ON THE LINE
Samuel, Leah & Johansen, Bruce E. & Ervin, Mike & Bernstein, Dennis & McKissack, Fredrick L. Jr. & Nichols, Lee & Bacon, David & Kean, Lesley
ON THE LINE Trailmobile Workers Win Charleston, Illinois We've heard a lot about U.S. companies exploiting Indonesian workers. Here's a story about an Indonesian company exploiting U.S....
...For more information, contact Mark Madrid at (941) 665-2201...
...On June 4, her car was attacked by gunmen seconds after she passed a police checkpoint, and she was shot multiple times at close range...
...The results were just the opposite of what Roberts had intended...
...Collier County is attempting to disperse the settlement...
...these are the groups getting sucked in by liddy and limbaugh...
...e-mail: m.madrid3@genie.com...
...SUTAUR's challenge to the privatization of the public bus line has become a focal point for popular discontent over economic policies carried out by Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and past-President Carlos Salinas...
...If they really wanted to please us, instead of coming to my house with flowers, perhaps they should now start talking about stepping down tomorrow and putting my father in the place where he rightfully belongs...
...She died because she refused to stand for injustice in Nigeria...
...the first caller says marvin is "way off base for playing the race card...
...Arrested by the junta on treason charges after attempting to take office, he has been in solitary confinement for two years...
...Golding, Staples, guitarist Roddy Byers, and bassist Horace Panter form the nucleus of this new incarnation of The Specials...
...MIKE ERVIN...
...Today he is involved in "tourist development" in East Timor...
...The bus system expelled its 12,000 employees from the bus yards at gunpoint, and brought in replacement workers to drive the buses...
...The generals were effusive in expressing their regrets about the killing, offering a reward while at the same time attempting to blame the murder on a family squabble...
...the more he goes on, the hotter marvin gets...
...Shell International, Mobil, and Chevron are the largest oil companies making profits in partnership with the Nigerian government...
...It struck me as incredible, when I heard of this labor dispute and its connection to a much-hated family where I come from, that I would find the Wanandis and their tentacles wrapped around a small town in the hinterland of America," said Ramos-Horta...
...Abiola's father is the jailed opposition leader Mos-hood Abiola, who was elected to the presidency in 1994...
...In the meantime, the traditional Seminoles are standing their ground...
...Along the way, the walkers visited with Mexican farm workers who are constantly exposed to pesticides in central Florida, poor people who live near large phosphate mines, and others who are fighting development of a major landfill near Newberrv...
...In the following weeks, two labor lawyers who supported the union staged a protest in an ambulance in front of the city-council offices...
...Diseases like tuberculosis, which are connected to poverty and we thought were eradicated in Mexico, are coming back...
...One of the leaders of the Timorese resistance movement, Jose Ramos-Horta, visited Charleston in May to support the locked-out workers...
...One of the last surviving villages of traditional Seminoles is now down to five acres of land (to which members of the tribe do not even hold title...
...In June, workers and other supporters gathered in front of the Indonesian embassies in Washington, D.C., and Canberra, Australia, to protest the lockout...
...ok, sweet cheeks...
...On June 13,1995, during a visit to the imprisoned union leaders, six other SUTAUR officials were arrested...
...The Charleston dispute began in January when Local 7591 of the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) rejected a contract offer that included a three-year wage freeze (coming on the heels of a four-year wage freeze from the previous contract...
...Hafsat Abiola believes that divestment from Nigeria would send a strong message to the corrupt regime...
...Edward Wanandi is president of Trailmobile...
...A flood of letters poured in to both the Triangle and KIXL condemning Roberts's actions...
...She is convinced the Nigerian junta assassinated her mother as a way of thwarting the resistance movement her father leads...
...there was no negotiation...
...Workers and unionists who stand in the way of government economic reforms end up there...
...The others, led by keyboardist-writer Jerry Dammers, became Special AKA, which scored big with the anthem "Free Nelson Mandela...
...legal system defined them out of existence...
...This is a new low, even for corrupt drug-trafficking regimes like that in Nigeria, an absolute new low—a very brilliant woman, unarmed and nonviolent...
...Leah Samuel GET OUT THE VESPA...
...let me mention names: mark clark and fred hampton...
...it won't be a genteel chat...
...The union says Trailmobile is controlled by the Gemala group, which is owned by the Wanandi family...
...and then the caller says, "don't know...
...The other, Ventura Galvan, spent weeks in the dark...
...In a ten-minute hearing before the first district court, the government annulled the union's contract and stripped the union of its bargaining rights...
...Our minimum wage is now 20 percent what it was in 1970," Barrera says...
...He had sewn his eyelids together and had closed his ears with thick black threads...
...the majority held firm, some increased their advertising, and a few companies, made newly aware of the Triangle, began placing ads for the first time...
...who are mark clark and fred hampton...
...Galvan says the mayor doesn't want to listen to the bus drivers, or to see the results of his decision on their lives...
