ya bastacommunique: bush in rome next week - CALL TO ACTION
confront bush in rome | 28.05.2004 23:49 | Anti-militarism
On june 4’th, (next friday) George W. Bush is coming to Rome, Italy. Networks and associations are mobilising against his presence - against the global war.
People from the UK are travelling to Italy, get in touch with us if you are interested in confronting the bastard.
People from the UK are travelling to Italy, get in touch with us if you are interested in confronting the bastard.
undesirable. yup.
If not now, then when?
The Association Ya Basta! launches appeal for the mobilisation: Bush stay home!
Global Project Padova - Tuesday May 18th, 2004
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"We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it’s obscene"
F. F. Coppola, Apocalypse Now
If not now, then when?
June 4’th, this year, the president of the United States of America, George W. Bush, a war criminal, thinks to be in Italy
In an attempt to instrumentalise the past, he will try to link his current occupation of Iraq and his siding with main multinational enterprises with the rhetoric of the Italian liberation from nazi-fascism.
If Rome and Italy was liberated from fascism and nazism, we owe it first of all to all those, men and women, who in the middle of the war and military occupation, chose to desert and to take part in the resistance, with or without arms, in boycott, in active disobedience, not collaborating. Only thanks to those it was possible to imagine a different future than that of the war which devastated Europe.
Today Iraq is the mirror of the horrors which the Empire is spreading over the world: brutal exploitation, environmental devastation, torture, arrests and civilians as military targets.
As association and collective, in our attempt to be there where resistance exists against this unjust order, we have very clearly understood that in all conflicts, there is one part which has the right to resist: namely humanity in all of its expressions, independent of culture, religion and the colour of the skin.
Already last June during our caravan that aimed to cross Iraq and Palestine, we found out that refusing to collaborate with the occupants and active resistance against them is what scares the lords of war the most.
Today Iraq is the central nerve point where the experimentation with the war of the new millennium takes place: Lethal arms used against civilians, private armies, the systematic use of lies and media manipulation, the degrading of enemies and the renewed systematic use of torture
June 4’th, in Rome and contextually in all of Europe, will be the moment to say: enough! The moment to affirm, that only when asserting the right to resist, and through the concrete practices of resistance against the war, in Europe as in Iraq, in Afghanistan, Palestine and every other scene of the global war, only then is it possible to create a present of peace and of rights.
The alternative is that of the daily horror that we are getting so used to.
We therefore launch this appeal to all realities of the basis, associations and movements and to all those who singularly or collectively want to give body to the refusal of the war:
To organise initiatives against the Italian participation in the war: as much against the economical one - embodied in all of the enterprises that take part the so-called reconstruction, as against the military presence.
To turn June 2 into the day against militarism, against the war, using the military funds for purposes of social corporation and development.
To declare the Roma "città aperta" yet another time, with the struggles for the liberation of our country and the current struggles of the global movements in mind. Resisting against war and fascism, banning the presence of war criminals like George W. Bush!
To participate in the mobilisations of June 4’th in Rome and in Europe, organising affinity groups promoting direct actions of protest and civil resistance.
The Association Ya Basta!
If you are interested travelling to Rome feel free to contact
confrontbushinrome@yahoo.co.uk for info or whatever.
The Association Ya Basta! launches appeal for the mobilisation: Bush stay home!
Global Project Padova - Tuesday May 18th, 2004
[ print version ]
"We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it’s obscene"
F. F. Coppola, Apocalypse Now
If not now, then when?
June 4’th, this year, the president of the United States of America, George W. Bush, a war criminal, thinks to be in Italy
In an attempt to instrumentalise the past, he will try to link his current occupation of Iraq and his siding with main multinational enterprises with the rhetoric of the Italian liberation from nazi-fascism.
If Rome and Italy was liberated from fascism and nazism, we owe it first of all to all those, men and women, who in the middle of the war and military occupation, chose to desert and to take part in the resistance, with or without arms, in boycott, in active disobedience, not collaborating. Only thanks to those it was possible to imagine a different future than that of the war which devastated Europe.
Today Iraq is the mirror of the horrors which the Empire is spreading over the world: brutal exploitation, environmental devastation, torture, arrests and civilians as military targets.
As association and collective, in our attempt to be there where resistance exists against this unjust order, we have very clearly understood that in all conflicts, there is one part which has the right to resist: namely humanity in all of its expressions, independent of culture, religion and the colour of the skin.
Already last June during our caravan that aimed to cross Iraq and Palestine, we found out that refusing to collaborate with the occupants and active resistance against them is what scares the lords of war the most.
