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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: "MIM" ("Maoist") Posts Discontinued.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.003148.5327@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:31:48 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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- Re: Discontinuation of MIM on misc.activism.progressive(MAP) & ACTIV-L
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- After discussing the matter, we have decided to no longer forward the
- "MIM" ("Maoist International Movement") posts (although continuing
- some of the other New York Transfer Service ("nyxfer") posts) on the
- grounds that, in any meaningful sense of the word, MIM and the Shining
- Path terrorists they support are not "progressive" and hence do not
- belong in misc.activism.progressive (LaRouche too claimed to be a
- "progressive" at one time).
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- The recent 3-part "The Reactionary Shining Path" posts detailing the
- murderous campaign of Peru's Maoist guerrillas against community;
- labor; women's movement; and other demoratic progressive grassroots
- organizations and leaders speaks loudly and clearly on this matter,
- and the so-called left/progressive "credentials" of the Shining Path /
- Sendero Lumenoso / Peru Co / Peru Communist Party terrorists.
-
- We will shortly post also Radio Havana's condemnation of Sendero
- alonside its deathsquad moral equivalent, the Peruvian army.
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- In fact, just yesterday (1/8) Americas Watch released a report on the
- deliberate violence against women employed as a *strategy* by both the
- Peruvian army (rape as a tactical weapon of war) and the reactionary
- Sendero/Shining Path (deliberate targeting of women for murder in
- order to terrorize communities and prevent struggles against the
- Peruvian dictatorship independent of Sendero Maoist dogma and,
- crucially, Sendero control).
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- While misc.activism.progressive (MAP) has tolerated and will continue
- to tolerate analysis from various sources/perspective with which we do
- not always agree, "MIM" is has been a steadfast apologist for the
- reactionary Shinining Path thugs (with its "the SCIENCE of Maoism"
- [emphasis added], "Gonzalo-thought" etc), and is about as
- "progressive" as Ronald Reagan was for "freedom" and "democracy" -- or
- about as much as the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
- was "democratic" -- or "socialist" -- it was neither.
-
- "MIM" can continue their posts on the unmoderated alt.activism and
- other newsgroups with far larger audience, of course, just as we
- support freedom of speech on the Net and elsewhere for others with
- whom we passionately disagree, but we will no longer sanction its
- reactionary views under the "progressive" umbrella of MAP/ACTIV-L, and
- all future submissions from MIM will not be accepted.
-
- Harel Barzilai, co-founder, MAP and ACTIV-L
- Rich Winkel co-founder, MAP and ACTIV-L
-
- Phillip Zerbo, NLNS ; MAP / ACTIV-L LaborNet coordinator
- Formerly with CISPES, University of Oregon El Salvador Sister
- University Project.
- Jym Dyer, MAP and ACTIV-L EcoNet coordinator
- (Having also worked with human rights and solidarity
- organizations in Latin America)
-