Open
World Conference of Workers
In Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights
Report on July 10 Rally in SF
to Free the Liaoyang 5
The report that follows in two parts details the rally for the
Liaoyang 5 that took place at 12 noon, immediately following the
delegation that was received at the Chinese Consulate.
Part 1, Brief excerpts from some of
the rally presentations -- along with the full text of the presentation by
Nellie Wong, one of the rally speakers.
Part 2, The Workers' Struggle and The Future of China, speech by Ralph Schoenman
Unfortunately, we were not able to
transcribe the rally speeches -- all of which put forward a wide array of
political viewpoints and perspectives.
We contacted the speakers and asked them to send us a copy of their
presentations. Only two speakers, Nellie Wong and Ralph Schoenman, had
written out their talks. The other speakers had not not prepared any
written remarks. Two of these speakers said they would attempt to
reconstruct their comments for publication in this report. As soon as
their comments come in, they will be posted here on the OWC website.
Unionists and activists interested in more information about this rally,
can access a video presentation of the event on the website of one of the
teacher unionists who taped the rally. His site is: http://fog.ccsf.org/~wcarpent
Also, a video team led by Joanne Husar filmed the event and will be
producing a professional video of the rally and the fight of the Liaoyang
5. We will let you know when the video is released.
One final word: The July 10 delegation in San Francisco, as well as the
press conference and rally, would not have been possible had it not been
for the diligent organizing effort of Krista Husar, a young activist who
generously donated of her time for this effort. In the name of all who
participated in this event, I would like to extend a warm thank-you to
Krista for her all her work. Also many thanks to Rich Waller, director of
the San Francisco Labor Council's Labor/Neighbor campaign, and Tim
Stinson, who made countless phone calls and took all the photos of the
event.
In solidarity,
Alan Benjamin
Co-Coordinator,
OWC Continuations Committee
BRIEF EXCERPTS OF SOME OF THE RALLY SPEECHES
Introductory Note:
The following people spoke at the July 10 rally in front of the
Chinese Consulate in San Francisco:
- Medea Benjamin, Founding Director, Global Exchange
- Leon Chow, SEIU Local 250*
- Christian Heath, Coordinator, California Fair Trade campaign
- Walter Johnson, Sec.-Treas., San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO)
- Jane Kelly, Director, California Office, Public Citizen
- Ralph Schoenman, Producer, "Taking Aim" (WBAI-FM) &
Director, Council on Human Rights
- Nellie Wong, S.F. Labor Council delegate, UPTE-CWA 9119 & Bay Area
Organizer, Freedom Socialist Party
Three other speakers were scheduled to speak, but could not make it at the
last minute -- though they sent greetings.
- Jeff Adachi, S.F. Public Defender-Elect
- Richard Ow, Member, S.F. County Democratic Central Committee
- Patti Tamura, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), SEIU 790*
(Sister Tamura was part of the delegation to the Consulate earlier in the
day.)
* Excerpt from Presentation by Medea Benjamin:
We are all gathered here today in solidarity with the Liaoyang 5 and
with all other workers jailed around the world because they stood up for
their rights. ... George Bush just told the country that it is time to
take a stand against corporate crime. Well, if he really means it, the
first thing he should do is put all these corporate criminals behind bars.
These CEOs have been fleecing the public at the same time they promote the
criminal corporate "free trade" agenda that is destroying the
jobs and lives of working people in China and across the globe. We are
here to say: Put these CEOs in jail and free the Liaoyang 5! Free all the
workers who have been wrongly placed behind bars!
* Excerpt from Presentation by Leon Chow
The workers in Liaoyang who have been laid off in massive numbers are
getting, at most, $20 a month for their unemployment insurance -- and that
is when they actually get their money. They get nothing from their
pensions. What they receive is not anywhere near enough to feed their
families. The situation is desperate.
And when they speak out for their basic rights, when they elect
representatives to speak on their behalf, they are put in jail. This is
what concerns us. Our rally and our petition is not anti-China. It is a
petition in support of the Chinese labor activists.
* Excerpt from Closing Remarks by Alan Benjamin
Note: At the conclusion of his report on the delegation to the
Consulate earlier that day, Alan Benjamin stated:
Mr. Hong Lei told us that Chinese workers need not worry: The government,
the official trade union federation (the ACFTU) and the employers'
federation have put together a tripartite agreement -- a consensus -- that
will ensure both social stability and the defense of the rights of
employers and employees. We must not be deceived: This is a consensus
based on acceptance and implementation of the anti-worker WTO directives.
Can anyone really believe it is possible to forge a consensus with the WTO
that can in any way, shape or form safeguard the interests of working
people?
The very reason the WTO was formed was to undermine the rights of workers
and nations. The only consensus that can emerge from this tripartite
agreement is the consensus of acceptance of layoffs, job destruction, and
increased exploitation. As Walter [Johnson] said earlier, at the same time
we speak out to demand freedom for the Liaoyang 5 we must say in one
voice: The WTO must go! ...
Now where do we go from here? The organizers of this International Day of
Action are proposing that we all join forces to prepare a second
International Labor Delegation to China that can visit the Liaoyang 5 and
bring our solidarity message. The authorities will have to allow the
international workers' movement to link up with their Chinese sisters and
brothers. Our delegation will be so broadly based that it will have to be
allowed into Liaoyang.
I propose here, if you agree, that we pledge to support this second
delegation and that we agree to have one of our own labor people form the
Bay Area be part of this delegation. This will mean raising all the money
needed to send our representative on this delegation. Can we agree to
this? [The proposal was met with loud applause.]
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Solidarity Statement to the Liaoyang 5
International Day of Action for the Release of
Yao Fuxin, Pang Qingxiang, Xiao Yunliang and Wang Zhaoming, Gu Baoshu
San Francisco, California
On behalf of the Freedom Socialist Party
By Nellie Wong
July 10, 2002
Sisters and Brothers, we are here today to make our voices heard. We
want our fellow workers Yao Fuxin, Pang Qingxiang, Xiao Yunliang, Wang
Zhaoming, and Gu Baoshu to know that an injury to one is an injury to all!
I state all of the Liaoyang 5's names because in China, names are
important. And I know so, especially because I am the first U.S. born
daughter of Chinese immigrants from Goon Do Hang in Toishan, Guangzhou
Province, in the south where the majority of the first Chinese came from
to what is known as Gum San, Gold Mountain.
Today, I am proud to speak on behalf of the Freedom Socialist Party
throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia, to extend our solidarity to the
Liaoyang 5. What you are doing in defense of your rights as workers does
all of us proud. All of the working people of China look to you as does
the international workingclass. I myself have worked for 46 years, the
majority of which was as a secretary and administrative assistant and
finally as a senior analyst in Affirmative Action at the University of
California, San Francisco. I had previously belonged to AFSCME and now the
University Professional & Technical Employees, UPTE/Communications
Workers of America 9119.
We stand in defense of the 1949 Chinese Revolution that brought
unprecedented liberation to the people of China with the overthrow of
feudalism and property rights stolen by the emperors, war lords, and
landlords. The Chinese Revolution, like the Russian Revolution, was a
beacon to the impoverished and dispossessed of the world. We pledge our
support to the workers to expand the gains of the Chinese Revolution.
These gains are now under threat with privatization and social takebacks.
And women have been thrown into the streets once more because they can't
find work.
Each time we hear of strikes and other labor actions by thousands of
Chinese workers, our hopes rise. An able leadership of the proletariat,
the peasants, the farmers, and workers will carry on the aims of the
Chinese revolution. To fight global capitalism, we need global socialism.
Let's build a feminist, international workers' party to do just that.
Xing Li, Gung Ren! Xing Li, Tong Ghi!
Victory to the workers! Victory to our comrades! Free the Liaoyang 5!
The Workers'
Struggle and The Future of China
[Note: Ralph Schoenman, co-producer of "Taking Aim,"
a weekly show on WBAI-FM, was one of the speakers at the rally on July 10
in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to demand freedom for
the Liaoyang 5. Following is the unabridged text of his rally
presentation.]
