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the CDC definition. Published Monthly by the Syracuse Peace Council - Founded In 1936 - I55N 0735-4134 Inside: Syracuse Activists Remembered, Cree Campaign Continues, Lisa Guido Interview, Lori Berenson — Political Prisoner, CNY Activisits Return from Central America, Miss Helen's House — A Living Memory

Alliances, Coalitions & Contacts 1 THE SYRACUSE PEACE COUNCIL Abolish the Blocade of Cuba Peace Brigades International New people are always welcome to join any of these activites . Contact Doug lgelsrud 471-5749 Ed Kinane 478-4571 SPC at 472-5478 or the person listed to find out what you can do. ACLU-CNY Chapter P. E.A.C. E., Inc. Barrie Gewanter 471-2821 Louis Clark 470-3300 Collectives, Committees Alliance-Psychiatric System People Against the Death Penalty SPC Staff Collective Bookkeeper Survivors 637-3344 Valerie Singer Duane Hardy George Ebert 475-4120 People for Animal Rights Tim Judson Alternatives to Violence Project 488-PURR (7877) Beth Mosley SPC Press 'SPC Council: Jay Liestee 499-0845 Physicians for Social Nicole Rogers Paul Pearce Paul Frazier, Rae Kramer; American Friends Service Responsibility 488-2140 • The Literature Committee Carl Mellor, Andy Molloy, Committee 475-4822 Planned Parenthood 475-5525 • Program Committee Marge Rusk, Ann Tiffany Animal Defense League 479-9105 PWHIV/ AIDS Support Hotline • Political Action Committee ARISE 472-3171 Sandra 471-5911 Atlantic States Legal Foundation Reconsider • Organizational Maintenance Committee 475-1170 Nick or Alex Eyle 422—6231 • Pledge Coordinator: Pat Hoffman Caribbean/Latin Amer. Coalition Religion: Other Shirley Novak 446-6099 Phoenix or Kat 474-8801 The Peace Newsletter Citizens Against Radioactive Rose Center The PNL Collective meets most Wednesdays at 5 :30 PM at Dumping (607) 753-6271 Teri Cameron 422-3426 the Peace Council. Call SPC to confirm the time. Citizen Review Board Sarah House 475-1747 Felicia Davis 448-8750 Save the County 637-6066 Editorial & Production: Tim Judson, Karen Hall, Brian CNY, Center for Occupational SEEDS (607) 749-2818 McCord, Bill Hamler, Joy Meeker, Andy Molloy, Paul Pearce, Health and Safety 471-6187 Service Employees International Nancy Rhodes, Valerie Singer CNY Environment Robert Tompkins 424-1750 Poetry Editor : Michelle Brisson Lee Gechas 446-5319 Sierra Club Graphics Coordinator : Anita Welych CNY N.O.W. 487-3188 Sue Carlson 445-1663 Cover Coordinator: Karen Kerney CUSLAR (607) 255-7293 Small Claims Court Action Dunbar Center Center 443-1401 SPC Projects : 472-5478 Merriete Pollard 476-4269 S.O.A. Watch/ CNY • SPC-TV — Paul Pearce • Plowshares Craftsfair EON/Tranegender Community Ed Kinane 478-4571 • Fair Trial for Mumia Committee Melissa 423-4099 Social Workers for Peace Fair Housing Council of CNY Dick Mundy 445-0797 Merrilee Witherell 471-0518 Socialist Party Other Volunteers Fair Trial for Mumla Committee Ron Ehrenreich 478-0793 Sonali Sathaye, Chuck Durand, Mardea Warner, Amy Bartell, 472-5478 Spanish Action League 471-3762 Vanessa Johnson, Ed Kinane, Aggie Lane, Joan Goldberg, Fightbackl of CNY 422-0555 SU African-American Society Ruth Putter, Margaret Birtlebough, Kathy Barry, Brian Caufield,. Food Bank of CNY 437-1899 443-4633 Fredrick Noyes, Jolie Rickman, Bill Mazza, Lance Hogan, Bill Friends of the Flllppino People Student Environmental Action Hamler, Sylvia Burgess, Daniel Bowers, Carol Baum, Chris John Brule 445-0698 Coalition Gay/Lesbian Alliance 422-5732 Michelle Baumfleck 423-8000 Spies-Rusk, Susan Adair, Nick Orth, Michael DeSalvo Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Student Syr. Alternative Media Network Volunteer Coordinator : Paul Frazier Assoc. (SU) 443-3599 Tim Brachocki 425-8806 Haiti Solidarity Syracuse Area Vegetarlah Society Ann Tiffany 478-4571 SAVES/Joe Connolly 437-2163 Statement of PNrpose Hem lock Society SyracuseComm unity Choir Karen Mihalyi 428-8724 The Syracuse Peace Council (SPC), founded In 1936. Is an Betty Bentley 463-0782 Hotel Employees 150 437-0373 Syracuse Community Radio antiwar/social justice organization . It Is community-based . autono- Irish Northern Aid Frederic Noyes 446-4769 mous and funded by the contributions of its supporters. Patrick Smith 469-8948 Syracuse Cooperative Federal 5PC educates, agitates and organizes for a world where Jail Ministry 424-1877 Credit Union 471-1116 war, violence and exploltatlon In any form will no longer exist. It Kenlark Center for Creative Syracuse Cultural Workers challenges the exlsting unjust power relationships among nations. Spirituality Dik Cool 474-1132 among people and between ourselves and the environment . As Bourke Kennedy 685-5414 Syracuse N.O.W.' ; 472-3294 members, we work to replace Inequality, hierarchy, domination and Lesbian/Gay Youth 443-3599 Syr. Real Food Coop 472-1385 powerlessness with mutual respect, personal empowerment. coop NAACP Syr. Social Movement Initiative - Pramod Parajuli 443-4822 eration and a sense of community. Van Robinson 422-6933 Natural Organic Farmers Assoc . Syracuse United Neighbors Present social Injustices cannot be understood In Ieola- AmmieChickering 365-2299 Rich Puchalski 476-7475 tlon from each other nor can they be overcome without recognizing New Environment Association S.U. for Animal Rights 443-4199 their economic and militaristic roots . SPC stresses a strategy that Harry Schwarzlander 446-8009 Urban League makes these connections clear. We Initiate and support activities NYPIRG 476-8381 Eloise Dowdell Curry 472-6955 that help build this sense of community and help tear down the walls Onondaga Audobon 457-7731 Utica Community Action of oppression . A fundamental basis for peace and Justice Is an Onon. Women's Political Caucus John Furman 797-7020 economic system that places human need above monetary profit. Peggy Murray 475-7671 Witness for Peace Delegations We establish relationships among people based on cooperation Open Hand Theatre Nancy Gwin 422-4689 rather than competition or the threat of destruction. Geoff Navias 476-0466 Women's Center (SU) 443-4268 Our political values and personal lives shape and reflect Pax Christi Women's Health Outreach Frank Woolever 446-1693 425-3653 each other. In both we are committed to nonviolent means of conflict Peace Action of CNY Women's INFO Center 478-4636 resolution and to a process of decision-making that responds to the Diane Swords 478-7442 needs of us all. (If you want your group listed, please call) J Syracuse Peace Council 924 Burnet Ave, Syracuse, N.Y. 13203 (315) 472-5478 The PeaceNewsletter(PNL) is published month- PEACE /VEKEITER ly by the Syracuse Peace Council . SPC, founded in February 1998 1936, is the oldest community-based peace and justice organization in the United States. PNL 664 The PNL strives to serve as the internal organ of SPC and as a forum for articles which discuss SPC Pages 4 issues of concern to the peace movement . The Cree Campaign Continues 6 opinions expressed in thePNL reflect the diversity of opinions within SPC itself . While we are not able Lisa Comes Home by Nancty Keefe Rhodes 7 to print every possible viewpoint, we do welcome Lori Berenson : Political Prisoner in Peru by stove Penn 10 letter and article submissions as well as sugges- tions and assistance. Will the Truth Be Silenced? by Doris sage 12 ThePNL has very reasonable ad rates ;call or CLAC Update by Pain welchselbaum 13 write for our rates . Movement groups are free to reprint articles and graphics, but please give credits Miss Helen's House: A Wendi Project by Melody Holmes 14 and send us a copy flagging the reprint . For-profit Community Updates & Bulletin Board 15 groups, please inquire. ISSN 110735-4134 Community Calendar by Andy Molloy 19 The PNL Is available on microfilm from Uni- versity Microfilms, Inc., 300 N . Zeeb Rd ., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Subscriptions are $12 a year in the U .S., $15 in About the Cover: "Let's Do It Now" Canada and Mexico and $25 overseas . The institu- Ellen Blalock is an artist and a Syracuse Albany orDC, so she was going to use it.She'd tional rate is $15. The PNL is free to prisoners and Newspapers photographer who often photo- been trying to say the same things, and here it low-income people . Your organization, co-op, etc. can receive5-25PNLseach month . Our circulation graphed AIDS activist Wendi Alexis Modeste was, like we did it for her, something she could is 4500. (see Melody Holmes'article, p . 14). Among pull out and show people. Contributions to SPC beyond PNL subscrip- her observations: Thefirsttime Imet Wendi, even before Ishot tions support our activist programs . We always This is my favorite photo that I took of her, we sat down. We talked about her having need your support. Peace Newsletter/Syracuse Wendi. AIDS, what it meant to me . She generously Peace Council, 924 Burnet Ave, Syracuse, NY 13203. Her whole point was, let's do it now. By the gave me her ear and time . She did not fault me PNL Distributors (We Need You Too!) time I was shooting herfor the [annual Post- for any of my feelings. Intellectually I know Pat Hoffman, Elinor Cramer, Chuck Durand, Standard] People of Achievement Awards, if she can't give me AIDS, but just being there Marge Rusk, Duane Hardy, Bill Hamler, Daniel it was a difficult day for her, I'd say we can do with her, it makes me uneasy . So she was Bowers, Ted Widay, Cynthia Maud-Gembler it later. She was like, no, let's do it now. She easing me. It's weird, for someone who' s wanted to be productive . Wendi did not take supposed to help her, she's helping me. I January Malling Party Helpers tomorrow for granted at all. thought it was a wonderful thing . Yeah. I An especial thank you to all the Another time I ran into her after the paper really liked her honesty. folks who came In earlyfor our Janu- did a story on prisons. Several reporters and I was not really in her circle offriends. I had ary mailing. The March mailing will be photographers worked on this, travelled the pleasure of photographing her several around the state gathering stories on prison times. We reached apoint where she askedfor on February 26 — free pizza (vegan health care. So 1 told her about it . She was so me [to be the photographer if the paper was too) for All excited! The next week she was going to doing a story]. That 1 felt good about. She made me a stronger person. One of the wonderful things about my job is you look at Join the PNL Collective! your phobias face to face. Say f you're afraid Pooh and Christopher Robin say, "After a of old people . Not like old age would jump on long day storming the barricades me, but — maybe it's contagious . Or like overthrowing the last bastions of modem height. You climb a couple bell towers,you get day capitalism, we like to sit down with the over your fear. She helped me. So many people — me as well — we want latest issue ofthePNL. In order to continue AIDS "over there." In dealing with Wendi, it producing such fine issues the PNL needs wasn't ever "over there." She brings out the new writers, editors, artists, and layout humanity in you. She allowed me to be me, to wizards. So put down that honey jar and move to another level, just by being in contact with her. Especially at the end, dealing with skip on over,to the Peace Council! Meetings time. "Let's do it now." You understand your are Wednesdays at 5 :30pm." gifts even more. Life is a gift. You have to allow yourself — give yourre f — purpose.

