
clearly
shows that this action will accelerate one of the world's worst
humanitarian
crises. Already, UN personal have pulled out in advance of the expected
U.S. attack, and the people that they support have begun to flee
(although
many are too weak or can't access adequate transportation).
As Dominic Nutt, emergency officer for Christian Aid, plainly stated:
"It's as if a mass grave has been dug behind millions of people. We can
drag
them back from it or push them in. We could be looking at millions of
deaths".
Let no say that we did not know.
Below you will find:
* Select quotes from the UN and NGOs
* Basic indicators (almost entirely from UN sources)
- Health
- Refugees/Internally Displaced Persons
-Cultural/Demographic (total population, main ethnic groups, main
languages)
- Drought
- Food
- Water and Sanitation
- Economic
- Education
- Communication
* Refugee Update
* Food Update
- Including the latest FAO special alert (20 September 2001)
Excerpts:
"An already grave food crisis in Afghanistan caused by prolonged drought
and
civil strife can be expected to worsen if the threat of military action
materialises,
the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today in a
"Special Alert".
"Recent estimates put the number of vulnerable people inside Afghanistan
at
about 6 million, nearly one-quarter of the population."
"starvation fac[es] millions of people"
Source: FAO global information and early warning system on food and
agriculture, ""Grave food crisis in afghanistan could deepen if current
situation deteriorates", Special News Alert no. 318, 20 September 2001
*********************************************
"Afghanistan, embroiled in civil war for over 20 years and currently
facing a devastating drought, is already suffering one of the world's
most
serious humanitarian crises, and has produced millions of displaced
people
and refugees".
Source: UNCR, "Afghanistan Humanitarian Update", No. 2, 18 September
2001,

http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/latest.htm

Source:

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/3b7ca3f7
d1ecb088c1256acb0046305c?OpenDocument

"Afghanistan has some of the most alarming health indicators in the
world"
Source:

Office of The UN Humanitarian Co-Ordinator For Afghanistan,
"Afghanistan Appeal 2001",

http://www.pcpafg.org/appeal/appeal2000/Documents/Provision_of_Basic_Social_Services.shtml

"With hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees already on the move, food
supplies in their nation running out and winter just weeks away, U.S.
military action against Afghanistan could lead to mass starvation, aid
agencies warned Sunday".
Source: Tyler Marshall and Paul Watson, "Afghans Teeter on Edge", Los
Angeles Times, 17 September 2001,

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000074775sep17.story?coll=

la-headlines-nation-manual
"There isn't more than three weeks of food left in the stockpiles.It's
just
nightmarish."
- Yousaf Hassan, senior information officer, UNHCR (Islamabad)
Source: Tyler Marshall and Paul Watson, "Afghans Teeter on Edge", Los
Angeles Times, 17 September 2001,

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000074775sep17.story?coll=

la-headlines-nation-manual
"Aid agencies point out that many of those who may be hurt are unlikely
to
have any idea about what has been happening in America".
Steven Morris and Felicity Lawrence, "Afghanistan facing humanitarian
disaster", Guardian (UK), 19 September 2001,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,554310,00.html

****************************************
Cultural/Demographic Information
Projected 2001 Total Population: Approximately 22.5 million
Source: Population Division and Statistics Division of the United
Nations
Secretariat, "Indicators on population",

http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/population.htm

Caveat: Estimates range as high as 25.5 Million
Ethnic Groups
· Pashtun 38%
· Tajik 25%
· Uzbek 6%
· Hazara 19%
· Minor ethnic groups (Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others)
Languages
· Pashtu 35%
· Afghan Persian (Dari) 50%
· Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%
· 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%
· Much bilingualism
Source: CIA, "The World Factbook 2000",
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html

Population Distribution
Rural: 78%
Urban: 22%
Source: Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat,
http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/hum-set.htm

****************
Soviet Occupation
Date of Soviet Invasion: 25 December 1979
Source: Washington Post Foreign Service, "U.S. Flies Weapons to Rebels
In
Afghanistan, Sadat Says", 23 September 1981
Date of Completed Soviet Military Departure: 15 February 1989
Source: Bill Keller, "Last Soviet Soldiers Leave Afghanistan After 9
Years,
15,000 Dead And Great Cost", New York Times, 16 February 1989
Length of Soviet Military Occupation: 9 years, 52 days
Peak Soviet Troop Deployment: Approximately 100,000-115,000
Source: Bill Keller, "Last Soviet Soldiers Leave Afghanistan After 9
Years,
15,000 Dead And Great Cost", New York Times, 16 February 1989
Killed During Soviet Invasion and Occupation: at least 1 million (NH: 7%
of population - pre invasion population was 15.5 million)
Source: John F. Burns, "Afghan Capital Grim as War Follows War", New
York
Times, 5 February 1996
Length of Internal Post-Soviet War: Approximately 12 years
*****************
Refugees and Internally Displace PersonsDisplaced by Soviet Invasion and Occupation:
· Pre-Invasion (1979) population: 15.5 million
· Internally displaced persons: 2 million (NH: 13% of population)
· Refugees: 6 million (NH: 40% of population)
· Total displacement: 8 million (53% of population)
Source: John F. Burns, "Afghan Capital Grim as War Follows War", New
York
Times, 5 February 1996
1985-1990, Afghan refugees annually comprised 50% of world's total
refugee
population
Source: Rupert Colville, "Afghanistan: The unending crisis", UNHCR,
Refugees, Issue 108, II-1997, http://www.unhcr.ch/pubs/rm108/rm10801.htm
1980-1999, Afghanistan had the world's largest refugee population
Source: UNHCR, background, http://www.unhcr.ch/world/mide/afghan.htm
Total Refugees: 3,695,000
Total Internally Displaced Persons: 956,000
Location of Refugees:
Pakistan: 2,000,000
Iran: 1,500,000
Russia 100,000
Central Asian Republics: 29,000
Europe: 36,000
North America/Australia: 17,000
India 13,000
Source: UNHCR, "Afghan Refugee Statistics", 10 September 2001
http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/stat0917.pdf
****************
Health
Quote: "The health situation in Afghanistan is amongst the worst in the
world as a result of underlying poverty, the economic and institutional
disruption associated with the protracted war and the near total
collapse
of the public sector. Some limited progress has been made in recent
years in extending health service provision. But it is almost totally
dependent on the foreign assistance programme".
Source: Office of the UN Coordinator for Afghanistan, "Vulnerability and
Humanitarian Implications of UN Security Council Sanctions in
Afghanistan", December 2000, pg. 6
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/afgsanc.pdfLife Expectancy at Birth (in years), 2000-2005:
· Female: 43.5
· Male: 43
Source: Population Division and Statistics Division of the United
Nations
Secretariat, "Indicators on Health",
http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/health.htm
Under-5 Mortality Rank: 4th worst out of 193 countries (NH: check)
· #1. Sierra Leone (316)
· #2. Angola (295)
· #3. Niger (275)
· #4. Afghanistan (257)
· #187. Japan, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland (4)
Source: UNICEF, "State of the World's Children 2001", pg. 77
http://www.unicef.org/sowc01/pdf/fullsowc.pdf
or http://www.unicef.org/sowc01/tables/mortality.htm
· No pg. #
Nutrition
Under-Nourished People (as % of total population 1996-1998): 70%
Source: UNDP, "Human Development Report 2001", Table 28, pg. 238,
http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/complete.pdf
Immunization (1999)
· BCG: 40%
· DPT3: 9%
· Measles: 35%
· Polio: 11%
Source: WHO, "Baseline Indicators", 1999
http://www.who.int/disasters/stats/baseline.cfm?countryID=1
% of U-5s (1995-2000*) suffering from:
· Underweight: 48%
· Wasting, Moderate and Severe: 25%
· Stunting, Moderate and Severe 52%
% of Infants with Low Birthweight (1995-1999): 20%
Source: UNICEF, "State of the World's Children 2001, pg. 82,
http://www.unicef.org/sowc01/pdf/fullsowc.pdf
or http://www.unicef.org/sowc01/tables/table2.htm
* No page #
Maternal mortality: 1,700/100,000
· 2nd worst in the world
· Approximately 16,000 mothers annually die in childbirth
Source: Office of The UN Humanitarian Co-Ordinator For Afghanistan,
"Afghanistan Appeal 2001",http://www.pcpafg.org/appeal/appeal2000/Documents/Provision_of_Basic_Social_
Services.shtml and Office of The UN Humanitarian Co-Ordinator For
Afghanistan, "Vulnerability and Humanitarian Impact of UN Security
Council
Sanctions In Afghanistan Summary Report", Islamabad, 17 August 2000http://www.pcpafg.org/news/Sanctions/sanction_news/Vulnerability_and_humanit
arian.htm
Other Indicators:
Tuberculosis cases: 133,000
Malaria (p.a.): 3-4 million cases
Child diarrhoea deaths: 85,000
Access to health services: 35%
EPI coverage: 45%
Maternity care: 12%
Source: Office of The UN Humanitarian Co-Ordinator For Afghanistan,
"Afghanistan Appeal 2001",http://www.pcpafg.org/appeal/appeal2000/Documents/Provision_of_Basic_Social_
Services.shtml
*******************
Drought
· "considered to be the worst in 30 years"
· By June 2001, at least 50% of the population "may be affected by
drought"
· By June 2001, 3-4 million people may be "severely affected"
· By June 2001, 8-12 million people may be "moderately affected"
Source: Office of The UN Humanitarian Co-Ordinator For Afghanistan,
"Vulnerability and Humanitarian Impact of UN Security Council Sanctions
In
Afghanistan Summary Report", Islamabad, 17 August 2000http://www.pcpafg.org/news/Sanctions/sanction_news/Vulnerability_and_humanit
arian.htm
Source: Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan,
"Strategy
of the Assistance Community in Response to the Drought in Afghanistan,
1 June 2000 - 31 May 2001", 1 June 2001, pg. 3
http://www.fao.org/reliefoperations/media/download/afg2_00.pdf
***********************
Food
· "the cereal import requirement in the 2001/02 marketing year
(July/June)
is estimated at 2.2 million tonnes, slightly less than last
year's record
high
level of 2.3 million tonnes, but about double the volume of 1.1
million
tonnes in 1999"
· Estimated uncovered gap - 1 million tons
- "A shortfall of this magnitude, coupled with seriously deteriorating
purchasing power of the population, if unmet, could have
disastrous
consequences".
Source: FAO Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and
Agriculture, Special Alert, No. 315, 8 June 2001, FAO/WFP Crop and Food
Supply Assessment Mission To Afghanistan,http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/2001/SRAFG
601.htm#P33_2809
"There is evidence of widespread pre-famine conditions due to a severe
food crisis caused by the worst drought in decades and an armed conflict
well into its third decade. Without more food aid many lives could be in
danger," said Gerard van Dijk, WFP representative to Afghanistan.
"Some Afghans, especially in the central parts of the country, have
reportedly eaten poisonous grass that caused paralysis and many
displaced
people in the northern provinces have been eating meals of locusts mixed
with animal fodder." [Also van Dijk]
Source: WFP, "WFP Launches Emergency Appeal For Afghanistan", News
Release, 6 September 2001# Of Afghans Who Depend on WFP Food: 3.8 million
Source: UNCR, "Afghanistan Humanitarian Update", No. 2, 18 September
2001,
http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/latest.htm
% of Population That is Malnourished: 70%
Source: WFP, "Country Brief: Afghanistan",
http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/indexcountry.asp?country=33
Population at Risk of Starvation, Pre-11 September: 5 million people
(over
22% of population)
Source: Steven Morris and Felicity Lawrence, "Afghanistan facing
humanitarian disaster", Guardian (UK), 19 September 2001,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,554310,00.html
*********************
Water
% of Population with "Improved" Drinking Water Coverage (not necessarily
"safe" or "adequate"):
· Overall: 13%
· Urban: 19%
· Rural: 11%
% of Population with "Improved" Sanitation Coverage (not necessarily
"safe" or "adequate"):
· Overall: 12%
· Urban: 25%
· Rural: 8%
Source: WHO and UNICEF, "Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment
2000 Report", pg. 47,
http://www.unicef.org/programme/wes/pubs/global/gafull.pdf*******************
Economic Indicators
GDP Per Capita: $178 (1999)
Source: Statistics Division of the United Nations Secretariat and
International Labour Office,
http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/inc-eco.htm% Of Population Dependent on Agriculture: 85%
· Drought ruined crops - purchase power is lost
Source: WFP, "WFP Launches Emergency Appeal For Afghanistan", News
Release, 6 September 2001
*******************
Education
Adult Literacy Rate (2000): 36%
· Female: 21%
· Male: 51%
Source: UNESCO, "World Culture Report 2000", Table 26, pg. 391,
http://www.unesco.org/culture/worldreport/html_eng/stat2/table26.pdf
******************
Communication
Main Telephone Lines (per 1,000 people): 1
Source: UNESCO, "World Culture Report 2000", Table 19, pg. 364,
http://www.unesco.org/culture/worldreport/html_eng/stat2/table19.pdf
******************
Refugee Update
I just spoke with an information officer at UNHCR, NY.
* IDPs began to move in larger-than-usual number approximately 3 days
after 11 September. The communications network (television + radio +
telephone) is awful, and many people actually responded to international
UN staff pulling out.
* Internal transportation is awful. Bad roads + old/no vehicles.
People
have difficulty moving fast and far, even if they want to.
Copyright 2001 Agence France Presse
Agence France Presse
September 20, 2001 Thursday
SECTION: International News
LENGTH: 668 words
HEADLINE: Twin spectres of famine and war force Afghans to flee homeland
BYLINE: ANGUS MACKINNON
DATELINE: ISLAMABAD, Sept 20
BODY:
..Despite Pakistan's attempts to close its long border with Afghanistan,
at
least 15,000 refugees have made it into Pakistan in the last week alone.
..The movement has been concentrated in Pakistan's southwestern province
of Baluchistan, which is opposite the Afghan city of Kandahar, from
where up
to 100,000 people [NH: half of city's population] are believed to have
fled.**************
Copyright 2001 Kyodo News Service
Japan Economic Newswire
September 19, 2001 WednesdaySECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
LENGTH: 281 words
HEADLINE: UNHCR urges U.S. to consider humanitarian concerns
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Sept. 19
BODY:
'It is important to be aware of the already desperate plight of millions
of Afghan civilians and of the humanitarian consequences to ordinary
people while formulating policy options,' said a former Dutch prime
minister. Lubbers, who made his remarks during an official trip to
Washington where he met with key U.S. officials, also called on
Americans not to engage in 'any xenophobic backlash,' as incidents
targeting Arab and Muslim communities have been reported recently.
*******************
Copyright 2001 Federal News Service, Inc.
Federal News Service
September 18, 2001, Tuesday
SECTION: MAJOR LEADERS SPECIAL TRANSCRIPTS
LENGTH: 2023 words
HEADLINE: NEWS CONFERENCE WITH RUUD LUBBERS,
UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES
TOPIC: AFGHAN REFUGEES
LOCATION: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, D.C.
BODY:
..If one goes for action, there are always consequences, and we think in
the policy alternatives the humanitarian aspects have to be very key on
the agenda.
..So, making a plea for the priority for the humanitarian aspect is to
be
very plain. Two things: One, take into account consequences of all
actions. So if you exaggerate -- if you are too blunt, and not specific
enough, so of course a disaster for many people, also innocent citizens.
Secondly, other aspect of the humanitarian pleas -- find ways to
mobilize
particularly Pakistan, Iran, the countries in the region, in such a way
that
the situation in Afghanistan for the ordinary people improves. And then
we can start again with our work there. So that demands as well a strong
position. > But this was the message here.
..one of the reasons that when I talk about a humanitarian-oriented
approach, it's not only about concerns over measured reaction to the
attack here, but it's also because I am little bit concerned that this
cannot
go on that long with the situation in Afghanistan.
*******************http://www.unhcr.ch/news/pr/pr010919.htm
18 September 2001
WASHINGTON - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers
today urged US leaders to carefully weigh the humanitarian consequences
of any actions in Afghanistan.
"It is important to be aware of the already desperate plight of millions
of
Afghan civilians and of the humanitarian consequences to ordinary people
while formulating policy options," said Lubbers. "Thousands of people in
Afghanistan are already on the move, joining millions others who were
displaced inside and outside the country even before the latest crisis.
We
must do everything we can to avoid further displacement of innocent
civilians," he added.
*********************
Copyright 2001 Southam Inc.
The Ottawa Citizen
September 19, 2001 Wednesday Final EDITION
SECTION: SPECIAL SECTION, Pg. C3
LENGTH: 894 words
HEADLINE: UN remains silent on war plans: Observers divided on what role
the international body should play during the unfolding crisis
BYLINE: Andrew Duffy
SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen
..The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers visited Washington
yesterday and urged U.S. leaders to weigh carefully the consequences of
actions against Afghanistan. "We must do everything we can to avoid
further
displacement of innocent civilians."
***************************************
Copyright 2001 Nationwide News Pty Limited
The Australian
September 19, 2001, Wednesday
SECTION: WORLD; Pg. 7
LENGTH: 466 words
HEADLINE: Agencies warn of looming aid crisis - WAR OF TERROR -
TRAIL OF MYSTERY
SOURCE: MATP
BYLINE: Ian MacKinnon, Catherine Philp, Stephen Farrell
BODY:
***************************
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which is monitoring the unfolding
situation in Pakistan, said three times the normal number of people were
on
the move in Afghanistan. Up to half the 200,000 population of the
spiritual
capital of Kandahar have left the city and Kabul is also reported to be
emptying fast. Up to 5000 people were waiting at the border crossing of
Chaman, near the Pakistani city of Quetta, although the Torkham crossing
at Peshawar was quieter.
Rupert Colville, of the UNHCR, told of the agency's fears. "It's going
to
take very little to push an existing humanitarian crisis into a real
major
disaster with the huge numbers on the road."
The exodus from the cities may be only the beginning. The UNHCR predicts
that as many as 1.5 million people may flee their homes if there were a
military attack on the country.
**************************
Food Updat
Copyright 2001 The Washington Post
The Washington Post
September 20, 2001, Thursday, Final Edition
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A01
LENGTH: 1212 words
HEADLINE: Leader Tells Pakistanis They Must Support U.S.; Musharraf
Tries
To Quell Opposition
BYLINE: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post Foreign Service
DATELINE: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 19
BODY:
In Rome, the World Food Program's assistant executive director, Mohamed
Zejjari, said nearly a quarter of Afghanistan's people were desperately
short of food, with food aid stocks running out fast. "We believe that
at
least 5 million people are in urgent need of assistance," he said. "We
are
not in a position to send new food into the country."
**************************
Copyright 2001 Nationwide News Pty Limited
The Australian
September 19, 2001, Wednesday
SECTION: WORLD; Pg. 7
LENGTH: 466 words
HEADLINE: Agencies warn of looming aid crisis - WAR OF TERROR - TRAIL OF
MYSTERY
SOURCE: MATP
BYLINE: Ian MacKinnon, Catherine Philp, Stephen Farrell
BODY:
Even before the latest crisis, 25 per cent of families depended on food
handouts. Most had spent their savings and sold their meagre possessions
to buy food.
****************************
Nathaniel Hurd
Iraq Sanctions Project (ISP) Associate
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
162 Montague Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
Tel.: 718-237-9145, x 21
Fax: 718-237-9147
Mobile: 917-407-3389
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E-mail: nhurd@cesr.org
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*The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not
the
views of ISP, unless specifically stated*
Dr Kamil Mahdi
University of Exeter

