>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >39 W 14 St #206 New York, NY 10011 > >(212) 633-6646 fax: (212) 633-2889 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iacenter.org > > >Contents: > >1. Aug. 30 press release > >2. Informe de prensa 30 de agosto (en espa�ol) > >3. List of actions/lista de actividades locales > > >Texto en espa�ol se encuentra abajo. > > >* * * For Immediate Release * * * > > >For more information: Teresa Gutierrez, Andy McInerney > >28 August 2000 > >International Protests to Challenge Clinton's Aug. 30 trip to Colombia: > >STOP THE U.S. WAR AGAINST COLOMBIA! > > >Demonstrations across the United States and around the world are scheduled to >coincide with U.S. President Bill Clinton's trip to Cartagena, Colombia on >Aug. 30. The main demands will be: "Stop the U.S. war against Colomb >ia! No to Plan Colombia!" > > >In New York, the demonstration will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 30 at 42nd >St. and 6th Ave. from 5pm to 7pm. Other actions are scheduled in San >Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego, Providence, H >elena, West Palm Beach, Stockholm, London, Rome, Vienna, Toronto, Buenos >Aires, and other cities in Europe and Latin America. Mass protests are >expected across Colombia during Clinton's trip. A list of actions and local c >ontacts is attached. > > >"Clinton's visit will not go unchallenged," charged Teresa Guttierez, a leader >of the International Action Center. "Demonstrations around the United States >and the world will expose the lie that the U.S. is interested in >peace while sending $1.3 billion in military supplies to Colombia." > > >Colombia is already the third largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the >world. The aid package, part of the proposed $7.5 billion "Plan Colombia," >includes 60 combat helicopters, counterinsurgency training by U.S. Spe >cial Forces, and defoliation efforts with lethal chemicals and dangerous >biological agents like the "Fusarium oxysporum" fungus. > > >"This aid package has nothing to do with narcotrafficking," Gutierrez stated. >"These weapons are clearly aimed at escalating the civil war that has gripped >Colombia for 50 years, at the very time that Colombian President >Andres Pastrana claims to be looking for an accord with the insurgencies." > > >"Clinton is visiting Colombia just two weeks after Colombian soldiers >massacred six children in Pueblo Rico on Aug. 15," IAC West Coast >Co-coordinator Gloria La Riva said. "Government-linked death squads have >killed score >s of others since then. That is the real impact of U.S. military aid and Plan >Colombia." > > >"The latest escalation of military aid is another step down the road to open >U.S. intervention in Colombia," stated IAC co-director Sara Flounders. "The >Pentagon generals and Wall Street tycoons have grown so arrogant tha >t they have forgotten the lesson of Vietnam: a people's struggle for social >justice cannot be crushed by bombs and high-tech weaponry." > > >The U.S. protests are being coordinated by the IAC. They have been endorsed by >the Anti-War Committee, Casa de las Americas, the Colombia Action Network, the >Colombia Solidarity Committee, Haiti Progres newspaper, the Hai >ti Support Network, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, Vamos a la Pe�a, the >Vieques Support Campaign, and the Working Group on Puerto Rico. > > >International Action Center >39 West 14th Street, Room 206 >New York, NY 10011 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web: www.iacenter.org >CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE www.mumia2000.org >phone: 212 633-6646 >fax: 212 633-2889 > _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________
