------------------------ BurmaNet ------------------------ "Appropriate Information Technologies, Practical Strategies" ---------------------------------------------------------- The BurmaNet News: April 22, 1996: SPECIAL ISSUE - FREE BURMA CAMPAIGN UPDATE Issue #389 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BURMANET EDITOR'S NOTE: This is only a partial update of everything that has been happening in the Free Burma Campaign over the last month. Updates on FBC activities are compiled and posted approximately once a month. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HEADLINES: ========== THE PEPSI CAMPAIGN SELECTIVE PURCHASING RESOLUTIONS HEINEKEN BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN BEYOND RANGOON AVAILABLE FOR SHOWINGS FREE BURMA CAMPAIGN PACKETS TOTAL AND YOUR LOCAL FRENCH CONSULATE FBC REPORTS FROM OTHER CAMPUSES FBC: RE-ORGANIZED FOCUS GROUPS FBC'S INVITATION TO OCTOBER 1996 WORLDWIDE HUNGER STRIKE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE PEPSI CAMPAIGN BURMANET EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: Students at approximately 75 schools around the United States are now involved in the Pepsi Boycott Campaign. Actions range from pasting appeals on Pepsi machines to convincing campus dining services to stop purchasing Pepsi and lobbying for university trustees to support shareholder resolutions condemning Pepsi and other companies for doing business in Burma. The All Burma Students Democratic Front has called for a global boycott of Pepsi, and the International Union of Students and Asian Students Association have joined many, many organizations in endorsing this boycott. Since Harvard decided against a contract with Pepsi because of its dealings in Burma, there has been extensive media coverage on the Pepsi Campaign including stories in the International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, and the Journal of Commerce. The BBC also did a story on the campaign on April 18, 1996. The Voice of America (Burmese Language Program) broadcast news of the Free Burma Campaign worldwide in two part series in late March. FBC: OVERALL PEPSI STRATEGY from zni@students.wisc.edu 1. Make the Pepsi boycott a national SEAC (Student Environmental Action Coalition) campaign. 2. Focus on a DOLLAR GOAL. Pepsi made about $5.6 million in Burma in 1995. U.S. sales exceed $10 billion. SEAC can make a joint statement with the Free Burma Coalition saying we will target more than $6 million worth of Pepsi contracts for denial and/or cancellation. Concerned shareholder groups can bring this to the attention of the other shareholders. When they realize that Pepsi is going to lose more money over stubbornness in Burma than they're actually MAKING in Burma, the shareholders will want some answers. Consider how far we are towards that goal: Harvard Food Service's cancellation already covers the first $1 million! Hopefully we'll get some figures on what a Taco Bell at Stanford would have meant for Pepsi, and we can start to get an estimate on Pepsi's numbers at all the campuses where groups are working anti-Pepsi boycotts. Maybe someone would be willing to work on a graphic that could be posted on one of the web sites showing a tall white bar with red going up to the total boycotted dollar amount to date -- like a telethon. Only $4.6 miilion left to document... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PEPSI'S FORM LETTER Below is Pepsi's form letter sent to all persons and groups who directly write questioning their policies in Burma. It is also sent to any admistration that questions their policy in Burma. It is very poorly written and ill-informed. Mr. Peter Webber, Director of Auxiliary Services Syracuse University Dear Mr. Webber: I am writing to explain Pepsi-Cola Company's business dealings in Burma. Pepsi-Cola's and PepsiCo's business around the world is conducted lawfully and within guidelines set by the State Department and other agencies of the U.S. government. We do not establish our own country-by-country foreign policy. As you can imagine, we do not agree with every government or system. On the other hand, we strongly believe that over the long term, trade is a positive factor in opening up markets and liberalizing systems. We neither invest in nor support political or military systems of government. (nice huh?) We invest in businesses and people. In the case of Burma, we are not in business with the Burmese government. In fact, we compete with the government, which before our arrival had a monopoly on soft drinks. We are the minority investor in a local privately owned joint venture called Pepsi Products Myanmar. The venture provides jobs to local people, buys products from local farmers, and contributes to sports and youth programs in Burma. (can you guys believe this!?!?!?!) Thank you for the opportunity to explain our business in Burma. Sincerely, David Egner Manager, Public Relations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY'S PEPSI DIVESTMENT