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![nally Trpelsoned fo threatenir rroristant voman vitness to loyalist beating -] 2 Kesh (taze) prison (S.1.43) vhere Bl ceabereot lo “he vas sssoctated vith, Weight told a cepocter, ;1 regret.” Fram his new H-block prison wing here a bamec in on “cell reads, "Kill’en all-let God sort’em out." right vas able tol irect his murderous follouers who opposed Lo the peace talks saufiigh in a5 ..mwfi?‘m Ui morder T the 180" ot a0 S Sr Lapisoned {0t 6 years o ars B O ockirg chacges.bhen Lnnocent Cathatics vere blow to it LD and VP bambings of crowled pubs, in the eacly 1990’s, il “responded, "That s, just uar 4 3 = § Ebrmraageite L’ cont iy campuipt gairaf CavroliCHY T IReT RTe than 3 churches being firebonbed, 4 others attacked: " boeb attacks on Sinn Feln offices, ‘over 17 Catholc hones vrec) atterpted kiduappings, 8 bus deiver badly burned vhen loyalist Fiotecs attacked his bus, pelting Cathollc childcen with stone school stulents. and other viglerce ‘ond police tell the vorld a Loyalist ceasefire L5 in place vith the greatest theeat to the peace process bels splits ip the TrA ? e [T Decenber, he national1st toum of Derry was shutdown by the RUC 50 a loyalist march with UVF menbers could pacade through the city center. iher Tecal residents prevented from reaching their homes protested, dozi were set on them and baton suiuzing RLC police 3ttacked the cfouds ‘hich included eldecly, o childrery D Srei - RS =](Strong Hearts 4 4.png)
![& Teln of terct [|vhen’3 Telsh National Liberation beoke €com the I Jumped down andy ingling out Weight andfiatel A il for one retson, and ane reason waging his campaign ! fipeople fren hia prlicn cel 11 s death {"vus Teaem ne That the D0 1 ks beingns olth bo bir oovcann ’flm Vhich began again after Uright’s de outsida of ’ nucsing hame, tereityin forcivg firefightece back vict stonee] inquize about the Tnjured at the site tol " sically theoun -sld!‘lnd told to “Fuck of " o "Cence e Ctholic 3 Protesone et EEnn Sn o shot dead 28yt old father of two Terty Encight, fuho arsanized meatines and hikine trine for Prat](Strong Hearts 4 5.png)
![SR el e T R e Tk e e, Sseinrig S Gty pmlia Sk oF e 00 i et enage geL o ves elensed”tcon peison s0d " aerving 1ess than 7 year:9 Fhece 1= o jostice foc E:‘E’K‘Z.uu oc poticanan o get Justice.” And 1’n sure by the tine that youl cead this there vill have been more paranilitary death squed vict B nies & DI o7 o Toariat, oMty and ol RIS the Beitich goverrment. and predominantly Unioniyt RIC ace as gullh [2s the LVF for -uwxn. death squads to flourish while m.munms- that they really are, the miscarrisge of justice, martial rule and i nation 1o order”to smach resistancN Aot irion 10 2uch 1njustice bogan vith peaceful non-violent civi] R oebediance that ves met vith Beitish bullets, one can not. blane thel](Strong Hearts 4 6.png)
![i QYA Prisbnerssi ace fceauently tacseted for hacassnent %) uc! e Sepeeree ) ceganized demonstrations anc B rocches across Ireland and beitLan deranding thelr release. Thesch rotests vere often mat vith R violence Ly the ¢ camties vher B enior 1 rens_ond chi Ldcen being_aciacked, contiscated - Liotin ealiskey Lo 3ti1) held her newSen daughtec on o chacge tel hlCermary that happaned vl she vas In Gel of Bectadette Hhliskey ho sucvived 8 loyalist attack: leaving fork 2ot 5 Simey and her R S b A AN ol stations. Despite the fact that there vere no real explosives, onl; Bl tations. Despite the fact thay thers ue splosiys uzar. wee given e 1 { Rathe] e et 03 Yeact ol ok escaper ond toce OrtLcer Cormanalhng QurTog the "Bl hunger stcike, Bcendan,"Blk AL FFaciane in Januacy vas ce-acrested and chaczed vith o ’8) kidvsppisa) Jon the. final day of his probation for his oriinal sentence which escaped frum bu vas later recapured for e bad beeocut o peizcd active o the i](Strong Hearts 4 9.png)
![eTn of(IcTals recently perd then velcones fron the Mayor of San Francisco Ficse.spem hours uih their comades to hear thelr concernd resacing e pesce o caniod thea that haic ot vait for Beitish approval foc hi > Folloving. the Hay 57 discovery of an unfinished tunic] “ainded P.0.4’s vere moved to another H-Block where follouirg stnas pacty for childen of peisoners Avecill disguised hing el el e b p y says vas only ol vith Northern Treland’s unjust Diplock e are o jucles o right to cemis](Strong Hearts 4 10.png)
![P SV A W R Ycapitalist Pigs [y ractory F’arming irnil\mericaw X e human health isks of & me: health-consclous consusers, but 21 destruction sssociat /The aninal rights movenent has aluoys opposed the dnfmal sgricultur R\ . {Industry vith Iis invensive confinenent pezations which caise ovee 2 e e T T R R 0, g i ’ve heard that. the grati fed to livestock could feed 8 tines a5 nan imans a5 theit flesh does and we know that meat production depletes] P Ter resources. Ve also know that livestock grazed on the open rangs [cavees erosion, topsoil depletion, destruction of riparian areas il he sensitive plants and aninals and that hundceds of thousands ofjaued native wildlife are killed shot, poisoned and trapped to make roce o ottle and shee ISECTthe 1900’s Tave Seeh an explosion of inciden 57 envicomental pollution never seen before caused by the intensivel conf inement factory faras vhich raise poultry, hogs and dairy cattle that produce ocesns of deadly vaste which are’poisoning que nation’l "leaving behind’a val S Modern anima] agricul{ure operatfons doatinated by a few multinational ageitusiness corporations are replacing snall fanily farms vith negal farms vhere illions of pigs and chickens are confined in cages vher cihoc see the light of d BeRven by the high demand [oF & neat-centered diet by the ever inere Cine ot Fluent husan population in counteies like the U.S., the aninel arSculture industries aided with iaproved genetic contral of B 5ol engineered for leaner ar ivers,and industrial pharmaceut] a1 Faimine that iekilling ouc i B e eivers](Strong Hearts 4 12.png)
![In the Gulf of Hexico where agcicultural nar-oft lrmme Msetsaippl P rivec Delta 1o dusped, 8 7,000 sq. mile area the size of Nev Jersey has. e secaccd o “fcadione" due £ its lnability to support squatic uln . é = M “ ’ # “Mississipp Wats im nd s i 19954 hog waste 1 sptied 1o Peaon valdes disaster Killed 13 million fish and all squatic SR scc xtreme g vmsce potTukion, now dump desdly thospborous and e S ciene ol lutants into the Albecnacle and Pinlico Soude which provide i of . cpaseal myczagy foc besading Fish fron Maige to Flocias 2. Lrom raige LaTn 1595 In Nocth Carolina 35,000,000 gallons of aninal vaste spilled into the state’s wtervays killing over 10,000,000 fish and closing] 510 Foods of Virginia 1 the East Const’s large [and vas recently cited mnd fined for 6,982 enviroomental and health| uhich ecd) otk ot protian ash 12 procss hem to e on errorRII](Strong Hearts 4 14.png)
![3 e B b, 1o Utah, SnithiLeld Foods ami three other tort etina pork pooeess e buf e comphated: py 50,000 acres and raise 2 he pias will be housed 120,000 per bacd 11 Phe- human ishabitants of U 1ding the voeld’s largest hog farm RO ,500,0 here Maman-costes and industrisl dischacss Fedecal guidelines, only a snall peccentoge ve evec inapected. In one investigation B7% of Nocth e e ebed were found to be dn-violation of the Clean Kater d Sperations b Action Comittee (PAC) dollacs help negotiate ollution Jagg dn staes faced with lacgeccal In 199 pork industéy donations to Korth Cerolina legis] In 1995 Sithfield Foods vas the largeat ; e aaty 3 eontributed $1,680,000 to federal election campaigns in 1995-96 and iny o oemie, nob the-nation’s Jorgest dnicy state were ol tical donar B 11O 22020 yeace-have.topped $700,000, Lass than half of the 1. e e hms boes hoon inopacted despité the histocy of spciculticg) e e destroyed the delicare San svaquin Vaiier(@. O A 1 ey o migeatory vatectort { EXEMPIRE 0t](Strong Hearts 4 15.png)
![Ty 1 1n & A596 PosltA Tines sticle the industry remtily sinits, o dizact attention vas given to poultry velfare in the develop= g nent ‘of modern systens of managenent except that the birds had to) R mirvive, and be. Cronth g schieve oppmmjevels of prod-Em] X k; rsiaed 5he eystens for optimm production Like many other an g carth explottation pdustciss, through research funded by 47 the taxpayer W " - manded vith stact s pouftry res- SR 7 Tand geant niversities such a: ¥y of Georg! e by Beuce Webater and the USOA’s Agricultural Research Service have developed {ntensive continement practices of poultry peoduct icn vhich fproce sil considerations of velgare of aninals eised conmmpion, \sbatge vrites, ’\ - \ “To b8 Truly effectihs apologtalfoc try ploduction sgriculture, the industry should do the folloving, 2 the’poultoy induat Tind it neccesary to support research, DuL1y maridgenent 5T ften 1o left topersonne role 18 to keep equipmentl)) ve b [cunning and shose surveillence of. the flock B | Laspted to diseases that can be fat AIYKH 5 L4 Mar a1c 128 cating veat contantoated ich e. Yol Sioneli, ampyioocter and ghec Tteria tae ProgLatl 1 g b infant &-Whhuer’.lm 18 known o in!ecl 60 ST 211 U.5. poultry and the U.S. Department of Agricult 17 448 besk o prevint the trve risk of Bovine Spongiform Paceph a0 B Disesze) nconing ko 1o, g prycenting mblicy Riscudies oungest that’BSE ‘afready 1a videspres g the Aner tcani sepis"cal i the gympcns e atkgiagmond an Alwizr. i](Strong Hearts 4 18.png)
![inssss Tinkeoto s 4o sl conce m“’i.rm.,.‘,."“ "t f nimala Lotk ST Snd G ALt plac :fln :vul:;k lguslry {tsel] delay sctionigy 1Tion dolTars on useuch "er the next & years) entucky and Nebraska ru <o ace_Ligh ing o kbep cor i e i e et et Ptk sroud 1o 5;, 55 Coal1E15% that Vi1l help our envizoment most of slISAN on the individusl level ve can do slot to regss rovel on M 1 Tainating pork: %M otate. Tamming oferétions fcua oue diet and [public relations campaigns as the industry move T [ ;rfiq—. ‘publTe relatlons Consultant to the Manitoba, Cans [Farw Aninal Counctl vacned factory farmers in 1995, “You’re all’ ...a« ‘attack for hov you trest the air, the lond and the vater Logging and aninals, 1t is all part of the same, n sttack on all." Nou lets a1l dof Cafsumers. may. ohan-casy, tasty. and (reo vogetarianceci Ly calling PETA’s tllfrec ot line - SNB-VEG: Pl e](Strong Hearts 4 19.png)
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![Filing appeals, writing letters, signing petitions, supporting ballot measures, protesting with civil disobedience, monkeywrenching- etand maybe even a political strategy that embraces them all can drive the message behind such tactics into the forefront of public discussion and the political process in one united uncompromising voice that attacks the roots of environmental destruction, once we better undegstand our opposition and b Zighe them Lol LR b B {0 skl L Y ] [¥iin November, the recently reieased human rights activis| g4, sengsheng said in New York, “Tho Liberty and muman xights should not allow theix om perao happiness to musb them into forgetting the many others wh s 5tzuggling against tyranny. slavery and povert A A A R A i 0 8l =i 1eges that prevent us from spending nearly 19 years Prison Jike he did for simply writing about fresdom. His a purely nonviolent philosophy. e i, e s ey aemvslen L B Lo he vorid. do ot shazd et Bl it o e e begin-to do [Bactics based not just on their impact, but on their abilit Lo obeain medla coterages Wmen dig we begin to believe it g Gl o airecy] Ty e m oL T EoTttnat lonal corporations vho vith sanctions and subsiite From the 0.5 government, are destioying the planet we il oY Eiont for, use because ve disagres vith how some attackil; Chem? ‘Ao, ‘when 4id we a3 muman animals begin to believel ehat we no longer had to risk our own lives for what .«% a e, wocy, but it is.only one 2oL to-every movements’ seciess 1o the use of a diveraity SRy o oor movement, such & strateqy is necessiridil](Strong Hearts 4 24.png)
![By attempting to enforce the dogma which labels any e slightly aggressive act outside of the bounds of passive honviolence as violent and counter-productive, we relegate((l] our movement to the confines of Fixst World, privileged 2 society, while failing to recognize that an effective strategy requires the acceptance of individual action £ the path to {¥ther information than the extremity oppose and the opposition‘s ability to respect nonvioleng Efoeaatve strategy. When opposing the destruction of ourf . P ovical 1ice support syatem, ve need not fear becominy [nore violent tha P coponents, when uaing aggressive Lactice lco prevent violence osense of fair Garcii ke SERE Loy feada st be ista in re Gime they beat or abuse nonviolent protestors or overtuis g _circunvent a previously won legal victory such as theQiii Cnactment of the Bndangered 3pecies Act of Clean Mt So aige At g N it NCR Jevof respéceability s u B AL o ictica uhich are ultimately controll P{contsibate to this control when ve follow a politice N Naeatogy that maintains hope for acceptance and privileged comtort. rom the very society we oppose, rathe e S Ypee o 2obe i ) S8 ¥ AT LS et % ate theli R e hope. that ve will not alienate U #-ipublic who might not support aggressive defense of the Eatth Fripublie vho MO Mok Gefine our struggle to the outsid orld,but it isthe media who have vested interest in portesying) e O wass support. she, define w3 57 ) ihen determining whether passivel T e best strateoy, M influence our decision is the oppesition’ e o aevions with the xuies Lok oo o iged to follow : e shuld not e b OO e e v O 5](Strong Hearts 4 25.png)
![Fimen e 1IMit our movement to tactics police, courts and government are always able to control, v Pescrve privileges. Especially those of us who are white Fale and middle class. Such tactics do not threaten the pover stigctue formoce than the Lime it takes £ PhySiciTIY | AN 59 Tikre arROEC YNNI { ve ‘ras1etenEhl K. (rom thoss whoss goals axe.the aums, hut whoss Eactics are more aguressives we irolate our direct action Aiiies making it essier for the state to capture Persecuce them as ~rininalsand terroristy rather feoitinate ie tia ua adamaarsy 90 and guppoze common ground with le with repression and h action tactics a privileged and educated members of a dominant culture frony Others in the U.S. and other countries who by choice or as becauses someone chootes to Burn’a ‘Bu oreat ‘servace office, or corporate hesdquarters rather than chair] Chemacives to it should not mean we distance ourselves from Such behavior forsakes our direct action e with their tactica. RERase b RN &p‘)i K e bt N](Strong Hearts 4 26.png)
![Passive resistance used by the democracy movement of Chisy ‘failed in Tianenmen Square when thousands of peaceful protesters were pitted against a morally vacant governmen\ flvho thought nothing of using their "People’s Azmy" to murde:) land inprison hundreds who stood in the way of military tanks MBNIn late Z0th Century China youuould have had & Peeif o g . s neavity poriosa ns miTisacy controiies reptons vhor oy Deacerit mupporcars of T5isn Snaepenience ate soutinels }l;,\a beaten and harassed by British forces and murdered by b R B iy . Ol Hi¥finationalist neighbor i Loud of touciata. When asked uhat this mens, the suiddII ¥ k il g/ replied, “That means IRA Third Battalion, the division whicl ’M‘ iicEenca et ace iy £ Ve already think. In the case of the radical environmentall and animal rights movements we believe in the tactics and] strateay of Ghandi and Martin Tuther Kinu. Jr. whilel](Strong Hearts 4 27.png)
![L - . " oo, S ONULL i gh o b7ack Nationalists like Malcom X who threatened the U.SY 1. 1 Government with an empowerea Afsican-American populovs whdk \ould not stop at only wanting civil rights, but also human.{ | Something 1ony denied even today. That led the U.5;! e bl Malcom %’ bellef was Mnonviolent opponent, but for those whose very 1ife was) threatened, salf-defense was justified action. It wi fear of such a philosophy melding with MLK’s which was 11 our own, running up against increased violence PR AL 2L n!n.uy planned by Africand Posaibly the fear of such tactics by Black Nationalists threatened the U.S. Government more than the tactics of NLK [and 1ed to civil’rignts:legislation as power that the] [government could control rather than wait for the g %9y of nonvio) largely drawn from Ghandi’s principl [vere used against British colonialism in India. struggle for India’s freedom Ghandi’s tactics were a major] atx: used to achieve victor TR e 1o nei]](Strong Hearts 4 28.png)
![women’s demonsiration against i ’s principals of non; e tuily, (LAY, Lve bacauss he and many of LE] T e = heition education and upheinging uhic] o Deatise thac. the Britis Ra) would resiel) e oS attonsnip, seoondi, the Indian ind movement,_w div struggl yond Ghandi’ ovenent_as 8 dleras RO Y vt ionaries Suck e Aaak ALL who" 14 & viotent undergzound A e Ll elon In the 1340 long sfter Chand o Tasis o cecupied Indis, 2 SRR Ko vats o ] Rostly Hi: respect from their opponents, Bengalese revolutionaries andl Lower class mostly Muslims rebels without educations or{ privileges who also fought for India‘s independence wers) £requently beaten by police, tortured and murdered in prizon Contributtng to theit belicf in & moce aggressive strategy than oo BREes 8y th T o L AT N 2 & 0 Opposing the ¥ had in 1921 driven them from the majority of Ireland at th [conclusion of the Anglo-Irish War (1919-1921). Empjoying guerilla warfare tactics, *flying columns® of less than af thirty IRA warciors with little training and few armamentl] [vere able to successfully ambush much larger and stronger roies® of Raiaihsico i, (e, T R e oraregy, SEIiKing Where and when their opponents least expected it is the same strategy used in the remaining six](Strong Hearts 4 29.png)
![Lo g | S ¥ R N W 3 k¥ lbegan their own civil rights campaign. Marches werel repeatedly met with police and pro-British violence torrs tHHE Eepression culminated in the shootis ng ot 1u peacerol macchors) fuking & civil rishes masch in 191903 : BT ? i e 4CeEpting the modern IRA!N gest reaurgence in In) TN R stiged bishop uho tended to the victfms ol Dacte Buiid d. "Many young people T have spoken to in prison’ (for KA Yeeeneiv action Bty e oo i bt ! s b, INSWRY:Y 8l E IThis nicrors the SOAE Tesult &5 whem Seobing fcan-pelice shot desd 65 peaceful protesters in Sharerei113 PR e ML o Crgh SR i R 0 T pr o Tou might 3y Earch Flzet fEeaTactme” Tho FRS A and soctal ) tice advocates Are ROt indigencus werriory fighting to win the freedom of our homela [p! native people here, but the struggle t, emaining biodiveraity xnows no racia nds"3ike the Iristg o pestags e Sy s ety JHS T Face cne enoene IS R iR M Ith Government sepression at nome for actions and belieco) gt hat fox many of uh ate scparate from oot brivace Lives. suc) ot tne case for Activista.fueetcor TEelunde chl nd Eher countrica in resistance . 3 $u% Samich as wartiors fighting the aame enemy in-gther T T maenon betevy wa seed. to-use Prpyies iolence, but we should fight a guerilla war that piaces ntact ecosystems and those living in harmony with thenlREfil ! JSome of ‘uaare bette: at [Community outreach and education than others, and thesel] [tactics are long-term life insurance for the temporariis 0](Strong Hearts 4 30.png)
