From owner-cpe@mediacollective.com Thu Feb 19 13:34 EST 1998 Received: from mail.calico-company.com ([199.44.176.100]) by polaris.net (8.8.8/8.7.6) with ESMTP id NAA15297 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:34:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail.calico-company.com from localhost (router,SLmailNT V2.4); Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:32:22 Eastern Standard Time To: Multiple recipients of list cpe Sender: owner-cpe@mediacollective.com Reply-To: lari@globalexchange.org Message-Id: <199802191834.KAA22669@meer.meer.net> Mail-System-Version: ClickMail 1.2.3 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:26:18 +0100 From: "Lari Snorek" Subject: [CPE] : DO NOT BOMB IRAQ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 6616 Status: RO Internet Mail DO NOT BOMB IRAQ PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AND PASS ON TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. People of the World-- If appearances hold true, there will soon be another military attack under United Nations auspices on Iraqi territory. The following petition is a modest effort to encourage and focus opposition to the use of violence against Iraq. It is directed to the United States government, and particularly to President William J. Clinton, because of the leading role played by the United States in encouraging a military attack. If you support this effort, please add your name, home city, and home nation to the list and forward it to others. Should you happen to be the 100th, 200th, ..., or millionth person to sign, please forward a copy to peace@appleseed.spi.net. The assembled names will be forwarded electronically to President Clinton and other US government officials. They will not be printed nor will they be used for any other purpose. Should you wish to communicate with President Clinton, try any of the following: Address: The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC 20500 Phone: 202-456-1414 Email: president@whitehouse.gov US citizens may also wish to advise their Congressional representatives of their positions. Congressional representatives may be reached via mail by writing: Representative Senator US House of Representatives US Senate Washington DC 20515 Washington DC 20510 The phone number of the Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121; from there, you can reach the office of any Congressperson. If you don't know who your Congressional representatives are, try http://www.house.gov/writerep/ for Representatives and http://www.senate.gov/senator/state.html for Senators. Thank you for your help. Brought to you by People Just Like You. =================================================== ONE MILLION NAMES FOR PEACE To President William J. Clinton and other officials of the government of the United States of America: We, the undersigned world citizens, strongly oppose any further military attacks against the nation of Iraq. Past military campaigns have already wrought unconscionable destruction that has primarily affected ordinary citizens of Iraq and not personnel of the Iraqi government. The rubric of the United Nations should not be employed to justify further such destruction. Please desist in your efforts to execute another military strike. We desire that you commit yourself to peaceful resolution of existing conflicts with the government of Iraq. 1. Jamie Pehling, Garden Grove, USA 2. Kelly Rittenhouse, Palo Alto, USA 3. Tom Warner, Seattle, USA 4. Charles Scheiner, White Plains, NY USA 5. Lynn Fredriksson, Washington DC, USA 6. Ben Terrall, San Francisco, CA, USA 7. Thomas Johnson, San Francisco, CA, USA 8. Clare Campbell, San Francisco, CA, USA 9. John Fitzgerald, San Francisco, CA, USA 10. Hiram Kato, San Francisco, CA, USA 11. George Fox, San Francisco, CA, USA 12. David Politzer, Altadena, CA, USA 13. Adam Politzer, Altadena, CA, USA 14. Noah Politzer, Altadena, CA, USA 15. Joan Terrall, Altadena, CA, USA 16. Mary Terrall, Altadena, CA, USA 17. Susan T. Simon, New York, NY, USA 18. Lee Simon, New York, NY, USA 20. Molly Simon, New York, NY, USA 21. Greg Simon, New York, NY, USA 22. Jim Terrall, Cornwall, CT, USA 23. Lib Tobin, Cornwall, CT, USA 24. Robert Terrall, Sharon, CT, USA 25. Martha Porter, Sharon, CT, USA 26. Pamela Sexton, Watsonville, CA, USA 27. Curt Gabrielson, Watsonville, CA, USA 28. Azwar Hamid, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 29. Kristin Sundell, Cambridge, MA, USA 30. Larissa Snorek, San Francisco, CA, USA ________________________________________________ Kristin Sundell, Field Organizer East Timor Action Network 101 Western Ave. # 41 Cambridge, MA 02139 tel: 617-868-6600 x319 (w) or 617-441-5043 (h) pager: 617-673-2429 fax: 617-868-7102 "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." -- George Orwell [Message ID: -1324243170] [Internet header:] Received: from igcb.igc.org (igcb.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.46]) by meer.meer.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA18093 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:58:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igcb.igc.