* LEGITTIMO LO SCIOPERO CONTRO LA GUERRA
* ASSOLTO BEPPE SINI E LE SUE "MONGOLFIERE PER LA PACE"


> From: "RdB Servizi" <rdbser@...>
>
>
> RAPPRESENTANZE SINDACALI DI BASE
> CONFEDERAZIONE UNITARIA DI BASE RdB/CUB
>
> LEGITTIMO LO SCIOPERO CONTRO LA GUERRA
>
> La Commissione di garanzia sullo sciopero, ha preso in esame gli esposti
di
> vari datori di lavoro in merito allo sciopero indetto dalle RdB in data
> 30/03/99 proclamato per protestare contro la aggressione Nato alla
> Jugoslavia.
>
> Gli esposti di cui sopra chiedevano di dichiarare illegittimo lo sciopero
in
> quanto non era stato rispettato il termine minimo di preavviso pari a 10
> giorni.
>
> La Commissione ha deciso di non dover procedere contro RdB in quanto, il
> preavviso non è obbligatorio se si tratta di "astensione dal lavoro in
> difesa dell'ordine costituzionale, o di protesta per gravi eventi lesivi
> dell'incolumità e della sicurezza dei lavoratori".
> E' un importante vittoria di RdB che immediatamente si mobilitò contro la
> guerra e denunciò la violazione dell'articolo 11 della Costituzione.
>
> Per i lavoratori e tutti coloro che si sono mobilitati contro la guerra
> nella città di Bologna la vittoria è doppia perchè solo due aziende locali
> hanno chiesto di dichiarare illegale lo sciopero RdB: la SEA di Milano e
la
> ATC di Bologna.
>
> Della denuncia fatta dall'ATC presieduta all'epoca dal "pacifista della
> domenica" nonché esponente di spicco della "sinistra DS" Ugo Mazza, si è
> saputo solo ora, a seguito della delibera della Commissione di garanzia.
> Ricordiamo che il "pacifista della domenica" ha perseguitato, con continui
> procedimenti disciplinari, gli autisti ATC che esponevano cartelli che
> riportavano fedelmente il testo dell'aticolo 11 della costituzione:
> "l'Italia ripudia la guerra come strumento di offesa alla libertà degli
> altri popoli e come mezzo di risoluzione delle controversie
internazionali".
>
> Oggi questi autisti, hanno ricevuto dalla nuova dirigenza ATC una
"censura"
> scritta per la loro protesta conto la guerra, sanzione questa "leggera",
ma
> ingiusta ed ingiustificata alla luce anche di quanto deliberato in data
> odierna dalla Commisssione di garanzia.
> Chiederemo quindi, nei prossimi giorni, di annullare anche questi richiami
> scritti.
>
> La delibera, rafforza anche la denuncia contro il Presidente del Consiglio
> D'Alema per violazione della Costituzione firmata anche da esponenti RdB.
>
>
> p. RdB Federazione Bologna
> Massimo Betti
>
>
> RdB/CUB Federazione di Bologna -Via Brugnoli 19/c 40122 Bologna tel.
> 051/523822-fax 523280
> C.F. 96138470586
>

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Le "mongolfiere per la pace" sono state assolte. La Procura di Pordenone
ha emesso un decreto d'archiviazione in merito al procedimento penale a
carico di Peppe Sini, responsabile del Centro di ricerca per la pace di
Viterbo, per l'azione non violenta attuata mediante minimongolfiere
innalzate a bloccare i decolli da Aviano dei cacciabombardieri impiegati
durante la guerra del Kosovo.
Era l'11 aprile 1999... i pacifisti tentarono di fermare i raid della
Nato cercando di ostruire lo spazio aereo circostante e sovrastante
l'area di decollo della base pedemontana invadendolo con mongolfiere di
carta e palloncini gonfi di elio. Portavano appesi leggeri fogli
metallici adatti a disturbare l'avionica di bordo (una rudimentale forma
di "guerra elettronica")... Il primo maggio l'azione fu replicata... fu
aperto un fascicolo d'inchiesta nei confronti di Beppe Sini... imputato
dei reati previsti e puniti dagli articoli 432 (attentato alla sicurezza
dei trasporti) e 414 (istigazione a delinquere) del Codice Penale.

(Dal Gazzettino di Pordenone del 9-2-2000)



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CHI L'HA VISTO?

Se qualcuno avesse per caso visto un articolo o un trafiletto di
giornale sul colpo di stato avvenuto in Ucraina, o se ne avesse sentito
accennare alla radio o in televisione, e' pregato di farcelo sapere.

