--Gary ]
Dear Mike and Phillip,
It's very good to hear from you. I wanted to acknowledge your note right
away, to tell you where things currently stand, and how you might be able
to assist in our efforts to get a hearing for the Hopi elders at the U.N.
Right now, a few of us are actively working on this project. Michele and
Cyro Lord in the Denver area are in contact with people who are keeping
track of the effort headed by Hopi elder Thomas Banyacya. Michele wrote
in her article of 30 June that Thomas Banyacya is calling for a letter-
writing campaign. We are now in the process of formulating a letter to
be sent to the Secretary-General of the U.N., but feel we need a bit more
information before we can proceed to write the letter which we would sug-
gest as a form for others who want to add their voices to our entreaty.
Michele recently asked about the potential problem posed by the fact that
the U.N. does not generally permit hearings from other than representatives
of sovereign governments, and to recognize the Hopi elders as such would be
precedent-setting, so we can expect a great deal of resistance. I have
advised that the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples' Organization, with their
main office in The Hague, and U.S. office in San Francisco might be able to
advise us on this matter, since they deal with just this kind of subject,
and have a staff of international lawyers who deal with such matters on a
regular basis. Aleida Stelwagen and Jan Mooij in Amsterdam have been helping
in this matter, given their proximity to The Hague, and the fact that Jan has
been helping them get connected to the worldwide electronic mail network, so
that we and the S.F. office can be in regular contact with them via e-mail.
Jan sent the UNPO office in The Hague a copy of the original background
article posted by David Yarrow via the IGC account of Dan Winter. (Jan is
now visiting the U.S., and hopes to stop to visit Michele and Cyro in
Colorado sometime during the next few weeks.) Aleida is now preparing to
make a followup contact with that same office to advise them of our current
needs, and I will be writing a letter to the San Francisco office, mentioning
this subject in the course of talking about the electronic mail connection
with their other office.
I would like to strongly suggest that Michele and Cyro attempt to establish
direct contact with Thomas Banyacya through their sources - or at least with
his office, to advise them of our efforts, including our contacts with UNPO,
and to solicit from them advice as to how to proceed. We should also ask
them for their suggestions concerning the text of a letter which we could
ask our several hundred members worldwide to send in support of the effort
of the Hopi elders, and should give them an opportunity to review whatever
we do end up formulating.
At their request, I have added the addresses of Mike Barnes of the Campus
Ministry at Portland State University and of Phillip Penna of the Inter-
Church Uranium Committee Educational Co-operative to the nn.hopi mailing
list.
Anyone else interested on being on this list, in order to take part in this
project should send a message to the address "nn-request@gnosys.svle.ma.us"
containing the text:
subscribe nn.hopi Your Name
where "Your Name" is your full name (NOT your email address - which will be
picked up from your message header).
If anyone would like to review the discussions we have had on this matter to
date by means of the nn.hopi list, you can obtain articles from an online
archive by sending a message to the address "almanac@gnosys.svle.ma.us" of
the form:
confget nn hopi <article-numbers>
where <article-numbers> represents a space-delimited list of article numbers
you would like to retrieve. For example, to get copies of articles 1, 5, and
15-18, you could say:
confget nn hopi 1 5 15 16 17 18
or
confget nn hopi 1 5 1[5-8]
(using the UNIX shell conventions for matching ranges of names). To obtain
all articles from the nn.hopi archives, you can say:
confget nn hopi *
To get a list of articles available for obtaining in this way, you can send
a message of the form:
conflist nn hopi <number-of-days>
where <number-of-days> is a simple integer specifying how many days into the
past you would like the facility to scan for articles for you. If you want
a listing of all articles, just give a large number:
conflist nn hopi 999
Here is the result of sending this message given the present state of the
archive (note that there are only eleven articles in the archive at present,
making the preceding example a bit artificial, but we can expect that by the
time you read this article, there could easily be many more items in the
archive):
>Date: Sun, 5 Jul 92 13:47 EDT
Subject: RE: nn.hopi conf list
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## Regarding your request:
conflist nn hopi 999
scanning conference nn.hopi
1 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 05:30:29 GMT
1 From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
1 Lines: 49
1 Subject: nn.hopi list created
2 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 19:26:32 GMT
2 From: viveka von rosen u <mach1.wlu.ca!vvonros3>
2 Lines: 54
2 Subject: hopi letter
3 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 19:46:49 GMT
3 From: viveka von rosen u <mach1.wlu.ca!vvonros3>
3 Lines: 45
3 Subject: hopi letter
4 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 17:43:17 GMT
4 From: ima.ima.isc.com!scicom.alphacdc.com!milo (Michele Lord)
4 Lines: 40
4 Subject: Re: nn.hopi list created
5 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 13:58:58 GMT
5 From: Dan Winter <igc.org!danwinter>
5 Lines: 208
5 Subject: Re: nn.hopi list created
6 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 16:42:18 GMT
6 From: gst (Gary S. Trujillo)
6 Lines: 41
6 Subject: Re: nn.hopi list created
7 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 20:09:15 GMT
7 From: Dan Winter <igc.org!danwinter>
7 Lines: 64
7 Subject: Re: nn.hopi list created
8 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1992 18:01:17 GMT
8 From: scicom.alphacdc.com!milo (Michele Lord)
8 Lines: 17
8 Subject: Hopi Message
9 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 18:37:50 GMT
9 From: ima.ima.isc.com!scicom.alphacdc.com!milo (Michele Lord)
9 Lines: 44
9 Subject: Questions
10 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1992 05:50:54 GMT
10 From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
10 Lines: 29
10 Subject: Re: Questions
11 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1992 06:24:28 GMT
11 From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
11 Lines: 359
11 Subject: Re: Questions
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Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst