---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Yugoslavia list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Demonstrations to Stop the War Against Iraq! > Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 11:06 AM > > Emergency Protest Actions to Stop the War Against Iraq! > > As part of the internationally coordinated week of activities on Iraq from > Sunday, September 26 to Saturday, October 2, there are demonstrations > and other activities in New York City, San Franicisco, Los Angeles, Ann > Arbor, Minneapolis, Oregon, and other cities. > > Please send your local information in as soon as possible so it can be > listed on the web page. > > Below is information for the New York City demonstration. The text can > be used for organizing purposes nationally. > > Stop the War Against Iraq! > Stop the Bombings-Lift Sanctions Now! > Stand Up Against Genocide! > > DEMONSTRATION > Thursday, September 30, 5 pm > at the New York Times (229 W. 43rd St., between 7th and 8th) > > Part of the internationally coordinated Week of Emergency Protest > Actions, September 26-October 2, 1999. > > Join the protest September 30, 1999, in front of the New York Times office to > protest the ongoing U.S. bombing war inst Iraq and to demand the immediate > lifting of economic sanctions that have killed more than 1 million Iraqis since > August 1990. > > What are economic sanctions? They are the decision by rich and powerful > countries to forbid poor countries to carry out trade. The poor countries cannot > buy or sell products. Their economies shut down. Their workers become > unemployed. Food products vanish. Medicine and health care products > disappear. Sanctions can kill more people than actual warfare. But the rich > countries can kill the people in poor countries without putting their own > soldiers at risk. > > The U.S. has used sanctions and regular bombing of Iraq for nine long years. > More than one million Iraqis have died. Those responsible for this policy > should be put on trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Instead of > exposing this criminal policy, the New York Times functions like a propaganda > arm of the Pentagon and CIA. We want the truth, not lies! > > The United States government has carried out more than 10,000 combat or > combat support sorties since the conclusion of the so-called Operation Desert > Fox Operation between December 16-19, 1998. This is terrorism, plain and > simple. > > The people in the United States are led to believe by the pro-big business > media that the U.S. policy of economic strangulation of Iraq, coupled with > constant bombings of the country, is caused by the “dictatorial” and > “dangerous” government of Saddam Hussein. This is part of the propaganda > campaign by the criminals to make their victims appear to be the guilty party. > The Clinton Administration is waging this against the people of Iraq because > the biggest U.S. oil monopolies and banks want to dominate Iraq’s huge oil > reserves (estimated to be 10% of the entire world’s oil.) These ruthless > corporations don’t care if there is a dictatorial regime in Iraq as long as it would > be a puppet government, like the governments in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and > Israel. > > We demand that the multi-faceted war against the people of Iraq be ended. No > bombing! Lift the sanctions! Self-determination for the Iraqi people! Please > join in protest in New York City on Thursday September 30, 1999 in front of the > New York Times. > > International Action Center > 39 West 14th Street, Room 296 > New York, NY 10011 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.iacenter.org > phone: 212 633-6646 > fax: 212 633-2889
