A rebel movement gains support of the peopleand grows IFAND ONLY IF it
is fighting for a clearly spelled out programme for (revolutionary)
change.
That's the lesson provided by the Rebel Army led by Fidel Castro, Raul
Castro, Che Guevara, and a long list of others.
That's the lesson provided by Umkonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the
African National Congress (ANC, i.e., Nelson Mandela's organization /
party), whose dissolution of its guerrilla wing was linked to the
ANC's greater ability to operate and organize the masses and fight the
rulers through non-armed means.
The mainstream media (especially newspapers) have been using the
recent hostage "rescue" as a governmental act / action which will
cause the decline of membership and support for the FARC (i.e.,
Spanish acronym for guerrillas operating under the name of Colombian
Revolutionary Armed Forces). What is behind the decline of the FARC is
absence of any spelled out programme for (revolutionary) change --
even the pretense of having a programme and appealing to the
oppressed / working people of the country in conjunction with forming
a mass movement withan armed wing has been abandoned by FARC since at
least 1982. ...

I received this email from UC at Berkeley where SETI at Home is based.
As you know, most of the data for that effort comes from the Arecibo
Observatory.

Also, note that the URL given *is* from UC Berkeley

Tony Alicea

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Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope and the source
for the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget
cuts that will END its ability to continue the search for life beyond
Earth. The decision to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in
Congress on Senate Bill S. 2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These
bills desperately need more support.

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