From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Feb  2 20:49:40 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 14:49:40 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Situation report - how bad it is
Message-ID: <223D12A9-14B0-4F4F-BE45-48808CC52464@newsfromneptune.com>

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/514300-chris-hedges-us-wealth-oligarchy/


From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sat Feb  6 05:13:20 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 23:13:20 -0600
Subject: [Peace] FB censored this column by Pepe Escobar
Message-ID: <4C0A4B72-F1F9-4F3B-9E25-235BC5786531@newsfromneptune.com>

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/05/burmese-days-revisited/

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sat Feb  6 05:23:02 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 23:23:02 -0600
Subject: [Peace] FB censored this column by Pepe Escobar
In-Reply-To: <4C0A4B72-F1F9-4F3B-9E25-235BC5786531@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <4C0A4B72-F1F9-4F3B-9E25-235BC5786531@newsfromneptune.com>
Message-ID: <536F5345-5E30-40EF-9448-5F149986592D@newsfromneptune.com>


?...If you talk to a Mon or a Karen, he or she will tell you they had to learn the hard way how much of an intolerant autocrat is the real Suu Kyi. She promised there would be peace in the border regions ? eternally mired in a fight between the Tatmadaw and autonomous movements. She could not possibly deliver because she had no power whatsoever over the military.

?...It will be fascinating to watch how the (Dis)United Imperial States will deal with post-coup Myanmar as part of their 24/7 'containment of China' frenzy. The Tatmadaw [ = military] are not exactly trembling in their boots."

> On Feb 5, 2021, at 11:13 PM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
> 
> https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/05/burmese-days-revisited/


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Feb  6 12:52:22 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 06:52:22 -0600
Subject: [Peace] FB censored this column by Pepe Escobar
In-Reply-To: <4C0A4B72-F1F9-4F3B-9E25-235BC5786531@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <4C0A4B72-F1F9-4F3B-9E25-235BC5786531@newsfromneptune.com>
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No surprise FB would censor Pepe in relation to Burma/Myanmar.


> On Feb 5, 2021, at 23:13, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
> 
> https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/05/burmese-days-revisited/


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Feb  6 13:05:29 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 07:05:29 -0600
Subject: [Peace] FB censored this column by Pepe Escobar
In-Reply-To: <536F5345-5E30-40EF-9448-5F149986592D@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <4C0A4B72-F1F9-4F3B-9E25-235BC5786531@newsfromneptune.com>
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Pepe is as always spot on. I mentioned this on AWARE, on the air a few years ago, given a former leader of the ABSDF, when in exile in Thailand, was kicked out of Parliament because ?he had a big mouth.? He was also warned to leave the country. He told me Daw Suu Kye was continuing to work with the military gov., being more diplomatic. He also mentioned the Head of the Railroads, telling him a foreign nation was intervening in issues, no doubt related to the BRI.

There is little doubt US concerns in relation to Burma/Myanmar is containment of China, using abuse of Muslims as their excuse, and training and supplying weapons to those exiled in Saudi. The hypocrisy of the US showing concern for the lives of Muslims after we have massacred millions in the Middle East.

> On Feb 5, 2021, at 23:23, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> ?...If you talk to a Mon or a Karen, he or she will tell you they had to learn the hard way how much of an intolerant autocrat is the real Suu Kyi. She promised there would be peace in the border regions ? eternally mired in a fight between the Tatmadaw and autonomous movements. She could not possibly deliver because she had no power whatsoever over the military.
> 
> ?...It will be fascinating to watch how the (Dis)United Imperial States will deal with post-coup Myanmar as part of their 24/7 'containment of China' frenzy. The Tatmadaw [ = military] are not exactly trembling in their boots."
> 
>> On Feb 5, 2021, at 11:13 PM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
>> 
>> https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/05/burmese-days-revisited/
> 


From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Mon Feb  8 22:33:46 2021
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina)
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 16:33:46 -0600
Subject: [Peace] WRFU (Radio Free Urbana) needs a new transmitter ($3,500) /
 virtual dance party fundraiser Wed Feb 10, 2021; 7pm-8:30pm
Message-ID: <CA+0uwiZDOFnJde4me9M7AL1isyR7bQ26T6D+M3gV4QDNi3w1yw@mail.gmail.com>

What: WRFU (Radio Free Urbana) Dance Party and Fundraiser (for a new
transmitter)
When: Wednesday, February 10, 2021; 7pm (Urbana, IL time)
How: via Facebook Live:
Via zoom: the zoom link will be posted on this webpage
https://www.ucimc.org/slc around 5pm on the day of the event.

The IMC will direct all donations from www.ucimc.org/slcdonate this week to
WRFU's fundraiser!

The WRFU 104.5 FM transmitter went down January 16, 2021 and cannot be
repaired. So WRFU needs to purchase a new transmitter for about $3,500.
This is a great opportunity to  celebrate WRFU and help fundraise to cover
this unexpected cost!

Join DJ BJ Clark, WRFU station Manager and host of the Afterwork Drive Show
as he interviews top played local artists on WRFU!

Then stick around for a virtual dance party with Chris Kinson aka DJ CK who
has just launched a radio show on WRFU called ?Black The Blackest Hour.?
Turn your party lights on and dance or chill with a cup of cocoa - whatever
suits your fancy!

Even if you cannot donate, come celebrate WRFU

WRFU's full program schedule is still streaming on the internet at
www.wrfu.net, but we are excited to get back on the airwaves.
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Mon Feb  8 23:50:26 2021
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina)
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:50:26 -0600
Subject: [Peace] WRFU (Radio Free Urbana) needs a new transmitter
 ($3,500) / virtual dance party fundraiser Wed Feb 10, 2021; 7pm-8:30pm
In-Reply-To: <CA+0uwiZDOFnJde4me9M7AL1isyR7bQ26T6D+M3gV4QDNi3w1yw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+0uwiZDOFnJde4me9M7AL1isyR7bQ26T6D+M3gV4QDNi3w1yw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CA+0uwiYw76r=mvVfdefazJaLTLfX6uNK7-K5SY2+OV_3R=_m3Q@mail.gmail.com>

ooops, I forgot to add the link to the facebook live event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/261764158653524

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 4:33 PM Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What: WRFU (Radio Free Urbana) Dance Party and Fundraiser (for a new
> transmitter)
> When: Wednesday, February 10, 2021; 7pm (Urbana, IL time)
> How: via Facebook Live:
> Via zoom: the zoom link will be posted on this webpage
> https://www.ucimc.org/slc around 5pm on the day of the event.
>
> The IMC will direct all donations from www.ucimc.org/slcdonate this week
> to WRFU's fundraiser!
>
> The WRFU 104.5 FM transmitter went down January 16, 2021 and cannot be
> repaired. So WRFU needs to purchase a new transmitter for about $3,500.
> This is a great opportunity to  celebrate WRFU and help fundraise to cover
> this unexpected cost!
>
> Join DJ BJ Clark, WRFU station Manager and host of the Afterwork Drive
> Show as he interviews top played local artists on WRFU!
>
> Then stick around for a virtual dance party with Chris Kinson aka DJ CK
> who has just launched a radio show on WRFU called ?Black The Blackest
> Hour.? Turn your party lights on and dance or chill with a cup of cocoa -
> whatever suits your fancy!
>
> Even if you cannot donate, come celebrate WRFU
>
> WRFU's full program schedule is still streaming on the internet at
> www.wrfu.net, but we are excited to get back on the airwaves.
>


-- 
-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark
Twain
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Feb 10 21:50:05 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:50:05 -0600
Subject: [Peace] The Post-American World;
 Brooke, Escobar, Blumenthal and Marandi lay is all out....
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB2875D8ACB383FE8ACB8FD6D3A38D9@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaaoaGYVCn8

From divisek at yahoo.com  Thu Feb 11 15:44:40 2021
From: divisek at yahoo.com (Dianna Visek)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:44:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] Time article on 2020 presidential election tactics
References: <1370389435.506631.1613058280375.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1370389435.506631.1613058280375@mail.yahoo.com>

They use the word "conspiracy" to describe what they did.? Long but interesting.? Crony capitalism at its finest.

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/






      
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Feb 13 20:10:34 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:10:34 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Excellent article by Medea Benjamin & Nicholas Davies
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB28759E80302941E1622E85A7A38A9@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

https://blackagendareport.com/decline-and-fall-american-empire

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Feb 13 21:07:24 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 15:07:24 -0600
Subject: [Peace] THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT MUST NOT GO BACK TO SLEEP DURING THE
 BIDEN PRESIDENCY
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THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT MUST NOT GO BACK TO SLEEP DURING THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY

By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance.
February 7, 2021 | NEWSLETTER <https://popularresistance.org/newsletter/>
On Saturday, members of the administrative committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), on which I serve, spoke on a webinar <https://youtu.be/vWaGannPiDc> about the importance of building and strengthening the antiwar, anti-imperialist movement during Biden?s presidency. UNAC was founded during the summer of 2010 as it became clear that the antiwar movement in the US was faltering under the nation?s first black president. Peace groups allied with the Democrats were reluctant to criticize the president and donations declined as people wrongly assumed the new Nobel Peace Prize winner was pro-peace.

Antiwar activists have struggled over the past decade to revive the peace movement, which one would think should be easy to do given the large number of wars, conflicts and interventions the United States is involved in and the ballooning of the military budget at a time when there are dire needs at home for government investment in health care, education, housing, infrastructure and more. Perhaps people have grown used to the wars, or they are too busy trying to survive or they feel powerless to stop them. For whatever reason, the antiwar movement remains weak.

