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Posted 9:55 AM by Mary

NYC LABOR SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANT DETAINEES & WORKERS

Last March, labor organized a highly successful rally in support of immigrant detainees in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center. With the anniversary of September 11 coming up, labor is once again standing up to protest ongoing secret detentions and fight for immigrant workers' rights.

Join trade unionists, immigrants rights, peace, and social justice, and civil rights organizations to oppose the continuing detention and deportation of Arab, South Asian, and Muslim immigrants. The government still refuses to release the names of the detainees or the charges against them, despite court orders to do so. None of the thousands of immigrant detainees rounded up after September 11 have been charged with terrorist acts. Many of the detainees have been denied due process and adequate access to legal counsel. On August 14, Human Rights Watch published an in-depth report that confirms Amnesty International's earlier findings: many of the detainees have suffered inhumane conditions of confinement, including beatings, psychological terror, and prolonged isolation. Three of the men at the Metropolitan Detention Center have been in solitary confinement for nearly a year.

Organized labor is being squeezed by the very same forces that are attacking immigrants and detainees. Bush wants to curtail the union rights of 170,000 federal workers. "National security" is being used as a cover for government attacks on West Coast dockworkers' right to strike.

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MARCH AND RALLY - NYC Labor Solidarity With Immigrant Workers and Detainees

Time: Saturday, September 7, 2002
Assemble: 10:30 a.m., 9 St./5 Ave., Brooklyn (N/R to 9 St. or F to 4 Ave.)
March: 11 a.m.-Sharp
Rally: 12 Noon-Sharp, Metropolitan Detention Center, 29 St./3d Ave.,
Brooklyn (N/R to 25 St./4 Ave.)

Sponsor - Justice For Detainees
Cosponsors (list in formation)
- to add your endorsement, go to:
or 718-482-3157

-o- Al-Farouq Mosque -o- American Assn. of Jurists o American Friends Serv. Cttee. -o- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Cttee. -o- Another World is Possible -o- Arab-American Alumni and Professionals -o- Asian American Legal Defense & Ed. Fund -o- Asian Americans for Equality -o-- Assoc. of Pakistani Physicians of North America -o- Biet Almagdis Mosque -o- Black Radical Congress -o- Bklyn Bridges -o- Bklyn Heights Peace Action -o- Bklyn Parents for Peace -o- Bklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Ethical Action Cttee. -o- Ctr. for Anti-Violence Ed. -o- Ctr. for Constitutional Rights -o- Central Bklyn Indep. Democrats -o- Chhaya CDC -o- City College Coal. Against the War -o- Coal. for the Human Rts. of Immigrants -o- Coal. of Pakistani Organizations -o- Columbia University People for Peace -o- Coney Island Avenue Project -o- Council on American-Islamic Relations -o- CUNY Is Our Future o Democratic Socialists of America, NYC Local -o- Desis Rising Up & Moving -o- Eugene Lang Student Union -o- Faith Health NY -o- Federation of Association of Pakistani Americans -o- Fellowship of Reconciliation, 15th St. -o- Fifth Ave. Cttee. -o- Flatbush Peace Action -o- Freedom Road Socialist Organization -o- Green Party: Kings Co. & Park Slope chapters -o- Haiti Support Network -o- Help & Hope -o- Humanist Society of Metropolitan New York -o--Intl. Action Ctr. -o- Intl. Socialist Org. -o- Islamic Center of Bay Ridge VIslamic Mission of America -o- Jews for Racial & Econ. Justice -o- Lesbian Herstory Archives -o- Mecci Mosque -o- Met. Council on Housing -o- Natl. Korean American Serv. & Ed. Consortium -o- Natl. Lawyers Guild -o- Natl. Lawyers Guild-NYC Chap. -o- National Organization for Women -o- NJ Indep. Alliance -o- NY Coal. for Peace & Justice -o- NY Immigration Coal. -o- NYC AIDS Housing Network -o- New Yorkers Say No to War -o- Nicaragua Solidarity Network -o- Northwest Bronx Support Cttee. For the Homeless -o- Not In Our Name -o- October 22 Coalition -o- Pakistani Community Center -o- Pakistan League of America -o- Pakistani American Federation of NY -o- Palestine Aid Society -o- Palestine Ed. Cttee. -o- Prison Moratorium Proj. -o- Prospect Lefferts Voices for Peace & Justice -o- Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Ed. Fund -o- Refuse & Resist -o- Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory -o- VEER Grassroots Serv. -o- Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Clarence Fitch Chap. o War Is Not the Answer o War Resisters League o Women for Afghan Women o Women's Intl. League For Peace & Freedom, NY Metro Branch -o- Workers Democracy Network -o- Working Families Party, Bklyn Waterfront Club -o- World Peace 911 -o- Rev. Elizabeth Alexander, Church of Gethsemane -o- City Councilman Charles Baron -o- Rev. Elizabeth Braddon, Park Slope United Methodist Church -o- Dennis Brutus, S. African poet & activist -o- Rev. Khader El-Yateem, Salam Arabic Lutheran Church o Rabbi Michael Feinberg o Abdeen Jabara, Exec. Bd., Ctr. for Constitutional Rights -o- Rev. Peter Laarman, Sr. Minister, Judson Memorial Church -o- City Councilman John Liu -o- City Councilmember Margarita Lopez -o- Rev. Paul Smith, First Presbyterian Church -o- Jane Sweeney, Governing Bd., Citizen Action NYC; Exec. Cttee., Village Indep. Democrats*

*Position shown for ID only; no organizational endorsement implied.

Posted 2:26 PM by Mary

In early August 2002, the White House released a new proposal to regulate genetically engineered (GE) crops. Under the Bush Administration's corporate-friendly "guidance" (non-binding proposals that even if enacted would be voluntary), the biotech industry will be allowed to push ahead with new GE crops even if the crops have not been safety tested. Tell the White House that you want GE crops kept out of our food supply!

Be sure to take action now as the comment period ends September 30th.

Send an email and fax to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy:
Greenpeace

Posted 12:28 PM by Mary

STATEMENT OPPOSING LIBRARY WORKER
INVOLVEMENT IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PROGRAM,
"TERRORISM AND INFORMATION PREVENTION SYSTEMS."

The Terrorism and Information Prevention Systems (Operation TIPS) proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice and developed in partnership with several other federal agencies as one of the five component programs of the Citizen Corps in July, 2002 is at odds with the library profession's commitment to the library user's right of privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted.
In keeping with our commitment to monitor the professional ethics of librarianship from a perspective of social responsibility, the Progressive Librarians Guild does hereby record our stand as being opposed to the Department of Justice "Operation TIPS" program and urge that library workers oppose the TIPS program.

"http://libr.org/PLG/TIPS.html"

Posted 11:42 AM by Mary

[8/19/2002 2:24:48 PM | Mary Beaty]
US NGOs ASK: "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THE UNITED STATES?"
Groups encouraged to sign NGO Statement for World Summit on Sustainable Development

Washington, DC - US NGOs, citizen and public interest groups are asking for your signature to a statement addressing critical priorities and concerns about the positions and actions of the U.S. government at the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa next month. Originally produced and delivered at a press conference last month in Bali, Indonesia at the final preparatory meeting for the Summit, the statement responds to the question asked throughout the two weeks of the meeting: "What are we going to do about the United States?"

This question, repeating an informal comment by Chairman Emil Salim during the meeting, reflects the frustration of people seriously concerned with a decade of increasing environmental degradation, deepening poverty, and corporate irresponsibility not effectively being addressed by world leaders, especially the United States. At the same time, the US administration is presenting itself as a global leader in sustainability and good governance, bending the definition of sustainable development to fit its own agenda of deregulation, privatization, voluntary approaches by corporations, and a refusal to ratify and support key international environmental agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol and Biodiversity convention.

Therefore, US groups working for the public interest want to make it clear to the news media and the American people that they are seriously concerned about the lack of leadership by the US government on sustainable development, as seen in both its policies and its performance at the Summit. The signed statement will be sent to President Bush and Secretary of State Powell just before the Summit begins.

To add your organization or name to the NGO statement: "What Are We Going to Do About the United States? A Call for Leadership on Sustainability" go to http://www.citnet.org/endorse"

For more information about the statement and campaign, contact: Citizens Network for Sustainable Development at info@citnet.org

For more information about the World Summit on Sustainable Development, go to "http://www.citnet.org/worldsummit
and also the official UN website for the WSSD at
www.johannesburgsummit.org

Posted 7:04 PM by Mary

Wednesday, August 28th, 2002 12:00 PM

Meet with the Senator to voice your concerns over going to war with Iraq.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
08/28/02 12:00 PM
Coordinator: Anke Wessels
PR Liaison: Patricia A. Palmieri
Spokesperson: Rabbi Philip J. Bentley
780 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017

Moveon.org

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Wednesday, August 28th, 2002
1:15 PM
Meet with the Senator to voice your concerns over going to war with Iraq.

Senator Charles E. Schumer
08/28/02 13:15 PM
Coordinator: Kirsten L. Aspengren
PR Liaison: Adam Throne
Spokesperson: David Pickering
757 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017

For more information,
Moveon.org

Ways to Voice Your Dissent to Iraq War
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