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May 24, 2000-Puerto Rican war veterans have decided to return to President Clinton the medals and decorations they once received for defending the United States, in protest for Clinton's decision to authorize bombing to resume in Vieques and in support of the demands that the U.S. Navy permanently stop bombing Vieques.

ON a personal note, my mother, Jean Zwickel, has spent over fifty years trying to convince people within the religious and peace and justice communities of the importance of an end to US colonialism in Puerto Rico (and Vieques.) And now an amazing amount of action is converging on Vieques. May it bear fruit!

For the entire message, click on: Stop the bombing!
June 1, 2000
Press Release

[Bob Rabin writes,] "Viequense Women enter Navy restricted zone

Serious concerns for the health of their families and the high incidence of cancer in Vieques motivated a delegation of Viequense women to enter the U.S. Navy restricted zone just before dawn this morning."

For the full text, click on the Subject line above
U.S. Landmines Action Alert!!!

The Pentagon wants to spend $150 million on a new mine system that is illegal under the Mine Ban Treaty and that would have to be destroyed after 2006 under existing U.S. policy.

Make your voice heard! Contact the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Members and urge them to stop funding for RADAM.

For the names of the members, and to read the full posting, click on the photo below

This comes to us via Carolyn's husband, clarinetist Anthony Scarr. Thanks, Tony!

Dear Dr. Laura,

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from you, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the specific laws and how to best follow them.

          a.. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?
          b.. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
          c.. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
          d.. Lev. 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify?
          e.. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
          f.. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an Abomination (Lev. 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
          g.. Lev. 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?

I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Read it and weep. Recognize ourselves and act. Carolyn Scarr
         The Gulf War Brought Out the Worst in Us
Foreign policy: Demonizing one general diverts us from assessing responsibility for the slaughter.
By ROBERT JENSEN

To read the article, click on: On the Gulf War.
This was fwded by [Carolyn's] brother who is a professor of Christian Ethics at St. Paul's United Methodist Seminary. Is there a connection between tornados and homosexuality. Read this startling report: Do Unnatural Acts Cause Natural Disasters?
Last May, Carolyn wrote:

"Dear friends,
          This disaster can be headed off if we work at it. Please read and share the following and write/call/come to hearings. Get it to friends living in Oakland, especially those with children."

It was not posted at the time, but the subject is treated in the latest "Planted", so I've appended it for any ancillary information it may contain. Please click on: Military Academy in Oakland
Dear folks,
         Carolyn sent me this message, the third time I had received it! It's great to see that the word is getting out, and all over the place.

The Methodists are really on the ball. I already have this posted on my ¡Vieques Libre! Website, but I'm linking you to their page for the great links they feature at the bottom. My Vieques page is nothing compared to theirs. Check it out for real in-depth coverage of the subject.

So click on: Bob Rabin–bloodied but unbowed!.
Dear folks,
         Re Mumia-got this from Kiilu Nyasha. If you have any suggestions you can e-mail her at kiilu@sirius.com

               –Carolyn

For the entire message, and the companion E-mail that followed, please click on: Mumia.
Read this and see why the powers that be HAVE to get rid of Mumia.

Carolyn

"Hi,

One of the ministers here at the Bruderhof is currently writing a book about our nation's attitudes toward parenting, childrearing, and education. The book is called "Endangered: Your Child in a Hostile World." You can get more information and details about the book at the publisher's web site:
          http://www.plough.com/Endangered/
Anyway, what does this have to do with Mumia, you ask?"

Well, just click on: Mumia.
No subjecty is too deep, arcane, complex, or essential to the understanding of the cosmos to be posted here. The source of this posing is too humble to wish t be credited.

* - The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top, and you sit on the bottom.

* - It is so hot in some places that people there have to live in other places.

* - Mushrooms always grow in damp places which is why they look like umbrellas.

* - The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana.

* - Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but I never have been able to make out the numbers.

* - When planets run around and around in circles, we say they are orbiting. When people do it, we say they are crazy.

* - For asphyxiation, apply artificial respiration until the victim is dead.

* - A monsoon is a French gentleman.

* - To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow.

* - Water vapor gets together in a big cloud. When it gets big enough to be called a drop, it does.

* - The cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
Here's a late posting, but a propos to recent events on Vieques:

Disarming the Naval Colossus
in Puerto Rico

National Delegation to Vieques and Puerto Rico
August 12 - 20, 2000

Sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Caribbean Project for Justice and Peace

For full details and information please click on: Disarming the Naval Colossus in Puerto Rico
"We have just received news that the police of Puerto Rico has arrested Vieques Committe chairmen Robert Rabin. Rabin was leaving Committee headquarters in his jeep when he saw a Navy Convoy leaving Camp Garcia. He tryed to back up the jeep so he might see better what was happening. A Puerto Rican police man stoped him and grabbed him by the arm. He was pulled out of the jeep by four Puerto Rican police officers and beaten with night sticks. He is not being held at police headquarters in Isabel Segunda. We think that he is being held inside Camp Garcia at a makeshift jail."

This is just the first report I received regarding my friend, Bob Rabin's brutal arrest. Keep him and his wife, Nilda, in your thoughts and prayers. Please check the "Vieques Libre" for the latest reports.
This is a late posting regarding an event that took place the day I received it. Other, more urgent postings pushed this temporarily through the cracks.

Carolyn wrote: "Mr. Arnove appears tonight at Walden Pond Books in Oakland. I am including a Z Magazine article by him to give a flavor...

"ANTHONY ARNOVE, editor of Iraq Under Siege ((c) 2000, South End Press), is touring to publicize the continuing devastating effects of U.S. economic and military sanctions against Iraq. Those sanctions have killed at least 700,000 children under five, and have wiped out the country's economy, helath care system, etc. -- effects that Mr. Arnove recently witnessed on a trip with Voices in the Wilderness. Copies of Iraq Under Siege, which features essays from Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Kathy Kelly (Voices in the Wilderness), and more than a dozen others, [are] available for purchase."

To read Arnove's, "Sanctions on Iraq: The 'Propaganda Campaign'", please click on: Arnove.
KOFI ANNAN, UN Secretary General, will be delivering the Commencement Address at Stanford University:

Sunday, June 11th, 2000 (Meet at 8:30 pm outside of stadium)

Your chance to tell KOFI ANNAN in person:

STOP SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ!!!

To read the full message, please click on: Kofi
Caroly Scarr of EPI writes:

Dear friends,
          Please take the time to call your senator and ask them to work AGAINST the Ashcroft ammendment. Details below. Basically some children with a mental illness will sometimes act in ways that require them to be in special education settings. The ammendment will lift the obligation from the school district to provide for the special education of children whose illness sometimes leads them to violent behavior. And if school districts aren't required to provide services, they won't.

For the complete message and details on how you may help, click on: NAMI
Please goto: Israel redirects Hellfire missiles 'after US advice
Please see the Town Crier for information by clicking on the little guy below:

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Vieques Protesters Arrested
by Chris Herlinger
GBGM News Release

May 4, 2000 – Federal agents today arrested dozens of protesters opposed to the continuing presence of the US military on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.

Carolyn adds:
Dear seeds,
Daniel has been posting all sorts of good stuff on the several websites he maintains at PeaceHost, including www.epicalc.org
Thanks, Carolyn! Folks, please click on the "Click on" line above.

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