Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:26:29 -0700 From: mnovickttt-AT-igc.org (Michael Novick) Subject: AUT: Vienna Racism Observatory Opens Soon >Return-Path: <owner-antiracism-eur-l-AT-mail.comlink.apc.org> >Sender: owner-antiracism-eur-l-AT-mail.comlink.apc.org >To: antiracism-eur-l-AT-mail.comlink.apc.org >From: DEBRA-AT-OLN.comlink.apc.org (Debra Guzman) >Path: oln.comlink.apc.org >Organization: HURINet/Human Rights Info Network >Subject: AUT: Vienna Racism Observatory Opens Soon >Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:12:00 +0100 >Reply-TO: DEBRA-AT-OLN.comlink.apc.org (Debra Guzman) >X-Gateway: ZCONNECT sonne.comlink.apc.org [UNIX/Connect v0.74b4MB06] >Lines: 43 >Sender: owner-antiracism-eur-l-AT-mail.comlink.apc.org >Precedence: bulk > >Edited/Distributed by HURINet - The Human Rights Information Network >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >## author : sensenig-AT-fc.alpin.or.at >## date : 07.06.97 >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >EU Racism Bureau in Vienna > >The Austrian liberal daily =F4Der Standard=F6 reported on >Tuesday, June 3, 1997 that the EU will be locating its >=F4Observation Centre for Racism and Nativism=F6 >(Beobachtungsstelle fuer Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit) >in the Austrian capital. This will be the first EU authority >to be situated in Austria. It will employ a staff of 25 to >collect data on nativist acts in Europe incorporating this >material in a computer archive. The Vienna bureau is >projected to open this year. > >Vienna is certainly the best EU state capital to host this >authority considering that Austria is the only member state >to still officially practice nativism and racism. According >to the EU Commission=C6s own Dublin Foundation, =F4the legal >regime in Austria produces racism instead of combating it.=F6 >(Preventing Racism 1996, 72) This long standing tradition, >which dates back to the Habsburg Empire, manifests itself >mainly in the fields of social welfare policy, employment, >and labour union affairs. > >Only when lions have their own historians will history not >glorify the hunters.=F6 (African saying) > >If the new Vienna bureau is to truly study racism in Europe >then the Austrian government, now officially recognised as >being racist, should have as little influence on the >start-up and staff choices as possible. Furthermore it is >very likely that the social partners, especially the labour >unions (OeGB) and Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer) will >attempt to prevent social policy, welfare, employment, and >union organisation from being studied by the new bureau. One >reason for this is the singular and very unusual policy of >the OeGB preventing its Southern Slav and Turkish/Kurdish >members from becoming shop stewards, union functionaries, >and Chamber of Labour functionaries. > > In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Be PART of the solution -- People Against Racist Terror/PO Box 1055/Culver City CA 90232-1055/ 310-288-5003/ Order our journal: "Turning the Tide." The unjust verdict on Geronimo has been reversed! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free All P.O.W.'s and Political Prisoners! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty! --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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