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07 ZNet Commentary / Albert & Shalom / More War / September 21
From: Maria Tolly <ma-tol@tollyhouse.freeserve.co.uk>
================================================

From: ZNet Commentary
Five Reasons Not to Go to War
By Michael Albert and Stephen R. Shalom
In the wake of the horrific attacks of September 11, many people find
their feelings of sadness and shock mixed with anger and calls for war.
But war would be horribly wrong for at least five reasons.
1. Guilt hasn't yet been proven.
As the New York Times acknowledged, "Law enforcement officials ...
appear to have little solid evidence tying Mr. bin Laden's group to the
attacks" (NYT, 20 Sept. 2001). If we believe in law and justice, when
crimes are committed we don't advocate that victims who have a strong
hunch about culprits impose punishment. We demand proof. We reject
vigilantism. We reject guilt by association. This is elementary and
uncontestable, except when fear and the drums of war cloud
consciousness. In the case of September 11, though an Islamic or Middle
Eastern connection seems clear, there are many extremist groups that
might have been responsible. To rush to punitive judgment, much less to
war, before responsibility has been determined violates basic principles
of justice. Guilt should be proven, not suspected.
2. War would violate International Law.
International law provides a clear recourse in situations of this sort:
present the matter to the Security Council, which is empowered under the
UN Charter, the fundamental document of contemporary international law,
to take appropriate action. The Security Council has met and unanimously
denounced the terrorist attacks, passing a strong resolution. But the
Security Council resolution did not -- despite what Washington might
claim -- authorize the use of force, and especially not a unilateral use
of force. The resolution ends by saying that the Council "remains seized
of the matter," which, as former UN correspondent Phyllis Bennis notes,
is "UN diplo-speak" meaning that "decision-making remains in the hands
of the Council itself, not those of any individual nation." To be sure,
the UN Charter allows countries to act in self-defense which would
permit the United States to shoot down a terrorist plane, for example.
But it has long been clear UN doctrine that self-defense does not allow
countries to themselves launch massive reprisal raids -- precisely
because to allow such reprisals would lead to an endless cycle of
unrestrained violence.
3. War would be unlikely to eliminate those responsible for the
September 11 attacks.
If bin Laden is indeed the evil genius responsible for the September 11
attacks, is it credible that he and his top aides would be so bumbling
as to wait around for the U.S. military to exterminate them? We know
they have already abandoned their training camps (NYT, 19 Sept. 2001).
They may have relocated themselves to some unknown caves in the Afghan
mountains, they may have moved into various Afghan villages, blending in
with the population, or they may even have left the country entirely.
Are U.S. bombers and cruise-missiles really going to find bin Laden and
unknown associates? It's doubtful that Washington has good intelligence
as to their whereabouts; when the U.S. launched cruise missiles at bin
Laden in 1998 -- with the advantage of surprise -- its information was
out of date and he was already gone. It's likely to be even harder to
find him and his lieutenants now. War is hardly the most effective way
to pursue the perpetrators and they are hardly likely to be its primary
victims.
4. Huge numbers of innocent people will die.
It was precisely the fact that the September 11 attacks killed large
numbers of civilians that made the attacks terroristic and so horrific.
If it is immoral to slaughter thousands of Americans in an effort to
disrupt the U.S. economy and force a change in U.S. policy, it is no
less immoral to slaughter thousands of Afghans in an effort to force the
Taliban to change its policy. The United States is moving large numbers
of warplanes and missile-launching vessels into the region, yet there
are hardly any military targets in Afghanistan for them to attack. It is
inevitable that civilians will bear the brunt of any major campaign --
civilians who, in their vast majority, probably are ignorant not only of
the recent terrorist assault on the U.S., but probably even of bin Laden
himself. Ground forces might be less indiscriminate, but it's hard to
imagine that Washington's military plans won't involve the massive
application of force, with horrendous human consequences.
While the image of bombers flying over Afghanistan and bombing a people
whose average lifespan is about 45 years of age and who are suffering
terrible deprivation already -- not least due to the Taliban, which the
U.S. helped create and empower -- is horrifying enough, it is important
to realize that death and deprivation come in many forms. Even without
widespread bombing, if the threat to attack the civilian population or
outright coercion of other countries leads to curtailment of food aid to
Afghanistan, the ensuing starvation could kill a million or more Afghans
by mid-winter. Is this the appropriate response to terror?
5. War will reduce the security of U.S. citizens.
What drives people to devote -- and even sacrifice -- their lives to
anti-American terrorism? No doubt the causes are complex, but surely
deep feelings of anger and frustration at the U.S. role in the Middle
East is a significant factor. If the United States goes to war some
terrorists will probably be killed, but so too will many innocent
people. And each of these innocent victims will have relatives and
friends whose anger and frustration at the United States will rise to
new heights, and the ranks of the terrorists will be refilled many times
over. And the new recruits will not just come from Afghanistan. To many
Muslims throughout the Middle East, war will be seen as an attack on
Islam -- and this is one reason that many of Washington's Islamic allies
are urging caution. Significantly, the New York Times reports that the
"drumbeat for war, so loud in the rest of the country, is barely audible
on the streets of New York" (NYT, 20 Sept. 2001). Their city suffered
unbearable pain, but many New Yorkers know that the retaliatory killing
of people in the Middle East will not make them any safer; on the
contrary, it is likely to lead to more, not less terror on U.S. soil,
and in any event, would inflict the same pain on still more innocent
people.
The dynamic of terror and counter-terror is a familiar one: it leads not
to peace but to more violence. Israel's response to terrorism hasn't
brought Israelis more security. Nor has retaliatory terrorism made
people more secure elsewhere. Indeed, it is quite likely that the
perpetrators of the terror attack on the United States would like
nothing more than to induce a massive U.S. military response which might
destabilize the whole region, leading to the creation of millions of
holy warriors and the overthrow of governments throughout the Islamic
world. Whether bin Laden's al-Qaeda or some other extremist group or
groups is responsible, war might play right into their hands, reducing
the security of us all.

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08 Haider in Triest
From: livia pesci <ulthar@metacrawler.com>
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"Mit Ehr' und Pomp" wurde gestern Jörg Haider als offizieller Gast
der Stadt Triest empfangen.

Als Politiker, "dessen Namen auf den Transparenten deutscher (NPD)
bzw. italienischer Neo-Nazifaschisten (Forza Nuova, in Triest
besonders stark) prangt, der aufrechte SS-Veteranen zu seinen
besonderen Freunden zählt und die Beschäftigungspolitik des 3. Reichs
lobt", war er vom langjährigen Bürgermeister Illy (Mittelinksbündnis
Ölbaum) stets als nicht stubenrein für das Rathaus von Triest
befunden worden. Von der seit zwei Monaten amtierenden
rechts/rechtsextremen kommunalen Verwaltung (Forza Italia + Alleanza
Nazionale) wurde Haider indessen "wie ein kleiner König" gleich in
das besonders illustren Gästen vorbehaltene Blaue Zimmer geleitet. In
Vertretung von Forza-Bürgermeister Dipiazza, der sich gerade auf
Schulausflug befand, hielt der Stadtrat für Öffentliche Bauten,
Rossi, die Willkommensrede. Er wäre sehr glücklich, Haider gerade in
einem solchen historischen Moment der politischen Einhelligkeit
begrüßen zu dürfen (Anspielung auf die rechts/rechtsextreme
Koalition, die sowohl in der Stadt und Provinz Triest als auch in der
Region Friaul/Julisch Venetien, als auch in Italien regiert). Man
hätte kulturell und wirtschaftlich Großes vor, wozu auch die
Traditionspflege gehöre, so Rossi. Daher sei die Freundschaft der
drei Völker, des österreichischen, slowenischen und italienischen, so
besonders wichtig. Zwar war Haider offiziell nach Triest gekommen, um
entsprechend kostümiert die Werbetrommel für den mittelalterlichen
Kirtag in Friesach zu schlagen, hielt aber trotzdem eine kleine
brandheiß aktuelle staatsmännische Rede. Er sei angenehm überrascht,
daß fast alle Staaten sich dem Kampf gegen den internationalen
Terrorismus angeschlossen hätten, und nicht nur einige wenige, wie er
befürchtet hatte. Weiters ermahnte er, nicht allzu gewalttätig gegen
Globalisierungsgegner vorzugehen, da die Aggression leicht die
Falschen treffen könnte (tatsächlich sind Neonazis, speziell Forza
Nuova, besonders erbitterte Globalisierungsgegner - allerdings aus
ganz anderen, völkisch-rassischen, Motiven).
Quelle

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09 Nationwide Peace rallies
From: Dick Withecombe <r.withecombe@zen.co.uk>
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Manchester  - Peace rally

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/news/index.shtml

About 200 people have attended a peace rally in Manchester City Centre
on
Saturday. The event in St Peters Square, which was set up after last
weeks
terrorist attacks, was organised by CND. The group says the rally was
being
held to condemn last week's attacks while warning against any further
violence. Another rally is planned for next week.
Anti-war Protesters Say 'No To Military Strikes'
Ananova
Saturday September 22, 2001 9:12 PM
Anti-war demonstrators have staged a series of city centre rallies to
voice
opposition to any military action against Afghanistan.
About 3,000 protesters campaigned in London; 1,000 people protested in
Glasgow; and more than 300 attended a smaller event in Manchester.
The protests, organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, called
on
the Western powers not to launch a military attack against Osama bin
Laden,
who is thought to be behind the atrocities in New York and Washington.
CND chair Carol Naughton said the organisation was opposed to any
military
strike and warned Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W
Bush
that they risked being seen as terrorists themselves if they used any
violent action.
"Any military strike is going to kill yet more civilians who don't
deserve
to die, in the same way as the Americans didn't deserve to die. It will
only
create a spiral of violence and it will create a huge uprising against
the
US and possibly Britain.
In London, protesters stood "shoulder to shoulder" in Whitehall opposite
Dowing Street as a protest against Mr Blair's description of Britain's
political and military relationship with the US government.
A protest in Glasgow's George Street began with a minute's silence in
memory
of those who lost their lives in last week's terrorist attacks.
Speakers at the demonstration, held under the banner of "justice not
vengeance," included Tommy Sheridan, leader of the Scottish Socialist
Party,
anti-racism campaigner Aamer Anwar and representatives of the Scottish
Green
Party, trades unions and Strathclyde firefighters.
Brian Quail, joint secretary of Scottish CND, said: "An eye for an eye
makes
a blind world. We must have no room in our hearts for vengeance."
In Manchester, protesters marched from the Peace Gardens to Fountain
Street
before congregating in Royal Exchange Square, where there was a short
speech.

