[Imc] FW: Interviews Available on Racism Conference

[Laura Haber]

> 
> Institute for Public Accuracy
> 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
> (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org
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> Friday, September 7, 2001
> 
> Interviews Available on Racism Conference
> 
>          The UN conference on racism in Durban, South Africa is
> scheduled 
> to end on Friday. The following analysts are available for interviews:
> 
> HUMBERTO R. BROWN, cell: 011-27-82-430-5397, hbafropana at aol.com, 
> http://www.blackradicalcongress.org
> Coordinator for the African and African Descendants Caucus, one of the
> main 
> caucuses of the conference in Durban, Brown said today: "Colonization
> and 
> slavery should be considered crimes against humanity, and African 
> descendants should have rights of reparations.... We also need to
> address 
> the economic basis of racism and a colonial history that has led to 
> marginalization and impoverishment."
> 
> YEMI TOURE, (404) 526-5470, 767-1275, ytoure at mindspring.com, 
> http://www.afrikan.net/hype, http://www.tbwt.com
> Toure is a columnist for The Black World Today, a former anti-apartheid 
> activist and editor of the HYPE Information Service, which distributes
> news 
> of black interest to media outlets. He said today: "The anti-racism 
> struggle is going to continue no matter what comes out of Durban. The
> idea 
> that the U.S. pulling out makes the conference a failure is itself a
> racist 
> notion."
> 
> KRIS ABRAMS, 011-27-82-858-3388, krisabrams1 at yahoo.com, 
> http://www.webactive.com
> Abrams is a producer for the radio program Democracy Now!, which has
> been 
> providing extensive coverage of the conference. She is in Durban.
> 
> FRANCIS BOYLE, (217) 333-7954, fboyle at law.uiuc.edu, 
> http://msanews.mynet.net/Scholars/Boyle
> Professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of 
> Law, Boyle said today: "The U.S. and Europe should not be allowed to use
> 
> the Mideast to avoid seriously addressing the legacy of colonialism and 
> slavery. Africans and their descendants are rightfully owed reparations.
> 
> Rather than distracting from each other, it's important to see that
> Israeli 
> practices are a continuation of colonialism -- settler colonialism --
> and 
> have a great deal in common with the European imperialism in the last 
> half-millennium which we should at long last account for."
> 
> JAMES CAVALLARO, cell: 011-27-82-972-8899, cavallaro at global.org.br, 
> http://www.global.org.br/english
> Co-director of the Global Justice Center based in Brazil, Cavallaro is
> in 
> South Africa until Sept. 9. He said: "There are many, many important
> issues 
> other than the one the U.S. government is using as the basis of its 
> withdrawal -- or downgrading its status -- from the conference. The U.S.
> 
> doesn't want to discuss slavery, Jim Crow laws and colonialism, and it 
> seems to have taken the issue of the Mideast as a pretext to pull out. A
> 
> major issue is how the legacies of racism are related to current
> inequities 
> between different racial and ethnic groups around the world. There is a 
> large block of countries questioning the nature of the relationship
> between 
> the wealthy and the poor countries - of how neo-liberal corporate 
> globalization and racism are related. The economic gap under the 
> neo-liberal model has increased along racial lines."
> 
> PAUL GEORGE, (650) 326-8837, paul at peaceandjustice.org, 
> http://www.peaceandjustice.org
> George is director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. (Much of
> the 
> center's membership lives in the congressional district of Rep. Tom 
> Lantos.) George said today: "Once Lantos was put in charge of the U.S. 
> delegation, it was inevitable that it would withdraw. He sponsored a 
> resolution in the House not to send Powell to the conference.... Lantos
> is 
> Israel's point person in Congress."
> 
> For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
> Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020 or (202) 332-5055; David Zupan, (541)
> 484-9167
> 


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