From jdav@noc.orgTue Jan 17 19:24:06 1995 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 15:49 GMT From: Jim Davis To: pt.dist@noc.org Subject: People's Tribune (1-23-95) Online Edition ****************************************************************** People's Tribune (Online Edition) Vol. 22 No. 4 / January 23, 1995 P.O. Box 3524, Chicago, IL 60654 Email: jdav@igc.org ****************************************************************** INDEX to the PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE (Online Edition) Vol. 22 No. 4 / January 23, 1995 Page One 1. POVERTY KILLS 23,000 KIDS EACH YEAR Editorial 2. CLINTON, GINGRICH AND US News 3. SAN FRANCISCO: NO MORE HOMELESS DEATHS! 4. CHICAGO: WINTER IS NEVER MILD FOR THE HOMELESS 5. THE ARMY NO LONGER MARCHES ON ITS STOMACH, SO ... CONGRESS MOVES TO DESTROY FOOD PROGRAMS 6. FEEDING THE HUNGRY MEETS WITH POLICE REPRESSION 7. DIG FURTHER THAN TV NEWS! 8. WELFARE FOR THE RICH: 'TAX DODGE' WINS -- YOU LOSE American Lockdown 9. THE UNQUIET DEATH OF AJAMU NASSOR Culture Under Fire 10. HOW TO HUNT BUFFALO Announcements, Events, etc. 11. CALL FOR A SECOND CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 12. ABOUT THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE ****************************************************************** 1. FRONT PAGE: POVERTY KILLS 23,000 KIDS EACH YEAR Every year, poverty kills at least 23,000 children in America. Now the new Congress and President Clinton are preparing measures which will make poverty worse! In late December, the nation's largest consumer group, Citizen Action, released a study called "Dying Before Their Time: Child Mortality in the United States." The study found that children in America's poorest counties have a far higher death rate than children in the wealthiest counties. It proved that America could save the lives of 23,000 children every year simply by expanding health and social services. This detailed, 150-page study was released on December 21 at a press conference in Washington, D.C. Just days later, its conclusions were borne out with a vengeance in America's heartland. On January 5, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced its statistics on the state's infant mortality for 1993. Among them was this shocker: Almost 14 of every 1,000 babies born in Chicago in 1993 died before they ever reached their first birthdays. As grim as these numbers are, they could soon be surpassed by even more horrible ones. Both Congress and President Clinton support social service cuts which will endanger the lives of many children. If at least 23,000 children die needlessly each year with the present level of services in America, how many more will perish after Clinton, Gingrich and their pals finish their dirty work? That's something to think about -- and to act upon. The moral worth of any society is determined by how it treats its children. America's rulers now offer the children of the poor nothing but an early grave. The job of protecting the children is up to us, the millions who make up the new class of poor people in America. We have a responsibility to unite together for the long, hard fight to rid America of the tiny class of exploiters who rule it. Only in this way can we defend the future in its living form, our children. ****************************************************************** 2. EDITORIAL: CLINTON, GINGRICH AND US The new speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia), went to the White House to meet with President Clinton on January 5. Gingrich sat at Clinton's right at the long table in the Cabinet meeting room. A news photograph seemed to say it all. There they were, sharing a huge laugh. That picture was worth a thousand words. It said that the Democratic-run White House and the Republican-run Congress are on the same side. There's an old saying that blood is thicker than water. The actions of Clinton and Gingrich, the Democrats and the Republicans, show that social class is thicker than political party. When it comes to choosing between the interests of the rising new class of 80 million Americans in poverty and the tiny ruling class of millionaires and billionaires, the latter comes first for both Democrats and Republicans. This is especially true when it comes to "welfare reform." Class is thicker than party because the class that holds political power also controls the factories, plants, machinery and banks which are part of the production of the food, clothing, homes, transport, energy and information we all need to live. In order to continue to profit and compete, that class relies more and more on production through high technology and less and less on the labor of men and women. The social programs enacted earlier in this century were all put there because it was in the interest of the capitalists to keep workers fed, housed and schooled so those workers could produce for them. But if the capitalists can produce without human beings, why spend money on maintaining them? The big laugh that Clinton and Gingrich, the Democrats and the Republicans, are having is on us. This society is sinking deeper into an economic, social and political crisis. Our class, some 80 million Americans of all colors, nationalities and languages, cannot rely on the wealthy and their servants to represent or defend our interests. We must put forward our own leaders. Across this country, people are beginning to respond to the attacks on our class. Concerned people are beginning to take steps to defend themselves, but these steps are often local in nature and uncoordinated. There is an important first step we need to take in the long battle to take power from the class which both Clinton and Gingrich protect. It consists of bringing together these isolated, scattered battles into a class fight for a new future. ****************************************************************** 3. SAN FRANCISCO: NO MORE HOMELESS DEATHS! By Sarah Menefee, Homeless Committee, San Francisco NOC SAN FRANCISCO -- The youngest was the 2-month-old baby of an 18- year-old mother and a 22-year-old unemployed carpenter, burned to death when the van they lived in caught on fire as they tried to cook. Still No Room at the Inn! Another year in the richest, most powerful nation in history. In the city with the highest per capita income (and highest per capita homeless rate), a toll of 117 homeless deaths. The average age: 38. Last year, one suicide. This Year of Matrix, Mayor Frank Jordan's genocide program, 14 homeless people have been driven to take their own lives. Many of these people were veterans. Each of these deaths represents the heartless, brutal torture of exposure, humiliation, hunger and the status of outcast, amidst a society groaning with piles and piles of everything we need to survive, thrive and create beauty in this world. Avenge the death of the Child! Organize in '95 to build the foundations of a society that cherishes its children instead of snuffing them out! ****************************************************************** 4. CHICAGO: WINTER IS NEVER MILD FOR THE HOMELESS By Rich Capalbo CHICAGO -- So far, the winter here hasn't been as bad as it can get. So far, deaths from hypothermia of poor and homeless people exposed to the elements have not attracted widespread attention. In early January, as Chicago entered its second week of really cold weather, homeless activists Calvin Gatewood and Charles Nix spoke to the People's Tribune about the homeless situation in the city. "The city agencies responsible for getting the homeless out of the cold have been doing a pretty good job this year," Nix said. "A lot of us have been helping them locate people and get them into shelters. The only deaths I've heard of are rumors. I haven't seen any official reports," he said. Calvin Gatewood reminded us that while the shelters can keep you from freezing to death, they are not a solution. "Shelters aren't homes," said Gatewood. "There is housing available. There are vacancies in public housing. There are old buildings to fix. There are HUD-owned vacant houses." In short, the government could give people a place to live if it wanted to. Instead, old buildings and vacant houses are channeled to developers. Many people believe that public housing is also being put on the auction block to private speculators and developers. There are still too many homeless people in Chicago -- probably more than 50,000, although the city and the local media say 10,000. The numbers grow as people lose jobs. The attack on the poor developing in Congress will swell the ranks even further. While a relatively mild winter may hide their plight, we cannot allow it to hide the greed of a system that sees housing and shelter only as a source of profit and not as a right, not as part of a decent human existence. ****************************************************************** 5. THE ARMY NO LONGER MARCHES ON ITS STOMACH, SO ... CONGRESS MOVES TO DESTROY FOOD PROGRAMS I read recently that during World War II, thousands of young men were disqualified from military service due to malnutrition. When the war ended, Congress wanted to make sure that the armed forces would never have to face that problem again. In 1946, it passed the National School Lunch Act to provide free or reduced-price lunches for children from low-income households. Today, as part of the Republican Contract with America, the Personal Responsibility Act recommends dismantling all the federal nutrition programs and replacing them with block grants to states at sharply reduced funding. The National School Lunch Program is one of the nutrition programs to be eliminated. When you think about the reason the School Lunch Program was implemented (to provide young men healthy enough to be slaughtered in future wars), it should come as no surprise that the same government would eliminate such a program when it no longer needs the large numbers of soldiers to fight its high-tech wars. Our economic system will not feed, clothe, shelter, educate, or provide health care for that section of the population no longer needed to fight its wars or run its factories. Thousands and thousands of workers are losing their jobs each week. The new speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, calls for a revolution which will mean systematic genocide for a growing number of those of us no longer needed by this system. We must call for another kind of revolution, a revolution that will recognize the