Anti-war protest in Whitehall
http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=451495&in_r
eview_text_id=401720
Several thousand people have staged a demonstration in Whitehall in
protest
at a possible military strike against Osama bin Laden.
   Around 3,000 protesters from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND)
stood "shoulder to shoulder" down the central London street, mocking
Prime
Minister Tony Blair's description of Britain's political and military
relationship with the US
government.
The protest, opposite the entrance to Downing Street, came the day after
Mr
Blair finished a whistle-stop tour of Europe and North America to drum
up
support for the anti-terrorist coalition.
CND chair Carol Naughton said the organisation was opposed to any
military
strike and warned Mr Blair and US President George Bush that they risk
being
seen as terrorists themselves if they use any violent action.
"Any military strike is going to kill yet more civilians who don't
deserve
to die, in the same way as the Americans didn't deserve to die," she
said.
"It will only create a spiral of violence and it will create a huge
uprising
against the US and possibly Britain.
"I would not condone any act of terrorism, but any action should be done
through the proper channels."
She said even a very targeted special forces strike risked civilian
casualties.
"There can't be any kind of military strike. We've seen precision go
wrong
before, killing bunkers of women and children.

"All it will do is create terrorists out of Bush and Blair."Saturday, 22 September, 2001, 17:07 GMT 18:07 UK
Scottish CND Peace rally opposes US strikes
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1558000/1558164.stm
The "Stop the War" rally gathered in George Square, Glasgow
Several hundred people have attended a rally in Glasgow to express their
opposition to the use of any possible military strike by the United
States.
About 300 people attended the event in Glasgow's George Square,
organised by
the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Scottish CND).
The rally carried the message "justice not vengeance" and a minute's
silence
was also held for the thousands of victims of the terrorist attacks on
the
US.
About 3,000 people also attended a demonstration in London and several
hundred gathered in Manchester.
Last week's attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon
in
Washington and on a plane which crashed in Pennsylvania were remembered
But speakers said the atrocity should not be used as an excuse for acts
of
retaliation against "innocent victims".
Speakers at the Glasgow rally included Tommy Sheridan, leader of the
Scottish Socialist Party, anti-racism campaigner Aamer Anwar, and
representatives of the Scottish Green Party, trade unions and
Strathclyde
firefighters.
It follows a declaration by Scottish CND to "stop the war" which has so
far
been signed by eight MSPs as well as academics, trade unionists and
peace
campaigners.
Brian Quail, joint secretary of Scottish CND, said: "The wilful killing
of
innocent people can never be justified and is an act that merits
unequivocal
and unreserved condemnation.
"We demand that those responsible for the dreadful deeds in New York and
Washington be brought to justice, but we will not uphold the calls for
retaliation on more innocent victims, because the killing of innocent
people
cannot be justified as compensation for the loss of other victims.
Eye for an eye
"It is an elementary and immutable principle that two wrongs don't make
a
right.
"An eye for an eye makes a blind world. We must have no room in our
hearts
for vengeance."
Mr Sheridan told the crowd to "take strength" from the force of their
numbers and build a coalition of opposition to the "war on terrorism".
He called on people to gather again in George Square if military strikes
were launched against Afghanistan, to show their opposition.
He said: "I appeal to everyone to become involved in a broad-based
anti-war
movement, a broad-based movement for peace and for equality throughout
the
world."
But Mohamed Asif, an Afghan refugee, urged politicians to think before
enforcing any further suffering on the people of his native country.
He told the rally that whoever perpetrated the attacks on the US should
be
brought to justice.
But he said that this must not be at the expense of innocent people in
Afghanistan.
Innocent people
He said that after 23 years of conflict there is nothing left to be
bombed
or destroyed in Afghanistan.
"People are tired of the Taliban. People are tired of these guys who are
hiding in Afghanistan because the people of Afghanistan did not elect
Osama
bin Laden.
"But we think, and I personally think, that innocent people are going to
die
in Afghanistan and we will see another New York or Washington in
Afghanistan
very soon.
"We hope that this will not happen."

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10 Fw: Chomsky Interview
From: Sabine Kroesen <sabine.kroesen@chello.at>
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Composite Interview
By Noam Chomsky1. How do you see the media coverage of this event? Is there a parallel
to the Gulf War in "manufacturing consent?"
Media coverage is not quite as uniform as Europeans seem to believe,
perhaps because they are keeping to the NYT, NPR, TV, and so on. Even
the NYT conceded, this morning, that attitudes in New York are quite
unlike those they have been conveying. It's a good story, also hinting
at the fact that the mainstream media have not been reporting this,
which is not entirely true, though it has been true, pretty much, of the
NYT. But it is entirely typical for the major media, and the
intellectual classes generally, to line up in support of power at a time
of crisis and to try to mobilize the population for the same cause. That
was true, with almost hysterical intensity, at the time of the bombing
of Serbia. The Gulf war was not at all unusual. To take an example that
is remote enough so that we should be able to look at it
dispassionately, how did the intellectuals of Europe and North America
react to World War I -- across the political spectrum? Exceptions are so
few that we can virtually list them, and most of the most prominent
ended up in jail: Rosa Luxemburg, Bertrand Russell, Eugene Debs,...2. Assuming that the terrorists chose the World Trade Center as a
symbolic target, how does globalization and cultural hegemony help
create hatred towards America.
This is an extremely convenient belief for Western intellectuals. It
absolves them of responsibility for the actions that actually do lie
behind the choice of the WTC. Was it bombed in 1993 because of concern
over globalization and cultural hegemony? A few days ago the Wall Street
Journal reported attitudes of rich and privileged Egyptians at a
McDonald's restaurant wearing stylish American clothes, etc., and
bitterly critical of the US for objective reasons of policy, which are
well-known to those who wish to know: they had a report a few days
earlier on attitudes of bankers, professionals, businessmen in the
region, all pro-American, and harshly critical of US policies. Is that
concern over "globalization", McDonald's, and jeans? Attitudes in the
street are similar, but far more intense, and have nothing at all to do
with these fashionable excuses.
As for the bin Laden network, they have as little concern for
globalization and cultural hegemony as they do for the poor and
oppressed people of the Middle East who they have been severely harming
for years. They tell us what their concerns are loud and clear: they are
fighting a Holy War against the corrupt, repressive, and "un-Islamist"
regimes of the region, and their supporters, just as they fought a Holy
War against the Russians in the 1980s (and are now doing in Chechnya,
Western China, Egypt (in this case since 1981, when they assassinated
Sadat), and elsewhere. Bin Laden himself probably never even heard of
"globalization." Those who have interviewed him in depth, like Robert
Fisk, report that he knows virtually nothing of the world, and doesn't
care to. We can choose to ignore all the facts and indulge in
self-indulgent fantasies if we like, but at considerable risk to
ourselves, among others. Among other things, we can also ignore, if we
choose, the roots of the "Afghanis" such as bin Laden and his
associates, also not a secret.3. Are the American people educated to see this? Is there an awareness
of cause and effect?
Unfortunately not, just as the European people are not. What is
crucially important for privileged elements in the Middle East region
(and even more so, on the streets) is scarcely understood here,
particularly the most striking example: the contrasting US policies
towards Iraq and Israel's military occupation. About the latter, the
most important facts are scarcely even reported, and are almost
universally unknown, to elite intellectuals in particular. Very easy to
give examples. Can easily refer you to material in print for many years,
if you like, including right now.4. How do you see the reaction of the American Government? Who's will
are they representing?
The US government, like others, primarily responds to centers of
concentrated domestic power. That should be a truism. Of course, there
are other influences, including popular currents -- that is true of all
societies, even brutal totalitarian systems, surely more democratic
ones. Insofar as we have information, the US government is now trying to
exploit the opportunity to ram through its own agenda: militarization,
including "missile defense," a code word for militarization of space;
undermining social democratic programs and concerns over the harsh
effects of corporate "globalization," or environmental issues, or health
insurance, and so on; instituting measures that will intensify the
transfer of wealth to very narrow sectors (e.g., eliminating the capital
gains tax); regimenting the society so as to eliminate discussion and
protest. All normal, and entirely natural. As for a response, they are,
I presume, listening to the foreign leaders, specialists on the Middle
East, and I suppose their own intelligence agencies, who are warning
them that a massive military response will answer bin Laden's prayers.
But there are hawkish elements who want to use the occasion to strike
out at their enemies, with extreme violence, no matter how many innocent
people suffer, including people here and in Europe who will be victims
of the escalating cycle of violence. All again in a very familiar
dynamic. There are plenty of bin Ladens on both sides, as usual.5. Economic globalization has spread the western model all over, and the
USA in primis have supported it, sometimes with questionable means,
often humiliating local cultures. Are we facing the consequences of the
last decades of american strategic policy? Is America an innocent
victim?
This thesis is commonly in advanced. I don't agree. One reason is that
the western model -- notably, the US model -- is based on vast state
intervention into the economy. The "neoliberal rules" are like those of
earlier eras. They are double-edged: market discipline is good for you,
but not for me, except for temporary advantage, when I am in a good
position to win the competition.
Secondly, what happened on Sept. 11 has virtually nothing to do with
economic globalization, in my opinion. The reasons lie elsewhere.
Nothing can justify crimes such as those of Sept. 11, but we can think
of the US as an "innocent victim" only if we adopt the convenient path
of ignoring the actions of the US and its allies, which are, after all,
hardly a secret.6. Everybody agrees that nothing will be the same after 11th september,
form daily life with a restriction of rights up to global strategy with
new alliances and enemies. What is your opinion about this?
The horrendous terrorist attacks on Tuesday are something quite new in
world affairs, not in their scale and character, but in the target. For
the US, this is the first time since the War of 1812 that its national
territory has been under attack, even threat. Its colonies have been
attacked, but not the national territory itself. During these years the
US virtually exterminated the indigenous population, conquered half of
Mexico, intervened violently in the surrounding region, conquered Hawaii
and the Philippines (killing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos), and in
the past half century particularly, extended its resort to force
throughout much of the world. The number of victims is colossal. For the
first time, the guns have been directed the other way. The same is true,
even more dramatically, of Europe. Europe has suffered murderous
destruction, but from internal wars, meanwhile conquering much of the
world with extreme brutality. But India did not attack England, or the
Congo Belgium, or the East Indies the Netherlands. One can think of
marginal exceptions, but this is truly novel in several centuries of
history -- not in scale, regrettably, but in the choice of target.
I do not think it will lead to a long-term restriction of rights
internally in any serious sense. The cultural and institutional barriers
to that are too firmly rooted, I believe. If the US chooses to respond
by escalating the cycle of violence, answering the prayers of bin Laden
and his associates, then the consequences could be awesome. There are,
of course, other ways, lawful and constructive ones. And there are ample
precedents for them. An aroused public within the more free and
democratic societies can direct policies towards a much more humane and
honorable course.7. World-wide intelligence services and the international systems of
control (Echelon, for example) could not forsee what was going to
happen, even if the international islamic terrorism network was not
unknown. How is it possible that the Big Brother's eyes were shut? Do we
have to fear, now a Bigger Big Brother?
I frankly have never been overly impressed with concerns widely voiced
in Europe over Echelon as a system of control. As for world-wide
intelligence systems, their failures over the years have been colossal,
a matter I and others have written about, and that I cannot pursue here.
That is true even when the targets of concern are far easier to deal
with than the bin Laden network, presumed to be responsible for the
Sept. 11 crimes. Surely one would expect the network to be reasonably
well understood by the CIA, French intelligence, and others who
participated in establishing it and nurtured it as long as it was useful
to them for a Holy War against the Russian enemy, but even then they did
not understand it well enough to prevent such events as the
assassination of President Sadat in 1981, the suicide bombing that
effectively drove the US military out of Lebanon in 1983, and many other
examples of what is called "blowback" in the literature on these topics.
By now the network is no doubt so decentralized, so lacking in
hierarchical structure, and so dispersed throughout much of the world as
to have become largely impenetrable. The intelligence services will no
doubt be given resources to try harder. But a serious effort to reduce
the threat of this kind of terrorism, as in innumerable other cases,
requires an effort to understand and to address the causes.
When a Federal Building was blown up in Oklahoma City, there were
immediate cries to bomb the Middle East. These terminated when it was
discovered that the perpetrator was from the US ultra-right militia
movement. The reaction was not to destroy Montana and Idaho, where the
movements are based, but to seek and capture the perpetrator, bring him
to trial, and -- crucially -- explore the grievances that lie behind
such crimes and to address the problems. Just about every crime --
whether a robbery in the streets or colossal atrocities -- has reasons,
and commonly we find that some of them are serious and should be
addressed. Matters are no different in this case -- at least, for those
who are concerned to reduce the threat of terrorist violence rather than
to escalate it.8. Bin Laden, the devil: is this an enemy or rather a brand, a sort of
logo which identifies and personalizes the evil?
Bin Laden may or may not be directly implicated in these acts, but it is
likely that the network in which he was a prime figure is -- that is,
the network established by the US and its allies for their own purposes
and supported as long as it served those purposes. It is much easier to
personalize the enemy, identified as the symbol of ultimate evil, than
to seek to understand what lies behind major atrocities. And there are,
naturally, very strong temptations to ignore one's own role -- which in
this case, is not difficult to unearth, and indeed is familiar to
everyone who has any familiarity with the region and its recent history.