It is clear from the first weeks of the Biden administration that it is imperative the antiwar movement not go back to sleep as it did under Obama. Biden is continuing on the same imperialist, militarist track as the previous presidents and aims to escalate conflicts. For the sake of humanity, he cannot be allowed to get away with it.

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General Lloyd Austin (left) and Antony Blinken (right). Open Secrets.
As Sara Flounders writes <https://popularresistance.org/biden-appoints-warmongers/>, all one has to do to get a sense of Biden?s foreign policy is to look at his cabinet nominations many of whom also served in the Obama administration. He has chosen the most diverse group of war mongers and torture supporters the nation has ever had.

In his senate testimony, Antony Blinken, the new Secretary of State, declared his devotion to carry on the war machine with gusto. He plans to escalate US aggression toward Syria, North Korea, China, Iran and Venezuela. He praised Trump?s actions to support the apartheid state of Israel. Blinken, who co-founded a consulting agency for military contractors called WestExec Advisers, will keep the weapons makers well fed.

General Lloyd Austin, the first black Secretary of Defense, a position that is supposed to be held by a civilian, also comes from WestExec Advisers. Under Obama, Austin served as the head of Central Command, which runs the US? operations in the Middle East. He was chosen because he is expected to carry out Biden?s directives without any pushback.

Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland is best known for her work to successfully overthrow the government of Ukraine and bring neo-Nazis into power. She served as the US ambassador to NATO under the Bush administration and as a State Department spokesperson when Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State. Nuland will work dutifully to go after Russia, a prime target for the Democrats.

Avril Haines, Biden?s national intelligence director, has a sordid history <https://popularresistance.org/the-dark-past-of-bidens-nominee-for-national-intelligence-director/> of covering up torture and torturers. She refused to hold CIA employees accountable for hacking into the emails of Senate Intelligence Committee staff and she provided legal cover for Obama?s extrajudicial drone assassinations, which killed civilians.

Samantha Power, nominated to run the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which effectively functions as an arm of the CIA, has been a long time champion and promoter of ?humanitarian wars <https://popularresistance.org/why-samantha-power-should-not-hold-public-office/>.? She said that US intervention in Iraq would improve the lives of Iraqis. She supported wars on Libya, Syria and Yemen. And she applauded Israel?s attacks on Palestinians.

These are just a few of the major players. Biden?s foreign policy nominees are all known supporters and allies of the military industrial complex. They signal that the Biden presidency may be a ?more effective evil? when it comes to carrying out the US? imperialist project. Danny Haiphong explains <https://popularresistance.org/joe-biden-is-a-white-supremacist-war-hawk-too/> that the corporate media is working to paint President Biden as something other than the white supremacist war hawk that he is.

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Khaled Abdullah/Reuters.
One of President Biden?s first actions was to declare an end to US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, which combined with a blockade of Yemen?s ports, has devastated the population through violence, hunger and disease. While many people have applauded this step, as Shireen Al-Adeimi writes <https://popularresistance.org/biden-says-hes-ending-the-yemen-war/>, the president left plenty of wiggle room to continue the war. Jake Sullivan, the National Security Adviser, says the US will stop supporting ?offensive operations,? but it can easily relabel them as defensive operations and has put conditions in place to do that.

Another move that was considered a positive for Biden was the extension of the New START Treaty with Russia. As Peter Kuznick explains <https://popularresistance.org/us-russia-nuclear-treaty-only-first-step-in-ensuring-future-existence-of-humanity/>, even with the treaty, we are still in a very precarious position when it comes to the risk of a nuclear war with Russia or China. Charles Richard, the head of Strategic Command, is asking Congress <https://popularresistance.org/washingtons-reckless-attitude-toward-nuclear-war-a-threat-to-world-peace/> for more money for nuclear weapons. The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) that went into effect on January 22 makes nuclear weapons illegal, but the US has not ratified it. As Vijay Prashad writes <https://popularresistance.org/why-we-cant-give-up-on-a-world-free-from-nuclear-weapons/>, today?s nuclear weapons are many times more powerful than those used on Japan. We must demand the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Interestingly, Iran voted for the TPNW in the United Nations while the United States boycotted the vote and worked to undermine it. When it comes to Iran, Biden is refusing to respect Iran?s request <https://popularresistance.org/iran-wants-the-nuclear-deal-it-made/> that the United States demonstrate good faith by lifting the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration after it left the nuclear agreement. Instead, Biden is saying that he wants to negotiate a better deal <https://popularresistance.org/nuclear-agreement-biden-wants-to-strike-a-better-deal-with-iran/>, which sounds just like Trump. The first agreement took 15 years to complete.

The Biden administration also signaled that it will not uphold the peace agreement negotiated between the Trump administration, the Taliban and the US-backed Afghan government. Under the agreement, the US is required to remove troops by May of this year. Abby Martin provides an update and history of the US? ?forever war? in her newest documentary <https://popularresistance.org/afghanistan-war-exposed-an-imperial-conspiracy/>. The Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network has launched a petition calling on the Biden administration to end the war on Afghanistan, a war the military knows cannot be won. Click here to sign the petition <https://popularresistance.org/bap-solidarity-network-demands-biden-end-war-in-afghanistan/>.

This week on Clearing the FOG <https://popularresistance.org/podcast/>, I spoke with Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace about the Afghan Peace Agreement and the 1033 program in the United States that funnels military equipment to police departments. President Biden rolled back Trump?s changes to the program but it still allows weapons to go to the police. You can learn more about that and sign the petition here <https://popularresistance.org/black-alliance-for-peace-demands-biden-administration-abolish-1033-program/>.

There are also renewed efforts to push Biden to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay and free the forty men who remain there. This week, 111 organizations sent a letter <https://popularresistance.org/111-ngos-call-on-biden-to-close-guantanamo/> to the President that includes a roadmap for how to accomplish this.

Finally, the Biden administration is backtracking on its position regarding Venezuela. After the election, Biden said he would meet with President Maduro without conditions. Now, as the European Union and Panama no longer recognize the US puppet Juan Guaido as the president of Venezuela, the Biden administration is continuing to recognize Guaido and is refusing to meet with President Maduro. Biden even went so far as to invite Guaido?s fake ambassador to the inauguration. We must push the Biden administration to end its support for Guaido, who was charged this week <https://popularresistance.org/venezuelan-parliamentary-commission-charges-guaido/> with a long list of crimes by the Venezuelan National Assembly, and to stop insisting <https://popularresistance.org/venezuela-united-states-goal-is-to-support-a-transition/> that Venezuela hold another presidential election before it is due.

Similarly, the United States needs to end its support for Haitian President Jovenel Mo?se, who would not be president without the help of Hillary Clinton, the US, and other western imperialist nations and institutions. Mo?se?s term as president ended today, but he is refusing to step down. There have been major protests <https://popularresistance.org/haitians-intensify-struggle-against-president-jovenel-moise/> and a general strike <https://popularresistance.org/haiti-begins-general-strike/> going on to which the government has responded with violence and arrests.

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These are just a few examples of the reasons why it is critical that the antiwar movement grow and become stronger. The US Empire is falling <https://popularresistance.org/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/>, but instead of charting a new course of foreign policy, the US government under Biden is seeking to reestablish its global domination that faltered under Trump. This will only lead to disaster. The world is facing serious crises and right now the US is playing a destructive role instead of being a cooperative member of the global community.

We live in an empire economy that exists to enrich the military-industrial complex, which is insatiable. As poverty grows and the US fails to provide for the basic necessities of its people, we must demand that Congress defund the military and invest in healthcare, housing, education, jobs, and other needs.

The United National Antiwar Coalition, which brings together many peace organizations in North America, has a plan to grow the antiwar, anti-imperialist movement. If you are part of a peace organization that has not joined the coalition, your group can join here <https://www.unacpeace.org/join.html> or if you are not part of an organization, you can sign up for the email list here <https://www.unacpeace.org/join.html>. If you are under 35, you can join UNAC?s Youth Against Empire here <https://www.unacpeace.org/youth-against-empire.html>.

Out of the current crises come opportunities to transform our country into one that plays a positive role in the world, but this will only happen through struggle and mobilization.
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From divisek at yahoo.com  Mon Feb 15 17:26:37 2021
From: divisek at yahoo.com (Dianna Visek)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:26:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] lecture: #BlackLivesMatter: From the Frontlines of Criminal
 Justice Reform
References: <968285867.1516095.1613409997849.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <968285867.1516095.1613409997849@mail.yahoo.com>

Sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study:
https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/25?eventId=33401215


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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Feb 19 22:28:39 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:28:39 -0600
Subject: [Peace] In Conversation: Vincent Bevins and Vijay Prashad 5/20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoTN8W6xOc8

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sun Feb 21 18:31:51 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 12:31:51 -0600
Subject: [Peace] The US, Russia, and Europe
Message-ID: <75887FB3-F990-4E54-97CC-E862B18A7A7F@newsfromneptune.com>

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/russia-holds-the-key-to-german-sovereignty/


From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sun Feb 21 19:25:24 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 13:25:24 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [marxmail] Dianna Ortiz,
 American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
References: <c16d5704-31af-fe62-51d3-7b292365333e@panix.com>
Message-ID: <94A8CBC2-7511-46E9-802F-99776413FB15@newsfromneptune.com>



