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ON THE LINE Battling Cyber-Nazis Nanaimo, British Columbia Neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and other far rightists have discovered the recruiting potential of the Internet and have pitched camp in...
...Organizers say it was the first national student event coordinated using the Internet and email...
...The bugs were not...
...He's handing over our children's heritage to the special interests," says Susan Schock, director of Gila Watch, a New Mexico group fighting livestock abuses on public lands...
...As a result, Santa Fe has "the most radical city council in recent memory," according to the Santa Fe Reporter...
...But most New Mexico Greens are still committed to the electoral struggle...
...202) 234-9382, or the New Party, 227 West 40th Street, Suite 1303, New York, NY 10018...
...At the hearing in New York City, human-rights experts from around the world quizzed the U.S...
...Ken McVay, a fifty-four-year-old convenience-store clerk and self-described "modem junkie," is vehemently opposed to censorship and chooses instead to counter the peculiar rendition of history presented on alt.revision-ism and other groups with historical facts—mountains of them...
...White Aryan Resistance founder Tom Metzger prefers to park his modem in the low-brow alt.politics.nationalism.white and crow about WAR's recent Net recruits and the "big things in the making" on the "WAR Internet front...
...King, a wealthy rancher and consummate politician, was running for an unprecedented fourth term...
...The revisionists are looking forward to big things on the Net this year...
...And here was a Chicana mayor equally determined to give voice to the large and increasingly marginalized Hispanic population...
...More events are planned for the spring, from Texas A&M, where faculty and students are starting a chapter of the New Party on campus, to Wesleyan University in Connecticut, which is sponsoring a program on how to build progressive coalitions across class and race lines...
...The United States refuses to abide by terms of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights including a ban on the execution of juveniles...
...In a panic, a receptionist dialed 911 to report, "There are lesbians here with bugs...
...This is the fourth year of the national Worthy Wage Day campaign, which started out as a five-year effort...
...Frequent contributors to alt.revisionism include Greg Raven (associate editor at the Institute for Historical Review), Michael Hoffman II (editor of Revisionist Researcher magaLESBIANS WITH BUGS...
...505) 986-2071...
...We've realized that it is an unending campaign, until we can change social consciousness about the value of children and the value of childcare," says Haack...
...For more information write the Meiklejohn Institute, Box 673, Berkeley, CA 94701...
...By the time she persuaded the police it was not a prank call, the Avengers were on their way back to San Francisco...
...delegation on a number of issues...
...Jaramillo went on to appoint gay-rights advocate Patti Bushee to her vacated city-council seat...
...As Christy Torricelli remarked after the November elections, "It was a David-and-Goliath thing, but we winged a pretty good one at the two-headed giant, and we surprised him...
...Kim Goldberg Green Party Revival Santa Fe The past year has been a heady time for the fledgling New Mexico Green Party...
...We in the progressive community have two-and-a-half years in which to study civil and human rights and make an honest report," says Ann Fagan Ginger, executive director of the Meikle-john Institute, which participated in the U.N...
...We might as well have James Watt back in office," she says...
...There are no national standards for childcare, Haack points out, and funding for quality childcare will be cut under current Congressional plans...
...Progressive politicians around the state were elated by the victories...
...The realtors, developers, and hoteliers, who over the last decade have transformed Santa Fe into a chic mecca for the idle rich, were understandably shaken...
...Joseph Skinner Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's retreat on grazing fees and I other reforms on federal lands have made environmentalists in the Southwest angry enough to call for Babbitt's resignation...
...The Internet reaches an estimated 30 million people...
...Children aren't thriving because staff turn-over is so high, and the reason for that is the low wages in the field...
...Here was a new Green counselor determined to turn back developers' assaults on the eastern foothills, deny subsidized low-interest loans to land-owning companies like Trammell-Crow, and establish a tenants'-rights hotline...
...Schock calls Babbitt's possible endorsement of a plan to give millions of acres of Federal lands back to the | states the last straw...
...The San Francisco chapter of the Lesbian Avengers summoned a "plague of locusts" to descend on Exodus International, a Christian, anti-gay organization that uses intensive counseling to attempt to "cure" people of their homosexuality...
...The Greens' showing in the November elections gave them major-party status in New Mexico, which guarantees them a place on the ballot in the next general election...
...In January, Hoffman told his Internet audience that his out-of-print comic book, Tales of the Holohoax, could finally be reprinted "thanks to generous support from a legion of enthusiastic children and adults recruited here on the Internet...
...The United States is very fond of lecturing the rest of the world on the importance of rising up to international human-rights standards," says Peter Weiss, a vice president of the Center for Constitutional Rights...
...In a fundraising newsletter last December, the Institute for Historical Review (the California-based command central for the international Holocaust denial movement) announced its five goals for 1995, including: "Make IHR materials available to millions around the world on the Internet . . . fast, around-the-clock access to the best revisionist materials...
...review as a nongovernmental organization...
...Or search the archives via gopher at jerusaleml.datasrv.co.il...
...Students Fight the Contract Students held a day of action on campuses around the nation Wednesday, March 29, to protest the Contract with America and federal cuts in education...
...McVay's self-funded archives and aging computer equipment got a boost from the United Church of Canada last fall, which agreed to collect tax-deductible donations for the project...
...Caricatures of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich made appearances at events on more than a dozen college campuses, as did elephant pinatas and student troupes performing street-theater...
...I think the United States is actually going to have to change...
...Box 22955, Santa Fe, NM 87502...
...We're looking to focus public attention on the crisis in early-childhood education," says Peggy Haack, a family-child-care provider and resource specialist with Wisconsin Early Childhood Association...
...The U.S...