![b1y sinilar to what Géranieo thought o i he sar tna prison cell not far from hers fon S a0t s, Cercnizn net i challeneegith sciied andful of Drave warciors ) o bt 18 s ocishing then badly in battle X S forts in the Arizon: Pendonment ¢f aining o B wichin Earch Ficsti, o asovereignty and justice movements, I pray the Pis who are not afraid of a few years in prizon for pursuing the Tighteous wild passion that tells us to fight a guerilla war agadnst the evil powers destroying Earth and all her people 4 both hunan and pon-hunan. ot humen 800 POV Ehe warrior generation that Ear 3 q’ 1 flfe depends on most.That war need not be violent to be; Hilicdesatut, T¢ meed only place more faith in our love and ‘i’ raceeta tak the’surth and our eldars and sncestors teachings ihan our fear of & government sponsored vacation like the one enjoying now. Honeatly comrades, it’s not as bad as you . 1 vork collectively togethexliil ouragingffii¥] ) jand while building networks of support for a By o e atsingeesis ance TN with only one nSis Tearts and minds-to aluays put the Eacth and those wholy Vs put the EArEhADS SiReRatbh](Strong Hearts 4 33.png)
![LV UPDATE- I February the U.S. Tish and Wildlife Service [inally saw the riting on the wall or in this case in the old-grouth forests and recomendedi he Canad Iynx reintroduction Xiyax tron the Canadian Yukon for relesse in forests oou %] sty reintroduction, the ti he legal protection o lynx habitat that goes along it rotection by declassifying bt -r.;nnmm In;_e,[s:n‘!\hl~ ray . . Under atus ‘Which has recently been chal lenged for wolves, reintrodic anirals can’still be kl1led and thele habltat, destcoyed vithout the LegaTaiedl FaPesiaion! the orcglolha Far from victory, Lym alltes must 1 Tight for the protéction of the Iover 48 states’ duindling lynx population ch 1. estinbted o be only & few hundced) by shutting dov al}. Linber oper- e B T T i o i e T Camtn Ty prTsoners T Teorts Tor Fome in fonan, Montane ool e sefoed by ihe U.SLF-U-5: as reintraduction candidaces with thom risoners unsultable foe Feinicuduction moved o lorge ovkdeor Srclosures . Erece they can sere sa’a brending cotony o Cepopulste fommes habitat. BISON UPDATE- Protester Delyla Wilson vas sentenced to probotion Court and ive days.in Jail o atiert fedegal oficials. Traks 1S everyone Buffalo Nation, the indigenous group dedicated to protecting ihe Yetlonore bigomHae besh e Rering e Lo ek fo eonk pack Landa-vhere.they camot be kiiled by state gumers from the lvestock 7 - WA Snduet3 = ‘though have voved to continue the slaughter that t vinter should the bison pursue their natural MINK UPDATE- 1 Decesber Cinton Colby Elietman was sentenced to 2 years in jail foc his poct in a July Aninal Libecation Front (ALF) cald on the folty ink Ranch that resulted in the release of 3,000 mirk. Utah is no strangs to ALF sctions, over 6 mink farms have been struck by the ALF and there are currently 5 young activists doing a year or less in Jail for their actions against the Tivestock industry. Also, Douglas Joshua Elleman, 19 focl; TR s S](Strong Hearts 4 34.png)
![ears In prison aftet being federally indicts ges that B behind the Harch 1997 banbing of the Utah Fuc-Breeders Cooperative that conducta e tHonal experinénes on sink and suppl 40 mink farms. vy st WILD HORSE UFDATE- - The Aninal 1iberation Front and the Eacth Liberation ! 8 eamed . in Decenber 1o release a hundred vild hocses fron a holding facility necatarn regon and then procseded ro buen the arpty corrals. The FBI and -} 555 invest Lgating and peand jory o Port o s szt gt sl . 7 > CE e AN eatile ) s résponded to their recéntly exposed ulc?l slaughter of wild horses by. <. ceautring adopters o swear they wil1 not sell then foc slaughter. The peaduic) {5 purely cosmetic and the B adpits it will sot stop the slavgher, reduce 15 . * . 4 v : ) Jihe decislon settles a lsveutt (1led by the Find for Aninais and|l4 the Atnal Protection Institute, but (ails to sddcess the dssue of chy vildds] hoeses and, o, subsidied catile grazedon pblic, lands ace ot be 61 ofiiclals have eeported overcriudiNg of vild hocses in holding foc cince the new sdoption seasures vent into stfect, proving that many vere indecd red by allcsed sdoptecs.” Heandilé utld Tocse roud ps continie QusTArSE LAE m&-"w ko v grace) nd J (James Plovanaioat) are’ the Last of the beitish Columbla Indigenous soverei- ntist. & prison foe thel ammed defense of unceded lands in uestern Canada in JE S 2 PR T = stolen from Indian peopls. ronically, in Novesber 1997 the Canadian goverrment issued a formal spolosy o the indigenous peoples of Canada for the wrongs comitted sgainst then vith af [proclanation that ‘the government vould in the future vock touacds Adve suggest the government Lmediately release Wolverine and 0J Fetry the Quebcc Provinclal police officer guilty of the murder of Dudle George, the indigenous sctivist shot shen he and others occupied a burial s11 Finceq ot develbpmens i 195: o otice officer uas scrufed 1 3 fecen] oty 7 - E— X el](Strong Hearts 4 35.png)
![®: isend thece has been charge on - Lasues reprted In chs zive. 1 ndlpece ke, SN PN T N Kl /o . " K previous an unknoon srolp hod assastauted o Teorer %if he UWF cesponsible for recent sucders-of Catholics and o rvg doniel - ~ s i oy g . In Chispes and st St Yetco’s Exaubied Tondecape, (e fadecn govers U Jrent. hes now amnounced that foreign peace observers wiil no longer be ix o m T then to vitneps thats hawn rights violations el g! . 1 s P N YT 4 5= T \Lready in Late Jamuaty, Tester of the Pessants® Totsperient Contial otpimizerions o/ T ¢ Rubicel Mot Geabon vas shatIn-the beck outsioe his home In Chiapes brgi Sonpected pecaTrtarias 1t 15 believed in an sttompt 1o sabovage T SURCRRR Fonce: ik with the EILN. Ganbon van- sctive In s ocel stropsle. that n oia i, S lls decardia. Lot o) n In early February, suspected paranili taries mirdered] the leader of a pro-pessant political pacty, Mauro Generaro Marin in Guecd & nifitary rosdblock where the EPR has also been sctiv hter note, EZLN comaiter hackers recently replaced {nformation" i ‘on goverrment Einances on the Hexican Treasury Departnent’s veb page with EZUN declarations including messages fram Subcommandante Marcos. Protesters ;150 temporarily blocked sccess to Hexico City’s stock market ‘g . . 2 AE S #*1 had intended to do story on the ams industry, but recént events T flxeland, Nexico’and Canada have pushe 1t to.the back burner. Now a5 521 (the U.5. is gearing up for snother var (hence the nevs footsge of burn: ing Mmeican {1ags. e o File up amy igrorant oecican):the story will bt ortheoming! T " ] Soliicope o L tntended 13 Trclute some gust cdiorluif ‘re ing strategy and tactics, but I ran out of space so that shouldiy¢/ 73 Toflow s5on to0. T readers’ 1n the Eattn Pieect ovenents o 1o ohc LT tine to participate in constructive discussion not srguentive back-7 .. . {biting o qulet”accepiance of perey 1 i p TS nm.. e movemert i Tettlng oeT pROpLe’s dissintincinyteom , P & SRR N b s 110 o s ot et o sachtrr v’ ou) [ ‘xmin divided. Oh yesh, if you are curious as to where I get my info~: Eration that 1 use (o Chis “Fine, Just drop oe a Line and § com’give. . oo icaton et ot o 1y esench o (o s Liirmings sontto me by famly: T of omer sctivisiey altornotie e oegatines and pepyce, sciiviat meietiers, nercative booty irst- i R xSt 1oy vord o mouthy yout ma. the tee ee ana i SRt T gt o G e el G s f Lose ’ neteck f s St ] fie oot 0%, he yarias., th, sod of coucie ) etk o ien B erment 7 e e T TR gy ]](Strong Hearts 4 36.png)
![- e T ecTfers o say, 1 am Inceedibly biadeg. Atk me the ypot- eticol QuestTon of which I xould save (rom drouhing, a corporate executive otticer or a poverty-stiken Taotzi1 chila and you chn goess ry anever iy dectsion vould notbe based on my hatred tovards the CED tho probably 0115t his yache, but because. the chila and others Tike her vho 1 Tepvct find themseiies in. 1 \ . = = Oty of (olks |10e torickly drcomirg G D eare ol ou thete clches are mode; bok. Sinply’ st dontt give 3 5 G, ox caticnatiie et crime with veligom ot ptjes weok excve while ing the Teuth, ‘Tt 1o for- thse rensios thae T retumy 1o the Lsve o Rorihern Trcland. | Teiah Rebiseans ave the +pitss.oF vickins by Tesisting heir attacker 3t Iabeted 25 tervoris: Tk Yoo Pyt n I B e STl LcHivists uha Boy suppoct the. Tapaiss or other simed Steopsies o avey, ron e Teish Qoestion because of their lack of exposuee to the TS aney tootfer symathy o by seale-sed L sheutd alts S Cor Trish and Trgtzil children g &2 7708 )fi# A fiThe tntent of my tactica SEiclé s simly to begin Glecussion the mid of most enviromental and snimsl defense st 515 doninated by the vhite midd ho frequently overlook the Tessontd (rat”can be Teacnad by indigenous pecples of colo in other pocts of the uorld Ry 5 ;i R e R NS e o s akatgs o st ot 1 oo o oo St pE R A R R [ sdmitting that, yes indeed, most of us in the U.S. live a priveleged existencey IS o et o T s S s S g ot th] cause of violence vhen we purchase oF supgort products nanufactured by multi-| o onel corperations make us Just s gulity ae those pulling the triggers of L soppisen vespons. e must rensablr, the lasson of history teaches v St oo Presaton beant to.crush ua often,Af we ramain united and focused et mabe us stronger and more’drernined in our dignified (Igh) b recden of carth, anis17 snd those humans o chose o 1ive in’peace](Strong Hearts 4 37.png)
![These seals rarely if ever cone ashore, choosing fiive bicth on the massive dce floes that drift off the northeastern] ‘Coast of the Atlengic_ sesbosrd. They once ousbered tn the’tend o ™ 111ons 11ving 1n balsaced Barmony vith the Wale and Finned Fisht "o Natioon 1n an bumdance almost beyond the nagination. A French Trader 252 I 1960 reporced secing off the northern tip of Nevfoundland, harp seals < Fi11ing the sea fron hore to horizon in thele Spring migeation south =" for cen so11a daye and nights. = R L o oe macsecicaly s, s sotedigtve MEAH o o single pup il i mles rein in i he vater.” Toe pup s boen vith 8 transTuscent coat shich sppenrs it #shich vill moult in two weeks it G S2P Séal population, taking only vhat they needed for % aurvival in their unforgiving enviroment. This s nfortinately, oo e the Lunity of o Lo s ol onico QR P eniots developed & Tatp teal T1enety ond begun a var of comercialQy olo e D o aion af sxtarmination sssinst the Tnuit](Strong Hearts 4 38.png)
![L iy i the 18308, an ez cefecced to in Newfound1and history ’sa the “Great Doys o e denand foc harp seal pup (ur exploded with the e e b fups beconing maJox camadity for he gty SOAL Shoot GhLS Sasm Cine’tesmdelven sccel-hul) AISEER e Scane alloving seatecs to pugh ey seats, Inst emaining ice (loe nyssecy ,seal nation began to collaj Havals killed anmually causing s ~mti] Vorld e 1. The vac effoct that tuened otnes humans instead of seals cost the sealing industey most of it ?luses of ships and though sealing continued on a lacgely ceduced; {128t" 51 tas to renain a shadov of hat it once vas until Vocld Ve Tt dhen thece vas an almost camplete cessation in the War sgainst "The peace vas teapocary: TR 1 o and by s dsprly o for the e Tn 1346 the Norvegian T%en established the Kaclsen Shipps G o uova Scotia. ALready proven as a butchacee of the LiicHihate fations and of the tacp e Sectic, karisen telbed 1 56T the weslomn harp seal population vas est TaL of shat Lt had been only ten yeacs eac] oy e to bo 1,750,000, It a mece fraction of uhat it wes befoce 5 2 e T the mf-1960" s Faaiers oL (5 Use hellcoptets and light alrcratt. ecial reconnaisance and Coast Guard lcebesa) ERC £, Ly the intecnational (and tody Fapacious b oeENVatlon end hunane slaughter were, ) completely absent. Greed ruled the ice and unspeakablers Tha s as thousands of seal ouos wece skinned ally](Strong Hearts 4 40.png)
![1n 1964 an estinated 85 of all seal pups Locn weee s Laughtered of( Uy Labcador Coast ond 81,000 were killed in the Culf of St Lavrence |Soue sealecs cepocted’s Kill ratio of one in ten for eyvecy seal sho “Mhe total ki1l rose to 300,000 harp and hood seals. 4{1n 1966 the ficst nongovetTmental obsetversiuere alfoved t5iness the (3| slaughter of a snall fraction of the 38,000 seals killed and cone luded € all hocp seal pups killed vere being skinned alive ¥]10 1967 the only !l’#ns made-to Tegulate the slavghter vere ignored vhen §/ Iquotas foc pups were exceeded by 1001 to 100,000 1n the Gul( alone uhils *;nother 232,000 harp and hooded seals (mostly pups) vere killed off the Labrador e G 1o 159 e P I SO L Tatled Lt o “ocsj af destrution conietoyy” s fr e, e FILLE eepacei 1 caratt o o mtepacce st T gty RIS 0 48 Beertianition m‘;*.!a{qfi(g YA U o 105 ac 170 the LT tO1MER0,000 hacp and eoded seots. 1 cesponse to munting pobc opporsion 1 B ens e Saradion Covetmmant Catab 19103 the-FShal Beotens s s hich et 210 o 1 pratet sens bt etk o shotes Undec the new regulatLons ro unauthorized aiccroft could below 2,000 ovec the seal nurseries or Land within 2 autical s of ani seal isecally meaning amyuncee rest the siaughier These cegolations In elfect pronlbited anyone but seal killecs access 0 the ice Floes uhere others such s the media and nongovesmental ., g IObservers had exposed the slaughtec to-the intecnatLona. pobTie @By the time the Cansdian, Donish md KSFoeg ot Covbmeats wasonished otas {n 1971, the sealers vere unoble to (111 then due co’the evers {cecasing coliapse of harp and hooded sea poplations. P i .a‘fi“?.m rther {n 1073, nd"agatn in 1973, Tn the mid-1970s the uestern harp seal population vas estinated at less than a mi1lion and Rl e G et G](Strong Hearts 4 41.png)
![- The sealing industry responded by finally neeting and despite the obvious danger Lo the very existence of the population, exceeding the quota by 40,000. Sealer beats back mother s seal with her own baby A journalst 1llegaly flown into, the slaughter Wiote, “There’s this "4 other seal 10 feet Fron ne, she’s rocking back and forth, 1ifting het. oth to-the sky and keening. By her belly is a plun-colored heap of 31" hat Yomains of her infant. As I vatch her the crying ceases: 5 . and she stands helplessly by . he bashes its head on the ie. . She makes o fucther sound, though she Seema to be trylng. Tts like & Botelafled i fa 1ol can see the fce 15 cplashed vith blood. On the harizon; in black siihouette, men are sylnging clubs up and doun in e WL Hare. o vy caccasse of biPETitot mch bigger thin 5 good-stzed rosst once the fur and fat are taken, stare at us vith bul- ik eves protruding from heads seashed by seplers,_clubs. . ve valk tov- ard a Flag and happen on & truly horeible scene; o mother seal vhose hesd ... . has becn snashed, whose snout has been driven sidevays, and who is still Z_alive, breathine’shallouly through her Latteced faceiasmiitoiio| % e I hat L’ re i is conparale 1o ITITng klttens vith clau hamsers, it can’t be calledgl a hunt." When the group returned to land, they vete arrested and cha + ged with yiolating the Seal Protection Act ATRNRAMVISUEIING S R L] L — v o ST 1576 o geodt of Cremmpe R ccivtots Tod Tyt 018 by v Uauson T1egally" e into the ks placed theic budies bt the seals and Lhe sealers bofore the helicopters used to transport them vere forcibly grounded. [t PO ] g, D, EEELL T N Tt s DR R](Strong Hearts 4 42.png)
![‘g @ In 1977 the quota vas increased to 170,000 despite the fact that explrts predicted o peesorm Wharp seal e inte extinction i€ e slaughter continoed 5 the slaughter. it in the vatér, Watson chained hinsel( ¢ seal pelts aboard a sealing ship., e vas deagsed thes thggealers tho yeiled "1l hin, RE1L i adef, T ey s Ly SR the 3 Boacd of Directors of the fas 2, e o e i G snhntlon ol "The Speing of 1975 380 Samething hever before AP R g s this one vith the mission of saving seals instead of Killing thim. & 5 ed could bestopped over 1,000 harp seal pups had g0 ¢, "0l [been sprayed vith a harnless dye that rendered their fur vorthless, 56 Shepherdl et L the senlers The v ity mrceted amd St TS i i el e b Poctugal aftéc Uatson had rained the vorid’s most notorious pirat] ivhaling ship uhich vas later Blown up. i hy Eboc whthout. injuries y R e By 1960 the Canadian Govertwaen d full gear, over-inflating harp seal estinates and varning hat ! ot rore seals were killed, the Atlantic fisheries would be thresten o B e (1sh-coting seals: omerctal fishing the North Atlantic sess of Crewmenber spravs seal pup | foncedto Loy sgains o proposed Eucopest Econanic Cammy I](Strong Hearts 4 43.png)
![Already federal subsidles helped bullds [rev. sealing boats and the Canodian Coast Guacd and Fisheries Service vere; asststing sealers with ice ond veather forecasts, serial recomaisonce the seal nueserles and nillions spent to monitor, regulate and ecnote the’slaughter.. n Covermment {gnored the fact that hatp) V] esis (osdon somsoimerclal (13 e sty prey o comereial iS4 nd ucsing seals fast shile in Canadian waters. This 1ife e betonen Seals and (ish explains uhy previous to comercial exploi tatfof QRRES tens of millions of seals coextsted vith what were sone of the vorld’s st abundant [ish populations. Early colonists recorded that cod fish yese in such abundance that ali one had to do 10 catch then vas tosg gy, LI e 2 e 2t 5 L e e ] gy s In 1962 despite Canada’s theeat L5 FSSEAICE EEG member nations (1shing 4 rights 1n 165 vaters, 8 EFC ban on the impoctation of harp and hoadsd seal pup pelts vas passed, tut the bon would not go dnto Gf{ect until after’ the 1983 seal Ki11 and vould only Iast 7 yesea. Lator loopholes vould be’created Lo rendet the ban canpletely uieles: The 1983 quots Gas set ot 180,000 hacp and 17,000 haoded seals. Hewfoundland’s Minister of Fishecles instructed seaters to i1i 100,000 seals o the cod fishery vould be destroyed: and stated his departneht vould pey ¥’s million (o help subsidize the purchase of pelts boutnt by the Karl3en Shipping Co. and the peit-muyer. Eoring Ltd. 1983 uos bullding up tobe 85 bloody a5 evei except for the arcival of the realers now Tamiliar rival as Facley Houat explains in his book Sea of Srh.ug’_sg 3 e 270 M 3. heing s i od SR TN ecred he Gl whelping e snd b ling pos. Chor FTE5 bkoned 1 e Kaen Shipiog Compion <1l Bobrenbos o for the Crino Company, The sl hd b i the ooy v das when s b i ppescd onhe en. S v o niused ot lled Su Shphod 1, crewed by s men nd v wmen of he S Shepberd Comereaion Sy i aranvio e by Pt Wason, e b hsdy scqied comiderble epanion fos akin dices scon i i k. Duing he oy howrof Fidoy Mrch 24, o S| e crunched eough e Noc oward e, whase sl d sy i nd e ein e brin pces f - ed s gl by st g by i s s el e i, BB e found elrs cgagedin shughicin pops. Shadoswed by Canadisngor- crmen i nd s, Se Shepherdhod s blockaded . John’s harbous hn, when nossling vl emerge: hd st course fo he Goll During](Strong Hearts 4 45.png)