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3 at panix.com>
> Subject: [marxmail] Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
> Date: February 21, 2021 at 8:14:05 AM CST
> To: marxmail at groups.io
> Reply-To: marxmail at groups.io
> 
> Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
> She became a champion of survivors of torture and helped compel the release of documents showing U.S. complicity in decades of human rights abuses in Guatemala.
> 
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> Sister Dianna Ortiz in 1996. After being raped and tortured in Guatemala, she helped focus attention on the 200,000 people who were killed or disappeared during that country?s 36-year civil war.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
>  <https://www.nytimes.com/by/katharine-q-seelye>
> By Katharine Q. Seelye <https://www.nytimes.com/by/katharine-q-seelye>           
> NYT, Feb. 20, 2021
> Dianna Ortiz, an American Roman Catholic nun whose rape and torture in Guatemala in 1989 helped lead to the release of documents showing American involvement in human rights abuses in that country, died on Friday in hospice care in Washington. She was 62.
> The cause was cancer, said Marie Dennis, a longtime friend.
> While serving as a missionary and teaching Indigenous children in the western highlands of Guatemala, Sister Ortiz was abducted, gang-raped and tortured by a Guatemalan security force. Her story became even more explosive when she said that someone she believed to be an American had acted in concert with her abductors.
> Only after years of extensive therapy at the Marjorie Kovler Center <https://www.heartlandalliance.org/program/marjorie-kovler-center/> in Chicago for survivors of torture did Sister Ortiz start to recover, at which point she began to hunt down information about her case. She went on to become a global champion for people subjected to torture, and her case would help compel the release of classified documents showing decades of U.S. complicity in human rights abuses in Guatemala during its 36-year civil war, in which 200,000 civilians were killed.
> It was never clear why she and many other Americans were targeted. She was told at one point that hers was a case of mistaken identity, an assertion she didn?t believe. Her attack came during a particularly lawless period; ravaged by war, Guatemala was being run by a series of right-wing military dictatorships, some of them violent toward Indigenous people and suspicious of anyone helping them.
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> Sister Ortiz?s 24-hour ordeal, initially labeled a hoax by American and Guatemalan officials, included multiple gang rapes. Her back was pockmarked with more than 100 cigarette burns. At one point she was suspended by her wrists over an open pit packed with the bodies of men, women and children, some of them decapitated, some of them still alive. At another point she was forced to stab to death a woman who was also being held captive. Her abductors took pictures and videotaped the act to use against her.
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> The torture stopped, she said, only after a man who appeared to be an American ? and appeared to be in charge ? saw what was happening and ordered her release, saying her abduction had become news in the outside world. He took her to his car and said he would give her safe haven at the American Embassy. He also advised her to forgive her torturers. Fearing he was going to kill her, she jumped out.
> The trauma left her confused and distraught. She had become pregnant during the assaults and had an abortion. As often happens with people subjected to torture, much of her memory of her life before the abduction was wiped out. When she returned to her family in New Mexico and to her religious order of nuns in Kentucky, she didn?t know them.
> ?To this day I can smell the decomposing of bodies, disposed of in an open pit,? she said in an interview in the late 1990s with Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, an advocacy organization. ?I can hear the piercing screams of other people being tortured. I can see the blood gushing out of the woman?s body.?
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> At a news conference in 1996, Sister Ortiz displayed composite drawings of her Guatemalan attackers.Credit...Ron Edmonds/Associated Press
> When she suggested that her abductors were supervised by an American, she was smeared. ?The Guatemalan president claimed that the abduction had never occurred, simultaneously claiming that it had been carried out by nongovernmental elements and therefore was not a human rights abuse,? she said in the interview with Ms. Kennedy.
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> Sister Ortiz filed Freedom of Information Act requests. She pressed her case in American and Guatemalan courts. In 1995, a federal judge in Boston ordered a former Guatemala general to pay $47.5 million <https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/13/world/us-judge-orders-ex-guatemala-general-to-pay-47.5-million.html> to her and eight Guatemalans, saying they had been victims of his ?indiscriminate campaign of terror? against thousands of civilians. (She never received the money.)
> She recounted her story to the news media and participated in protests to urge the American government to release its files on her. In 1996, she began a five-week vigil and hunger strike across from the White House seeking the declassification of all U.S. government documents related to human rights abuses in Guatemala since 1954.
> In a little-noted moment, Hillary Clinton, at the time the first lady, met with Sister Ortiz <https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/05/world/hillary-clinton-visits-with-protesting-nun.html> during her hunger strike. Ms. Kennedy said in a phone interview that Mrs. Clinton?s prodding had helped lead to the release of government papers regarding Sister Ortiz.
> The files were heavily redacted and did not reveal the identity of the American or by what authority he had access to the scene of her torture. But Sister Ortiz?s case became part of a sweeping review of American foreign policy and covert action in Guatemala during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations.
> Over time, declassified documents showed that Guatemalan forces that committed acts of genocide <https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/march99/guatemala11.htm> during the civil war had been equipped and trained by the United States.
> ?Dianna shined a huge spotlight on the fact that the United States government, through the C.I.A. and military intelligence, was working hand in glove with the Guatemala military intelligence units,? Jennifer Harbury, a close friend, said in an interview. Her husband, a Guatemalan commando, had been killed during the civil war.
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> In 1999, President Bill Clinton apologized for the American involvement <https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/11/world/clinton-offers-his-apologies-to-guatemala.html>.
> Sister Ortiz?s book, ?The Blindfold?s Eyes: My Journey from Torture             to Truth? (2002, with Patricia Davis), recounted the psychological toll that both the abduction and her quest for the truth had taken on her.
> And at some point, her friends said, she realized that she had to stop, for her own sanity.
> ?It was so exhausting for her; she had to pull back, or it was going to do her in,? Meredith Larson, a friend and fellow human rights activist who was also attacked in Guatemala, said in an interview.
> Sister Ortiz stopped agitating for information in her own case, Ms. Larson said, but she became a champion of torture survivors, remaining active in torture-related causes.
> ?She has moved our collective consciousness on how destructive torture is and how important it is to support the well-being of survivors,? Ms. Larson said.
> Dianna Mae Ortiz was born on Sept. 2, 1958, in Colorado Springs, Colo., and grew up in Grants, N.M., one of eight children. Her mother, Ambroshia, was a homemaker; her father, Pilar Ortiz, was a uranium miner.
> She is survived by her mother; her brothers, Ronald, Pilar Jr., John and Josh Ortiz; and her sisters, Barbara Murrietta and Michelle Salazar. Another brother, Melvin, died in 1974.
> Dianna yearned for a religious life from an early age and in 1977 entered the Ursuline novitiate at Mount St. Joseph, in Maple Mount, Ky. She then became a sister of the Ursuline Order. While undergoing her religious training, she attended nearby Brescia University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in elementary and early childhood education. She taught kindergarten before going to Guatemala in 1987.
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> In 1994 she moved to Washington to work for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission. There she met others who had lost loved ones to torture or who had been tortured themselves, and they started a group called Coalition Missing to draw attention to those who were killed or disappeared in Guatemala.
> She later helped found the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, <https://www.tassc.org/> which became a global movement.
> ?What we saw was a woman of incredible courage and integrity who literally came back from the dead,? her friend Ms. Dennis said in an interview. ?It was a struggle for her for years and years not to be pulled back into that awful place. But she claimed life and was able to do phenomenal work.?
> Katharine Q. ?Kit? Seelye is a Times obituary writer. She was previously the paper's New England bureau chief, based in Boston. She worked in The Times's Washington bureau for 12 years, has covered six presidential campaigns and pioneered The Times?s online coverage of politics. @kseelye <https://twitter.com/kseelye>
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:35:42 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [marxmail] Dianna Ortiz,
 American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
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Carl

It doesn?t appear in this article by Louis Proyect, but it did in the article posted by Jeffrey St. Clair from the Washington Post. Coming from the WP does leave it open to question, given their lack of credibility, and I?m unable to access it again. 

I recall a paragraph referring to Dianna Ortiz, saying ?she was forced to dismember another captive with a machete, and they filmed the killing in order to blackmail her,? that stuck in my memory upon reading it, the very horror of it.
I found it quite disturbing, and wonder if its true. 

Clearly no one knows what they would do under such circumstances. If its true, it must be understood she was a victim, but??..again if true the guilt must have been horrific. Also, legally how has this been dealt with in other such cases?

Again, I?m not attempting to discredit her, but given I posted the article by Jeffrey at the time not realizing it came from the WP, I?m now planning to delete it.

Dianna Ortiz, work with victims, calling attention to some of the horrors the US is responsible for inflicting on other nations is quite valuable and the SOA where we train foreign militaries in torture tactics must be closed down, if not already.




