7/f-— Thetuberculosisrateis8timesthenationalaverage NO. 34 On some reservations the teenage suicide rate is ten times the nationalaverage R 25%ofNativewomenhavebeensterilisedwithoutinformedconsent 25-35% of all Native children under 18 are removed from their familiesby‘childwelfare’andfostered,adoptedorinsitutionalised Another 27% are forcibly boarded-out by the racist Bureau of "1 IndianAffairs TheaveragelifeexpectancyforNativeAmericansis47years L [Source:WomenofAllRedNations] ,1 ll J“, Butthereis, andalwayswas, resistance. Everydecadesince 1492has witnessedindigineousrevolt,fromAlaskatoChile. TheSeminoleWarsof IN roan l\'t‘\01\ 1812-36sawNativeIndiansjoiningwithrunawayAfrikanslavesandsome marginalisedwhitestoformapowerfulanti-stateforce. Similaralliances wereformedinS.AmericaandtheCaribbean. Suchjointresistancemust be amodelfortoday’s fightback, afactrecognisedintheDeclarationof Quito, drawnupin 1990by 120Nativedelegatesfrom all theAmericas. 1‘ The Declaration states; ‘’We must march alongside the peasants, the workersandthemarginalisedsectors.....inordertodestroy........oppression andconstructanewsociety”. Oneworld,onepeople.. .onestruggle. JULY/AUG/SEPT i992 CONFRONTINGCOLUMBUS InOctober 1991 amassinhonourofColumbusinSevilleCathedral, Spain, wasabruptlyhaltedbyhundredsofdemonstrators,includingNative Americans,Europeansupporters,andlocalanarchists andsquatters. Thesamemonthbetween30-50,000marchedthroughXelainGuatemala toprotesttheplanned ‘celebrations’ TheSpanishCNT[anarcho-syndicalist]hascalledforatotalboycottand sabotageofany500Years ‘celebrations’. InLiverpooltheanti-500Campaignhasalreadyforcedlocalgovernment tochange ‘celebrations’ to ‘commemorations' on theadvertising. There havebeen,andwillbe,manymoreactions. Ifyouknowofany,pleasesend us an accountforafuturearticle. The destructionofthe NativeAmericans was thecommencementofa processwhichhasnowspreadworld-wide. MOREDESTRUCTION,MORERESISTANCE Itwasn’tatall-shipthatdockedinLiverpoolonMarch3,butaboatload ofMalaysianhardwood. Anditwasn’tgreetedbyvisitingroyalty,buta 400-strong blockade ofenvironmental direct-actionists, including Irish, German,andUScontingents. Craneswereoccupied. Manydemonstrators ’-, werearrestedandheldinagiant‘chicken~coop’. Allwerereleasedwhen Liverpooldockersthreatenedto strike. There have been similar actions in Germany and Australia, while in Sarawak itself, the displaced Penan and Dayak tribes have foughtback staunchlywithblockadesandsabotage, sometimessupportedbyactivists ts‘ from Europe and the US, 8 ofwhom were deported from Sarawakafter spending months in jail with Penan blockaders. Thousands of Native 4? peoplehavejoinedblockadesatLongAjengandSungaisince1989. lake 442,’ 2* BurbridgeofEarthFirst! UK,whowasoneofthejailed8,says;"Things 4’0us"git./$\'° cannotgetmuchworse. ThePenanandDayaksfacetotaldestruction oftheirforestsby 1995". Allovertheplanet,inAustralia,Philippines,E.Timor,Indonesia,andall the Americas, tribal peoples are being displaced and their life-styles destroyedbythecliqueofrichparasites whoplundertheworld’s wealth. CONQUISTADOR means ‘conqueror'. Onewhogains by 73%oftheworld’snaturalresourcesareownedby50giantcorporations. force, whosubjugates. Which is what George Bush and King Everyday,50speciesoffloraandfaunabecomeextinct. Meantimeatthe Juan Carlos ofSpain will celebratewhen they greet the tall- ‘Earth Summit’ inBrazil, theyes-menputtheirheads together andswap shipssymbolicarrivalinLiverpoollaterthisyear. Thegaining dandruff. Theywillchangenothing. Realchangecomes frombelow. In byforceofanentirecontinentand thesubjugationofitsNative one Brazilian province the bosses’ hit-men have murdered 173 activists peoples. 