[Nettime-bold] Turning the Tide: New issue out now Vol 14 No. 4 Winter2001-02 [a]

[Michael Novick <part2001@usa.net>]

The new issue of "Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research 
& Education" is now out. The quarterly tabloid is produced by Anti-Racist 
Action(ARA)/People Against Racist Terror(PART) and features PART's 
perspective on "Fighting the Next War, Not the Last One," as well as a 
piece on "The Homeland Theater of Operations," by Michael Novick of 
Anti-Racist Action.

Two articles, "Combating White Supremacy in the Anti-Globalization 
Movement," by Sonja Sivesind, and "Report on a Forum on Racism in 
Progressive Movements," by Donna Lamb, take up the important and 
often-neglected issue of racism within "the left," a dynamic often 
forgotten by groups that focus exclusively on opposing right wing forces or 
naked white supremacists like the nazis and Klan. Further addressing issues 
raised by the on-going US "anti-terrorism" war, in Afghanistan and 
elsewhere, this issue includes an eye-opening review of Zbiegniew 
Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic 
Imperatives," by Michael Ruppert, one of the founders of LA's !Crack the 
CIA! Coalition, as well as an International Human Rights Day declaration by 
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.

A continuing focus of TTT and PART has been freedom for political 
prisoners, and this issue is no exception. "Human Rights During Wartime," 
by Ohio 7 anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman, and "Imperial 
Foreign Policy," by Mumia Abu-Jamal, still on death row despite a federal 
court ruling overturning his death sentence, provide important insights 
from behind prison walls. Articles by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, a former 
political prisoner and Black anti-authoritarian, and by Matt Meyer of 
"Resistance in Brooklyn," a supporter of the Jericho Amnesty Movement, 
focus attention on particular cases such as that of Ali Khalid Abdullah as 
well as the connection of political prisoners in general to the prison 
movement and struggle against imperialist war. This issue also has contact 
information for the important upcoming "Tear Down the Walls" international 
conference on U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, to be 
convened in Havana, Cuba in March under the auspices of OSPAAL (the Cuban 
Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin 
America). [For more information, see: 
www.thejerichomovement.com/teardownthewalls]. "The Executioners Blinked: 
The Struggle to Free Mumia" looks at the critical case of Abu-Jamal, a 
political prisoner still on death row and still facing the prospect of 
execution after more than 20 years of unyielding resistance. The issue also 
reports on a new generation of  political prisoners such as L.A. anarchist 
Robert "Ruckus" Middaugh, sentenced to three years in prison after being 
the victim of a police riot on May Day in Long Beach, CA.

News reports in this issue include accounts of the racist Jewish Defense 
League and fascist National Alliance making hay in the wake of the war and 
state racism, and the arrest of two Anti-Quarantine AIDS activists on one 
million dollars bail. The issue also provides detailed information on 
several major upcoming conferences and mobilizations, including "Unlocking 
Los Angeles: LA and the Prison Industrial Complex" in Pasadena CA, January 
26; an Anti-Capitalist Convergence and National Student Mobilization 
against the World Economic Forum in NYC, January 31-February 4; and 
Barricada's "Festival del Pueblo" in Boston MA   on May 1-5, 2002.

Subscriptions to the quarterly publication are $15 a year in the US, $25 
internationally, but people in the US can obtain a free sample copy of the 
latest issue by sending their name and street address to ARA/PART, PO Box 
1055, Culver City CA 90232; 310-495-0299; or by email: part2001@usa.net.


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  	  		Clemency for Leonard Peltier now!
		 Free Marilyn Buck, Mutulu Shakur, Oscar Lopez
                  and all political prisoners and P.O.W.'s in U.S. prisons!




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