[PEN-L:4887] E-lists against Racism: Immigrant rights, affirmative action, 3strikes

[Nathan Newman <newman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PLEASE REPOST

To all,

With attacks on affirmative action and immigrants rights mounting across the
country along with the massive imprisonment of a whole generation through
such measures as "Three Strikes and Your Out", there is a need for
progressives to have avenues for broad information sharing on the
struggles around anti-racism and justice.  For this reason, UC-Berkeley's
Center for Community Economic Research has established a variety of
electronic mail lists to assist such exchange.

The moderated lists focused on information exchange rather than discussion
include 187-L (immigrant rights), AFFAM-L (affirmative
action), 3strikes (prison reform), and LEFTNEWS (general progressive news),

There is also an unmoderated list for general discussion on
organizing against racism called 187pol-L.

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AFFAM-L

Affirmative action in under assault across the country and the primary
vehicle being the Orwellian-named "Civil Rights" initiative in California,
organizing has begun early to challenge the racism of this new attack.

An e-mail list has been established to get information out about this
movement and news around the struggle for affirmative action to activists
across the country.  This is a moderated list where messages are checke
for relevancy before being sent to all subscribers in order to keep
message volume at a reasonable level.

To subscribe to information about the struggle to defend affirmative action,
send a message to:

listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In the body of the message, type:

sub affam-l YourFirstName YourLastName

i.e. sub affam-l Jane Smith

You will be added to the mailing list.


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187-L
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To subscribe to 187-l, the main information list around Prop 187 (a
companion list to affam-l), do the following:

To subscribe to information about the struggle to defend affirmative action,
send a message to:

listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In the body of the message, type:

sub sub-L YourFirstName YourLastName

i.e. sub 187-L Jane Smith


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3STRIKES
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To subscribe to 3STRIKES, an information list around Three Strikes and
the fight against the criminalization of our communities (a companion
list to affam-l), do the following:

To subscribe to information about the struggle to defend affirmative action,
send a message to:

listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In the body of the message, type:

sub 3STRIKES YourFirstName YourLastName

i.e. sub 3STRIKES Jane Smith


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   187pol-l
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187pol-l is a discussion list to tie together the strategic issues around
a broad-based struggle for racial and economic justice--how to bring the
fight for immigrant rights together with the fight for affirmative
action, alternatives to 3 strikes, and tying these issues into economic
and political struggles like NAFTA and Chiapas.

To Subcribe, send a message to: listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In the body of the message, type:

sub 187pol-L YourFirstName YourLastName

i.e. sub 187pol-L Jane Smith

You will be added to the mailing list.

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In Solidarity,


*****    Nathan Newman:  newman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  *******
	   Center for Community Economic Research