500 yearsofmass-murder,torture, rapeandslavery. since 1980,butthestrugglecontinues. WhenColumbus arrivedin 1492,theAmericashadanestimatedpopu- The geneticark isbeingdestroyedbytherobber-barons. We must lation of90 million people. By 1790 the Nativepopulation stood at 20 stopthem beforeitgetstoolate. Getinvolved. million. Theonslaughtcontinues. _ Contact;EarthFirst!UK,9CazenoveRd,LONDONN16 AKINDER,GENTLER,GENOCIDE MerseysideGreenAnarchistlEarthFirst!.meetIst&3rdMondayofthemonthat For the Native population of Bush’s ‘kinder, gentler America’, life = TheMutualAidCentre,45See!St,LiverpoolL1 oppression; 500YearsofResistance,Box13,1NewtonSt.,ManchesterM1 IHW Unemploymentonthereservationsisbetween50-80% SPAIN;Desenmarceremos,[WeUnmask92],c/Campomanes13,2Piso,Madrid. CANADA,'OH-TOH-KIN(newNativeResistancepaper).POB0x2881,Vancouver Theinfantmortalityrateis3timesthenationalaverage BC,VGB3X4,Canada. Q PEDAL POWER Q STILL OPEN! . NO TO NUKILLEH POWER 100 CYCLE Couriers and supporters took CLAIMANTS are keeping Edinburgh ANEWnuclearPressurisedWaterReactoris over London’s Oxford St. on 30 March. UnemployedWorkersCentreopen,toprovide plannedatChapelcross, SWScotland. The Cyclistsmarkedthedeathofacyclecourier “resources, advice and solidarity” for the Chapelcross Watchdog and Action Group run over by a TNT artic on 20 March by unwaged,lowwaged,localcommunityandall say “This project is dangerous and cycling together at a snail’s pace through resistinginjustice. Theyaredefyingaminority unnecessary and local people will resist London’sWestEnd,brieflyblockingthefatal of Centre Trustees - including Labour it.".Locals havealready had a small victory junctionandattachtingawreathtothetraffic CouncillorsKinderandLoughney-whohave in holding upthedrillingofbore-holes. lights. illegally removed Centre equipment . EUWC, ContactChapelcross WatchdogandAction InfoMovingTarget. 103BroughtonSt.. Open 12-4weekdays. Tel Group, Bankhead Cottage, Canonbie, 0315570718. Writec/0 1stFloor,20Melville Dumfriesshire Terrace, EdinburghEH9 1LY FD at ‘- 6 1%? En?) Z l'~'\ j(ll THE RAPE OF THE MARION COMES TO MAGHABERRY BRITAIN LESS than20% ofScotland’spotential electoratevotedTory. WOMEN AS the Irish women defended Anger at the Conservative UK election victory has led to ASRepublicanwomenprisonersin themselves, prisoners inWhitemore, widespread demands for a referendum on the creation of a Maghaberry Prison, Co Antrim, Britain’snew£34milliontop-security Scottish Parliament. preparedto celebrateIntemational jail for ‘problem’ prisoners, held a TheToryrejectionofareferendumexposesBritish“democ- Womens’Day,theNorthernIreland peaceful work strike against the racy”asasham. Butthereferendumoptionsof‘devolution’or Office decided to make their own Marion-styletechno-repressionofthe ‘independence’ arenowayforward. contribution. ‘new-generation‘prisonregime. The -On March 2 the women were strikewas solidinC andD wings. Devolution - a Scottish parliament within the UK - would orderedtoremainintheircellstobe Atmidnighttheriotsqadmovedin change virtually nothing. Labourand the Liberal Democrats stripsearched. Despitetheirstrong and forcibly removed strikers tothe would have more power,while the dominanceofthe UK state objections, 21 women prisoners punishmentblock. 