---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Yugoslavia list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Emergency Protest Actions to Stop the War Against Iraq! > Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 1:55 AM > > Emergency Protest Actions to Stop the War Against Iraq! > > Internationally Coordinated Week of Emergency Protest Actions > Monday, September 27 - Saturday, October 2, 1999 > to demand: > > Stop the War Against Iraq! > > Stop the Bombings-Lift Sanctions Now! > > Stand Up Against Genocide! > > The International Action Center is calling on all its affiliate chapters and > member organizations and all other anti-war and anti-sanctions > organizations to initiate demonstrations, rallies, vigils and teach-ins during the week of > September 27-October 2, 1999, to protest the apparently imminent > escalation of the bombing war against Iraq and to demand the immediate lifting of > economic sanctions that have killed more than 1.5 million Iraqis since > their imposition in August 1990. > > The French Press Agency (AFP) and other media sources have issued > reports that the recent heavy US/British bombing of Iraq is a prelude to a > vast escalation of a new bombing campaign. These media sources report that > the US and British governments will attempt to issue new ultimatums to Iraq > regarding the acceptance of a new weapons inspection regime to take the > place of the thoroughly discredited UNSCOM. These media sources indicate > that this campaign will be launched after the mid-September meeting of the > UN Security Council. > > The United States government has carried out more than 10,000 combat or > combat support sorties since the conclusion of the so-called Operation Desert > Fox Operation between December 16-19, 1998. The U.S. is also stepping up > its CIA-run destabilization campaign coupled, of course, with the ongoing > genocidal sanctions against the Iraqi people. > > The U.S. goal is to overthrow the Iraqi government (the new official lingo is > `regime change') and replace it with a U.S. puppet regime in this oil-rich > region. Let us never forget that this was precisely what the U.S./CIA > operations accomplished in the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953; > against the Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954; and against the Allende > government in Chile in 1973. No one should be under any illusion. All > historical evidence indicates that when U.S. imperialism targets governments > for overthrow it is not to replace them with more humanistic, more democratic > regimes. The Shah in Iran, the military dictatorship in Guatemala, and > Pinochet in Chile--they all slaughtered hundreds of thousands. But they also > returned nationalized oil fields, fruit plantations and copper mines to their > former Wall Street overlords. This is what made them invaluable "allies" for > successive administrations in the White House. > > We demand that the multi-faceted war against the people of Iraq be ended. No > bombing! Lift the sanctions! Self-determination for the Iraqi people! Please > join in the international effort to organize emergency actions between > Monday, September 27 and Saturday, October 2, 1999. > > Brian Becker & Sara Flounders > Co-Directors of the International Action Center > International Action Center > 39 West 14th Street, Room 296 > New York, NY 10011 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.iacenter.org > phone: 212 633-6646 > fax: 212 633-2889
