Gambia-L: The unedited e-mail came from a source. Ebrima ____________________________________________________________________ >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Rep. Johnny Ford and the World Conference of Mayors >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 > >Ebrima, > >Why is it that the World conference of Mayors (WCM)insists on settling for >pariah states to hold their Annual junkets? At least the partern supports >the view of the Sierra Club from the posting I sent you on WCM's 1997 >Annual Meeting in Abuja with Abacha as the Key Note Speaker; after Ken >Sara-Wiwa and dozen Ogoni human right activists and environmentalists were >murdered by none other than Abacha. > >A tremendous amount of work is going on which will likely produce statling >results. What triggered my curiousity is, if you look at my last posting, I >said that I have communicated privately in Banjul and by e-mail yesterday >(now day before yesterday) with Rep. Johnny Ford. Well, my message has been >returned undelivered and after several searches using every engine >imaginable, I cannot find a web site for an Organisation with such high >sounding name as World Conference of Mayors. I find that strange. Alabama >State Legislature web site has no e-mail addresses for State Reps. unlike >the US Federal Government and many other State Goverments. Come on >Alabama, you can do better than that for your citizens to have immediate >and easy access to their representatives, inexpensively too. > >Another strange thing is that in the Sierra Club piece, the WCM seems to be >in the habit of not revealing the names of those US polticians who do >participate in these junkets, sometimes at taxpayers expense, to help prop >up dictators like Yahya Jammeh, Omar Bongo and Sanni Abacha. >The WCM have held meetings in both Abuja and Libreville. That former lady >African-American Senaor from Illinois lost her seat, afetr omly one term, >because of her cuzzying up to Sani Abacha. Johnny Ford and his colleagues >in State and Local Government should be careful The federal legislators >are smarter now after the experience of the former lady Senator from >Illinois. > >The struggle against holding the World Conference of Mayors in The Gambia >has bearly begun. I am soliciting the assistance of the State Department >mandarins which I hope will bear fruit so that George Sarr can get to work. > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------