Emergency Call To Action:

STOP THE BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA!
NO NATO INVASION OF YUGOSLAVIA!
U.S./ NATO OUT OF THE BALKANS

Demonstrate at the White House
Wednesday March 31st 5:00 pm

Join the International Action Center and many other organizations on Wednesday, March 31st for a nationally coordinated day of actions to condemn the U.S. led NATO bombing and possible invasion of Yugoslavia.

This NATO attack is not about protecting the lives of the Albanian minority in Yugoslavia. In fact, innocent Albanians will likely be the victims of any attack. And NATO bombs are likely to create an enormous refugee crisis for the Albanians in Kosovo.

For the U.S. government to claim to be protecting the rights of a national minority is laughable. National minorities in this country need protection from the U.S. government, like Black and Latino youth who are being massacred by racist police! People like Amadou Diallo, murdered in a hail of 41 bullets by New York City police.

If corporate America and the White House want to fight on behalf of national minority peoples, they could declare a war against racism right here at home. Instead, they are tearing up affirmative action agreements and civil rights gains while protecting racist police forces that function as a virtual occupation army inside Black and Latino neighborhoods inside the United States.

This war is really about Washington's interests, both immediate and long term. It's about access routes to the oil of the Black and Caspian Sea regions, which bring oil right through the Yugoslav capitol, Belgrade, and into the heart of Europe. And It's about the vast deposits of lead and other minerals in Kosovo itself.

In addition, the Clinton administration wants to make NATO the world's police force, reserving for it the right to intervene in any sovereign country (called rogue states by the U.S.) that would defy the U.S. in any way, or pose an obstacle to U.S. big-business access to raw materials or markets. NATO could be used to intervene in Libya, Iraq, North Korea, Russia or any other sovereign nation that is not at war, but which oppose U.S. interests. In a word, this is an imperialist war of aggression.

Sponsored by: International Action Center, Institute for Balkan Affairs, Nicaragua Network, Project South, Women for Mutual Security. For more information, call:
International Action Center, 1247 'E' Street SE, Washington, DC 20003
Phone 202-588-1205, email npcdc@mnsinc.com