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Seattle Community Network |
Sunday
July 16, 2000 |
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July 16
"... the Horizon Crest Community Association gives all of us a stronger combined voice with the City of Bellevue than any of us might have individually." ... "The HCCA has lobbied for and obtained: Sidewalk improvements and patching. Much improved snow removal/sanding. Better police and emergency response. New street signage. Traffic speed enforcement. Traffic flow improvements. Left turn signal at Newport Way." "Please mark your calendar - the date for the 2nd Annual community wide summer picnic/BBQ has been set for September 16th." "The annual meeting of HCCA was held on February 16, 2000. ... The results of a HCCA survey were presented. ... A majority felt the sidewalks and visibility on corners were areas needing improvement while 25% felt excessive speed was a problem." ... "Your association has been working with the City of Bellevue to have our sidewalks surveyed and repaired. The survey was preformed in early March, and repairs have begun. The first crews to enter the area were from U.S. West. They tore up old, deteriorating telephone lines, and replaced them with new lines of comparable quality. That's why trenches were cut in the streets." ... "A community center may be constructed on Newport Way in the park across the street from the Library. (Over by where the tennis courts are). It may contain a Senior Center and/or a Boys and Girls Club."
"(1) to provide architectural services to non-profit housing and human services agencies for the development of housing and special needs facilities; and "(2) to provide planning, consulting and information services related to sustainable building design and consulting practices.
"... they asked us if we saw the University of Idaho cow with a window in its stomach. Now, before we left, various Seattleites told us to make sure that we saw the window-stomached cow, but I assumed that they were kidding: the only thing worth seeing in that neck of the woods is a freak cow, har de har har. Now here was a local telling us the same damn thing. Apparently the window was installed by scientists studying bovine digestive processes. No, we said. We hadn't seen it."
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July 16 - 22
Seattle Site of the Week:  
Amnesty International U.S.A. Group 4 of Seattle, Washington
"Amnesty International seeks the release of prisoners of conscience. These are people detained for their beliefs, color, sex, ethnic origin, language or religion who have not used or advocated violence." ... "We welcome new members and everyone is invited to attend our meetings. Leave voice mail for a local Amnesty representative at (206) 622-2741, or send us e-mail at amnesty@scn.org." The next meeting is Wednesday, August 2 at 6:30 PM at the Fremont Public Library. "Please send courteous letters expressing your concern at the imprisonment of Ngawang Phulchung. Urge that he be immediately released on the grounds that he is a prisoner of conscience." Write to the Chinese officials on AI Seattle's Ngawang Phulchung page. "In April, 1989, Ngawang Phulchung was re-arrested for distributing leaflets supporting Tibetan independence and a Tibetan translation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ... He was accused of 'collecting intelligence and passing it to the enemy' (the 'enemy' is the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile) and 'seriously undermining national security.' Ngawang was sentenced in November 1989 to nineteen years in prison..." "In 1987, Ngawang and twenty other monks staged a peaceful demonstration in Lhasa protesting the Chinese occupation of Tibet. For this the monks were beaten by police and taken to prison. Ngawang was held for four months without ever being charged with a crime. After being released, he began to print leaflets critical of the Chinese government. At his trial in 1989, the Chinese government stated, 'Let the sentence on Ngawang Phulchung serve as a stern warning for separatists both at home and abroad that those who split the motherland will come to no good end.'" ... "In April, 1991, Ngawang and seventeen other monks were severely beaten and placed in solitary confinement after a visit to the prison by US diplomats who were led by then-ambassador James Lilley on March 30. A group of prisoners handed the delegation a petition protesting conditions at the prison. ... After those prisoners were punished and transferred to a labor camp, Ngawang and the other monks protested and were beaten and placed in solitary confinement for six weeks." ... "Drapchi Prison has been the scene of some of China's most egregious human rights violations in Tibet. Amnesty has recorded at least nine deaths in detention in the last ten years. Reports of torture are common and well documented. During her 1998 visit to Tibet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson refused to visit the prison, citing a history of retaliation against prisoners who attempted to communicate with previous delegations." ... "Although Amnesty International takes no position on the Chinese occupation of Tibet, we expect that whoever governs Tibet will adhere to international standards of conduct as stipulated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a member of the UN, China has agreed in principle to uphold these standards." |