![1IN Conoda itselt seal product disteibutor J.V. Hiscoek & Sons Beiggecs says it vill target Asian comunities in Toronto and] "The 1998 Cansdien harp and hooded seal slaughter quota han been sct. at 275,000 the sane as 1997 vhich it 1s i believed| into sccount seals killed but nol JCaboto Seafoods Lt “emodelling fish processing plent in Newfoundland] d tan peltd indixect subsidies for seal meat, grants to the Canadian Sealers) 1 processors such s Caboto, and other eleneni:y by the populations that have failed to rebowd despite a comerc Fiim enacted in the early 1990’s, Heanvhile @ petition by 97 biolg Cgists from 15 countries vho comprise the Society for Harine Mama Topist condemed Canada’s sesl kill stating, "ALL scientific efforts to find an effect of seal predations on Cansdian groundfish stocks have fatled to shov any impact, Overfishing cenains the only scie- ntifically denonstrated problen” s The Canadian camercial Tishing industsy Bppeacs to be in serio denal of thelr o impoct on the marine enviroment continually believing that 4f they kill enough seals the fish populations vill i ii7epairable a8 18 uggested by a marine bioloist o has ruies the Inpact of comarcial dcagrettecs uho tear up the Socark Fioae dteplacing hydroion, & tiny consin of, Jel1eh™y Toying U Canadian Fishing industry, they must also destroy the Seal oo’ scapegoat Tather than accept responsibility for their o) actions over the last couple of hundred years. S,](Strong Hearts 4 49.png)
![s man cxausts one species of fish come- retally and then tums to the next link in the oceans food chain for exp- Ioitation a3 the comercial fishing industry nov 13 doing in the Nocth Atlontic, he slovly removes the integral blocks vhich make up the very ‘cometcially hacvested {1sh out of sight and out of mind vith the mpact thei: diet 1o having on the ocean ecosyaten ve are edging ever closer o » dangerous ecolopical theashold vith n effect beyond our imsgination. For thase who choose 14fe for the oceans and all future generations, only one thing can return us to a level of coexistence and harmony that will | bring about an end to the vars sgainst the nations that live in the ses...z.: For_the seal people T think back to the storics I have heard of from places like Scotland and Treland vhere ocal traditions preserve memories of the tines not long ago when the Seal King and Queen and Silkies, seal people lived 4n the world of humans. I recall the story of a horseman ° 143} who called on sealers daughter to coms to the aid of her father in danger upon the TEWI e e o tossed sea nd together they plunged into Caters vhere the hacsesan v transfomed into 8 seal. ’ She vas led alo Toads of corsl o a great peacl castle shere ramy other seal people ver sesotiFi yos sea soma iih o bkl atick deep tnsid €6 remove 1§ pain a5 she removed the knife and vas brought to the surface of the here het troubled father vitnessed her o transformation from seal LEir) a5 she cane o bis Fescue: e more to <" acein 1o haen anoel i heg St ool MR S i oot 414 My aare siories of seals saving drowming SaiToie) SheITerIngtnd uckling hunan. infents, vedding lonely £isherman and ot tales of Jove and compassion between the seal and human nations These are not sinple myths or childen’s stories, they are fleeting “roninders of & Iife ve once shared vith the seal nations and sre mask o o b sl Sy oy e SR VL AR AR T o e Tife-here e reslize (hat the i spainst the seals, th v Jagainst nature i also a var that destroys our o spirit, ruiningh] - . Finoarad nennles hane for oeace s M|](Strong Hearts 4 50.png)
![ianeen SUPPORT THE SEALS OCEANIC NAVY SRR SR b The seals have not been saved and spathy and media Lensorship 13 alloving greater ecological destruction to conti o iave actually distanced thenselves fron] opposing the slaugticer chat.helped nake them millions. their high-paid [exccutives are quick to capitalize on fesues that will line theirf 7eF pockets, but vhen the seal nations need them most, none of Greenpoaces.; ghips oc 2 belicopters vill come to thelr. Sea Shepberd once agaln wi11 be the only ship o ansver the cri the seal nations, but only 1f enough of us uho are outraged by what ve have ‘resd do oue part to help get them thece. No one on Sea Ehepherd:s ...m,awm i patd every dollar goes tovards oucficting ; Inavy 31 have the rare opportunity to support s direq inction campatgn that il satl & ship co.the sidat of e killing f22 . ‘vhare they vill not cnly face violent armed seslers, but also the Canadiar] " Coast. Guard, Dept.. of Fisharies & Oceans officers, Royal Canadian Hounted] [Police and any others. {Sea Shepherd’s reputation precedes them. Canadian seale ‘Shepherd 15 about actions not vords. They knou that Sea Shepherd varriors i1l not passively protest and aveit acrest, but will evade capture. aod utilize their one-ship navy to strike fear in every sealing captain’s black heact- e Canadian Goverment knovs how to cope with letters, - petitions and denonstrations, but @ direct sction contigent that will 8811 vithout permission intothe midst of Canada’s shame poses possibly the greatest threat to the seal killers. Remenber, the govecnment has Vinade 4t {1legal just to vitness the .. 5ea, Shepherd will do that and much more.. i % o oo Fu foztes who represent and protect the " war against Canada’s Seal Nations will try to stop Sea Shepherd, :’l‘ ’1‘ will. So let’s do hin, me and get this navy to sea. Contact Sea Shephe SRE T Venlee, CA 90294 USA](Strong Hearts 4 51.png)
![o pover in the esc Kexico since 19903 i) AZN) incintdated by pacami1itary desth squads trained and arme: [Riletiteony, police, local 0 Civic Teaders, 7 hevapapecs and opposition) Bpolitici begged ) clans gged President Zedillo’to sddress the violence to "’/u; no avail. Zedillo and his top offictals recently refused to meet vithNl f§iAmesty International’s Secretary General vho has reported videspread HYS ] rmn cihc vioiaricns s eicp. o 1987 oo 1 oo B gt e A - d to parami]{tary death squads inl iapas including the attempted assasination of an opposition candidat and Bishop Samuel Rutz in Novenher 1997 by mesbers of Peace and Justice. acked vith o hammer in the Mshop’s cath] Auerilla activicy 1a greatest nacy Party (FRI) hes reppressed nonviolent attempts for democracy and peaceful change by Mexico’s pes il chen 107 of](Strong Hearts 4 52.png)
![e L otent parent1itary violence cones ot o tiss then the PAL Toces radtent change in Mrxico’s polticel structure aftes slmost 70 e oF exelusioe contco . And Rost pacentlitary organization ha R een 15rked to.locel I politicians sttempting Lo preserve theit .—W« ihed constituents. B, it bl ence hes ot been Limited to sosthern Wexico and he Enatosnous yopilastow bt 19 als0 evident in Pexico City, Jalisco, B’ om Pl Colfornia chere dotens of pecple hive been Fecancly Kidaappod toseured ang murdered including Joucmalists report- 8 o Yovermacoe and police corruption. Also, PRI activist professor flaciano Arias Perez vho publicly disagreed vith the violence FRL b dered in Novesber 1997. s e _at e foutLntinsity et in Hextco™Broke T7om its fog of Ooecerity onill ivcenter 22, 159] i the villsge of Acteal, Chispes shen 10 paranili o e Joyeh 40 e, Jotal Y govetpmint shmebteced 3 seaemad o ; 3 Mam’!m, LT et e Telptesiatitnptin BRIl ) o vepptesnion that has exploded Iria] B3 opos since the EZLV’s 1594 uprising. One of the refugees Hanvel Stz sid, 1 ran wey fron my bome for feac ol the pamtlicteiicy foto Acteal g began shouting at the villageca vhen it vas confirnedt -amsathat they vere unamed. Vo ere in the church praying when 2a1d s 1oyt old svrvieer Vagl) Residents imediately reported the attack to the state { rothing. gurman, sone in police uniforns vith insigna” enptied their NT-47 and AP-15 assault rifles into the crowl. il1age entcance durins) [actense vorker stopped Just monents aftec the massacre hegan. [redical vorkers alsg sey security forces dented accesa to io i -](Strong Hearts 4 53.png)
![and Jorge Paciencia, tended relatves wounded in 1 Eiht members of the Pacenca oy e mountains{Te Shere the’ assasing pursued thase sho lay 4n hiding huddled vith their children. Agustin Perez recalls, °...our children started to cry, and the attackers heard then and cane after ua shooting, Vitnesses say vhen they gumman found hidden vill execution style. T fes Teft, the bodfes of 18 children Inéuding 4 of uhomwere pregaant, 7 men lay esd and 312V eostly "infanta and mmal) chiliren §ia vouied. . Some of the wictind] [had been mtilated and the pregnant vomen hed their babies pulledii) fcom the (ucmba"vith machtes (aree mives) Lo enovreat they e 05 [ TR ST The viliose ves o XOMcstroved food and shelters ducing the 6 hour long Sianghter- S tgprce to cterl that_read: “Pence-Neutral Zape h g A S DTN 4 ; i aars cay | [coffins of victims to a mass gr o the VIttina 3 Rent vere baing Adent , menbers were prevented from dressing. the desd ir )9 traditional clothing due to the condition of the bodies. Some of t %}dead included uhole Tamilics of morhers. sisters, brothers and cousins 3 oA Y In the Crenalho minicipality vhich conteing Acteal, PRI doyalist be Mrecieving ams in Harch ’97 and collected "taxes" From {ndigenous vill gers for their guns and ammition. State police officers often in their training. A Zapatista official said, "They vere valking side {iR¥s1de vith the police.” at about the same time police records shov BN pocani1tories’ bezan bucning houses-s7d coemiting. seseced. mucders of A l@ufl&&fl&érwmn}?d cteal T ROV ermor of Crispes JulTo TE2ar Ruls Ferro (sho von office in 8 vid & fibelieved fraudulent election) authorized funds for the g-r-flllu Ecoup Feace & dustice hich in hupust 157 had recieved $575,000 frodh the Chiapas goverment despite the harassment, intinidation srsons and mirdar of nol{tical oonanants hlased nn then SREBICEIN .](Strong Hearts 4 54.png)
![el AR ! Fid “Dffffany of the victins of the Acteal fassacre belonged 1o the peaceful; | O N pesaant. organization, Las Abejas (Toe Rees) that is unaffiliated yeby e T e i e o cone o1 <K Tovghter s residents had been threatened with violence unlets they! e PN tho have smintained o consefire s A recent governaent report pas. iala gave false testimony sbout their-association vith the Acteal Mas-| 2 8 paranilitary tacget because A etate police comander has 8190 testilied that superior of (i ved pacanilitarics to use a mmicipal ambulance to transport veaponsy Jand aormamition uoed in the Actea] Massacre and ordered hi to ignore] the parant1itaries ho flaunted illegal veapons as long as they vere) ; i e mastict?, a Digrlevel \Plrmllll-un hide their weapons and vecrment. abandoned a negotiated agreement promising indigenous ate goverrment officials denied that they had supported the Acteal ins and have arcested over 40 alleged poranilitaries including thowy T Hayor of Chenalho and the Deputy Attomey Genersl vho recruited thezyy, killece fron anong the nemployed nd landleas snd arned then. i i such"a stcatesy allovs the federal government to-paint the conflice in |50 a5 Indten va. Indian rather than exposing & countecinsurgency canpaign that leads back to President Zedillo hinself. And thougH those acapegoats vho pilled the triggers in Actesl may be punished che grovth and training of paraniiitary death squads continves an the Hexicon goverment turns a blind eye, alloving its policies against the EZLN"and those vho share the seme gonls to be enforced by those £ can conventently distance thensel:](Strong Hearts 4 55.png)
![B9 Bloxceomcnts vith the FZLN.- Zedillo said vhen he refused to hanor O Sen Aices Accords hch vere the”prodvet of peace o nmurg betuee? i o N 2 e N ..&‘!h e That 1 | < AR kThe agreement e Wil s s Toaspenos e -poverment T Erce v onena.-cubtova. praserontion g e L ihin o flic 15 estinated that a3 many as 4,000 I flicoes thia Spring and take sheiter in comunities popu eopporters in sn attempt to protect theaselves Irom FRI- ks one villager vho fled his hane in the Chiapan highlandsfs ien"toan said, “ihy should T uslt there to be buried?l The parar 1itary death squads have miltiplied foljoving Zedillo’ ections vhich slloved vealthy landomers, state goverments and| N/ AN Cince chen Zaat1lo has increased the mi1tacy presonce.in Chispar) B s pacaniiscarien attampt to break the hack of FeLN support shich RIS Teoving among exicot indigencos population sho have been repesi il R 1 ot g il by ot e e : Leniomere ani e pol ice HERIETONNG o + villagers in Chiapas have been subject to mrdery W cepe, beatings, ’torture and extortion. Near Acteal, indigenous peopes not suppoctive of FRI have had their coffee’crops stolenanc] ned with death unless the cre in the village of Pechiquil, PRI-dominated towship vith o smll EZUN-syspathetic enclave, iocall e extreme human rights ahuse: have 1ed to armed uprisings, the reppressive violence inflicted bykd sovernment -sponsored paramiiitari ance in Nexico is being hlaned on those fed up uith [and strugsling for something bettery i](Strong Hearts 4 56.png)
![3,000 Mexican soldiers have been rained in counterin Ry Lechniques at the School of the inerica’s (SOA) since 1995 and Sy wrce trained in Specisl Forces skilla at Fort Rcags in 1997 slong [Though President 1rade Agreenent rappened. In its her . has chosen to Lo the 0.5: hacred cegines in £ Sal oa beher Latin Mrerican countces challenged int e 3ene opposing poltical dictatorships3 other, than Cacourags ceal democracy snd human rights X ctively providing military training to those responsible for amin [exico’s Parani1itary death squads who tecrorize exicen citizens 3] SOR are taught techniques for neutralization, execution, use of trutiy jserwn, false imprisomment, beatings, torture mnd blacknail. (ne SOAY te testified that honeless people in Panoma vece kidnapped mnd -+ Laxpeyec ot the tune of $20-million a year, the SON traina military pecsomel ot to defend theis borders froh an externel (hcent, bt T vage Tou snransity varface sgainat citizins soch a3 rel W Lgous fesders, Jabor orpanizecs, sdcators, stodence snd othecs. fishtin](Strong Hearts 4 59.png)
![Folloving ‘the Actéil Massacre, hundreds of U.5."trained Hexican Specto [roops were sent into the Chenalho Municipality including 2 SO graduates;ic Captain Jose Mirenda (graduated 1995) and Colonel Hector Aragon (SOA lnsln-ctr o 1997) sho bavy o penetzats refogee n’m?’\’y-p-d!uc to thed [ Jin, 26dition to these ployecs In exicors comtecinau ey va there s e Comander of ‘he Yot NIT1tery Lone In Colopis vher (he Lo “up vas Genacal Menchaca Arias, a S0A graduate in irrepular varfacel e he Commander of an acry caap utside of Ocosingo shere he led troops into Tndien villa g fi"Colonel Hacold Rambling Torres (oON pradoates IFreguior Worfore Opezations)3 Comander of the B3rd Tntantoy Battalion in Rincho Moevo, Chiagas (LR O i ~ceneral Commeio Teren rencers (508 graduates Hilttas faielliiece), st R Lo L Tactes e TICo o) e Lot Lopuri e Kaba. (G0N prem hng ot cabined oerstions tacot i neral Catos Demetrio Geytan Ochos (S0A Fraduater Cormandec of the “Gaytan” Task Force.in onte Libens, Ch Fort. Brags, trai o Ghiapes comiting mman £1ghts abuses- Recent £eports of paremilivery accie vity in Guerrero state have been comected to 3 SOA graduates, General Miguel {fl Leyve Gorcia, General Edmindo Leyva Galindo and Lt. Colonel Joel Cipriam vhok according to’a report on humen rights violations comitted by the Hexicooll n{ Litary have comitted several abuse and are suspected of many murders RN B e M«w;flg i in Jalisco state, 28 ofticers and soldiers fron the Hexican Special = Plg (currently recieving training at Fort Brags) under the comand of SOA graduy flate Colonel Julfan Goerrero Barrios have been rrested in connection vith they idnapping and toreue of 19 Naha Tndiag Jesthe, oot of s emmed I el government says Chispas o ]she s a leader in mqfé‘ffé the Zapatista](Strong Hearts 4 62.png)
![3 .J 20d permatiitary death squar evidenced by venpons used in the Actea e e e 0 T S e 011 the Actesl Masaacre, Interior Minister Builio C’-uyfltt the mi}itary comander (SOK graduate Cenersi Re the Coacdian Blancas (Whits Cards) & porenitacy grovp vied to contzol e B o PRI hece much grovps 1ike Peace & Justice, Red Mask GhiiRevolntionary Anti-Tapatista Yovenent operate i3 sined some human cighi Y ke for Kational Liberation has cisen, throving up 8 roadblock co the S’a macketing,of indigenous lends and resources. and preventing laotpiece in the econosic globalization porsie from being. placed 4 g7y, nce the EZiA’a 1994 uprizing, Hexico has becane 1 s Targen e 0 st v, cecen o pce ey ey Sctivity only a hacbinger of what is to come should the Andigenou] SPiE1t of Mexico remsin wnbroken. m CyAVL T AW RWEG Army Planning document reveals the secre! ) m*zwmwmw A](Strong Hearts 4 63.png)
![d ‘military, police, goverment and parantlitary force ., an oy latgely nade up of vonen and men less than 22 ani uho epracent possibly North Amegica’s last armed Tndion e Trvihe o ety and ith’all o oue support and e om of the past to DecomtEiTeeT ] PRSI TILY oppos the. seotuteratim of L. tsthad BTTTEly porseppl o ekt L1 aveni ey dcet o s Lo sz s Eorarits Sha s e s s i s e e Kl of AR —— Pl Tt i o, PTTIIER T irartad by Ml ioerionel compomtione: o s romtrices her I Comem et e ko oo ceotarcaeToF e, ve e hpoceites v oy 125 esks oo skl poins sien st hmsseneve Peoples I ths oo Teobock Toc T miaee e ppe st o o P, 27 orce PR 0 e copesion o Indiay e WV e e ooy B L E— O oS e Becheres 1o o Cocrpsoeamannt, 150 B ko sovermans s ity e oot T e T o s B e e ot o0 vesrs oo sane evel of defernination that U.5. President Grant and Hexi President Diaz exerted in the 19th Century to crush the Apache and Yoquill tances that stood in the vay of anti-nature colonialia, so to does President s Clinton and Zedillo intend to shatter the Zapati: ihich 1s-the hope of indigencus treditionalists everyvhereXsl P ey ey of the E71d’s modern—day reststance 1 the belly of the beast. The threat to Hexico’s indigenous peoples 1s no longer] e Clohah Ste o St . s ke PP I 2 1 " s e’ ey My e L oy moieces s chaves, In e et S et e s g Y. T it ot s b Aiets rp e ER e rhvke it ut fe R, iexe Lica the hands of the puppeteers sho control the srcings of mi11ten gy Dot s eretiany St B e et 26 it](Strong Hearts 4 64.png)