> On Feb 21, 2021, at 13:25, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> Subject: [marxmail] Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
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>> Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
>> She became a champion of survivors of torture and helped compel the release of documents showing U.S. complicity in decades of human rights abuses in Guatemala.
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>> Sister Dianna Ortiz in 1996. After being raped and tortured in Guatemala, she helped focus attention on the 200,000 people who were killed or disappeared during that country?s 36-year civil war.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
>>  <https://www.nytimes.com/by/katharine-q-seelye>
>> By Katharine Q. Seelye <https://www.nytimes.com/by/katharine-q-seelye>           
>> NYT, Feb. 20, 2021
>> Dianna Ortiz, an American Roman Catholic nun whose rape and torture in Guatemala in 1989 helped lead to the release of documents showing American involvement in human rights abuses in that country, died on Friday in hospice care in Washington. She was 62.
>> The cause was cancer, said Marie Dennis, a longtime friend.
>> While serving as a missionary and teaching Indigenous children in the western highlands of Guatemala, Sister Ortiz was abducted, gang-raped and tortured by a Guatemalan security force. Her story became even more explosive when she said that someone she believed to be an American had acted in concert with her abductors.
>> Only after years of extensive therapy at the Marjorie Kovler Center <https://www.heartlandalliance.org/program/marjorie-kovler-center/> in Chicago for survivors of torture did Sister Ortiz start to recover, at which point she began to hunt down information about her case. She went on to become a global champion for people subjected to torture, and her case would help compel the release of classified documents showing decades of U.S. complicity in human rights abuses in Guatemala during its 36-year civil war, in which 200,000 civilians were killed.
>> It was never clear why she and many other Americans were targeted. She was told at one point that hers was a case of mistaken identity, an assertion she didn?t believe. Her attack came during a particularly lawless period; ravaged by war, Guatemala was being run by a series of right-wing military dictatorships, some of them violent toward Indigenous people and suspicious of anyone helping them.
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>> Sister Ortiz?s 24-hour ordeal, initially labeled a hoax by American and Guatemalan officials, included multiple gang rapes. Her back was pockmarked with more than 100 cigarette burns. At one point she was suspended by her wrists over an open pit packed with the bodies of men, women and children, some of them decapitated, some of them still alive. At another point she was forced to stab to death a woman who was also being held captive. Her abductors took pictures and videotaped the act to use against her.
>> Refer someone to The Times.
>> They?ll enjoy our special rate of $1 a week. <https://www.nytimes.com/share?channel=ometered&areas=dock&campaign=corereferral>
>> The torture stopped, she said, only after a man who appeared to be an American ? and appeared to be in charge ? saw what was happening and ordered her release, saying her abduction had become news in the outside world. He took her to his car and said he would give her safe haven at the American Embassy. He also advised her to forgive her torturers. Fearing he was going to kill her, she jumped out.
>> The trauma left her confused and distraught. She had become pregnant during the assaults and had an abortion. As often happens with people subjected to torture, much of her memory of her life before the abduction was wiped out. When she returned to her family in New Mexico and to her religious order of nuns in Kentucky, she didn?t know them.
>> ?To this day I can smell the decomposing of bodies, disposed of in an open pit,? she said in an interview in the late 1990s with Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, an advocacy organization. ?I can hear the piercing screams of other people being tortured. I can see the blood gushing out of the woman?s body.?
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>> At a news conference in 1996, Sister Ortiz displayed composite drawings of her Guatemalan attackers.Credit...Ron Edmonds/Associated Press
>> When she suggested that her abductors were supervised by an American, she was smeared. ?The Guatemalan president claimed that the abduction had never occurred, simultaneously claiming that it had been carried out by nongovernmental elements and therefore was not a human rights abuse,? she said in the interview with Ms. Kennedy.
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>> Sister Ortiz filed Freedom of Information Act requests. She pressed her case in American and Guatemalan courts. In 1995, a federal judge in Boston ordered a former Guatemala general to pay $47.5 million <https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/13/world/us-judge-orders-ex-guatemala-general-to-pay-47.5-million.html> to her and eight Guatemalans, saying they had been victims of his ?indiscriminate campaign of terror? against thousands of civilians. (She never received the money.)
>> She recounted her story to the news media and participated in protests to urge the American government to release its files on her. In 1996, she began a five-week vigil and hunger strike across from the White House seeking the declassification of all U.S. government documents related to human rights abuses in Guatemala since 1954.
>> In a little-noted moment, Hillary Clinton, at the time the first lady, met with Sister Ortiz <https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/05/world/hillary-clinton-visits-with-protesting-nun.html> during her hunger strike. Ms. Kennedy said in a phone interview that Mrs. Clinton?s prodding had helped lead to the release of government papers regarding Sister Ortiz.
>> The files were heavily redacted and did not reveal the identity of the American or by what authority he had access to the scene of her torture. But Sister Ortiz?s case became part of a sweeping review of American foreign policy and covert action in Guatemala during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations.
>> Over time, declassified documents showed that Guatemalan forces that committed acts of genocide <https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/march99/guatemala11.htm> during the civil war had been equipped and trained by the United States.
>> ?Dianna shined a huge spotlight on the fact that the United States government, through the C.I.A. and military intelligence, was working hand in glove with the Guatemala military intelligence units,? Jennifer Harbury, a close friend, said in an interview. Her husband, a Guatemalan commando, had been killed during the civil war.
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>> In 1999, President Bill Clinton apologized for the American involvement <https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/11/world/clinton-offers-his-apologies-to-guatemala.html>.
>> Sister Ortiz?s book, ?The Blindfold?s Eyes: My Journey from Torture             to Truth? (2002, with Patricia Davis), recounted the psychological toll that both the abduction and her quest for the truth had taken on her.
>> And at some point, her friends said, she realized that she had to stop, for her own sanity.
>> ?It was so exhausting for her; she had to pull back, or it was going to do her in,? Meredith Larson, a friend and fellow human rights activist who was also attacked in Guatemala, said in an interview.
>> Sister Ortiz stopped agitating for information in her own case, Ms. Larson said, but she became a champion of torture survivors, remaining active in torture-related causes.
>> ?She has moved our collective consciousness on how destructive torture is and how important it is to support the well-being of survivors,? Ms. Larson said.
>> Dianna Mae Ortiz was born on Sept. 2, 1958, in Colorado Springs, Colo., and grew up in Grants, N.M., one of eight children. Her mother, Ambroshia, was a homemaker; her father, Pilar Ortiz, was a uranium miner.
>> She is survived by her mother; her brothers, Ronald, Pilar Jr., John and Josh Ortiz; and her sisters, Barbara Murrietta and Michelle Salazar. Another brother, Melvin, died in 1974.
>> Dianna yearned for a religious life from an early age and in 1977 entered the Ursuline novitiate at Mount St. Joseph, in Maple Mount, Ky. She then became a sister of the Ursuline Order. While undergoing her religious training, she attended nearby Brescia University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in elementary and early childhood education. She taught kindergarten before going to Guatemala in 1987.
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>> In 1994 she moved to Washington to work for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission. There she met others who had lost loved ones to torture or who had been tortured themselves, and they started a group called Coalition Missing to draw attention to those who were killed or disappeared in Guatemala.
>> She later helped found the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, <https://www.tassc.org/> which became a global movement.
>> ?What we saw was a woman of incredible courage and integrity who literally came back from the dead,? her friend Ms. Dennis said in an interview. ?It was a struggle for her for years and years not to be pulled back into that awful place. But she claimed life and was able to do phenomenal work.?
>> Katharine Q. ?Kit? Seelye is a Times obituary writer. She was previously the paper's New England bureau chief, based in Boston. She worked in The Times's Washington bureau for 12 years, has covered six presidential campaigns and pioneered The Times?s online coverage of politics. @kseelye <https://twitter.com/kseelye>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Feb 22 02:37:13 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 20:37:13 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Counterpunch Weekend Addition/Capitalism Kills
 Everything by Paul Street
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Mon Feb 22 04:01:36 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:01:36 -0600
Subject: [Peace] the-post-american-world
Message-ID: <667CA20B-BBAB-4661-920B-3E78464884B7@newsfromneptune.com>

http://thesaker.is/the-post-american-world-crooke-escobar-blumenthal-and-marandi-lay-it-all-out/

From susanroseparenti at gmail.com  Mon Feb 22 23:03:55 2021
From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti)
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:03:55 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Speak geese?
Message-ID: <CAKfUjSFMhsx6wrg=tuNJCZy2d+KfntpHZS9yzRbgEZ+NyCF+sw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Friends of Geese!


*FINALLY: We've arrived! We're a freshly hatched organization whose aim is
to work for peace with geese! Join us?please read the attached letter down
below about how Friends of Geese is growing and how we are ready to move
forward into our plan of action?hopefully, with your participation!*


*So, come take a peek--join us this Thursday Feb 25, at 7pm, for a one hour
ZOOM meeting. It will be an exploration of another world?a new world of
mama goose and eggs where we will learn how to interact with another living
systems in a peaceful, listening manner. *


*Please let us know if you're interested, and we'll send you the zoom
link. *



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*Susan Parenti*
*Educational Coordinator *

*The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net

*Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/designasociety>!*
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Feb 23 17:34:59 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:34:59 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Vijay Prashad Hybrid Wars
References: <DM6PR13MB2875982CD19005C2EBCD6E78A3849@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uxISFZbG8


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Feb 24 00:37:18 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:37:18 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Rich Whitney & Paula Demsnow podcast covering China
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB28756E10820B38C488E03830A39F9@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

https://wagelaborer.podbean.com/?fbclid=IwAR1K9DOwt1JcagYrfz5n0QaHhh6yrXnJQmN0oPYQ-k175s6nilZZMpXIBq0

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Feb 24 12:40:06 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:40:06 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Biden's first arms deals are to major human rights abusers:
 Chile, Egypt, & another military base in Okinawa
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB2875A5BB0C588304F4D46CC8A39F9@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

?Abby Martin covers Biden?s first arms deals to major human rights abusers Chile & Egypt; another US military base in Okinawa, opposed by majority of residents, threatens unique biodiversity; militia puts US at crossroads of a new Iraq war; Ecuador?s presidential election defies US imperialism.

?https://popularresistance.org/empire-files-biden-sells-missiles-to-fascists-us-base-destroys-ancient-coral-reef/?fbclid=IwAR0DSU2GDkKCD7WqbydT5kZ
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Wed Feb 24 20:02:51 2021
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:02:51 -0600
Subject: [Peace] [Sign-on Letter] Opposing Biden's 'Smart Wall'
In-Reply-To: <CABkMrrigCSEqyXHD-vWptm+O=i45PzuZ06s3Y3i2U=8CPvW26A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CABkMrrigCSEqyXHD-vWptm+O=i45PzuZ06s3Y3i2U=8CPvW26A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CA+0uwibB0=p_ThpVu3vvndkBhxr77vKphDSG08QC2YodG26vpA@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Peace,

Please consider signing this letter put out by Just Futures Law, Mijente,
and shared by the MediaJustice Network
to President Biden and members of Congress
saying that *A Virtual Wall is the Trump Wall By Another Name.*

I have included the email that was sent to MediaJustice members below.
That email has the text of the letter in it (at the bottom).
That email also has the link to the way to join statement.

