This following letter is off of Groong. Read it and raise hell.

Dear Groong readers,

The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times (owned by the Tribune) and
Philadelphia Inquirer published an article by notorious Turkey-based
journalist Amberin Zaman. Her articles boast an affiliation to the
L.A. Times and have systematically dismissed the Armenian Holocaust,
referring to the genocide as `allegations.'

Two Armenian-Americans braved below zero temperatures to hold up signs
protesting Armenian Holocaust Denial in front of the Chicago Tribune
Tower today - January 23, 2003 - from 1:30 to 2:30p.m. Five more
protests are planned, and the public is invited to partake.

Letters, e-mails and phone calls complaints to the editors did not
result in the publication of any apology, correction, nor in the
firing of Amberin Zaman. Holding signs which read, `Chicago Tribune
Publishes Armenian Holocaust Denial,' and `Apologize and Fire Amberin
Zaman NOW,' the protestors wanted no less than what would be expected
if Jewish Holocaust denial was published. Amberin Zaman crafts
imaginative sentences that used the word `genocide' but put the blame
on Armenians. Links to several of her sinister Holocaust denial
articles and more information on the protests can be found at
www.TurkishDenial.Com

Chicago Tribune Public Editor M. Don Wycliff - in charge of publishing
corrections --hung up the phone on one of the protestors after saying,

`I will not publish a correction...this is absurd...this is a
quibble...I don't care about Holocaust Denial...[and] where is the
proof?'

When proof was cited over the telephone, Mr. Wycliff said, `I don't
need to hear this, thank you for your call' and hung up the telephone.

The secretary for Chicago Tribune Editor Ms. Lipinski has taken but
not returned phone calls.

A man presumably from the Chicago Tribune asked to read one of the
flyers being passed out by the protestors. Tribune security guard was
seen asking for a backup. Local media and the Mayor of Chicago were
contacted but none showed up in the bitter cold to cover the 1-hour
long event. The mayor, Richard Daley, who spoke in 1990 at the public
commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in
Chicago, was out of town.

5 more protests are planned at 435 Michigan Avenue: Thursday, January
30, 2003, from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm (1 hour); Thursday, February 6,
2003, from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm (1 hour); Wednesday, February 12, 2003,
from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm on Lincoln's Birthday (2 hours); Tuesday,
February 18, 2003, from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm (1 hour); and finally
Tuesday, March 11, 2003, from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm (3
hours). Chicago Police have been notified and so far have requested
only that the protestors stay on public property, and refrain from
littering or blocking the sidewalk with their 1000 flyers.

For more information, contact K. Sarkis Dakarian at 847-910-1517 or
turkishdenial@yahoo.com