![I ] ] ] Squads in Irelandlng 3, publ 1can Amy its allied political party, Sinn Fein (Ve tvenelven) a place Party peace talks betveen representatives from the BriLion lond Irish goverments, pro-British Unionists and moderate Nationaits NGl * et lie S Feln (e ap 200 ko the Dartitioning o Trelandd Begin in Septenber. 197, the s with Unfonists parties refusing to negotial British government delaying demilitarization and troop v thdeeca) oni"oatlonalist vess.” The nationalists frusteation vith ineqenlity e esack of substantial progress at the talks has been portreyed sy * threat 1o the o) ite Sino Fein’s ed comitnent to non-. : MY Bl b onciv ORI i) - 888 the peace talks alloved to participate, though Unionist mesbersfigy e ety theeveed i st et e R because of Sinn Fein’s participation. Bl oo Snfortunately, since’the TRA ceasefire began the British military ;; . resence in Nocthern Ireland has increased alongside Royal Ulster - | - . Constabulary (RUC) police brutality snd a contimsing mider . by 1o ‘:#m’f"’.’g: fi goten ok T vete e o)Al In shoot-to-kL11 polices ‘in the e used _to murder IRA suspects.](Strong Hearts 4 68.png)
![v Capitalizing on the activity of loyalist death squsds, Unionist delegates are hinting at a continuation of the violence ,unless they are guarunteed continued political control in the 6 +“counties of Ireland seperated by the British in 1922. TE 4t vas the IRA continuing its military campaign, you could be assured they vould have alceady been excluded vith the type of ¢ -, international media condemation that ailudes beiish and Uhionist . Violener The threat o pesce in reland does tot cone fron Irish nationalists( aeediz e, (o Ut T e o o et ) selyes_ (Eom. Death squads both civiLisn and nilitacy who o ialdate . Hihceitin: attock and urder those vho only vant Justice and squality 2 Tin’a 75 year old aceificlally created statelet vhere loyalist tervot] secv social, Cconomic and Golont ol el sup ; e iaiion ) ; i . 4 ifi"‘r(“‘ AR 5 4 Ve olent T XS Tl Liientto Jestecr] Jpeacaful negotiations with the kind of terrorism which has led tolliies Bover 3,200 deathg in’the o and! ull-scale vac against the Irish 75 years .55 les flthe pactition vas alloved giving the Unionist majorit § fies contcol over the o ttontat pop 3ty pecmisivg il ; totes o alis, the it Lsh goversment 15 g » ce” fot its o political agenda . [l ogenda tha s Tote s Torun Tor dontran bececslegc : Bto tell demcratically elected polltical representatives of the Hodigencus Teish that they w1l not surcenec contcol ovee theic } List calony or allov the entise Trish population to demcraticall Geth e Cotots of tha comtty In oo el eslond v, Fan. though the Unionist population would fare better politicaily as,:i 207 ot & votted Tceland cather thap as 71 of the (nied Kingon Tt BELCLsh gosetmmbnt and RUC!s CASOar e, 1) et (orupatee 1) 1 celand they soold e he same Level of Getbemination’to peevendil] et ety S il o S 2 S flut peSce for then cemalns 4 poritical | PR s BTTLE sEotion & iohis mlie forc . 1L {l ceppressive lezislation prohibiting basic civil rizhts, and a toleranceilll for loyalist death squads that continue to sleushter innocent beoole CATRIANEEHI](Strong Hearts 4 69.png)
![There are curtently ovez 11,000 ers in Ireland and, nationalist commnities are ’still subjected to house raids, harass- ment,, surveillance .j@l”_%‘am‘ of military installations. of pilitary in 083 ANG o g (betveen Arnagh and thel the TRA were sctive 1 vety rarel e 1 dtd, aras i . & d 16°3 Tion-violent Teso upon the Irish people by British military and police and poramilitary facath squads. This s Telected in the TRA’s Serick sdherence.to 1s) ion.of military sctivity, haxassment and ) s the sorl of those uho see justice and democrac eea i Sic Felmn: dentGercy Adans sums 1¢ up best hen he-says, "The steadyi: freturn to sectarian killings by all loyalist s, coupled with? ihe Continued andincreased i Ltatisotion st motkosatser coee B R T R ULster Defense Association (UDA) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters. eah i Tored woh 2 ports Fepcesntes ot e pescs etk The juith the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), the UDA with the Ulster&&iig! [Democratic Party (UDP) and the UFF as an affiliate of the UDA. Most$ o e ot ) o e 1 23, n SCtate of, e Ut Conbot 16 a0 the Nakionsl Feont 5 iomcnd b hhse el $tatoos on many imprisoned members. Together these paramilitarie: junder the title of the Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC)] R R R A e it cetrat T ool SRR S of 4 Spmhch b EREIEeaseTite, Tn the L: months lvy‘::m h:;ekzfl:m-d Jii i thelc canpaign of intinidation, beatings, bosbings ar ings SIRARD e e Tovatiat pocanitories e csuce SR t.the condemnation and accusations of terrorisn that regulacly](Strong Hearts 4 70.png)
![. 1 fiape thts *xine doesn’t dépeess yau in anyvey, Wit helps guide you’to sctlon instead of spathy. T vonit be hers mch longer, so there i1l only be a f nes, let me know 4f 1’ve pissed you off or made you think, et ", ety A 0EERG Tike to thank 8 few folks o help. sake SH a reality. Thanks Catherine for research, printing and mailing? - thanka PETK for fackground info and geaghics, thanks Dad foc the <lippings and grophics, thanks Tvoods and Drustila for”Irel Vactln For Chispas. infoFand most of all, thank you 4 , G e el bl oy et T btk o oy et G o e o 1 e o s S s i, o i E, R e ol e : R [TROPICAL FORESTS DESTROYED: e vt ] iy L e](Strong Hearts 4 71.png)
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Trish and Hexican Death Squads
Canadian Seal Slaughter
) Foctory Faca Follution
J| Steategy & Toctics
TRA Prisoner List
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enage geL o ves
elensed”tcon peison s0d " aerving 1ess than 7 year:9
Fhece 1= o jostice foc E:‘E'K‘Z.uu
oc poticanan o get Justice.” And 1'n sure by the tine that youl
cead this there vill have been more paranilitary death squed vict
B nies & DI o7 o Toariat, oMty and ol RIS
the Beitich goverrment. and predominantly Unioniyt RIC ace as gullh
[2s the LVF for -uwxn. death squads to flourish while m.munms-
that they really are, the miscarrisge of justice, martial rule and
i nation 1o order”to smach resistancN
Aot irion 10 2uch 1njustice bogan vith peaceful non-violent civi]
R oebediance that ves met vith Beitish bullets, one can not. blane thel
Lian ticay, vhose beothi™BaE-shot by EFitish soldiecs on 'Bloody
L 1573 when the acmy Fired on peaceful civil rights marcherg
5 SdeY beitian's support of violent opposition to such ceslstamces
T e have o dorsore than sisply spologize. They have to (ocp
e Tprmialices” Gkl feople e L e s iy
A e eruggle, thousands of faniLies have been torn, hundeeds SEfY
e aneetave baan intacned and ave stilL tadey o' ol becous i)
e gt oo Dloody Sonday that ciuil clghus cequeats 20 WIS
& ;
g
(peateful demonstgations did ot wock, T
o TheTe s TeTsh Fepublican who Lock U
. [pecserverance that the IRA and Sim Fein demonstrate:: i
e eevetantsy Aeey Council 18 another sepubtican organtzatior el
e Cooken et . Ton o3 vel1 sa. the 3-Couny Sovretgnty 8
e whic b Betuadeits Sands Rekevitt. (sistec ol
. e of 1% Lesding mesbers
Yiiihch ve see the larger
Trelang that Beitish intelligence and the nedta conglonerate
[aluays expressed their desire for peaceful negotiations, but the Dritis
1itary and police and paranilitary groups continued escalation ard !
e 0.5, fears
Ireland breaking rank fron the
c globalization)
25 that of the U.S.
L ATHOA
ttlonir, ¢ 3
‘one with the schievenent of unifying¥
fnable economy vith squal distrilsit
i Fe
ecbic. contzo
R ChELte S Feicuure within the strategles of U o UK goveras
oL et o rations that are on the Ureshold of scomcaic, s
f i Litary domination.
. ey femiipiiory ;) SR T o
Qlpocamilitary groups in torthern Treland can be seen for vhat (ho
Peeiy ace,’the preservation of old-guard colonial control thet
e e e i ppressed Ldigeneis people
e st e R
b les" in Northern Ireland as religous strifege,
o FoTrsy e TTrobles, A7 pesce being contirue Unonist
fcontrol, all help Justify Britian's continued occupation of Irelar
S
Hine peop
by uhjuct judicial, legal, political and police systens,
b e steategic use of pacanilitary forces that divide’comunitiesy
Y e istance and create an atnosphere of fear among those opposi:
B0 ccoment sancioned reppression GRS k
i hu the Liberty hec peop.
decide their future can further bloodshed be averted such as it N
i 1and-vide vote on the fotuce of BELtish occupation and the ([t
Uit toning of Treland rather than protection of Unionisteconteolf RES3
Trself in the pees Staiiad i
LN 37
AN A A
RS e poljcal_saneuecs will be Be'te trsla
s see sl ammsgen L S
R i cemotoion in tocthecn Jcland depite the contniag
rescetu e ents. Now At 1o tine for loyaliat
e e otaers goveigment Lo do the s
T s A
st 8 centucies. that pesistance. u B!
£ senturles ALKl S e ana
ot toce w11 contioue.to crulse the streets of Northers
oLl i iat Comntyles punlinine.those thoss only&
e ik ire o smmiity and Fresdonth &
i QYA Prisbnerssi
ace fceauently tacseted for hacassnent %)
uc! e Sepeeree
)
ceganized demonstrations anc
B rocches across Ireland and beitLan deranding thelr release. Thesch
rotests vere often mat vith R violence Ly the ¢ camties vher
B enior 1 rens_ond chi Ldcen being_aciacked,
contiscated - Liotin ealiskey Lo 3ti1) held
her newSen daughtec on o chacge tel
hlCermary that happaned vl she vas In Gel
of Bectadette Hhliskey ho sucvived 8 loyalist attack: leaving fork
2ot 5 Simey and her R
S b
A
AN
ol
stations. Despite the fact that there vere no real explosives, onl;
Bl tations. Despite the fact thay thers ue splosiys
uzar. wee given e 1 {
Rathe] e et 03 Yeact ol ok escaper ond toce
OrtLcer Cormanalhng QurTog the "Bl hunger stcike, Bcendan,"Blk AL
FFaciane in Januacy vas ce-acrested and chaczed vith o '8) kidvsppisa)
Jon the. final day of his probation for his oriinal sentence which
escaped frum bu vas later recapured for e bad beeocut o peizcd
active o the i
eTn of(IcTals recently perd then
velcones fron the Mayor of San Francisco
Ficse.spem hours uih their comades to hear thelr concernd
resacing e pesce o caniod thea that haic
ot vait for Beitish approval foc hi
> Folloving. the Hay 57 discovery of an unfinished tunic]
“ainded P.0.4's vere moved to another H-Block where follouirg
stnas pacty for childen of peisoners Avecill disguised hing
el el e b p
y
says vas only ol vith Northern Treland's unjust Diplock
e are o jucles o right to cemis
P SV A W R
Ycapitalist Pigs
[y ractory F'arming irnil\mericaw
X
e human health isks of & me:
health-consclous consusers, but
21 destruction sssociat
/The aninal rights movenent has aluoys opposed the dnfmal sgricultur
R\ . {Industry vith Iis invensive confinenent pezations which caise ovee 2
e e T T R
R 0, g i
've heard that. the grati fed to livestock could feed 8 tines a5 nan
imans a5 theit flesh does and we know that meat production depletes]
P Ter resources. Ve also know that livestock grazed on the open rangs
[cavees erosion, topsoil depletion, destruction of riparian areas il
he sensitive plants and aninals and that hundceds of thousands ofjaued
native wildlife are killed shot, poisoned and trapped to make roce o
ottle and shee ISECTthe 1900's Tave Seeh an explosion of inciden
57 envicomental pollution never seen before caused by the intensivel
conf inement factory faras vhich raise poultry, hogs and dairy cattle
that produce ocesns of deadly vaste which are'poisoning que nation'l
"leaving behind'a val S
Modern anima] agricul{ure operatfons doatinated by a few multinational
ageitusiness corporations are replacing snall fanily farms vith negal
farms vhere illions of pigs and chickens are confined in cages vher
cihoc see the light of d
BeRven by the high demand [oF & neat-centered diet by the ever inere
Cine ot Fluent husan population in counteies like the U.S., the aninel
arSculture industries aided with iaproved genetic contral of
B 5ol engineered for leaner ar
ivers,and industrial pharmaceut]
a1 Faimine that iekilling ouc
i
B
e
eivers
ure w L s | 370,000,
‘-L‘E".,.,m. MRV — r.mm
5
ot mmmm
\.1 mw
bl s bt noce wmate chan o cit
B, it e, O e s
run-of f a3 one the natlog’s biggest and Least_reaulated soucces of ™
In the Gulf of Hexico where agcicultural nar-oft lrmme Msetsaippl
P rivec Delta 1o dusped, 8 7,000 sq. mile area the size of Nev Jersey has.
e secaccd o “fcadione" due £ its lnability to support squatic uln .
é = M “ ' # “Mississipp Wats im
nd s
i 19954 hog waste 1 sptied 1o
Peaon valdes disaster Killed 13 million fish and all squatic
SR scc xtreme g vmsce potTukion, now dump desdly thospborous and e
S ciene ol lutants into the Albecnacle and Pinlico Soude which provide
i of . cpaseal myczagy foc besading Fish fron Maige to Flocias
2. Lrom raige
LaTn 1595 In Nocth Carolina 35,000,000 gallons of aninal vaste spilled
into the state's wtervays killing over 10,000,000 fish and closing]
510 Foods of Virginia 1 the East Const's large
[and vas recently cited mnd fined for 6,982 enviroomental and health|
uhich ecd)
otk ot protian ash 12 procss
hem to e on errorRII
3 e
B b, 1o Utah, SnithiLeld Foods ami three other tort
etina pork pooeess e buf
e comphated: py 50,000 acres and raise
2
he pias will be housed 120,000 per bacd
11 Phe- human ishabitants of U
1ding the voeld's largest hog farm RO
,500,0
here Maman-costes and industrisl dischacss
Fedecal guidelines, only a snall peccentoge
ve evec inapected. In one investigation B7% of Nocth
e e ebed were found to be dn-violation of the Clean Kater d
Sperations b
Action Comittee (PAC) dollacs help negotiate
ollution Jagg dn staes faced with lacgeccal
In 199 pork industéy donations to Korth Cerolina legis]
In 1995 Sithfield Foods vas the largeat
; e aaty 3
eontributed $1,680,000 to federal election campaigns in 1995-96 and iny
o oemie, nob the-nation's Jorgest dnicy state were ol tical donar
B 11O 22020 yeace-have.topped $700,000, Lass than half of the 1.
e e hms boes hoon inopacted despité the histocy of spciculticg)
e e destroyed the delicare San svaquin Vaiier(@.
O A 1 ey o migeatory vatectort
{ EXEMPIRE
0t
e Tntcase Lobbylng effort aign Conte but lons by por)
(ms recently successtul
b
i possing the "Agriculture Protection Act" inf
e ehteh ycants. rmunity fron environmental lavs to factory farning
it comen_with 1igtle swpeise that they should hos
ects their oper:&
e SRR
e M
AL ulr, Livestock producers Lace mintaal
in nost states vith voluntary camplisnce dt best as envic
ntesquality stendards clash vith the multi-billion dolls
iltuce industey o have bough
%00 and Perdue are the lacgest poultry producers in the U.S. vort 5
bolding Tucrative contrac
oy
x ‘peisons ani mil tacy bases s cecently £
Bl 4,000,000 for bribing the former U. eocly Lo
it bt s el ol
g 7 Haiyland, the”sife'of,
B eter o oucbreax and vhere the state's ageiculture Setr
o Faioss 60,000 chickens snmually for Pecdue, poultcy producecs vant ¥R |
T191000,000 feed subsidy that will allow factory farmed chickens to———1
Gigest more phosphor
ous, the nutrient most environnentally problem
atic. in chicken poultry’
wvaste and now found theoughout. the Pocomoke
Eributaries that v
PR
40 different hog operations,
Jrave reduced by 60-801 the amount.
e Clean Watex Act as wetlands, 8lloving factory fams to expend|
into them. And in 1994 after recteving thousands rom the
rcloth introduced 1
pork ind
eglst alast
revs.the Issue of livestock pollution 1€ ve ace to protect our 3qua!
erwicomments and preserve the lives of wildlife killed since the aucc
& op In Callfornia's
Facn, Just doun the road from &y parenc
Fuien 13 a rorthecly direction the stench
Foom the open PL waste pands vas unbearable and the plastic that
Lined the ponds hed long sgo cuptured seepin nd_cony
ke velll
Ined by the amonta fumes fron the aninals vaste that sccumlated
indec the cages. The chickens vere housed 5 to a cage the size o
o oldad nevspapec without roon to spread thelz, vings Lot alene
fouch the St peceror o FE
555 again: Later 1 tould return to this and other
egss farms to rescue’s feu of these pitiful sninals and take then
Lot iends uho could give then o better 1ifen:
5 1
3
LS00 7 PeTEonal eHEDunEL s with factor) famh ex-prisoc
ught me that Lecegardiess of thelr genetic manipulstion
‘Lsclation fron nature, they still vere sble to dig deep doum
o their genetic pamo "t o o, fogd g shelten
ehing o (it
Bk $at¥ e TeTs ve rensved theil{ '
chickens (ton the catrying boxes onto.the fresh earth. Though. thesel
inale had never seen the outeide of their cramped cages betoced
Ehey nstinctuatly mev hov t0-scratch the soll for insects and worms
imnd take dust baths. And on the very first night ve vere all suprised:
(o see then fluttec thelc £ in the rafter
LIt 8 Chicken coop In S of ey hany
cescued 6 {aylng hens to F111 1t and though the poor animals
heie vesks seoced off to prevent then fron cannibalizing eachother
- thete.factory farm cages; they were still able to peck the kemel
oim © fed ©
Ty
1
1n & A596 PosltA Tines sticle the industry remtily sinits,
o dizact attention vas given to poultry velfare in the develop= g
nent ‘of modern systens of managenent except that the birds had to)
R mirvive, and be. Cronth g schieve oppmmjevels of prod-Em]
X k; rsiaed
5he eystens for optimm production Like many other an
g carth explottation pdustciss, through research funded by
47 the taxpayer W "
- manded vith stact s pouftry res-
SR 7 Tand geant niversities such a: ¥y of Georg!
e by Beuce Webater and the USOA's Agricultural Research Service
have developed {ntensive continement practices of poultry peoduct
icn vhich fproce sil considerations of velgare of aninals eised
conmmpion, \sbatge vrites, '\ - \
“To b8 Truly effectihs apologtalfoc
try ploduction sgriculture, the industry should do the folloving,
2 the’poultoy induat Tind it neccesary to support research,
DuL1y maridgenent 5T
ften 1o left topersonne role 18 to keep equipmentl))
ve b
[cunning and shose surveillence of. the flock
B |
Laspted
to diseases that can be fat AIYKH 5
L4
Mar a1c 128 cating veat contantoated ich e. Yol
Sioneli, ampyioocter and ghec Tteria tae ProgLatl 1 g
b infant &-Whhuer'.lm 18 known o in!ecl
60 ST 211 U.5. poultry and the U.S. Department of Agricult
17 448 besk o prevint the trve risk of Bovine Spongiform Paceph
a0 B Disesze) nconing ko 1o, g prycenting mblicy
Riscudies oungest that'BSE ‘afready 1a videspres g the Aner tcani
sepis"cal i the gympcns e atkgiagmond an Alwizr.
