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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: "MIM" ("Maoist") Posts Discontinued.
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Re: Discontinuation of MIM on misc.activism.progressive(MAP) & ACTIV-L

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).

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.

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).

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)