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SPC Infrastructure and financial base . We ended 1997 in the red, and Pledge Support were required for the first time in years to take We, as you might well know, have been out a loan. Our finances have constant ups and incredibly busy in recent months. A plethora of downs, and January is traditionally one of the events, actions, and activities have kept the worst months in that regard. Building our SPC staff and Council on the go. financial strenth also involves increasing the Winter, for many creatures, is a time for consistency of our income. hybemation. It is a time to tuck oneself away Our income is solely based upon dona- in a warm comfy place to rejuvanate and build tions, subscriptions, and fundraising events. Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow energy for a spring flurry of activity. The most consistent money we recieve Well, after seven months of working with SPC isn't exactly in hybemation; in fact comes from our "pledgers." Pledgers are people the Syracuse Peace Council I must say good- we are quite busy. We are, however, spending who commit to giving us a set amount of bye. When I began this venture I never imag- a good part of January and February to take a money either quarterly or monthly - currently ined all I would learn, and all the activists I collective deep breath, a step back from events ranging from $5-100 a month. would come to work with. At times it's been and protests, and focus on building our infra- We are conducting a pledge drive this wonderful, and there were some difficult mo- structure. February to increase our pledges. It is not often ments as well, but it certainly has been a pivotal Several pieces of our infrastructure could we make a personal plea for money... point in my activist career. stand to use some improvement. Amoung the If you subscribe to the PNL, you will I had been a grassroots organizer for animal things we are currently working on are : volun- receive a letter and call from us this month rights for four years before I came to the Peace teer involvement, our work space, and fmances. requesting your additional support. If you do Council. During the later part of those four Volunteers are needed on several projects/ not subscribe to the PNL, please consider that years I began feeling stagnant, I was no longer committees : the PNL, programming, our spring you could, with just $12 a year, support our growing as an activist, and I needed to broaden dinner, and the NiMo campaign . The staff at continued efforts to bea consistent voice for my horizons. Just about the same time, I points this fall was too busy to seek out volun- Peace and Justice. received a letter in the mail outlining the SPC teers, and even sometimes to incorporate those • • • • • • • • • • •-• • • • • • • • • • • • • "Howcanlmakea • staff position that had just opened. It musthave individuals that came forward. This is now one been a sign from up above...this is exactly what of our priorities. tax deductable contribution I needed! • to the Syacuse Peace Council?" • The OM committee is rebuilding our back • • So, for the past seven months as I've been office which will create more functional space. • To make a tax deductable contribution to • working with Beth, Val, Tim and Paul on And we are fmally getting our act together to SPC simply send us a check made out to socials, dinners, SPC pages in the PNL, cam- create multiple desk spaces and extend tele- • "Alternative Efforts", and mark it "for the Syra- paigns and others, I've also been working on phones throughout the house. cuse Peace Council" • myself. The Peace Council community helped Finances, Pledges, and You • What a great idea! More money for us and me gain a better understanding of social justice The Peace Council needs to expand its • less for Uncle Sam's War Machine! • and a sense of how all our struggles are con- nected. Now you may be asking yourselves, if it's been so great then why am I leaving? With all this unfounded understanding comes energy, and I fmd myself getting very anxious to finish school, get my teaching degree and share this knowledge with the rest of the world. But you can't get rid of me that easily, I'm sticking around! I'm looking forward to con- Subscribe to the PNL N Still only $12 a year for 12 issues! tinued work against Nine Mile One, and since Name: I have first hand knowledge about SPC's finan- cial situation I'll certainly stick around to help Address: raise funds! I also look forward to working with affiliated groups that I learned about City State: Zip during my time here like the SOA campaign. Phone:( ) So good-bye, but not good riddance . I'll still be around (sometimes as much as I was before) 30 Enclosed $12 for one year. 0 This is a new subscription. but this time as a volunteer. The Peace Council 0 $ additional donation for all your great work! 0 This is a renewal has helped me grow, and I hope I played a part 0 Please contact me about volunteering . 0 My address has changed in helping SPC grow as well. To everyone I've met here: Thank You. the Syracuse Peace Council • 924 Burnet Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13203 — Nicole Rogers

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THE SYRACUSE PEACE COUNCIL 1S organizing and her direct manner of mobiles which contains the figures reproduced deeply saddened by the loss of Sally. describing human foolishness that on this page. Brul6 who died on January 3, 1998. she observed. To recognize her After Sally left the SPC staff, she and John Her life was dedicated to issues of incredible work, we awarded Sally continued to volunteer with SPC. She also peace and justice which was demon- our 18th annual Peace Award. continued her work on the Peace Calendar by strated by her commitment to personal supporting and volunteering with the Syra- and community activism. Sally and her It 2.0Z4 , cuse Cultural Workers . She did the brailling Sally was a staff person at the Syracuse husband John i for the Syracuse Community Choir. Peace Council from the late 60's until the mid were also ell2dG2 Aviv& Our deepest sympathies go out to John and 70's. She kept our books, she worked on the craftspeople . Their the Brule family as wellmpg 'j~'~`~ uBeJ~aoeCouncil. Peace Newsletter and Peace Calendar, orga- horseshoe nail fig- ,A( as the extended commu- nized Weekly protests at the local draft board 'tires and mobiles affected by this great during the Vietnam war while fulfilling the were a dynamic t loss. Her contributions role of surrogate mom to the many "young part of our Plow- !mar bubo have been a joy and a sus- ou,Ha people" coming into SPC . Former co- shares Craftsfair inner vnte 5contiOuie) taining strength that will staffperson David Easter reflects fondly on for many years. amendment to long be missed. Sally's strong sense of humor, personal The SPC house has tba atri a for ram L justice warmth, and commitment to SPC's anti-war one of their creative Beth Mosley & Paul Pearce Nate Zeppetello and an Era Remembered July 16, 1919 - November 20, 1997 Dik Cool It was the Summer of 1973 . We had recently old VW bus named for Emma Goldman), did mand was that Nate renounce his CP member- moved the Peace Council's offices from two the deed. ship. (In 1948, fearing a national victory by the tiny rooms in the Chuch Center (Across from Nate installed it, and SPC had the first CP in Italy, the Pope had ex-communicated all Nottingham H.S.) to a huge house at 924 liberated furnace in Central NY. He also over- CP members). Nate and Mary Ann refused, Burnet Avenue. The Paris Peace Accords, hauled SPC's electrical system over several and were instead married by Rev . Payton in a signed in January, supposedly ended the years. small African American Church on Cedar genocides! Viet Nam war; but, of course, the Nate grew up on Syracuse's Italian northside Street in the old 15th ward. war would rage onuntil the Viet- After high school he worked in Nate was the local CP chair from 1950- namese drove the U.S. out on the steel mill and joined the 1956, when US Sen . Joe McCarthy and the April 30, 1975. American Labor Party . In 1943 House Unamerican Activities Committee in- The new SPC house had a big he joined the Army AirCorps as i stigated a wave of anti-left repression. Radi- problem — an old octopus-like a navigator, became a° 1st lieu. cals like Nateand Mary Ann lost jobs, friends furnace made the winter of `72 a tenant and a warhero, flying 35 and homes and lived in constant fear of intern- challenge. I "spotted" a rela- missions in the South Pacific . ment in concentration camps. tively new furnace in a row of His commission was held up Nate and Mary Ann were married for 35 vacant buildings on Madison when someone overheard him years and had three sons, Philip, Marc and Street across from GraceChurch giving an impassioned anti-fas- Michael. Two of Nate's most memorable that were slated for demolition cist talk to other soldiers. moments were meeting Paul Robeson and by "urban removal". After WWII Nate joined the kissing Jane Fonda. I called Nate for help. Never Communist Party (CP) and be- It is certainly consistent with Nate's no- questioning the ethics of liber- came a union organizer for the nonsense style that he chose to end his life on ating needed equipment, he United Electrical Workers in his terms. His entire family has great respect agreed to check it out . He pedaled over to the Rome. In 1949 he met a radical northside for that courageous decision . Rest in Peace, site on his beloved bike, determined the fur- woman named Mary AnnCarrino. Five months Nate, and thank you. nace was usable and then marked all the duct later, in August, they were married, but it Please send contributions in his name to work we should also take . Several nights later wasn't quite that simple. Mary Ann's family SPC and to Syracuse Cultural Workers, Box David Coons, Joe Horsington, Tom Diehl and wanted a Catholic wedding so Nate agreed to 6367, Syracuse, NY 13217. I, using Red Emma (Grassroots/Dandelion's undergo "instruction". The priest's final de- D1k Cool was on SPC staff from 1970 to 1981.