i
inssss Tinkeoto s 4o sl conce m“’i.rm.,.‘,."“
"t f nimala Lotk ST Snd G
ALt plac :fln :vul:;k lguslry {tsel] delay sctionigy
1Tion dolTars on useuch "er the next & years)
entucky and Nebraska ru <o ace_Ligh ing o kbep cor
i e i e et et Ptk sroud 1o 5;,
55 Coal1E15% that Vi1l help our envizoment most of slISAN
on the individusl level ve can do slot to regss rovel
on M 1 Tainating pork:
%M otate. Tamming oferétions fcua oue diet and
[public relations campaigns as the industry move
T [ ;rfiq—. ‘publTe relatlons Consultant to the Manitoba, Cans
[Farw Aninal Counctl vacned factory farmers in 1995, “You're all’
...a« ‘attack for hov you trest the air, the lond and the vater
Logging and aninals, 1t is all part of the same,
n sttack on all." Nou lets a1l dof
Cafsumers. may. ohan-casy,
tasty. and (reo vogetarianceci
Ly calling PETA's tllfrec ot
line - SNB-VEG: Pl e
i .
pouer 15 exércised nore by highly payed special interests lobby
P0utE thon the public conytitpants vho put politicians in poved
o Sommentalists and social Justice advocates uith a proc
animal and esrth liberation philosophy are portrayed as the ex:Jfll
b treme left, so extreme as to be seen 3s 5 2 -
nohies nbt allics ofiad
R R BUrp ) anademand, ve'are painted by
fithose profiting from the earth's destruction as anti-humarYel
protecting the global environment endoec gilg
the cconomic 1ife expectancy that will gu
uCh a"girategy A5 that practiced against us by the Wis
olitical extrent WV
2%
RIRYI 0 e Snoniier
e A TR, Ml ted to money spent inig
B eckats of environmental; social and pro-aninal resesrc
o Ee e apb1onists as replacement for real action to srrest
L nyehe donmuard spiral. tovards ccolosical and sccicial
cnll.gu 2
G
Fuaily dang
KBV and constieutional ci
L Chemselves the victims of violence and judicial bias tha
[ ends with us facing felony convictions, time in jailoand
Prlen xhile the tos ceinigals. g0 i‘flflf'
Cherney in 1989 when they were car-bonbed, but more frequent
are the instances of excessive force used against peaceful
non-violent protesters such as those seen recently ity
AN eTroriam have been happening with increased:
equency in Eugens, Oragon, Cove-Mallard and other placed
( L
e romantal destruction
Jury that_included tuc
chersMindicates that federal Gliminal statutes are nos
that are devouring us all can continue their|
ravenous destruction. Where their progress is thwarted by
envizonmental lavs, they simply clrcumvent them,
s Tthe | m-..;—.ua?"peuu‘?"{?;fl—u T 1e
Conservation Plans (HCP's),indTgenous Tsit
Mot recognized and the Clean Air Act is sidestepped with)
Bloollution creditsbought and sold with arguments tha
et e cnine, vhen Tavs co;
{ EoveMEncal doubie s tan n
Wffentorcenent . “Environmental destruction for exsmple is
ffdeadly as iilegal drugs in our society.vhich siso provide
Jobs| et uny dots i% Dot benei'from the. sabe proteti e
egal persecution? 1s'it the seperate class of people tha
orporate executive of ficers (CEO's) whose interesis th
[sovernment {s intent on protecting vhile it rasponds with th
highest cvec Level ond h'ifh of xn.inmm. (0" the Toves 'c
*¥he Aninal Liberation Fro 4 o
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It is then,
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truggle as part of opposition to a larger corporate g
lan we begin to integrate our efforts into a cohesive
Plan. In this way every action is viewed by our members and
he public as part of a ynited human resistanc Y
Rather than Sppedr fragnented,
Break past the diversionary tactics of the oppositi
hat label us as anti-hunan, and we can find our goals and
objectives welconed among those menbers of society in th
underclazac 3 S
en SLs opponenta beg the tnnelrcicy
e XS, gunous pecples, farm workers, rural) i |
residents and college-sducated youth all working togethér toXs
imber sales, incinerators, radioactive waste stor:
Lill rightly feell
much in fighting the very same pollti
\interests we now fight. |
Filing appeals,
writing letters, signing petitions, supporting ballot
measures, protesting with civil disobedience, monkeywrenching-
etand maybe even a political strategy that embraces them all
can drive the message behind such tactics into the forefront
of public discussion and the political process in one united
uncompromising voice that attacks the roots of environmental
destruction, once we better undegstand our opposition and b
Zighe them Lol LR b B
{0 skl L Y ]
[¥iin November, the recently reieased human rights activis|
g4, sengsheng said in New York, “Tho
Liberty and muman xights should not allow theix om perao
happiness to musb them into forgetting the many others wh
s 5tzuggling against tyranny. slavery and povert
A A A R A i 0
8l =i 1eges that prevent us from spending nearly 19 years
Prison Jike he did for simply writing about fresdom. His
a purely nonviolent philosophy.
e i, e s ey aemvslen L B
Lo he vorid. do ot shazd et
Bl it o e e begin-to do
[Bactics based not just on their impact, but on their abilit
Lo obeain medla coterages Wmen dig we begin to believe it
g Gl o airecy]
Ty e m oL T
EoTttnat lonal corporations vho vith sanctions and subsiite
From the 0.5 government, are destioying the planet we il oY
Eiont for, use because ve disagres vith how some attackil;
Chem? ‘Ao, ‘when 4id we a3 muman animals begin to believel
ehat we no longer had to risk our own lives for what .«% a
e, wocy, but it is.only one
2oL to-every movements' seciess 1o the use of a diveraity SRy
o oor movement, such & strateqy is necessiridil
By attempting to enforce the dogma which labels any e
slightly aggressive act outside of the bounds of passive
honviolence as violent and counter-productive, we relegate((l]
our movement to the confines of Fixst World, privileged 2
society, while failing to recognize that an effective
strategy requires the acceptance of individual action
£ the path to
{¥ther information than the extremity
oppose and the opposition‘s ability to respect nonvioleng
Efoeaatve strategy. When opposing the destruction of ourf
. P ovical 1ice support syatem, ve need not fear becominy
[nore violent tha
P coponents, when uaing aggressive Lactice
lco prevent violence osense of fair Garcii
ke SERE Loy feada st be ista in re
Gime they beat or abuse nonviolent protestors or overtuis g
_circunvent a previously won legal victory such as theQiii
Cnactment of the Bndangered 3pecies Act of Clean Mt So
aige At g N
it
NCR Jevof respéceability s u
B AL o ictica uhich are ultimately controll
P{contsibate to this control when ve follow a politice N
Naeatogy that maintains hope for acceptance and privileged
comtort. rom the very society we oppose, rathe
e S Ypee o 2obe
i ) S8
¥
AT LS et
% ate theli
R e hope. that ve will not alienate U
#-ipublic who might not support aggressive defense of the Eatth
Fripublie vho MO Mok Gefine our struggle to the outsid
orld,but it isthe media who have vested interest in portesying)
e O wass support. she, define w3
57 ) ihen determining whether passivel
T e best strateoy,
M influence our decision is the oppesition’
e o aevions with the xuies Lok oo
o iged to follow :
e shuld not e b OO e e v O 5
Fimen e 1IMit our movement to tactics
police, courts and government are always able to control, v
Pescrve privileges. Especially those of us who are white
Fale and middle class. Such tactics do not threaten the
pover stigctue formoce than the Lime it takes £ PhySiciTIY
| AN
59 Tikre arROEC YNNI { ve ‘ras1etenEhl
K. (rom thoss whoss goals axe.the aums, hut whoss
Eactics are more aguressives we irolate our direct action
Aiiies making it essier for the state to capture
Persecuce them as ~rininalsand terroristy rather
feoitinate ie tia ua adamaarsy 90
and guppoze
common ground with le
with repression and h
action tactics a
privileged and educated members of a dominant culture frony
Others in the U.S. and other countries who by choice or as
becauses someone chootes to Burn'a ‘Bu oreat ‘servace
office, or corporate hesdquarters rather than chair]
Chemacives to it should not mean we distance ourselves from
Such behavior forsakes our direct action
e with their tactica.
RERase b
RN &p‘)i K
e bt
N
Passive resistance used by the democracy movement of Chisy
‘failed in Tianenmen Square when thousands of peaceful
protesters were pitted against a morally vacant governmen\
flvho thought nothing of using their "People's Azmy" to murde:)
land inprison hundreds who stood in the way of military tanks
MBNIn late Z0th Century China youuould have had & Peeif
o g .
s neavity poriosa ns miTisacy controiies reptons vhor
oy Deacerit mupporcars of T5isn Snaepenience ate soutinels
}l;,\a beaten and harassed by British forces and murdered by b
R B
iy . Ol
Hi¥finationalist neighbor
i Loud of touciata. When asked uhat this mens, the suiddII ¥
k il
g/ replied, “That means IRA Third Battalion, the division whicl ’M‘
iicEenca et ace iy
£
Ve already think. In the case of the radical environmentall
and animal rights movements we believe in the tactics and]
strateay of Ghandi and Martin Tuther Kinu. Jr. whilel
L - . "
oo, S ONULL i gh o
b7ack Nationalists like Malcom X who threatened the U.SY 1. 1
Government with an empowerea Afsican-American populovs whdk
\ould not stop at only wanting civil rights, but also human.{ |
Something 1ony denied even today. That led the U.5;!
e
bl
Malcom %' bellef was
Mnonviolent opponent, but for those whose very 1ife was)
threatened, salf-defense was justified action. It wi
fear of such a philosophy melding with MLK's which was 11
our own, running up against increased violence
PR AL 2L n!n.uy planned by Africand
Posaibly the fear of such tactics by Black Nationalists
threatened the U.S. Government more than the tactics of NLK
[and 1ed to civil'rignts:legislation as power that the]
[government could control rather than wait for the g
%9y of nonvio)
largely drawn from Ghandi's principl
[vere used against British colonialism in India.
struggle for India's freedom Ghandi's tactics were a major]
atx: used to achieve victor
TR e 1o nei]
women's demonsiration against i 's principals of non;
e tuily, (LAY, Lve bacauss he and many of LE]
T e = heition education and upheinging uhic]
o Deatise thac. the Britis Ra) would resiel)
e oS attonsnip, seoondi, the Indian ind
movement,_w div struggl yond Ghandi'
ovenent_as 8 dleras RO Y vt ionaries Suck
e Aaak ALL who" 14 & viotent undergzound
A e Ll elon In the 1340 long sfter Chand
o
Tasis o cecupied Indis,
2 SRR
Ko vats o ]
Rostly Hi:
respect from their opponents, Bengalese revolutionaries andl
Lower class mostly Muslims rebels without educations or{
privileges who also fought for India‘s independence wers)
£requently beaten by police, tortured and murdered in prizon
Contributtng to theit belicf in & moce aggressive strategy than
oo BREes 8y th
T
o L AT N
2 &
0 Opposing the ¥
had in 1921 driven them from the majority of Ireland at th
[conclusion of the Anglo-Irish War (1919-1921). Empjoying
guerilla warfare tactics, *flying columns® of less than af
thirty IRA warciors with little training and few armamentl]
[vere able to successfully ambush much larger and stronger
roies® of Raiaihsico i, (e, T R e
oraregy, SEIiKing Where and when their opponents least
expected it is the same strategy used in the remaining six
Lo g | S ¥
R N W 3 k¥
lbegan their own civil rights campaign. Marches werel
repeatedly met with police and pro-British violence torrs tHHE
Eepression culminated in the shootis
ng ot 1u peacerol macchors)
fuking & civil rishes masch in 191903 :
BT ? i e
4CeEpting the modern IRA!N
gest reaurgence in In)
TN R
stiged bishop uho tended to the victfms ol Dacte Buiid
d. "Many young people T have spoken to in prison’ (for KA
Yeeeneiv
action
Bty e oo i bt !
s b, INSWRY:Y 8l
E IThis nicrors the SOAE Tesult &5 whem Seobing
fcan-pelice shot desd 65 peaceful protesters in Sharerei113
PR e ML o Crgh
SR i R 0 T pr o
Tou might 3y Earch Flzet fEeaTactme” Tho FRS A
and soctal )
tice advocates Are ROt indigencus werriory
fighting to win the freedom of our homela
[p! native people here, but the struggle t,
emaining biodiveraity xnows no racia
nds"3ike the Iristg
o pestags
e Sy s ety JHS T
Face cne enoene IS R iR M
Ith Government sepression at nome for actions and belieco) gt
hat fox many of uh ate scparate from oot brivace Lives. suc)
ot tne case for Activista.fueetcor TEelunde chl nd
Eher countrica in resistance . 3
$u% Samich as wartiors fighting the aame enemy in-gther
T T maenon betevy wa seed. to-use Prpyies
iolence, but we should fight a guerilla war that piaces
ntact ecosystems and those living in harmony with thenlREfil
! JSome of ‘uaare bette: at
[Community outreach and education than others, and thesel]
[tactics are long-term life insurance for the temporariis
0
¥ 1 che reat
‘There is room for all of usg
he preservation of
tithts activists i the b chap
fiatofy heve an incredible responsibility that imediatel
[1cist by fulfilled. We mist ook with our heacts to know vha
JITa most cruly sincere and right. We have the answers
+ [t be done, they speak to us long before our mis
o’ something else. _But trucansuersuil
ESAN 3
[Coyote Nation t
has actually increased his territory and her birth rate.
need to embrace our resistance with the same vigor that ever
order to survive attack from th
SR MmO
struggie requires an ever
aacritice than might have been pr
¥ pased 1ns of a threat to our, oppositio
. e
AN % 3 bitanced Lite we propose 5
= miat lsotiemenber that in the lacoas wnvitonmente
hias) righs, social justice and pro-indigenous movemen:s9
Bt e e R g T e G rEet aceon vareia
8% rust fight now to defend all of it as ve uould for our ou
i cami 1y and honTRRRS
3 plant_and (ive-fIngered
S-otherlarmy except for people
- Environmentalists infthree-piece suits
en't going to get their hands dirty o
£ lives and freedom on the line once the struggld
Lot i iazbington, 0C eltuay. there ia only uY
rell’we re going to counter environmental catacerophes wncd
1e_curselves aze beginning to be so pers:
ichably the Same Sort ol b
beliefs and acticns have landed then iS4
b1y sinilar to what Géranieo thought o
i he sar tna prison cell not far from hers
fon S a0t s, Cercnizn net i challeneegith sciied
andful of Drave warciors )
o bt 18 s
ocishing then badly in battle
X S forts in the Arizon:
Pendonment ¢f aining o
B wichin Earch Ficsti, o
asovereignty and justice movements, I pray the
Pis who are not afraid of a few years in prizon for pursuing the
Tighteous wild passion that tells us to fight a guerilla war
agadnst the evil powers destroying Earth and all her people
4 both hunan and pon-hunan.
ot humen 800 POV Ehe warrior generation that Ear
3 q’ 1 flfe depends on most.That war need not be violent to be;
Hilicdesatut, T¢ meed only place more faith in our love and ‘i’
raceeta tak the'surth and our eldars and sncestors teachings
ihan our fear of & government sponsored vacation like the one
enjoying now. Honeatly comrades, it's not as bad as you .
1 vork collectively togethexliil
ouragingffii¥]
)
jand while building networks of support for a By
o e atsingeesis ance TN with only one
nSis Tearts and minds-to aluays put the Eacth and those wholy
Vs put the EArEhADS SiReRatbh
LV UPDATE- I February the U.S. Tish and Wildlife Service [inally saw the
riting on the wall or in this case in the old-grouth forests and recomendedi
he Canad
Iynx reintroduction
Xiyax tron the Canadian Yukon for relesse in forests oou
%]
sty reintroduction, the ti
he legal protection o lynx habitat that goes along it
rotection by declassifying bt -r.;nnmm In;_e,[s:n‘!\hl~ ray . .
Under atus ‘Which has recently been chal lenged for wolves, reintrodic
anirals can'still be kl1led and thele habltat, destcoyed vithout the LegaTaiedl
FaPesiaion! the orcglolha Far from victory, Lym alltes must 1
Tight for the protéction of the Iover 48 states' duindling lynx population
ch 1. estinbted o be only & few hundced) by shutting dov al}. Linber oper-
e B T T i o i
e T Camtn Ty prTsoners T Teorts Tor Fome in fonan, Montane
ool e sefoed by ihe U.SLF-U-5: as reintraduction candidaces with thom
risoners unsultable foe Feinicuduction moved o lorge ovkdeor Srclosures .
Erece they can sere sa'a brending cotony o Cepopulste fommes habitat.
BISON UPDATE- Protester Delyla Wilson vas sentenced to probotion
Court and ive days.in Jail o atiert
fedegal oficials.
Traks 1S everyone
Buffalo Nation, the indigenous group dedicated to protecting
ihe Yetlonore bigomHae besh e Rering e Lo ek fo eonk
pack Landa-vhere.they camot be kiiled by state gumers from the lvestock 7 -
WA
Snduet3
= ‘though have voved to continue the slaughter that
t vinter should the bison pursue their natural
MINK UPDATE- 1 Decesber Cinton Colby Elietman was sentenced to 2 years in
jail foc his poct in a July Aninal Libecation Front (ALF) cald on the folty
ink Ranch that resulted in the release of 3,000 mirk. Utah is no strangs
to ALF sctions, over 6 mink farms have been struck by the ALF and there are
currently 5 young activists doing a year or less in Jail for their actions
against the Tivestock industry. Also, Douglas Joshua Elleman, 19 focl;
TR s S
ears In prison aftet being federally indicts ges that
B behind the Harch 1997 banbing of the Utah Fuc-Breeders Cooperative that
conducta e tHonal experinénes on sink and suppl
40 mink farms. vy st
WILD HORSE UFDATE- - The Aninal 1iberation Front and the Eacth Liberation !
8 eamed . in Decenber 1o release a hundred vild hocses fron a holding facility
necatarn regon and then procseded ro buen the arpty corrals. The FBI and -}
555 invest Lgating and peand jory o Port o
s szt gt sl .
7 > CE e AN eatile )
s résponded to their recéntly exposed ulc?l slaughter of wild horses by. <.
ceautring adopters o swear they wil1 not sell then foc slaughter. The peaduic)
{5 purely cosmetic and the B adpits it will sot stop the slavgher,
reduce 15 . * . 4 v :
)
Jihe decislon settles a lsveutt (1led by the Find for Aninais and|l4
the Atnal Protection Institute, but (ails to sddcess the dssue of chy vildds]
hoeses and, o, subsidied catile grazedon pblic, lands ace ot be
61 ofiiclals have eeported overcriudiNg of vild hocses in holding foc
cince the new sdoption seasures vent into stfect, proving that many vere indecd
red by allcsed sdoptecs.” Heandilé utld Tocse roud ps continie
QusTArSE LAE m&-"w ko v grace) nd
J (James Plovanaioat) are’ the Last of the beitish Columbla Indigenous soverei-
ntist. & prison foe thel ammed defense of unceded lands in uestern Canada in
JE S 2 PR T =
stolen from Indian peopls.
ronically, in Novesber 1997 the Canadian goverrment issued a formal spolosy o
the indigenous peoples of Canada for the wrongs comitted sgainst then vith af
[proclanation that ‘the government vould in the future vock touacds
Adve suggest the government Lmediately release Wolverine and 0J
Fetry the Quebcc Provinclal police officer guilty of the murder of Dudle
George, the indigenous sctivist shot shen he and others occupied a burial s11
Finceq ot develbpmens i 195: o otice officer uas scrufed 1 3 fecen]
oty 7 - E— X el
®:
isend thece has been charge on - Lasues reprted In chs zive. 1
ndlpece ke, SN PN T N Kl /o
.
