STOP THE BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA! MONEY FOR JOBS & EDUCATION,NOT WAR! (fwd

Forwarded from the International Action Center (IAC) web page:

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STOP THE BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA!
MONEY FOR JOBS & EDUCATION, NOT WAR! 

The U.S. government has again decided to carry out the massive bombing of
a sovereign country. Today, thousands of bombs and missiles began crashing
down on the people of Yugoslavia. For the last two months, U.S. air force
planes and cruise missiles have been carrying out a similar reign of
terror against the people of Iraq. 

Clinton portrays this bombing as a humanitarian gesture on behalf of the
Albanian national minority that resides in Kosovo, a region of Yugoslavia.
That is a lie. It is war propaganda designed to justify and conceal the
real objective of this war of aggression. 

Yugoslavia, like Iraq, is a regional power in a strategic area that the
Pentagon and Wall Street corporations seek to dominate. The Yugoslav
government is presented as being akin to Adolf Hitler. This is the same
rhetoric that is reserved for Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Manuel Noriega
earlier in Panama. 

The truth is that these governments have in one way or another resisted
the designs of the U.S. military and economic establishment to turn their
countries into semi- colonies ruled by puppet governments. 

The U.S. government says it speaks on behalf of all of the people of this
country when it carries out this war. But working people need to consider
who the U.S. government really represent. It is the biggest corporations
and banks that call the shots. Clinton or George Bush before him are
simply the paid politicians who do the bidding of corporate America. 

Is it conceivable that the worldwide political agenda of corporate America
is motivated by humanitarian concerns? These corporations care about two
things only: profits and super profits. IBM, Exxon, Bankers' Trust, and
General Motors are willing to lay off thousands of workers in the United
States in order to open up new factories and operations in the Third
World and in the territories that used to belong to the Soviet Union. 

Corporate America doesn't give a damn about the lives of working people,
especially people of color, who suffer from racism, discrimination, and
police brutality. 

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. 

We were lied to about the Vietnam War. Millions of young men and women in
the U.S. armed forces were sent to kill and be killed. Who dies in these
wars? It is working class youth who are asked to be cannon fodder, but the
Pentagon wars serve only the interests of the biggest corporations. 

We are demonstrating today to demand that the U.S. stop bombing the
working people of Yugoslavia and to oppose any U.S./NATO army of
occupation in Yugoslavia. We want money for jobs, education, day care,
housing, not for wars of aggression. 

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