...The goals of the Worthy Wage Day campaign are to make high-quality childcare accessible and affordable to families, to raise the average base salary of childcare workers to $10 an hour, and to increase training for childcare workers...
...As part of the Rock the Boat Tour, the New Party is working to get students involved in local progressive organizations...
...Mondragon, a populist Spanish-language radio commentator and publisher of bilingual educational textbooks, renounced his membership in the Democratic Party, after serving two terms as lieutenant governor under former Democratic Governor Bruce King...
...For more information, contact the New Mexico Green Party, P.O...
...The Greens also helped get Debbie Jaramillo, a former Rainbow Coalition activist, elected mayor...
...A group of five Avengers stormed the Exodus headquarters in San Rafael, California, climbed onto the reception desk shouting, "We don't need to be cured," and released 1,000 crickets...
...In March 1994, the Greens succeeded in landing a seat on the City "VI Council for Cris Zf Moore, a twenty-fivers//H , year-old mathemati-B«™ cian at the Santa Fe Institute and a Green activist...
...If anyone deserves a plague of Biblical proportions right now, it's the radical right," says Avenger Liz Harris...
...Some New Mexico Greens would prefer to abandon electoral politics altogether and devote their energies to alternative programs, such as the current drive to organize Santa Fe's hotel and restaurant workers...
...I've been organizing in the student movement for about ten years, and this experience with the Internet allowed us to coordinate and to share information— posters, press releases, flyers—in a way that never would have been possible a few years ago," says Stuart Eimer, who works with Students for the New Progressive Party on the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus...
...The same thing we're trying to do to China, to shame them in their human-rights field, will happen to us...
...delegates agreed to file a report by 1998...
...Well, we think King was the real spoiler," says Cris Moore, noting the widespread resentment of King among voters...
...His obsessive cyber crusade has produced the Nizkor Project (from the Hebrew word for "we will remember"), an immense electronic database of Holocaust information which McVay and his Net compatriots dip into nightly to flatten the latest batch of brain waves on alt.revisionism...
...Box 309, Silver City, NM 88062...
...zine), and Ross Vicksell of CODOH (Committee for Open Debate On the Holocaust...
...Hatred like this should be out in the open where we can deal with it intelligently," says McVay, who is not Jewish himself but bulldogs the Holocaust deniers "because these guys offend my sense of humanity...
...To receive the index send e-mail to listserv@oneb.almanac.bc.ca with the single word INDEX in the message...
...The March 29 action kicked off a series of events, including teach-ins, protests, and panel discussions, coordinated by the Institute for Policy Studies and the New Party...
...The Green candidate for state treasurer, Lorenzo Garcia, won a record-breaking 33 percent of the vote—more than any third-party candidate to run for state office in the last sixty years...
...For more information, write Gila Watch, P.O...
...212) 3025053...
...Human Rights in the USA In late March, the United Nations conducted its first-ever review of the human-rights situation in the United States...
...ON THE LINE Battling Cyber-Nazis Nanaimo, British Columbia Neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and other far rightists have discovered the recruiting potential of the Internet and have pitched camp in various electronic discussion groups on the worldwide computer network...
...But we refuse to ratify standards that are stricter than our own laws...
...He's one of those Democrats who have betrayed Democratic principles...
...April 27 is Worthy Wage Day for childcare workers...
...All files in McVay's thirty-five-megabyte Nizkor archives are available by e-mail...
...Most prominent among them was Roberto Mondragon, who ran for governor...
...His Republican challenger, Gary Johnson, was a conservative who pledged to cut social services by a third...
...For more information, contact the National Center for the Early Childhood Workforce, 733 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite 1037, Washington, DC 20005...
...By July, the Green Party had put together an impressive slate of candidates for the November statewide elections...
...But their efforts have been stymied by a Vancouver Island man who, armed with a keyboard, has spent the last three years waging war against the cyber-Nazis...
...Children's Crusade The House Republicans' budget-cutting plans fall especially hard on children...
...We Greens intend to exact a cost from all politicians who are moving to the right, and that includes Clinton...
...It's clear that there's a beginning of a revival in student activism primarily as a result of the radical nature of the Contract on America," says Adam Glickman, an organizer with the New Party in New York City...
...The action was entitled "The Rock the Boat Tour: Take Back America Before They Drown Us...
...In some northern counties they got more than 20 percent of the vote...
...The assault on children is unique in its size and severity," the Children's Defense Fund points out in its report, "Unshared Sacrifice: The House of Representatives' Shameful Assault on America's Children...
...Rallies, marches and advocacy events will be going on in forty states...
...Despite Democratic attempts to derail the Greens by challenging their ballot access in court, Mondragon and his running mate, former Jerry Brown campaign organizer Steven Schmidt, polled 11 percent of the vote...
...Lying is cheap, and when the lies can be told to a potential audience of millions, the attraction of the Net is overwhelming," McVay says...
...Republican Johnson won the governorship by a margin of 9 percent, and the Democrats accused the Greens of being "spoilers...
...Unlike the raunchier and unabashedly racist screeds found on alt.skinheads and alt.politics.white-power, participants on alt.revisionism attempt to cloak themselves in scholarly respectability and scientific objectivity, making their views more palatable to Net newcomers...
...For more information, write to "Nizkor Project," Committee for Racial Justice, 103-1290 Homer Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6B 2Y5...
...Staff were temporarily stunned as the insects spread throughout the office...
...We hope it will continue and that people will not only criticize the Contract, but look toward independent politics...
...The 1995 National Green Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2730, at the University of New Mexico...
...During the Week of the Young Child, which begins April 24, activities around the nation will draw attention to the plight of America's young...
...For more information, contact the Institute for Policy Studies, 1601 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009...
Vol. 59 • May 1995 • No. 5