( Nei giorni scorsi a Kiev il parlamento e' stato circondato dalle
truppe ed occupato dagli esponenti dei partiti di destra e dalle forze
di polizia. I deputati della sinistra hanno attuato varie forme di
protesta, tra cui lo sciopero della fame. Notizie frammentarie e non
molto aggiornate si possono trovare ai siti:
http://www.iacenter.org/urkrn6.htm - International Action Center
http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/ukr/ukr.html - Communist Web )


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ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIA-JUGOSLAVIA

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>
> SEZIONE ITALIANA DEL TRIBUNALE INDIPENDENTE
> CONTRO I CRIMINI DELLA NATO IN JUGOSLAVIA
> PROPOSTO DA RAMSEY CLARK
> Per continuare le iniziative seguendo il metodo iniziale della nostra
> attivita' si e' deciso di organizzare a Roma cinque iniziative preparatorie
> della riunione finale in cui il "tribunale" italiano processera' gli
> imputati del nostro paese ( D'Alema, Scalfaro, Scognamiglio, ecc.), per poi
> partecipare il 10 giugno alla riunione internazionale di New York promossa
> da Ramsey Clark.
> Le cinque iniziative italiane, che si svolgeranno a Roma presso la libreria
> del Manifesto in Via Tomacelli, avranno il seguente calendario:
> · 25 febbraio ore 17.00 - La violazione del diritto internazionale e della
> Costituzione e delle leggi italiane. Le denunce (circa 30) presentate in
> Italia intervengono R.LaValle , G.Cerminara, A.Bernardini, G.Mattina,
> P.Vilardo
> · 3 marzo ore 17.00 - Crimini contro l'ambiente, l'uranio impoverito, le
> bombe a grappolo. Intervengono C.Pona, F.Grimaldi, M.Saba, Triolo,
> Caffarelli.
> · 17 marzo ore 17.00 - La sovranita' nazionale, le basi militari e la Nato
> in Italia.
> Intervengono F.Accame, L.Morgantini, G Russospena.
> · 7 aprile ore 17.00 - L'attuale situazione nella Repubblica Federale
> Jugoslava, gli effetti dell'embargo sulla popolazione, gli incitamenti alla
> guerra civile, i crimini e la pulizia etnica contro i serbi e le altre
> nazionalità nel Kosmet, l'amministrazione coloniale insediata dalla NATO.
> · 21 aprile ore 17.00 - La disinformazione strategica, la Missione
> Arcobaleno.
> La sessione finale sara' probabilmente il 3 o il 4 giugno.
> Fra le altre iniziative preannunciamo la prossima uscita di una
> pubblicazione del Tribunale Italiano con interventi di Accame, Russospena,
> Grimaldi, Mattina , Cerminara, Bernardini, Vilardo, Pona, ed l'intervento di
> Ramsey Clark all'assemblea di Roma del primo novembre.
> A tutti i compagni e le associazioni che hanno aderito al Tribunale Italiano
> ricordiamo che la quota di adesione necessaria per lo svolgimento delle
> attivita' e' di lire 100.000 per i gruppi, 50.000 per i singoli.
> La cifra con la causale "per il tribunale..." Devono essere inviate al CCP
> 82046004 intestato AD AGINFORM
> Per contattarci
> tel.065181048
> fax 068174010
> s.deangelis@...
> pona@...
>
> in collaborazione con il COMITATO PER LA DEMOCRAZIA INTERNAZIONALE.

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CONTROINFORMIAMOCI!

"L'INFAME TEOREMA DEL 7 DICEMBRE"
Dibattito libero sulle vicende che hanno portato all'arresto di sergio
Spina e dei suoi compagni

SINTONIZZIAMOCI SU
RADIO CITTA' 103 - BO (FM 103)
VENERDI' 18 FEBBRAIO 2000
ALLE ORE 18.30

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IRAQ E JUGOSLAVIA:
DUE POPOLI SOTTO EMBARGO

Gli embarghi costituiscono una terribile arma di guerra "a bassa
intensità", utilizzata
quando la guerra dei missili e delle bombe è finita. Essi rappresentano
una sorta di
"punizione", del tutto arbitraria, per le scelte politiche di un popolo
(esemplare il caso di
Cuba), e comportano per il paese colpito la mancanza di generi
fondamentali, a partire
dal cibo, dai medicinali e da tutto quanto è necessario alla
sopravvivenza quotidiana.

Tale "punizione" sta colpendo dal 1991 il popolo iracheno, e ha già
provocato la morte
di circa 1.500.000 persone. Adesso la stessa arma viene usata contro le
popolazioni
della Federazione Jugoslava, dove pure sta mietendo molte vittime,
specie tra anziani,
ammalati, bambini.

Allo stesso tempo, si va estendendo un tessuto di solidarietà che
consente di rompere il
muro dell?isolamento in cui questi paesi sono costretti. Lottare per
l?abolizione degli
embarghi, firmare e diffondere le petizioni e gli appelli a Governo e
Parlamento che
vanno in questa direzione, aderire alle iniziative di "adozioni a
distanza" e raccolta di
medicinali, partecipare a viaggi di conoscenza e solidarietà, sono
altrettanti modi per
dare un contributo concreto alla soluzione del problema.

Per discutere di tutto ciò, nell?ambito di "Galassia Gutenberg" (Napoli,
Mostra
d?Oltremare), sabato 19 febbraio alle ore 10, si terrà un momento di
dibattito e
confronto. Interverranno:

Slobodanka Ciric, portavoce della Comunità serba a Napoli

Fulvio Grimaldi, giornalista, autore di video e reportages su Iraq e
Jugoslavia

Fabio Marcelli, giurista, esperto di Diritto internazionale

Gordon Poole, docente, del Comitato Golfo e della redazione di
"Guerre&Pace"

Francesco Romanetti, giornalista de "Il Mattino"

Saranno proiettati brani dei video di Fulvio Grimaldi:
Iraq: genocidio nell?Eden
Serbi da morire

- Centro di documentazione "Patrizia Gatto" (centrodoc@...)
- Comitato Golfo ? Un ponte per Bagdad (Campagna "Rompere l?embargo")

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BUSSOLENO
martedi' 22 febbraio 2000, ore 21.00
presso la Sala consiliare di via Traforo 62

Coordinamento Torinese per la Jugoslavia, Centro sociale Meyer-Vighetti
di
Bussoleno, Dialogo in Valle, Gruppo Pace Condove, Comitato Habitat,
Rifondazione Comunista-Circoli di Val Susa e Val Sangone, Commissione
Internazionale PRC

ORGANIZZANO
INCONTRO DI SOLIDARIETA' CON I LAVORATORI DELLA ZASTAVA
DI BELGRADO
Interverranno
i delegati della Zastava di Kragujevac
RAJKA VELJOVIC, SRETEN MILICEVIC, MILAN DONCIC

La guerra in Jugoslavia non è finita: prima i bombardamenti Nato, ora
l'embargo con cui il capitalismo globale cerca di fiaccare la resistenza
e
la dignita' di un popolo, negandogli ogni speranza di vita e di
ricostruzione.
Invitiamo i lavoratori e la popolazione tutta ad intervenire per
ascoltare
la testimonianza dei lavoratori jugoslavi ed esprimere loro fraterna
solidarieta'.
Nel corso della serata si raccoglieranno fondi a favore di un bambino di
sette anni, STEFAN MARIC, di Belgrado: affetto da tumore alla spina
dorsale,
non puo' essere operato in Jugoslavia, perche', a causa dell'embargo,
mancano i mezzi tecnici. L'intervento puo' essere eseguito presso
l'Ospedale
Maggiore di Verona: sarebbe gratuito, ma le spese di degenza ammontano a
15
milioni di lire italiane.
I FIGLI DEGLI OPPRESSI SONO FIGLI NOSTRI!
NO ALL' EMBARGO!
SOSTENIAMO I DIRITTI DEL POPOLO JUGOSLAVO!

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07/02/2000



ASSIJUG

Associazione Italia Jugoslavia

Via Duranti, 5 - 06125 Perugia - Tel./Fax 075.42686

e-mail:assijug@...




Il 5 febbraio scorso si è svolta a Perugia un¹importante
iniziativa pubblica
promossa dall¹Assijug (Associazione Italia Jugoslavia) e dal
Comitato
Umbro Antimperialista. Tale iniziativa è stata tenuta assieme alla
Sezione Italiana del Tribunale Internazionale contro i crimini di
guerra della NATO diretto dall¹ex ministro di giustizia americano
Ramsey Clark che, com¹è noto, si è particolarmente distinto, in
questi
anni, nella denuncia dei crimini di guerra perpetrati dal governo
americano in Iugoslavia.
Stefano De Angelis, uno dei dirigenti nazionali della Sezione
Italiana del
Tribunale Internazionale, nel suo intervento ha posto ben in
risalto gli
scopi del Tribunale medesimo. Come obiettivo in Italia, per il
Tribunale, è
la messa sotto accusa politica e giuridica della Nato, dei governi
alleati,
del presidente Scalfaro e dell¹intero governo D¹Alema. Particolare
risalto
è stato dato alla denuncia della criminale campagna di
disinformazione
perpetrata dai mass-media nazionali e internazionali.
Falco Accame ha esposto chiaramente quali sono state le
responsabilità
abominevoli del governo D¹Alema nell¹aver condotto l¹Italia in
un¹avventura politica ed internazionale al di fuori di ogni
legalità
costituzionale; soffermandosi particolarmente sulle responsabilità
decennali dei governi nazionali di aver accettato un rapporto di
totale
subalternità e servilismo nella concessione di basi aeree e navali
agli Stati
Uniti e alla Nato. Ancora oggi dal 1973 l¹opinione pubblica
nazionale non
è ha conoscenza di quale trattato sia mai stato stipulato tra il
governo
italiano e quello americano per l¹uso militare dell¹isola della
Maddalena
(Sardegna), sulla quale la sovranità è totalmente americana.
Accame ha
insistito molto sull¹atteggiamento criminale di un governo che si
dice di
sinistra, ma che ha commesso reati politici tali che neanche i
peggiori
governi di destra in Italia hanno mai perpetrato.