219A Perim Hrof.larot*n. ee Truth to Power CNY Support Needed as Cree Campaign Continues compiled by Tim Judson n November, the PNL began covering the at the moment have to do with HQ's revised James Bay Cree's ongoing struggle against plans for the James Bay Project (see top right) Hydro-Quebec (HQ) . Since the end of the last and the possible effects of the US's deregu- phase of their campaign in 1994, when HQ lated utilities market. Not surprisingly, those scrapped the first plans for the Great Whale two issues are intimately connected — as they Phase II of the James Bay Project, the Cree's were in the early 90s as well . One of the struggle has faded from the spotlight and inter- important parts of that campaign was getting national awareness and support have waned. New York State to cancel its $17 billion con- The Cree are now working simultaneously on tract with HQ. The dynamics of the situation several different fronts, with resources have changed with the deregulation piece, but stretched thin. our role on the US side of the border is no less The most immediate threats the Cree face immediate — it may even be more so ... Hydro's New Plans Within 10 years — produce enough (Robert Bourassa, former Quebec Pre- energy to power 74,000 cities the size of mier). Syracuse. • Sell power on the US's deregulated Divert the Great Whale and Rupert "Grid" at rates up to 50% lower than other rivers Into the La Grande reservoir, rather producers, underselling the small, inde- than build separate reservoirs. Will save HO pendent producers deregulation is sup- How Can CN ?ers some money, but is no less destructive to posed to favor, and development of "green" Help the Cree? Cree communities and local ecosystems. energy. • Undermine Cree Sovereignty . "Eco- • Dominate the US power market in the • Urge NRDC to state their posi-' nomically Conquer the north of Canada" northeast. tion on Cree sovereignty and sup- port classification of hydro power as an environmentally damaging energy NRDC Turns its Back source. Direct letters to NRDC, attn: The Natural Resources Defense Council, FERC & Congress Katherine Morrison, 120ONew York headed by Bobby Kennedy Jr ., is currently Ave. NW, Suite 400, Wahington, DC lobbying HQ to support Clean Air Act legislation Regulations Crucial 20005. For better or worse, their opin- in Congress. Kennedy was one of the high- The Federal Energy ion carries significant weight in Wash- profile US supporters of the Cree campaign in Regulatory Commission ington, and they claim to be on the the early 90s, but NRDC has not contacted the {FERC) has recently decided to same side as us. Cree about their current actions. admit HO as an equal competitor in • Support legislation on these issues. Such an alliance would further cloud the the deregulated "free market." This Watch the PNL for further develop- issue of "clean energy" and undermine the despite FERC's own rules of ments. Cree cause. reciprocity, which prohibit monopo- • Weigh your power choices locally, In defense of natural resources, as lies as "equal competitors ." FERC and work to ensure that we have ac- well as local communities and ecosys- will decide by early February whether ceptable choices before us . When de- tems, the NRDC should support clas- to review this decision in light of regulation goes into effect, choose sification of hydro power as envi- concerns raised by the Cree. wind, solar, or small-scale geothermal ronmentally damaging. Congress is deciding whether there should be or biomass. national standards on the deregulated utilities market, • As always — CONSERVE. Oppose which would pre-empt individual state decisions as well wasteful energy use. as interpretations of NAFTA that favor HQ. Some • Close Nine MileOne! These struggles possibilities for this involve: • listing energy sources that are environmentally are connected — there are no safe, damaging large-scale power projects . Insist that • requiring that power corporations have renewable large corporations not be allowed to resources as part of their "portfolio" recklessly endanger the public under • require that Quebec admit competition into the the pretense of giving us what we province, effectively ending HQ's monopoly — and A logofrom the want. Tell them you want power on there ability to undertake such huge, risky projects. your own tgrms. Cree campaign in the early 90s .

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Take Heart: We're Still Everywhere Lisa Guido's Work Links Many Struggles An Interview shirt with Martin Luther King in a gunsight, PNL: Did you see yesterday's paper? saying, "This is my dream." He had people at [New York State Gov.] Pataki took away by Nancy Keefe Rhodes gun shows, explaining why they want more Tupper Lake's proposed new prison because guns. It's a reminder of what's happening with of its environmental impact in the Adirondack fascist groups and hate groups today . This is region, based on a report from the Dept. of very present for Europeans. Environmental Conservation . The local people In mid-December, activist Lisa Guido PNL: How do audiences react to this? are losing 350 new jobs . They say that "out- returned to Syracuse after nearly half a year LG: They see the US as more violent than siders" are making their decisons, that the in Belgium working with the anti-nuclear other industrialized, capitalist nations — the DEC ruling is really big city folks denying group, For Mother Earth . Before she left, Lisa so-called "First World." More violent than them equal economic development. contributed coverage to the PNL about the Europe, even though we can look at Bosnia LG: Yes, it's really appropriating the Plowshares trial inMaine. Her bulletinsfrom and the North of Ireland . The US feels more language of democracy, turning it on its head. abroad have enlivened severalPNLssince. It's a lot like what Judge Elliott did in `62 Recently, she talked with me about her with his ruling on the 14th Amendment travels in Europe and her plans to partici- against demonstrations [see p. 8 sidebar]. pate in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Remem- PNL:New York State'sstrategy for rural brance Peace Walk. poverty has been prison-building since LG: . . .I'11 bring flyers about the Cuomo's time. What about Europe? Are School of the Americas on the Peace Walk there similar depressed areas there that are and the video. I'm going for a month. Two more receptive to such projects? friends from England and Holland are join- LG: Actually, yes . InEngland, Greenham ing me. My hope is, if we're lucky, we can Common is rural, and Aldermasten is right take the Walk right to the SOA trials . There down the road. That's a nuclear lab . Right are so many connections, and you know it's here, look at Oswego and Nine Mile One. the same judge who went after Dr. King. PNL: There's some attention now on bor- PNL: What do you think King would der areas suffering greater environmental say about the SOA? degradation when both nations, paradoxi- LG : He was so strongly anti-military, Lisa Guido on a 1995 journey. Photo courtesy cally, consider such areas peripheral and especially at the end of his life. I think he'd ofKaren Hall neither wants to own such problems . Say, say it's an abomination. It's such interesting violent than Europe. Statistically, there are by along both the Canadian and Mexican bor- timing, the trial and the Peace Walk . It's a far more homicides in the US . People know ders. Look how heavily the US has fortified the great idea for the SOA trial, a banner with, that a growing neo-Nazi movement, espe- border around El Paso, yet El Paso/Juarez is "What would MLK say?" Using one event to cially in Germany, coincides with that in the incredibly polluted. frame the other and make that connection . It US. There is still a Nazi Party. LG: Yes, it's classic . The nuclear plant at also coincides with Black History month, and PNL: It's the old one, not a rebirth. Doel is right on the Belgian/Dutch border. King's Southern Christian Leadership Con- LG : Yes. In Hamburg, they got 5% of the PNL: How about For Mother Earth. How ference is co-sponsoring the Walk. vote in the last election. And Hamburg's a did you get involved? PNL: When did you decide to go? pretty funky town. That is, it has a reputation LG: I was in Japan in 1995 for the 50th LG: I was thinking about it for a few as very progressive. The activists took to the anniversary of Hiroshma and Nagasaki. I met months. Then I came home from Europe and streets over that election. I was actually in a Belgian activist and we became good friends. learned that friends would go on trial for the Germany then, doing an action. He told me about European anti-nuclear cam- SOA protests and I thought of the connection. PNL: How'd that feel? paigns and a walk across Europe for a Nuclear- I actually heard via e-mail first . My friends LG : Oh, very positive actually. Seeing so Free World, from Brussels to Moscow. That said, we'll go too! I like the remembrance many hundreds of activists responding. But caught my attention, especially as they were walks but I want to connect it to the present. Of it's chilling to see that the party exists. We doing actions along the way at plants and course racism is still with us. always think it's historical . They're still here. weapons establishments. So I thought, why PNL: Kathleen Rumpf says it's fate, be- There's definitely a direct connection among not take a chunk of time and learn what I can ing tried by the same judge that MLK faced. fascism, the arms race, fear of disarming, from them? My friend and I corresponded LG: In Belgium I saw a video by a French maintaining so-called enemies and so-called regularly after that. In April he said there journalist who went to the Deep South of the deterrents. That is, a connection between state would be a summer campaign in `97 — the US. He had recent footage of white suprema- repression and economics . Whenever we did Abolition Days — focusing on the expansion cists, KKK gatherings . The local anarchist an action, the local people and reporters both of NATO nuclear capacity and the World center showed it at one weekly dinner and would say, "This is the biggest employer in the Court decison on nuclear war's illegality. I movie night. He interviewed one guy in a tee- region. How can we shut this down?" Cont. on p. 8

