Join the Serbian-American community next Sunday, April 4th
at 2:00pm
at the White House for a demonstration. Today's Serbian-American
demonstration was 2,000 strong, come out for these important actions
to NO to the warmakers.
Come by our office, 1247 'E' Street SE, Monday from 7:00 to
9:00pm, and
Tuesday from 8:00 to 9:30pm, for phone banking on the issue of
Yugoslavia.
Statement:
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.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as
the poor to
sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.—Anatole
France
International Action Center/National Peoples Campaign - DC
1247 'E' Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 202-544-5752 Fax: 202-544-9359
Beeper/Cell Phone: 301-526-3318, email: npcdc@mnsinc.com
Web: http://www.iacenter.org