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> Ravenna : 300 in Piazza contro la NATO
>
> Sabato 30/3/02 oltre 300 compagne/i hanno sfilato per le vie di
> Ravenna per ricordare il terzo anniversario dell'infame aggressione
> della NATO e del precedente governo D'Alema alla Jugoslavia e per
> chiedere la chiusura della base NATO di Pisignano.
> Massiccia la presenza di polizia e carabinieri(circa 4oo) per un
> corteo a cui lamministrazione comunale ha precluso le vie del centro
> nel tentativo di "oscurarlo", dopo la rituale campagna di
> criminalizzazione supportata dalle solite associazioni corporative
> dietro il banale pretesto della "turbativa delle feste pasquali".
> Una serie di circostanze hanno determinato una partecipazione assai
> più ridotta rispetto alla manifestazione dell'anno scorso tenutasi a
> Cesena: il clima festivo e vacanziero, la caduta di tensione rispetto
> alle tematiche della NATO, la giusta attenzione polarizzata ad altre
> importanti questioni come la Palestina e, l'art. 18 etc..
> Nonostante questo il corteo di Sabato 30/3 è un passaggio importante
> per alimentare un lavoro continuativo di memoria storica (sul piano
> nazionale) e d'intervento nel territorio contro la base di Pisignano,
> la NATO e hli F16 che ha stimolato la nascita di un nuovo comitato a
> Cervia ("Gettiamo le basi"9.
> Proprio a Cervia si organizzerà per i prossimi mesi un convegno sulle
> basi NATO e le servitùmilitari , insieme ad altre iniziative di lotta
> e controinformazione contro la base .
> Da notare comunque il risultato politico ottenuto dopo la
> manifestazione : la stampa locale ha dato rilievo alla nostra denuncia
> sulla possibile presenza di atomiche nella base.
> coordinamento romagnolo contro la guera ela NATO
>
> --- Fine messaggio inoltrato ---
http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/yugo0404.php
BELGRADE
March denounces U.S./NATO aggression
By John Catalinotto
Tens of thousands marched through Belgrade
March 24 to commemorate the third anniversary of the
1999 U.S./NATO attack on Yugoslavia and the
heroic resistance of its people against great odds.
The demonstration was the largest of actions that
took place around the world, including events in
Vienna and New York. The protests paid respect to
the 3,000 Yugoslav victims of the 78-day
aggression that targeted the civilian infrastructure.
Three years after the war began, Yugoslavia's
population is 50-percent unemployed, its best industries
sold to investors in Western Europe and the U.S.,
its government overthrown by a foreign-financed
election and coup, and its former president held
in a NATO jail in The Hague.
Despite these difficulties, the Belgrade demonstration
--and speakers at the rally that followed--showed
that the spirit of resistance continues.
Their demands included that the Yugoslav government
intervene to secure former President Slobodan
Milosevic's provisional freedom while he conducts
his defense, and creation of a state documentation
center to help the defense of Milosevic and other
Yugoslav citizens unjustly accused by the tribunal.
They also insisted that the government stop
delivering Yugoslav citizens to that imperialist court.
In addition, they demanded the right of Serbs
and other non-Albanians expelled from Kosovo to
return, and an end to the firing of workers
and selling of the factories. They also called for the
resignation of the pro-Western governments in Serbia
and Yugoslavia as well as early elections.
Speakers at the rally included officials of
Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia; Gennadi Churkin, of the
Russian State Duma; Nico Varkevisser of Global
Reflection in the Netherlands; a spokesperson for the
International Committee for the Defense of
Slobodan Milosevic; Dr. Dimitris Caltsonis, vice-chair of
the Greek Association for Democratic Rights and
Freedoms; and a representative of the Communist
Party of Greece.
Vladimir Krsljanin, international secretary of
the SPS, told Workers World he estimated between
30,000 and 50,000 people took part in the march and rally.
Earlier in March, Krsljanin observed, "The continuing
aggression against Yugoslavia is failing. Slobodan
Milosevic's spirit and the freedom of the Yugoslav
people cannot be defeated. Neither bombs nor
money from secret services can conquer us."
Krsljanin said that Milosevic's defense efforts
in The Hague trial "had an enormous impact on the
people in Yugoslavia. According to our latest
polls, 77 percent of the people support him and the
puppet government here is in panic. According
to some estimates, about one million heard at least
part of Milosevic's speech."
Milosevic's defense has been so effective that
the Western media has stopped broadcasting the trial.
Vienna, New York, The Hague
In Vienna, hundreds attended a March 24 meeting
called by the Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity League.
Representatives of Vienna's Yugoslav community and
communist and other left groups spoke at the
rally.
One of the speakers was Kurt Koepruner, author of
"Travels in the Land of War: Experiences of a
Foreigner in Yugoslavia." He said, "What happened
three years ago in Yugoslavia is continuing today in
Afghanistan. And the next targets have already been designated."
In New York, the date was commemorated at a book
signing at former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark's
office for the International Action Center's new
publication, "Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of
Yugoslavia."
Clark emphasized the importance of the IAC
publication in spreading the truth about the war to
combat the lies of the military victors.
The meeting opened a campaign to get thousands of
copies of this book--as well as the English
translation of Michel Collon's "Liar's Poker:
the Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Coming Wars"--into
libraries, bookstores and universities across the United States.
In The Hague, Wil van der Klift of the New Communist
Party of the Netherlands tried to deliver a copy
of "Hidden Agenda" to President Milosevic in
prison on March 22. The guards insisted he hand over the
book to them. It is not known if the publication,
which contains two chapters by the Yugoslav leader,
reached Milosevic.