The deadline is today, Wednesday, Feb 24, 2021 at the end of the day.
Thank you for considering this.
Sincerely,
Karen Medina
---------- Forwarded message ---------

I wanted to share and invite you to join a sign on letter from our friends
at Just Futures Law, Mijente and others groups.

See Julie's note to me below. Deadline to sign on is TOMORROW.

*Hi Brandon (at MediaJustice Network):*

*Below is the final joint statement. Apologies for the delay as groups in
Texas and South have been dealing with extreme weather. *

*We?d love to have MediaJustice and your network join this statement. In
fact, the border groups are particularly interested in having tech privacy
groups that see border militarization & surveillance through a policing and
racial justice perspective :). *

The statement is available here and below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cAUo72Yx7IR3XhkClyFlMjk5LxBm74NvBR-8dnHsc0w/edit?usp=sharing


To join statement, please fill out this Google form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE477HgfkWBlxyMUb3eXhPUZIN76D0mFWxmw89LJv37leZjw/viewform?usp=pp_url


The deadline is TOMORROW 2/24 END OF DAY. Thanks for any help that you can
provide!

A Virtual Wall Is Trump?s Wall by Another Name

In response to the provisions of the Biden administration?s U.S.
Citizenship Act of 2021
<https://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/USCitizenshipAct2021BillText.pdf>,
which directs the Department of Homeland Security to deploy surveillance
infrastructure and technology along the border, both at and between ports
of entry, the following border community, immigrant rights, and privacy
organizations issue this statement:

This ?smart border? surveillance technology is a continuation of the Trump
administration?s racist border policies, not a break from it. We applaud
President Biden?s efforts to halt Trump?s border wall construction and
provide relief to immigrant communities, but protection from deportation
and access to due process should not come at the cost of militarization and
surveillance. The question cannot continue to be: ?How do we more
efficiently deter migrants?? Rather than pursue failed strategies, the
Biden Administration should invest in border communities, restore areas
harmed by wall construction, welcome people seeking safety or a better
life, and curtail funding for invasive surveillance technologies. Some of
these surveillance harms include:


   - At ports of entry [1], increased surveillance technology is concerning
   particularly because of increased biometric collection, which most
   prominently includes expanded facial recognition
   <https://www.biometricupdate.com/202011/us-border-agencys-proposed-biometrics-rule-draws-divided-reactions>
   and DNA collection
   <https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-meet-legal-requirement-collect-dna-samples-certain-populations>,
   as well as experimental technologies like iris scanning
   <https://www.irisid.com/iris-id-products-implemented-at-us-mexico-border-crossing/>
   at pedestrian border crossings. The ongoing DHS build-out of its new HART
   biometric database means that this biometric data will be accessible to
   <https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsobimpia-004-homeland-advanced-recognition-technology-system-hart-increment-1>
   major federal law enforcement agencies and some foreign governments via
   information sharing agreements. Additionally, the rapid expansion
   <https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2020/07/customs-expand-license-plate-reading-program-nationwide/166841/>
   of license plate recognition technology used by Customs and Border
   Protection and other federal agencies is a major privacy
   <https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-09/OIG-20-71-Sep20.pdf>
   and policing concern.



   - Virtual wall technology between ports of entry is not a ?humane?
   alternative to a physical wall. Research shows increased border
   surveillance technology can lead to more deaths, as migrants take longer,
   more dangerous routes to avoid detection.[2] Moreover, individuals
   detected by ?smart? border technology are apprehended and incarcerated
   under harsh immigration detention conditions, often in privatized jails
   that President Biden has condemned <https://joebiden.com/immigration/>
   as inhumane. Furthermore, key companies awarded federal contracts to
   develop virtual wall technology have deep financial ties to former
   President Trump and created invasive police surveillance tools.[3] The
   technology evaluations in the Biden bill do not provide adequate
   oversight.[4] The bill also authorizes DHS to spend any amount of money
   that it deems necessary, with no cap on spending.[5]



   - The harms of border technology go far beyond the border and
   disproportionately impact Black, brown, and indigenous communities, as
   demonstrated by CBP drones deployed on Black Lives Matter
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/george-floyd-protests-surveillance.html?smid=tw-share>
   protesters last summer. Border enforcement policies have long served as a
   testing ground for military grade surveillance at the border and far into
   the interior.


We call on the Biden administration to invest in border communities, not
invasive tech and border militarization. Communities along the U.S.-Mexico
border have some of the highest poverty rates
<https://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/19/poverty-prevalent-on-texas-border-low-in-suburbs/>
in the country due to systemic disinvestment
<http://www.ruralhome.org/storage/documents/rpts_pubs/ts10_border_colonias.pdf>.
They have already been the subject of extreme militarization and mass
surveillance including interior checkpoints, drones, blimps, mobile and
fixed surveillance towers, and other cameras and sensors placed in
communities. Instead of pouring billions more into invasive surveillance
and military technology that only harms immigrants and enriches private
companies, the Biden administration should listen to the needs of border
communities
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/16cA0Ix_3bHv-s52zQ121MU7iChu8DlsgokD9IfXhAzM/edit#>,
address ongoing harms, and invest in communities.

Just Futures Law
La Uni?n Del Pueblo Entero
Mijente
Proyecto Juan Diego
Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network
Rio Grande Valley No Border Wall Coalition
Texas Civil Rights Project
Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC)

[1] DHS has an expansive definition of ports of entry that includes
airports, border crossings, and shipping ports.
[2] Peer-reviewed research on the Arizona border details this harm. Samuel
Norton Chambers, Geoffrey Alan Boyce, Sarah Launius & Alicia Dinsmore
(2019) Mortality,
Surveillance and the Tertiary ?Funnel Effect? on the U.S.-Mexico Border: A
Geospatial Modeling of the Geography of Deterrence, Journal of Borderlands
Studies, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1570861
<https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2019.1570861>. Additionally, Border
Patrol reported
<https://www.borderreport.com/regions/texas/remains-of-more-than-250-migrants-found-along-southern-border-in-2020/>
finding the remains of more than 250 migrants who died along the
U.S.-Mexico border in 2020 alone.
[3]  For example, Anduril Industries was founded by major Trump donor
Palmer Luckey with funding from Palantir?s Peter Thiel and related funds.
The company was awarded a contract
<https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_70B02C20D00000019_7014> by CBP
in July 2020 for a potential $249,550,000 to set up over 200 mobile
surveillance towers in border communities; $60.7 million has already been
awarded but the remaining money is not obligated. This technology forms the
backbone of the new virtual wall. A recent report also shows that border
security companies donate more to Democratic Party members than former
President Trump. See Transnational Institute, AFSC, and Mijente, ?Biden?s
Border,? (Feb. 2021) https://www.tni.org/en/bidensborder.
[4] The Biden bill?s technology evaluation process allows for the
deployment of surveillance technologies prior to any evaluation and focuses
the assessment on migrant deterrence strategies and cost-efficiencies, not
the quality of life of border residents, civil rights abuses by DHS, or
migrant safety.
[5] US Citizenship Act, S. ? 2302(c), 117th Congress (2021)
https://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/USCitizenshipAct2021BillText.pdf
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Wed Feb 24 20:05:20 2021
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:05:20 -0600
Subject: [Peace] [Sign-on Letter] Opposing Biden's 'Smart Wall'
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ah, in order to sign on, you will need to go to the google doc called
"Short Statement.".. and use the link from inside that document.