9. Doesn't this war risk to become a new Vietnam? That trauma is still
alive.
That is an analogy that is often raised. It reveals, in my opinion, the
profound impact of several hundred years of imperial violence on the
intellectual and moral culture of the West. The war in Vietnam began as
a US attack against South Vietnam, which was always the main target of
the US wars, which ended by devastating much of Indochina. Unless we are
willing to face that elementary fact, we cannot talk seriously about the
Vietnam wars. It is true that the war proved costly to the US, though
the impact on Indochina was incomparably more awful. The invasion of
Afghanistan also proved costly to the USSR, but that is not the problem
that comes to the fore when we consider that crime.
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12 Zensur der Auslandspresse durch palästinensische Polizei
From: susanne.feigl@netway.at
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Die auch im MUND verbreitete Meldung, bei den von CNN verwendeten
Filmmaterial (jubelnde Araber angesichts der Terroranschläge in den USA
) hätte es sich um Archivmaterial gehandelt, hat sich in der
Zwischenzeit als Falschmeldung herausgestellt. Im Interesse einer
umfassenden
Information ersuche ich Sie, den folgenden Protestbrief der in Israel
tätigen Auslandsjournalisten an Yasser Arafat zu veröffentlichen, in
dem gegen dagegen protestiert wird, die Reaktionen von Palästinenser auf
die Terroranschläge zu fotografieren bzw. das Filmmaterial zu
verwenden. - Susanne Feigl

Palestinian Authority: CPJ Protests Censorship, Intimidation of
Journalists
September 17, 2001
> His Excellency Yasser Arafat
> President of the Palestinian National Authority
> Al-Muntada, Gaza
>
> Via Facsimile: 972-7-282-2365
>
> Your Excellency:
>
> The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly protests recent
acts
of
> censorship and intimidation carried out by the Palestinian National
> Authority (PNA) against journalists covering celebrations among some
> Palestinians of last Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York City and
> Washington, D.C.
>
> On September 11, according to international press reports, Palestinian
> police and armed gunmen prevented several news photographers and
cameramen
> from documenting events in the West Bank city of Nablus, where groups
of
> Palestinians celebrated the attacks by honking horns and firing live
> ammunition rounds into the air.
>
> According to The Associated Press, Palestinian security authorities
summoned
> a free-lance cameraman working for the AP that same day and warned him
not
> to air his footage of the events. Members of the Tanzim militia,
affiliated
> with Your Excellency's Fatah organization, also issued warnings that
the
AP
> cameraman interpreted as threatening.
>
> Later, the AP quoted PNA cabinet secretary Ahmed Abdel Rahman as
saying
that
> the PNA "[could] not guarantee the life" of the AP cameraman if the
film
> were broadcast. In the end, the footage was not aired, apparently out
of
> concern for the journalist's safety.
>
> Three days later, on September 14, Palestinian police briefly detained
> several photographers and cameramen working with international news
agencies
> in the Gaza Strip and confiscated their equipment. The journalists had
been
> covering a rally to commemorate a Palestinian suicide bomber that the
> militant Islamic group Hamas staged in the Nusseirat refugee camp.
>
> During the rally, one protestor reportedly held up a portrait of Osama
bin
> Laden, the exiled Saudi financier suspected by the United States of
> orchestrating the recent attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.
> Palestinian police later stated that they "confiscated media material
which
> documented illegal acts" at an illegal rally.
>
> Although the PNA returned the journalists' camera equipment that
weekend,
> some of their video footage had been erased. The AP reported yesterday
that
> its video was missing 45 seconds of footage. Another photographer told
CPJ
> that images stored on his digital camera had been erased.
>
> These acts of intimidation and censorship violate the most fundamental
norms
> of free expression. As a nonpartisan organization of journalists
dedicated
> to defending press freedom worldwide, CPJ urges you to ensure that
> Palestinian authorities immediately cease threatening and censoring
> journalists in PNA-controlled areas.
>
> We also urge you to investigate these incidents and prosecute anyone
found
> to have acted illegally in threatening the press. Finally, we call on
you
to
> issue a public statement reiterating your personal commitment to
protecting
> the security of journalists and guaranteeing their right to work
freely.
>
> Thank you for your attention to this important matter. We look forward
to
> your reply.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
> Ann K. Cooper
> Executive Director
>
>
> CC:
>
> American Society of Newspaper Editors
> Amnesty International
> Article 19 (United Kingdom)
> Artikel 19 (The Netherlands)
> Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
> Freedom Forum
> Freedom House
> Human Rights Watch
> Index on Censorship
> International Center for Journalists
> International Federation of Journalists
> International PEN
> International Press Institute
> Lorne W. Craner, United States Assistant Secretary for
> Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
> The Newspaper Guild
> The North American Broadcasters Association
> Overseas Press Club
> Reporters Sans Frontières
> Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for
> Human Rights
> The Society of Professional Journalists
> World Association of Newspapers
> World Press Freedom Committee
>
> *************************
> Joel Campagna
> Program Coordinator
> Middle East and North Africa
>
> Committee to Protect Journalists
> 330 Seventh Avenue
> 12th Floor
> New York, NY 10001
>
> Tel: (212) 465-1004, x-103
> Fax: (212) 465-9568
> Web: www.cpj.org
Dr. Susanne Feigl
Florianigasse 13/31
A-1080 Wien
Fon: ++43/1-406 45 17
Fax: ++43/1-407 81 42
E-Mail: susanne.feigl@netway.at

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13 phone & write + act on the ground against new expulsion of cave
dwellers
From: Gush Shalom <info@gush-shalom.org>
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GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/

[During the past days news came out that 118 cave dwellers whose
dwellings
had
been demolished a few months ago and who survived in make-shifts, were
chased
from their lands during the Jewish New Year feast - following an action
of
Israelis to bring them food and water (sic!). This is a description of
what
happened + a request to the supporters worldwide to phone and/or write
letters,
followed by a text about what we try to do locally. (NB: Israelis will
find
there important additional information about the logistics of the
Tuesday
action.)
The text of the call in the name of a still growing coalition of groups
(so
far: Gush Shalom, ICAHD, Rabbis For Human Rights, Ta'ayoush, Women's
Coalition)
was written by Rabbi Arik Asherman. We edited it a bit to make it
understandable also for those who are not acquainted with the Jewish
religion.]
------------international appeal------
Dear Friends and Supporters
Over a year ago, 300 Cave Dwellers from the South Hebron Hills were
evacuated from their homes. You were kind enough to write letters to the
relevant authorities, which assisted us in returning the cave dwellers
to
their homes. We are again asking for your help.
Erev Rosh Hashana - the evening which marks the beginning of the Jewish
New
Year celebration, this year on Sept. 17. In utter cynicism this was
the
time
chosen by Israeli security forces for the expulsion from their homes of
118
cave dwellers of the South Hebron Hills. This happened in spite of
an explicit written promise from the Attorney General's office to
attorney
Shlomo Lecker not to do so without giving time to appeal. The expulsion
was
apparently retaliation for the Ta'ayush group's activity bringing
massive
amounts of humanitarian aid a few days earlier.
In this precedent setting desecration of Rosh HaShanah, soldiers arrived
around 11:00 PM and evacuated Yusaf Akel Al-Jabur and his 11 family
members
from his 11 family members. The soldiers damaged property and tents.
After a
verbal confrontation the soldiers agreed to leave one tent for the
children
until 5:00 AM. Security Forces moved on to the tents and homes of the
families
of Ahmed Nasser al-Nawajeh and Jaber Hamad Nasser Al-Nawajeh (10 people)
They
also made appoint of demolishing the water cistern filled by Ta'ayush.
The
scene repeated itself on the property of Halil Mahmad Smallem
Al-Nawaja. His
14 year old son was arrested for an unknown reason for 7 hours. He was
eventually released and left him to walk the 10 kilometer return trip.
The
sixty five year old wife of Nasser Mahmad Al-Nafajeh (sorry that the
report
which I received does not have women's names) was dragged on the ground,
causing injury to both her legs and body. The families of Issa Ahmad
Shnaran (5
people) Musah Ahmad Shnaran (4), Hasin Ahmad Shnaran (8), Naaman Shnaran
(7),
Bnei Mahmad Abed Al-Mahsan Rashid (18), Halil Mahmad Hamdan Massalem
Al-Nawaja
(4) , Halil Mahmad Abed Al-Mahsan Rashid (18), Halil Mahmad Al-Harini
Al-Nabi
(5), Mhmad Hamadan Blal Al-Harini (6); Musa Asmail Hamad Blal (7), Yusaf
Al
Daramin (6), Aref Mahmad Al-Bedarin (12),, Assmail Sallami Al Nawajeh
(9).
I know this is holiday time for many, while others are still wrapped up
in
the terror attack on the US. However, please dig deep and find a moment
to
write letters with copies to us of letters and responses:
Please Call
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: The Office of the Prime Minister, Kiryat
Ben-Gurion,
Jerusalem, Israel; Office Tel. 972-2-6705555/10Fax:
972-2-566-4838/6705415;
webmaster@pmo.gov.il
Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres: HaKirya Romema Jerusalem
91950
sar@mofa.gov.il; Tel. 972 2 5303531/3631/530 fax (+972-2) 5303506 /
5303896
5303367
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer sar@mod.gov.il
Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin Pilosof, sgansar@mod.gov.il
Colonel Dov Tzedaka, commander, Civil Administration Fax 972 2 9977326
President George W. Bush,
Fax: +1-202-456-2461;
E-mail: president@whitehouse.gov;
Secretary of State Colin Powell,
Fax: +1-202-261-8577;
E-mail: secretary@state.gov;
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan,
Fax: +1-212.963.5012;
email: ecu@un.org;
Personal Representative of the Secretary General to the United Nations
in
Palestine
Fax: + 972 8 282 0966
Email: unsco@palnet.com
Political Advisers to Mr Miguel Moratinos - Special EU Envoy to the
M-E.:
Fax: + 32 2 285 87 52;

Mr/M. Bernardino <bernardino.leon@consilium.eu.int>;
Ms Karin Roxman <karin.roxman@consilium.eu.int>;
Mr/M. Christian Jouret <christian.jouret@consilium.eu.int>;

-------- appeal to the Israeli activists

DURING THE TEN DAYS OF RETURN, WE MUST RETURN THE EXPELLED CAVE DWELLERS
TO THEIR HOMES
Friends,
We have the opportunity on Monday to really make a difference in the
lives
of the at least 118 victims of the latest expulsion attempt in the South
Hebron Hills. The lesson learned from our successful attempt to return
the
previous expelees is that a wide coalition and mass action are
effective.
However, to do this, we need you and everybody whom you know to be a
part
of this effort and insure that there are hundreds joining us, the cave
dweller's attorney Shlomo Lecker and many other human rights
organizations, in a mass action to return those expelled on Rosh HaShana
itself and in spite of government commitments. You will determine
whether
or not Israeli security forces will successfully overturn the High
Court's
decision to reverse the previous expulsion and punish people for the
Ta'ayoush convoy bringing humanitarian aid a week ago.
Schedule:
1. 8:30 departure from Binyanei HaUma in Jerusalem and the Northern Bus
Station in TA. 2. 10:00 Shlomo Lecker will give an overview at the
Shoket junction 3.11:00 entry into area in order to rebuild the cistern
which Ta'ayoush had filled with water and the army destroyed, work in
the olive grove and creating a protest tent. 4. Second group departs at
12:00 from Jerusalem and TA. 5. Those interested will sleep over
Please let us know if you are coming so that we can plan transportation.
Please bring water and food. If you will be staying overnight, bring a
tent and/or sleeping bag.As of now, the sponsoring coalition includes:
Gush Shalom
Israeli Committee Against House Demolition
Rabbis For Human Rights
Ta'ayoush
Women's Coalition
A translated excerpt from David Grossman's article on 6.12.99 after the
previous expulsion "I stand here at the cave opening, see and hear, but
don't really grasp things: What is happening here, how is it possible
that we, each and every Israeli citizen, is "signed on" to such a deed.
We fund it with our taxes. We are accessories to it when we send our
children to this army. What is the connection between the army we knew
and this entity which oppresses defenseless people... Mr. Prime
Minister:
To put it as simply as possible, it is not fair to deal this way with
people who are so weak. This is not what you or I were educated to do.
This is not what you taught generations of soldiers This is not what we
were thinking about when we first learned so many years about the
Prophet
Nathan's parable to King David about the last baby lamb stolen from a
poor
person."
Gmar Tov,
Arik

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14 Plan for anti-war blockades
From: mark.cutts <mark.cutts@tinyworld.co.uk>
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Plan for anti-war blockades
Nick Paton Walsh
Sunday September 23, 2001
The Observer
Peace protesters will blockade military facilities across the country in
an
attempt to paralyse the British war machine if a campaign of retaliative
strikes begins.
A new coalition of peace protesters, anti-globalisation campaigners and
some Muslim community leaders have considered an array of tactics
including sit-down protests at the gates of major military facilities.
The
coalition firmly opposes any military retaliation.
'The British role in these strikes is essential,' said Mike Marqusee,
leading some of the protests. 'Blockades will almost certainly happen.
Britain, in the eyes of the world, is the same as the United States. As
this conflict drags on, there will be acts of civil disobedience across
the
country. But all this will be non-violent.'
It is understood that protesters consider Menwith Hill - the British
home
of US surveillance equipment near Harrogate - to be a target.
The news comes as the peace coalition across the world gathers pace. The
British peace movement was forged at a meeting on Friday evening at
Friends
House in London. Witnesses described how over 300 people were forced to
stand outside in the street as the building brimmed with trade union
delegates, anti-globalisation protesters and Muslim community leaders.
On
Tuesday, an alliance of Socialists, trade unionists, anti-globalists and
Muslims will meet to co-ordinate future campaigns.
Guy Taylor, a spokesman for Globalise Resistance, the anti-globalisation
umbrella group, said they did not believe special forces attacks against
terrorist targets would work, and that the 'war on terrorism' was
infeasible. 'It seems a bit strange to declare war on a tactic,' he
said. He
added that the group had ruled out direct action, such as laying siege
to
military facilities, for the time being.
'But we will have to wait and see,' he added. 'We already have a huge
peace
movement and no bombs have dropped yet.'
Several hundred protesters gathered yesterday outside Whitehall in
silence
to urge 'No More Violence'. The organisers had requested attendees dress
in
black, bring no placards and remain silent in respect for the dead.
Pilgrim Tucker, 30, a post-graduate student from London, and her
daughter,
Poppy, 9, were there to show their opposition to military strikes. 'At
the
moment, they are just not justified,' she said.
'On the present evidence, a jury could not convict Osama bin Laden. It
would be thrown out of court. It is the public who suffered in New York.
They will suffer in the Middle East.'
Across Europe the peace and anti-globalisation messages melded. Peace
protestors marched through the Belgian city of Liege under an anti-war
banner yesterday as EU finance ministers discussed how to respond to the
World Trade Centre attacks. Across the UK, criticism began to grow for
the
'revenge talk' propounded by many of Bush's cabinet colleagues, and
backed
by Blair.