sacredness of human life. A revolution that will use the rich technology and resources to make the necessities of life available to everyone. -- A reader ****************************************************************** 6. FEEDING THE HUNGRY MEETS WITH POLICE REPRESSION By Food Not Bombs, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, California -- Food Not Bombs/Santa Cruz is now embarking on a third year of feeding the hungry of Santa Cruz. Four times a week, we prepare hot, nutritious, free vegetarian meals for all comers, with no strings attached, no red tape, no hassles. Since our founding in 1992, we've served an estimated 16,000 meals. Almost all the food we serve is donated surplus food that would otherwise have gone to waste. It's a strange world we live in. Feeding the hungry, serving the homeless, simple acts of compassion, are met with swift repression. In San Francisco, FNB co-founder Keith Mc-Henry has been arrested more than 90 times and is now on trial in a completely bogus two- strikes felony frame-up. Santa Cruz volunteers -- visiting San Francisco in solidarity -- have been jailed just for being near the free food. On October 28, Amnesty International issued a press release expressing its concern over San Francisco's relentless harassment of FNB. Three days later, on October 31, a squad of San Francisco's finest gleefully dumped a bag of our bagels, stepped on them, and formed a cordon around the pile, arresting anyone who tried to retrieve one. Here in Santa Cruz, the Food Not Bombs Wednesday dinner has been a focal point for the resistance to the cruel and unconstitutional downtown ordinances. Although our primary desire is to serve, rather than to confront, we will not retreat from our principles. We'd rather cook than go to jail, but we will do both, if necessary. We recognize that we are part of a very big struggle. If you're hungry, come to our meals and eat. If you're hungry for justice, come to our meals and help out. [For more information, contact Food Not Bombs at P.O. Box 8091, Santa Cruz, California 95060. Telephone: 408-425-3345.] ****************************************************************** 7. DIG FURTHER THAN TV NEWS! By Chicago PHILADELPHIA -- In this society there are so many misconceptions of what poverty is. This is because of the lack of knowledge. We need to realize that in order to gain knowledge, you need to reach out for understanding, and you must have communication with others. And taking to heart and mind these program-shows, better known as the nightly news. I'm not saying that you shouldn't watch them, because it does bring all the problems to light, but if you want the truth, you should dig further. Remember what TV is: nothing but programs. They show programs that are basically not real. They avoid what really is happening and also amplify the stereotypes of what a victim of poverty is. [Chicago is vice president of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union in Philadelphia.] ****************************************************************** 8. WELFARE FOR THE RICH: 'TAX DODGE' WINS -- YOU LOSE By Leslie Willis When President Clinton explained his tax plan to the nation last month, he told us that "28 percent" of our income taxes go to pay interest on the federal debt. That's nearly one-third of our tax dollar that goes not to pay off the federal debt, just to pay on the ever-mounting interest on that debt. Who are we making these endless interest payments to? These payments go to the owners of Treasury bonds, the same people who are so filthy rich they can duck and dodge paying any income taxes themselves. In a book called America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?, authors Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele describe the two tax laws in this country. One is for people who can get out of paying taxes by raising thoroughbred horses with names like "Tax Dodge" and the other is for the class of people who have to pay taxes even on the unemployment checks they collect. Our government's General Accounting Office admits that in 1993, four out of 10 companies with assets over $250 million paid either no taxes or less than $100,000. There is no doubt that when we get to the bottom of the "welfare for the rich" barrel, we will see that a lot more than one-third of our Treasury is being consumed by rich people. Both parties in Congress are doing everything they can to increase this upward flow of our nation's wealth, leaving America's wage-slaves, hungry children, unemployed people and disabled people with nothing. Are you sick of welfare to the rich? Then write and give us your suggestions. ****************************************************************** 9. THE UNQUIET DEATH OF AJAMU NASSOR By Ron Reed According to a study published in 1992, at least 416 human beings in the United States were wrongfully convicted of crimes punishable by the death penalty between 1900 and 1991. The study notes that 23 of those wrongfully convicted were executed -- murdered by the State -- before they could be exonerated. As of December 8, 1994 -- three weeks ago as I write this -- we can make that 24. On that date, the sovereign state of Indiana put Ajamu Nassor, whose birth name was