By RALPH SCHOENMAN
The struggle of the Liaoyang workers to resist the elimination of tens
of thousands of jobs is of historical significance. The Liaoyang workers
are confronting the calculated destruction of employment in China, a
central feature of the subordination of China's economy and political
structure to the banking and corporate oligarchy that controls the centers
of world capitalism.
The incorporation of China into the World Trade Organization has one
abiding purpose: to deepen exploitation of China's workers and to remove
all obstacles to the wholesale penetration of China by foreign capital.
The human cost of this longstanding plan may be measured in the
destruction of the social gains for which China's workers and peasants
have paid in blood and suffering since the Boxer Rebellion.
China's workers and peasants have taken the brunt of this onslaught as
employment, job security, health care, pensions and social services are
being dismantled in China.
The relentless elimination of State ownership and the privatization of
vital industry in China are but a step in the realization of subordination
of productive activity in China to what are called "market
forces."
In reality, the liquidation of national ownership, however
bureaucratically controlled, prepares for the transfer of ownership to
powerful gangster cliques linked to the same ruling oligarchy. Thus,
China's rulers assume an increasingly shameless junior partnership with
international finance capital and a servile dependency upon the rapacious
imperial ruling class, whose primary base of operation resides in its
command of state power in the United States.
In the aftermath of the orchestrated events of September 11, 2001, this
has but one meaning: the domination of economic, social and political life
in China by international corporate and banking capital and by the
military power of the United States government, its principal vehicle.
The arrest of Yao Fuxin, XiaoYunliang, Pang Qingxiang, Wang Zhaoming and
Gu Baoshu reflects the fact that their struggle is an extension and a
continuation of resistance by unemployed workers across China.
Thousands of workers blocked roads in Guizhou on April 8 after being
thrown out of their jobs at the Guiyang Steel Factory. On the very same
day, workers rose up and battled uniformed guards and thugs in Dongguan,
the special zone city in Guangdong.
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a government controlled
institution, acknowledged that the urban poor of Beijing live on $100 per
month (Singapore Straits Times, 4/1/02) and admitted that
"over 40 million state-sector workers have been laid off" and
condemned "to live on subsistence wages."
Even the New York Times (4/14/02) describes a groundswell of worker
resistance: "a runaway pandemic of protests reflecting widespread
contempt for the Communist Party, a spreading realization that protests
can bring results" that feeds upon "continued feelings of
vulnerability among millions of workers."
The BBC reported on March 19, 2002,
"The modernization of China's economy and the opening of its markets
have brought vast wealth, but at the cost of unemployment for the many.
More than a million people have recently lost their jobs in Shanghai.
Prime Minister Zhu has warned that increased competition brought by
China's entry into the World Trade Organization could lead to a doubling
of urban unemployment."
This report was a follow-up to an earlier special report by the BBC on
March 13 entitled "Chinese Oil Workers in Massive Protest." The
BBC report concluded, "Labor unrest is growing across China as
economic reforms force state industries to lay off millions of
workers."
There is a constant tension, however, between official unemployment
figures released in China and the actual destruction of jobs that proceeds
on a vast if under reported scale.
Eva Cheng described this process in an earlier article in Green Left
Review entitled "Mounting Unemployment as China 'Reforms:"
"Unemployment in China has exploded in recent years with 170 million
people, or 28% of its work force, estimated to be out of jobs. Beijing is
relying more and more on market forces to provide jobs. Labor protection
does not exist even on paper. The jobless and the elderly are left to fend
for themselves.
"Beijing Review estimated that the rural unemployed exceed(ed)
140 million in 2000. Many more urban workers will be jobless when the full
effects of restructuring come through.
"Tens of millions of peasants have flooded the cities to look for
jobs. Two million of them are in Beijing, 2.5 million are in Shanghai and
6 million in Guangdong province.
"Rural migrants are a source of cheap labor in the Special Economic
Zones where foreign investments are heaviest and labor protections are
minimal. Illegal contracts account for 90% of the investment in these
Special Zones. As for pensions for the elderly, these must remain the
responsibility of the individual."
A measure of the human cost of this assault upon China's workers is
reflected in the report in China Daily on October 10, 2001,
"Mine related deaths are the largest in the industrial sector -- 300
lives a day."