MEETING From: "Dawn J. Gremer" First off, the Director of Auxillary Services handed us a letter with Pepsi's statement and basically figured that this would ruin our case. Of course, we were able to refute just about every line of this letter. (see above) At that point we were in his office for another hour! -After listening to us for a while he really began to come around to our side. He suggested using the university's clout to pressure Pepsi to pull out of Burma and to use him as a middleman. He also said that SU's and Penn State's contracts alone are much more than Pepsi's Burma profits. We are also planning a vigil outside of the building where SU houses Taco Bell, KFC, and other food places that distribute Pepsi products. We will be tabling and working on campus-wide awareness too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY COLLEGE From: JAMESCOTT@aol.com To promote the Free Burma Campaign: 1. Get a copy of the schools/colleges spending portfolio. Find out where the schools spends their money. 2. Talk to the person in charge of the food/drink. My school is small so it was just one person. The food service department is usually a good place to start. Find out when the Pepsi contract is up. Price isn't the issue. I have personally contacted other distributers and they told me that they would honor any other price of any other distibutor. I told that to the person in charge and he said "awesome, all it will take now is for the school to want to change." So..to do this we have created a petition simply stateing that the undersigned people would prefer that Pepsi be taken off campus and Coke/Adirondack Soda/Canada Dry be brought in. In the eyes of the school they want to make money so if 1/3 of the students sign this it would probably be all we need. 3. Write a letter to the schools senate expressing your views of Pepsi. Once you convince the senate then, with the senates backing you can write a letter to the dean or whoever the next step up is. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARREN WILSON COLLEGE contact: ghobart@warren-wilson.edu We are planning a hugh action for the Pepsi Boycott on campus. We will be doing a display at our annual Spring Festival in April. We will be video taping this event and hope to attract media attention of the Burma situation here. The Dean of Students said that she is under no contract with Pepsi and if students want the machines removed than she will order them off campus. A college development adminstrator informed us that Pepsi -Asheville, NC contacted the college and were stressed over our Pepsi Boycott campaign. Pepsi said that either the college tell our group to cool it, or Pepsi will pull out of Warren Wilson permanently. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC BURMA AT PENN STATE From: "brian" The primary organizing approach of the Students for a Democratic Burma at Penn State University is to continue pressuring PSU to vote its shares in Pepsico against Pepsi management and in favor of shareholder resolution 6, a human rights code of conduct resolution which specifically focuses on Pepsi's involvement in Burma. At our last meeting, an AP wire photographer took pictures of the meeting for inclusion with a wire story on the Free Burma Campaign. The photo coverage we've been afforded has to do with a catchy phrase that we've been using, "the choice of a new genocide", that caught the attention of the AP assignment editors. We would encourage the use of catchy counter advertising phrases in order to take advantage of Pepsi's high public in order for people to connect with the situtation in Burma. We are beginning to hear daily that our efforts in this regard are paying off. Our long term objectives are: * To get Penn State University to adopt selective purchasing with regards to corporations in Burma; * to vote against PepsiCo management in the proxy item on human rights; and to issue a statement against PepsiCo's support of the SLORC dictatorship in Burma Spring, 1995: * We researched Penn State's investments in Burma. When we asked if PSU had direct stock in Pepsi, they lied but we caught them * We staged a "die-in" protest where we went to where many students already were lounging on an open field, held signs, had a few speakers speak briefly, and then all fell down, dead. The reporters liked it... * Major pieces ran in our school paper and the paper's editorial board took up our cause and pressured student government to get involved in our issue. * Boycott Pepsi stickers found their way onto machines across campus. Fall, 1995: * I researched the Alumni Association to find out about their sponsorship of a trip to Burma and used that information to revitalize the Pepsi/Burma campaign. * Undergraduate Student Government came out strongly against the Alumni Association and recommended that students boycott them * Major news coverage detailed the Alumni Association's role in Burma. Although they followed through with the trip, there is essentially zero