2/98 Peace Newsletter 7 wanted to be part of the peace camps that were were in the European Parliament, trying to get 31ADGE ELL70TT. THE MLK-SOA- planned. I also wanted to do whatever I could a voice. It was a huge maze to negotiate, MY L.XJ CONNECIJON to help, and learn more about organizing, so I physically and emotionally . They felt it was . For Mother Earth Recently the NAACP (whose new Ex- could understand more about creating an ac- positive, but exhausting ecutive Director, Kweisi Mfume, spoke in tion. The peace camps would teach consensus invited delegates from Africa—fromNamibia, Syracuse during this year's MLK festvities) decison-making and explore base democratic and from Australia, Sashkatchewan, the La- passed a resolution condemning the School structures. guna Pueblo in New Mexico, the Cree from of the Americas . Several other factors now PNL: Haw did it work there? Democ- Canada. For Mother Earth has a long relation- converge to highlight the racist nature of the racy, after all, is messy, time-consuming, inef- ship with indigenous peoples . In 1992 For SOA's enterprise. ficient — and worth it. Mother Earth was involved in walks across the The Martin Luther King Remembrance LG: Yes, the trials and tribulations to get US from the UN to the Nevada Test Site (a .k.a. Walk starts on January 19 in Atlanta, King's it to work! We truly believe in it, but it takes the Western Shoshone Nation Territory). birthplace, and winds up on April 4 in Mem- such time and effort. Sometimes hierarchy PNL: How old is For Mother Earth? phis, where he wasassassinated . The Walk seems faster and requires less thought. It's LG: About seven years old, I think. It is an interfaith project of Nippon Zan Mihoji, totally worth it. This reaffirmed for me that a Japanese order of Buddhist monks and learning the process is as nuns, who have supported plowshares ac- . important as creating the tions for manyyears. They also participated action. People are doing it in chanting and vigilling in Brussels last here. The same struggles October while Lisa was there. and rewards occur in other The MLK Walk may cross paths with the similar groups. SOA trials in Georgia, given the presiding federal judge is J . Robert Elliott, appointed PNL: How many by Kennedy in 1962. As chronicled in Taylor people took part? Branch's Parting the Waters : America Dur- LG: About a hundred ing the King Years (1988), Elliott banned a people in the peace camps, civil rights march planned by King through not to mention all the Albany, Georgia in the early 60s . He "turned health food stores who upside down the Civil Rights' cherished stand donated all the food and on the 14th Amendment" when he granted were there in spirit. We an injunction, ruling that the march denied had a surplus of food. We Albany's white citizens equal protection by were in the Brussels camp drawing police manpower and other public for ten days, beginning on resources out of white neighborhoods to August 1. If you see 60 people at an action, grew out of the cruise missile, anti-nuclear monitor such a march. Years earlier, Elliott there's sure to be others behind the scenes demonstrations and peace camps of the 80s. had led the walk-out of the Georgia delega- doing support — logistics, food, press work. PNL: Is there a particular Belgian tradi- tion at the 1948 Democratic National Con- PNL: You were part of a later project? tion forpeace activism, other than its status as vention in protest of the party's civil rights LG: I planned to stay about three months. a neutral nation? stance. Then this other project came along, the Indig- LG: Well, Belgium is not quite a mobi- In citing Elliott as "worst" among US enous Peoples Speaking Tour, about uranium lized as, say, England, on nuclear issues . En- judges, The American Lawyer (July/August 1983) also noted that in 1974 Lt . William mining in their lands fueling nuclear power in gland has a big history of nuclear resistance. Calley appealed his court-martial for the My Europe and North America. It was a chance to Belgium is the home of For Mother Earth, but Lai massacre in Viet Nam to Judge Elliott's lobby with indigenous peoples from several other small independent groups have spruing court. Elliott set aside Galley's conviction. continents in the European Parliament and do up elsewhere. People are becoming very po- His decision devoted nearly 50 pages to street action together. I learned a lot about the liticized, I think, seeing the concentration of reviewing what he deemed Galley's logistics of bringing delegations together. power now in Brussels . There was this image martrydom in the press, comparing him to Again, it was very worth it. I've been involved of neutralty that permitted locating certain such figures as the Biblical Joshua, Winston in other delegations, for example, the one from offices there. The Big Three — Germany, Churchill, General Sherman and Dwight here in Central New York that went to Central France, England — they didn't have it. People Eisenhower . A year later, the Fifth Circuit America — they were to learn, to get first- were originally less fearful to see a center found Elliott in error and ordered Galley back hand knowledge, though they evolved to the there. So the European Parliament is there, the to prison. sister-city project and so on. But this was NATO headquarters are there. I should say the Observers back from the January round about oppressed people getting to voice their mythical image of neutrality. of SOA trials have commented that Elliott concerns and demands on the oppressors' PNL: The squatters movement supported promptly read his decision aloud when home ground. This taught me that it's possible your efforts in Brussells . .. testimony ended . Syracusans Ed Kinane to host a delegation on a shoestring . They LG: Yes. Again, you see how building and Kathleen Rumpf face further trial on loved the home stays, home-cooked meals. community and networks of resistance is just March 2. You don't need a municipal budget. There we as important as the direct action. The Euro-

8 Peace Newsletter 2/98 pean squatter movement — that is, where live in educating Europeans about some simi- grassroots communities take over abandoned lar indigenous issues, namely land rights vio- buildings and neighborhoods — is very in- lations, use of land as toxic waste dumps, volved in the anti-military movement . I saw exploitation of resources . That's part of what is resistance communities in every country I happening here at Big Mountain in Arizona - visited. Quite often anti-nuclear and anti-mili- I think they're planning to dig for coal and tary communities were organized in squats. under that is uranium. A number of sacred Holland is really strong in squatters . Some native sites are being considered for nuclear Amsterdam squats have weekly dinners open waste sites . Nuclear waste is still goes into to the public as fund raisers . It's more orga- Nevada regularly . The tour in Europe was nized than here, and more accepted, but I stressful because it was very emotional for ;understand that some police evicting squat- delegates to speak out about similar horrific is' communities, like in New York City, has things over and over. The original speaker tight US squats into the news sometimes. from Laguna Pueblo had to cancel because her PNL: What did you bring back? cancer got worse. Her replacement had lost LG This is useful for me — to reflect, to several family members and now lives off the pare, to see: what I want to ask activists. reservation to get away from the uranium mine. Whit sustains movements here? What The aboriginal woman, Joan Wingfield, had a we lacking, what are we strong at? Actu- family member blinded by an above-ground y, I see a lot of community around revolu- nuclear test on their lands . The guy from and food. Locally, there are the monthly Namibia, his village was going to be flooded, Angie Zeller ofthe UK's Hawk ers that Michael [DiSalvo] and Nick [Orth] destroyed by a dam. His village was moved, Plowshares protested NATO's illegal d [to help support Friends of Dorothy, ancient burial grounds torn up to build infra- nuclear plans. hich offers hospitality to those with HIV/ structure for mining. Europe is giving money S].There's Food Not Bombs. SPC is hold- to his government for this . There was a Cree IRZJDE,NT PLOWSHARES 2000 brunches again. Yeah, including food is woman on the tour — 32% of the world's A May press conference in the UK will amentally important. We'll share food uranium comes from Canada's First Nation announce Trident 2000, a mass plowshares th poeople along the way on the King Peace people. As with AIDS activism, it was hard to action next summer against the Trident alit. The cooking crews, the travelling kitch- speak out to an unknowing public about these nuclear base in Scotland. really help. things. I was on the support team, to do logis- Lisa says, "Usually plowshares actions PNL: Was there anything like Food Not tics as well as emotional support. They were are secret, so this is a huge departure. robs in Europe? coming to the belly of the beast, where colo- Under UK law, they are risking 10 years for LG: I didn't see a lot of Food Not Bombs- nialism sprang from. conspiracy for planning this ." activity, but we did a lot of "dumpster- PNL: What did you do afterward? For further info, contact the Trident "— we were able to live very cheaply. LG: I took a break! I went to Greenham 2000 Core Group at 42-46 Bethel St ., Nor- was a very positive local TV story about Common in England for a few days with the wich NR2 1 NR, United Kingdom. in Gent, where I stayed. I must say that four women still living there . It'sbeen 16 years groan's has been bountiful here too. for them. The cruise missiles were removed, PNL: Do you think the distance factor but they stay there partly to monitor the transi- ects organizing in Europe? tion of that land from military to civilian use. shares women. They got a video introduced LG: A lot — you travel a short distance, Right now, some big businesses are eying the into evidence — they left it on the pilot's seat ge and currency and culture changes . It property. The women are facing another trial of a warplane during their action. Often you itizes you very quickly to differences. I too. They focus on "de-fencing" at the local are stifled in court. They were very well- ould qualify it. Here, you can drive from weapons lab. They take down large portions of prepared. Their video was "evidence," the ius to the South Side and see changes. fence, to represent taking down barriers, creat- jury saw it. It documented their letter cam- PNL: Can you talk some more about the ing access where there's been none. It creates paign, their demos, each woman was inter- indigenous people speaking tour? an opportunity for the trial to use the World viewed about why she was in this action. I love LG: I'm still trying to sort out the worth- Court decision against nuclear war. They are the cleverness of getting that video into court .hileness of that. Making the connection be- trying to do enough property damage to get a so your intentions are clear . It shows the build- een abuse of indigenous people and the jury trial, which may come up in February, up in their campaign. In the last year I've been ealth of industrialized nations, violations of actually, to get the World Court decision into meeting more and more people in the States rights and treaties. I was just looking at a court. The World Court decision has prompted and abroad who are all working on the same k today,American Ground Zero — I think efforts to get a series of court cases leading to issues. Its pretty energizing. the 80s. Nevada Test Site is in the heart legal precedent. Many people here in the States Nancy is a PNL contributing editor. Shoshone land. The book showed areas of are working on the same thing. Last year four Photos on pp. 8 - 9 by Anguirra of Romania's 1-out in the Southwest, massive radioactive For Mother Earth . Contact Lisa Guido via e- women in England were acquitted in a trial mail at . tamination. The European tour was effec- using international law — the Hawk Plow- db

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NoNig t Lasts Forever . .. LORI BERENSON: POIrTICAL PRISONER. IN PERU By Steven Penn

"This has been a very cold year—the frosts came to Puno early . But even so the blue sky continues to be beautiful, as must be the fields and Lake Atitlan (Titicaca), which I remember vividly although 1 can't see them."