24prisonerswere and big businesswas preserved. were stripped naked by gangs of immediatelyshippedofftosegregation Independence for Scotland would be a blow to the British malescrewsinriotgearandforcibly unitsinotherjails. Oneofthesewas ruling class. But itwould do nothing to give ordinary people examined. Their mouths were John Bowden who has long more control,orabetterlife. covered to stifle screams. Each campaignedforprisoners’rights,and A new Scottish government would be working within the attack was heard by all the other exemplifies whatthe State means by capitalist set-up - multinationals , European Community and women, who thus spent hours ‘problemprisoners’-thosewhoknow all. Its major aim would be boosting the profitability of the listening to their comrades being theirrightsandarewillingtofightfor sexuallyassaultedbeforetheirown them. Scottisheconomy. Thiswouldmeanattacksonwages,services turncame. Whitemore is a state-of-the-art andworkers’ rights- allaccompaniedbyferventexhortations Onewomanwashospitalised. All model ofrepression. Iohn says. “If totighten ourbeltsfor Scotland..... received injuries, and will have to prisoners do not organise The new pro-referendum groups - Scotland United (domi- spend long years in the very cells themselves, they will be denied natedbypro-devolutionLabourMP5andSTUCbureaucrats), where theywereviolated. anyshredofhumanrightsordignity. Democracy for Scotland (“a non-party political network The women have since been A regime like Whitemore must be seekingaconsensusforchange”),andCommonCause("aCivic charged with assaultbecause they resisted in order to preserve one’s ForumonScotland’sdemocraticfuture”)-ignoresocialstrug- defendedthemselves. sanity.” gle. More positively, the republican Scottish Democratic Re- Letters ofsupport; Carol Cullen. CZ, About 30 Whitemore strikers are sistanceadvocate“amasscampaign,locallybased,nobureau- Maglraberry Women's Prison. Old stillbeingheldinvarioussegregation Road. UpperBallirzderry. Lisbrtrn. Co units. cratic control”. Antrim.NI. Write; John Bowden B41173, Seg Unit The angerat injustice mustnot be diverted into a constitu- Updatesfrom; The Centre, .51/5 Falls D108,HMPPentonville,CaledonionRd, tional cul-de-sac! The directaction ofthe anti poll tax move- Rd,BELFASTBT12. London. Updates; TakingLiberties, PO ment shows the way. Let’s extend the grass-roots resistance Box446,Sheffield which has made the poll tax unworkable - andmake Scotland IT DOESN’T HAPPEN ungovernable. A POUND OF FLESH HERE? Privatisation,cuts,testingprimarypupils,collectingpolltax THEStatehasexacteditsrevengeon WHILE infamous cases like the arrears, Trident, the Asylum Bill, the Child Support Act, 4oftheStrangewaysMutineers. After Birmingham 6, Tottenham 3 and nucleardumping allcouldbemadeimpossibletoimplement a12-weekshowtrialduringwhichthe bymassdirectactioninworkplaces,inschools,inhospitals,on Judith Ward highlight England’s defendants sat encased in a perspex horrific record of ‘justice’, the box, the4receivedatotalofover30 thestreets,atmilitarybases......Thesestruggleswillneedtolink Scottish system has escaped years. up with the similar battles being fought in England, Wales, embarrassment.StephenWindsor’s Updates; Manchester ABC, Box 8, 1 throughoutEurope andworld-wide. casecouldchangethat. NewtonSt.,Piccadilly,Manchester. Liberation cannot be won in Scotland alone. Like John Stephen wasjailed in 1985 for Macleanwewant“thepeopleofthe world(to)getthe worldand armed robbery and the attempted retain the world.” murder of two Edinburgh police CRECHING MEETINGS Senda SAEforourexpandedA4 leafleton thissubject. officers.Hewassoblatantlyframed Greater Pilton Childcare Action that even the conservative --11v--.‘''“..|_._..¢.'-1.--‘_u--'-.‘‘1.¢-.---_-=_.-‘.a-'1‘'--‘.‘.'‘--r.-¢-.<-_-._'-_¢----..4----‘'-‘-._'t1.¢..-_-'.-._1¢‘--'‘1-''---'._J-..---<'.¢._1--‘‘'-.__.¢--'.‘.-.'<-‘--'-.-_.'---1.--‘¢.'¢'.1-.1-.<-1‘...¢-.‘'..<..3-4<1‘--..3''¢'.-1<1--3-...t'‘'--'¢'¢4...-.

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