The link from the email to the signing on document will tell you that you
are locked out.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:02 PM Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Peace,
>
> Please consider signing this letter put out by Just Futures Law, Mijente,
> and shared by the MediaJustice Network
> to President Biden and members of Congress
> saying that *A Virtual Wall is the Trump Wall By Another Name.*
>
> I have included the email that was sent to MediaJustice members below.
> That email has the text of the letter in it (at the bottom).
> That email also has the link to the way to join statement.
>
> The deadline is today, Wednesday, Feb 24, 2021 at the end of the day.
> Thank you for considering this.
> Sincerely,
> Karen Medina
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>
> I wanted to share and invite you to join a sign on letter from our friends
> at Just Futures Law, Mijente and others groups.
>
> See Julie's note to me below. Deadline to sign on is TOMORROW.
>
> *Hi Brandon (at MediaJustice Network):*
>
> *Below is the final joint statement. Apologies for the delay as groups in
> Texas and South have been dealing with extreme weather. *
>
> *We?d love to have MediaJustice and your network join this statement. In
> fact, the border groups are particularly interested in having tech privacy
> groups that see border militarization & surveillance through a policing and
> racial justice perspective :). *
>
> The statement is available here and below:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cAUo72Yx7IR3XhkClyFlMjk5LxBm74NvBR-8dnHsc0w/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> To join statement, please fill out this Google form:
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE477HgfkWBlxyMUb3eXhPUZIN76D0mFWxmw89LJv37leZjw/viewform?usp=pp_url
>
>
> The deadline is TOMORROW 2/24 END OF DAY. Thanks for any help that you can
> provide!
>
> A Virtual Wall Is Trump?s Wall by Another Name
>
> In response to the provisions of the Biden administration?s U.S.
> Citizenship Act of 2021
> <https://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/USCitizenshipAct2021BillText.pdf>,
> which directs the Department of Homeland Security to deploy surveillance
> infrastructure and technology along the border, both at and between ports
> of entry, the following border community, immigrant rights, and privacy
> organizations issue this statement:
>
> This ?smart border? surveillance technology is a continuation of the Trump
> administration?s racist border policies, not a break from it. We applaud
> President Biden?s efforts to halt Trump?s border wall construction and
> provide relief to immigrant communities, but protection from deportation
> and access to due process should not come at the cost of militarization and
> surveillance. The question cannot continue to be: ?How do we more
> efficiently deter migrants?? Rather than pursue failed strategies, the
> Biden Administration should invest in border communities, restore areas
> harmed by wall construction, welcome people seeking safety or a better
> life, and curtail funding for invasive surveillance technologies. Some of
> these surveillance harms include:
>
>
>    - At ports of entry [1], increased surveillance technology is
>    concerning particularly because of increased biometric collection, which
>    most prominently includes expanded facial recognition
>    <https://www.biometricupdate.com/202011/us-border-agencys-proposed-biometrics-rule-draws-divided-reactions>
>    and DNA collection
>    <https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-meet-legal-requirement-collect-dna-samples-certain-populations>,
>    as well as experimental technologies like iris scanning
>    <https://www.irisid.com/iris-id-products-implemented-at-us-mexico-border-crossing/>
>    at pedestrian border crossings. The ongoing DHS build-out of its new HART
>    biometric database means that this biometric data will be accessible to
>    <https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsobimpia-004-homeland-advanced-recognition-technology-system-hart-increment-1>
>    major federal law enforcement agencies and some foreign governments via
>    information sharing agreements. Additionally, the rapid expansion
>    <https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2020/07/customs-expand-license-plate-reading-program-nationwide/166841/>
>    of license plate recognition technology used by Customs and Border
>    Protection and other federal agencies is a major privacy
>    <https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-09/OIG-20-71-Sep20.pdf>
>    and policing concern.
>
>
>
>    - Virtual wall technology between ports of entry is not a ?humane?
>    alternative to a physical wall. Research shows increased border
>    surveillance technology can lead to more deaths, as migrants take longer,
>    more dangerous routes to avoid detection.[2] Moreover, individuals
>    detected by ?smart? border technology are apprehended and incarcerated
>    under harsh immigration detention conditions, often in privatized jails
>    that President Biden has condemned <https://joebiden.com/immigration/>
>    as inhumane. Furthermore, key companies awarded federal contracts to
>    develop virtual wall technology have deep financial ties to former
>    President Trump and created invasive police surveillance tools.[3] The
>    technology evaluations in the Biden bill do not provide adequate
>    oversight.[4] The bill also authorizes DHS to spend any amount of
>    money that it deems necessary, with no cap on spending.[5]
>
>
>
>    - The harms of border technology go far beyond the border and
>    disproportionately impact Black, brown, and indigenous communities, as
>    demonstrated by CBP drones deployed on Black Lives Matter
>    <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/george-floyd-protests-surveillance.html?smid=tw-share>
>    protesters last summer. Border enforcement policies have long served as a
>    testing ground for military grade surveillance at the border and far into
>    the interior.
>
>
> We call on the Biden administration to invest in border communities, not
> invasive tech and border militarization. Communities along the
> U.S.-Mexico border have some of the highest poverty rates
> <https://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/19/poverty-prevalent-on-texas-border-low-in-suburbs/>
> in the country due to systemic disinvestment
> <http://www.ruralhome.org/storage/documents/rpts_pubs/ts10_border_colonias.pdf>.
> They have already been the subject of extreme militarization and mass
> surveillance including interior checkpoints, drones, blimps, mobile and
> fixed surveillance towers, and other cameras and sensors placed in
> communities. Instead of pouring billions more into invasive surveillance
> and military technology that only harms immigrants and enriches private
> companies, the Biden administration should listen to the needs of border
> communities
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/16cA0Ix_3bHv-s52zQ121MU7iChu8DlsgokD9IfXhAzM/edit#>,
> address ongoing harms, and invest in communities.
>
> Just Futures Law
> La Uni?n Del Pueblo Entero
> Mijente
> Proyecto Juan Diego
> Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network
> Rio Grande Valley No Border Wall Coalition
> Texas Civil Rights Project
> Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC)
>
> [1] DHS has an expansive definition of ports of entry that includes
> airports, border crossings, and shipping ports.
> [2] Peer-reviewed research on the Arizona border details this harm.
> Samuel Norton Chambers, Geoffrey Alan Boyce, Sarah Launius & Alicia
> Dinsmore (2019) Mortality, Surveillance and the Tertiary ?Funnel Effect?
> on the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Geospatial Modeling of the Geography of
> Deterrence, Journal of Borderlands Studies, DOI:
> 10.1080/08865655.2019.1570861
> <https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2019.1570861>. Additionally, Border
> Patrol reported
> <https://www.borderreport.com/regions/texas/remains-of-more-than-250-migrants-found-along-southern-border-in-2020/>
> finding the remains of more than 250 migrants who died along the
> U.S.-Mexico border in 2020 alone.
> [3]  For example, Anduril Industries was founded by major Trump donor
> Palmer Luckey with funding from Palantir?s Peter Thiel and related funds.
> The company was awarded a contract
> <https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_70B02C20D00000019_7014> by
> CBP in July 2020 for a potential $249,550,000 to set up over 200 mobile
> surveillance towers in border communities; $60.7 million has already been
> awarded but the remaining money is not obligated. This technology forms the
> backbone of the new virtual wall. A recent report also shows that border
> security companies donate more to Democratic Party members than former
> President Trump. See Transnational Institute, AFSC, and Mijente, ?Biden?s
> Border,? (Feb. 2021) https://www.tni.org/en/bidensborder.
> [4] The Biden bill?s technology evaluation process allows for the
> deployment of surveillance technologies prior to any evaluation and focuses
> the assessment on migrant deterrence strategies and cost-efficiencies, not
> the quality of life of border residents, civil rights abuses by DHS, or
> migrant safety.
> [5] US Citizenship Act, S. ? 2302(c), 117th Congress (2021)
> https://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/USCitizenshipAct2021BillText.pdf
> .
>
>
>

-- 
-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Fri Feb 26 05:39:51 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:39:51 -0600
Subject: [Peace] [marxmail] Dianna Ortiz,
 American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
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The following is from the Wikipedia article:

"In a 1996 widely recounted interview with Ortiz on the TV news program Nightline, American journalist Cokie Roberts contested Ortiz's claim that an American was among her captors. Roberts implied that Ortiz was lying about the entire episode, despite the fact that Ortiz later won a lawsuit against a Guatemalan general she accused in the case.[10] It was later revealed that Patton Boggs, the law firm of Roberts' brother Tom Boggs, was paid by the Guatemalan government to promote a more positive image of the regime, which was widely criticized internationally for human rights abuses.[11][12][13]?

Ortiz? own account is presumably in ? "'The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth" (Dianna Ortiz, with Patricia Davis, Orbis, 2002), 484 pages - which I haven?t read. 

Requiescant in pace.