igh in the Peruvian Andes stretches a wide plateau above the shores of Lake H Titicaca. Once an ancient Inca strong- hold, life on the plateau is difficult; at 12,500 feet the temperatures rarely climb above the 40's even in the summer, and the winds are unrelenting. In the mountains above the lake stands the Yanamayo prison, a maximum se- curity facility which international human rights groups have universally condemned as draconian and inhumane. Only the persistent mountain wind freely enters Yanamayo. Rushing past the external rock barricade, across the mine field, over the tall inner perimeter wall with its guard tdwers charged, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori tween a terrorist and a revolutionary. A terror- and razor wire, the cold wind whistles through publicly stated that Lori was guilty of aiding ist incites fear in a population for gain, some- a narrow penitentiary window into a tiny cell the MRTA and that this set of arrests was times political but often personal . A revolu- where there sits a young woman knitting crucial in dismantling the rebel group. For 29 tionaryuses avariety of means to create a new maybe playing the guitar— and silently mark- days the police held Lori, interrogating her at society including, when necessary, combating ing a solemn anniversary, the second year of a all hours before finally charging her with trea- ordestroying the old order to make way for the life sentence. Twenty-eight year old Lori son. On January 8, 1996, in a highly unusual new. Anyone familiar with the topic, including Berenson has dedicated her life to furthering procedure, they paraded her out in chains and Lori, would recognize this distinction. Con- human rights and fighting the systems that told her to make a statement to the media. versely, it should be noted that any criteria create poverty, working first in Nicaragua and Visibly strained from a month's incarceration, which would characterize the MRTA's actions El Salvador, and funny in Peru . She has known she said: as terrorism would be forced to label the Peru- people in the rebel movements . She has even "I am to be condemned for my concern about vian government as a much larger terrorist been a translator during the Salvadoran peace the conditions of hunger and misery which organization. negotiations . But in the harsh political land- exist in this country. Here nobody can deny Lori admittedly knew people in the MRTA. scape of Peru, associating with a rebel is a that in Peru there is much injustice . There is She told her father after her arrest that she did crime and being charged means being con- institutionalized violence that has killed the not believe in violence, but that some people victed. Evidence of any actual wrongdoing is people's best sons and has condemned chil- felt that under a repressive government there irrelevant in the closed military trials where dren to die of hunger . If it is a crime to worry was no other option. Later she told him, "Dad, hooded judges hear a hooded prosecutor about the subhuman conditions in which the I never dishonored you . We might not agree on present the "facts" which the defense may not majority of this population lives, then I will everything. . . but I've never dishonored you.. question. The whole proceeding takes about accept my punishment . But this is not a love of I know these people, and in Peru, guilt by an hour. In 1995 Peru's National Human Rights violence. This is not to be a criminal terrorist association exists . I have to face the conse- Coordinator estimated that the military trials, because in the MRTA there are no criminal quences." with their 97% conviction rate, had sent nearly terrorists. It is a revolutionary movement. The Fujimori government accused Berenson 1000 innocent people to prison . Thus a young "I love this people. I love this people and ofplanning an MRTA kidnapping of Peruvian woman, who has never been known to raise a although this love is going to make — cost — Congressmen. They said that her Congres- hand, much less a gun, against anyone, is sent me years in prison, I will never stop loving, and sional interviews were a front to obtain infor- to prison for life. never lose the hope and confidence that there mation for the plan . The American media at- On November 30, 1995 Lori was riding the will be a new day of justice in Peru." tention on the Berenson case prodded the gov- bus from downtown Lima back to her apart- Her speech generated harsh repercussions. ernment to take the unusual step of announc- ment. She had visited the Peruvian Congress Rather than grovel, Lori had defiantly stuck to ing, and in some cases revealing, their evi- seeking interviews with congressmen for an her principles . In apparent retribution, her trial dence. The evidence included: a lease for the article she was writing for the New York-based judge ignored the prosecuters demand for 30 MRTA house with Berenson's signature, a US magazine Third World Viewpoint . The bus years and sentenced her to life. bank account in which she supposedly raised was pulled over by two plainclothes police- The media widely reported that Lori con- funds for the MRTA, a seating chart of the men, and Lori was dragged off and arrested. fessed to being in the MRTA, which she has Congress, a map of an alleged escape route That night police raided a house in Lima being always denied. She later clarified her state- from the Lima house, a confession from Pacifico used by the rebel group Tupac Amaru (MRTA). ment saying that although she was not in the Castrellan confirming her role in the rebel The ensuing shoot-out killed 6 people before MRTA, if she had been in the MRTA then she group, and a film of Lori at an MRTA military 14 MRTA members surrendered . Within days would have been arevolutionary, not a terror- training. after these arrests, before Lori was even ist. A clear academic distinction exists be- The only reporter to investigate the

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government's claims, John. Richardson (New strong affect on her; she could not shake the Lori's convictions were galvanized . She York,Feb. '96) found little hard evidence. The memory of that war-torn country and its people. dropped out of MIT and worked for CISPES. film, for example, is dark and the peoplehooded I remember one sunny afternoon on the steps A few years later she moved to Nicaragua to so that "you can't even tell if the participants of the MIT Student Center when she told me work with Salvadoran refugees. Eventually are men or women, let alone whether Lori was that her classes and the concerns of her class- she became a secretary and translator for the among them." The "escape map" is a rough mates seemed irrelevant compared to the cri- FPL in El Salvador. After the peace talks were sketch of a few streets near the house. The bank sis in El Salvador. complete and El Salvador had stabilized, she account, held jointly with her mother, contains The next year she returned on a second moved on, eventually settling in Peru. her father's book royalties . A Congressional student exchange trip and stayed with Mario In Peru, Lori found conditions even worse. seating chart is useful to a reporter interview- and Doris Flores, both students at the Univer- In a country of 24 million people live, 49% live ing members of Congress, who incidently re- sity of El Salvador. One night death squads in poverty and 17% suffer from malnutrition. ported nothing suspicious about the interviews. bombed the home of the university dean in an In a letter she wrote, "I still think the most When Lori came to Peru from Central attempt to silence her public opposition to the common illness people die from is different America, she traveled with Pacifico Castrellan. government . Several nights later, Mario Flores manifestations of malnutrition.. . Even in Bo- It was public knowledge that he had made was dragged from his homebyNationalGuard livia. . . a farmer at least eats, even if it is just repeated romantic advances toward her. which troops. He was later found shot in the head, potatoes. Whereas, here, the 70% of Lima's she had rejected. Castrellan was arrested in the beaten and strangled . unemployed population doesn't do that regu- raid on the Lima house and was given a life larly." continued on p . 16 sentence. The police reported he confessed that Lori was anMRTA leaderand that on their Lori Petitions OAS Human Rights Commission way to Peru they had stopped in Ecuador to On January 22nd, Lori's lawyers (Ramsey meet with Nestor Cerpa, head of the MRTA. CONGRESS PRESSURES PERU Interpol, they said, confirmed the occurance of Clark, Thomas Nooter, and Grimaldo Achahui) the meeting with the Ecuadorian police. How- filed a petition on her behalf with the Inter- In 1998 Foreign Appropriations Budget, ever When Richardson contacted Interpol, they American Commission on Human Rights of the Managers Report directs the Secretaries of stated that they do not investigate police re- the Organization of American States against State and Treasury and the Administrator of ports. Ecuadorian officials said they had no . The complaint seeks AID "to use the diplomatic and fmancial re- knowledge of such a meeting except that they the Government of Peru had heard a rumor of it from Peru. an immediate release, and, if Peru presents sources available to them to encourage the When the lease itself was investigated it did sufficient evidence, a new and fair trial in civil Government of Peru to take all necessary steps not contain Lori's signature. She lived in an court. The complaint also demands immediate to ensure that US citizens held in prisons in apartment across town, although she did admit improvements, to meet minimal international Peru are treated humanely and accorded timely, that on occasion she had dropped off food standards, of inhumane conditions found at open and fair legal proceedings in civilian there and borrowed the MRTA minivan . She Yanamayo and other maximum security pris- courts ." It also requests the Secretary of State said that she thought the house wasbeing used as an office and a school. She claimed that she ons in Peru. to report to the Appropriations Committee by thought the MRTA had decided to transform The IACHR has condemned the use of mill- March 1, 1998, on the Administration's efforts itself into a political party. This goal was tary tribunals as a violation of the American and Peru's response. acknowledged by both Cerpa and Miguel Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man, Recently, Congress has sent strong let- Rincdn, the MRTA second-in-command. the American Convention on Human Rights, ters, signed by 55 Senators and 176 Represen- While acting as a translator and secretary and other international declarations, conven- tatives, to Secretary Albright urging immedi- during the Salvadoran peace negotiations, Lori tions, and laws. ate action to protect Lori's rights. witnessed the FMLN undergo a similar trans- formation when they decided to put down the POST-CARD CAMPAIGN TO PRESIDENT CLINTON gun and seek change in a nonviolent manner. We are collecting letters and postcards (sample below) which will be delivered by While it is not clear exactly how much she members of Congress to President Clinton in late February. Send postcards to: knew or did not know about the inner work- Mark Lloyd, Box 20050, Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010 ings of the MRTA, the evidence for any seri------ous crimes is lacking. Date: I met Loriwhen she entered MIT in 1987 . She was an eager frosh full of ideas and energy Dear President Clinton: and deeply concerned about the war in Central On November 30, 1995, Lori Berenson was arrested by Peruvian military police . She was America. In high school she had sponsored a denied due process and was subsequently sentenced to life in prison by a secret military tribunal foster child in Guatamala which gave her an in violation of international law . She has now spent two years in an excessively harsh Andean early awareness of the troubles in the region. While studying Central American Society with maximum security prison which endangers her health. Prof. Martin Diskin, she was deeply troubled Since you have not responded to our previous requests, we are asking our elected representa- by the accounts of Salvadoran refugees fleeing tives to appeal to you to meet your legal and moral obligations to obtain justice for Lori Berenson. a war fueled by her own government . Later that `Please do not allow her to suffer any longer . year she traveled to El Salvador for two months on a student exchange program. The trip had a Sincerely, L