Gregory Resnover, to death by electrocution -- by slowly frying him until he perished of the torture. According to Amnesty International, Nassor was one of two men convicted of the murder of a police sergeant in Indianapolis in 1980. Police were attempting to serve papers on the occupants of a house at 5:30 in the morning, and a firefight broke out. The people inside were apparently asleep when the police burst in, and it is unclear who fired the first shots. In any event, the police sergeant was hit in the back, raising the possibility that he was killed by friendly fire, or from outside the house. Nevertheless, two of the occupants, Nassor and Ziyon Yisrael (Tommie Smith), were jointly tried and convicted for the murder. Both received the death penalty. Charges against the third occupant of the house, Nassor's brother Earl Resnover, were dismissed for lack of evidence. Amnesty cites recent investigations that indicate Nassor "threw down a gun that was not fired and that it was his brother ... who threw down the weapon that was fired eight times. Earl Resnover was reportedly found to have large amounts of gunshot residue on both hands. In a petition for clemency in November 1994, it was argued that the jury at Ajamu Nassor's trial was seriously misled when it was told that he and Tommie Smith were equally culpable." Forensic evidence that Nassor claimed would clear him was also suppressed. Appeals based on the exculpatory evidence were dismissed by the judges on the ground that the evidence should have been presented sooner. The Amnesty report goes on to state that the attorney who originally prosecuted Nassor in 1981 came forward publicly during the clemency hearing to oppose the execution: "David E. Cook, Marion County's former chief deputy prosecutor, said it was the state's theory at the trial that Gregory Resnover was not the person who fired the fatal shot. However, when the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed Resnover's conviction it made findings that Cook considers were 'material misrepresentations of the facts as they were presented at trial.' The most serious was a finding that Gregory Resnover's fingerprints were on the two recovered weapons which had been fired. Cook is adamant that 'there was absolutely no fingerprint evidence in this case as regards Gregory Resnover.' " Another aspect of the case calls into question the fundamental precept of equal justice under the law. Nassor and Smith were both African Americans, while the slain officer was white. In 1988, also in Indianapolis, a white man shot and killed a police officer; he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison. An Indiana state representative, William A. Crawford, raised this question, and added that "executing Gregory Resnover would result in an extreme injustice. We do not execute people for attempting to commit a homicide." On November 23, the Indiana Parole Board nonetheless recommended against clemency for Ajamu Nassor. Two weeks later, sentence was duly carried out. Nassor thus died for a crime the prosecutor agreed he didn't commit, and with him any chance of his obtaining justice. * * * The execution took place just 25 years and four days after the neighboring state of Illinois executed Black Panther Fred Hampton in his sleep, an agent of the State having first doped his food to make sure he wouldn't wake up during the carrying out of the operation. For that crime, the killers served no time at all, and were exonerated -- in fact, praised -- by the sponsors of the murder, though the taxpayers of Illinois (not the individuals who planned the assassination) eventually had to pay damages to Hampton's estate. When death squads carry out extrajudicial murders, we pretend to great indignation, especially if the killers work for enemy states such as Libya or Iran. When our own "unofficial" death squads execute dissidents and burn down their neighborhoods, as with John Africa's MOVE in Philadelphia a few years ago, we cluck our tongues and vow reforms. Or, as with the attempted assassination of IWW/Earth First! activist Judi Bari in 1990, government officials and their acolytes in the mass media blame the victim and claim that the targets are trying to create a "martyr." But when the death squads wear the dark, official robes of the American Inquisition, and send youths and retarded people, and an enormous preponderance of minorities, and the products of broken homes and abusive relatives, and always, always the poor and relatively powerless, down the road to oblivion, we take off our masks of amity and good nature and cheer like bloodthirsty Brown Shirts. * * * This is America in 1994: Sixty nine new federal death penalty laws, including the heinous offense of growing too much marijuana, and the new party in power calls the package "soft on crime"; over a million people in prisons that international bodies find to be the most barbaric in the industrialized world, while politicians on both sides of the aisle demand a quadrupling of what is already the highest per capita incarceration rate in history; a crime rate that has not significantly altered in 20 years, coupled with a citizenry who are so hysterical after a year's media saturation of black propaganda on