******Please Forward****** If you believe that the NATO attack on Yugoslavia is a humanitarian mission, please read: Kosovo: An Effective Humanitarian Mission? <http://www.igc.apc.org/esp/humanitarian.htm> and let us know what you think by using the form at the bottom of the essay. I will rewrite this essay periodically based on feedback and changing conditions in Kosovo. Your feedback will be helpful. Also, we would like to publish responses and create a "Dialogue on Kosovo Humanitarianism" web page. In a few days, to see if this happens, check the San Francisco Progressive Challenge web page at: http://www.igc.org/esp/sfpc.htm If you have not done so already, please sign our Resolution for Peace in Kosovo. You can use the form at the bottom of the resolution at: http://www.igc.org/esp/Kosovo.htm About 500 people have signed the resolution thus far. 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To be added to this list, send "Yes ESPReport" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.] -- Wade Hudson, Coordinator Economic Security Project San Francisco Progressive Challenge www.igc.org/esp ================================================ From: New Worker Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Appeal of the Communist, Workers and Left Parties of the NATO States on the aggression of NATO against the FR of Yugoslavia" In face of the continuous criminal bombardements and the aggressive intervention of the USA and the NATO forces against the FR of Yugoslavia, an independent and sovereign European state, an act which trampled the UN Charter, flagrantly violated the international law and created the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the latest half-century in our continent, we call up peoples, youth, peace trade union and other social movements: * To condemn and reinforce the protestations by all means against the NATO aggressive intervention and the bombing of innocent civilians. * To demand the immediate stop of the criminal bombings and to re-establish peace in the area. * To intensify the efforts in order to achieve a solution to the crises by all the parties involved using political means.The solution should ensure the autonomy of Kosovo, the rights of all minorities and the territorial intergrity and sovereignity of the F.R. of Yugoslavia. * To express the strongest opposition to the "new NATO", to the "new strategic role" that allows NATO to operate outside the territories of its member states, outside its operational limits as these were known up to now and to be a more dangerous instrument of imposing the imperialist New World Order . * Our parties, communist, worker and left parties of countries members of the NATO will deploy by all means actions to counter such a dangerous developement and will support every effort in this direction. 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