- END -
Reprinted from the April 4, 2002, issue of Workers World newspaper
>
> Ravenna : 300 in Piazza contro la NATO
>
> Sabato 30/3/02 oltre 300 compagne/i hanno sfilato per le vie di
> Ravenna per ricordare il terzo anniversario dell'infame aggressione
> della NATO e del precedente governo D'Alema alla Jugoslavia e per
> chiedere la chiusura della base NATO di Pisignano.
> Massiccia la presenza di polizia e carabinieri(circa 4oo) per un
> corteo a cui lamministrazione comunale ha precluso le vie del centro
> nel tentativo di "oscurarlo", dopo la rituale campagna di
> criminalizzazione supportata dalle solite associazioni corporative
> dietro il banale pretesto della "turbativa delle feste pasquali".
> Una serie di circostanze hanno determinato una partecipazione assai
> più ridotta rispetto alla manifestazione dell'anno scorso tenutasi a
> Cesena: il clima festivo e vacanziero, la caduta di tensione rispetto
> alle tematiche della NATO, la giusta attenzione polarizzata ad altre
> importanti questioni come la Palestina e, l'art. 18 etc..
> Nonostante questo il corteo di Sabato 30/3 è un passaggio importante
> per alimentare un lavoro continuativo di memoria storica (sul piano
> nazionale) e d'intervento nel territorio contro la base di Pisignano,
> la NATO e hli F16 che ha stimolato la nascita di un nuovo comitato a
> Cervia ("Gettiamo le basi"9.
> Proprio a Cervia si organizzerà per i prossimi mesi un convegno sulle
> basi NATO e le servitùmilitari , insieme ad altre iniziative di lotta
> e controinformazione contro la base .
> Da notare comunque il risultato politico ottenuto dopo la
> manifestazione : la stampa locale ha dato rilievo alla nostra denuncia
> sulla possibile presenza di atomiche nella base.
> coordinamento romagnolo contro la guera ela NATO
>
> --- Fine messaggio inoltrato ---
http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/yugo0404.php
BELGRADE
March denounces U.S./NATO aggression
By John Catalinotto
Tens of thousands marched through Belgrade
March 24 to commemorate the third anniversary of the
1999 U.S./NATO attack on Yugoslavia and the
heroic resistance of its people against great odds.
The demonstration was the largest of actions that
took place around the world, including events in
Vienna and New York. The protests paid respect to
the 3,000 Yugoslav victims of the 78-day
aggression that targeted the civilian infrastructure.
Three years after the war began, Yugoslavia's
population is 50-percent unemployed, its best industries
sold to investors in Western Europe and the U.S.,
its government overthrown by a foreign-financed
election and coup, and its former president held
in a NATO jail in The Hague.
Despite these difficulties, the Belgrade demonstration
--and speakers at the rally that followed--showed
that the spirit of resistance continues.
Their demands included that the Yugoslav government
intervene to secure former President Slobodan
Milosevic's provisional freedom while he conducts
his defense, and creation of a state documentation
center to help the defense of Milosevic and other
Yugoslav citizens unjustly accused by the tribunal.
They also insisted that the government stop
delivering Yugoslav citizens to that imperialist court.
In addition, they demanded the right of Serbs
and other non-Albanians expelled from Kosovo to
return, and an end to the firing of workers
and selling of the factories. They also called for the
resignation of the pro-Western governments in Serbia
and Yugoslavia as well as early elections.
Speakers at the rally included officials of
Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia; Gennadi Churkin, of the
Russian State Duma; Nico Varkevisser of Global
Reflection in the Netherlands; a spokesperson for the
International Committee for the Defense of
Slobodan Milosevic; Dr. Dimitris Caltsonis, vice-chair of
the Greek Association for Democratic Rights and
Freedoms; and a representative of the Communist
Party of Greece.
Vladimir Krsljanin, international secretary of
the SPS, told Workers World he estimated between
30,000 and 50,000 people took part in the march and rally.
Earlier in March, Krsljanin observed, "The continuing
aggression against Yugoslavia is failing. Slobodan
Milosevic's spirit and the freedom of the Yugoslav
people cannot be defeated. Neither bombs nor
money from secret services can conquer us."
Krsljanin said that Milosevic's defense efforts
in The Hague trial "had an enormous impact on the
people in Yugoslavia. According to our latest
polls, 77 percent of the people support him and the
puppet government here is in panic. According
to some estimates, about one million heard at least
part of Milosevic's speech."
Milosevic's defense has been so effective that
the Western media has stopped broadcasting the trial.
Vienna, New York, The Hague
In Vienna, hundreds attended a March 24 meeting
called by the Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity League.
Representatives of Vienna's Yugoslav community and
communist and other left groups spoke at the
rally.
One of the speakers was Kurt Koepruner, author of
"Travels in the Land of War: Experiences of a
Foreigner in Yugoslavia." He said, "What happened
three years ago in Yugoslavia is continuing today in
Afghanistan. And the next targets have already been designated."
In New York, the date was commemorated at a book
signing at former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark's
office for the International Action Center's new
publication, "Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of
Yugoslavia."
Clark emphasized the importance of the IAC
publication in spreading the truth about the war to
combat the lies of the military victors.
The meeting opened a campaign to get thousands of
copies of this book--as well as the English
translation of Michel Collon's "Liar's Poker:
the Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Coming Wars"--into
libraries, bookstores and universities across the United States.
In The Hague, Wil van der Klift of the New Communist
Party of the Netherlands tried to deliver a copy
of "Hidden Agenda" to President Milosevic in
prison on March 22. The guards insisted he hand over the
book to them. It is not known if the publication,
which contains two chapters by the Yugoslav leader,
reached Milosevic.
- END -
Reprinted from the April 4, 2002, issue of Workers World newspaper