Purtroppo è venuta a mancare, per motivi di salute, la
partecipazione del
giornalista Fulvio Grimaldi.
L¹iniziativa ha comunque avuto un ottimo successo la sala è stata
riempita (90/100 persone) grazie all¹adesione di molti compagni
che
hanno partecipato attivamente al dibattito con interventi e
domande
rivolte agli ospiti. Tutti sono stati concordi nel dare giudizi
negativi e
severissimi contro il governo D¹Alema e contro l¹intervento della
Nato in
Iugoslavia.

Alla fine dell¹assemblea la presidenza ha fatto chiaramente
riferimento
ad altre iniziative future da effettuare per continuare la
campagna di
controinformazione sulla guerra in Jugoslavia.

ASSIJUG
Associazione Italia Jugoslavia


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CHI C'E' DIETRO A "HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH"?

I legami tra i personaggi piu' influenti di HRW ed i centri decisionali
della politica estera statunitense, spiegati con nomi e cognomi.
Dalla lista stopnato@...

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Who is behind Human Rights Watch?

The backgrounds of the Board members at Human Rights Watch (HRW),
Europe-Central Asia section, with info on HRW and its sources of
funding.
HRW is founded on the idea that the values of the United States are
universal, and that the US must impose them on the rest of the world. As
the largest human-rights lobby, it is partly responsible for the
increasingly expansionist US foreign policy.


---------
No US citizen, and no US organisation, has any right to impose US values
on Europe. No concentration camps or mass graves can justify that
imposition. But Human Rights Watch finds it self-evident, that the
United
States may legitimately restructure any society, where a mass grave is
found. That was always a widespread belief in the United States, but it
is
fast becoming a consensus among the foreign policy elite. Human Rights
Watch itself is part of that elite, which includes government
departments,
foundations, NGO's and academics. It is not a association of "concerned
private citizens". HRW board members include present and past government
employees, and overlapping directorates link it to the major foreign
policy lobbies in the US. Cynically summarised, it is a joint venture of
George Soros and the State Department.
Human Rights Watch is an almost exclusively US-American organisation.
Its
version of human rights is the Anglo-American tradition. It is
"mono-ethical", recognising no legitimate ethical values outside its
own.
(Redistribution of wealth is a well-known example. In the Anglo-American
human-rights tradition, seizure and redistribution of the property of
the
rich is unethical. The tradition recognises no inherent value in
equality,
which could override property rights).

Although I do not believe that ethical values are culturally specific,
it
is true that one ethical tradition has become associated with the United
States. That includes the universal rights set out in its Declaration of
Independence and its Constitution. In a sense the US was "designed" as
an
interventionist power: interventionist human-rights organisations are a
logical result. They express the belief of most US citizens, that their
values are superior to all others.

Human Rights Watch operates a number of discriminatory exclusions, to
maintain its character.

Firstly, it is linguistically racist. Although it publishes material in
foreign languages to promote its views, the organisation itself is
English-only.


Secondly, the organisation discriminates on grounds of nationality. As
the
list below makes clear, non-Americans are systematically excluded at
board
level. The organisation apparently recruits employees only in the United
States, in English. (US readers of this site may be unfamiliar with
multilingual cross-border employment, but it does exist in Europe).


Third, the organisation discriminates on grounds of social class. Again,
the list makes clear that board members are recruited from the upper
class, and upper-middle class. Although I traced almost all the board
members professions, there are none from middle-income occupations - let
alone any poor illegal immigrants, or Somali peasants.
Human Rights Watch can therefore claim no ethical superiority. It is
itself involved in practices it condemns elsewhere, such as
discrimination
in employment, and exclusion from social structures. It can also claim
no
neutrality. An organisation which will not allow a Serb or Somali to be
a
board member, can give no neutral assessment of a Serbian or Somali
state.
It would probably be impossible for an all-American, English-only elite
organisation, to be anything else but paternalistic.



