From: asianhistory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:10:45 +0200 To: "springvloed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Prague: NATO conference, 21-22 November 2002 Prague: NATO conference, 21-22 November 2002 For forward looking activists: There are plans for a big NATO conference in Prague, 21-22 November 2002. Many high level politicians, military officers, and military businesses' bigwigs lobbying for big contracts for their products will come to the capital of the Czech Republic then. Well ... that is: if a quarrel between the United States Bush administration and the Czech Social Democrat government does not escalate any further. The Czech government plans a move in the United Nations against Cuba, accusing it of violations of human rights. Bush and his ilk strongly agree with this; they prefer the Czechs to move instead of they themselves, obviously to world opinion a party with its own involvement and agenda on Cuba. However, for internal political reasons the Czech government does not want to get a public image of being 100% satellites of the US. So, in their draft resolution they added a sentence, saying that the hard line economic blockade [by Bush] of Cuba may not be the most clever way to go about this. Bush and his supporters do not want 90% satellites, but 100% satellites; they are furious with the Czech government. They threaten to move the 2002 NATO conference elsewhere, if "Prague" will not cry uncle to Uncle Sam. That might cost Prague hotel keepers, pimps, etc. money; these then might lobby the Czech government ... So, we have to wait and see a bit how this issue is decided. Talking about human rights violations: the Czech government probably will not move any resolution at the UN against itself, for last years' police violence against demonstrators against the IMF conference in Prague, and for stopping IMF opponents at the border on a shaky legal basis. According to the anarchist Internet site ainfos, shortly after this there was an international neo-Nazi meeting in the Czech Republic. Then, Czech police did not stop any neo-Nazi meeting participant, just as, of course, they had not stopped any IMF supporters before. They were too busy arresting [Czech] anti-Fascist opponents of this meeting. So, on the horizon, there looms work, for supporters of the fight against the IMF and similar institutions fighting against the poor instead of against poverty; and for fighters for peace, against NATO, in many respects the violent mailed fist of the economic interests behind organizations like the IMF. Like with Prague 2000, Seattle 1999, or Quebec 2001, people should contemplate whether they can go to Prague on 21-22 November 2002, or alternatively, if they cannot go, organize actions against NATO and what it stands for in their own communities. [O yes: the Internet site for the Czech Republic of www.indymedia.org does not work well technically and has not been updated for months. Does anyone know technical or other causes for this? and what may be done about this?] Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes, --------------------------------------------------------------------- Herman de Tollenaere --------------------------------------------------------------------- My Internet site on Asian history and "new" religions: http://www.asianhistory.myweb.nl/ See also SIMPOS, information on occult tendencies' impact on society: http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/simpoeng.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