the subject that they are willing to surrender most of their few remaining civil liberties to any fascist willing to promise security. Hand in hand with this lock-'em-up-and-fry-'em mentality is a militarism that is so pervasive that, like fish in water, the average person is blissfully unaware of it; a foreign policy establishment that takes for granted its right to dictate to the rest of the world what its posture should be and defines sovereignty as other nations' right to do what we tell them to and that countenances and indeed breeds state terrorism on a scale Hitler would have admired. The military establishment of the United States is now bigger than those of the entire rest of the world combined, but the Democratic president and the Republican Congress agree that it needs at least another $25 billion or so -- to be taken out of the mouths of the children of the poor, who will then be locked up in orphanages for that crime. And again, it is not enough. Oh, no, it is never enough. Will public floggings, euphemized as "canings" a la Singapore, be next? Will the Christian fundamentalist Sharya be implemented, as the Reconstruction movement would have it -- leading to the death of adulterers by stoning? Will homosexuality and drug use join the list of capital crimes? Will the kids who are torn from their mothers on welfare become the grist of organ banks, as already happens in our dependencies down south? Will the "masters of mankind," as Adam Smith called them, finally exterminate the poor once and for all, solving the problem of unemployment and at the same time taking permanent title to the continent they stole by dint of butchering over 90 percent of the original inhabitants? Rest in peace, Gregory Resnover/Ajamu Nassor; it is not your ghost that needs be unquiet. Since this is, according to the apostles of the Right, a Christian nation, let's close with a word from the Man Himself: Even as you do to the least of My brothers, you do unto Me. The country that treats its more unfortunate and wayward citizens as vermin deserving of brutal murder, and the rest of the non-rich population as the detritus naturally left behind in the wake of the New World Order, has forfeited any claim it ever had to be called civilized. It is a nation moribund beyond recovery; it is, in fact, already dead. ****************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------+ CULTURE UNDER FIRE Culture jumps barriers of geography and color. Millions of Americans create with music, writing, film and video, graffiti, painting, theatre and much more. We need it all, because culture can link together and expand the growing battles for food, housing, and jobs. In turn, these battles provide new audiences and inspiration for artists. Use the "Culture Under Fire'' column to plug in, to express yourself. Write: Culture Under Fire, c/o People's Tribune, P.O. Box 3524, Chicago, Illinois 60654. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ 10. HOW TO HUNT BUFFALO (For Linda Grant Niemann) By Leslie Marmon Silko Think about what you are about to do, for a long time. Think how precious all life is, how difficult the struggle is, for all of us who are born into this world. Think how much the mother loves her little ones and how they love her. No one of us wants to die, though we all must change, and return to mother earth. Prepare for months in advance. Prepare by visiting the old folks who fed you and held you in their arms. Visit the old man who used to walk you across the highway after school. Prepare by helping others who have been in trouble, who have no place to live, who are sick and lonely; help your brothers and sisters, see to them first. Find those who shiver because they are cold without coats or boots. Remember them, the hungry and the cold, when you go to ask the Buffalo People to give you one of their family. You will go ask the buffalo to make a gift to you, you ask for the buffalo's life. The buffalo agrees to come home with the hunter. If we fail to act with respect, the buffalo will not come. It is not for yourself that you go. It is not for you, for your glory, for your big-shot reputation. Your heart must be pure. Otherwise you won't see even one buffalo. Practice with your hunting bow or rifle so that your aim is accurate, so the buffalo feels no pain and does not suffer. Walk alone on the plain for a long time. Look at the beauty all around you as if this is the last time you will ever see it. Smell the wind, the sweet grass and sage, smell the promise of rain. Take a deep breath. All beings wish only to go on as they are, to be left in peace. Remember the color of the sky and the luminous light at the edges of the clouds. Now sing the song that rises into your chest and throat. Stand out on that plain all alone and sing from your heart. Don't prepare a song ahead of time. Begin the song only after you are all alone there. Sing the sorrow that we all are born to die; someday, we all will be food for some poor hungry creature. From the dead, new life is nourished, new life carries us along inside it. We live on and on without end. Sing this song, sing this song, sing it patiently, sing it and wait. You may have to wait all day long in the bright sun, singing. You may