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25630; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:03:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from etanfield.igc.apc.org (etanfield@ppp98.igc.org) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA09372; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:56:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980219095017.00cc9730@pop.igc.apc.org> X-Sender: etanfield@pop.igc.apc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:48:31 -0500 To: astark@umich.edu, lundry@asu.edu, desousa@asu.edu, farsetta@students.wisc.edu, astrout@indiana.edu, agallup@indiana.edu, jonbusch@indiana.edu, jero@csd.uwm.edu, nateoz@igc.apc.org, stand003@gold.tc.umn.edu, piotrows@virtu.sar.usf.edu, davidmcb@mindspring.com, mvtanna@artsci.wustl.edu, jproosa@students.wisc.edu, mdseay@aol.com, hijjas@husc.harvard.edu, etanfield@igc.apc.org, doolittles@compuserve.com, duchamp@earthlink.net, Paul_Hanks@brown.edu, bella@jungle.ottawa.on.ca, etandc@igc.apc.org, nateoz@igc.apc.org, sklevison@igc.apc.org, dferry1026@aol.com, wolfbat359@aol.com, emilia.pires@dpd.vic.gov.au, etanboston@earthlink.net, doolittles@compuserve.com, simondoo@aol.com, service@jemcomputers.com, hijjas@husc.harvard.edu, eechen@fas.harvard.edu, gwebster@alumni.princeton.edu, jscheide@igc.apc.org, albini@bu.edu, etanboston@earthlink.net, bplynch@law.harvard.edu, phelps@bayou.uh.edu, wwilson@bayou.uh.edu, kerryp@jungle.ottawa.on.ca, lari@globalexchange.org, bjohnson@jhsph.edu, sbillenness@frdc.com, wseaman@vcd.hp.com, sundell@cam.cornell.edu From: Kristin Sundell Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-UIDL: ac022fe05a52d79218831b40e7a6e81e ------------------------------------- Global Exchange 2017 Mission St., Rm. 303 San Francisco, CA 94110 Phone: 415.255.7296 Fax: 415.255.7498 http://www.globalexchange.org From owner-cpe@mediacollective.com Thu Feb 19 16:00 EST 1998 Received: from mail.calico-company.com ([199.44.176.100]) by polaris.net (8.8.8/8.7.6) with ESMTP id QAA10268 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:00:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail.calico-company.com from localhost (router,SLmailNT V2.4); Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:00:45 Eastern Standard Time To: Multiple recipients of list cpe Sender: owner-cpe@mediacollective.com Reply-To: lari@globalexchange.org Message-Id: <199802192100.NAA00055@meer.meer.net> Mail-System-Version: ClickMail 1.2.3 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:53:5 +0100 From: "Lari Snorek" Subject: [CPE] : Please send this to the White House MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1628 Status: RO Please send this to the White House PLEASE SEND THIS TO: president@whitehouse.gov OR WRITE YOUR OWN SIMILAR MESSAGE TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND SEND IT TODAY SO THEY RECEIVE AS MANY EMAIL MESSAGES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY AS POSSIBLE. FORWARD TO OTHERS ALSO. The bombing of Iraq will only further destroy the lives of many indivudal Iraqi citizens already injured by continued sanctions and will NOT reach the individual the US is supposedly targeting - Saddam. Sanctions have not weakened him but have only caused hunger and starvation among the Iraqi citizens and bombing will only show that the US has a blatant disregard for human life. I and many other American citizens do not support this action in any way and do not wish to be part of a country that sanctions such evident human rights abuses. Other leading nations are confident of negotiating a solution and we need to persist in this effort and look to other ways of gaining assurance that weapons of mass destruction will not be used by Saddam. Using force to communicate the message that we don't want the leader of the Iraqi people to use his own sort of force is absurd and only shows that we are a country more intent on demonstrating our military influence than upholding international ethics and valuing human life. DO NOT BOMB IRAQ AND DESTROY THE LIVES OF HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT IRAQI AND AMERICAN CITIZENS. THIS ACTION IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY. ------------------------------------- Global Exchange 2017 Mission St., Rm. 303 San Francisco, CA 94110 Phone: 415.255.7296 Fax: 415.255.7498 http://www.globalexchange.org From owner-cpe@mediacollective.com Thu Feb 19 18:14 EST 1998 Received: from mail.calico-company.com ([199.44.176.100]) by polaris.net (8.8.8/8.7.6) with ESMTP id SAA28317 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:14:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail.calico-company.com from localhost (router,SLmailNT V2.4); Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:13:23 Eastern Standard Time To: Multiple recipients of list cpe Sender: owner-cpe@mediacollective.com Reply-To: etp0078@garnet.acns.fsu.edu Message-ID: <34ECBCC8.16A2@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:14:16 -0500 From: "Evan T. Paul" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [CPE] : [Fwd: media coverage of the next gulf war] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------4635399D129D" Content-Length: 12008 Status: RO This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4635399D129D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- My web site: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~etp0078 --------------4635399D129D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from envirolink.org (manatee.envirolink.org [208.195.208.7]) by garnet.acns.fsu.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA35574; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:11:48 -0500 Received: from host (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by envirolink.