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15 Anti-war protests nationwide
From: mark.cutts <mark.cutts@tinyworld.co.uk>
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http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=451495&in_r
eview_text_id=401720

Several thousand people have staged a demonstration in Whitehall in
protest
at a possible military strike against Osama bin Laden.
   Around 3,000 protesters from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND)
stood "shoulder to shoulder" down the central London street, mocking
Prime
Minister Tony Blair's description of Britain's political and military
relationship with the US
government.

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=
451495&in_review_text_id=401720

The protest, opposite the entrance to Downing Street, came the day
after Mr
Blair finished a whistle-stop tour of Europe and North America to
drum up
support for the anti-terrorist coalition.
CND chair Carol Naughton said the organisation was opposed to any
military
strike and warned Mr Blair and US President George Bush that they
risk being
seen as terrorists themselves if they use any violent action.
"Any military strike is going to kill yet more civilians who don't
deserve
to die, in the same way as the Americans didn't deserve to die," she
said.
"It will only create a spiral of violence and it will create a huge
uprising
against the US and possibly Britain.
"I would not condone any act of terrorism, but any action should be
done
through the proper channels."
She said even a very targeted special forces strike risked civilian
casualties.
"There can't be any kind of military strike. We've seen precision go
wrong
before, killing bunkers of women and children.
"All it will do is create terrorists out of Bush and Blair." Saturday, 22 September, 2001, 17:07 GMT 18:07 UK
Scottish CND Peace rally opposes US strikes

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1558000/1558164.stm

The "Stop the War" rally gathered in George Square, Glasgow
Several hundred people have attended a rally in Glasgow to express
their
opposition to the use of any possible military strike by the United
States.
About 300 people attended the event in Glasgow's George Square,
organised by
the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Scottish CND).
The rally carried the message "justice not vengeance" and a minute's
silence
was also held for the thousands of victims of the terrorist attacks
on the
US.
About 3,000 people also attended a demonstration in London and
several
hundred gathered in Manchester.
Last week's attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the
Pentagon in
Washington and on a plane which crashed in Pennsylvania were
remembered
But speakers said the atrocity should not be used as an excuse for
acts of
retaliation against "innocent victims".
Speakers at the Glasgow rally included Tommy Sheridan, leader of the
Scottish Socialist Party, anti-racism campaigner Aamer Anwar, and
representatives of the Scottish Green Party, trade unions and
Strathclyde
firefighters.
It follows a declaration by Scottish CND to "stop the war" which has
so far
been signed by eight MSPs as well as academics, trade unionists and
peace
campaigners.
Brian Quail, joint secretary of Scottish CND, said: "The wilful
killing of
innocent people can never be justified and is an act that merits
unequivocal
and unreserved condemnation.
"We demand that those responsible for the dreadful deeds in New York
and
Washington be brought to justice, but we will not uphold the calls
for
retaliation on more innocent victims, because the killing of innocent
people
cannot be justified as compensation for the loss of other victims.
Eye for an eye
"It is an elementary and immutable principle that two wrongs don't
make a
right.
"An eye for an eye makes a blind world. We must have no room in our
hearts
for vengeance."
Mr Sheridan told the crowd to "take strength" from the force of their
numbers and build a coalition of opposition to the "war on
terrorism".
He called on people to gather again in George Square if military
strikes
were launched against Afghanistan, to show their opposition.
He said: "I appeal to everyone to become involved in a broad-based
anti-war
movement, a broad-based movement for peace and for equality
throughout the
world."
But Mohamed Asif, an Afghan refugee, urged politicians to think
before
enforcing any further suffering on the people of his native country.
He told the rally that whoever perpetrated the attacks on the US
should be
brought to justice.
But he said that this must not be at the expense of innocent people
in
Afghanistan.
Innocent people
He said that after 23 years of conflict there is nothing left to be
bombed
or destroyed in Afghanistan.
"People are tired of the Taliban. People are tired of these guys who
are
hiding in Afghanistan because the people of Afghanistan did not elect
Osama
bin Laden.
"But we think, and I personally think, that innocent people are going
to die
in Afghanistan and we will see another New York or Washington in
Afghanistan
very soon.
"We hope that this will not happen."
Manchester  - Peace rally
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/news/index.shtml
About 200 people have attended a peace rally in Manchester City
Centre on
Saturday. The event in St Peters Square, which was set up after last
weeks
terrorist attacks, was organised by CND. The group says the rally was
being
held to condemn last week's attacks while warning against any further
violence. Another rally is planned for next week.

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16 am Tag X ists zu spät.....
From: Friedensbüro Wien <pax.vienna@aon.at>
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PLATTFORM: STOPPT DEN KRIEG!
c/o Friedensbüro Wien.
Tel/Fax (01) 796 50 21
pax.vienna@aon.at
Betr.: "TAG X"
"FRIEDE BRAUCHT BEWEGUNG
STOPPT DEN KRIEG VON USA UND NATO"
Am 22. September 01 wurde die "Plattform: Stoppt den Krieg" aus
VertreterInnen verschiedener Initiativen und Gruppen gebildet, die sich
zu einer Beratung über Aktivitäten gegen die Kriegsdrohung bzw. die
eskalierende Kriegsgefahr trafen.
Als eine erste Aktion wurde beschlossen, zu Kundgebungen gegen den Krieg
am "Tag X" an möglichst vielen Orten in Österreich um 17.30 Uhr
unter dem Motto "Stoppt den Krieg von USA und NATO" aufzurufen:

FRIEDE BRAUCHT BEWEGUNG
STOPPT DEN KRIEG VON USA UND NATO
AM TAG X - TREFFPUNKT: 17.30 UHR, WIEN 1, STEPHANSPLATZ.
KOMMENTAR:
Gute Idee, ENDLICH was für den Frieden zu tun.

1.WIESO wird gewartet, bis es zu spät ist? "Wehret den Anfängen"
heißt eigentlich, was zu tun, damit es nicht zum Krieg kommt....
2.Was war das für eine Veranstaltung am 19.9.01 um 17:30 am
Stephansplatz? Eine Wahlveranstaltung für kommunistische Gruppen?
Eine Kundgebung gegen den Kapitalismus? ODER etwar gar eine
KUNDGEBUNG FÜR DEN FRIEDEN? Das war nicht erkennbar! In so
einem Fall sollte man über seinen roten Schatten springen und
auch mit Kirchen, Intellektuellen, Migrantenvertretern usw kooperieren.
Sonst gibts eine Friedensbewegung und keiner geht hin....
3.Unlängst wollte ich in der Bank was spenden. Im Gegenteil zu
Deutschland liegen hier von keiner Friedensinitiative Erlagscheine auf
-WIESO????

Ich hoffe bald mehr von einer starken Friedensinitiative zu hören!
Bettina Müller
(ich spreche hier auch für meine FreundInnen!)

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17 Aktionen gegen den Krieg
From: bsb@vorstadtzentrum.net
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Aktionen gegen den Krieg
Die USA bereiten mit politischer, logistischer und militärischer
Unterstützung der Europäischen Union ? und damit auch Österreichs -
einen neuen Kolonialkrieg vor. Ort und Zeitpunkt der Aggression steht
noch nicht fest, der Aufmarsch von US-Truppen im Mittelmeer lässt
befürchten dass auch der Irak, nicht nur Afghanistan, Ziel
amerikanischer Angriffe sein könnte. Fest stehen bereits die Opfer:
Schon jetzt flüchten Hunderttausende Afghanen vor den Bomben und der
drohenden Hungersnot. Die Bilder ihres Leides schaffen es allerdings
nicht ins Programm der zum Propagandainstrument umfunktionierten Medien.
Gegen das Grauen müssen wir Stellung beziehen! Wir müssen auf die
Straße, uns organisieren und zusammenschließen!
DEMONSTRATIONEN:
Unter der Losung: „Stoppt den US- und NATO-Krieg“ ruft die „Plattform
Nein zum Krieg“ auf zu einer Kundgebung:
Tag des Angriffs, 17.30 Uhr, Stephansplatz
Ein breites Bündnis verschiedener Gruppen veranstaltet am Freitag eine
Demonstration „Ein Jahr Intifada“, die sich auch gegen den drohenden
Krieg richtet. Die Solidarität mit dem palästinensischen Widerstand ist
für uns eine Möglichkeit zu zeigen, dass nur die Gerechtigkeit
dauerhaften Frieden bringen kann.
Fr. 28. September, 17.30 Uhr, Stephansplatz
KOORDINATION:
Die „Plattform Nein zum Krieg“, an der verschiedenste linke und
antimilitaristische Gruppen beteiligt sind, trifft sich:
Di, 25. September, 19.00 Uhr, 4., Gusshausstraße 14/3
Unter anderem geht es um die Vorbereitung einer Großdemonstration am 26.
Oktober.
AKTIONSTREFFEN der „Bewegung für soziale Befreiung“:
Mi, 26. September, 19.00 Uhr, 15., Meiselstrasse 46/4

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Stoppt den drohenden US- und NATO-Krieg!
Verteidigt die Neutralität!
Gegen die Globalisierung, die Diktatur der Reichen über die Armen!

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Bewegung für Soziale Befreiung BSB
Meiselstraße 46/4
A-1150 Wien
Tel&Fax: (+43 1) 924 31 61
bsb@vorstadtzentrum.net
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net
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18 [newsgroup] banned songs
From: bodo <bodo@niatu.net>
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In viele Radiostationen der USA kursieren derzeit Listen mit
'inappropriate songs'. Es gibt angeblich keine Verbindlichkeiten oder Verbote; aber es
halten sich wohl viele dran. Ich habe mir mal ein paar Listen angesehen und ein
paar bekannte Sachen rausgeschrieben. Die Listen sind aber wesentlich
laenger; als quasi 'Anweisung' ist das ziemlich seltsam. Wenn man sich die Songs
anschaut,
ist vieles irgendwie verstaendlich, anderes merkwuerdig (alles scheint
im Moment
in diesem Kontext reziepiert zu werden); manches ist auch glatt
politische
Zensur. Aber schaut selbst mal in diese unvollstaendige Liste (entgegen
muendlichen Berichten habe ich "It's raining Men" von den Weather Girls
nirgendwo gefunden / die Tippfehler bei Nena habe ich uebernommen).
Viele Gruesse,
Bodo
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Van Halen "Jump"
Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"
Queen "Another One Bites the Dust"
Tom Petty "Free Fallin'"
Bruce Springsteen "I'm On Fire"
Bruce Springsteen "Goin' Down"
Pink Floyd "Run Like Hell"
Peter and Gordon "I Go To Pieces"
Pretenders "My City Was Gone"
Kansas "Dust in the Wind"
Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken"
Zombies "She's Not There"
Korn "Falling Away From Me"
John Lennon "Imagine"
Black Sabbath "Suicide Solution"
REM "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
Judas Priest "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"
Pink Floyd "Mother"
Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian"
The Beatles "Ticket To Ride"
Paul McCartney and Wings "Live and Let Die"
Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young"
Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
Peter Paul and Mary "Blowin' in the Wind"
Frank Sinatra "New York, New York"
Alien Ant Farm "Smooth Criminal"
Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight"
Lynyrd Skynyrd "Tuesday's Gone"
Temple of the Dog "Say Hello to Heaven"
Soundgarden "Fell on Black Days," "Black Hole Sun"
Nina "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"
Rolling Stones "Ruby Tuesday"
All Rage Against The Machine songs
Dave Matthews Band "Crash Into Me"
Alanis Morissette "Ironic"
Fuel "Bad Day"
Peter Gabriel "When You're Falling"
John Mellencamp "Crumbling Down"
Los Bravos "Black is Black"
Elvis "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"
Carole King "I Feel the Earth Move"
Yager and Evans "In the Year 2525"
3 Doors Down "Duck and Run"
Lenny Kravitz "Fly Away"
Animals "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"