" K previous an unknoon srolp hod assastauted o Teorer
%if he UWF cesponsible for recent sucders-of Catholics and o rvg doniel
- ~ s i oy g .
In Chispes and st St Yetco's Exaubied Tondecape, (e fadecn govers U
Jrent. hes now amnounced that foreign peace observers wiil no longer be ix
o m T then to vitneps thats hawn rights violations el
g! . 1
s P N
YT 4 5= T \Lready in
Late Jamuaty, Tester of the Pessants® Totsperient Contial otpimizerions o/ T ¢
Rubicel Mot Geabon vas shatIn-the beck outsioe his home In Chiapes brgi
Sonpected pecaTrtarias 1t 15 believed in an sttompt 1o sabovage T SURCRRR
Fonce: ik with the EILN. Ganbon van- sctive In s ocel stropsle. that n
oia i, S lls decardia. Lot o)
n In early February, suspected paranili taries mirdered]
the leader of a pro-pessant political pacty, Mauro Generaro Marin in Guecd
& nifitary rosdblock where the EPR has also been sctiv
hter note, EZLN comaiter hackers recently replaced {nformation" i
‘on goverrment Einances on the Hexican Treasury Departnent's veb page with
EZUN declarations including messages fram Subcommandante Marcos. Protesters
;150 temporarily blocked sccess to Hexico City's stock market
‘g . .
2 AE S
#*1 had intended to do story on the ams industry, but recént events T
flxeland, Nexico'and Canada have pushe 1t to.the back burner. Now a5 521
(the U.5. is gearing up for snother var (hence the nevs footsge of burn:
ing Mmeican {1ags. e o File up amy igrorant oecican):the story will
bt ortheoming! T " ]
Soliicope o L tntended 13 Trclute some gust cdiorluif
‘re ing strategy and tactics, but I ran out of space so that shouldiy¢/ 73
Toflow s5on to0. T readers' 1n the Eattn Pieect ovenents o 1o ohc LT
tine to participate in constructive discussion not srguentive back-7 .. .
{biting o qulet”accepiance of perey 1 i
p TS
nm.. e movemert i Tettlng oeT pROpLe’s dissintincinyteom
,
P & SRR N
b s 110 o s ot et o sachtrr v’ ou)
[ ‘xmin divided. Oh yesh, if you are curious as to where I get my info~:
Eration that 1 use (o Chis “Fine, Just drop oe a Line and § com'give. .
oo icaton et ot o 1y esench o (o s
Liirmings sontto me by famly: T of omer sctivisiey altornotie
e oegatines and pepyce, sciiviat meietiers, nercative booty irst-
i R xSt 1oy vord o mouthy yout ma. the tee ee ana
i SRt T gt o G e el G s f Lose ' neteck f s
St ] fie oot 0%, he yarias., th, sod of coucie ) etk o ien
B erment 7 e e T TR gy ]
- e T
ecTfers o say, 1 am Inceedibly biadeg. Atk me the ypot-
eticol QuestTon of which I xould save (rom drouhing, a corporate executive
otticer or a poverty-stiken Taotzi1 chila and you chn goess ry anever
iy dectsion vould notbe based on my hatred tovards the CED tho probably
0115t his yache, but because. the chila and others Tike her vho 1 Tepvct
find themseiies in. 1
\ . = =
Oty of (olks |10e torickly drcomirg G
D eare ol ou thete clches are mode; bok. Sinply’ st dontt give 3 5
G, ox caticnatiie et crime with veligom ot ptjes weok excve while
ing the Teuth, ‘Tt 1o for- thse rensios thae T retumy 1o the Lsve
o Rorihern Trcland. | Teiah Rebiseans ave the +pitss.oF vickins
by Tesisting heir attacker 3t Iabeted 25 tervoris: Tk Yoo
Pyt n I B e STl
LcHivists uha Boy suppoct the. Tapaiss or other simed Steopsies o
avey, ron e Teish Qoestion because of their lack of exposuee to the
TS aney tootfer symathy o by seale-sed L sheutd alts S
Cor Trish and Trgtzil children g &2
7708 )fi# A
fiThe tntent of my tactica SEiclé s simly to begin Glecussion
the mid of most enviromental and snimsl defense st
515 doninated by the vhite midd ho frequently overlook the Tessontd
(rat”can be Teacnad by indigenous pecples of colo in other pocts of the uorld
Ry 5 ;i
R e R NS
e o s akatgs o st ot 1 oo o oo St
pE R A R R
[ sdmitting that, yes indeed, most of us in the U.S. live a priveleged existencey
IS o et o T s S s S g
ot th]
cause of violence vhen we purchase oF supgort products nanufactured by multi-|
o onel corperations make us Just s gulity ae those pulling the triggers of
L soppisen vespons. e must rensablr, the lasson of history teaches v
St oo Presaton beant to.crush ua often,Af we ramain united and focused
et mabe us stronger and more’drernined in our dignified (Igh)
b recden of carth, anis17 snd those humans o chose o 1ive in'peace
These seals rarely if ever cone ashore, choosing
fiive bicth on the massive dce floes that drift off the northeastern]
‘Coast of the Atlengic_ sesbosrd.
They once ousbered tn the'tend o
™ 111ons 11ving 1n balsaced Barmony vith the Wale and Finned Fisht
"o Natioon 1n an bumdance almost beyond the nagination. A French Trader
252 I 1960 reporced secing off the northern tip of Nevfoundland, harp seals
< Fi11ing the sea fron hore to horizon in thele Spring migeation south
=" for cen so11a daye and nights. =
R
L o oe macsecicaly
s, s sotedigtve MEAH o o single pup il i mles rein in
i he vater.” Toe pup s boen vith 8 transTuscent coat shich sppenrs it
#shich vill moult in two weeks it
G S2P Séal population, taking only vhat they needed for
% aurvival in their unforgiving enviroment. This s nfortinately, oo
e the Lunity of o Lo s ol onico QR
P eniots developed & Tatp teal T1enety ond begun a var of comercialQy
olo e D o aion af sxtarmination sssinst the Tnuit
SUL_LAS STURCA WICS ORly pionesrs
85 they have been in most of the fur trade in the New Horld, and by the
1730's, the English had moved in and begun their ow harp seal fishery
marketing like the French, predoninantly the seal's oil rendered rom
the. thick layecs of fat on young harp seals. By the 1770'c sealers had
ventured Gt the dce floe mrseries an
his dv
Conbined Frerch and Frglisn K1Y Gling nets and clubs exceeded
100,000 animels, ciaing £07280,000 by 1815.
B0 1840, one eyevitness
‘described the slaughter, "Ont of the men hooked up a' young seal with
s gaff.
Its cries vere precisely 1ike those of a young child in mm
extrenity of agony and distress, samething betueen shricks and convl 3
Sive-sobhings. .1 saw cne oot Sxetch skimned vhile yet a1ive, and the
body vrithing in blood after being stripped of its pelt...the vision <l
of another veithing.1ts Snov-uhite vooly sody vith 1ta head bothed In
blood, through vhich it vag vainly endeavoring to see and breathe,
really haunting my dreams.”
4¢ & -
ENER by ow shot 1Tt Tacme e/ st
jcammon vay i uxi seals (as it remains today) with adults providing
ithe majority of ofl. Only the most explerienced sealer recovered .
‘bout 1 of every 5 seals shot, meaning that then and nov, the total
mumber of harp seals killed ,, gl
“
s @
{in the Speing of 1844, approxiaately 710,000 farp seals veré
fond this Just fram the Newfoundland, Labrador and Gulf of St.
sloughters, further north along the Greenland coast Germans,
Duteh and locvegians Joined n the Killing slaugheering
thousands more sesls.
d o seal EIOE old: Infants a fev days "01d ond even pregnant
@ rekhers vere killed before, the next sealer cauld reach the. “Hever
Dothin' to the desil~ ume Ve sotio ot 19th Cencury sesler-
jand vasted vhen "-lrlxh- piled by sealecs cculd not be reached by
the senlecs shipa. By the middle of the 16001, a8 aany 83 1,000,000,
hacp seals vere being s) mightered annually.
L iy i the 18308,
an ez cefecced to in Newfound1and history 'sa the “Great Doys o
e denand foc harp seal pup (ur exploded with the
e e b fups beconing maJox camadity for he
gty SOAL Shoot GhLS Sasm Cine’tesmdelven sccel-hul)
AISEER e Scane alloving seatecs to pugh
ey seats, Inst emaining ice (loe nyssecy
,seal nation began to collaj
Havals killed anmually causing s
~mti] Vorld e 1. The vac effoct that tuened
otnes humans instead of seals cost the sealing industey most of it
?luses of ships and though sealing continued on a lacgely ceduced;
{128t" 51 tas to renain a shadov of hat it once vas until Vocld
Ve Tt dhen thece vas an almost camplete
cessation in the War sgainst
"The peace vas teapocary: TR
1 o and by s dsprly o for the e
Tn 1346 the Norvegian T%en established the Kaclsen Shipps
G o uova Scotia. ALready proven as a butchacee of the
LiicHihate fations and of the tacp
e Sectic, karisen telbed 1
56T the weslomn harp seal population vas est
TaL of shat Lt had been only ten yeacs eac]
oy
e to bo 1,750,000,
It a mece fraction of uhat it wes befoce
5
2 e
T the mf-1960" s Faaiers oL (5 Use hellcoptets and light alrcratt.
ecial reconnaisance and Coast Guard lcebesa)
ERC
£, Ly the intecnational
(and tody
Fapacious b
oeENVatlon end hunane slaughter were,
) completely absent.
Greed ruled the ice and unspeakablers
Tha s as thousands of seal ouos wece skinned ally
1n 1964 an estinated 85 of all seal pups Locn weee s Laughtered of( Uy
Labcador Coast ond 81,000 were killed in the Culf of St Lavrence
|Soue sealecs cepocted’s Kill ratio of one in ten for eyvecy seal sho
“Mhe total ki1l rose to 300,000 harp and hood seals.
4{1n 1966 the ficst nongovetTmental obsetversiuere alfoved t5iness the
(3| slaughter of a snall fraction of the 38,000 seals killed and cone luded
€ all hocp seal pups killed vere being skinned alive
¥]10 1967 the only !l'#ns made-to Tegulate the slavghter vere ignored vhen
§/ Iquotas foc pups were exceeded by 1001 to 100,000 1n the Gul( alone uhils
*;nother 232,000 harp and hooded seals (mostly pups) vere killed off the
Labrador e
G
1o 159 e P I SO L
Tatled Lt o “ocsj af destrution conietoyy” s fr e, e FILLE
eepacei 1 caratt o o mtepacce st T gty RIS 0 48
Beertianition m‘;*.!a{qfi(g
YA U
o 105 ac 170 the LT tO1MER0,000 hacp and eoded seots.
1 cesponse to munting pobc opporsion 1 B ens
e Saradion Covetmmant Catab 19103 the-FShal Beotens s s hich
et 210 o 1 pratet sens bt etk o shotes
Undec the new regulatLons ro unauthorized aiccroft could
below 2,000 ovec the seal nurseries or Land within 2 autical
s of ani seal isecally meaning amyuncee rest the siaughier
These cegolations In elfect pronlbited anyone but seal killecs access
0 the ice Floes uhere others such s the media and nongovesmental
., g IObservers had exposed the slaughtec to-the intecnatLona. pobTie
@By the time the Cansdian, Donish md KSFoeg ot Covbmeats wasonished
otas {n 1971, the sealers vere unoble to (111 then due co'the evers
{cecasing coliapse of harp and hooded sea poplations.
P
i
.a‘fi“?.m rther {n 1073,
nd"agatn in 1973, Tn the mid-1970s the
uestern harp seal population vas estinated at less than a mi1lion and
Rl e G et G
- The sealing industry responded
by finally neeting and despite the obvious danger Lo the very existence
of the population, exceeding the quota by 40,000.
Sealer beats back mother
s seal with her own baby
A journalst 1llegaly flown into, the slaughter Wiote, “There's this "4
other seal 10 feet Fron ne, she's rocking back and forth, 1ifting het.
oth to-the sky and keening. By her belly is a plun-colored heap of
31" hat Yomains of her infant. As I vatch her the crying ceases:
5 .
and she stands helplessly by .
he bashes its head on the ie. .
She makes o fucther sound, though she Seema to be trylng. Tts like &
Botelafled i fa 1ol can see the fce 15 cplashed vith blood. On
the harizon; in black siihouette, men are sylnging clubs up and doun in
e WL Hare. o vy caccasse of biPETitot mch bigger thin
5 good-stzed rosst once the fur and fat are taken, stare at us vith bul-
ik eves protruding from heads seashed by seplers,_clubs.
. ve valk tov-
ard a Flag and happen on & truly horeible scene; o mother seal vhose hesd
... . has becn snashed, whose snout has been driven sidevays, and who is still
Z_alive, breathine'shallouly through her Latteced faceiasmiitoiio|
% e I hat L' re i
is conparale 1o ITITng klttens vith clau hamsers, it can't be calledgl
a hunt." When the group returned to land, they vete arrested and cha
+ ged with yiolating the Seal Protection Act ATRNRAMVISUEIING S
R L]
L — v o ST
1576 o geodt of Cremmpe R ccivtots Tod Tyt 018
by
v Uauson T1egally" e into the ks placed theic budies bt
the seals and Lhe sealers bofore the helicopters used to transport
them vere forcibly grounded. [t
PO ]
g, D, EEELL T
N Tt s DR R
‘g @ In 1977 the quota vas
increased to 170,000 despite the fact that explrts predicted o peesorm
Wharp seal e inte extinction i€ e slaughter continoed
5
the slaughter.
it in the vatér, Watson chained hinsel( ¢
seal pelts aboard a sealing ship., e vas deagsed thes
thggealers tho yeiled "1l hin, RE1L i adef,
T ey s Ly SR the
3 Boacd of Directors of the fas 2,
e o e i G snhntlon ol
"The Speing of 1975 380 Samething hever before
AP R g s
this one vith the mission of saving seals instead of Killing thim. &
5 ed could bestopped over 1,000 harp seal pups had g0 ¢, "0l
[been sprayed vith a harnless dye that rendered their fur vorthless, 56 Shepherdl
et L the senlers The v ity mrceted amd St TS
i i el e b
Poctugal aftéc Uatson had rained the vorid's most notorious pirat]
ivhaling ship uhich vas later Blown up. i hy
Eboc whthout. injuries
y R e
By 1960 the Canadian Govertwaen d
full gear, over-inflating harp seal estinates and varning hat
!
ot
rore seals were killed, the Atlantic fisheries would be thresten
o B e (1sh-coting seals:
omerctal fishing
the North Atlantic sess of
Crewmenber
spravs seal pup
| foncedto Loy sgains o proposed Eucopest Econanic Cammy
I
3 % massacre of seals i
eciey tvat. e of the dmiel““Tis s 1o
. ~ettons Son hov, b o 8 compaigy o (218
e e soteiaht s vorthy of sopeph Cosbbell.
¢ ((hitlec's Minister of Propaganda)® . S 4
Fin 1965 1 soined the crew of Sen Sherberd i falifax, Nown Scotdaf
e bt of tha Kovioen Seipping Co. and thece fhe Ses Soez
e o ot or 16 conacaticn o 1383
a0 great that they pooed af
hazard to navigation by the newly arriving Buropeans. I vould
than scan the very sama horlson and naybe see one distant gulll 1
and 1 fortunate a rare whale or dolphin. Needless to say I vasld
cest1y sadoened atche, eoptineen b, o by man’
The Conadlan seal alaughter Ls nore than the vorld:
nacine asmals, it Tepresents man's abooe face march he
‘ntecaction vith non-haman anisals.
presentation of callousness brought upon men by slaughtering 8o
Binany waistakenly imocent creatures in their extrenist state of vulner-
Rability, infancy camnot. be ignored frca being synptonatic
Jand aniral abusers are Quick Es-point
p o neturally-caused cases of extinction, but no one can deny that neve:
before 1n the history of eacth has thelt been such an accelerated rate of}
% ind{genols Tioples “ith generations Lnvested into obsevation into the | g af. |
L ratural vorkds and our place ithin 1t could have told ve vhat scientistEAV A
SR o Victogists are nov Confining. That s siaply that sur inpact on ank~ ¥
s epecies be it the cod decinated by industrislised overfishing oF harp and
Vaaiihooded seals slaughtered for fur. ofl or as scapesoats. vill surely lead-eir: |
Already federal subsidles helped bullds
[rev. sealing boats and the Canodian Coast Guacd and Fisheries Service vere;
asststing sealers with ice ond veather forecasts, serial recomaisonce
the seal nueserles and nillions spent to monitor, regulate and
ecnote the’slaughter..
n Covermment {gnored the fact that hatp) V]
esis (osdon somsoimerclal (13 e sty prey o comereial iS4
nd ucsing seals fast shile in Canadian waters. This 1ife e
betonen Seals and (ish explains uhy previous to comercial exploi tatfof QRRES
tens of millions of seals coextsted vith what were sone of the vorld's
st abundant [ish populations. Early colonists recorded that cod fish
yese in such abundance that ali one had to do 10 catch then vas tosg gy,
LI e 2 e 2t 5 L e
e ] gy s
In 1962 despite Canada’s theeat L5 FSSEAICE EEG member nations (1shing 4
rights 1n 165 vaters, 8 EFC ban on the impoctation of harp and hoadsd
seal pup pelts vas passed, tut the bon would not go dnto Gf{ect until
after’ the 1983 seal Ki11 and vould only Iast 7 yesea. Lator loopholes
vould be'created Lo rendet the ban canpletely uieles:
The 1983 quots Gas set ot 180,000 hacp and 17,000 haoded seals.
Hewfoundland's Minister of Fishecles instructed seaters to i1i 100,000
seals o the cod fishery vould be destroyed: and stated his departneht
vould pey ¥'s million (o help subsidize the purchase of pelts boutnt by
the Karl3en Shipping Co. and the peit-muyer. Eoring Ltd.
1983 uos bullding up tobe 85 bloody a5 evei except for the arcival of
the realers now Tamiliar rival as Facley Houat explains in his book
Sea of Srh.ug'_sg 3 e 270 M 3. heing s i od
SR TN ecred he Gl whelping e snd b ling pos. Chor
FTE5 bkoned 1 e Kaen Shipiog Compion <1l Bobrenbos o
for the Crino Company, The sl hd b i the ooy v
das when s b i ppescd onhe en. S v o niused ot
lled Su Shphod 1, crewed by s men nd v wmen of he S
Shepberd Comereaion Sy i aranvio e by Pt Wason,
e b hsdy scqied comiderble epanion fos akin dices scon
i i k. Duing he oy howrof Fidoy Mrch 24, o S|
e crunched eough e Noc oward e, whase sl d sy
i nd e ein e brin pces f - ed s gl
by st g by i s s
el e i, BB
e found elrs cgagedin shughicin pops. Shadoswed by Canadisngor-
crmen i nd s, Se Shepherdhod s blockaded . John's harbous
hn, when nossling vl emerge: hd st course fo he Goll During
PP o bl g o oMol Crr el b ground |
Watched with comidersble spprchension by Chen
o were Newdoundbndern. Warsosold fing bt bor
opon e i v bing. When hacy 3 ship lengh septsed the owo
el Watio pot his e o sod.spping ou on th wing f s rsy
o, e imanam. b e e sing sy
o 1ake the consequencesof havng
seveal mall lin vescls caryiog)
1 the Magdslens disccely seurned 10 pot. The mening,
un bl dow on wha hd become » pceol abens. The oo ships by
atrce wihinthe pack. Around ther e leain o sl pup
mothes s ot e nly sound.Then thday s hared by e el
ishcaer o helcopc otors.
