*** From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilhelm Glowacki) Nadchodzace w najblizszy poniedzialek, kanadyjskie swieto Thanksgiving, to amerykanski Columbus Day, jako ze oni obchodza to pierwsze troche pozniej. Kto jednak raczyl byl wytlumaczyc amerykanskim czerwonoskorym znaczenie swastyki dla Zydow, w polaczeniu z Krzysztofem Kolumbem, to zostawiam innym do wydedukowania. I tak stalo sie dobrze, ze zolnierzy KK nie porownano z oddzialami "AK mordujacymi many chosen few w polskich obozach koncentracyjnych". W.Glowacki *** NYPOST.COM News: COLUMBUS PARADERS DON'T EXPECT SMOOTH SAILIN' Saturday,October 7,2000 By LINDA MASSARELLA DENVER - This city's Italian-Americans will march in a Columbus Day parade today - but all hell may break out if anyone dares mention the name of the New World explorer. The "Italian Pride Parade" is a compromise between parade organizers and Native Americans who believe Columbus brought genocide from Europe. When a Columbus parade was organized eight years ago, thousands of angry Native Americans showed up and the march was canceled. "The Columbus Day parade is as much an act of hatred to us as the display of a swastika is to a Jew," said Glen Morris, head of the American Indian Movement in Denver. But the parade ban left Italian-Americans unhappy. "We're the only major city in America that doesn't have an annual Columbus Day parade," said parade supporter C.M. Mangiaracina. Two weeks ago, Mangiaracina signed an agreement that marchers would not invoke the name "Columbus." The compromise was drawn up by Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and Justice Department officials. But lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union were quick to tell Mangiaracina that the agreement was simply illegal. "Their free-speech rights had been abridged," said ACLU director Sue Armstrong. "The city and Justice Department acted in a coercive matter." Said Mangiaracina: "I was railroaded and now I'm angry." Denver police - expecting both several thousand paradegoers and just as many protesters - will be out in full force today. Mangiaracina said he wouldn't be cowed by protesters. "We're not going to be discriminated against anymore - and they can choke on it." But Morris said a major protest was inevitable. "After 508 years, we asked for only one thing, for them to give up one word- Columbus. And they couldn't find it in their hearts to do that," he said. "Of course we're going to protest." =============================================================== Lista 'Forum Zagraniczne' Administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archiwum: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