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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Helsinki Steering Committee
This is the Europe section of the Board of HRW, which is split into
sections approximately by continent. The section was established in 1978
(in the late 1970's human rights became the main issue in Cold War
propaganda). The unit in the organisation is called the Europe and
Central
Asia Division. It is affiliated with the International Helsinki
Federation
for Human Rights, which co-ordinates the "Helsinki committees". Source:
HRW Board of Directors & Advisory Committees
Jonathan Fanton, Chair

An academic and foundation man. Former Vice President of the University
of
Chicago, in 1982 appointed as President of the New School for Social
Research, now the New School University. He is active in building US
academic contacts with eastern Europe, directed at the new pro-western
elites, see the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) page.
Alice H. Henkin, Co-Vice Chair
Director of the Justice and Society Program at the Aspen Institute, an
elite think-tank.
Note their report Honoring Human Rights: From Peace to Justice proposing
United Nations mission strategies later used in Kosovo.

Peter Osnos, Co-Vice Chair
George Soros' publisher. He is Chief Executive of Public Affairs
publishers.
Morton Abramowitz
A link to the US Foreign Policy establishment, one of several at HRW.
Abramowitz was U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1989-91) and Assistant
Secretary
of State for Intelligence and Research (1985-89), among other posts: see
his personal details at the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, where he
is
a Fellow. The CFR is the heart of interventionist US policy since 1921
(and hated by the isolationist right).
He directed the CFR Balkan Economic Task Force, which published a report
on "Reconstructing the Balkans".

Barbara Finberg
A donor of HRW, see the list below. A retired vice president with the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, who donated $1 million to Stanford
University.
Felice Gaer
Human rights specialist at the American Jewish Committee and chair of
the
Steering Committee for the 50th anniversary of the UN Human Rights
Declaration, see this biography:
"Ms.Gaer is Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the
Advancement
of Human Rights. Author, speaker, and activist, she is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the Andrei
Sakharov Foundation, a member of the International Human Rights Council
at
the Carter Center, ...Vice President of the International League for
Human
Rights."
According to this JTA report, Gaer praised Madeleine Albright for her
"outstanding human rights record".
Felice Gaer was also a non-governmental member of the United States
delegation to a United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in
Geneva,
where (according to the Voice of America) she denounced Sudan, saying
the
the U.S. "cannot accept those who invoke Islam or other religions as
justification for atrocious human rights abuses." However, more
interesting is this speech at the Geneva meeting, where she suggested
the
UN should no longer investigate prison rapes in the US: "we would urge
the
Special Rapporteurs to focus their attention on countries where the
situation is the most dire and the abuses the most severe."

Michael Gellert
Vice Chairman of the Board at Fanton's New School for Social Research.
Investment manager and Trustee of the Carnegie Institute.
Gellert is a director of Premier Parks Inc., owner of the Six Flags and
Walibi theme park chains. Also a director of:
High Speed Access Corp.,
Devon Energy Corporation,
Humana Inc..



Paul Goble
Director of Communications and political commentator at Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty, the Cold War propaganda transmitters that survived
the end of the Cold War. From their website
"Free Europe, Inc., was established in 1949 as non-profit, private
corporations to broadcast news and current affairs programs to Eastern
European countries behind the Iron Curtain. The Radio Liberty Committee,
Inc., was created two years later along the same lines to broadcast to
the
nations inside the Soviet Union. Both were funded principally by the
U.S.
Congress, through the Central Intelligence Agency, but they also
received
some private donations as well. The two corporations were merged into a
single RFE/RL, Inc. in 1975."

It is still funded by the US Government, through Congressional
appropriation.

Bill Green
Former Republican member of Congress, a trustee of the New School for
Social Research (where Fanton is President), with many other public and
business posts: see the biography at the American Assembly, an
academic/political think-tank.
Stanley Hoffman
A pro-interventionist theorist (of course that means US intervention,
not
a Taliban invasion of the US). Professor at Harvard, see his biography.
Note that his colleagues include Daniel Goldhagen, who openly advocated
occupation of Serbia, to impose a US-style democracy: see A New Serbia.
Robert James
Also on the Board of Human Rights in China, another Soros-funded
organisation.
Jack Matlock
US Ambassador to the Soviet Union during its collapse, 1987-1991. Author
of Autopsy On An Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the
Collapse
of the Soviet Union (Random House, 1995).
Member of the large Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council. The
Atlantic Council is more than a pro-NATO fan club: it supports an
expansionist US foreign policy in general. Note their recent paper (in
pdf
format) Beyond Kosovo, a redesign of the Balkans within the framework of
the proposed Stability Pact.