"™ - D the e ieneyfour hours, Fiheris nd RONF helcopers
‘Canadisn Forces unchr i rneed snd chaed ve So Splend Hesr-
ing g n e oo, he maiveCondion Cout G e b
A Macdonsld came crsbing hiough th pack 10 ke up
o s, R v nd i i1 oo Vaton
10ake b ship nt the Magden pot of ap Aux Mevles were ignored. ol
ong 3 Gheser scmained i the atch, S Shphrdwould semi 3¢ wel. An
R hlicopte tempred 10 lnd 3 os on Wi’ ship by hecred o
emping ecse, 4 second e
e Emcrgency Response T,
i wr v o h g windos snd i ok A+ <
RENEER NI ok s lowred and the T quad, et b o
rando ks s cmbans. 30 scrom. The b of he S ol Ao
vis heldin sutomarc il A
e g wamponc 0 Sydne, Nova Sces 1 e wmesed I
heicebreke, e prisoncs we then lown i o Gt
e ey wee e s chrgedwith visiog e S Prestion Rl
. O December 21, 1983, Quebee Provincil s Yon Mo
oing wihi ol il il ofhe o 3 b, W s o
55,00 snd semenced e s n s His i eniner wa v
54000 snd e . he e e memben v fd $300
fSca Shephera:s 198 campoig case st the time vhen ol
fuas theeatening a boycott of Canadian fish in the UK.
opposition from 11 angles plus the ESC ban on seal b
Te25 than hal € of the 1983 seal quota being filled
‘Continaing pressure 1ron a1l siges resulted 1n only 23,
being killed out of a uota of 200,000. By 1987 the killing of harp and)
led seal nevborns finally stopped, but 60,000 seals a year, many s
¢ Jabeled o3 adults, continved to be'killed
In 1954, Teer 3 , Rewtoundland sold 50,000
seals t6 a Shanghai campany allegedly for their pelts and meat, but in
reality for the pentses vhich are deied and sold in Asien herb shopsh
voclduide for as mch as $200, Joining the largely illegal trade tn
other wildlife pacts, seal penis:
r.. o A SR H
[beaten in the agdslen Tslands by an engey mob of sealers while
‘Canadian police and Fisheries officers stood by and did nothing!
That year €6,000 harp and hooded seals vere killed fron a 186,000 Gbot
0 harp 2
~Gary Troake,
Nowloundiand
Soalor
Facler stawda
Sea Shepherd has repeatedly tried to PEomte an ecologically-friendly
peectice whereby baby seals are brushed of their mouiting fur painicasly
., “Ehich i then 591 85 Ineution matezial in Ecopoan-sade garert
R Comadian setect' s an thone T e e Tt e ripressed
é{'.\fin intent to ki1l meals rather Trush them.
Lroving toueism industey that produces qulhle [ncone to sealers who
Sould goide foreign tourists onto the ice floea to see live harp seal
pups, bt this econonic slterative also 1s resisted by the Canadian
Covernment vhich sppears intent on wiping out Canada's eastern Atlantic
seal popalations.
In 1996, Shcour the new Asian nacket, the Dept.
of Fisheries & Oceans increased the seal quota to 250,000 and alloved
for the first tine in 20 years the use of aircraft in'the slaughter and
the return of Norvegian killer ships.This resulted in the first large
acale slaughter since the EEC ban of 1983 and cost 243,000 harp and
27,000 hooded seals thaic lived
inal velfoce-investigators (ilned
over 144 violations of Ceneda's Marine Hamal Regulations such o
Bafs used to hock 1ive sesls, seais {lopping on the ice spoutin
Elood fron hllet vound oY thea only
' for seals 1n 1996 began to expand
again with pelts fetching $20 the meat being used for novelty smusage
‘and pepperont vith a large quantity being sold to Canadian fur farms.
Aod ixcegacdle ”fl-l pups, Mack Seall, the
President of the Canadian Sealecs Association vea revealed to be the
supplier {n an operstion that killed 25,000 nevborn seal pups as part
o a0 {11ots1 Neufoundiand trade which Jealt vith Norvegian fur-buyer:
21ng quotas and subsidizing the 5
Canadian Goverrment a1so replaced the SFA vhich vas ruled unconstitut-
il ftloving Sea Sheherds court bartle, " eplacig it with tdentic
. tJal "fishing® repulations cantinuing to make it a crine punishable uith
i Shielop to.2 yeacs.in prison to vitness.the killing of o sealfBBEREN i
DT TSRl 1857 et TeR e rponttion, s Noruegian campany
{ilil s entire stock of seal penises to s Singapore businesmmn o
iz cn'the 1998 sTsoghter
dland Fisheries Hinister ‘Efford also has bx
promatng
Lesi pecducts n Ghina, Thailand, Japan and Kocea snd recently toldf
MY Srohitac. -1t ve do our marketing right and gat inco those comtries,
BELn Tive, ten years down the road sealing could be vorth at least $100
ciilion o yest. The Chiness people sce looking Tor nev produto; new
! imeat, new species of animals suc
a5"seals and other marine mamsaly
1IN Conoda itselt seal product disteibutor J.V. Hiscoek & Sons
Beiggecs says it vill target Asian comunities in Toronto and]
"The 1998 Cansdien harp and hooded seal slaughter quota
han been sct. at 275,000 the sane as 1997 vhich it 1s i believed|
into sccount seals killed but nol
JCaboto Seafoods Lt
“emodelling fish processing plent in Newfoundland]
d tan peltd
indixect subsidies for seal meat, grants to the Canadian Sealers)
1 processors such s Caboto, and other eleneni:y
by the
populations that have failed to rebowd despite a comerc
Fiim enacted in the early 1990's, Heanvhile @ petition by 97 biolg
Cgists from 15 countries vho comprise the Society for Harine Mama
Topist condemed Canada’s sesl kill stating, "ALL scientific efforts
to find an effect of seal predations on Cansdian groundfish stocks
have fatled to shov any impact, Overfishing cenains the only scie-
ntifically denonstrated problen” s
The Canadian camercial Tishing industsy Bppeacs to be in serio
denal of thelr o impoct on the marine enviroment continually
believing that 4f they kill enough seals the fish populations vill
i ii7epairable a8 18 uggested by a marine bioloist o has
ruies the Inpact of comarcial dcagrettecs uho tear up the Socark
Fioae dteplacing hydroion, & tiny consin of, Jel1eh™y
Toying U
Canadian Fishing industry, they must also destroy the Seal
oo’ scapegoat Tather than accept responsibility for their o)
actions over the last couple of hundred years. S,
s man cxausts one species of fish come-
retally and then tums to the next link in the oceans food chain for exp-
Ioitation a3 the comercial fishing industry nov 13 doing in the Nocth
Atlontic, he slovly removes the integral blocks vhich make up the very
‘cometcially hacvested {1sh out of sight and out of mind vith the mpact
thei: diet 1o having on the ocean ecosyaten ve are edging ever closer o
» dangerous ecolopical theashold vith n effect beyond our imsgination.
For thase who choose 14fe for the oceans and all future generations, only
one thing can return us to a level of coexistence and harmony that will |
bring about an end to the vars sgainst the nations that live in the ses...z.:
For_the seal people T think back to the storics I have heard of from
places like Scotland and Treland vhere ocal traditions preserve memories
of the tines not long ago when the Seal King and Queen and Silkies, seal
people lived 4n the world of humans. I recall the story of a horseman ° 143}
who called on sealers daughter to coms to the aid of her father in
danger upon the TEWI e e
o tossed sea nd together they plunged into
Caters vhere the hacsesan v transfomed into 8 seal. ' She vas led alo
Toads of corsl o a great peacl castle shere ramy other seal people ver
sesotiFi yos sea soma iih o bkl atick deep tnsid
€6 remove 1§
pain a5 she removed the knife and vas brought to the surface of the
here het troubled father vitnessed her o transformation from seal
LEir) a5 she cane o bis Fescue: e more to <" acein 1o haen anoel
i heg St ool MR S
i oot 414 My aare siories of seals saving drowming SaiToie)
SheITerIngtnd uckling hunan. infents, vedding lonely £isherman and ot
tales of Jove and compassion between the seal and human nations
These are not sinple myths or childen's stories, they are fleeting
“roninders of & Iife ve once shared vith the seal nations and sre mask
o o b sl Sy oy e SR
VL AR AR T
o e Tife-here e reslize (hat the i spainst the seals, th v
Jagainst nature i also a var that destroys our o spirit, ruiningh]
- . Finoarad nennles hane for oeace s M|
ianeen
SUPPORT THE SEALS OCEANIC NAVY
SRR SR b
The seals have not been saved and spathy and media Lensorship 13 alloving
greater ecological destruction to conti
o iave actually distanced thenselves fron]
opposing the slaugticer chat.helped nake them millions. their high-paid
[exccutives are quick to capitalize on fesues that will line theirf 7eF
pockets, but vhen the seal nations need them most, none of Greenpoaces.;
ghips oc 2 belicopters vill come to thelr.
Sea Shepberd once agaln wi11 be the only ship o ansver the cri
the seal nations, but only 1f enough of us uho are outraged by what ve
have ‘resd do oue part to help get them thece. No one on Sea Ehepherd:s
...m,awm i patd every dollar goes tovards oucficting
; Inavy 31 have the rare opportunity to support s direq
inction campatgn that il satl & ship co.the sidat of e killing f22
. ‘vhare they vill not cnly face violent armed seslers, but also the Canadiar]
" Coast. Guard, Dept.. of Fisharies & Oceans officers, Royal Canadian Hounted]
[Police and any others.
{Sea Shepherd's reputation precedes them. Canadian seale
‘Shepherd 15 about actions not vords. They knou that Sea Shepherd varriors
i1l not passively protest and aveit acrest, but will evade capture. aod
utilize their one-ship navy to strike fear in every sealing captain's
black heact- e Canadian Goverment knovs how to cope with letters,
- petitions and denonstrations, but @ direct sction contigent that will
8811 vithout permission intothe midst of Canada’s shame poses possibly
the greatest threat to the seal killers. Remenber, the govecnment has
Vinade 4t {1legal just to vitness the .. 5ea, Shepherd will do
that and much more.. i
% o oo Fu foztes who represent and protect the
" war against Canada's Seal Nations will try to stop Sea Shepherd, :'l‘ '1‘
will. So let's do hin, me and
get this navy to sea. Contact Sea Shephe
SRE T Venlee, CA 90294 USA
o pover in the esc
Kexico since 19903
i)
AZN) incintdated by pacami1itary desth squads trained and arme:
[Riletiteony, police, local
0 Civic Teaders,
7 hevapapecs and opposition)
Bpolitici begged
) clans gged President Zedillo'to sddress the violence to
"’/u; no avail. Zedillo and his top offictals recently refused to meet vithNl
f§iAmesty International's Secretary General vho has reported videspread HYS
] rmn cihc vioiaricns s eicp. o 1987 oo 1 oo B gt
e A -
d to parami]{tary death squads inl
iapas including the attempted assasination of an opposition candidat
and Bishop Samuel Rutz in Novenher 1997 by mesbers of Peace and Justice.
acked vith o hammer in the Mshop's cath]
Auerilla activicy 1a greatest
nacy Party (FRI) hes reppressed nonviolent attempts for democracy and
peaceful change by Mexico's pes
il chen 107 of
e L otent parent1itary violence cones ot o tiss then the PAL
Toces radtent change in Mrxico's polticel structure aftes slmost 70
e oF exelusioe contco . And Rost pacentlitary organization ha
R een 15rked to.locel I politicians sttempting Lo preserve theit
.—W« ihed constituents.
B, it bl ence hes ot been Limited to sosthern Wexico and
he Enatosnous yopilastow bt 19 als0 evident in Pexico City, Jalisco,
B’ om Pl Colfornia chere dotens of pecple hive been
Fecancly Kidaappod toseured ang murdered including Joucmalists report-
8 o Yovermacoe and police corruption. Also, PRI activist professor
flaciano Arias Perez vho publicly disagreed vith the violence FRL b
dered in Novesber 1997.
s
e _at
e foutLntinsity et in Hextco™Broke T7om its fog of Ooecerity onill
ivcenter 22, 159] i the villsge of Acteal, Chispes shen 10 paranili
o e Joyeh 40 e, Jotal Y govetpmint shmebteced 3 seaemad
o ; 3
Mam’!m, LT et e Telptesiatitnptin
BRIl ) o vepptesnion that has exploded Iria]
B3 opos since the EZLV's 1594 uprising. One of the refugees Hanvel
Stz sid, 1 ran wey fron my bome for feac ol the pamtlicteiicy
foto Acteal g began shouting at the villageca vhen it vas confirnedt
-amsathat they vere unamed. Vo ere in the church praying when
2a1d s 1oyt old svrvieer Vagl)
Residents imediately reported the attack to the state
{ rothing. gurman, sone in police uniforns vith insigna”
enptied their NT-47 and AP-15 assault rifles into the crowl.
il1age entcance durins)
[actense vorker stopped Just monents aftec the massacre hegan.
[redical vorkers alsg sey security forces dented accesa to io
i -
and Jorge Paciencia, tended relatves wounded in 1
Eiht members of the Pacenca oy e
mountains{Te Shere the' assasing pursued thase sho lay 4n hiding huddled
vith their children. Agustin Perez recalls, °...our children started
to cry, and the attackers heard then and cane after ua shooting,
Vitnesses say vhen they gumman found hidden vill
execution style. T
fes Teft, the bodfes of 18 children Inéuding
4 of uhomwere pregaant, 7 men lay esd and 312V
eostly "infanta and mmal) chiliren §ia vouied. . Some of the wictind]
[had been mtilated and the pregnant vomen hed their babies pulledii)
fcom the (ucmba"vith machtes (aree mives) Lo enovreat they
e 05
[ TR ST
The viliose ves o
XOMcstroved food and shelters ducing the 6 hour long Sianghter-
S tgprce to cterl that_read: “Pence-Neutral Zape
h g A S DTN
4 ; i aars cay |
[coffins of victims to a mass gr
o the VIttina 3 Rent vere baing Adent ,
menbers were prevented from dressing. the desd ir )9
traditional clothing due to the condition of the bodies. Some of t
%}dead included uhole Tamilics of morhers. sisters, brothers and cousins
3 oA
Y
In the Crenalho minicipality vhich conteing Acteal, PRI doyalist be
Mrecieving ams in Harch '97 and collected "taxes" From {ndigenous vill
gers for their guns and ammition. State police officers often
in their training. A Zapatista official said, "They vere valking side
{iR¥s1de vith the police.” at about the same time police records shov
BN pocani1tories' bezan bucning houses-s7d coemiting. seseced. mucders of
A l@ufl&&fl&érwmn}?d cteal T
ROV ermor of Crispes JulTo TE2ar Ruls Ferro (sho von office in 8 vid
& fibelieved fraudulent election) authorized funds for the g-r-flllu
Ecoup Feace & dustice hich in hupust 157 had recieved $575,000 frodh
the Chiapas goverment despite the harassment, intinidation srsons
and mirdar of nol{tical oonanants hlased nn then SREBICEIN .
el AR ! Fid
“Dffffany of the victins of the Acteal fassacre belonged 1o the peaceful; |
O N pesaant. organization, Las Abejas (Toe Rees) that is unaffiliated yeby
e T e i e o cone o1
<K Tovghter s residents had been threatened with violence unlets they!
e PN tho have smintained o consefire s
A recent governaent report pas.
iala gave false testimony sbout their-association vith the Acteal Mas-|
2 8 paranilitary tacget because
A etate police comander has 8190 testilied that superior of (i
ved pacanilitarics to use a mmicipal ambulance to transport veaponsy
Jand aormamition uoed in the Actea] Massacre and ordered hi to ignore]
the parant1itaries ho flaunted illegal veapons as long as they vere)
; i e mastict?, a Digrlevel
\Plrmllll-un hide their weapons and
vecrment. abandoned a negotiated agreement promising indigenous
ate goverrment officials denied that they had supported the Acteal
ins and have arcested over 40 alleged poranilitaries including thowy
T Hayor
of Chenalho and the Deputy Attomey Genersl vho recruited thezyy,
killece fron anong the nemployed nd landleas snd arned then. i
i such"a stcatesy allovs the federal government to-paint the conflice in
|50 a5 Indten va. Indian rather than exposing & countecinsurgency
canpaign that leads back to President Zedillo hinself. And thougH
those acapegoats vho pilled the triggers in Actesl may be punished
che grovth and training of paraniiitary death squads continves an the
Hexicon goverment turns a blind eye, alloving its policies against
the EZLN"and those vho share the seme gonls to be enforced by those
£ can conventently distance thensel:
B9 Bloxceomcnts vith the FZLN.- Zedillo said vhen he refused to hanor O
Sen Aices Accords hch vere the”prodvet of peace o nmurg betuee?
i
o N
2
e
N ..&‘!h e That 1
| < AR kThe agreement
e Wil s s Toaspenos e -poverment
T Erce v onena.-cubtova. praserontion g
e L ihin o
flic 15 estinated that a3 many as 4,000 I
flicoes thia Spring and take sheiter in comunities popu
eopporters in sn attempt to protect theaselves Irom FRI-
ks one villager vho fled his hane in the Chiapan highlandsfs
ien"toan said, “ihy should T uslt there to be buried?l
The parar 1itary death squads have miltiplied foljoving Zedillo’
ections vhich slloved vealthy landomers, state goverments and|
N/
AN Cince chen Zaat1lo has increased the mi1tacy presonce.in Chispar)
B s pacaniiscarien attampt to break the hack of FeLN support shich
RIS Teoving among exicot indigencos population sho have been repesi il
R 1 ot g il by ot e e
: Leniomere ani e pol ice HERIETONNG
o
+ villagers in Chiapas have been subject to mrdery
W cepe, beatings, 'torture and extortion. Near Acteal, indigenous
peopes not suppoctive of FRI have had their coffee'crops stolenanc]
ned with death unless the
cre in the village of Pechiquil,
PRI-dominated towship vith o smll EZUN-syspathetic enclave, iocall
e extreme human rights ahuse:
have 1ed to armed uprisings, the reppressive violence inflicted bykd
sovernment -sponsored paramiiitari
ance in Nexico is being hlaned on those fed up uith
[and strugsling for something bettery i
R vontyantmed ioup involved in that sCrvgele.
e iie the incressing leved of vioience inlicted againat the
e e tons pave ne1d hede censlice and paintained the 73
Bt Do pegotiations o settle the conflict. In hctenl ©
B e Lo P maaacts, i Joyaiist velked out of local negottations
BENFEoior 10 5 T f vierence vl preetye el pce 3 12
et Lo ies restounnt,to true equel iy and damocracy.
: &gh.
inile paremiittacy forces operate as foot soldieca-to Texito s Tou
et sgeinst 1t5 ndigenous population, the state police o0d
e have continued their o campaign egainst the FZLY snd, those
L e o then. 0o January 12, 199N state police opened fixe o0&
T ful mavch In Ocostngo.that vas held to celebrate the ith hmiy |
e e FZLN censefire. Guadalupe Hendex lopez, o pregnant
ey W2led and her Zyc. old deughtes Soung boy, vere vound
22 they stood beride the sarch.
he potential for such violence
use the cover of providing aid to I
“ttacks to sveep villages in search of
Yassacee the Hexicen Ay has brought en additio
“mbers to 40,000 troops™
A
b
poth the bexicer
{530 i e +T\iope of Forella 3 eidars vece toctred,
e bodien puimed in sinilar sveeps to tout the EZLL.
e tne viotution o the san Anires Accords which protect the FZU
nd a11ov them o keep. their vespona it
ey cemain.totey on red slect prs
S e o
ind thouth the EZLN remaing commiited 1o
"Te have sought to avold fighting vitl
ks contigye, conlice vill be
R R TN
Jethi o i b
R it 1 Tk s e iisen e w1487
Qi Sitispes tha gpoce comunitiss shere
(aries find refuge, saying such actions
R e
e . "hey any the Freslauns van o cislomse
T AT
7 iy, IS e b
C ancidor . Shoutdes on GLEC roada holding thelr childgen by U
i oo thetr babtes vapped in shav
event the simy fron ente
T tete mase ou hoses. aeid Aels Aguil
e e s ot chirdren - ond nake then . R
T ey e venpoptsd idh iotence beeting vomen bith SIS
m\ond zocka T could see them coming fron fac sumy, and
el s cacka s checa. a1 Yol Gozman
T ereerTo 3 hane oo by & sidter, Insercoptad rodd
N ssions in english during the {nvasion of the FZLN commnity
s w0y be sctivel
2 cviciparing.in these am 2
e Siratesy hat Corgocs peacefol roncoobaton
T ey o ench pockifias 1 srivingly sinila to milicacy ca
et o\ i commtrdes shere paranilitucy dest, pqvd
Sore insteument
R #yes wupe1aing vhen one realizen that both those dedt!