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA02853; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:00:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from igc7.igc.org (igc7.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.35]) by envirolink.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA00626 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:49:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08565 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:30:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [198.94.3.2] (speakout@ppp6-70.igc.org) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02519 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:30:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:30:04 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: corporations@envirolink.org Sender: owner-corporations@envirolink.org Precedence: bulk From: speakout@igc.apc.org (Speak Out Speakers and Artists) To: corporations@envirolink.org Subject: media coverage of the next gulf war Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: speakout@pop.igc.apc.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN >> The Wagging Dog, Part 2: >-> HOW WILL THE NEXT GULF WAR BE COVERED? > >-> By Danny Schechter, Author of "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" > >-> As the United States prepares for its air strikes against Iraq, how is the >-> American press preparing for its coverage? Will the conflict be presented >-> with the same mix of patriotic fervor and Pentagon news management as the >-> battle in l991 or can we expected more independent, even balanced >coverage? >-> The signs are not good. > >-> Have you noticed the return of those highly produced promos hyping the >-> coming "Showdown with Saddam," with their dramatic music and urgent >-> announcers? Have you been watching the pundit shows with their one sided >-> commentary, even though the polls show the country as divided on the >wisdom >-> of a massive bombing campaign as we were about continuing sanctions in >-> 1991. ABCs' This Week featured a five-way conversation with all its big >-> name commentators supporting the bombing, and some calling for an invasion >-> and Sadamm's head. The only permissible debate seems to be the one between >-> hawks and superhawks. Perspectives from other countries--especially those >-> opposed to bombing are shut out. No skeptical questions were permitted. No >-> anti-war sentiment need apply. > >-> This is a part of a pattern we've seen before. Seven years ago, there >was a >-> veritable merger between the military and the media--with a whole >battalion >-> of retired military officers and Bush Administration-certified spokesman >-> constantly on the air to interpret and explain the live nose-cone pictures >-> that we were seeing. Never mind that we later learned that the smart bombs >-> were not as smart as they appeared, that the Patriots were not as >effective >-> in smashing the scuds or the civilian casualties were far higher than >-> depicted. Forget the facts: the conflict was presented as a good-guy-bad >-> guy confrontation in the spirit of the Indian wars a century earlier. > >-> It was only after the yellow ribbons came down, and the welcome parades >-> petered out that we began to hear press complaints about all the >-> censorship, systematic interference by well trained minders and pervasive >-> official misinformation. A lot of this criticizm came from toug, even >macho >-> reporetsr who were not allowed to get access to the front lines. To their >-> credit, the networks supported calls for a reform of military news >-> management policies--while marching in lock step to the bank with millions >-> in new revenues thanks to the rise in ratings. We are talking big profits >-> here for everyone. CNN skyrocketed to importance while the Defense >-> Department used the video coverage primarily as an infomercial to spur >-> sales of its high-tech weapons world-wide. > >-> It was only after the widely reported "Victory in the Gulf" celebrations >-> that we came to see the dark side. Saddam was very much still in power and >-> many of our veterans were coming down with serious unexplained ailments, >-> the so-called Gulf War Syndrome that couldn't be totally blamed on >Hussein. >-> Denied at first, its impact has been finally admitted. Lost in all >the back >-> patting were troubling questions about the war's real meaning, and >the role >-> that the United States and its allies had played in arming Iraq in the >-> first place, including supplying him with chemical weapons. > >-> Completely missing on our TV screens was what happened to the people, >-> especially the scale of the disaster for that country's children who are >-> dying by the scores thanks to a embargo that deprived them of >medicines and >-> food while the leadership there went about building more palaces and >-> repressing its people. Also absent was follow-up on the despotism of our >-> allies in Saudia Arabia and the perversion of democracy in Kuwait, the >-> country we "liberated" One graver irony still not noted in all of our >-> worries over the threat of Iraqi bacteriological warfare, is that many of >-> Iraq's kids have died directly from deadly waterborne bacterias, a result >-> of the destruction of the water system. How can we seems so outraged >about >-> the threat of chemical weapons when it is now clear the United States used >-> napalm and shells tipped with uranium on Iraqi soil? > >-> Government fostered