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verteilt ueber [newsgroup]
teilnehmen: eine nachricht an
farce@copyriot.com, ich will
newsgoup.
ausloggen: eine nachricht an
farce@copyriot.com, nimm mich
raus.
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19 65 per cent of voters back military action
From: mark.cutts <mark.cutts@tinyworld.co.uk>
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Britons ready for battle

http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,556658,00.html

65 % of voters back military action
Observer Terrorism Poll: Full results
Ben Summerskill, society editor
Sunday September 23, 2001
The Observer
Tony Blair is planning military action against terrorists this weekend
with the backing of two thirds of the electorate. Sixty-three per cent
of
voters believe Britain is now 'at war' with terrorism, and 65 % support
the use of surgical air strikes against countries harbouring terrorists.
The results of an Observer /YouGov poll, carried out among more than
3,000 respondents, will come as a relief to Downing Street strategists,
who had been worried that support for military action against those
behind the World Trade Centre attacks might fade. But Blair's visits to
Washington and New York last week, where he addressed a service
attended by relatives of British victims, appear to have hardened
support.
Voters are deeply cautious, however, about the role of President George
Bush in managing the crisis. While 65 % express confidence in Blair's
judgment, only 37 % say the same of the US leader. One of the most
striking findings is that 62 % of British voters have 'little or no
confidence'
in Bush taking the right decisions.
Only 27 % of voters support general air strikes against countries
harbouring terrorists - a possibility raised by Bush's advisers. More
than
90 % insist the US must build global support rather than act alone.
The survey shows, as in previous conflicts, that women are less likely
than men to support military action. Three quarters of men back air
strikes;
this falls to 55 % among women. Fifty three % of men believe
Britain should commit troops to the cause, a view shared by only 36 %
of women.
Older people are also more likely to back a military response. Almost
four
out of five voters over 40 support air strikes; this falls to 64 % among
under-40s.
There is clear endorsement for Blair's belief in conditional, rather
than
automatic, backing for US action - 77 % say the Prime Minister should
tell Bush that we will only support measures that Britain has
'specifically
approved'. Men are almost twice as likely as women to be among the 22 %
who believe in 'unconditional support' for the US.
The poll also reveals that seven out of 10 people fear that the crisis
is
either likely or very likely to lead to 'all-out war' in the Middle
East.
A majority think the crisis will escalate closer to home, too; 63 % feel
that
terrorists will now start using other weapons of mass destruction in the
West, such as chemical or nuclear weapons.
Only days after Home Secretary David Blunkett said he would consider
introducing compulsory identity cards in Britain, the poll found backing
for the idea from 71 % of voters. Eighty-eight per cent would be happy
to see security checks in public places, such as railway stations, while
56 %
are in favour of on-street police security checks and 47 % support
increased monitoring of telephone lines and the internet. Women are
more enthusiastic supporters of these limits on civil liberties than
men.
While there has been some criticism of public figures opposed to
military
action, the poll confirms a clear commitment to vigorous public debate,
with 70 % in favour of newspaper columnists critical of the US being
allowed to voice their opposition. Conservative voters are twice as
likely
as Labour or Liberal Democrats supporters to think critics should stay
silent.
Fifty-five per cent of voters think the new leader of the opposition,
Iain
Duncan Smith, should be asked to join the cabinet committee overseeing
the
crisis.
*YouGov.com sampled 3,128 people during 48 hours until Friday evening.
Results are weighted to the profile of all adults across the UK. YouGov
produced the most accurate poll of the general election, correct to 0.7
%.Observer Terrorism Poll: full results
The full results of the YouGov poll for The Observer.
Sunday September 23, 2001
The Observer
(1) How much confidence do you have in Tony Blair to take the right
decisions following the recent terrorist attacks in America?
A great deal: 19
A fair amount: 46
A little: 26
None at all: 9
Don't know: 0
Confidence in Blair: Demographic breakdown
Male (20-44-25-10-0)
Female (17-48-26-9-0)
Under 40 (20-48-26-9-0)
40 and over (10-45-29-15-0)
Conservative (10-45-29-15-0)
Labour (37-45-15-2-0)
LibDem (14-47-29-9-1)
Did not vote (14-51-25-10-0)
(2) How much confidence do you have in President Bush to take the right
decisions following the recent terrorist attacks in America?
A great deal: 10
A fair amount: 27
A little: 35
None at all: 27
Don't know: 1Confidence in Bush: Demographic breakdown
Male (12-30-33-25-0)
Female (8-25-37-29-0)
Under 40 (11-24-35-29-1)
40 and over (11-34-32-22-0)
Conservative (20-39-27-14-0)
Labour (7-23-40-29-0)
LibDem (3-19-39-39-0)
Did not vote (11-27-33-28-1)
(3) Do you think the attack on New York and Washington is best described
as an "act of war" or a "terrorist attack"?
Act of war 22
Terrorist attack 76
Don't know 2
Act of war? Demographic breakdown
Male (27-72-1)
Female (18-80-1)
Under 40 (22-76-2)
40 and over (27-73-0)
Conservative (34-65-1)
Labour (20-79-1)
LibDem (14-85-1)
Did not vote (22-74-4)
(4)Should we consider ourselves to be "at war" with terrorism?
Yes 63
No 29
Don't know 9
At war with terrorism? Demographic breakdown
Male (66-29-5)
Female (59-28-13)
Under 40 (59-33-9)
40 and over (72-24-5)
Conservative (77-19-4)
Labour (60-33-8)
LibDem (50-40-10)
Did not vote (61-30-9)
(5)(a)
Would you support "massive air strikes" against countries knowingly
harbouring terrorist organisationsYes 27
No 60
Don't know 13
Demographic breakdown
Male (33-59-8)
Female (21-61-17)
Under 40 (21-67-12)
40 and over (33-57-10)
Conservative (43-45-11)
Labour (25-64-10)
LibDem (14-75-11)
Did not vote (28-59-13)
(5)(b)
Would you support "surgical air strikes" against countries knowingly
harbouring terrorist organisations
Yes 65
No 22
Don't know 13
Demographic breakdown
Male (75-19-6)
Female (55-26-20)
Under 40 (64-24-12)
40 and over (77-17-6)
Conservative (84-12-4)
Labour (65-23-12)
LibDem (59-28-13)
Did not vote (28-59-13)
(6)
Do you think that there should be no military retaliation and that any
action should be limited to economic and/or diplomatic sanctions against
countries knowingly harbouring terrorist organisations?
Yes 21
No 68
Don't know 10
Demographic breakdown
Male (16-80-5)
Female (27-57-16)
Under 40 (22-68-11)
40 and over (16-79-5)
Conservative (10-87-3)
Labour (22-67-12)
LibDem (25-68-7)
Did not vote (23-66-11)
(7)
Osama Bin Laden has been named by the US as the "prime suspect" for
organising the terrorist attack on New York and Washington. Do you think
the case against is strong enough to justify taking action against him
and his
organisation?
Yes 53
No 20
Don't know 27
Enough evidence against Bin Laden? Demographic breakdown
Male (55-20-26)
Female (51-21-28)
Under 40 (51-24-26)
40 and over (58-14-28)
Conservative (65-14-21)
Labour (54-19-27)
LibDem (42-27-31)
Did not vote (49-24-28)
(8)
Do you think that putting Osama Bin Laden on trial in the West, and
punishing him if found guily, would be a sufficient response to the
terrorist attack on New York and Washington?
Yes 33
No 61
Don't know 6
Trying Bin Laden enough? Demographic breakdown
Male (29-67-5)
Female (37-55-8)
Under 40 (36-58-6)
40 and over (24-70-5)
Conservative (23-74-3)
Labour (36-57-7)
LibDem (36-55-8)
Did not vote (30-63-8)
(9)
Do you believe that Britain has a special responsibility to support US
action in this crisis?
Yes 61
No 34
Don't know 5
Britain special responsibility towards US? Demographic breakdown
Male (64-34-2)
Female (58-34-8)
Under 40 (57-38-5)
40 and over (69-29-3)
Conservative (80-19-2)
Labour (59-36-4)
LibDem (45-51-4)
Did not vote (56-39-5)
(10) Should Britain give unconditional support to US actions throughout
this crisis, on the basis that we should stand shoulder-to-shoulder with
our
ally; or should Tony Blair tell President Bush that we will support only
those measures that we specifically approve?
Support only specificially approved measures 77
Unconditional support 22
Don't know 1
Britain Support only specificaly approved measures? Demographic
breakdown
Male (71-28-0)
Female (83-16-1)
Under 40 (78-21-1)
40 and over (70-29-0)
Conservative (57-42-0)
Labour (81-18-1)
LibDem (91-9-0)
Did not vote (78-21-1)
(11) Are other European leaders showing too much or too little support
for
US action?Too much 5
About right 52
Too little 31
Don't know 12
Enough European support? Demographic breakdown
Male (6-49-36-9)
Female (4-56-25-15)
Under 40 (6-53-28-13)
40 and over (4-47-40-8)
Conservative (2-39-52-7)
Labour (5-61-24-10)
LibDem (7-58-20-14)
Did not vote (8-51-28-13)
(12) How important is that the US builds an inclusive global coalition
to
support its actions before beginning any combat (even if that means
slowing down its response?)
Very important 62
Important 32
Unimportant 3
Very unimportant 1
Don't know 2
Importance of global coalition - demographic breakdown
Male (63-31-4-1-1)
Female (62-32-2-1-3)
Under 40 (61-33-3-1-3)
40 and over (65-30-4-1-1)
Conservative (56-37-5-1-1)
Labour (69-27-2-0-1)
LibDem (73-24-1-0-2)
Did not vote (53-37-4-2-4)
(13)(a)
If the fight against terrorism carries on for some time, do you think
the
USA should send in troops?
Yes 53
No 27
Don't know 20
US send in troops? Demographic breakdown
Male (60-25-15)
Female (46-30-25)
Under 40 (52-28-19)
40 and over (61-23-17)
Conservative (69-19-12)
Labour (53-27-19)
LibDem (43-33-24)
Did not vote (52-28-21)
13(b)
If the fight against terrorism carries on for some time, do you think
Britain should send in troops?
Yes 44
No 38
Don't know 18
Should Britain send in troops? Demographic breakdown
Male (53-34-14)
Female (36-42-22)
Under 40 (43-39-18)
40 and over (53-32-14)
Conservative (63-25-12)
Labour (44-38-18)
LibDem (35-47-19)
Did not vote (43-39-18)
13(c)
What level of British casualties would make you change your mind on
supporting military action by Britain?
Any British casualties 11
Over 100 British casualties 7
Over 1000 British casualties 7
Over 5000 British casualties 2
Would not change mind because of casualties 40
Do not support any military action by Britain 21
Don't know 12
British casualties? Demographic breakdown
Male (8-7-9-3-47-17-10)
Female (14-8-6-2-32-24-14)
Under 40 (11-8-9-3-36-21-11)
40 and over (8-5-6-2-52-17-11)
Conservative (6-5-9-3-58-10-9)
Labour (13-9-9-3-34-22-11)
LibDem (9-8-7-2-37-26-11)
Did not vote (9-8-9-3-35-22-13)
13(d)
If the fight against terrorism carries on for some time, do you think
Russia should send in troops?
Yes 46
No 33
Don't know 20
Russian troops? Demographic breakdown
Male (54-30-15)
Female (38-37-25)
Under 40 (44-35-22)
40 and over (57-29-14)
Conservative (64-22-14)
Labour (45-36-20)
LibDem (38-40-22)
Did not vote (45-35-20)
13(e)
If the fight against terrorism carries on for some time, do you think
other European countries should send in troops?
Yes 51
No 31
Don't know 18
Other European troops? Demographic breakdown
Male (59-28-13)
Female (42-34-24)
Under 40 (49-32-19)
40 and over (61-26-13)
Conservative (70-19-11)
Labour (49-32-18)
LibDem (42-38-21)
Did not vote (49-33-18)
13(f)
If the fight against terrorism carries on for some time, do you think
the
Arab countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia should send in troops?
Yes 45
No 34
Don't know 21
Demographic breakdown
Male (53-33-15)
Female (37-36-27)
Under 40 (43-36-21)
40 and over (55-30-15)
Conservative (61-25-14)
Labour (42-36-21)
LibDem (39-39-21)
Did not vote (44-37-19)
13(g)
If the fight against terrorism carries on for some time, do you think
Israel should send in troops?
Yes 30
No 54
Don't know 16
Israeli troops? Demographic breakdown
Male (31-59-10)
Female (29-48-23)
Under 40 (29-54-17)
40 and over (32-58-9)
Conservative (40-50-10)
Labour (25-60-15)
LibDem (21-64-15)
Did not vote (31-51-18)
(14)
Thinking about Iraq, should the US and its allies (a) invade Iraq and
remove Saddam Hussein (b) support opposition to Saddam Hussein
with money and arms?
invade Iraq 27
support opposition 33
Both 4
Neither 27
Don't Know 9
Demographic breakdown
Male (28-38-5-24-5)
Female (26-28-4-30-12)
Under 40 (25-32-4-30-12)
40 and over (25-32-4-19-8)
Conservative (34-37-7-15-6)
Labour (26-36-3-29-6)
LibDem (16-39-4-35-7)
Did not vote (30-26-4-29-10)
(15)(a) How likely do you think it is that the present crisis will lead
to
an all-out war in the Middle East?
Very likely 16
Quite likely 53
Quite unlikely 22
Very unlikely 3
Don't know 6
Lead to war in the middle east? Demographic breakdown
Male (11-45-33-5-6)
Female (21-62-11-0-7)
Under 40 (15-53-24-2-6)
40 and over (12-46-29-5-7)
Conservative (13-46-30-5-6)
Labour (15-50-26-4-6)
LibDem (13-54-23-3-7)
Did not vote (15-53-24-2-5)
15(b) How likely do you think it is that the present crisis will lead to
a
world war?
Very likely 5
Quite likely 26
Quite unlikely 38
Very unlikely 20
Don't know 10
Lead to world war? Demographic breakdown
Male (3-19-40-32-6)
Female (8-34-37-9-13)
Under 40 (5-25-39-22-9)
40 and over (3-21-40-29-8)
Conservative (4-23-39-28-6)
Labour (4-24-36-27-10)
LibDem (5-24-41-22-8)
Did not vote (4-25-41-22-8)
(16) Do you feel that a future increase in terrorism is more likely if
there is heavy military action by the US, or more likely if the US
fails to act strongly enough?
More likely if action is not strong enough 46
More likely if heavy military action 45
Don't know 9
More risk of terrorism if don't act or if do - Demographic breakdown
Male (51-42-7)
Female (42-48-10)
Under 40 (41-49-10)
40 and over (58-36-6)
Conservative (66-27-7)
Labour (41-50-9)
LibDem (30-61-9)
Did not vote (44-47-9)
(17)
Do you expect terrorists to start using other means of mass destruction
in
the West, such as chemical weapons or nuclear devices?
Yes 63
No 15
Don't know 22
Terrorist escalation? Demographic breakdown
Male (64-18-18)
Female (63-12-25)
Under 40 (61-18-20)
40 and over (66-13-21)
Conservative (69-14-17)
Labour (60-18-22)
LibDem (64-14-21)
Did not vote (62-19-19)
(18)
Do you feel more worried about your personal safety as a result of the
present crisis?
No - not at all 9
No - not much 29
Yes - a little 45
Yes - a lot 17
Personal safety concerns? Demographic breakdown
Male (13-34-43-10)
Female (6-24-47-24)
Under 40 (11-28-46-15)
40 and over (10-35-42-13)
Conservative (10-34-42-14)
Labour (10-30-47-14)
LibDem (12-31-42-15)
Did not vote (14-29-43-14)
(First two not concerned; followed by two concerned)
(19) In the long run, are you optimistic or pessimistic that this crisis
will lead to measures to make the world safer and more peaceful?
Optimistic 41
Pessimistic 46
Don't know 13
Optimism about long run? Demographic breakdown
Male (49-41-10)
Female (33-51-16)
Under 40 (38-49-13)
40 and over (54-37-10)
Conservative (56-33-11)
Labour (45-44-10)
LibDem (33-56-11)
Did not vote (36-51-12)
(20) (a)How much, if at all, do you blame Islamic fundamentalist
terrorism
for the current crisis?
Blame Islamic fundamentalist terrorism 90
Don't blame Islamic fundamentalist terrorism 3
Don't know 7
Blame Islamic fundamentalist terrorism? Demographic breakdown
Male (92-3-5)
Female (88-2-10)
Under 40 (89-3-8)
40 and over (93-2-5)
Conservative (94-1-5)
Labour (92-2-6)
LibDem (91-3-6)
Did not vote (86-6-8)
(20) (b)How much, if at all, do you blame Islam for the current crisis?
Blame Islam a lot 14
Blame Islam a little 26
Don't blame Islam at all 53
Don't know 7
Blame Islam? Demographic breakdown
Male (15-27-53-5)
Female (12-26-53-10)
Under 40 (12-26-55-7)
40 and over (17-28-50-5)
Conservative (19-34-41-6)
Labour (13-25-57-6)
LibDem (7-20-68-5)
Did not vote (18-24-50-8)
(20) (c)How much, if at all, do you blame Israel for the current crisis?
Blame Israel a lot 37
Blame Israel a little 16
Don't blame Israel at all 35
Don't know12
Demographic breakdown
Male (40-20-35-5)
Female (35-11-36-18)
Under 40 (39-14-35-11)
40 and over (36-22-35-7)
Conservative (37-12-44-8)
Labour (40-21-31-8)
LibDem (40-25-28-8)
Did not vote (36-15-34-15)
(20) (d)How much, if at all, do you blame the US for the current crisis?
Blame the US a lot 19
Blame the US a little 43
Don't blame the US at all 33
Don't know 5
Blame the US? Demographic breakdown
Male (20-44-34-2)
Female (17-43-33-7)
Under 40 (19-43-33-5)
40 and over (19-44-34-2)
Conservative (8-40-50-2)
Labour (23-45-29-4)
LibDem (29-51-17-3)
Did not vote (19-44-32-5)
(20) (e)How much, if at all, do you blame Britain for the current
crisis?
Blame Britain a lot 3
Blame Britain a little 30
Don't blame Britain at all 63
Don't know5
Blame Britain? Demographic breakdown
Male (4-32-61-2)
Female (2-27-64-7)
Under 40 (3-28-65-5)
40 and over (5-35-59-2)
Conservative (3-22-73-2)
Labour (2-33-61-4)
LibDem (4-42-50-4)
Did not vote (3-27-65-5)(21)
Do you feel that Islam (as distinct from Islamic fundamentalist groups)
poses a threat to Western liberal democracy?
No - no threat at all 30
No - not much threat 34
Yes - some threat 24
Yes - a major threat 8
Don't know 2
Islam a threat? (No first two, then two yes) Demographic breakdown
Male (30-34-23-10-2)
Female (30-33-25-5-7)
Under 40 (34-33-21-7-5)
40 and over (25-35-27-11-2)
Conservative (20-36-30-12-2)
Labour (36-32-19-10-3)
LibDem (39-37-20-3-2)
Did not vote (30-35-22-7-6)
(22)
Do you agree or disagree with the view that, in the past, the United
States has been far too arrogant and selfish in the way it has treated
the world's poorest countries?
Agree strongly 31
Agree 39
Disagree 19
Disagree strongly 5
Don't know 6
US arrogance? Demographic breakdown
Male (32-37-21-7-3)
Female 30-41-17-3-9)
Under 40 (34-38-17-5-6)
40 and over (27-38-24-6-4)
Conservative (14-36-35-10-5)
Labour (39-38-16-3-5)
LibDem (46-41-7-1-4)
Did not vote (33-36-17-7-8)
(23)
Thinking about US policy in the Middle East, which comes closest to your
view
(a) The US should show greater support for Israel 6
(b) The US should show greater support for Islamic groups 4
(c) The US should show equal support for both 47
(d) The US should not involve itself in the region at all 33
Don't know 9
Demographic breakdown
Male (8-5-7-57-25-5)
Female (4-4-38-41-13)
Under 40 (8-5-48-30-9)
40 and over (6-4-55-30-5)
Conservative (12-3-53-25-6)
Labour (5-6-52-29-8)
LibDem (3-6-56-31-5)
Did not vote (6-4-46-35-9)
(24) Do you think what has been said by the US government in this crisis
has been too aggressive?
Yes 39
No 55
Don't know 7
Demographic breakdown
Male (37-59-4)
Female (40-50-10)
Under 40 (43-51-6)
40 and over (31-65-5)
Conservative (22-75-3)
Labour (44-51-5)
LibDem (54-39-6)
Did not vote (39-51-10)
(25) There have been articles in some newspapers opposing retaliation
and
criticising the US for the way it has behaved in the world. Some say
such
criticism is "irresponsible" at this time of crisis; others say it is
essential to
maintaining democratic debate at this vital time. Do you think that
critics of
the US should voice their opposition or stay silent over the next few
weeks?
Stay silent 23
Voice criticism 70
Don't know 7
Demographic breakdown
Male (23-73-4)
Female (23-66-11)
Under 40 (19-74-6)
40 and over (28-66-6)
Conservative (36-60-4)
Labour (16-77-5)
LibDem (13-83-5)
Did not vote (22-68-10)
(26)
Are you willing to see some reduction in our civil liberties in order to
improve security in this country?
Yes 70
No 22
Don't know 8
Demographic breakdown
Male (68-27-5)
Female (72-16-12)
Under 40 (62-28-10)
40 and over (79-18-3)
Conservative (79-17-4)
Labour (73-20-7)
LibDem (60-32-8)
Did not vote (62-26-12)
(27)(a)
Would you be comfortable with tighter security checks in public places
such as railway stationsYes 88
No 10
Don't know 2
Demographic breakdown
Male (84-15-1)
Female (91-6-3)
Under 40 (84-13-2)
40 and over (89-10-1)
Conservative (92-8-1)
Labour (87-11-2)
LibDem (81-17-2)
Did not vote (82-14-4)
(27)(b)
Would you be comfortable with on-the-street security checks on the
police?
Yes 56
No 39
Don't know 6
Demographic breakdown
Male (55-42-3)
Female (56-35-8)
Under 40 (49-46-5)
40 and over (66-31-4)
Conservative (68-29-3)
Labour (55-40-6)
LibDem (43-52-4)
Did not vote (49-45-6)
(27)(c)
Would you be comfortable with increased monitoring of telephone calls
and
internet traffic?
Yes 47
No 46
Don't know 7
Demographic breakdown
Male (44-52-4)
Female (50-40-10)
Under 40 (38-55-7)
40 and over (58-38-5)
Conservative (56-39-4)
Labour (48-44-8)
LibDem (40-55-5)
Did not vote (37-58-5)
(28)
Would you support or oppose proposals to make it easier to detain
suspected terrorists even when there is not hard evidence of
wrong-doing?
Support strongly 34
Support 41
Oppose 16
Oppose strongly 4
Don't know 5
Demographic breakdown
Male (38-38-16-5-3)
Female (30-45-15-2-7)
Under 40 (28-40-20-6-6)
40 and over (45-40-10-2-3)
Conservative (55-35-8-1-2)
Labour (30-44-17-4-5)
LibDem (18-41-26-8-7)
Did not vote (28-43-15-7-7)
(29)
Some people say that British people should be issued with identity cards
which they are required to keep with them at all times and show to the
police on demand. Others say this would undermine our civil liberties.
In
view of the current situation, do you support or oppose the introduction
of compulsory identity cards?
Support strongly 38
Support 33
Oppose 14
Oppose strongly 11
Don't know 5
Demographic breakdown
Male (40-28-14-15-4)
Female (37-39-13-6-5)
Under 40 (31-32-16-15-6)
40 and over (51-29-10-8-2)
Conservative (58-20-11-10-2)
Labour (37-34-14-11-4)
LibDem (32-31-17-14-7)
Did not vote (32-33-14-13-8)
(30) As a consequence of the current crisis, should the UK introduce
restrictions on refugees and asylum seekers from countries in the Middle
East?
Yes 64
No 29
Don't know 8
Demographic breakdown
Male (65-30-6)
Female (62-28-10)
Under 40 (57-34-9)
40 and over (74-22-4)
Conservative (85-12-3)
Labour (55-37-8)
LibDem (41-51-9)
Did not vote (62-27-11)
(31)
Should the leader of the Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith, be asked
to join the Cabinet Committee which is overseeing the crisis?
Yes 55
No 34
Don't know 11
Demographic breakdown
Male (53-40-7)
Female (57-27-15)
Under 40 (53-36-11)
40 and over (57-36-7)
Conservative (83-13-4)
Labour (34-57-9)
LibDem (39-51-11)
Did not vote (54-31-16)
(32)
Tony Blair has spoken of a mission to 'eradicate' terrorism. Do you
think
this is possible?
Yes 14
No 77
Don't know 8
Demographic breakdown
Male (16-77-6)
Female (12-77-10)
Under 40 (14-79-8)
40 and over (17-76-7)
Conservative (19-74-7)
Labour (16-75-9)
LibDem (10-84-6)
Did not vote (13-80-6)
Poll undertaken by YouGov.com. YouGov uses active sampling from a base
online panel of 45,000, with demographic analysis and weighting to
produce
results that represent the profile of the UK. The sample for this survey
was
3128 respondents, questioned between 19th and 21st September. YouGov
produced the most accurate poll of the general election, correct to
within
0.7%
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20 Gallup poll in 31 countries - opposes a massive strike
From: mark.cutts <mark.cutts@tinyworld.co.uk>
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Subject: Gallup poll in 31 countries - opposes a massive strike
ZURICH, Sept 21 (Reuters) - International public opinion
opposes a massive U.S. military strike to retaliate for suicide
attacks on America by hijacked aircraft, according to a Gallup poll
in 31 countries whose results were released on Friday.
Only in Israel and the United States did a majority favour a military
response against states shown to harbour terrorists, the survey found.
People questioned elsewhere preferred to see suspected terrorists
extradited and put on trial.
"Around 80 % of Europeans and around 90 % of South Americans
favour extradition and a court verdict. By European comparison,
calls for a tough military response were above average among the
French (29 %) and the Dutch (28 %)," said Swiss polling firm
Isopublic, which conducted the survey in Switzerland.
Seventy-seven percent of Israelis backed military action,
while 54 % of Americans were in favour, it said.
The surveys were done between September 17 and 19, around
a week after the September 11 suicide attacks on the World Trade
Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington killed more
than 6,000 people.
U.S. officials have named Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden
the prime suspect and have threatened military action if Afghanistan,
where bin Laden lives, does not hand him over.
Clear majorities of between 70 and 80 % supported limiting any strike
to military rather than civilian targets, the survey found.
Asked if their own country should support a U.S. military asssault,
people in NATO countries other than Greece tended to agree.
Four out of five Danes backed the idea, followed by 79 % in Britain
and 73 % in France. Greeks were the least enthusiastic with only 29 %,
below 53 % in Germany and 58 % in Norway and Spain.
The survey was done in Argentina, Austria, Bosnia, Britain, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands,
Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, South Korea,
Spain, Switzerland, the United States and Zimbabwe.
08:22 09-21-01
**The Gallup Poll site:

http://www.gallup-international.com/terrorismpoll_figures.htm

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21 Dreams are made of this
From: Maria Tolly <ma-tol@tollyhouse.freeserve.co.uk>
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This is a letter printed 2 days ago in the »Independent«,
from Andy Kershaw, a well-known UK disc-jockey.
Sir - Before George Bush and Tony Blair plunge us into WWIII,
perhaps they'd welcome some advice on how to win it.
Carpet-bomb Afghanistan with food and medicines.
Follow up this blitzkrieg with ground troops to rebuild the
infrastructure,
Send in behind them the column of doctors and teachers.
Then lift the nonmilitary sanctions on Iraq.
And seal the surrender by telling Israel to call off its death squads,
get out of Palestine (in compliance with UN SC resolution 242) and
stop building illegal settlements there.
Finally, yank before the International War Crimes Tribunal whoever
was responsible for the horrors in Manhattan, along with Ariel Sharon.
(Indictments on Sabra and Shatila would do for starters).
It could all be over by the end of the week. And for a handful of small
change.
Dr Kamil Mahdi
University of Exeter

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22 Free Bülent! Solidaritätsnote
From: Dr. Siroos Mirzaei <mirzaei@utanet.at>
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"Bülent" : Ein engagierter sensibler Menschenrechtsaktivist
Ich habe "Bülent" als ein exellenter Menschrechtsaktivist kennengelernt.
Über das, was vor 17 Jahren passiert ist, habe ich nur über
Informationen aus dritter Hand erfahren. Eines steht für mich fest, die
Unschuldvermutung muss auch für Bülent gelten, solange das Verfahren
nicht abgeschlossen ist.
Ich wünsche ihm ein faires zügiges Verfahren, damit nach wohl 17 Jahren
die Sache mal ein Ende nimmt, und seine sofortige Freilassung, damit er
seine engagierte hochgeschätzte Jugend-Sozial-Arbeit wierder fortsetzen
kann.
Dr. Siroos Mirzaei
(Verein Hemayat)