The monograph by Diana Hochraich entitled "Labor Mobility and
Unemployment in China" synthesizes the process:
"One of the main targets of the reforms was to create a flexible
labor market in China. To do so, it had to dismantle lifelong employment.
The massive unemployment creates social unrest and threatens political
stability."
A "flexible labor market" is thinly veiled language for a labor
force without organization, job security or a way to survive. It means a
floating work force and cheap labor. It means the disintegration of the
working class into random peonage. The Liaoyang Five are an advanced
expression of a growing, generalized will to resist among China's working
class and the political stability that is threatened is the rule of an
oligarchy that uses State terror to implement its program.
The resistance of the Liaoyang Five represents a struggle against the
implementation of this imperial plan with its destruction of the organized
working class in China and combined with a struggle against the
elimination
all vestiges of China's independence. For this submission by China's
rulers to the imperialist agenda requires a full reversal of the
centuries' long struggle of the Chinese people to emancipate themselves
from imperial occupation, humiliation, subordination and the destruction
of an independent national life.
We are witnessing the Mafiasization of the Chinese economy, much as it
unfolded in the former Soviet Union. In Russia and the former Soviet
Republics today, the heads of the former Communist Party and of the KGB
have pillaged resources, production and national wealth. They have
transformed themselves into junior agents and partners of U.S. oil
companies, of the U.S. arms industry and, consequently, of the Pentagon
and U.S. state power.
U.S. policy in Central Asia foreshadows the plans of U.S. capital for
China itself - the enlisting of its rulers as junior partners, the
fragmentation of the country and the sacrifice of its workers.
Business Week published a lead story on April 1, 2002, with the
headline,
"Where Does China Stash Its Cash? The U.S."
The article comments:
"In effect, Beijing is returning a big chunk of the trade gap.
China's mighty manufacturing and export machine has filled its coffers
with a mountain of foreign exchange.
"With all the relevant 2001 data now available, it turns out that
last year Beijing poured $51.8 billion into U.S. treasuries, corporate
bonds and commercial paper and that does not include Hong Kong which
invested $40.2 billion in U.S. securities in 2001."
Business Week observed astutely that U.S. capital has a special
relationship with those who have control over State and Party in China:
"The U.S. always seems to find new sources to quench its thirst for
foreign capital and China is the country of the hour."
Why are the leaders of China directing billions of dollars of China's hard
currency into shoring up the U.S. dollar and into U.S. financial
instruments at a time when trillions of dollars in tax cuts are being
handed over to U.S. corporations by the Bush regime? This phenomenon
reflects the social and class role of China's administrators and
bureaucrats.
The Party slogan "it is good to get rich" is a selective
measure. Party and State officials and the vast administrative apparatus
of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) are turning over state industry to
family members and cronies. Banks and holding companies in Hong Kong have
become thinly veiled pass-through companies for the wealth of China's
leaders - much of it returned to China in the form of "private
investment" in free trade zones and in the burgeoning sector of
privatized industry.
The looting of China proceeds under the banner of
"modernization" even as it did in the former Soviet Union. It is
taking place on a scale that rivals the disastrous theft of the huge
resources and capital accumulation of the former Soviet Union by
apparatchiks of a corrupted Communist Party.
The destruction of social protections and employment in China is linked
inextricably to the assault directed against workers in the United States
and in Western Europe.
U.S. workers are being forced by corporate capital to surrender the social
gains for which they fought over the past 100 years: the eight hour day,
full time work, safety on the job, health care and pensions - and
unionized jobs.
When workers resist, factories are closed and production is contracted out
to China and to other countries in which wages are being driven down
relentlessly under the combined hammer of mass unemployment and brutal
repression of the workers.
Thus, the struggle of workers in China against unemployment, starvation
wages and the elimination of social services is related to the efforts of
U.S. workers to save their jobs and to preserve social gains for which
generations of U.S. workers have sacrificed.