get thirsty and tired, but you must not stop singing if you want the buffalo to come to give you one of their own flesh and blood. Even after you think it is hopeless, and you no longer believe the buffalo will come, still you must sing your heart out. Even when your throat is tight with disappointment because buffalo have not come to you, still you must stand there and sing. Sing patiently, sing hopelessly, sing and wait. They appear suddenly, when the sun is getting low in the west. At first, you are not sure if they are approaching or moving away from you. You see only a few buffalo, but others join them. The buffalo walk calmly but you see they are alert; they are listening to your song as they draw closer now. Big buffalo bulls circle around, they all are watching you; still you must sing, though now you feel uneasy because you are alone here. The darkening sky is immense; you are so much smaller than the buffalo. Alone here, no bow and arrow or hunting rifle can save you if the buffalo decide to trample you. Still you must stand there and sing. Sing your own fear now, sing your own regret as you face death. The sun drops below the horizon. Then one buffalo steps out of the herd, away from the others. The buffalo stands and looks at you. The eyes of this buffalo are calm. You glance around and notice the other buffalo have begun to move away from this buffalo, leaving him to stand alone. He is the chosen one. They turn away and move slowly across the prairie. In the twilight, the buffalo seem to dissolve into shadow. Now the time you have prepared for has arrived. You have thought about this moment for a long time. You have prepared yourself. You have practiced with your rifle so the first shot is accurate, so the chosen buffalo does not suffer. Say "thank you, my brother, we cherish you." (c) 1994 Leslie Marmon Silko [Leslie Marmon Silko is one of America's most acclaimed writers. She is the author of _Almanac of the Dead_, _Ceremony_, _Storyteller_ and _Laguna Woman_.] ****************************************************************** 11. CALL FOR A SECOND CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE The world is in the midst of revolutionary change. The smokestacks and assembly lines no longer dominate our landscapes. The jobs we once knew are slowly disappearing. We are being replaced by robots, computers, lasers and other new technologies in our workplaces. The capitalists are defending their profits and domination by being ever more ruthless in their policies towards the workers and the new class of the dispossessed. The system can no longer feed and house us or provide us with jobs. We must help develop the fighting capacity of the oppressed and the exploited through education and organization. At every opportunity, we must go on the offensive and expose the capitalist system and uncloak our class enemy. We, the homeless, the welfare recipients, the unemployed, the youth, the minorities of all complexions and nationalities, women and other sectors of society -- in a word, the dispossessed -- must fight back if we are to survive. We are reaching out to revolutionaries who come from all walks of life. We are appealing to revolutionaries in the churches, in the media, in schools and colleges, in trade unions, in libraries, hospitals, in community organizations, and in discussion groups of all kinds. Revolutionaries are everywhere and we invite you to join us in fighting for a future of justice and economic security. We must destroy this system of private property. We have no choice but to create a new America free of exploitation and want. In order to do so, we need an organization that can educate. The National Organizing Committee has been in existence 18 months. We have experience carrying out our program, dedicated members who are revolutionaries, presses, and an educational system for our membership. It is time for us to do the following: * Sum up our experience; * Give our organization a name that reflects what we are -- an organization of revolutionaries; * Develop an organization that teaches our class who we are fighting, and what we are fighting for; * Evaluate our work and our organizational structure, and change it if necessary. Therefore, the National Council of the National Organizing Committee, in accordance with its bylaws, calls for the convening of a Convention of the National Organizing Committee, to be held April 29-30, 1995 in Chicago, Illinois. ****************************************************************** 12. ABOUT THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE The PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE, published weekly in Chicago, is devoted to the proposition that an economic system which can't or won't feed, clothe and house its people ought to be and will be changed. To that end, this paper is a tribune of the people. It is the voice of the millions struggling for survival. It strives to educate politically those millions on the basis of their own experience. It is a tribune to bring them together, to create a vision of a better world, and a strategy to achieve it. Join us! Editor: Laura Garcia Publisher: National Organizing Committee, P.O. 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