From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:59:39 -0700 To: "CubaNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] Protests against the OAS GRANMA June 7, 2001 Protests against the OAS SAN JOS�.- Several hundred union leaders and university students protested against the Organization of American States (OAS) in San Jos�, as the 34 delegates from the continent prepared for the inauguration of the 31st General Assembly of the organization. Yelling "OAS out," the protesters concentrated about one block away from the National Theater in downtown San Jos�, where foreign ministers and other delegates began to arrive for the inauguration of the meeting. According to the Civil Committee for the Struggle Against the OAS, which called for the demonstration, protests were aimed at bringing out the "inhumane violation of human rights" of the neoliberal policies applied by Latin American governments. In a letter directed at OAS Secretary-General C�sar Gaviria, the Committee stated that the OAS had no moral authority to speak about human rights, one of the General Assembly's central themes, "when the neoliberal policies imposed [by the governments] are the most extreme violations of human rights." "Let the people decide on the Free Trade Area of the Americas," read one of the placards held by protesters. (AFP) _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
