----- Original Message ----- From: heikki sipilä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:31 PM Subject: [Cuba SI] NATO No! Meeting in Italy >From: Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>FLORENCE SAYS NO TO THE NATO SUMMIT! > >>On the 24 and 25 May, NATO will hold a summit meeting in Florence, >a city declared to be an "Operator for Peace," with a gold medal for >its >Resistance against the Nazi/Facists in WW II. > >>In this highest-level meeting, the NATO Alliance intends to >further define its strategies with regards to various areas of the >world (the Balkans and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North >Africa), the reorganization in a more explicitly offensive way of its >military apparatus, and its expansion to the East. > >>The NATO military alliance which, as in the past, continues to be >an instrument of aggression against national sovereignty and >of interference in the internal political affairs of member states, >as well as a constant threat to peace, is today in a process of >transformation of its role and its military apparatus to adapt itself >to the growing >requirements of capitalist dominion in its >contemporary form: "the free >market." > >>It is in this sense that the Treaty of Washington of April 1999, >also signed by the Italian government, must be understood, in which >NATO formally arrogates to itself the right to intervene everywhere >and anywhere in support of the new world order, as demonstrated in >the war against Yugoslavia. > >>War is thus established and increasingly reconfirmed as a >concrete possibility, practicable and in fact practiced, as a major >and decisive instrument for the imposition of the "free market." > >>For this reason there is an evident connection between the >struggles against wars of aggression, against the presence of NATO's >military bases, against militarism, and against the embargoes, with >the struggles in the North and South of the world which are rising up >against the sanctuaries of capitalism (WTO, IMF, World Bank), against >temporary labor and "flexibility", against exploitation and poverty, >for social and citizenship rights, for the right to a decent life and >future, for the liberation of peoples. > >>The forces organizing this mobilization express their opposition to >the holding of the NATO summit in Florence and call on the entire >population to boycott and mobilize against this unacceptable >provocation. > >>WEDNESDAY 24 MAY DAY OF MOBILIZATION AGAINST NATO concluding with a >>DEMONSTRATION meeting point: PIAZZA SAN MARCO 5:30 p.m. > >>Endorsers: Women in Black, Tuscan Antagonistic Movement, Casa >for Social Rights, Association for Renewal of the Left, CPA Occupied >Social Center, Communist Refoundation Party, Young Communists, >Liberazione newspaper, Forum of the Women of Communist Refoundation, >Peace Charter, Coordinamento of Leftist Students, Political Science >Collective, Programmatic Area of Communists in CGIL trade union, RDB >Healthworkers union (Tuscany), Camera del Lavoro Sociale labor >council, Fuori Binario newspaper, Peace Tent, Ass. Senza Confine, >Missing Links Ass., Ass. for Defense of Minorities, Movement for the >Confederation of Communists, Cobas school union, Sincobas union, Slai >Cobas union (Florence), Cobas Union Confederation (Florence), Gulf >Committee, National Coordinamento of RSU workplace union councils, >National Coord. of Committees Against the War, Guerre e Pace >magazine, Coord. of World March of Women, Coord. > >>Rete Lilliput (Florence), CSOA il Mulino Occupied Social >Center, National, Ass. AZAD - Freedom for the Kurdish People, Val di >Sieve Peace Committee, ASSOPACE, PMLI, Nuova Unita' newspaper, North >Americans Against War, Coord. University Language Teachers >(Florence), 1968 >Archives, Forum of Associations Against the Free >Market (Milan), Ass. > > >Village of Peoples, Economy Group "E. Balducci", RACS, Ass. >"Friendship" Rom (Florence), Florence Committee for the Liberation of >Mumia Abu-Jamal, Valdarno Committee Against the War, Ernesto de >Martino Institute, Ass. Chiama Africa, Cultural Ass. Punto Rosso >(Massa Carrara), RSU union council of University of Florence. Mani >Tese (Florence). >---- >>Save up to 54% on Quest & Kelty tents, backpacks, sleeping bags and >>outdoor gear. FREE Shipping and a 30 Day Money-Back Guarantee at >>screaminghotdeals.com >>http://click.egroups.com/1/4012/2/_/22961/_/958088214/ >>-------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Knowledge is Power! >>Elimination of the exploitation of man by man >>http://www.egroups.com/group/pttp/ >POWER TO THE PEOPLE! " JC > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Remember four years of good friends, bad clothes, explosive chemistry >experiments. >http://click.egroups.com/1/4051/0/_/30563/_/958130341/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Cuba SI - Imperialism NO! >Information and discussion about Cuba. >Socialism or death! Patria o muerte! 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