2/98 Peace Newsletter 11 Will the Truth be Silenced? Guratemala/El Salvador Trip Redefines Anti-SOA Commitment Doris Sage Competent coordinators organized a busy and National Civilian Police. They recognize itinerary. We visited and interviewed diverse their former torturers . How can they get on people and groups and got, I felt, a broad with their lives if there is no justice, no perspective of the current issues and problems acknowledgement of the truth, and no repen- in Central America. Our group of 23 informed tance or forgiveness? people ranged in age from 18 to 81, with Guatemalan women in Pacux tell of their n a previous trip to El Salvador, Doris different backgrounds and religions, from all village in Rio Negro, where people gathered OSage witnessed the effect of our country's over the US . Our delegates were exceptionally because they were promised safety. They tell support of the School of the Americas (SOA) congenial, sharing and helping one another. of losing everything when military and para- on the lives of Central American people and Together we worshipped and sang, often weep- military civil defense patrols (PACs) burned began a commitment to close it . With her ing as we shared the pain of Central American their homes to the ground. One hundred and husband Dan, she began participating in dem- people who told their stories. We hugged, seventy-seven women and children died ' so onstrations in Washington, DC and at Fort comforted and wept with mothers who had the land could be cleared for the INDE Chlxoy Benning, Georgia, asking for the closure of lost their children, often entire families . How Dam Project. In this area 480 indigenousiiil- this school. can we reconcile US participation in causing lages will be wiped off the map . The World Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the their pain and suffering? Bank admits the project has been a failure. A School of the Americas Watch, uses "The priest says their culture, once vibrant, is threat- Truth Will Not Be Silenced" as a motto for this Why would our govern- ened because they no longer sing and dance. movement. On November 16 of last year, my ment support the World Why would our government support the World husband Dan and I were arrested along with Bank in a program that causes genocide? 600 other people who marched solemnly and Bank in a program that Interviews with human rights advocates, peacefully onto Fort Benning's army base to causes genocide? religious leaders, mothers and families of the deliver hundreds of thousands of signatures disappeared reveal that little has changed. calling for the closing of the SOA. Thirty of us In El Salvador, on the "sacred grounds" They are still targets for oppression and threats, who were "repeaters" had to appear for ar- of the assassinations of martyrs — Arch- afraid to speak. They still need land, jobs, raignment. Three pleaded "no contest" imme- bishop Oscar Romero, the six Jesuit priests, housing and food. diately and were fined $3,000 each and sen- their housekeeper and her daughter — again However, representatives at the US em- tenced to the maximum term of six months in we wept. Anguished, we remembered Diane bassy in Guatemala claim we are no longer prison with no appeal . The remaining 27 of us Ortiz and four US church women . How can training Central American soldiers at Fort requested trial, expecting a similar sentence. working with the poor be subversive? Benning. They see progress with the peace National media have given this little attention. Rufina Amaya of El Mozote says they accords. They claim thatcampesinos make up Does this mean that the truth can be silenced? thought they were safe because they were stories of atrocities because they see it as a We live in a country with a "democratic" neutral. Over 900 persons, including her hus- way to get asylum and leave the country for government thatguaranteesfreedom of speech. band and four children, were murdered that economic reasons. "The war is over, we need But at Fort Benning, an "open" military base, day. How can civilized people do this? to forget the past and move on . Little can be political statements criticizing the SOA are An ex-military SOA graduate claims he accomplished by the forensic team's work of not allowed, though statements supporting the was not trained to kill . What does the military uncovering clandestine cemeteries in Guate- SOA are. The First Amendment guarantees train soldiers to do, if not to kill? mala." How can the people forget if there is no our right to peaceably assemble and petition Union leaders working in the justice, if the truth is not known, and their our government. Does the military have the maquiladores report unfair labor practices and loved ones do not receive the traditional rites? power to usurp our Bill of Rights? deplorable working conditions. Why do we As a US citizen, I am angry and embar- Two days after our November 19th ar- allow US economic interests to support this? rassed that our government's policies support raignment, we were on our way to El Salvador A congressmember from the ARENA multinational economic interests at the ex- and Guatemala with a delegation co-spon- party tells us that they are building a structure pense of indigenous peoples. I believe my sored by EPICA, Witness for Peace and SOA of human rights, the electoral process is being commitment to merely close the SOA was Watch. Father Roy and Carol Richardson from cleaned up, and the military reduced by half. naive. I now see the necessity to educate and SOA Watch'sWashington office were going More of the budget is going toward health, act politically on a broader scale. Can we to accompany us but could not because of their education, highways and infrastructure. "Al- make a difference by going to jail? Fort Benning arrests. though ARENA is conservative, " he says, Doris is a peace activist and story-teller Our delegation experience has changed "We have shown we have a will to bring peace who wrote this before trial in Georgia . On . When we have January20, she did receive a sentence of six our focus and inquiries from simply closing and prosperity to the country months in prison and a $3,000 fine. This essay the SOA to broader issues of the military- proof, the guilty parties will be punished ." also appears in the current Challenge, the industrial complex and multinational busi- Former FMLN guerrillas andcampesinos quarterly publication of EPICA (Ecumenical ness interests. now work side by side with ex-military people Program in Central America), 1470 living St ., NW, Washington, DC 20010.

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CENTRAL AMERICA Caribbean/Latin American Coalition Notes AND 711E CARIBBEAN Chiapas groups. The government flagrantly violates ` After the Mexican government assault on. the San Andres Accords on Indigenous Rights theZapatistas (which included the New Year's and Culture. massacre of dozens at Acteal), AFSC and the PNLreaders can urge US Rep. Jim Walsh Green Party organized an emergency teach-in (100 S. Clinton St., 13202, 423-5657) and on Jan. 10 and a demonstration at the Federal both US Senators to "cosponsor legislation to Building on Jan.12. This was part of an Inter- suspend all military aid to Mexico which national Day of Action . US-supplied weapons includes equipment and training of the Mexi- cuse Nine's needs during whatever time they have been used to kill and contain villages can military, in accordance with provisions are imprisoned. Material and logistical assis- allied with the Zapatista movement, which established under the Leahy Amendment," tance are essential. It will also be important for demands "democracy, freedom, and justice and "seek a full public disclosure of the amount many people to fill in the gaps created by our for all Mexicans." and type of assistance the US has given to friends' absence, temporary though it will be. Not surprisingly, Mexican Federal Army Mexico and an accounting of how it has been CLAC will be particularly affected, but with officers have comprised the largest national used." the development of a new organized response contingent of School of America trainees in We also urge PNL readers to write letters to events in Chiapas, we welcome new partici- recent years . Chiapas state police have re- to local newspapers, which have ignored this pants who look forward to responding to these ceived counterinsurgency training from the conflict. There will be a teach-in at Syracuse challenges. FBI. US military, anti-drug and social devel- University, possibly in February. The Mexi- El Salvador/Guatemala opment aid has been diverted to PRI-affiliated can government's war on the people of Chiapas Shirley Novak recently returned from a paramilitary groups . The PRI (Institutional is a major story in itself, and is even larger in month in our sister community of La Estancia, Revolutionary Party) has been in power for scope when one considers the implications for El Salvador . For an update of recent support nearly 90 years. Only in the last decade have both the survival and empowerment ofiindig- work in Central America, see Doris Sage's serious challenges to its iron grip started to enous peoples throughout the Americas. article, previous page. flourish. The Mexican government claims it is SOA Watch Next meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 6 seeking the murderers who devastated Acteal, Support for the Syracuse Nine has been pm working potluck, Plymouth Church on but, it is actually attacking the Tzotzil Indian substantial and heartening. Nancy Gwin is East Onondaga St. villages who are most at risk from paramilitary coordinating support to respond to the Syra- — Paul Weichselbaum

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Melody Holmes ing, just coming, or already there. This is unusual for ahousehold of elderly persons, but just another indication that Miss Helen was exceptionally loving, so that she effortlessly drew so many souls to herself."

iss Helen House : A Wendi Project was WENDI ALEXIS MODESTE H born from a conversation with one Every time I think of Wendi I smile too. woman and another's outspoken nature. The Not that she had a quirky sense of humor . It's house is dedicated to their vision and legacy. not even a single memory . But every time I Let me tell you about these women. think of her lately, it feels good. Knowing her was one of my best life experiences . If you've HELEN MOSLEY AUSTIN ever lost a close friend who mirrored your Whenever I think of Miss Helen, I smile. opposite self, you know what I mean. Wendi She didn't make speeches or champion causes, was the most contradictory person I will prob- yet she could be counted on for conversation, ably ever know . And she was the most com- a visit, a place at her table . Some counted on passionate person I have ever met . In all she her for spiritual guidance, for she had the ear had done (she was no angel) and in all she went of the Father . With immense strength Miss through — limited self esteem, 20-year drug Helen stood out with her smile, her soul- addiction, homelessness, prison sentence, lone- shaking belly laughter and her ability to tell liness and HIV disease — she always saw the the best stories in the world. Children gathered good in others. She made lifelong friends of around her like their favorite candy and she people she met while living on the streets of "Wendi was like, a 'girlfriend.' She liked welcomed each with open arms (and usually a New York City. Though she may have as- chick stiff I remember when she cut off sweet treat because she loved to bake and was sessed an individual a certain way, she never her hair. Or she'd get a new oust. She'd famous for her cookies, pies and breads). turned them away if she could help. Because walk in and say, photograph me now. Born in Femadine, Florida, she loved to of this vulnerability she was easily hurt . Even She'd say, you gotta get me like this ." — tell stories of her youth . One day she told me then, she made excuses for the offender. that when she moved to New York City she We talked a lot about our lives, what we Ellen Blalock, photographer ran into a family she grew up with . One sister had accomplished and what we hoped for. transitional living space for three guests, in- became her dentist. As we talked, I asked During one of these heartfelt conversations cluding one who may be in the end stages of whether the family name was Delaney. Sur- the concept of a house for women like herself, HIV disease. We'll offer workshops on topics me, all of us, took shape . Now it's becoming prised, she asked how I knew. I told her the from self-esteem to self-reliance, focusing on sisters were still alive and had written a book a reality and I'm sad she isn't physically here young women most at risk for substance abuse called to see it. Having Our Say. I bought it for her. As and early sexual activity. We also plan, a I grow older I am amazed by the lives she This house will be a legacy to the lives of women's health initiative, support groups, a touched. Her dear friend, Miss Cynthia Bamett, these two women . Ifyou never had the oppor- book club and cooking classes. This will be a tunity to meet either one, you missed some- says, "More often than not, when I would visit sister house to the familiar Friends of Dorothy, Miss Helen, someone else would be just leav- thing wonderful . We hope it lives up to their on Syracuse's north side. The house's phi- lives of compassion, faith losophy is based on Wendi's motto: and grace. "I will not hide my face. I will not distort Healing Arts of the Finger Lakes MISS HELEN'S my face. And I will defmitely not live the HOUSE: A WENDI Will Fudeman, Lic.Ac.,C.S.W. remainder of my life in shadows . My name is PROJECT Wendi Alexis Modeste. I am a proud African On the south side American woman living with AIDS in Syra- •Acupuncture of the city, Miss Helen's cuse, New York." • Counseling House (MHH) will be a Thank you for the inspiration. refuge for women and Melody is a board member ofAltema- • Chinese Herbs young girls in need. An tive Efforts, chair of the Syracuse Region 11-room, five-bath Martin Luther king Commission, and works in University Holistic Health & Pain Treatmenf Center spi'awling Victorian, the state prisons doing H1V education . She is the founder of Miss Helen's House . For further 465 Westcott St. Syracuse, NY 13210 • (315) 422.2027 house will open as a drop- info or to help, call 428-1626. in center and expand to

