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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1979)
Political prisoners aided By STEWART WRIGHT Of the Emerald Anton Tewa is serving an eight-year jail sen tence for circulating a declaration of indepen dence Tewa is an Indonesian "prisoner of cons cience" adopted by the Eugene chapter of Amnesty International, an organization devoted to freeing people like him throughout the world Eileen Malloy, an Al member from Berkeley. Calif. talked to a group of prospective members Sunday night She listed three "mandates" which Al works toward: freeing prisoners of conscience, working for speedy trials for all prisoners, and working for the end of torture and the death penalty The organization works both by assigning a group to work for a particular prisoner s release, and by "country campaigns" — programs that attempt to exert pressure on a country as a whole The adoption groups work by showering the government involved with letters and tele grams while aiding and encouraging the pri soner and his family “The country campaigns are used only when it isn't feasible to adopt particular prisoners.” Malloy said The Al group also maintains an Urgent Action Network Members of this network don't work in groups, but agree to send telegrams and letters on behalf of those in immediate danger of death, or those who are being tortured or are in urgent need of medical care The Al volunteers are not assigned to pri soners in their own country, a policy consistent with the group s effort to remain nonpartisan and nonpolitical. Malloy said She said it was reassuring that criticism of Al has come from both ends of the political spectrum and has afways been general rather than concerned with specific cases The Al group chooses its cases after exten sive research based on information from people inside the country involved, and on information from travelers through the country For more information, call David Claussemus. a coordinator for the Eugene group, at 344-8118 GREEK. 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Senate Bill 1722 is passed," Wilkinson says. "Every religious group in the naiion has gone on record against S B 1722 The Amer ican Civil Liberties Union is against the bill The AFL-CIO has condemned the bill, and Chief Justice Warren Burger declared its enactment would ii In it V COPICS While You Wail cm TOTAL SERVICE 1280 CkariillM Eiftm 686-8521 liilflia 91■ Sn 9i■ f pa KWIK KOPIES Printing and Artwork 2/2-5C A Copy A.W. Photocopy (At Johnny Print Shop Building) 470 E. 11th 683-3800 -emu Cultural Forum proudly presents world fellow R. Buckminster Fuller Tuesday, November 13 EMU Ballroom 8 pm uo Students 2.50 General Public 4.00 Tickets on sale at EMU Main Desk only lead to anarchy in the criminal code 1 Wilkinson, in Eugene as part o* a nationwide speaking tour that will next take him to Port land as well as Washington, California. Utah and other Wes tern states, says he is con cerned the bill will destroy the Bill of Rights The 700-page-long S B 1722 would make federal criminal acts of the following • Distributing written material opposed to a war in which the United States is engaged • Picketing in front of an in duction center, urging draftees to burn their draft cards and counseling a conscientious ob jector not to register for the draft • Obstructing a government function, such as protesting in front of a nuclear power plant, would now be a federal offense, instead of simple trespassing • Urging obstruction of a federal building would fall under the new crime of solicitation — even if the demonstration never occurred, or if it took place without obstruction • Publishing documents like the Pentagon Papers would be subject to prosecution under the re-enactment of the 1917 Espionage Act and the 1950 Subversive Activities Control Board Act • Striking for wage increases by labor unions would be res tricted through anti-riot, extor tion and blackmail sections of the bill And the bill would increase federal jurisdiction over state laws governing robbery, arson and theft — denying state judges discretion in sentencing convicted persons to an ap propiate punishment The bill could increase prison time served up to 92 percent Kennedy introduced S B 1722 as a matter of political expediency,” Wilkinson says ' He was afraid that without the support of Southern senators, he would not be elected chairer of the Judiciary Committee Kennedy's support of S B 1437 and now S B 1722 is to build fences with the ultra-right-wing conservatives Kennedy knows he already has a strong liberal following Now he wants con servative supjxjrt ' Oregonians should write to Sens Packwood and Hatfield If Packwood and Hatfield receive only 10 letters from people op posed to the bill, they might not think too much of it, but if they receive 1,000 letters opposed to S B 1722. they'll vote against the bill ” Packwood and Hatfield can be reached by mail if letters are addressed with the senator's name. 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