Lruada and those in Nexico vere trained by military persomel o ooy
8 ec theix training in counterinou From the u.s:
o o
e ez uoce.Fiveh Lo the Textcan military unde
I ise of fighting the "Vac on Drups” shich in tum ace vised g ier
B e g genous peoples, the U.S. contimes to teain Hexlcan =g
Tl ersonnel nt the School of the Auerica's at Fort
3,000 Mexican soldiers have been rained in counterin
Ry Lechniques at the School of the inerica's (SOA) since 1995 and
Sy wrce trained in Specisl Forces skilla at Fort Rcags in 1997 slong
[Though President
1rade Agreenent
rappened. In its
her . has chosen to
Lo the 0.5: hacred cegines in £ Sal
oa beher Latin Mrerican countces challenged int
e 3ene opposing poltical dictatorships3
other, than Cacourags ceal democracy snd human rights X
ctively providing military training to those responsible for amin
[exico's Parani1itary death squads who tecrorize exicen citizens 3]
SOR are taught techniques for neutralization, execution, use of trutiy
jserwn, false imprisomment, beatings, torture mnd blacknail. (ne SOAY
te testified that honeless people in Panoma vece kidnapped mnd
-+ Laxpeyec ot the tune of $20-million a year, the SON
traina military pecsomel ot to defend theis borders froh an externel
(hcent, bt T vage Tou snransity varface sgainat citizins soch a3 rel W
Lgous fesders, Jabor orpanizecs, sdcators, stodence snd othecs. fishtin
an aimy patrol vho executed 6 Jemuit priests, their housekeeper
ki aher daughter, the mirdececs of union lenders, and soldiers responsibl
£ 8 Salvadorenr
S x
9 university students and a professor and officers responaible for the
imprisorment, torture, and mirder_of Tupac Anacu rebels in recent years. '
"
e i, S0 R o et B e el cespnel=
o -t e o oo of o oericn ron s bt |
Biamitincisans v 1 Somms Chio of Toreiipmc whe o srr-
e Toc Lo manter - dhsvopearene ol tiowanis o alstica T " |
e ey ke e K
oppanent
o P¥fcain Hos Honct vho 18 bet. remsbered for hia “Resns ge ulls
Policy- bewna for the chedtent, bullsts for the reat
1 T
*108 oificers cited, for var crines graduated
Ecape investigation ok
11 togehter, more than
Leoders of death squads, drug treffickers and those cited for var crines
ajor Joseph Blair s former SOA Instructor says, "Ve. routinely had Latin|
| smerican students vho vere knoun igh o)
SOK training procedures have becone a blueprint for the violent repy-
Tension of Sibiven dissent in Latin Aeericon countries struggling to
ervive the aconomic and military inpecialisn of U.S. and U.5. backed
e, “Tna £CA nas done nothing to promote democracy, instead
e i ey otz sty firW
o e ———
Rathes (hen elp L2In FMETICoN Countiien f1ght the poverty, hunger md
disaase that effect.their people, SOA training has contributed to 1tsB
ncrensed grocth.. In doing so the U.S. hes chosen to preserve thej
ileproportionate Level of gover and vealth fn Latin eerican countic
e Tea e desth and oppeession 0 hundceds of thoveanca of thel
Pong UhiIC Cecating-an covicoment cipe foc econcnic gloalizstion
. The Hexican military's present lov. intensity wartoce stracegy in Chispas|
N\iithat relies on paramtiitary terrorism can be traced to 13 SOA graduates
Fuho are nov top military officials. Topether under Zedillo's control
these men forn the backbone of the governments canpaign to squash the
EZLN and other. internal ceststance to the FAL'3 economic policie:Y
fGentral Jose Ruben Rivas Fena (SO geaduate in comando and genecn )
staf training) helped desizn the counterinsurgency strategy in Chiapas
including directives to censor local media, secretly organize sectars
nd conduct peychological operations agatnst others
ien the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) rose up in Oaxaca, Pen vas
Gt sonafecced there uhece porantlitagies loyal to PRI soon energed
pe
Sl svepected EZLN menbers in Ocosingo here EZLN sympathizern vere
prisoners and shot in the loum's nacker}
corenony vhere over $500,000 vas given to the pacamilitary Peace &
Sostrained atl
Folloving ‘the Actéil Massacre, hundreds of U.5."trained Hexican Specto
[roops were sent into the Chenalho Municipality including 2 SO graduates;ic
Captain Jose Mirenda (graduated 1995) and Colonel Hector Aragon (SOA lnsln-ctr
o 1997) sho bavy o penetzats refogee n’m?'\'y-p-d!uc to thed
[
Jin, 26dition to these ployecs In exicors comtecinau ey va there s
e Comander of ‘he Yot NIT1tery Lone In Colopis vher (he Lo
“up vas Genacal Menchaca Arias, a S0A graduate in irrepular varfacel
e
he Commander of an acry caap utside of Ocosingo shere he led troops
into Tndien villa g
fi"Colonel Hacold Rambling Torres (oON pradoates IFreguior Worfore Opezations)3
Comander of the B3rd Tntantoy Battalion in Rincho Moevo, Chiagas
(LR O
i ~ceneral Commeio Teren rencers (508 graduates Hilttas faielliiece),
st R Lo L Tactes e
TICo o) e Lot Lopuri e Kaba. (G0N prem hng
ot cabined oerstions tacot i
neral Catos Demetrio Geytan Ochos (S0A Fraduater
Cormandec of the “Gaytan” Task Force.in onte Libens, Ch
Fort. Brags, trai o
Ghiapes comiting mman £1ghts abuses- Recent £eports of paremilivery accie
vity in Guerrero state have been comected to 3 SOA graduates, General Miguel
{fl Leyve Gorcia, General Edmindo Leyva Galindo and Lt. Colonel Joel Cipriam vhok
according to'a report on humen rights violations comitted by the Hexicooll
n{ Litary have comitted several abuse and are suspected of many murders
RN B e M«w;flg i
in Jalisco state, 28 ofticers and soldiers fron the Hexican Special =
Plg (currently recieving training at Fort Brags) under the comand of SOA graduy
flate Colonel Julfan Goerrero Barrios have been rrested in connection vith they
idnapping and toreue of 19 Naha Tndiag Jesthe, oot of s emmed I el
government says
Chispas o ]she s a leader in
mqfé‘ffé the Zapatista
3 .J 20d permatiitary death squar evidenced by venpons used in the Actea
e e e 0 T S e
011 the Actesl Masaacre, Interior Minister Builio C’-uyfltt
the mi}itary comander (SOK graduate Cenersi Re
the Coacdian Blancas (Whits Cards) & porenitacy grovp vied to contzol
e B o
PRI hece much grovps 1ike Peace & Justice, Red Mask
GhiiRevolntionary Anti-Tapatista Yovenent operate i3 sined some human cighi Y
ke for Kational Liberation has cisen, throving up 8 roadblock co the
S'a macketing,of indigenous lends and resources. and preventing
laotpiece in the econosic globalization porsie from being. placed
4 g7y, nce the EZiA'a 1994 uprizing, Hexico has becane 1
s Targen e 0 st v, cecen o pce ey ey
Sctivity only a hacbinger of what is to come should the Andigenou]
SPiE1t of Mexico remsin wnbroken. m CyAVL T AW RWEG
Army Planning document reveals the secre!
)
m*zwmwmw A
d ‘military, police, goverment and parantlitary force
., an oy latgely nade up of vonen and men less than 22
ani uho epracent possibly North Amegica's last armed Tndion
e Trvihe o ety
and ith'all o oue support and
e
om of the past to DecomtEiTeeT ]
PRSI TILY oppos the. seotuteratim of L. tsthad BTTTEly porseppl
o ekt L1 aveni ey dcet o s Lo sz s
Eorarits Sha s e s s i s e e Kl of
AR ——
Pl Tt i o,
PTTIIER T irartad by Ml ioerionel compomtione: o s romtrices her
I Comem et e ko oo ceotarcaeToF e, ve e hpoceites v
oy 125 esks oo skl poins sien st hmsseneve Peoples I ths
oo Teobock Toc T miaee e ppe st o o P, 27
orce PR 0 e copesion o Indiay
e WV
e e ooy B L E—
O oS e Becheres 1o o Cocrpsoeamannt, 150 B
ko sovermans s ity e oot T e T o
s B e e ot o0 vesrs oo
sane evel of defernination that U.5. President Grant and Hexi
President Diaz exerted in the 19th Century to crush the Apache and Yoquill
tances that stood in the vay of anti-nature colonialia, so to does
President s Clinton and Zedillo intend to shatter the Zapati:
ihich 1s-the hope of indigencus treditionalists everyvhereXsl
P ey ey
of the E71d's modern—day reststance 1
the belly of the beast. The threat to Hexico's indigenous peoples 1s no longer]
e Clohah Ste o St . s ke PP I 2 1
" s e’
ey My e
L oy moieces s chaves, In e et
S et e s g Y.
T it ot s b Aiets rp e
ER e rhvke it ut fe R,
iexe Lica the hands of the puppeteers sho control the srcings of mi11ten gy
Dot s eretiany St B e et 26 it
five Schoo Jaesmot carty on its bloody legacy without
e ecnoce. Fot many yenes peace activists have denonstrated agalrot U
5. ining of Latin smerican deoth squed monbecs at Pt Peoe gl
by g@,fi%@ :
o B sl 8 et
o'Fe. Bemning to deliver petitions demanding the SOA
M st -
¢ fEs
o Ahs mafn yate, milltory polic begen
L o nile o un 38 peiesis, s, pustors, mrses, teachers,
0t e et o P candmsthers sho b heen auctated ot . erni
oeoee teve srpeeneed 1o ommntns i prizont ¥y JIFSEEAAA)
o e i sons eV, Ken Kennon of Tucson, Aizons testifie
e oL Lo efde doim. e vill go to prison for waliking in a3}
oo Sl o ey Shge B o e o F
peecession vhile 0 Killegt sl Domationity IS0 G
T (B e iatlng o prléet an nun 2150 foce
B e ot oEP ot Govecent Feoperty charges for a Septenber sctlon
o B o iy wos patated o fesd, “Velcone to Ft. Remny
e S et s Shamor-S0n - TORTLRE"
o e et i 1034 Lo
ity ol b et B i [ Bl o
B S T son spomment At Liteky uas comwicten 1o Jonme
208 st e Fertagon s s dun fox,septeneing iy Apeil
5 ez :
For these brave peopl w0
‘allitary death squsd victims is to redouble,
princeus lpstinytions at
e e
o e, W 4510 1. e 2 e
el o anaary 2 - . I ichee 3. RGTRATE
i e D ot Carl Mty G
e Shtman 1, . Koy i O3
e ot o v K K.
it o, L. kMt S
g e D Su. D g, Rty S5
e iogen o Ao Tl iy Troacd
e o R okt o e
In the just fight for the fiberation of our people, the EZLN
oary siruggl, regardiess of ‘B
J thei race, creed, color or politial aflftion, requirng only that
they share the demands of the exploited people and that they
Bl commit to the laws and regulations of the revolution. In addition
§ taking into account the stuation of the woman worker in Mexico,
the revolution supports their just demands for cquality and justice
in th ollowing Womers Rvolutonsy Lav. AL LB
o BN
ks o ihel aces cred, caor or wm.d
lation have the right fo_paricipale in the revolulionary
.m.‘.nm,.c..,r;?
5\
m.._.r;». i o ..,.,m.
commuity nd ok piors o ik ar fecly and
ahth: Women shal na be besten or physially mistraied by
i iy menbers o by sngen, Ko d temped rpe
iy posons of leaderhip in
P the organizaion and hod miliary ranks in the revoloioray
imed v o
il have af the rights and obligaions clsboraled
—
TR
LQ “The women have come lo
: - Wqunderstand that their participation
- UJE was important in order to change
this bad situation; that's why they.
L Ui zihoueh rotai o e, ae po
ticipating in the armed struggle.
8 This is my country 100; | am part of
this nation, | will make this country|
aplace where my children can live.
* O e it i o
. U movement is indigenous. Initally
i we sought democracy, justice and
e | i now we aiso seek peace.
Sate o hhe USY um-‘u.e‘h%nl Byl O -
malty Trepicing o e e f (o feitas, v hos
Eiuays baen centrel n a1l elenents of Life. Spieitustly, they sce closect
our Creator because of their live-giving pover, socially indigenous vomen|
" v alvays boen the abeic.that Tles S commie
ecistons and mil1 tarly,
have taken up the defense of ur peoplell
4 of 0 odity and sspectably relisble and deporis
s vonen are presently at the foratront of the sisi
apas does ot revead & covardice in Fayen nen; bot the
o7 f vomen those mot scustoned
For this resson 13ments of Comndant
the riving orce behind the passage of the EZLN's Revolutlonsey Love o
men, 12 Yoy v o Ofaps Vo comple ove 10 ot BN forces
xample Lo vonen in strugale everyshere that eqvalivy. 1
Just one atep-touards ibecation. A"truly Just apd desoeratis. soetery
et olow Wieen back Lnts cles e Tove it ioanl}
e in,re-pclarchal. seietis Lo thousacs-of yeas -
only by cecognizing the intuitive nature and sensiivity Lo the
reede that vomen exerct 1ty o Sommnly.than sane can s £ el o
any Liberation struggle ve. avold beconing that 1
I ] ] ]
Squads in Irelandlng
3, publ 1can Amy
its allied political party, Sinn Fein (Ve tvenelven) a place
Party peace talks betveen representatives from the BriLion
lond Irish goverments, pro-British Unionists and moderate Nationaits NGl *
et lie S Feln (e ap 200 ko the Dartitioning o Trelandd
Begin in Septenber. 197, the s
with Unfonists parties refusing to negotial
British government delaying demilitarization and troop v thdeeca)
oni"oatlonalist vess.” The nationalists frusteation vith ineqenlity
e esack of substantial progress at the talks has been portreyed sy *
threat 1o the o) ite Sino Fein's ed comitnent to non-.
: MY
Bl b onciv ORI i) -
888 the peace talks alloved to participate, though Unionist mesbersfigy
e ety theeveed i st et e R
because of Sinn Fein's participation.
Bl
oo Snfortunately, since’the TRA ceasefire began the British military ;; .
resence in Nocthern Ireland has increased alongside Royal Ulster - | -
. Constabulary (RUC) police brutality snd a contimsing mider .
by 1o ‘:#m'f"'.'g: fi goten ok T vete e o)Al
In shoot-to-kL11 polices ‘in the
e used _to murder IRA suspects.
v
Capitalizing on the activity of loyalist death squsds,
Unionist delegates are hinting at a continuation of the violence
,unless they are guarunteed continued political control in the 6
+“counties of Ireland seperated by the British in 1922.
TE 4t vas the IRA continuing its military campaign, you could be
assured they vould have alceady been excluded vith the type of
¢ -, international media condemation that ailudes beiish and Uhionist .
Violener The threat o pesce in reland does tot cone fron Irish nationalists(
aeediz e, (o Ut T e o o et )
selyes_ (Eom. Death squads both civiLisn and nilitacy who o ialdate
. Hihceitin: attock and urder those vho only vant Justice and squality
2 Tin'a 75 year old aceificlally created statelet vhere loyalist tervot]
secv social, Cconomic and Golont ol el sup
;
e iaiion
) ; i . 4 ifi"‘r(“‘
AR 5 4
Ve olent T XS Tl Liientto Jestecr]
Jpeacaful negotiations with the kind of terrorism which has led tolliies
Bover 3,200 deathg in'the
o and!
ull-scale vac against the Irish 75 years .55 les
flthe pactition vas alloved giving the Unionist majorit §
fies contcol over the o ttontat pop 3ty pecmisivg il
; totes o
alis, the it Lsh goversment 15 g
» ce” fot its o political agenda
. [l ogenda tha s Tote s Torun Tor dontran bececslegc
: Bto tell demcratically elected polltical representatives of the
Hodigencus Teish that they w1l not surcenec contcol ovee theic
} List calony or allov the entise Trish population to demcraticall
Geth e Cotots of tha comtty In oo el eslond v, Fan.
though the Unionist population would fare better politicaily as,:i
207 ot & votted Tceland cather thap as 71 of the (nied Kingon
Tt BELCLsh gosetmmbnt and RUC!s CASOar e, 1) et (orupatee 1)
1 celand they soold e he same Level of Getbemination’to peevendil]
et ety S il o S 2 S
flut peSce for then cemalns 4 poritical |
PR s BTTLE sEotion & iohis mlie forc . 1L
{l ceppressive lezislation prohibiting basic civil rizhts, and a toleranceilll
for loyalist death squads that continue to sleushter innocent beoole CATRIANEEHI
There are curtently ovez 11,000 ers in Ireland and,
nationalist commnities are 'still subjected to house raids, harass-
ment,, surveillance .j@l”_%‘am‘ of military installations.
of pilitary in 083
ANG
o g
(betveen Arnagh and thel
the TRA were sctive 1 vety rarel
e 1 dtd, aras
i .
&
d 16°3 Tion-violent Teso
upon the Irish people by British military and police and poramilitary
facath squads. This s Telected in the TRA's Serick sdherence.to 1s)
ion.of military sctivity, haxassment and
) s the sorl of those uho see justice and democrac
eea i Sic Felmn:
dentGercy Adans sums 1¢ up best hen he-says, "The steadyi:
freturn to sectarian killings by all loyalist s, coupled with?
ihe Continued andincreased i Ltatisotion st motkosatser coee B
R T R
ULster Defense Association (UDA) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters.
eah i Tored woh 2 ports Fepcesntes ot e pescs etk The
juith the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), the UDA with the Ulster&&iig!
[Democratic Party (UDP) and the UFF as an affiliate of the UDA. Most$
o e ot ) o e 1 23, n SCtate of, e Ut
Conbot 16 a0 the Nakionsl Feont 5 iomcnd b hhse el
$tatoos on many imprisoned members. Together these paramilitarie:
junder the title of the Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC)]
R R R A e
it cetrat T ool SRR S of 4 Spmhch
b EREIEeaseTite, Tn the L: months lvy‘::m h:;ekzfl:m-d
Jii i thelc canpaign of intinidation, beatings, bosbings ar ings SIRARD
e e Tovatiat pocanitories e csuce SR
t.the condemnation and accusations of terrorisn that regulacly
. 1 fiape thts *xine doesn't dépeess yau in anyvey, Wit helps
guide you'to sctlon instead of spathy. T vonit be hers mch longer, so
there i1l only be a f nes, let me know 4f 1've pissed you off
or made you think, et ", ety
A 0EERG Tike to thank 8 few folks o help.
sake SH a reality. Thanks Catherine for research, printing and mailing?
- thanka PETK for fackground info and geaghics, thanks Dad foc the <lippings
and grophics, thanks Tvoods and Drustila for”Irel
Vactln For Chispas. infoFand most of all, thank you
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