[CTRL] Peace demonstrations Utrecht, The Netherlands

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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The Committee for National Solidarity
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-----Original Message-----
From: Herman de Tollenaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, July 09, 2000 9:07 PM
Subject: Peace demonstrations Utrecht, The Netherlands


>On Saturday 8 July, people gathered near the Central Station in Utrecht, to
>oppose the military propaganda at the "Megafestatie". The "Megafestatie" is
>a trade fair/exhibition in the Jaarbeurs hall, aimed at young people. Main
>exhibitors, besides, eg, MTV, are the Dutch military, aiming to get
>teenagers into the Dutch army, military police, and Marines. Not many young
>people want to join the Dutch [professional] armed forces; they have
>trouble with finding people for vacancies. To counter that, lots of tax
>money go to expensive propaganda. The slogan of the armed forces is:
>"[Like] a nanny; but differently." People killed or wounded by Dutch or
>other NATO armed forces in the Balkans and elsewhere might differ. So,
>during the whole Megafestatie, until 16 July, visitors will get counter
>information to the official propaganda. Starting every day at 12 o'clock.
>
>In the night of Friday 7 to Saturday 8 July, two activists wanted to tie a
>banner to a big building crane near the entrance of the Jaarbeurs. The
>banner challenged the army's claim of being a "peace army." However, police
>arrested them.
>
>Later on Saturday, the demonstrators gathered at Smakkelaarsveld [Central
>Station side, opposite to Jaarbeurs] for a street rave/march. The leaflet
>of the organizers, "Onkruit vergaat niet", said the army propaganda
>stimulated violence, also in foreign countries. "Violence there [by Dutch
>and coalition armed forces] also does not bring communication between
>parties in conflicts, but impedes it. We have seen this during the war in
>Kosovo and elsewhere." Other leaflets passed around told what demonstrators
>could do if arrested; and on the "humanitarian" 1999 Balkans war, including
>many deaths like of the fifteen years old Yugoslav schoolgirl and
>mathematics champion, Sanja Milenkovic.
>
>Behind a big banner, opposing militarist propaganda, gathered drummers;
>people with signs of Crass and other punk rock bands on their clothes;
>people with T shirts of Rood [Red], youth branch of the Socialist Party,
>and against the witch hunt against "illegal" immigrants; people with
>anarchist symbols on. Average age not much over twenty, though there were
>also some elderly people.
>
>The marchers passed the army recruiting center in the inner city of Utrecht
>[closed for the weekend]. With chalk, people drew slogans on the pavement
>close to it, like "Stop recruiting child soldiers", and "Stop NATO."
>
>The demonstration continued to the police station, where the arrested
>activists were still being held. The demonstrators made very much noise to
>enable the people in the cells to hear that outside, there were people in
>solidarity with them.
>
>Standing in front of a worker's house, a mother rocked her toddler to the
>rhythm of the music of the sound system in the demonstrators' van, as her
>husband waved to the demonstrators.
>
>During the whole march, new people joined, so that at the Jaarbeurs, the
>end, there were many more people then at the beginning. At the
>"Megafestatie" entrance, many leaflets were passed to the visitors.
>Demonstrators juggled with balls, to show a fun alternative to going abroad
>to shoot people.
>
>Next day, Sunday 9 July,  demonstrators gathered at the eastern entrance of
>the Jaarbeurs.
>Three banners were taped to the Jaarbeurs entrance: "Onkruit vergaat niet"
>[the organizers]; "Stop military violence"; and "NATO out of the Balkans"
>[thanks, Utrecht friend, for improving the banner's letters!]
>
>Repeatedly, there was street theater: a 'die in' with people being
>'killed', falling to the ground, splattered with red 'blood' [paint]. A
>more realist approximation of real war then the armed forces propaganda
>inside the hall.
>
>As the 'die in'  went on, Yvonne shouted through her megaphone: "The Dutch
>army is not a peace army. The Netherlands is a member of NATO. NATO does
>not bring peace. NATO kills innocent people!"
>
>Some reactions from the audience were reserved. One boy asked: "You say the
>Dutch army is bad. But how about national defence?" However, he had to
>concur that the practice of the Dutch army was *not* 'national defence.' In
>1945-1949, the Dutch army attacked Indonesia. Indonesians wanted
>independence from colonialism; they did *not* invade The Netherlands.
>Later, Dutch Marines ended a strike, broken by deaths, by workers in
>Curacao [Antilles]. Defense? In 1999, the Dutch Air Force helped bomb
>Yugoslavia. Defense? Dutch Prime Minister Kok was not even notified by NATO
>that the war begun, let alone the people in The Netherlands. "No" the
>questioner had to concede,"that was not really democracy ... or defence."
>
>A woman, claiming to be married to a Dutch soldier of the NATO forces in
>Kosovo, reacted emotionally to the 'die in.' However, it was not possible
>to understand more of her inarticulate words than "my husband did a good
>job in Kosovo." A friend of hers dragged her away to prevent her from
>making more of a spectacle of herself. If, indeed, as she claims, her
>husband was a soldier in Kosovo, I hope it will be possible to explain to
>people like her how people like her husband are used for the dirty work,
>while people like NATO General Secretary Lord George Robertson and the
>management of cruise missile factory Raytheon, who would not dream of doing
>the dangerous dirty work themselves, make millions of dollars.
>
>A skinhead angrily refused to accept a leaflet against the Balkan war,
>bringing the Nazi salute. The Hitler greeting is illegal in The Netherlands
>[so are Hitler posters; still, as TV journalists found out in July 2000,
>one may find them on Dutch military barracks' walls]. Nevertheless, police
>standing 10 meters away did not react.
>
>However, reactions by the Megafestatie visitors were generally favorable.
>If you passed, eg, one leaflet on Sanja Milenkovic to one boy or girl, then
>ten of their friends might gather around you asking for more leaflets.
>
>Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
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>Herman de Tollenaere
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>My Internet site on Asian history and "new" religions:
>
>http://stad.dsl.nl/~hermantl/
>
>See also SIMPOS, information on occult tendencies' impact on society:
>
>http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/simpoeng.htm
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>
Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art  historian
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