Today Iraq is the central nerve point where the experimentation with the war of the new millennium takes place: Lethal arms used against civilians, private armies, the systematic use of lies and media manipulation, the degrading of enemies and the renewed systematic use of torture
June 4’th, in Rome and contextually in all of Europe, will be the moment to say: enough! The moment to affirm, that only when asserting the right to resist, and through the concrete practices of resistance against the war, in Europe as in Iraq, in Afghanistan, Palestine and every other scene of the global war, only then is it possible to create a present of peace and of rights.
The alternative is that of the daily horror that we are getting so used to.
We therefore launch this appeal to all realities of the basis, associations and movements and to all those who singularly or collectively want to give body to the refusal of the war:
To organise initiatives against the Italian participation in the war: as much against the economical one - embodied in all of the enterprises that take part the so-called reconstruction, as against the military presence.
To turn June 2 into the day against militarism, against the war, using the military funds for purposes of social corporation and development.
To declare the Roma "città aperta" yet another time, with the struggles for the liberation of our country and the current struggles of the global movements in mind. Resisting against war and fascism, banning the presence of war criminals like George W. Bush!
To participate in the mobilisations of June 4’th in Rome and in Europe, organising affinity groups promoting direct actions of protest and civil resistance.
The Association Ya Basta!
If you are interested travelling to Rome feel free to contact
confrontbushinrome@yahoo.co.uk for info or whatever.
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Anti Bush Paris Demo
06.06.2004 15:36
Received Saturday, 5 June 2004 20:15:00 GMT
PARIS, June 5 (AFP) - Waving banners and shouting slogans, thousands of people marched through Paris on Saturday to protest against the US-led occupation of Iraq and US President George W. Bush's visit to France.
At the head of the march in eastern Paris, protesters carried a gigantic banner calling for freedom and sovereignty for Iraqis, the withdrawal of occupying troops, and peace and democracy in the Middle East.
Anti-war protesters, 10,000 according to police, marched against the US-led occupation of Iraq.
They carried placards saying: "Bush, number one terrorist!" and "Bush, since you got here, it smells like oil".
Five thousand police officers and 1,500 soldiers were deployed in Paris for the demonstration, and the area around the Elysee presidential palace and the US embassy was sealed off.
One of the marchers, radical left-wing leader and former presidential candidate Olivier Besancenot, said: "It's just not decent that George Bush, who is responsible for a murderous war, is in Paris today."
But many were keen to stress they were angry with the current US administration, not the American people, to whom they remained deeply grateful for France's liberation from Nazi occupation 60 years ago this weekend.
The protest was supported by around 40 organisations -- including human rights and peace groups, the Communist and Greens parties and the US expatriate group Americans Against the War -- under the motto "Solidarity of peoples against war and occupation."
"George Bush has got to go!" yelled the demonstrators in English.
Dressed in an Uncle Sam costume, one marcher explained: "I am here to show that you can be American and still be opposed to President Bush's actions."
"I am against the parellel that (Bush) has tried to draw between the liberation of France and that of Iraq," said the 55-year-old IT consultant, who carried a placard reading "Honour in 1944, Shame in 2004".
His call was heard by many in the crowd, who drew a clear distinction between Bush and the US population at large.
"Bush is a criminal but he does not represent the American people," said Virginie Marin, a 46-year-old small business director.
Her 15-year-old daughter, Marianne, accused French President Jacques Chirac of exploiting this weekend's D-Day ceremonies to win back "a role alongside the United States and a slice of the cake in Iraq".
"We cannot close our eyes to all the massacres that have taken place in Iraq," she said.
"I don't confuse the American people and their leader," agreed Arlette Laguiller, a radical left-wing politician who joined in the march.
Others, such as 27-year-old political activist Benjamin Chevit, said it was important to distinguish between the role US soldiers had played in liberating Europe during World War II, and current US foreign policy, with which he disagreed deeply.
"This weekend is a time to pay tribute to the Americans who landed 60 years ago", he said.
In Normandy itself, hundreds of noisy demonstrators protested against the participation of Bush and Russian President Vladmir Putin in ceremonies to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
The two are among 22 heads of state or government due to attend a ceremony on Sunday at Arromanches, on the stretch of northern French coastline where Allied forces stormed ashore on June 6, 1944, to begin the liberation of Europe.
The Human Rights League said 1,000 people took part in a protest it organised with other groups in Caen, the largest city in the region and the headquarters for the commemorations. Police said 600 people took part.
Demonstrators held banners reading "Bush and Putin are war criminals" in reference to the US-led invasion of Iraq and Russia's military repression of armed separatists in Chechnya.
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