...murdered by the police...
...Activists pay a cost...
...Because the Seminoles held to their traditional law, the U.S...
...he says about the freemen, "if these people were black, would they just let them sit...
...when a rightwinger calls, marvin will probably end up in a shouting match, call him a "brain stem," and hang up—the sort of behavior that offends many leftists who come across marvin's program...
...It's done nothing but benefit us...
...Mark Madrid, information director for the American Indian Movement of South Florida, says that Collier County wants to open a landfill adjacent to the five acres of Seminole land that it is condemning...
...These are the last holders of the independent camps...
...Eleven bus drivers—the union leaders for Mexico City's huge bus line, Route-100 (SUTAUR)—were thrown into the compound on April 8, 1995...
...long pause...
...KIXL maintains that Roberts's defeat was not a factor in his firing, saying the decision was simply a matter of "programming shuffles...
...But company officials locked out 1,200 workers on January 21...
...By April, Roberts's stunt had completely backfired: KIXL announced that his employment had been terminated...
...Once more, the traditional Seminole camps are being forced to move," says Madrid...
...I guess I should thank Mr...
...LEE NICHOLS Mexico's War on Unions Mexico City The federal prison for the eastern district of Mexico City is the free-trade prison...
...But the music was also politically charged, taking shots at Margaret Thatcher, conservatives, warmongers, the National Front, and the music industry...
...a lot of the young ones are left-oriented," marvin says...
...They also pointed up the alleged connection between Trailmobile and the Indonesian government's atrocities in East Timor...
...i can play the same games lim-baugh plays...
...Cecile Richards, daughter of former governor Ann Richards, staged a "buy-in" to support Triangle advertisers...
...The murderers have not been caught...
...Randy Eccles is a United States liaison for the duly elected government of Nigeria...
...On June 22, 1995, federal judge Abraham Polo Uscanga, who had refused to issue arrest warrants for the union, was also shot and killed...
...On March 25, 1996, riot police disrupted a rally of thousands of fired bus drivers...
...Mexico City's transport and highway secretary then announced that the Route-100 system was bankrupt...
...Dennis Bernstein and Lesley Kean leftwing talk radio Chicago, Illinois thirty minutes to air time, and jay marvin was discussing bis radio show with tony k., his producer...
...you get them with humor or you get them however...
...The band also pays tribute to reggae greats Bob Marley ("Simmer Down" and "Hypocrite") and Peter Tosh ("Maga Dog...
...so maybe marvin is getting through...
...The young Abiola says she fears for his psychological and physical health...
...but then a trucker and a suburban woman call to say thank god someone is finally telling the truth...
...Roberts, executive director of the Texas chapter of the rtghtwing American Family Association, tried to use his program on Austin's KIXL radio, a Christian station, to put The Texas Triangle, the state's leading gay newspaper, out of business...
...The lesson IVe learned is that if^soii stand up to these people,you cantaitthem...
...We're not trying to pretend that we have re-created the old Specials," says Byers...
...Now they're taking away their right to public transport," says Galvan...
...Bruce E. Johansen TEXANS RESIST HATE Austin, Texas In September 1995, Wyatt Roberts began a crusade to put somebody out of a job...
...Every Saturday, he read the names of the Triangle's advertisers over the airwaves...
...Ninety percent of the government's revenues come from oil, providing $12 billion to $14 billion a year...
...Because of that, her spirit will live on...
...The unity of Trailmobile workers in Charleston, coupled with UPIU's strategic campaign against the company's owners, has proven that union workers can stand up to corporate tyrants and win," says Local 7591 president Gary Collins...
...We cannot tolerate what's happening to us any more...
...County officials have recently removed at least two children from the village on the grounds that their parents' homes are "substandard...
...She died a few hours later...
...Fear of growing social unrest is the reason for the government crackdown on the bus-drivers' union, according to SUTAUR's founder, Gabino Gamacho Bar-rera, now in prison...
...But she had no idea her mother would be assassinated...
...His brothers have long-standing ties to the brutal Indonesian military, the union says...
...In a recent interview, Hafsat Abiola, a senior at Harvard, said that she has every intention of picking up the struggle for democracy in Nigeria where her mother left off...
...I think it is very important that we continue my mother's work," Abiola says...
...Kudriat Abiola paid the ultimate price for her opposition to the Nigerian junta...
...David Bacon Following in Her Mother's Footsteps Cambridge, Massachusetts Hafsat Abiola, the daughter of Nigerian pro-democracy activist Kudriat Abiola, got worried in May when the ruling military junta charged her mother with publishing seditious material...
...but even if he's not, listening to him unload on rightwingers is fine sport...
...On June 18, 1995, Jesus Hum-berto Priego Chavez, a prosecutor investigating possible corruption in the bus system and its breakup, was shot and killed outside his home...
...our intellectual national public radio round-tables may be socially acceptable, marvin says, but they're bonng for the young or working people who are frustrated but apolitical...