The Atlantic Council list of sponsors is a delight for
corporate-conspiracy theorists. Yes, it is all paid for by the
Rockefeller
foundation, the Soros foundation, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Boeing,
Lockheed, Northrop, Exxon, British Nuclear Fuels, the US Army and the
European Union.

Conspiracy theorists will also be delighted to see that Matlock attended
the 1996 Bilderberg Conference.



Herbert Okun
Career diplomat, former Special Advisor on Yugoslavia to Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance, Deputy Co-Chairman of the International Conference on
the former Yugoslavia. Member of the Board of the Lawyers Alliance for
World Security (LAWS) and its affiliate the Committee for National
Security (CNS) which gives this biography:
Ambassador Herbert Okun is the U.S. member and Vice-President of the
International Narcotics Control Board, and Visiting Lecturer on
International Law at Yale Law School. Previously, he was the Deputy
Chairman on the U.S. delegation at the SALT II negotiations and led the
U.S. delegation in the trilateral U.S.-U.K.-USSR Talks on the CTBT. From
1991 to 1993 Ambassador Okun was Special Advisor on Yugoslavia to
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Personal Envoy of the U.N. Secretary
General, and Deputy Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the
former Yugoslavia. He also served as Deputy Permanent Representative of
the United States to the UN from 1985 to 1989 serving on the General
Assembly, the Disarmament Committee and the Committee on Peaceful Uses
of
Outer Space. Amb. Okun was also U.S. Ambassador to the former German
Democratic Republic.

He was from 1990-97 Executive Director of the Financial Services
Volunteer
Corps, "a non-profit organization providing voluntary assistance to help
establish free-market financial systems in former communist countries",
see his biography at International Security Studies at Yale University,
where he is also a board member. This Corps is a de facto agency of
USAID,
see how it is listed country-by-country in their report. Although it is
not relevant to Human Rights Watch, this curriculum vitae gives a good
impression of the kind of international elite created by such programs.

Okun is also a member emeritus of the board of the European Institute in
Washington, an Atlanticist lobby. It organises the European-American
Policy Forum, the European-American Congressional Forum, and the
Transatlantic Joint Security Policies Project. Okun is a special advisor
to the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict funded by the
Carnegie Corporation. (It links pro-western international elite figures
advocating a formal structure for control of states by the
"international
community").

Okun was a member of a Task Force (including Bianca Jagger and George
Soros) on war criminals: see their report . Although it also demands "UN
Sanctions Against States Harboring Indicted War Criminals" it is
unlikely
that the Task Force members meant the man quoted at the start of their
report, President Clinton.

A curiosity: this human rights supporter is accused of an attempt to
destroy the right to free speech, in his post at the International
Narcotics Control Board: see A Duty to Censor: U.N. Officials Want to
Crack Down on Drug War Protesters in the libertarian Reason Magazine.



Jane Olson
Also co-chair of the California section of HRW, see this biography. One
of
the few who are simply human rights activists, although her views are
clearly 100% acceptable to the US Government. She was appointed a member
of the U.S. delegation to the 1991 Conference on Security and
Cooperation
in Europe (CSCE) in Moscow.
Again note, that US citizens consider it normal to travel to Europe, to
decide on that continents Security and Cooperation - but there is
absolutely no "Conference on North American Security and Cooperation",
where Europeans arrive to tell Americans what to do.

She is also a member of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
one
of many small globalist groups, advocating peace and some vague form of
world government.



Barnett Rubin
Academic and Soros-institutes advisor. Director of the "Center for
Preventive Action" at the Council on Foreign Relations.The center is
funded by the US Government through USIP, and by the Carnegie
Corporation
as part of their program Preventing Deadly Conflict. "Preventive Action"
means intervention.
He is a member of the centers South Balkans Working Group, and edited a
1996 Council on Foreign Relations study Towards Comprehensive Peace in
Southeast Europe: Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans. Rubin is an
Afghanistan specialist, also on the Board of the Asia division of HRW.
He
authored and edited several works on Afghanistan. Rubin apparently has a
curious attitude to the Taliban, seeing them as a bulwark against
Islamic
radicalism . See this letter to NPR, entitled Afghanistan Whitewash:
While the Lyden-Rubin conversation made no mention of US support for the
Taliban, they referred several times to US "pressure" on the Taliban to
now respect human rights. This is a total white wash which distorts the
historical record beyond recognition.

