And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:57:59 -0800 (PST) >From: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: wy430@vtn1 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Demonstrations to Stop NATO Bombings (fwd) > >for power and resources and "their own good". sound familiar? >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 21:12:07 -0500 >From: iacenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Demonstrations to Stop NATO Bombings > > >International Action Center >39 West 14th Street, #206 >New York, NY 10011 >212-633-6646 fax212-633-2889 >http://www.iacenter.org >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >March 24, 1999 > >Attention: Assignment Editor >Press Contact: Brian Becker, Deirdre Sinnott >For: Immediate Release > >ANTI-WAR PROTESTS AGAINST U.S. BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA WILL >TAKE PLACE SATURDAY, 12 NOON, STARTING AT GRAND CENTRAL >STATION IN NEW YORK CITY >NATIONALLY COORDINATED PROTESTS WILL BE HELD SATURDAY, >MARCH 27 IN CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY > >Hundreds of demonstrators protested in New York City, Los Angeles, San >Francisco, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Portland, Minneapolis, and in >other cities within hours after the beginning of the bombing of >Yugoslavia by U.S./NATO forces. There will be a follow-up >demonstration on Saturday, March 27th in New York City at 12 noon that >will march from Grand Central Station to Union Square. > >Holding signs reading "Stop the Bombing of Yugoslavia," >"Bring U.S. Troops and Warplanes Home Now," and chanting >"Money for Jobs, Not for War," several hundreds >protesters organized by the International Action Center >marched in front of Grand Central Station today at 5 pm. > >"This bombing is a gross violation of international law >and is part of a larger effort by the U.S., German, and >other NATO powers to dismember the socialist republic of >Yugoslavia," said Sara Flounders, Co-Director of the >International Action Center. "As in Iraq, the White >House and Pentagon war propaganda machine is demonizing >Yugoslav leader Milosevich, portraying him as begin >politically akin to Adolf Hitler. > >"The truth is that there has been brutality on all sides >of the civil war in Yugoslavia. In fact, the biggest >ethnic cleansing that took place was directed against >100,000 Serbs living in Croatia in 1995. The war against >the Serbs in Croatia took place under the direction of >retired U.S. military officers. This exposes the >hypocrisy of Clinton's crocodile tears for the Albanian >people in Kosovo. The U.S. is using ethnic groups as a >pawn in a larger effort to dismember Yugoslavia and place >resource-rich, strategic territories under the direct >military domination of the U.S.," Flounders said. > >The war and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, like the war >against Iraq, is part of the post-Soviet world strategy >of Washington. By employing military force coupled with >economic sanctions and an expanding number of U.S. >military bases, the U.S. government seeks to thoroughly >dominate strategic areas. It wants to overthrow and >eliminate any government that resists U.S. military and >economic domination. > >People in the United States are demanding that the >billions of dollars spent on wars of aggression instead >be spent on jobs, housing, education, child care, and >housing. > > --30_ > > >A Flyer for distribution at demonstrations. > >STOP THE BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA! >MONEY FOR JOBS & EDUCATION, NOT WAR! > >The U.S. government has again decided to carry out >the massive bombing of a sovereign country. Today, >thousands of bombs and missiles began crashing down on >the people of Yugoslavia. For the last two months, U.S. >air force planes and cruise missiles have been carrying >out a similar reign of terror against the people of Iraq. > >Clinton portrays this bombing as a humanitarian >gesture on behalf of the Albanian national minority that >resides in Kosovar, a region of Yugoslavia. That is a >lie. It is war propaganda designed to justify and >conceal the real objective of this war of aggression. > >Yugoslavia, like Iraq, is a regional power in a >strategic area that the Pentagon and Wall Street >corporations seek to dominate. The Yugoslav government >is presented as being akin to Adolf Hitler. This is the >same rhetoric that is reserved for Saddam Hussein in Iraq >and Manuel Noriega earlier in Panama. > >The truth is that these governments have in one way >or another resisted the designs of the U.S. military and >economic establishment to turn their countries into semi- >colonies ruled by puppet governments. > >The U.S. government says it speaks on behalf of all >of the people of this country when it carries out this >war. But working people need to consider who the U.S. >government really represent. It is the biggest >corporations and banks that call the shots. Clinton or >George Bush before him are simply the paid politicians >who do the bidding of corporate America. > >Is it conceivable that the worldwide political >agenda of corporate America is motivated by humanitarian >concerns? These corporations care about two things only: >profits and super profits. IBM, Exxon, Bankers' Trust, >and General Motors are willing to lay off thousands of >workers in the United States in order to open up new >factories and operations in the Third World and in the >territories that used to belong to the Soviet Union. > >Corporate America doesn't give a damn about the >lives of working people, especially people of color, who >suffer from racism, discrimination, and police brutality. > >If corporate America and the White House want to >fight on behalf of national minority peoples, they could >declare a war against racism right here at home. >Instead, they are tearing up affirmative action >agreements and civil rights gains while protecting racist >police forces that function as a virtual occupation army >inside Black and Latino neighborhoods inside the United >States. > >We were lied to about the Vietnam War. Millions of >young men and women in the U.S. armed forces were sent to >kill and be killed. Who dies in these wars? It is >working class youth who are asked to be cannon fodder, >but the Pentagon wars serve only the interests of the >biggest corporations. > >We are demonstrating today to demand that the U.S. >stop bombing the working people of Yugoslavia and to >oppose any U.S./NATO army of occupation in Yugoslavia. >We want money for jobs, education, day care, housing, not >for wars of aggression. > >Demonstrate, Saturday, March 27, 12 noon, Grand Central >Station, 42nd Street and Park Avenue. > >International Action Center >39 West 14th St. >#206, NY, NY 10011 >212-633-6646 fax 212-633-2889 >http://www.iacenter.org > >end &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
