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CONTENTS

Anti-fascist Action Alert #88: Demo: Desecration of Auschwitz Cemetary
Fundraising Appeal: National Network For Immigrant & Refugee Rights
Another Racist Organizer Bumped For Contract Violations
Letter to TINAF from Citizens Against Police Brutality-Montreal -- 4 Jan 00
AP, "Dhaka Rally Opposes Fundamentalism," 2 Jan 00
What's Worth Checking: 10 stories

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ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT #88: DEMO: DESECRATION OF AUSCHWITZ CEMETARY
NEW YORK CITY -- 27 JANUARY

To mark the 55th Anniversary of the 'liberation' of Auschwitz, the
world's largest cemetery where millions of Jews were slaughtered for being
Jews; and to protest the desecration of this 'sacred Jewish cemetery' by
the Polish Government, putting crosses there and fastfood, banking and
postoffice crass commercialism, to deny the mass extermination of Jews,
this protest will take place on 1/27/00 at 5P.M. to 6P.M..

Please join with Shalom International and the International Union of
Industrial, Service, Transport and Health Employees if you are in NYC, and
please help to get the word out on this vital occassion.

If you can also protest in your own communities this attempt by the
Polish Government to cover-up its Nazi collaboration during the
Holocaust as well as its present dreadful anti-Semitic politics, please let
us know immediately.

  --  Yours In Shalom,
      Bob Kunst
      Shalom International

(We have done 24 anti-Polish protests in the last two years in 18 cities
and 3 countries with the help of Amcha in NYC and Betar in London.

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FUNDRAISING APPEAL: NATIONAL NETWORK FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS

There's still time to double your donation to the National Network for 
Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Through January 15, Working Assets will 
double your donation when you donate online at  at www.giveforchange.com
The following information from Working Assets explains more.

Happy New Year and thanks for your support to build a stronger movement 
for immigrant and refugee rights. 

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
310-8th St., Ste. 307
Oakland, CA 94607
510.465.1984
510.465.1885 (fax)
Visit us at www.nnirr.org

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ANOTHER RACIST ORGANIZER BUMPED FOR CONTRACT VIOLATIONS
Allen Steadham (Love Knows No Colors) -- 4 Jan 00

Dear James [of the Multi-racial Activist Newsletter] and Paul and friends,

Thought you might want to know about a new victory over the
racists/fascists.

Happy New Year/Millennium!

  --  Best Wishes,
      Allen
      5 Jan 00

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Letter from Bravenet Support to A. Steadham -- 4 Jan 00
Subject: Re: Racists Using Bravenet's Free Mailing List Format

Hi Allen,

Thank you for bringing this site to our attention. We do not condone the
use of "any" Bravenet service for these types of sites. I deleted the site
"without predjudice" :)

As part of my job, I had to actually read some of the garbage on this site
in order to look for a TOS violation and it sickened me.

Thank you again and have a great new year.

  --  Bravenet Support

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Letter from A. Steadham to Bravenet Support -- 3 Jan 00
Subject: Racists Using Bravenet's Free Mailing List Format

Dear Brad and Dave,

A Racist named "theusaman" has a site called "I Love White Folks!" which is
a storehouse of racist information (if you have any questions, read any of 
his articles at http://www.ilovewhitefolks.com/TOC.html).

This individual is taking advantage of the fine free mailing list services
at Bravenet to further his racist agenda.  This can be observed at the
above URL (towards the bottom of the page).  I was informed of this
individual as he tried to lure people to his page from one of my forums (an
interracial/multicultural forum).

I thought you would want to know about this individual immediately.

If you have any questions, I am at your disposal.  Thanks for your time and
attention to this matter.

  --  Best Wishes,
      Allen Steadham

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LETTER TO TINAF FROM CITIZENS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY-MONTREAL -- 4 Jan 00

Dear Paul Kneisel

First off I'd like to say that many of us here in Montreal have appreciated
and at times have used the information that you have sent us. Our group
being COBP (French acronym for Citizens Against Police Brutality).
Hopefully in the future, we'll be able to even use it more. We use the info
in different ways; reading, distributing, airing on the radio, etc. Keep up
the great work! ...

Again, all of us from COBP thank you. 

COBP
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
4 Jan 00

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DHAKA RALLY OPPOSES FUNDAMENTALISM
AP -- 2 Jan 00

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Nearly 5,000 people gathered at a New Year's Day rally
in the Bangladeshi capital Sunday, waving banners and chanting slogans
against Islamic fundamentalists.

"Fundamentalism is opposed to civilization," read one of the many banners
at the demonstration where Bangladesh's leading academics and women rights
activists warned against conservative Islamic groups.

"We are opposed to Islamic fundamentalists because they don't recognize the
rights of women," said Ayesha Khanam, president of Bangladesh Maohila
Parishad, a women rights group.

Even though secular laws govern predominantly Muslim Bangladesh, there are
dozens of Islamic fundamentalist groups that want women to wear all-
enveloping veils and oppose their education.

Islamic radicals forced Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin to flee the
country for the second time last year, accusing her of blaspheming Islam in
her writings. They called for her death after she called for changes in
Islamic Shariah law to give Muslim women more rights.