...Because they refused to deal with the federal government, the traditional Seminoles gained no treaty, no reservation status, and no protection from the federal laws that define Native American communities' semi-sovereign status...
...marvin says, his right leg pumping...
...Many progressive Christians staged counter-protests in front of the station...
...FREDRICK L. McKISSACK JR...
...Every day the poor are more marginalized, without the right to education, health, or even food...
...Only a couple of businesses canceled ads...
...In the end, Trailmobile gave workers what they were looking for...
...I understand what kind of ideas influenced my mother's choices," Hafsat Abiola says philosophically...
...Fighting back, the union chose to draw links between Trailmobile and Indonesian atrocities...
...And the company dropped its demand that the union formally apologize to Edward Wanandi...
...The Specials broke up in the early 1980s when three members—Terry Hall, Lynval Gold-ing, and Neville Staples—left to form Fun Boy Three...
...According to the union, Edward Wanandi's brother, Sofijan Wanandi, also a Gemala official, once served as an adviser to top Indonesian generals...
...Now the band that sparked the 2-Tone movement has re-formed and released a new album, Today's Specials...
...would janet reno and billy bubba clinton do that...
...The workers voted to continue working during negotiations...
...It was signed by Austin's mayor, the county judge, three city-council members, the city's state senator, and three state representatives...
...The Seminoles hid in the Everglades for nearly fifty years, resisting repeated attempts at subjugation...
...The editor of Austin's mainstream daily paper, the Austin Amer/con-Statesman asked Roberts to get out of town...
...For more information, contact SUTAUR at 011-525-558-1299 or 011-525-558-2484...
...Today's Specials features a dozen cover versions of songs that inspired the band...
...the point is, you get them...
...He says that the regime had Kudriat Abiola assassinated to frighten the Nigerian people...
...Seminoles Fight for Their Homes Seminole Traditional Lands, Florida Andrew Jackson's army chased the Seminoles from Georgia into Florida during the early nineteenth century, while the area was still claimed by Spain...
...But we are more than happy that there are plenty of the original ingredients, energy, and ideals in the mix...
...He then sent letters to the advertisers demanding to know whether they planned to continue their ads...
...Until the mid-twentieth century, many Seminoles continued to live nearly isolated from the society of the immigrants...
...i can get right down with these rightwingers...
...Chickee dwellings—four cypress poles and a thatched roof of palmetto fronds—do not conform to building or health codes, county officials say...
...Sure, the 2-Tone movement was known for its fashions—Doc Martens, skinny ties, black suits, pork-pie hats—and helped give rise to the Vespa scooter...
...And a restaurant owner drafted a resolution that read in pare "We deplore the actions of any group designed to force or intimidate businesses into discriminating against gays and lesbians or any other group...
...Traditional Seminole leader Bobby Billie organized a 750-mile environmental protest walk to Florida's state capitol, Tallahassee, to expose the county's actions against the Seminoles...
...Roberts for the best unplanned marketing campaign in our four-year hlstoryf says Triangle publisher Kay Longcjijpi...
...Galvan's protest was directed at Mexico City mayor Oscar Es-pinoza Villareal...
...marvin opens with a passionate monologue...
...i'm nothing like that...
...the way to win, marvin suggests, is by finding ways to wake up those the progressive intelligentsia has put to sleep...
...you're doing white-boy denial...
...marvin wanted to talk about the strategy of patient negotiation fbi agents were employing in their standoff with the freemen...
...One lawyer, Jorge Garcia, went without food for six weeks to protest the government's actions...
...THE SPECIALS ARE BACK More than fifteen years have passed since The Specials soared to number one on the English charts with "Ghost Town...
...Another brother, Jusaf Wanandi, founded the military-intelligence institute that helped plan the East Timor invasion, the union says...
...The following day, police arrested union lawyer Ri-cardo Barco...
...That somebody turned out to be Roberts...
...Navy...
...i want to approach it from the attitude that if they were ramona africa and move, they'd be dead," marvin says...
...Police charged five of the union's top officials with misusing funds...
...They made a point of visiting burning sugar-cane fields and pulp mills, as well as portions of the Ocala National Forest that serve as a bombing range for the U.S...
...most people on the left like to have these polite, coffee-table discussions," marvin says...
...from his base of wls radio in chicago, marvin is heard every weekday night in thirty-eight states...
...Meanwhile, the city announced its intention to divide the system's bus fleet, maintenance yards, and other resources into ten new enterprises, which it plans to sell to private investors...
...the phone lights up...
...Two songs—"Pressure Drop," by Toots and the May-tals, and Desmond Dekker's "Shanty Town 007"—are ska classics...
...From all indications, this attack was to undermine my father's commitment to democracy," she says...
...The repression against us has been terrible...
...Hafsat Abiola was disgusted by the condolences that arrived at her mother's home...
Vol. 60 • August 1996 • No. 8