> On Feb 21, 2021, at 3:35 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Carl
> 
> It doesn?t appear in this article by Louis Proyect, but it did in the article posted by Jeffrey St. Clair from the Washington Post. Coming from the WP does leave it open to question, given their lack of credibility, and I?m unable to access it again. 
> 
> I recall a paragraph referring to Dianna Ortiz, saying ?she was forced to dismember another captive with a machete, and they filmed the killing in order to blackmail her,? that stuck in my memory upon reading it, the very horror of it.
> I found it quite disturbing, and wonder if its true. 
> 
> Clearly no one knows what they would do under such circumstances. If its true, it must be understood she was a victim, but??..again if true the guilt must have been horrific. Also, legally how has this been dealt with in other such cases?
> 
> Again, I?m not attempting to discredit her, but given I posted the article by Jeffrey at the time not realizing it came from the WP, I?m now planning to delete it.
> 
> Dianna Ortiz, work with victims, calling attention to some of the horrors the US is responsible for inflicting on other nations is quite valuable and the SOA where we train foreign militaries in torture tactics must be closed down, if not already.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 21, 2021, at 13:25, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3 at panix.com>
>>> Subject: [marxmail] Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
>>> Date: February 21, 2021 at 8:14:05 AM CST
>>> To: marxmail at groups.io
>>> Reply-To: marxmail at groups.io
>>> 
>>> Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
>>> She became a champion of survivors of torture and helped compel the release of documents showing U.S. complicity in decades of human rights abuses in Guatemala.
>>> 
>>> 	? 
>>> 	? 
>>> 	? 
>>> 	? 
>>> 	?   
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sister Dianna Ortiz in 1996. After being raped and tortured in Guatemala, she helped focus attention on the 200,000 people who were killed or disappeared during that country?s 36-year civil war.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
>>> 
>>> By Katharine Q. Seelye           
>>> 	? NYT, Feb. 20, 2021
>>> Dianna Ortiz, an American Roman Catholic nun whose rape and torture in Guatemala in 1989 helped lead to the release of documents showing American involvement in human rights abuses in that country, died on Friday in hospice care in Washington. She was 62.
>>> The cause was cancer, said Marie Dennis, a longtime friend.
>>> While serving as a missionary and teaching Indigenous children in the western highlands of Guatemala, Sister Ortiz was abducted, gang-raped and tortured by a Guatemalan security force. Her story became even more explosive when she said that someone she believed to be an American had acted in concert with her abductors.
>>> Only after years of extensive therapy at the Marjorie Kovler Center in Chicago for survivors of torture did Sister Ortiz start to recover, at which point she began to hunt down information about her case. She went on to become a global champion for people subjected to torture, and her case would help compel the release of classified documents showing decades of U.S. complicity in human rights abuses in Guatemala during its 36-year civil war, in which 200,000 civilians were killed.
>>> It was never clear why she and many other Americans were targeted. She was told at one point that hers was a case of mistaken identity, an assertion she didn?t believe. Her attack came during a particularly lawless period; ravaged by war, Guatemala was being run by a series of right-wing military dictatorships, some of them violent toward Indigenous people and suspicious of anyone helping them.
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>> Continue reading the main story
>>> Sister Ortiz?s 24-hour ordeal, initially labeled a hoax by American and Guatemalan officials, included multiple gang rapes. Her back was pockmarked with more than 100 cigarette burns. At one point she was suspended by her wrists over an open pit packed with the bodies of men, women and children, some of them decapitated, some of them still alive. At another point she was forced to stab to death a woman who was also being held captive. Her abductors took pictures and videotaped the act to use against her.
>>> 	? Refer someone to The Times.
>>> They?ll enjoy our special rate of $1 a week.
>>> The torture stopped, she said, only after a man who appeared to be an American ? and appeared to be in charge ? saw what was happening and ordered her release, saying her abduction had become news in the outside world. He took her to his car and said he would give her safe haven at the American Embassy. He also advised her to forgive her torturers. Fearing he was going to kill her, she jumped out.
>>> The trauma left her confused and distraught. She had become pregnant during the assaults and had an abortion. As often happens with people subjected to torture, much of her memory of her life before the abduction was wiped out. When she returned to her family in New Mexico and to her religious order of nuns in Kentucky, she didn?t know them.
>>> ?To this day I can smell the decomposing of bodies, disposed of in an open pit,? she said in an interview in the late 1990s with Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, an advocacy organization. ?I can hear the piercing screams of other people being tortured. I can see the blood gushing out of the woman?s body.?
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>>> 
>>> Image
>>> At a news conference in 1996, Sister Ortiz displayed composite drawings of her Guatemalan attackers.Credit...Ron Edmonds/Associated Press
>>> When she suggested that her abductors were supervised by an American, she was smeared. ?The Guatemalan president claimed that the abduction had never occurred, simultaneously claiming that it had been carried out by nongovernmental elements and therefore was not a human rights abuse,? she said in the interview with Ms. Kennedy.
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>> Continue reading the main story
>>> Sister Ortiz filed Freedom of Information Act requests. She pressed her case in American and Guatemalan courts. In 1995, a federal judge in Boston ordered a former Guatemala general to pay $47.5 million to her and eight Guatemalans, saying they had been victims of his ?indiscriminate campaign of terror? against thousands of civilians. (She never received the money.)
>>> She recounted her story to the news media and participated in protests to urge the American government to release its files on her. In 1996, she began a five-week vigil and hunger strike across from the White House seeking the declassification of all U.S. government documents related to human rights abuses in Guatemala since 1954.
>>> In a little-noted moment, Hillary Clinton, at the time the first lady, met with Sister Ortiz during her hunger strike. Ms. Kennedy said in a phone interview that Mrs. Clinton?s prodding had helped lead to the release of government papers regarding Sister Ortiz.
>>> The files were heavily redacted and did not reveal the identity of the American or by what authority he had access to the scene of her torture. But Sister Ortiz?s case became part of a sweeping review of American foreign policy and covert action in Guatemala during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations.
>>> Over time, declassified documents showed that Guatemalan forces that committed acts of genocide during the civil war had been equipped and trained by the United States.
>>> ?Dianna shined a huge spotlight on the fact that the United States government, through the C.I.A. and military intelligence, was working hand in glove with the Guatemala military intelligence units,? Jennifer Harbury, a close friend, said in an interview. Her husband, a Guatemalan commando, had been killed during the civil war.
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>> Continue reading the main story
>>> In 1999, President Bill Clinton apologized for the American involvement.
>>> Sister Ortiz?s book, ?The Blindfold?s Eyes: My Journey from Torture             to Truth? (2002, with Patricia Davis), recounted the psychological toll that both the abduction and her quest for the truth had taken on her.
>>> And at some point, her friends said, she realized that she had to stop, for her own sanity.
>>> ?It was so exhausting for her; she had to pull back, or it was going to do her in,? Meredith Larson, a friend and fellow human rights activist who was also attacked in Guatemala, said in an interview.
>>> Sister Ortiz stopped agitating for information in her own case, Ms. Larson said, but she became a champion of torture survivors, remaining active in torture-related causes.
>>> ?She has moved our collective consciousness on how destructive torture is and how important it is to support the well-being of survivors,? Ms. Larson said.
>>> Dianna Mae Ortiz was born on Sept. 2, 1958, in Colorado Springs, Colo., and grew up in Grants, N.M., one of eight children. Her mother, Ambroshia, was a homemaker; her father, Pilar Ortiz, was a uranium miner.
>>> She is survived by her mother; her brothers, Ronald, Pilar Jr., John and Josh Ortiz; and her sisters, Barbara Murrietta and Michelle Salazar. Another brother, Melvin, died in 1974.
>>> Dianna yearned for a religious life from an early age and in 1977 entered the Ursuline novitiate at Mount St. Joseph, in Maple Mount, Ky. She then became a sister of the Ursuline Order. While undergoing her religious training, she attended nearby Brescia University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in elementary and early childhood education. She taught kindergarten before going to Guatemala in 1987.
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
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>>> In 1994 she moved to Washington to work for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission. There she met others who had lost loved ones to torture or who had been tortured themselves, and they started a group called Coalition Missing to draw attention to those who were killed or disappeared in Guatemala.
>>> She later helped found the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, which became a global movement.
>>> ?What we saw was a woman of incredible courage and integrity who literally came back from the dead,? her friend Ms. Dennis said in an interview. ?It was a struggle for her for years and years not to be pulled back into that awful place. But she claimed life and was able to do phenomenal work.?
>>> Katharine Q. ?Kit? Seelye is a Times obituary writer. She was previously the paper's New England bureau chief, based in Boston. She worked in The Times's Washington bureau for 12 years, has covered six presidential campaigns and pioneered The Times?s online coverage of politics. @kseelye
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Feb 26 15:32:20 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:32:20 -0600
Subject: [Peace] [marxmail] Dianna Ortiz,
 American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
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Thanks Carl, 

This is exactly what I want, an account in Ortiz own words, not articles by others especially after her death.