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SYRACUSE a subscribing member or both. SAVE THE DATE . . . COMMUNITY Please take a minute to contact us RiU)IO today. To KICK OFF our CON- Woolen 'LShon,case Change Begins with . . STRUCTION PHASE, we are . a having a CELEBRATION Transmitter and a Celebration PARTY on Sat., Feb 7th from After more than 13 months of waiting Syra- 7-11 pm at the Westcott cuse Community Radio (SCR) has been Community Center. We invite MARCH 7,1998 granted our first construction permit! On Janu- families to join in the fun. ary 14, 1998 the FCC approved our applica- Family Friendly music 7-9 pm. 7:30 P.M. tion (filed Dec 4, 1996) for a non-commercial Syracuse Community Radio, FM station in Truxton, NY . We expect to be on lnc.,P 0 Box 6365, Syracuse SHOWCASE PRODUCTIONS the air before the end of 1998 and should be NY 13217-6365. P.O . BOX 936 . SYRACUSE, NEW YORK . 13201 easy to listen to in southern and western Onon- 446.4769, dilute formula; insecticides labeled "child re- daga County.. Within. a .few years, SCR will syracomradio@ juno.com have a regional network of FM stations and www.serve.com\syracomradio sistant" contained cracker-like baits easily translators providing radio programming to www.rootmedia\-syracomradio accessible to little fmgers (its label did not most of Syracuse and CNY. — Frederic Noyes state the hazard of testicular damage, but only We will be the only comprehensive, con- mentioned possible "eye irritation"), and "cer- sistent, independent voice for working people, tification" was given to pesticide appliers who M had only completed a portion of the required unions, peopleof color, women, low-income *A lit ; AL communities and those seeking alternative c F '/ course. perspectives to corporate dominated news pro- 6.1 Consider, too, that on a list of 300 of so gramming. Member-owned and democrati- chemicals, the number classified as carcino- .0... cally operated, SCR will be the means for the gens has gone from about 30 to about 100 in CNY public to develop and create public ra- Notes from The Pesticide Project (presented the last ten years time . Worldwide, 75,000 intention- dio, not just fund it. by "1 in 9, The Long Island Breast Cancer products now contain pesticides ally, from paints to swimming pool additives. 40% of our 24 hour broadcast day will be Action Coalition") devoted to news and public affairs program- How can we reduce our exposure and risk due ming such as Alternative Radio from David The public has been misled into believing to pesticides? Barsamian, interviews with guests like Bar- that pesticides in general are safe, and that Statewide, NYPIRG will be trying to bara Ehrenreich, as well as shows dedicated to "registration" of these substances is an indica- encourage safer alternatives on college cam- Gay and Lesbian issues, Native American tor of their safety. It isn't "Registration" puses, schools and parks. For info, contact issues and programs for other ethnic commu- balances "risks" vs "benefits." By law, pes- Dave Palmer, NYPIRG coordinator for SU . Another good nities in our region. SCR will also produce ticides may not state that they are "safe : or and ESF, at (315) 476-8381 locally focused programs such as panel dis- "non-injurious." Risk is defined as exposure resource is NYCAP (NY Coalition for Alter- cussions and interviews, political analysis and X toxicity. Obviously, only "known" risks can natives to Pesticides), 353 Hamilton St, Al- regional call-in programs. be evaluated : multiple exposures from food, bany, NY `2210 (518) 426-8246. --Mardea Warner 60% or our programming will be music, home, work, etc. might be overlooked al- emphasizing local, regional and international though they are certainly important. artists as well as genres which do not receive And whose risk is being evaluated? Sci- airplay from mainstream radio. entists study a narrow genetic range of healthy, IRISH NIGHT SCR volunteers have accomplished a great adult, male rodents, whose environment/diet/ Music & Dancing with deal in the past five years . We have persisted etc. are carefully controlled... the test results THE FREEBORN MEN with a skelaton crew of visionary participants are then extrapolated to the humanpopulation holding fundraisers and music events, pub- whose genetics and exposures are infinitely Friday, Feb. 20, 8 pm lishing a newsletter and producing a TV pro- more complex. Knights of Columbus Hall gram. We must now increase our volunteer Consider how "little mistakes can have staff and raise money to fund our construction big consequences : Old ads show people, veg- 135 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse phase. etables, and animals singing "DDT is goodfor We hope you agree that these kinds of me!" and photos of youngsters on a beach $10 at the door programs will be important additions to the being sprayed with DDT from a truck whose CNY broadcast day and ask you to affirm sign claims it's safe. More recently concen- Benefits the Irish Green Cross SCR's mission by volunteering, by becoming trated weed-killer was mislabeled as being a Info: 469-8948

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e #il/N/7Y t/PA4TEf Lori Berenson Cont. from p. 11 Since the constitution was suspended in Staff Position Open at SCFCU 1992, Peru has become a de facto police state 0 Multifaceted position includes member under Fujimori. His campaign to wipe out service (teller, new accounts), some book- rebel groups has transformed Peru into one of keeping and growth into other responsibilites. the hemisphere's worst offenders against hu- The right person will be organized and detail- man rights, with the highest number of forced Plans Lakota, West African oriented, withgood communication andpeople disappearances in the world. The military has skills, able to handle money, and have basic been completely unaccountable since 1991, and Puerto Rican Projects when secret military courts began to hear This year Beyond Boundaries plans to math and computer experience . We will train cases against the military and suspected ter- strengthen its ties with Lakota Indians and in specifics. Part time at 20 hrs . Community rorists. Removed from public scrutiny, the Ghanaians and to begin a relationship with involvement, accounting skills are a plus. military needed little or no evidence to im- Puerto Ricans . Three groups meet to plan Some benefits. EOE. Send letter of applica- prison people. Half of the country's 22,000 1998 summer trips to the Lakota Nation, South tion or resume ASAP to: Syracuse Coopera- prisoners have yet to stand trial . 1 in 5 prison- Dakota, Bolgatanga, Ghana and Loiza, Puerto tive Federal Credit Union, Attn: Staff Search ers were arrested for the general crime of 723 Westcott Street, 13210 "terrorism." Rico. The groups work together to put on This system often invokes extreme pun- fund-raisers which will support the three ishments for scant evidence. Nancy Ruiz Nano, projects. The nextBeyond Boundaries'event the Stonewall Committee a housekeeper, was sentenced to life for terror- is: February programs. .. ism because her employer, unbeknownst to "KARAMU: A COMMUNITY FEAST" her, was a leader in the Shining Path. Miguel Saturday, Feb . 14, 6-9pm Ruiz Conejo was sentenced to life for be- friending a man who was secretly a rebel at Plymouth Church leader. Both were imprisoned in Yanamayo. Dinner will be jollof rice (both vegetarian The conditions in Yanamayo are cruel and and with chicken), fried plantains, vegetables inhuman. Prisoners are kept two to a small 7 and upside-down cake for dessert. The Pro- by 11 foot cell. They are allowed out for gram features poetry, storytelling, African exercise only 30 minutes per day . The food, dance, a drumming circle and an excerpt from passed through a slot near the floor, is meager 7pm "The People Could Fly", an African-Ameri- admission free and often inedible. The water ration of one First Unitarian Universalist Society gallon per day is used for drinking, washing, can folktale presented by Shoestring Produc- and cleaning the toilet, a small hole in the tions and the Onondaga Dance Institute. There 250 Waring Rd ., Syracuse floor. Visitation time was 30 minutes per will be a "Marketplace" selling African art Light refreshments will be served. month with no visits for the first year, it is and literature. Discussion after both presentations. currently 1 hr/week. Conejo describes the The projects and fund-raisers help to ex- prison as a slow death sentence for the' in- pand cross-cultural understanding and self- mates. awareness. Our hope is that they lead to lasting (un)class-ifieds After two years in the high altitude and and just relationships across cultural and class cold, Lori suffers from constant sore throats, laryngitis, and poor circulation . Her hands boundaries. • Healer/therapist to rent office space with have become swollen, cracked and purple. Beyond Boundaries offers presentations group of women healers . Call 428.8724. The thin air makes her dizzy, and often she and slide shows to groups and schools. If you cannot digest the food. Despite these hard- are interested in Beyond Boundaries or wish • Piano seeking a good, temporary (possibly ships her spirits have not waned. During the to schedule a presentation, 'call Aggie Lane at permanent) home — Hammond upright, for- MRTA hostage crisis last year, Lori's visita- 478-4571 or Mardea Warner at 479-5757. merly a player piano. Free. Corinne: 471- tion and communication rights were revoked. 4962. Once the ban was lifted, she wrote a letter to — Mardea Warner her friends confirming her enduring spirit. Job Opportunity t e have just passed through an extremely VP' difficult period. We're leaving one ex- COORDINATOR - WESTCOTT CDC Community Seder Planned tremely complex stage for another, different The Westcott Community Development After a number of years without one, a few but equally difficult. But it is vital to remember Corporation seeks an energetic and creative members of the now defunct group called that no night lasts forever, and even through person to oversee its daily operations, plan New Jewish Agenda have come together to the grief one can feel the same faith and hope and implement community and economic de- create a community seder that blends progres- in the brilliance of the rising sun at dawn ." velopment projects, coordinate outreach pro- sive thinking with traditional ritual. The seder THE CRISIS OF LORI BBRENSON AND ALL OF PERU ' S grams and special events and supervise in- is planned for Friday, April 17th, which is the POLITICAL PRISONERS IS BORNE OUT OF THE SEVERE last night of Passover. More details will be ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TURMOIL IN PERU . THESE terns and volunteers. CONDITIONS AND THE ROLE THAT THE US AND THE The position is full-time and will begin in forthcoming, but if you are interested in help- IMF HAVE PLAYED IN SHAPING THEM WILL BE THE February 1998. Salary: depending on experi- ing with the planning or on the day of the SUBJECT OF PART TWO OF THIS ARTICLE, TO APPEAR IN ence. Send cover letter and resume to: West- seder, contact Joan at 673-1083 or Susie at NEXT MONTH ' S PNL. FoolxoTas FOR THIS ARTICLE MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE AUTHOR. cott Community Development Corp ., P O Box 638-1993 Steve was a long-time activist at MIT. He 102, 13210-0102 . recently moved to Syracuse.