This common interest between U.S. and Chinese workers goes beyond
preserving jobs and living standards. U.S. rulers are preparing for
continuous war in Central Asia. Part of this plan involves purchasing the
acquiescence of China's rulers in much the same way that this has been
achieved in the Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the National Security Adviser under Jimmy Carter,
published a book entitled The Grand Chessboard: American
Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
(Basic Books, 1997) that is remarkable in its candor regarding U.S.
imperial plans:
"America's global primacy is directly dependent upon how long and how
effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.
The power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three
most advanced and economically productive regions. Most of the world's
physical wealth is there - both in its enterprises and underneath its
soil. Eurasia accounts for 60% of the world's GNP and about 75% of the
world's known energy resources."
Brzezinski spells out the object of U.S. military and imperial policy:
"The Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential
economic prize with an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil
reserves in the region. The Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea
basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf
those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea."
For over a decade, the major think-tanks of U.S. rulers have prepared for
the seizure of the oil and natural gas of Central Asia and of the Caspian
Sea basin. The U.S. Energy Information Administration prepared a series of
studies over several years that calculate the returns from U.S. seizure of
Central Asian oil and of their indispensability to the future of
capitalist rule in the U.S.
One report stated, "By 2020 the U.S. will import 64% of its crude oil
- 25.8 million barrels per day. Caspian region oil reserves are the third
largest in the world and within the next 15 years will offset Persian
Gulf oil. Caspian Sea oil and gas are not the only hydrocarbon deposits in
the region. Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert holds the world's third largest
gas reserves - three trillion cubic meters - and has six billion barrels
of oil reserves. Current estimates indicate that in addition to huge gas
deposits, the Caspian Basin holds 200 billion barrels of oil, 33 times
the holdings of Alaska's North Slope and a current value of $4
trillion."
U.S. News and World Report quoted a private memo to oil industry
executives from Vice President Richard Cheney in 1998 in his capacity as
CEO of Halliburton, "I can not think of a time when we have had a
region emerge so suddenly to become as strategically important as the
Caspian." The short-term gains from the oil and natural gas resources
were calculated by U.S. News and World Report at $4 trillion.
In "Oil Politics: America and the Riches of the Caspian Basin" (World
Policy Journal, Spring 1998), Ian Bremmer examines the pipeline
structure in Afghanistan and Central Asia required to secure "proven
oil reserves of 15 to 30 billion barrels with reserves of 200 billion
(and) proven natural gas reserves of 200-350 trillion cubic feet."
In his report to the U.S. Heritage Foundation of July 25, 1997, Ariel
Cohen confirms the calculation of these resources at "$4 trillion at
current market prices" and further estimates a bonanza in "the
region's reserves as "similarly enormous - larger than those in all
of North America."
Under the heading "A Silk Road Blueprint" he outlines the
creation of conditions in Afghanistan for rapid construction of a pipeline
to carry this bonanza of profiteering to the Indian Ocean.
The same theme was sounded by UNOCAL Vice President John J. Maresca,
former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, in his testimony before Congress on February 12, 1998.
These reports of the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. Afghanistan
Foundation, the Energy Information Administration and the CIA spell out
explicitly the necessity for U.S. rulers to impose the military conditions
for the seizure of Central Asia's resources -- virtually salivating over
projected short term profits of $5 trillion in oil and natural gas alone,
not to speak of precious metals and a vast range of additional vital
resources.
Chevron, Unocal, Mobil and B.P. divided up percentages of ownership along
lines mapped out in the San Remo Agreements of 1922 when the oil and gas
of the Middle East were divided among the major oil companies at the
direction of imperial governments controlled by organized Capital.
These corporations have made similar calculations for the oil and natural
gas of Xinqiang Province. Let there be no doubt: the series of wars under
preparation by U.S. rulers have China as their medium term objective.
The massive military preparations taking place in the United States
require as well the confiscation of many trillions of dollars of liquid
assets and a dependence on highly volatile fictive capital - the bank
paper issued to sustain deficit financing.
U.S. workers pay for these adventures through the theft of their savings,
their investments, their employment and their political freedom. As the
crisis of deficit-financed capital deepens, the pressure to realize
super-profits by opening the domestic market in China will require broader
assaults upon China's workers and farmers.