> On Feb 25, 2021, at 23:39, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
> 
> The following is from the Wikipedia article:
> 
> "In a 1996 widely recounted interview with Ortiz on the TV news program Nightline, American journalist Cokie Roberts contested Ortiz's claim that an American was among her captors. Roberts implied that Ortiz was lying about the entire episode, despite the fact that Ortiz later won a lawsuit against a Guatemalan general she accused in the case.[10] It was later revealed that Patton Boggs, the law firm of Roberts' brother Tom Boggs, was paid by the Guatemalan government to promote a more positive image of the regime, which was widely criticized internationally for human rights abuses.[11][12][13]?
> 
> Ortiz? own account is presumably in ? "'The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth" (Dianna Ortiz, with Patricia Davis, Orbis, 2002), 484 pages - which I haven?t read. 
> 
> Requiescant in pace.
> 
> 
>> On Feb 21, 2021, at 3:35 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Carl
>> 
>> It doesn?t appear in this article by Louis Proyect, but it did in the article posted by Jeffrey St. Clair from the Washington Post. Coming from the WP does leave it open to question, given their lack of credibility, and I?m unable to access it again. 
>> 
>> I recall a paragraph referring to Dianna Ortiz, saying ?she was forced to dismember another captive with a machete, and they filmed the killing in order to blackmail her,? that stuck in my memory upon reading it, the very horror of it.
>> I found it quite disturbing, and wonder if its true. 
>> 
>> Clearly no one knows what they would do under such circumstances. If its true, it must be understood she was a victim, but??..again if true the guilt must have been horrific. Also, legally how has this been dealt with in other such cases?
>> 
>> Again, I?m not attempting to discredit her, but given I posted the article by Jeffrey at the time not realizing it came from the WP, I?m now planning to delete it.
>> 
>> Dianna Ortiz, work with victims, calling attention to some of the horrors the US is responsible for inflicting on other nations is quite valuable and the SOA where we train foreign militaries in torture tactics must be closed down, if not already.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 21, 2021, at 13:25, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>>>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>>> From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3 at panix.com>
>>>> Subject: [marxmail] Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
>>>> Date: February 21, 2021 at 8:14:05 AM CST
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>>>> Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
>>>> She became a champion of survivors of torture and helped compel the release of documents showing U.S. complicity in decades of human rights abuses in Guatemala.
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>>>> Sister Dianna Ortiz in 1996. After being raped and tortured in Guatemala, she helped focus attention on the 200,000 people who were killed or disappeared during that country?s 36-year civil war.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
>>>> 
>>>> By Katharine Q. Seelye           
>>>> 	? NYT, Feb. 20, 2021
>>>> Dianna Ortiz, an American Roman Catholic nun whose rape and torture in Guatemala in 1989 helped lead to the release of documents showing American involvement in human rights abuses in that country, died on Friday in hospice care in Washington. She was 62.
>>>> The cause was cancer, said Marie Dennis, a longtime friend.
>>>> While serving as a missionary and teaching Indigenous children in the western highlands of Guatemala, Sister Ortiz was abducted, gang-raped and tortured by a Guatemalan security force. Her story became even more explosive when she said that someone she believed to be an American had acted in concert with her abductors.
>>>> Only after years of extensive therapy at the Marjorie Kovler Center in Chicago for survivors of torture did Sister Ortiz start to recover, at which point she began to hunt down information about her case. She went on to become a global champion for people subjected to torture, and her case would help compel the release of classified documents showing decades of U.S. complicity in human rights abuses in Guatemala during its 36-year civil war, in which 200,000 civilians were killed.
>>>> It was never clear why she and many other Americans were targeted. She was told at one point that hers was a case of mistaken identity, an assertion she didn?t believe. Her attack came during a particularly lawless period; ravaged by war, Guatemala was being run by a series of right-wing military dictatorships, some of them violent toward Indigenous people and suspicious of anyone helping them.
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>>>> Sister Ortiz?s 24-hour ordeal, initially labeled a hoax by American and Guatemalan officials, included multiple gang rapes. Her back was pockmarked with more than 100 cigarette burns. At one point she was suspended by her wrists over an open pit packed with the bodies of men, women and children, some of them decapitated, some of them still alive. At another point she was forced to stab to death a woman who was also being held captive. Her abductors took pictures and videotaped the act to use against her.
>>>> 	? Refer someone to The Times.
>>>> They?ll enjoy our special rate of $1 a week.
>>>> The torture stopped, she said, only after a man who appeared to be an American ? and appeared to be in charge ? saw what was happening and ordered her release, saying her abduction had become news in the outside world. He took her to his car and said he would give her safe haven at the American Embassy. He also advised her to forgive her torturers. Fearing he was going to kill her, she jumped out.
>>>> The trauma left her confused and distraught. She had become pregnant during the assaults and had an abortion. As often happens with people subjected to torture, much of her memory of her life before the abduction was wiped out. When she returned to her family in New Mexico and to her religious order of nuns in Kentucky, she didn?t know them.
>>>> ?To this day I can smell the decomposing of bodies, disposed of in an open pit,? she said in an interview in the late 1990s with Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, an advocacy organization. ?I can hear the piercing screams of other people being tortured. I can see the blood gushing out of the woman?s body.?
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>>>> At a news conference in 1996, Sister Ortiz displayed composite drawings of her Guatemalan attackers.Credit...Ron Edmonds/Associated Press
>>>> When she suggested that her abductors were supervised by an American, she was smeared. ?The Guatemalan president claimed that the abduction had never occurred, simultaneously claiming that it had been carried out by nongovernmental elements and therefore was not a human rights abuse,? she said in the interview with Ms. Kennedy.
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>>>> Sister Ortiz filed Freedom of Information Act requests. She pressed her case in American and Guatemalan courts. In 1995, a federal judge in Boston ordered a former Guatemala general to pay $47.5 million to her and eight Guatemalans, saying they had been victims of his ?indiscriminate campaign of terror? against thousands of civilians. (She never received the money.)
>>>> She recounted her story to the news media and participated in protests to urge the American government to release its files on her. In 1996, she began a five-week vigil and hunger strike across from the White House seeking the declassification of all U.S. government documents related to human rights abuses in Guatemala since 1954.
>>>> In a little-noted moment, Hillary Clinton, at the time the first lady, met with Sister Ortiz during her hunger strike. Ms. Kennedy said in a phone interview that Mrs. Clinton?s prodding had helped lead to the release of government papers regarding Sister Ortiz.
>>>> The files were heavily redacted and did not reveal the identity of the American or by what authority he had access to the scene of her torture. But Sister Ortiz?s case became part of a sweeping review of American foreign policy and covert action in Guatemala during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations.
>>>> Over time, declassified documents showed that Guatemalan forces that committed acts of genocide during the civil war had been equipped and trained by the United States.
>>>> ?Dianna shined a huge spotlight on the fact that the United States government, through the C.I.A. and military intelligence, was working hand in glove with the Guatemala military intelligence units,? Jennifer Harbury, a close friend, said in an interview. Her husband, a Guatemalan commando, had been killed during the civil war.
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>>>> In 1999, President Bill Clinton apologized for the American involvement.
>>>> Sister Ortiz?s book, ?The Blindfold?s Eyes: My Journey from Torture             to Truth? (2002, with Patricia Davis), recounted the psychological toll that both the abduction and her quest for the truth had taken on her.
>>>> And at some point, her friends said, she realized that she had to stop, for her own sanity.
>>>> ?It was so exhausting for her; she had to pull back, or it was going to do her in,? Meredith Larson, a friend and fellow human rights activist who was also attacked in Guatemala, said in an interview.
>>>> Sister Ortiz stopped agitating for information in her own case, Ms. Larson said, but she became a champion of torture survivors, remaining active in torture-related causes.
>>>> ?She has moved our collective consciousness on how destructive torture is and how important it is to support the well-being of survivors,? Ms. Larson said.
>>>> Dianna Mae Ortiz was born on Sept. 2, 1958, in Colorado Springs, Colo., and grew up in Grants, N.M., one of eight children. Her mother, Ambroshia, was a homemaker; her father, Pilar Ortiz, was a uranium miner.
>>>> She is survived by her mother; her brothers, Ronald, Pilar Jr., John and Josh Ortiz; and her sisters, Barbara Murrietta and Michelle Salazar. Another brother, Melvin, died in 1974.
>>>> Dianna yearned for a religious life from an early age and in 1977 entered the Ursuline novitiate at Mount St. Joseph, in Maple Mount, Ky. She then became a sister of the Ursuline Order. While undergoing her religious training, she attended nearby Brescia University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in elementary and early childhood education. She taught kindergarten before going to Guatemala in 1987.
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>>>> In 1994 she moved to Washington to work for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission. There she met others who had lost loved ones to torture or who had been tortured themselves, and they started a group called Coalition Missing to draw attention to those who were killed or disappeared in Guatemala.
>>>> She later helped found the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, which became a global movement.
>>>> ?What we saw was a woman of incredible courage and integrity who literally came back from the dead,? her friend Ms. Dennis said in an interview. ?It was a struggle for her for years and years not to be pulled back into that awful place. But she claimed life and was able to do phenomenal work.?
>>>> Katharine Q. ?Kit? Seelye is a Times obituary writer. She was previously the paper's New England bureau chief, based in Boston. She worked in The Times's Washington bureau for 12 years, has covered six presidential campaigns and pioneered The Times?s online coverage of politics. @kseelye
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Sun Feb 28 19:10:14 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 13:10:14 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Jimmy Dore on how "Joe Biden is the terrorist in Syria, Iraq,
 Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, the Sudan,
 Venezuela. We are the terrorists. FYI."
Message-ID: <dc019a89-deb8-2b02-0ac9-aad2bf84fe1f@forestfield.org>

Recent Jimmy Dore videos worth your time:

"CAUGHT: BBC/Reuters Paid To Do Government Propaganda"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8mycEVgGQ

"Biden Betrays Working People Again -- Backtracks $15 Minimum Wage"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRP6xPqPWGA

"Twitter Censoring Foreign Policy Criticism w/Max Blumenthal"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yI4AuWlO9iA

"Biden Does Air Strikes Before Relief Checks!"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=10w4MhIEr7Q


 From this last link: Even after the Syrian air strikes which killed "at least 22 
people" (according to the BBC) and Secretary of War (oops, "Defense") Lloyd J. Austin 
(our man from the Board of Directors at Raytheon where he still is and just got paid 
$1.7 million from Raytheon) told us: "we're confident in the target we went after, we 
know what we hit We're confident that target was being used by the same Shia militia 
that conducted the strikes" and these strikes were "very deliberate".

Jen Psaki (Pres. Joe Biden's current press secretary) questioned the 2017 Syrian 
strikes under Trump asking "Also what is the legal authority for strikes?", doesn't 
challenge the recent anti-Syrian strikes. Commentator David French comparably claimed 
Trump's Syrian strikes were "Unconstitutional and imprudent. Trump's Syria policy is 
a dangerous mess." but Biden's Syrian strikes are "Good. Targeting out troops should 
carry a consequence.". Lying at the behest of the establishment carries no punishments.

Sadly, none of these videos can be played on UPTV because of some 'foul' language not 
killing innocents abroad in Syria and denying people $2,000 COVID "relief" checks 
despite promises to the contrary, or denying a federal minimum wage hike.

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Feb 28 19:31:49 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 13:31:49 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Jimmy Dore on how "Joe Biden is the terrorist in Syria,
 Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, the Sudan,
 Venezuela. We are the terrorists. FYI."
In-Reply-To: <dc019a89-deb8-2b02-0ac9-aad2bf84fe1f@forestfield.org>
References: <dc019a89-deb8-2b02-0ac9-aad2bf84fe1f@forestfield.org>
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB287543C94CA038A8F9167979A39B9@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

Thanks J.B., these VDO?s may not be played on UPTV, but they can be posted on FB. :)



> On Feb 28, 2021, at 13:10, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Recent Jimmy Dore videos worth your time:
> 
> "CAUGHT: BBC/Reuters Paid To Do Government Propaganda"
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8mycEVgGQ
> 
> "Biden Betrays Working People Again -- Backtracks $15 Minimum Wage"
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRP6xPqPWGA
> 
> "Twitter Censoring Foreign Policy Criticism w/Max Blumenthal"
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=yI4AuWlO9iA
> 
> "Biden Does Air Strikes Before Relief Checks!"
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=10w4MhIEr7Q
> 
> 
> From this last link: Even after the Syrian air strikes which killed "at least 22 people" (according to the BBC) and Secretary of War (oops, "Defense") Lloyd J. Austin (our man from the Board of Directors at Raytheon where he still is and just got paid $1.7 million from Raytheon) told us: "we're confident in the target we went after, we know what we hit We're confident that target was being used by the same Shia militia that conducted the strikes" and these strikes were "very deliberate".
> 
> Jen Psaki (Pres. Joe Biden's current press secretary) questioned the 2017 Syrian strikes under Trump asking "Also what is the legal authority for strikes?", doesn't challenge the recent anti-Syrian strikes. Commentator David French comparably claimed Trump's Syrian strikes were "Unconstitutional and imprudent. Trump's Syria policy is a dangerous mess." but Biden's Syrian strikes are "Good. Targeting out troops should carry a consequence.". Lying at the behest of the establishment carries no punishments.
> 
> Sadly, none of these videos can be played on UPTV because of some 'foul' language not killing innocents abroad in Syria and denying people $2,000 COVID "relief" checks despite promises to the contrary, or denying a federal minimum wage hike.
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