Nasrin lives in self-imposed exile in Europe.

In Bangladesh, conservative Muslim groups have little political appeal, but
Islamic preachers have pockets of influence in the villages.

"We must not lower our guard against those who are opposed to liberalism
and secularism," Syed Hasan Imam, a popular stage actor said. 

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Pauline Jelinek (Associated Press) , "Nazi Forced Laborers Demand $5.7B,"
13 Dec 99, "Lawyers representing former Nazi forced laborers asked Monday
for $5.7 billion - a demand that for the first time seeks compensation from
American companies in addition to German corporations and the German
government. Negotiations between survivors and German industry and
government were in disarray Monday, however, because an opposing offer also
was made by other survivor groups involved in the negotiations, a lawyer
for one group said." <1311.txt>

Michelle Mittelstadt (Associated Press), "Groups Fighting Racial
Profiling," 14 Dec 99, "Determined to reduce racial profiling in making
traffic stops, Hispanic organizations and the ACLU teamed Tuesday to raise
sensitivity in police departments and call for more Latino cops on the
beat. 'We should be in a country where, when a police officer approaches
us, we feel safe,' said Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council
of La Raza." <1312.txt>

Nicholas K. Geranios (Associated Press), "Hate Groups Plan New Year's
Defense," 16 Dec 99, "At the dawn of the new millennium, members of the
Aryan Nations say they will be hunkered down on their property, prepared to
defend their whites-only compound. The leader of the World Church of the
Creator says he, too, will be ready." <1313.txt>

Associated Press (no author), "Accused Nazi To Be Tried in France," 17 Dec
99, "A French court confirmed Friday it would try an accused Nazi war
criminal in absentia for allegedly deporting about 250 Jewish children to
Auschwitz, where they died, judicial officials said. <1314.txt>

Barbara G. Baker (Human Rights Without Frontiers), "Turkish Police Halt
Press Conference for Bishop: Status of Turkey's Evangelical Protestants
Remains Unclear," 10 Dec 99, "As a guest of Turkey's independent Protestant
churches, Bishop  Michael Nazir Ali had been invited to Turkey as part of
preliminary millennium  celebrations to observe the 2000th anniversary of
Christ's birth. The Anglican  cleric's hosts had booked a seminar room at
the Ceylan International Hotel for  the press meeting. A police spokesman
who said he had been sent from the Istanbul  governor's office told Bishop
Michael through an interpreter that he regretted  having to cancel the
press conference. He said the meeting's sponsors had failed  to obtain
permission from security police headquarters, which he said was  required
under Code 2911 of the Meetings and Demonstrations Law." <1315.txt>

Fairness and Accuracy In Media (no author), "Pacifica's WPFW Axes FAIR's
CounterSpin: Media Criticism Show Cancelled After Three Earlier Instances
of Censorship," 10 Dec 99, "Without notice to producers or listeners, the
Washington, D.C.-based Pacifica affiliate WPFW has cancelled FAIR's radio
show, CounterSpin. FAIR learned of the cancellation early this week when
listeners called our offices to ask why the show was not on the air.
CounterSpin--a media criticism show--has been censored by Pacifica stations
five times this year for covering the ongoing crisis at the network.  A
brief history...." <1316.txt>

Zenit Weekly Report (Vatican), "Religious Hate Crime Against Jews At
Georgetown Denounced: Catholic Leaders Join Jewish Students in Expressing
Outrage," 7 Dec 99, "Catholic and Jewish leaders at Georgetown University
have united to denounce the vandalism carried out last Saturday against a
Menorah placed on the campus by the Jewish Student's Association. ... On
Monday night, Cardinal Newman Society President Manuel A. Miranda joined
Georgetown University President Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J. and University
Chaplain Fr. Adam Bunnell in a meeting led by Georgetown's Jewish Student's
Association to react to the violence. 'Violence done to the faith
traditions of any people is a violence done to all people of faith, and to
all who love American freedom,' said Miranda." <1317.txt>

Harpaz (Bergen Record), "AIDS Activists Blast Catholic Church's Position on
Abortion, Sex Education," 13 Dec 99 13 Dec 99
<1318.txt>

Amnesty International, "The imminent execution of John Paul Penry," 13 Dec
99, "On 17 July 1990 a fax from the United States arrived at Amnesty
International’s London Secretariat. It read simply: 'Penry was sentenced to
death again today by Texas jury.' It was a message no less shocking for its
brevity. For behind those few words lay a tragic story of mental impairment
and murder that continues to speak volumes about crime and punishment in
the USA." <1319.txt>

Associated Press (no author), "Attacker pleads guilty in dragging -- He has
prior record; life sentence is possible," 7 Dec 99, "A white man accused of
using his car to drag a black man across a parking lot has pleaded guilty
to reduced charges. Charles Joe Raab, 31, of Wyoming, Mich., entered his
guilty plea Friday to charges of ethnic intimidation and assault with
intent to cause great bodily harm. The case had been scheduled to go to
trial this week."  <1320.txt>

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