-
mmn'
!
On Tu
P ru' co
proved t draft of n co ti­
tution th t i cluded a cl
1 . zing t d th penalty for
-terra . t" OfielDSE!8
The amendmen , one long­
sought by t U.S.-backed Fuji­
morl regim ,. P On in the
plan to eliminate Shining Path
chief, Dr. Abimael Guzman,
even if they ha to apply it ret­
roactively, to events that oe­
curred before t constitutional
am ndment.
" 0 id is more basic to t
rule of 18 than e post facto
puni hmen are prohibited.
Th American Convention pro­
vid � 'A h vier penalty ball
not be imposed than the one that
applicable at t time the
criminal offense as commit­
ted.' Efforts to enact laws in­
tended to punish an individual,
or a class, for discriminatory
purpo es are equally con­
demned."
The former Attorney Gen­
eral' concerns, made in a July
26, 1993 letter to the Interna­
tional Emergency Committee to
RENOWNED FOR ER
U.s. Attorney General, Ramsey
f nd th Lif of Dr. Abi
Guzm n (BC -IEC, 27 Old
Glou r St., Lo on,
xx, EnglAna.'�:len��
82-0853)
than 2 ter by of
t draft amendm n bringing
th Peruvi n d h pen-
alty, in e en damning the
Am rican Convention.
The Rev. S. Michael Y u-
e, Dir., th Interfaith Prison­
ers of Con cience Project in
Chicago,' ued imilar letter,
obvio ly to no avail.
The U.S.-b ed Fujimori re-
gime, upon orders of th U.S.
empire, has spit on international
la , regional treati and worn
conventions, to attempt to extin­
guish a man perceived as more
threatening to U.S. inte
than Peruvian OD .
WHY ELSE WOULD con­
servative columnist, William
Buckley, Jr., write in the Wash­
ington Tim , ju t days after
Guzman's capture, "It is anoma­
lous ... to uggest an interna-
tiona! requ t for th e tion
of prisoner, but ... h ·th a
call for the execution of Abimael
Guzman. "? (14 Oct. 1992).
What they really fear .
Guzman, but the growing po
and reach of Sendero Luminoeo
(Shining P th) a largely iniige­
nous, Indian, oist army that
will not bo to the imperial mas­
ters in W hington.
They fear its spread an emer­
gence in other areas called the
U.S. "sphere of influence- (em­
pire).
That is what they really want
to kill.
••
f' ...
By Judge Lesli e saiah Gaines
. '
I t was a usual Monday morn­
ing. The courtroom was crowded
with Black eyes, Black and blue
bruises and red-busted lips. The
docket was filled with cases of
domestic violence and the jail
was full of defendants who had
spent the w k nd.
As th prosecutor called the
docket, th "Hit Parade" of de­
fendants accu d of hitting th
ones they loved marched in, in
handcuffs. Though some were in .
uniform, there was no uniform­
ity in their ethnic backgrounds,
eoonomic conditions or social p0-
sitions.
As they marched in hand­
cuffed together, the employed
were lead by the unemployed.
The blacks and the whites were
handcuffed together with the
closeness of blood brothers.
. The charge of dom , tic vio­
lence seemed to cut across their
individual differences and bind
them to a basic common deno�i.
nator of emotional fru ration,
that had erupted into dom tic
violen
RE coun-
seling programs and . al rv-
ice agency with the knowled
and experien needed to deal
. th the root causes, of dom tic
violence. Unfortunately counsel­
ing is usually sought to help
pie th pressure cooker back
togeth r, after the explosion.
If you have a potenti 1 prob­
lem with dom stic violence, seek
help now. Seek ,counseling in
w ys to r Ie e some steam be­
for th whis I starts to blow,
b for you blow your top, before
th pr ure cooker explodes
into phy i 1 viol nce.
Un il you find th profes-
ional oun ling you n , con-
sider thi mmon dvice,
"WALK T-BEF RE Y U
STRIKE OUT."
If you re in a h t argu­
ment with your 10 on nd
you f I th pr ur start to
build "WALK UT-BEFORE
YOU STRIKE UT." Walk out
ofthe rgum nt. Walkout of the
house. Cool out. Chill out. Think
it out. Reason it out, but just
don't strike out at the one you
love.
After you cool out, you may be
able to go back and calmly talk
it out. Together you may pray it
out. And with the love and grace
of God, you may even be abl to
work it out.
"Just don't strike out at th
one you love."
THINK ABOUT IT, at you
need to get some frustration
about the justice system off of
your chest ... ), "Tell It To the
Judge ", Judge Leslie Isaiah
Gaines, 1000 Main Street, Room
266, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.
ANGR'1 BlACK� R1SE.
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. Dennis Rivera, Chairman
Rev. Jesse Jackson, President & Founder
Jesse -JackscnJr., Field Director/Editor
AFTA
"DESPITE PEROT, STILL 0"
'�'DC - With a week to go. moneyand deals are flying everywhere: S30
million by Mexico: S30-35 million by corporate USA-NAFf A; support
from pa t Presidents. Secretaries of State, most Republ icans, Lee Incocca
and more. Clinton's: ,.-- _
corporate, political and
media elite still don't have
the votes to pass :-\AFT A.
The :,\YT (11 9)
reported that' the Clinton
White House avoided Jesse
Jackson and Rolph Nader on
this i sue - labor and Ross
Perot were "cleaner targets,"
Thus. after attacking labor
and threatening that the
Japanese were going south
or the Mexicans were coming north if NAFTA didn't pass - these
were not racist or fear tactics, this administration only pushes hope and
racial harmony -;- Clinton decided to lump all AFT A oppo 'Ilion
under a so-called "fear mongering, demagogic, protectionist. isolationist
and, mo t important. declining in popularity", Ross Perot, through a
television debate. They counted on Perot looking bad-· and he did. But
�AFf A looks even worse.
The Rainbow upports A AIT A - but OT AIT A.
Why':' If Jackson had debated, thl i what he would have said: Fir t,
the agreement was negotiated in cret. with worker, con timers. farmers
and environmentalists left out. econd, this �AFT A i an international
expression of the same Reagan Bush trickle-down. economics that was
rej cted dom sticallv in the elections of 1992. Third, the sid agreements.
involving labor and the nvironment. do not meet Clinton': ow n criteria.
F.ollrth of th 300-plus e�on0!1' iSLS \';�O signed a letter supporting
::"\AFT A. when polled. onl� 190t 150 contacted had r ad the agrecm n.
including none of the :'\ob l laureate .
In h, Gore said v. e would gai n job' and Perot. aid \). \ ould
10 e job. Both \\ ere right! The problem: The winner and 10 er are
!lot the arne people. The more edu�8ted a�d highly trained will gain
Jobs. The Ie s educated and less skilled will 10 e job. But NAFf A
supporters have not mad adequate provisions to retrain the 10 r or
create jobs for them. The winners get wealthier. the osers join the ranks
of the 18 million who are currently unemployed 0 underemployed.
Sixth, in the name of "free tr de" Clinton i buying votes with
protectionist deals - sugnr and citru deal for affected tate: 8 10
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