chance that they will risk doing such a thing next year. * We had members of Amnesty and Womyn's Concerns help chalk up the sidewalks and streets of the university with dead body outlines and numerous slogans regarding PepsiCo State University's marriage. * We crashed the homecoming parade with a protest at Pizza Hut (along the parade route) where we flyered the crowd, parents and all. * By this point, it was common knowledge among Penn State's 40,000 students that Pepsi (quite prevalent on campus) was involved with a dictatorship in Burma. Students across campus were requesting info from us for papers, speeches and documentaries on Pepsi/Burma. Spring, 1996: * We gave the university an ultimatum to provide us with their position on our demands by the end of January and had this printed in the paper. * We succeeded in getting information through to the Alumni traveling to Burma before they left for the trip. * We held a viewing of a video detailing the use of slave labor to support travel to Burma. * The university responded to our ultimatum within the time we gave them, taking the same position in favor of constructive engagement, even though our new president is quite progressive, having helped house Nelson Mendela in South Africa when his family lived there. * We attacked this hypocrisy in a large story in the campus' alternative paper, Voices. The cover was a mockery of Penn State's logo: "PepsiState: Penn State and PepsiCo's Investment in Tyranny." This is still on racks throughout the campus. * To celebrate the anniversary of the first student gunned down in Burma (March 13th), we hung our banner (legally) in the center of campus... "Pepsi out of Burma -- The Choice of a New Genocide -- Students for a Democratic Burma." This was covered in the papers. * That night, we held a public viewing of "Beyond Rangoon." * Currently, we are working on a call-in campaign to the university president * We just held a panel discussion with Josef Silverstein (expert on Burmese history), Ohmar Khin (former Burmese student; co-founder of All Burma Students Democratic Movement; current research associated for Refugees International), and Joseph La Mar (Maryknoll's Social Responsibility Investment Coordinator). Penn State's person in charge of investments showed up to check out what we were up to! * The campus paper has taken it up themselves to run a number of political cartoons, periodically, mocking the university's ties to PepsiCo, Nike and other large corporations. * We're considering threatening to protest Penn State's graduation ceremonies if they don't vote the right way this year with their PepsiCo stock. * Other tactics under consideration are a statewide letter-to-the-editor effort to get the word into every parent and Penn State football fan's newspaper about Penn State and slavery in Burma. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NYU BIG SLAM PEPSI From: gorgoil Yesterday (April 15) NYU Earth Matters held a demostration with street theater in front of the student center where Pepsico Subsidiaries reside. We passed out over 200 flyers and collected signitures on a petition to give Pepsi the boot. Our demo recieved front page coverage in the Washington Square News (NYU Daily with 25,000 circulation) Representatives from the administration and protection services met with our advisor before the demo to try and find out "What they're planning on doing" They then offered us a microphone and PA in the student center for our next demonstration. We are having a Beyond Rangoon screening tomorrow and another demo next week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STANFORD REJECTED TACO BELL, PASSED BURMA RESOLUTION Greg Wright, Stanford junior who is with the Student for Environmental Action at Stanford, said, "The Free Burma campaign at Stanford has gained a lot of momentum with recent victories. About 2,000 students signed a petition to reject to have Taco Bell as a restaurant at our student union because of their parent company PepsiCo's involvement in Burma. Associated Students Stanford University has passed a selective purchasing agreement and they have urged Stanford University to vote in favor of shareholder resolutions which promote human rights and democracy in Burma and call on corporations to withdraw from that country. The vote was 9 to 6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOSTON COLLEGE - GET PEPSI OFF MY CAMPUS!!! From: koterwas@bc.edu I am a co-director of Amnesty International at Boston College, and in coordination with the Environmental Action Center on campus, AIBC has begun the second year of trying to eliminate Pepsico purchasing by the campus dining services. We have met with dining services numerous times and have been continually met with the motto 'let the consumer decide'. We have been tabling in the dining halls and simply offering information and trying to spread the word of Pepsico's abuses. Recently, we have spoken to the undergraduate government and tried to unite with other clubs and have recieved some support. We have also begun petitioning the students (three hundred signatures this month) in order to present our opposition to pepsico to the trustees and offered information to those with stock in pepsico about shareholder resolutions. We will be raising the issue supported by the petition at the next trustee/board meeting in late April, and are currently planning more visual, hopefully intense rallies in the academic quads and at the earth day festival, as well as trying to contact sales representatives for non-pepsico snack products to offer concrete alternative options to the board. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIENA COLLEGE, NEW YORK From: Tom Schlepko STS7999@siena.edu I'm a student at Siena College and president of our enviro club, Students for a Better World. We are just starting our campaign to get Pepsico off campus. April 20th is our earth day festival, so we will be getting signatures then. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIANA UNIVERSITY From: TUN MYINT The Indiana Uuniversity Administrators are just considering bringing Taco Bell to campus dorms. The Burmese Student Association has written to them asking that they refrain from contracting with PepsiCo. subsidiaries due to Pepsi's business investment and participation in Burma. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH SCHOOL GROUP IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS >From: Superfly Right now, we are in the midst of getting petitions filled out by kids at my school.. If we get 1/4 of the kids signatures to have Pizza Hut removed, then we will have it removed.. After that, we are gonna start working on Frito Lay, then Pepsi drinks.. I gave a presentation to the student council on Mynamar, and they all seemed pretty interested, and wanted to work on this issue together.. Luckily, the student council at my school controls the vending machines, and they choose what goes in and out!! So, after the Pizza Hut ordeal goes down, we will work together with them to nuke all other pepsi co. products.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PEPSI UNOCAL STICKERS STILL AVAILABLE From: Brischmidt@aol.com Pepsi-Unocal stickers are still available, but supplies are low, so get your orders in, esp. now when Pepsi is weakening! Max order size is 1000 for now. If you're interested in ordering 5000+, talk to us about a discount in the next printing. Stickers cost US$1.00 for 5, $10.00 per 100, and $90 per 1000, shipping included in above costs. For Canada please add US$1.00 per 100 for shipping. Overseas add $2.50 for shipping. Send checks to Burma Action Committee, PO Box 1926, Portland OR 97207. First orders are shipped upon receipt of checks, later orders are shipped upon request. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PEPSI/BURMA BOYCOTT T-SHIRTS From: "Elizabeth W. Abercrombie" We have Pepsi/Burma Boycott shirts at JMU- they are red w/ white lettering reading on the front "Boycott Pepsi" with a picture of a hand in shackles, and on the back "Free the Burmese People" and under that "Slavery is NOT the Choice of Our Generation". I get alot of comments when I where mine- they do stand out! If interestested - my e-mail address is they are $8 each. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CARLETON UNIVERSITY contact: Len Bush and Corinne Baumgarten, OPIRG-Carleton During the past months, our group has initiated a letter-writing campaign to raise awareness about the PepsiCo Boycott in other high schools and post-secondary education systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ other campus groups that are working on the Pepsi Boycott campaign: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, COLUMBUS CITY, INDIANA NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, COLUMBUS CITY, INDIANA ****************************************************** SELECTIVE PURCHASING RESOLUTIONS On April 15, 1996 Ann Arbor, Michigan (home of University of Michigan) became the fourth city in the United States to pass Burma Economic Sanctions Resolutions. RESOLVED, The Ann Arbor City Council hereby establishes a policy prohibiting contracts for personal services with those who do business in Burma and prohibiting the purchase of any goods produced in Burma or provided by those who do business in Burma; RESOLVED, That a business supplying goods or services to the City shall be required to state that it, its parent, subsidiaries or franchises do not counduct business in Burma (Myanmar); RESOLVED, This resolution shall not apply if the City Administration makes a finding both that the particular goods or services to be supplied are necessary for the efficient operation of the City or for the health, safety and welfare of the public and that no comparable product is available from another or without incurring substantial additional cost; and RESOLVED, That this resolution shall apply to all purchases of goods and service solicited after April 15, 1996. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAN FRANCISCO RESOLUTION PASSES FIRST READING On April 15th, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco also voted unanimously for passing the Burma selective purchasing legislation at the first reading. The two (significant) hits of the legislation are UNOCAL (current contract @ $98,000.00) and UPS (current contract @ $28,0000.00). The second reading (proforma) is on April 22. After the second reading, the legislation needs to be approved by the mayor within 10 days. Oakland is considering similar legislation next week. Three other cities that already passed similar bills are Berkeley, CA (February 29, 1995), Madison, WI (August 17, 1995), and Santa Monica (November 30, 1995). Other US cities where similar selective purchasing bills will be considered include: New York City Cambridge, MA Chapel Hill North Carolina Seattle, WA Normal, Oklahoma Minneapolis, MN Tempe, Arizona St Louis, MO Bloomington, Indiana (first hearing will be this summer) ******************************************************** HEINEKEN BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN A SEED Europe: Boycott Heineken Campaigners in Europe Our Heineken campaign is still going strong, at least press wise, but we want to start a boycott on a global level soon (May, June), because they don't want to listen to us. We will publish an ad in some Dutch newspapers, calling on Heineken to leave Burma. SEAC National, a US-based student environmental coalition has also signed on to the petition against Heineken. A SEED Europe P.O.Box 92066, 1090 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel. +31 20 6682236 fax. +31 20 6650166 ******************************************************** BEYOND RANGOON AVAILABLE FOR SHOWINGS From: zni@students.wisc.edu Thanks to Bill Rubenstein, the script writer of the movie, we have received copies of Beyond Rangoon (the video version) from the Castle Rock. FYI: Beyond Rangoon is banned in Burma and United Nations officials would not let the showing of Beyond Rangoon in the UN building because they did not want to "offend the member state" (in other words, SLORC). Our colleagues in countries where Beyond Rangoon is not available at rental stores will be given first priority. They include: Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Slovenia, Germany, Finland, England, France, the Netherlands, and Norway For those in the US, if your group wants to do the screening, the Castle Rock is prepared to ship the film reel for free of charge. We can collect donations for our campaigns, if your group is interested in using Beyond Rangoon as a fundraiser. Please send me a note at zni@students.wisc.edu if your group wished to do the screening and we will get the reel in several days. The only restriction: we can not show the movie on any TV station. That would be the violation of copyrights. ****************************************************** FREE BURMA CAMPAIGN PACKETS 1. INTRODUCTION TO FBC PACKET: for outreach purposes *Intro FBC packet* is meant for any individual or groups--students, labor, environmental, religious, women's rights, human rights, or otherwise--that wish to start a Free Burma campaign in their localities. Info on just about every Free Burma campaign is provided with referral info to coordinators. For instance, there is info on how to work on selective purchacing ordinace in a city. If people need more info on a particular campaign, they can contact the coordinator/resource person of that campaign. There IS a wealth of info in the packet including major relevant articles which can be used for various actions (e.g., writing an op ed piece in a newspaper, getting on radio talk show, giving a speech, and writing to different authorities and corporate executives). Along with the packet, we will ship a videotape which contains a 12" BBC documentary, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Keynote speech at the NGO's forum at Beinjing Women Conference (17"), and a 10" edited footage on various Free Burma protest rallies in the U.S 2. TRUSTEES PACKET: Burma packet for university trustees/regents and procurement officers. *Trustees' packet* is designed for our groups that are working with (or against) university authorities at various levels, from the Board of Regents to Dining Services director to alumni association directors. It has major Human Rights documents put out by U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (Asia Division), letters from corporations which withdrew from Burma citing human rights reasons, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's letters, Desmond Tutu's call for economic sanctions,a testimony before the US House sub-committee on foreign relations, UN Special Rappoteur's Report, a copy of House Version of Burma Freedom and Democracy Act, and selective articles from "respectable" newspapers, etc. The whole thing is bound neatly at Kinko's. Also a sample cover letter is enclosed seperately so that you can