Rubin is on the Advisory Board of the Soros Foundation Central Eurasia
Project. He is an advisor of the Forced Migration Project of Soros' Open
Society Institute, and he is also on the Board of the Soros Humanitarian
Fund for Tajikistan. Perhaps most interesting is that the U.S. Institute
of Peace (a de facto government agency) gave him a grant to research
"formation of a new state system in Central Eurasia".
Barnett Rubin articles on Central Asia

This may be repetitive, but note once again that there are absolutely no
Foundations or Institutes in Central Asia, which pay people to design
"new
state systems" in North America. For people like Rubin "human rights"
mean
simply that the US designs the world: at the same time, the US might
accept the Taliban, if it was a strategic interest. See this article at
the Soros Central Asia site, The Political Economy of War and Peace in
Afghanistan, advocating a de facto colonial government in Afghanistan
financed by oil revenues.

Rubin is also a member of the US State Department Advisory Committee on
Religious Freedom Abroad. The Final Report of this Committee also sums
up
what the United States can do, when it finds religious freedom has been
infringed. The list begins at "friendly, persuasive: open an embassy"
and
ends with "act of war".

Note also that Rubin was also involved in the 1997 New York meeting,
where
the United States attempted to create a unified Yugoslav opposition,
with
among others Vuk Draskovic: see my site on Vesna Pesic or the PER site.



Leon Sigal
NOTE: I can find no website matching this info on "Leon Sigal" to HRW. I
assume it is the same person, although I do not understand why an expert
on Asian issues is on the board for the European division of HRW.
Consultant to the Social Science Research Council, member of the Board
of
Advisors at Globalbeat Syndicate, part of the New York University Dept
of
Journalism. See their article on Lessons From The War In Kosovo.

>From Globalbeat:
He is a former member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times,
where
he wrote frequently on nuclear issues, and is the author of many books
and
articles on both international security and media issues.

Sigal authored Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea
(Princeton University Press 1998). He is a Project member of the
Committee
on Nuclear Policy.



Malcolm Smith
no information yet
George Soros
>From the Public Affairs site, the biography of George Soros, financier of
HRW and of numerous organisations in eastern Europe with pro-American,
pro-market policies.


George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. In 1947 he emigrated
to England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics.
While
a student in London, Mr. Soros became familiar with the work of the
philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking
and
later on his philanthropic activities. In 1956 he moved to the United
States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an
international investment fund he founded and managed.

Mr. Soros currently serves as chairman of Soros Fund Management L.L.C.,
a
private investment management firm that serves as principal investment
advisor to the Quantum Group of Funds. The Quantum Fund N.V., the oldest
and largest fund within the Quantum Group, is generally recognized as
having the best performance record of any investment fund in the world
in
its twenty-nine-year history.

Mr. Soros established his first foundation, the Open Society Fund, in
New
York in 1979 and his first Eastern European foundation in Hungary in
1984.
He now funds a network of foundations that operate in thirty-one
countries
throughout Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, as
well as southern Africa, Haiti, Guatemala, Mongolia and the United
States.
These foundations are dedicated to building and maintaining the
infrastructure and institutions of an open society. Mr. Soros has also
founded other major institutions, such as the Central European
University
and the International Science Foundation. In 1994, the foundations in
the
network spent a total of approximately $300 million; in 1995, $350
million; in 1996, $362 million; and in 1997, $428 million. Giving for
1998
is expected to be maintained at that level.

In addition to many articles on the political and economic changes in
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Mr. Soros is the author of
The
Alchemy of Finance, Opening the Soviet System, Underwriting Democracy,
and
Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve.

Mr. Soros has received honorary doctoral degrees from the New School for
Social Research, the University of Oxford, the Budapest University of
Economics, and Yale University. In 1995, the University of Bologna
awarded
Mr. Soros its highest honor, the Laurea Honoris Causa, in recognition of
his efforts to promote open societies throughout the world.
Soros Foundations Network

Open Society Institute Staff Directory

Privatization Project

Open Society Institute Budapest



Donald J. Sutherland
Also on the advisory board of the World Policy Institute.
Ruti Teitel
Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York Law School, see his
biography. In the last few years he has specialised in the Constitutions
of eastern European countries, and advised on the new Ukrainian
constitution.
William D. Zabel
George Soros legal advisor, on foundation and charity law. A estate and
family financial lawyer for the rich at Schulte, Roth, and Zabel. His
biography lists his involvement with these Soros Foundations: "Newly
Independent States and the Baltic Republics, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria
and Central European University and Open Society Fund". See this
biographical article originally from the National Law Journal:
When fate knocks, rich ring for Zabel
He is a trustee of Fanton's New School of Social Research, and member of
the Advisory Board of the World Policy Institute at the New School.

