----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:14 AM Subject: [STOPNATO] E. Europe News 3/7: Polish Police Out In Force Against Striking Farmers STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG (Farmers in Poland and Ukraine are fighting for their livelihoods in the face of large-scale land grabs orchestrated by the EU and the IMF/World Bank. The procedure is generally privatization, then sell-off to foreign concerns....The story following this one on the site it appears is about Michael Jackson coming to Warsaw to build a $500 million mega-amusement park. In lieu of jobs and land the Poles will be offered bread and circuses - without the bread.) _______________________________________________________ Polish Police Out In Force To Prevent Road Blocks WARSAW, Mar 7, 2000 -- (Reuters) Polish police came out in force Monday to lift some 70 road blocks set up across the country by farmers from the radical Samoobrona trade union, a police spokesman said. Police used force in the southern town of Latoszyn but neither protestors of police suffered injuries. In nine other areas, demonstrators themselves dismantled the road blocks following the arrival of the police. The populist leader of Samoobrona (Self-defense), Andrzej Lepper, said the demonstrators had erected 70 road blocks, while about 500 farmers demonstrated in the northern town of Olsztyn against the government's agricultural policy. Lepper nearly one year ago organized several huge demonstrations by farmers in protest at falling prices which culminated in some 400 road blocks put up across the country. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement: redtag.com offers UNBELIEVABLE prices on a wide variety of brand names. Get a boys or girls MURRAY 20" bike for only $29.99! Compare as high as $99. To receive 10% off any purchase TODAY go to http://www.lisbot.com/links/redtag2
