2000-01-21 Jan Slakov From: “Viviane Lerner” <•••@••.•••> To: “Mai-not” <•••@••.•••> Subject: FW: (en) [ecuador] !!! capital militarised !!! confrontations feared !!! Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:43:33 -1000 ________________________________________________ A – I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ Ecuador: 20.000 indigenas in Quito. The … Read more
2000-01-20 Richard Moore Dear friends, good stuff below! -rkm btw> Sorry to have been neglecting my lists & email correspondence: I’ve been getting started on a Perl contract, commuting from Palo Alto to SF by train, seeing old friends, and having little time left over. Meanwhile, Jan has been posting up a storm for a … Read more
2000-01-19 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Perhaps you remember Vicki Robin saying that, “Some of the people who impressed me most for their inter-NGO bridge building were representatives of Alliance for Democracy, United for a Fair Economy and Sustainable America. They said… We need to watch out for the turf and leadership and funding wars that … Read more
2000-01-19 Jan Slakov Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:55:04 -0500 To: •••@••.••• From: Marty Jezer <•••@••.•••> Subject: King’s Dream KING’S DREAM by Marty Jezer What I like about Martin Luther King Day is that you get to hear Dr. King’s great “I have a dream” speech over and over. Like the great honking tenor saxophonists … Read more
2000-01-18 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Here is important news we are unlikey to get via the mass media. It’s the first I have heard of this uprising, so I will want to get more news in order to understand better what it is all about. In the meantime, I would like to quote to you … Read more
2000-01-18 Jan Slakov Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:33:56 +1100 From: Lynette Dumble <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: Arundhati Roy arrested! Dear Jan and friends at RN, Thanks a million for circulating the Cora Weiss petition to remind India’s diplomats that international eyes are watching the actions of the Madhya Pradesh Government. In general, the Indian media … Read more
2000-01-17 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. (I’m not sure if in the US it is a statutory holiday but in Canada it is not.) However, a Toronto-based group, HOMES NOT BOMBS, will be committing an act of civil disobedience, reclaiming an armouries that was once used as a homeless … Read more
2000-01-16 Jan Slakov Dear RN, This morning on Canada’s CBC This Morning (Sunday) program at 10 AM they play a BBC program on Letelier’s killing, with interviews with his widow, the guy who was jailed (for only 5 years) for the killing and others. …I cried when they played Isabel Morel Letelier saying how she … Read more
2000-01-16 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Here is a piece that Micheal P. (of New Zealand/Atearoa I believe) sent out to shed light on a proposed bombing of Iraq. The Gulf War is supposedly over, but the klling certainly continues. The war began exactly 10 years ago, on Jan. 16, 1990. Many activists are marking this … Read more
2000-01-15 Jan Slakov Dear RN, Perhaps some of you will remember my posting of 15/08/99 “More on India’s anti-globalization work”. In it were excerpts from a text by Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, who has contributed to the moving struggle to protect the Narmada River Valley and its people. In the message below we find out … Read more