Zabel is a director of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. The
Lawyers
Committee for Human Rights is one of the partners in the "Apparel
Industry
Partnership", a group set up by the Clinton administration and the US
clothing and footwear industries to defuse criticism of conditions in
their factories. The (not particularly radical) US trade union
federation
refuses to co-operate with it.

Zabel is also on the Board of Doctors of the World, the USA branch of
Medecins du Monde, founded by Bernard Kouchner in 1980. Kouchner is now
the UN Representative ( the "governor") in Kosovo. Despite the name,
Medecins du Monde is a purely western organisation, see the affiliate
list.



Warren Zimmermann
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia during its break-up, author of Origins of
Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers. A Cold-War career diplomat,
long active in US human rights campaigns against eastern Europe. See
this
site for an extreme pro-Bosniac assessment of his book by Branka Magas,
alleging he appeased Milosevic: "In the event, by pursuing Yugoslavia's
unity rather than supporting Slovenia and Croatia in their demands for
either the country's confederal transformation or its peaceful
dissolution, the United States helped ensure its violent break-up". (I
think it is logically consistent with US values and interests, that the
US
supported one policy around 1990 and another in Kosovo. The real problem
is that so many people in Europe expect the US to design their states
and
write their Constitutions. It is because of this attitude, that people
like Zimmermann, and organisations like HRW, can flourish) Zimmermann is
now a professor of Diplomacy at Columbia University. If you think the
"amoral diplomat" is a stereotype, look at his Contemporary Diplomacy
course. This is his assignment for the young future diplomats:
Imagine that you are a member of Secretary Albright's Policy Planning
Staff. She has asked you to write a strategy paper for one of the
following diplomatic challenges:

--Dealing with NATO expansion and with the countries affected;

--Crafting a more energetic and assertive US approach to the Israeli-PLO
deadlock;

--Raising the American profile in sub-Saharan Africa;

--Developing a US initiative to improve relations with Cuba;

--Forging an American approach to Central Asia and its energy wealth;

--Making better use of the UN and other multilateral organizations like
OSCE;

--Weighing the relative priorities between pursuing human rights

and keeping open lucrative economic opportunities;

--Increasing interest in, and support for, US foreign policy among the
American people.

With Barnett Rubin, Zimmermann is a member of the Advisory Board of the
Forced Migration Project at Soros Open Society Institute.

With Felice Gaer, Zimmermann is also on the Board of the
quasi-commercial
International Dispute Resolution Associates. (Peacemaking has become big
business, but IDR is also funded by the US Government through the USIP).

He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs




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HRW DONORS
>From the HRW website, this 1995 list is is the latest available online.


DONORS OF $100,000 OR MORE
Dorothy and Lewis Cullman
The Aaron Diamond Foundation
Irene Diamond
The Ford Foundation
The Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett Fund
Estate of Anne Johnson
The J. M. Kaplan Fund
The Fanny and Leo Koerner Charitable Trust
The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The John Merck Fund
The Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
Novib, The Dutch Organization for Development Corporation,
The Overbrook Foundation
Oxfam
Donald Pels
The Ruben and Elisabeth Rausing Trust
The Rockefeller Foundation
Marion and Herbert Sandler, The Sandler Family Supporting Foundation
Susan and George Soros
Shelby White and Leon Levy


DONORS OF $25,000 - $99,999

The Arca Foundation
Helen and Robert Bernstein
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Nikki and David Brown
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Compton Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Davis
The Dr. Seuss Foundation
Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller
Jack Edelman
Epstein Philanthropies
Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits de L'Homme
Barbara Finberg
General Service Foundation
Abby Gilmore and Arthur Freierman
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
Katherine Graham, The Washington Post Company
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Hudson News
Independence Foundation
The Isenberg Family Charitable Trust
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Robert and Ardis James
Jesuit Refugee Service
Nancy and Jerome Kohlberg
Lyn and Norman Lear
Joshua Mailman
Medico International
Moriah Fund, Inc.
Ruth Mott Fund
Kathleen Peratis and Richard Frank
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
Ploughshares Fund
Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
Anita and Gordon Roddick
Edna and Richard Salomon
Lorraine and Sid Sheinberg
Margaret R. Spanel
Time Warner Inc.
U.S. Jesuit Conference
Warner Brothers, Inc.
Edie and Lew Wasserman
Maureen White and Steven Rattner
Malcolm Wiener and Carolyn Seely Wiener
The Winston Foundation for World Peace




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