------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:52:41 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NO U.S./NATO BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA! From: "iacenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:25:41 -0500 Subject: Demo, NYC, SF Against NATO Bombing International Action Center 39 West 14th Street, #206 New York, NY 10011 212-633-6646 fax 212-633-2889 http://www.iacenter.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 23, 1999 Attention: Assignment Editor Press Contact: Brian Becker Deirdre Sinnott For: Immediate Release Demonstration on Wednesday, March 24 in NYC Demands: NO U.S./NATO BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA! Anti-war protesters will gather at Grand Central Station (42nd Street and Park Avenue) at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24 to protest the illegal bombing of Yugoslavia by U.S./NATO forces and the proposed occupation. A simultaneous demonstration will take place in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Claremont, and other cities in the United States. The demonstration is called by the International Action Center (IAC), which was initiated by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. IAC spokesperson Sara Flounders issued the following statement about the political orientation of the anti-war protests: "U.S. soldiers and pilots are again being asked to kill and be killed in a far away land. The Milosevic government of Yugoslavia has been demonized as akin to Adolf Hitler. Make no mistake about it, this is simply a pretext to justify military aggression against a sovereign country. The U.S. has earlier demonized Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Manuel Noriega in Panama to justify U.S. military aggression in those countries. "The real issue, however, in all of these wars of aggression is that the U.S. military and economic establishment wanted to dominate these strategic areas. Is Yugoslavia invading and bombing the people of the United States? No. The people of Yugoslavia are the victims. "What makes the U.S. government propaganda more absurd is that it claims that it must bomb Yugoslavia to defend the rights of a national minority people_the Albanians in Kosovo. If one wants to defend the rights of national minority people from police brutality and abuse, you don't have to go thousands of miles away. The shooting of Amadou Diallo in NYC is just the tip of the iceberg. African American, Latino, Native, Arab, and Asian people are routinely the victims of racism, discrimination, and police terror inside the United States. Everyone should ask themselves, `Is it possible for a government that violates the rights of its own national minority peoples at home to pursue a policy of freedom and equality for national minority peoples on other continents?' "The Yugoslav government is resisting the demands by the U.S. and NATO to dismember its country. The same governments that constitute NATO imperialism are the ones that have funneled arms and funds to the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army and before them, ultra-right wing forces who initiated the civil war in Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia. The responsibility for every person who dies in the planned bombing of Yugoslavia_be they Serb, Kosovar, or U.S. GIs_falls directly on the doorstep of the Clinton Administration and the generals in the Pentagon." --30--
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