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Activist’s sentence
stirs call for justice
■ Four years after an American journalist is accused of
organizing a revolutionary movement and imprisoned in
Peru, her former roommates speak out in her defense
By Tonya Alanez
Oregon Daily Emerald
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen
serving a life sentence for treason
in Peru, will be the topic of two
public presentations this week
end.
Berenson was a passenger on a
public bus in Lima, Peru when
she was arrested Nov. 30, 1995.
She was “held incommunicado,”
tried by a
hooded mili
tary tribunal
and convict
ed of being a
leader of the
Tupac Amaru
Revolution
ary Move
m e n t
( M R T A ) .
Charged with
aiding the
group in planning an attack on
the Peruvian Congress, Berenson,
who has consistently maintained
her innocence, has served more
than four years of her life sen
tence, which provides no chance
for parole.
Kristen Gardner, Berenson’s
college roommate, and Gail Tay
lor, national coordinator of the
Committee to Free Lori Berenson,
will speak this weekend about
the case and “the international,
economic and political condi
tions” which have led to Beren
son’s imprisonment. The first
event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sat
urday at the Friends Meeting
House, 2274 Onyx St. The follow
ing day at 2 p.m., the location
switches to the McNail-Riley
House, 601 West 13th Ave. Both
events are free.
The main objective of Gardner
and Taylor’s speaking tour, which
will take them from California to
Washington, is to gain support for
a letter writing campaign direct
ed at President Clinton to get him
to take action, said Joanie Levine,
co-organizer of the Eugene
events.
Berenson, a 30-year-old hu
man-rights activist from New
York and journalist with an inter
est in Central and Latin American
culture, history, economics and
politics, had spent an extensive
amount of time in El Salvador,
Nicaragua and Peru prior to her
arrest. She was working on as
signment as a free-lance journal
ist for two U.S. publications —
Modern Times and Third World
Viewpoint — documenting the
effects of poverty on women in
Peru.
“The case of Lori Berenson is
so.startlingly unjust that we can’t
really be silent about it,” said
Scott Miksch, coordinator of the
Committee in Solidarity with
Central American People. “No
one has been allowed to see evi
dence against her. Basically it is
their word against hers.”
(( The case of Lori
Berenson is so startlingly
unjust that we can't real
ly be silent about it.
Scott Miksch
coordinator of the Commit
tee in Solidarity with Central
American People
Miksch described the MRTA as
“one of several armed insurgent
groups responding to the grind
ing poverty and injustice” in
Peru.
Miksch said allegations which
claim that Berenson rented a
“safe” house for the MRTA in
Lima are unfounded and Levine
seconds that assertion.
“The U.S. government did in
vestigate the ‘safe’ house and that
charge was disqualified,” Levine
said. “Her name was not on the
lease and the landlord had never
seen her before.”
However, according to a guest
commentary by Frank Balzas
published in the July 31 issue of
the Register-Guard, Berenson
“was arrested with the wife of the
top MRTA leader, Nestor Cerpa”
and is referred to as the “gringa
terrorist” in Peru.
Balzas, who served at the U.S.
Embassy in Peru from 1994 to
1998 and supervised the intelli
gence section for the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration,
contended that when authorities
attempted to arrest MRTA mem
bers [at the ‘safe’ house] an ex
tended shoot-out ensued, result
ing in several deaths.
For extensive information on
Berenson’s case visit the Web site
at www.freelori.org.
Nader visits convention
By Eun-Kyung Kim
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Presi
dential hopeful Ralph Nader en
couraged young people Wednes
day to draw their friends into
politics and to “shuck off’ soci
ety’s “trivialization” of their is
sues.
“You’ve got to have a sense of
urgency,” Nader, the Green Party
candidate, told the National
Youth Convention. “It’s time for
you to say to the adult popula
tion. Stop trivializing us and our
issues.’”
The several hundred conven
tion “delegates” have been meet
ing since Sunday at Drexel Uni
versity to create a platform of
issues affecting them. Among
their concerns: education, pover
ty, health, the environment, drugs
and political and community in
volvement.
Organizers said Bush declined
an invitation to attend.
Nader poked fun at his ab
sence, turning frequently to com
ment to the chair beside him la
beled with a “reserved for George
W. Bush” sign.
Some participants said Bush
dismissed them by not attending.
Bush arrived in the convention
city Wednesday morning for the
GOP National Convention.
“The fact that he decided not to
attend shows that either one, he
doesn’t feel the youth vote is im
portant or two, he feels that he’s
not accountable to us because
we’re not the ones supporting
him financially,” said Jen San
dler, 24, of Tucson, Ariz.
“Ralph Nader clearly is not go
ing to win so he can conduct his
campaign according to his
morals,” said Sandler, who also
came to participate in protests
against the Republican conven
tion.