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S ~I NI *NI TV ES WE'D S F'R:I! SAT THURSDAYS STARTING FEB. l • l ~ 1`~ It Ghsnalsr Dian & Dance The bus driver looked bade through the rearview mirror and again claws at Dunbar Center. 7- bid me b get up. I didn't I knew he was talking to me He said, 'Hey, ~_ ~1 o h a >u r ! c u > . Wain I didn't get up, he didn't move (,(l 9pm . Info call Ginger Wlegard, get (air I didn't say anything ~~~ ~~m f nt a n 422-1972. the bus. He said before he'd drive on, rd have to gat up . People ill rn .i rho inf, EVERY THURSDAY : Lasbian & were saying. 'why don't you get 437 Why don't yam get up?' SPC 472 5478 Mai . h Gay Youth Support group - 15 year-old Claudette Colvin, who in 1955 defied di ad!inc F.'b 18 EVERY WEDNESDAY : MITI- (ages 14,21). women's info o the segregation laws on theIMPntgrxnery city does tary & Draft Counseling at ter 601 Allen St . Cant for time alien she refused to give up her seat to a Mite person. the Peace Canal. Noon 3prn . 422-974'. This was nine months before Rosa Parks and the start Call Marge 472.5478. 5 of the bus boycott ` Stonewall Committee meets at Tu Tu Venue, 731 James St. 1 2 3 4 5:30pm. 476-6226. 6 7 MONTH OF FEBRUARY: "Edec- People Against the Death Pen- Coalition for the Common let THREE WEDNESDAYS: Syracuse United Neighbors/ Syracuse Community Radio Southwest mooting . Brady EVERY FRIDAY: Lesbian Com tic Flavour" photograph ex- ally meeting. Church Center, Good meeting. 658 W. Orion- Peace Newsletter editorial ins Out Qoup 7pm . Women's Celebration . Westcott Com- Itibit Ways in which British phro- 3049 E. Genesee St . 7pm . 475- dage St Noon 478-7442. meeting. 924 Burnet Av. 4pm . Faith center. South Av . 7pm. morally Center, 826 Euclid St 7= tographers d African & Asian oi• 1878. 472-5478. 476-7475. Info Center, 601 Allen St. 492- 11pm. Families encouraged to gin have developed the confi- Red Branch Irish Americans 8035. come . Celebrating FCC ap- dence to explore individual wen- for Peace & Justice meets at proval for a new noncommer- des & multiple notions of identity. : •Radiovl- Colema n's Pub. 7pm . 475.0345. cis FM station in Trudan, NY. Menachel Gallery, Schine Student EVERY MONDAY Peace Action monthly pro- Sliding scale donation. 446- Center, SU. 10am-10pm . 443- Non" on Adeiphia Cable Ch. 3 at 1 1 tat & 3rd THURSDAYS: Gay & 4769. 1300. Free. 9pm . Presented by Syracuse gram May Memorial, 3800 E. Lesbian Alliance meeting. Enable, Genesee St. 7:30pm . 478-7442. HOPE, Inc . mooting (grass- 1603 Cast St 7:30pm. 4725732 Community Radio . roots AIDS group). Living Room, 326 Montgomery St . 5 :30pm. 8 9 10 474-3616. 12 13 14 Syracuse United Neighbors/ Carlbbeen&atin America Cos- Justice for Jonny Gamnage "Art, Culture & Revolution: TUESDAYS STARTING FEB. at ply_ vigil God's Way Church, 1800 Southslde meeting . St . An- Union waiting pe :30pm. EVERY SATURDAY: Sharing Growth of Radical conscious- thony's Church, Midland & 10: Glm"a°n Daum & Donee mouth Church, 232 E. Onon- S. Salina St. 5 tie Earth. Animal rights & en- nose." Socialist Forum panel Colvin St . 7pm . 476-7475. classes at Brighton Family daps St. 67 :30pm . 4784571. Films "Caning Out Under Fire discussing hip-hop & youth W- Center. 7-9pm . into call Ginger apprmored by Stonewall CammM- vironmental videos . 10pm. Wiegand, 422-1972 . NOW CNY Chapter meeting. tee. Discussion afterwards. 1st Time-Warner Cable channel 12. ture; literature & the Gay & Les- Marine Midland Bank, 360 S Unitarian universalist society, Produced by People for Animal bier) communities from historical 2nd week of February, 1926: 1957 - southern airman Lead- Rights. perspective; & more . Westcott Carter Woodson organized tit Warren, 7pm . 4873188. 250 Waring Rd. 7 pm . Free. ershtp Conference organized Community Center, 826 Euclid first Negro History Week col- Onondaga Audubon meeting. ReconslDer: Forum on Drug at Now Orleans meeting with St. 35pm. 475-2395 . Free. ebration . Later expanded Into Dewitt Community Church, 3600 Poky meeting. 206 Onondaga Marlin Luther King Jr. as peel- Black History Month. Erie Blvd. 7 :30pm. 457-7731 . Av. 7 :30pm . 422-6237. dent. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 EVERY SUNDAY: Sharing the NAACP general mtg. 7pm . EVERY THURSDAY : Student EVERY FRIDAY: Gay & Les- Earth. Animal rights & environ- NAACP Office, 1125 S. Saline Environmental Action Coati- Wan young Adult meeting (ages mental videos. 11 :30an . Adelphia P °for trained RIRights bust- St. 4225933. son meeting . Room 306, HBC 21-25). Women's Info Center, ness mtg. 7pm . Call 488-7877 Bldg, SU . 6: "The People Can Fly," an Afri- Cable channel 13 . Produced by for location . Friends of Dorothy Catholic Apr" ' 601 Men St . 422-9741 for time . can American folk tale performed People for Animal Rights. Worker Benefit Dinner. St . 26 Vigil Against the Death by the Onondaga Dance Insti- Penalty. Columbus Circle, EVERYSUNDAY: Syracuse United Neighbors/ Vincent de Paul Parish Center, Lute. Henninger High School, 600 inee6na Anna Mae Winton St., off Burnet Av. 5:30 downtown Syracuse. Noon-12 :30 "TM People Can Fly," 8pm Robinson St 8F'"$10 general, People's 60 Minutes . WilliamsW°et814e Community Center, Coalition for the Comm Good Pin $0-$15 donation. 471-6853 . pm. Cyndi 475-1878. $6 students/seniors . 449-1313. Adelphia Cable Ch . 3, 8pm. vigil at Landis Plastics See Feb. 21 for Info. 228 Shonnard St. 7:30pm . 476 meeting. 658 W Onondaga St . 1688 - First formal protest dyer Also see Feb. 20, 22, 27, 28. Produced by Peace Council. 7475. Noon . 478 7442. againstpant slavery by organized plan on Milton Av . Spon• while body M English America sored by Labor-Religious Coati- lion. Support Landis workers & made by Germantown (PA) . 4pm . 22 23 24 Quakers at monthly meeting. union organizing struggles 27 . 28 Derosnced slavery & the FlYrc 'One Nation Under God "The People Can Fly," 8pm EVERY SUNDAY: 51 Percent, Parents, Family & Friends of slave sponsored by Stonewall Corn- "The People Can Fly," 8pm See Feb. 21 for Info. Women's issues radio program, Lesbians &GasY PFLAG( ) trade mittee . Discussion afterwards. See Feb. 21 for Info. WRVO FM 90. 6-6:30pm . EVERY MONDAY: HIV+ Issues meeting . First Unitarian Univer- Syracuse Community Radio Group meeting. 6:30.8pm . Sporn- salist Society of Syracuse, 250 2 5 1st Unitarian Universalist Sod- presents "Lou Reed Night" at EVERY SUNDAY : This Way Out, sored by AIDS Community Re- Waring Rd . 7:30pm . 4465940. sty, 250 Waring Rd . 7pm . Free. Happy Endings Coffeehouse. Gay & Lesbian radio program on seines. can Bob for place. 476_ EVERY WEDNESDAY : Open Downtown Syracuse. Call for WRVO FM 90. 6:30-7pm . 2430 . Mic Night at Happy Endings Peace Newsletter time. 446-4769. Coffeehouse . Poetry, music, I. ng Patty at SPC, Irish Northern Aid meeting. "The People Can Fly," 3pm short stories. 8pm . $2. 924 Av. 5-7pm . 1872 - Charlotte Ray, fiat black See Feb. 21 for info. 1868 - W.E.B. Du Bois born in Burnet women lawyer graduated from Call Patrick Smith for time 8 Great Barrington, MA. Free Food! Howard University . place. 469-8948 .

Help us Close Nine Mile One! The Close Nine Mile One! Campaign continues . We are now meeting every first and third Wednesday of the month at the newly opened Good Earth Cafe (on Harvard Street off Westcott). Meetings are at 7pm and all are welcome.

Why are we trying to close Nine Mile One? The reasons are many, but here are a few facts to keep in mind: • Nine Mile One is the most deteriorated boiling water nuclear plant still operating in the US. • The core shroud of Nine Mile One is over 82% cracked in places and NiMo has no plans to repair it. • NiMo has been repeatedly cited for the poor management of its nuclear facilities. • The containment system of Nine Mile One, responsible for minimizing the release of radiation in an emergency, was built following a "cost saving design Nine Mile One is increasingly dangerous and expensive. It must be closed.

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