tailor or modify it to your institution. ****************************************************** TOTAL AND YOUR LOCAL FRENCH CONSULATE From: David Wolfberg Here at the University of ARizona the FBC chapter has had a busy and fast passed start. In February SEAC and Amnesty International had a free showing of "Beyond Rangoon" and asked if anyone wanted to help start a FBC after the movie. Made up of mostly members from SEAC and Amnesty and some other individuals we quickly became an official campus group. We made a great "Burma Primer" geared towards UA students and a "Burma Reader" as well as other info. WE've had a good response from tabeling and tonight we are showing Aung San Suu Kyi's address to the Bejing Conf. We want to focus on education for the rest of this semester and hopefully that will provide a good base for next year. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARREN WILSON COLLEGE. On April 19 we are planning an information table in front of the Student Union about all the great Free Burma campains and actions happening around the country. This will be the preliminary display to our huge display and action on April 27th. Also the Western North Carolina Regional United Nations meeting will be held here this coming Saturday. I will be holding a discussion session surrounding the situation in Burma and about our group's actions and etc. concerning the entire Free Burma campaign. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSDO (AUSTRALIA) PROTESTED THAI PM'S BURMA VISIT. From: Nwe Ni Tun <073333@bud.cc.swin.edu.au The members of the ABSDO (Australia) rallied in front of the Thai Consulate in Sydney on 13th of March 96. The protest was started at 12:30 pm and against Thai Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa's official visit to Burma on 17th of March 96. Joining the protest were ABSDO and Australian students' NUS (National Union of Students). The protest released the demands on Thai authorities, international communities and Australian government; * To abolish the Constructive Engagement that lead by Thailand. * To boycott the SLORC' Visit Myanmar Year 1996. * To promote Economic Sanctions and Arms Embargo. * To condemn Thai Prime Minister's official visit to Burma. * To stop the investment of Australian companies in Burma. * To release Burmese students, who are detained in Thai Detention Center by the Thai authorities, immediately. The protesters handed the letter to the representative of Thai High Commissioner in the office of the Thai Consulate in Sydney. The protest was finished at 1:30 pm. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- U OF MICHIGAN UPDATE From: Ryan Dobson Friedrichs From Brischmidt@aol. Oregon's District #3 is holding a special election in May to fill a vacancy. The Republican endorsed 2892 -excerpts from letter to follow. Feel free to use excerpts to push your reps. along. The heavily favored Democrat has not yet taken a stance, but we'll try and get it (his staff designed a City Council letter criticizing doing business in Burma.) Letter: April 16, 1996 Dear Brian: I applaud the Burma Action Committee's efforts to expose, confront, and stop injustice wherever it is found, and I commend your willingess to reach out to a broad coalition of individuals, educate them, and appeal to their common sense. HR 2892, the Burma Sanctions bill, sponsored by US House member Rep. Dana Rohrabacher-R and Senator Mitch McConnell-R is a classic example of what can be done when people who really care about life and liberty focus on the same objective. If I am elected to Congress I will co-sponsor and vote for the bill. Sincerely, Mark Brunelle Republican Candidate US House, Oregon District #3 PO Box 22644, Milwaukie OR 97269 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW GROUPS ACTIVE ON BURMA >From zni@students.wisc.edu Madison High Schools, notably West High and Shabazz have been very active. Five students, Nathan and Leah from West High and three from Shabazz, went on a local radio station and gave their perspectives on Burma's struggle for freedom and democracy. They also shared their involvement in the Free Burma campaign. They have organized successful protests against Pizza Hut pizza and Pepsi at their schools. There are also new Free Burma groups at the College-conservatory of Music in Zurich, Switzerland and in Auckland, New Zealand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BURMA ACTION IN FRANCE >From Christopher Dietrich: cd@utopia.eunet.fr Free Burma Action Group France vigorously condemns the harsh sentences given on Monday, March 18, to four members of the Burmese political opposition and said they were not given a fair trial. FBAGF will communicate this gross human rights outrage to leaders in the French Government, in the French Parliament, in the oppostion parties, and on the Web, as well as in its news organ, UVI.net. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTRE DAME - AMNESTY INTL CONCERT AND PETITIONS From: Elizabeth Trantowski