manipulation with the total complicity of the media is >-> the subject of the popular film, Wag the Dog, which in today's climate >-> strikes many more as a documentary than a drama. Ads for it increasingly >-> pop up on news 'shows/' In the film, the press is pictured not as a watch >-> dog but a lap dog. Academy Award nominee Dustin Hoffman plays a Hollywood >-> producer recruited by a White House advisor played by Robert DeNiro to >-> stage a war as a distraction to a sex scandal involving the government. >-> Today the sex scandal may be the distraction to the war although the >-> movie's realistic touches shows how easy it appears to be manipulate >-> patriotic fervor and deceive a gullible public.. (I am told that if >Wag The >-> Dog watchers watch closely, they will actually see Monica Lewinsky's beret >-> on display for a quick second. Talk about fiction leading faction.) > >-> Today's White House does not need to travel West for advice on staging a >-> spectacle. The networks have already institutionalized all the tricks of >-> entertainment packaging. News as soap opera found its first total exposure >-> during Desert Storm, but as a formula had been improve upon. Its >techniques >-> have been refined through years of tabloidization, of O.J. Mania, the >-> Princess Di funeral coverage and the titillating approach of Oral Gate (or >-> whatever lurid name you prefer!) . This war is just more grist for their >-> mills. > >-> You will note that all the focus is on the danger Saddam represents with >-> little documentary proof released about the weapons, and even less >-> attention paid to how sanctions and oil play into all of this. Just why is >-> it that most of the coalition countries have to be cajoled into supporting >-> unilateral US bombing? Alsso, why so much self-righteousness about the >-> sanctity of UN resolutions? Does anyone remember when the world stood by >-> passively during 25 years of UN condemnations of apartheid massacres? How >-> many other UN resolution continue to be ignored? And what about the >-> questions UN Scretary General Anan has been raising about about what >-> happens after the bombing? What does the U.S, do then? This is not a big >-> subject of speculation for a media caught up in cheerleading an arms >-> buildup. > >-> Is there an alternative to an updated version of 'As Iraq Burns?' Can >-> journalists of conscience challenge these trends? Is there another way ofd >-> reporting them? For starters, the print media has a responsibility to >raise >-> these questions because they are unlikely to be discussed on the tube, >-> where seldom is heard a self-critical word. Can we get the PR flacks, the >-> government agencies and the ratings obsessed network execs, now >drooling in >-> anticipation of a certain boost in watching, to admit that they have an >-> agenda which goes beyond objective coverage? Like sex, war sells. > >-> Why couldn't our media institutions deploy peace correspondents as well as >-> war correspondents? Last summer, in England, 40 well known >journalists and >-> media academics debated how the media could play a more constructive role. >-> They endorsed "the peace journalism option," an approach which >identifies >-> all parties to conflicts including civilians as worthy of coverage, >and all >-> peace initiatives legitimate subjects of serious scrutiny. This not about >-> tie-die dressed reporters waving flowers, but rather journalists who avoid >-> the old "we-we" phenomenon, speaking of the government in WE terms >and THEM >-> as "the enemy." It is about impartial journalism which seeks truth >on all >-> sides, debunk scover-ups, and avoids becoming propagandists or an echo >-> chamber for\ any powers that be. > >-> Peace Journalism rejects treating war as a zero-sum game of winners and >-> losers, demonisizing the enemy and patronizing its victims. This option >-> stresses the importance of critiquing official sources and exposing >-> non-sourced speculative 'factual' reports which deliberately >exaggerate the >-> power of the other side to mobilize fear on the home front. (Remember all >-> the pre-war reports about that nearly invulnerable Republican Guard that >-> was eventually swept away in hours?) Hyping that "threat" was a variant on >-> the way Don King inflated the skill of Mike Tyson's opponents to build the >-> gate and enhance the size of the TV audience. > >-> Most journalists who cover war learn to hate it and later or sooner see >-> through its lies. We can all learn to cover conflicts more honestly. As >-> Johan Galtung, the internationally respected scholar advocating the peace >-> journalism option puts it, "The first casualty of war is not truth. >That is >-> the second. The first casualty of war is peace" > >-> ----- > >-> Danny Schechter, is the Executive Producer of Globalvision, and a former >-> producer of CNN and ABC News. He is the author of "The More You Watch, The >-> Less You Know." For information on bringibng Schecheter to speak on >your campus, contact Speak Out. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Speak Out is the country's only national not-for-profit artists and speakers agency. Our roster includes some 200 women and men who represent the breadth of movements for social justice. For a full listing, send us your full street address. Speak Out Phone: (510) 601-0182 PO Box 99096 Fax: (510) 601-0183 Emeryville, Ca 94662 Email: speakout@igc.apc.org Web: http://www.vida.com/speakout --------------4635399D129D--