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23 [cuadpupdate] A Very Useful This & That...
From: Abraham J. Bonowitz <abe@cuadp.org>
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Feel free to forward...
To unsubscribe, follow directions at the end of this message....A VERY USEFUL THIS & THAT...
(At least we hope you find it useful!)CONTENTS
National Weekend of Faith In Action
Handy Prison Stats
Handy Death Penalty Stats
ABA Releases New Protocols
Ask a Native
Firefighters Union opposes the death penalty
New York State DP Stats
No, they won't be killing all the prisoners
War Resources (Including a HOT stock tip!)
Brother (a poem)
*****
NATIONAL WEEKEND OF FAITH IN ACTION
Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty has
resources available for the fourth annual NATIONAL WEEKEND OF FAITH IN
ACTION ON THE DEATH PENALTY, this year on the weekend of OCTOBER 12-14,
2001. For details and to get involved, please visit
<http://amnestyusa.org/abolish/faithinaction.html>. If you feel its too
late to organize something for this particular weekend, consider
planning
now to do similar actions in your community of faith on other
appropriate
dates, like March 1st (Abolition Day), for example. And, plan now for
next
year!*****
HANDY PRISON STATS
It's always good to have interesting factoids to throw out in
conversation. I recently received many nods of appreciation when,
during a
discussion with teachers and school administrators, I asked how many
people
were aware that here in Florida over the past 20 years, the prison
budget
increased 200% while the education budget increased only 40%. "Where
are
our priorities?" I asked. Get this info for your state in less than a
minute by visiting <http://www.motherjones.com/prisons>.*****
HANDY DEATH PENALTY STATS
How many people are on death row in the US? How many in YOUR
state? What's the racial breakdown of the prisoners? And of their
victims? Through the joint efforts of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and
the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), "Death Row USA" is now
available on the Internet. A complete listing of all death row inmates,
including their race, is arranged alphabetically for each state. Many
other
statistics and information about Supreme Court decisions are also
included.
Death Row USA can be accessed directly at
<http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/DeathRowUSA1.html>. Death Row USA is
updated on a quarterly basis. DPIC's regular information is updated with
each execution or other significant event.*****
ABA RELEASES NEW PROTOCOLS
The recent issue of Human Rights, the magazine of the American Bar
Association (ABA) Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities
(IR&R),
is now on the internet, at
<http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/summer01/summer01.html>. At
<http://www.abanet.org/irr/finaljune28.pdf> are the recently released
Protocols by the ABA IR&R Section, entitled, "Death Without Justice, A
Guide for Examining the Administration of the Death Penalty in the
United
States." The <http://www.abanet.org/irr> website has the new IR&R
report
on moratorium-related developments from 1/00 to 7/01, with extensive
detail
on executive, legislative, judicial, and press developments.
Why should you care? When discussing the death penalty with friends and
family who think they support the idea of killing prisoners, it's very
helpful to understand what procedural safeguards are in place, and which
*should be* put in place, but haven't been. Most people who say they
support the death penalty want to believe it is used fairly. Reviewing
the
above referenced material will help you point out where it is NOT fair,
according to the conservative ABA....

*****
ASK A NATIVE
Indigenous Peoples Day is coming up. This is more commonly known as
"Columbus Day." What does this have to do with the death penalty? A
lot,
if you consider the fact that Native Americans are a part of the death
row
population, and with rare exceptions, not present in the anti-death
penalty
movement. How can we bring more people from affected communities into
our
movement? Do more to understand and support them on their home turf.
Native Americas Journal
c/o Akwe:kon Press
American Indian Program
Cornell University
450 Caldwell Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
1-800-9-NATIVE
nativeamericas@cornell.edu
<http://www.nativeamericas.com>

*****
FIREFIGHTERS UNION OPPOSES THE DEATH PENALTY
Unfortunately, we are not aware of such a proclamation from whatever
union
represents US firefighters, but CUADPUpdate reader John Duffy is a
member
of the UK firefighters union and wrote a lengthy article in their recent
newsmagazine. Visit <http://www.fbu.org.uk/ffgtr/FFmain.html> and click
on
"The Death Penalty" The article is in the July/August edition, which is
still current as of this writing. The rest of this magazine quite
interesting too. Imagine if the US Labor Movement saw themselves in
light
of the "Bigger picture." Maybe they do. If you can point to US labor
unions which educate their members on human rights issues beyond those
directly affecting their members, please let us know at
<cuadp@cuadp.org>.*****
NEW YORK STATE DP STATS
New York is the most recent state to implement a death penalty law. A
new
7-page report by New York's Capital Defender Office, entitled "Capital
Punishment in New York State:Statistics from Six Years of
Representation"
can be found at <http://www.nycdo.org/6yr.html>.*****
NO, THEY WON'T BE KILLING ALL THE PRISONERS
Shortly after September 11, someone started a rumor that in times of
national emergency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would
authorize the killing of all prisoners. Of course, this sent prisoner
families into a tizzy, and had the rumor gotten out into the prisons, it
could have made for some very dangerous rioting and escape
attempts. Fortunately, it seems to have calmed down. For those who
want
to know what FEMA's actual policies are, visit
<http://www.fema.gov/library/eo12656.htm>. See "War Resources" below
for
more useful FEMA info. And do keep in mind, it's the government
talking....*****WAR RESOURCES
If you have visited the AbolitionWear page, you know that all of our
buttons and stickers are printed by people who are activists in their
own
right. Donnelly/Colt always uses labor friendly if not union
materials. If they market flags of any sort, you can bet they are not
made
in China. Don't get me wrong - Chinese people are skilled workers and
wonderful human beings, but it has to make you wonder when you hear a
report that FIVE FACTORIES ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO MAKE U.S. FLAGS, and
those factories are in... CHINA! (Just like the black beret's which
are
now standard issue in the U.S. Army....
I digress. Recently I called Donnelly/Colt to reorder a few items. I
got
a call back from Clay Colt - he wanted to tell me how overwhelmed they
are,
and how backed up the custom orders are, because all of his printers are
also overwhelmed - printing war stuff. So the economy is good for
people
who work in the propaganda department. Donnelly/Colt is the propaganda
department if you are in the market for anti-racism, anti-war, pro civil
rights, environmentally positive stuff. Visit them on the web at
<http://www.donnellycolt.com>. AND, if you happen to live near Hampton,
CT., please go over there and volunteer to sweep the floor or otherwise
free these good folks from menial tasks so they can catch their breath a
little....
*****
Speaking of T-shirts and buttons, etc., given the economy of the times
CUADP wants to contribute. We have some ideas for t-shirts and buttons,
as
you might, and we invite your participation. It costs about $1,000 to
launch a new t-shirt, and $400 for a new button. If you have ideas for
catchy anti-war or pro-peace phrases, feel free to send them to
<abolitionwear@cuadp.org>. If you would make a gift or a loan toward
this
project, please go to <>, and in the comments section indicate that it
is a
gift or a loan towards the Anti-warWear project.
*****
TERRORISM: EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF COMMUNITY AND FAMILY PREPAREDNESS
In response to the need for educational resources, the Humanitarian
Resource Institute Community & Family Preparedness Network (CFPNET)
provides access to materials that include:
* FEMA Online Library
* Talking About Disaster Guide: A guide for individuals and programs
providing disaster safety information to the public.
* Humanitarian Resource Institute Global Preparedness and Response
Network:
Sections Include Terrorism (NBC, Bioterrorism, Cyberterrorism), Severe
Weather, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Chemical & Hazardous Materials
Risks.
* Disaster Planning for Pets, Livestock and Wildlife
To access education guides, PDF downloads and information sources on the
web, visit: <http://www.humanitarian.net/cfpnet>
*****
IF YOU KNOW A KID WHO WANTS TO JOIN UP AND GO KILL "DIAPERHEADS"....
MOVIES TO SEE
Apocalypse Now.... You'll swear you are looking at Charlie Sheen, but
it's
Martin. There's a release in the theaters with about 40 minutes of
additional footage, and that will be in video stores by the end of
November. A surreal war movie about the insanity and horror of
war. "Oh... the horror..." Of course, Apocalypse Now is based on
themes
in the Joseph Conrad book, "Hearts of Darkness," which itself has been
made
into a movie, also available in some movie rental shops.
BOOKS TO READ
"Bloody Hell" is a book of interviews with men who have been to war and
survived. I was with Bill Pelke (Founder of the Journey of Hope ...From
Violence to Healing and a Viet Nam Veteran) when Dan Hallock (the
author)
asked Bill to sit for an interview for this book. The Internet Review
of
Books says "Cuts through the "statesmanlike" bullshit... Should be
required
reading for Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Jamie Shea." I don't know who
Jamie Shea is, but obviously we need to add George W. Bush and all the
young people who think they want to become George W. Bush's expendable
meat. <http://plough.com/usa/peace/bloody_hell/index.htm>WHAT IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT:
Here's a RED HOT STOCK TIP for you all: Buy MCDONNELL DOUGLAS, IBM,
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL, ITT DEFENSE, RAYTHEON, GE, GM, GENERAL DYNAMICS,
ETC. ETC. All of those corporations had BIG CONTRACTS with the Pentagon
in
1990, and if they are still around, you can bet they and others of their
ilk stand to rake in money hand over fist for as long as this "long"
"war"
goes on. To quote Wil Van Natta of Reality News Network, "Don't you
see? Everything is going according to plan." It really doesn't matter
where the war is, or who the "enemy" is - just as long as the money goes
to
the corporations and W's ratings are up. And for that reason, we as a
nation are:
ADDICTED TO WAR
There's a very important comic book "Zine" that's been out for a while
that
everyone should take a look at. "ADDICTED TO WAR" by Joel Andreas is
appropriate for all ages. It reads like a comic book, but it's
referenced
like text book. Howard Zinn, Micheal Parenti and George Carlin have
endorsed it, among others. To get your copy, send your address a
minimum
donation of $8 (to cover photocopying and postage) to:
Reality News Network
12189 US Highway 1, #4959
North Palm Beach, FL 33408
******
American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee: - <http://www.adc.org/>
*****
> The Village Voice Clears It All Up For Us At:
>
> <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0138/schwarz.php>
>
******
BROTHER
BROTHER
I'm not well
If you are sick
I'm not rich
If you are poor
I can't live
If you're not free
I depend on you
And you can depend on me
A brother is no bother
We all have the same Father
copyright ©1989-2001 Hugh Mann
http://organicMD.org
******
Brothers and Sisters, I wish you peace.
--abe
"Talk is cheap. It's the way we organize and use our lives
every day that tells what we believe in."
-- Cesar E. Chavez
******
SENT BY:
Abraham J. Bonowitz
Director, CUADP
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YES FRIENDS!
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(CUADP) works to end the death penalty in the United
States through aggressive campaigns of public education
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24 re: antisemitismus im MUND
From: "Smash Austria" <smash_at@fastrun.at>
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wenn jemand antisemitische anschlaege fuer
"durchaus verstaendlich" haelt, dann ist das
antisemitisch.

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25 re: antisemitismus im MUND
From: "Claudia Volgger" <aon.964446421@aon.at>
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ein antisemitischer anschlag?
nach dem motto, wir haben definiert, und damit basta? und wer unsere
definition nicht freiwillig annimmt, wird eben auch von uns definiert?
nämlich als das, was
er/sie bestritten hat?
nachdem sich bisher zu diesem anschlag niemand erklärt hat, sind alle
versuche, ihn in irgendein erklärungsmuster einzuordnen, reine
spekulation. gerichtet
waren die anschläge gegen ein ökonomisches und ein militärisches ziel:
ja, so zielt man im krieg. und sie hatten eine symbolische komponente:
ja, so definiert
sich terrorismus (im gegensatz zu guerilla...)
jedes monocausale erklärungsmuster tendiert zum einen zu einer gewissen
einfältigkeit, zum anderen zur gewaltsamen lösung (wer nicht zustimmt,
ist damit zum
feind erklärt....)
natürlich geht das auch mit antisemitismus. alles, was uns stark
mißfällt, ist: antisemitisch. ohne argumentation (auf mehrere einwände
der red hat smash austria
nicht geantwortet), qua dekret. es ist eine funktionalisierung, um die
furchtbar komplizierte welt zu ordnen, (via hexenjagd - schuldig bei
verdacht) und damit
insofern eine schweinerei, weil so erstens die vernichtung der
europäischen juden benützt wird, um den nachkommen der täter das leben
zu erleichtern, und
zweitens real nach wie vor vorhandener antisemitismus (auch der
innerhalb der linken) in der verwaschenheit des ins unendliche
gestreckten vorwurfs
verschwindet...
die dinge sind aber eben nicht weniger kompliziert. ja, es gibt eine art
von antiamerikanismus, die auf antisemitismus beruht (die "ostküste"
u.ä.). und es gibt
auch andere gründe, die usa (auch vehement) zu kritisieren (etwa der
bisherige hang zu militärischem interventionismus). ja, der christliche
antisemitismus
verbindet, aus einer herrschaftsstabilisierenden mythisierung der
menschlichen arbeit heraus (intrinsischer wert, zinsenverbot), die
ambivalenzen, die geld
gelten, mit juden (und das nicht nur als phantasie, sondern historisch
als handfeste (vertreibungs-)machtstrategie, die im übrigen ganz
wesentlich zu einem
äußerst befruchtenden kulturentransfer beigetragen hat, der das
mittelmeer in seiner glanzzeit, die durch den aufstieg der amerikas zu
ende ging, verband.
nämlich den "europäischen" mit dem "arabischen" teil). aber das macht
nicht jede antikapitalistische position automatisch zu einer
antisemitischen (im
gegenteil...)...oder auch: der klassische antisemitismus ist engstens
mit sexualangst verknüpft. aber es gibt auch ausdrucksformen derselben
panik, die
keineswegs antisemitisch sind...
ich schreib jetzt einen preis aus: jedeR, die/der mir schlüssig erklärt,
inwiefern ein anschlag, bei dem zwei mobile phallussymbole in zwei
stehende geknallt
werden, unter völliger verachtung von menschlichem leben (auch dem
eigenen), ein antisemitischer anschlag ist, kriegt den hillberg
geschenkt, alle drei bände...

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