Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:04:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: M-G: Chiapas world-wide online campaign (fwd)




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>***Please immediately forward this message to all progressive websites,
>listserves,***     newsgroups, and individuals with which you are 
aquainted.
>This is an emergency.
>
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>To: All concerned individuals and webmasters
>From: Chiapas Alert Network
>http://www.stewards.net/chiapas/10.htm
>staff-AT-stewards.net
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>Hi there,
>
With just a two minute effort, you can help to end the brutal 
paramilitary
and military violence and intimidation currently directed by the 
Mexican government and its ruling party against Indigenous civilians in 
Mexico's southern state of Chiapas.  Many respected international human
rights organizations such as Amnesty International have  roundly denounced
the recent violence in Chiapas as an extreme violation of human rights.


If you are an *individual*, please go to
http://www.stewards.net/chiapas/47.htm  where you will find an 
automated messaging system which will enable you to instantly and
automatically send copies of a strong pre-prepared letter of protest, or a
letter of your own
design, to all three Nafta governments - Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, 
as well as the European Union.  These protest letters will carry both your 
own name and your email address.

If you are a *webmaster*, please go to
http://www.newhumans.com/chiapas/hotlogo1.html, where you will be able 
to obtain an attractive and poignant animated icon which can be placed on 
your website.  When clicked by visitors to your site, this icon will take 
them to the automated messaging page to send the protest letter.

Help us bombard the Nafta governments and Eu with our message!

Eric

P.S. When the numbers warrant, we will also announce the campaign - and 
the results - to the world media.

P.P.S.  There's a `notification system' at the page which allows you to
automatically inform your online friends and acquantances about the 
campaign.
>
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>                                   BACKGROUND
>
Right-wing violence and intimidation aimed at civilian Indigenous 
people in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas has not ceased since a brutal 
massacre (people were hunted like animals for 5 hours) in Chiapas at the
little town of Acteal took the lives of 45 people at prayer in a church,
most of them women and children, on Dec.22 last year.

The Mexican government has used this massacre as the pretext to greatly
expand its aggression not only against the Zapatista Indigenous Army, 
camped in the jungle at the extreme southern tip of Chiapas, and with
which the government has a supposed peace agreement.  But the `crisis' has
also been used to justify using the army to attempt occupations of many
civilian communities in Chiapas, in an attempt to break the power of the 
civilian Indiginous cooperative economic and political organizations, and
the Chiapas >indigenous automony movement,  which are consciously seeking
to pursue a path of cooperative ecological development in the region, and
which in many cases are not even closely aligned with the Zapatistas.

Deaths, injuries, terrible fear, and thousands of refugees have been
generated by this military activity in the past 10 days.  There is 
every reason to fear that a still more aggressive campaign, and far more 
deaths, may be on the immediate horizon.

Your help is needed. Please forward this message. Please go to our 
website.






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