http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/245/czech_national_news/16696/
Czech News Agency January 7, 2008 Young Communists collect 150,000 signatures against U.S. radar Prague - The Czech Communist Youth Association (KSM) has collected almost 150,000 signatures for a petition against the planned stationing of a U.S. radar station in the Czech Republic, KSM chairman Milan Krajca told CTK Friday. Krajca said the KSM wanted to submit the petition sheets to the Chamber of Deputies in mid-January when its first session this year would start. The KSM activists have repeatedly submitted the petition to the lower house of the Czech parliament. Last June, they had 111,000 signatures on it. Petitions against the plan and for the calling of a referendum on it have been staged by other organisations, too. The United States wants to build a radar base in the Czech Republic and a base with ten defence missiles in Poland, both to be elements of the missile shield. Negotiations with the USA on the project are underway. The shield is reportedly to protect a big part of Europe and the United States against missiles that "rogue" countries like Iran might launch. According to public opinion polls, a majority of Czechs are opposed to the radar base, and the same is true of Poles who do not want the missile base. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
