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From: "Hugh Callaway" <cab2@hotmail.com>
To: anarchy-ireland@unamerican.com
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Subject: Fwd: Your help urgently Needed For Chiapas World-Wide Online
Campaign!
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 19:06:33 PST
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From: "Hugh Callaway" <cab2@hotmail.com>
To: anarchy-ireland@unamerican.com
greenleft@peg.apc.org, sritten@juno.com
Subject: Fwd: Your help urgently Needed For Chiapas World-Wide Online
Campaign!
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 19:06:33 PST
>***Please immediately forward this message to all progressive websites,
>listserves,*** newsgroups, and individuals with which you are
aquainted.
>This is an emergency.
>
>
>To: All concerned individuals and webmasters
>From: Chiapas Alert Network
>http://www.stewards.net/chiapas/10.htm
>staff@stewards.net
>
>Hi there,
>
>With just a two minute effort, you can help to end the brutal
paramilitary
>and military violence and intimidation currently directed by the
Mexican
>government and its ruling party against Indigenous civilians in
Mexico's
>southern state of Chiapas. Many respected international human rights
>organizations such as Amnesty International have roundly denounced the
>recent violence in Chiapas as an extreme violation of human rights.
>
>If you are an *individual*, please go to
>http://www.stewards.net/chiapas/47.htm where you will find an
automated
>messaging system which will enable you to instantly and automatically
send
>copies of a strong pre-prepared letter of protest, or a letter of your
own
>design, to all three Nafta governments - Mexico, the U.S., and Canada,
as
>well as the European Union. These protest letters will carry both your
own
>name and your email address.
>
>If you are a *webmaster*, please go to
>http://www.newhumans.com/chiapas/hotlogo1.html, where you will be able
to
>obtain an attractive and poignant animated icon which can be placed on
your
>website. When clicked by visitors to your site, this icon will take
them to
>the automated messaging page to send the protest letter.
>
>Help us bombard the Nafta governments and Eu with our message!
>
>Eric
>
>P.S. When the numbers warrant, we will also announce the campaign - and
the
>results - to the world media.
>
>P.P.S. There's a `notification system' at the page which allows you to
>automatically inform your online friends and acquantances about the
campaign.
>
>
> BACKGROUND
>
>Right-wing violence and intimidation aimed at civilian Indigenous
people in
>Mexico's southern state of Chiapas has not ceased since a brutal
massacre
>(people were hunted like animals for 5 hours) in Chiapas at the little
town
>of Acteal took the lives of 45 people at prayer in a church, most of
them
>women and children, on Dec.22 last year.
>
>The Mexican government has used this massacre as the pretext to greatly
>expand its aggression not only against the Zapatista Indigenous Army,
camped
>in the jungle at the extreme southern tip of Chiapas, and with which
the
>government has a supposed peace agreement. But the `crisis' has also
been
>used to justify using the army to attempt occupations of many civilian
>communities in Chiapas, in an attempt to break the power of the
civilian
>Indiginous cooperative economic and political organizations, and the
Chiapas
>indigenous automony movement, which are consciously seeking to pursue
a
>path of cooperative ecological development in the region, and which in
many
>cases are not even closely aligned with the Zapatistas.
>
>Deaths, injuries, terrible fear, and thousands of refugees have been
>generated by this military activity in the past 10 days. There is
every
>reason to fear that a still more aggressive campaign, and far more
deaths,
>may be on the immediate horizon.
>
>Your help is needed. Please forward this message. Please go to our
website.
>
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