Under such conditions, repression will intensify in China as it has in the
United States. In the United States, the Bush government has announced
that strikes are "an aid to terrorism." Under the cover of rapid
militarization and preparation for war, detention camps are being built at
U.S. military bases in the United States by Brown and Root -- the
construction conglomerate and subsidiary of Halliburton, the company of
which Vice President Cheney was CEO.
The costs of U.S. military adventures are imposed on U.S. workers exactly
as the human costs of the corrupt policies of Chinese rulers are borne by
workers in China.
As in China, so in the United States, the ruling oligarchy has degenerated
into a "kleptocracy": organized theft lies at the heart of
capitalist and bureaucratic rule.
In the U.S. publication, Insight On the News (August 10, 2001),
Kelly Patricia O'Meara, revealed:
"Every year trillions of dollars go unaccounted for by federal
agencies. Robert Lieberman, the Deputy Inspector General of the
Department of Defense read an eight page summary in which he admitted that
$4.4 trillion in adjustments in the Pentagon's books had to be 'cooked
'to compile required financial statements. (emphasis added)
"In one year, $1.1 trillion was simply gone and no one can be
sure when, where and to whom the money went."
Untold trillions of dollars are stolen every year and disappear into off-
shore numbered accounts, holding companies and banks without record.
The article continues,
"For most Americans, an official admission that $1.1 trillion in
taxpayers' money cannot be accounted for is incomprehensible. In fiscal
1999, 124, 227,00 Americans paid a total of more than $855 billion in
individual taxes - which means that the next year the Pentagon misplaced,
lost or otherwise cannot account for all the money the IRS collected in
1999."
The General Accounting Office of the U.S. government acknowledged in its
report for January 2001 that the Department of Defense, like other
government departments "has been on our list of high risk areas
vulnerable to fraud, abuse and mismanagement."
On September 10, 2001, CBS News and its anchor, Dan Rather, reported that
the Pentagon had "lost and was unable to account for $2.3 trillion in
the year 2000 - fully one-quarter of its budget this decade."
On September 12, CBS News interviewed Tom Kenney, a director of the
Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) regarding its efforts
to cope with the disaster of the collapse of the World Trade Center. The
FEMA official informed CBS News that FEMA had been well prepared; they
arrived in New York and were on the scene the day before, on September
10th.
We find that, General Mahmoud Ahmad, the director of Pakistan's
intelligence agency, the ISI, a creation of the CIA, was in Washington,
D.C. holding meetings with the CIA, the National Security Agency and the
Pentagon for days before and during the attacks of September 11th.
While in Washington, General Mahmoud directed $100,000 into the
account of Mohammad Atta, one of the accused hijackers.
These very accused hijackers have a longstanding relationship to U.S.
military intelligence. Mohammad Atta and Abdul-Aziz Alomari were trained,
respectively, at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama and at the Aerospace
School of Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Sae'ed Alghamdi was
trained at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and at
Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. They and others of the accused
hijackers received further instruction at the Pensacola Naval Base in
Florida. The hands of U.S. intelligence agencies are all over the events
of September 11th.
The workers of the United States and China are being terrorized -- by
their own criminal governments. The functionaries who command the heights
of power in State and Party in China today are putting at risk the very
survival of China as an independent cohesive state as they offer their
services to U.S. rulers who scarcely conceal their determination to impose
on China what they have inflicted on the workers and nationalities of the
former Soviet Union.
China's corrupt rulers have linked their survival to their role as the
gravediggers of the Chinese revolution and to the destruction of
everything for which workers in China have fought and sacrificed.
The heroism and will to struggle of the workers of Liaoyang comprise a
major step in the historical awakening of that great sleeping giant -- the
working class of China.
Our own great sleeping giant -- the workers of the United States -- are
stirring. May the workers of China and the United States join hands in a
great common effort to assume our rightful place at the helm of our
respective nations. The Liaoyang Five are in the vanguard of this struggle
and the international campaign to support them is a vital element in the
movement for workers' power in China, the United States and the world.
July 10, 2002
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Ralph Schoenman is co-producer of Taking Aim, a radio program on WBAI-NY
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