Dear cj, Below we read that a Vietnam-style conflict seems to be developing in Columbia. With this kind of thing going on, it amazes me how so many of my liberal friends continue to scoff at any hint of the possibility of 'conspiracy' or 'media censorship'. rkm ============================================================================ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 22:03:09 -0500 To: •••@••.••• From: Mark Douglas Whitaker <•••@••.•••> Subject: No U.S. intervention in Colombia! [more on the 'invisible' colonies] NO U.S. INTERVENTION IN COLOMBIA! NO MORE VIETNAM WARS! The International Action Center will hold a demonstration at the Colombian Mission to the United Nations 140 E. 57th St. in New York City at 5:00 pm to protest the dangerous new escalation of U.S. military intervention in Colombia. "The United States government is at war with the Colombian people," said IAC spokesperson Teresa Gutierrez. "Colombia is now the third largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the world." The U.S. government is considering a vast increase of up to $1.5 billion for the Colombian government, mostly military. Colombia received $290 million this year. In addition to military aid, the Pentagon has already sent troops to Colombia. "U.S. Special Forces are already on the ground in Colombia training counterinsurgency battalions," Gutierrez charged. "White House diplomats are preparing the grounds for a "regional intervention force," drawing in other Latin American countries in Colombia's civil war." "This military aid is disguised as part of the 'war on drugs,'" Gutierrez explained. "But Colombia's biggest drug traffickers - the big landlords, the paramilitary death squads and their allies in the military high command - are the ones benefiting from the huge infusion of U.S. cash and hardware. Huge U.S. banks get rich from billions of dollars in drug profits." The International Action Center, founded in 1992 by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, is one of the foremost anti-war organizations in the United States. It has organized demonstrations of tens of thousands against U.S. wars and intervention in Iraq, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Haiti, and others. "We aren't waiting for the Pentagon to turn Colombia into the grounds for the next Vietnam War," said IAC co-director Sara Flounders. "It's time for anti-war activists and all progressive people in the United States to resist the Pentagon's drive to war." "The people of the United States have nothing to gain by being drawn in to the U.S. and Colombian governments' war against Colombia's working people," Flounders said. "The billions of dollars sent to the death squad regime in Bogota could be used in New York City for jobs, housing, drug treatment, or health care." International Action Center 39 West 14th Street, Room 206 New York, NY 10011 email: •••@••.••• http://www.iacenter.org phone: 212 633-6646 fax: 212 633-2889 ******************************************************************** * •••@••.••• * * List serve for Student Committee of the Iraq Action Coalition. * * To subscribe, send this message: subscribe stu-cmte-iac * to this address: •••@••.••• * * To unsubscribe, send this message: unsubscribe stu-cmte-iac * to this address: •••@••.••• * * Visit our website: http://iraqaction.org/students.html * * Send for your campus start up kit * by sending a message to: •••@••.••• ********************************************************************* ======================================================================== •••@••.••• a political discussion forum. crafted in Ireland by rkm (Richard K. Moore) To subscribe, send any message to •••@••.••• A public service of Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance •••@••.••• http://cyberjournal.org) **--> Non-commercial reposting is encouraged, but please include the sig up through this paragraph and retain any internal credits and copyright notices. Copyrighted materials are posted under "fair-use". To see the index of the cj archives, send a blank message to: •••@••.••• To subscribe to our activists list, send a blank message to: •••@••.••• To sample the book-in-progress, "Achieving a Livable World", see: http://cyberjournal.org/cdr/alpw/alpw.html Help create the Movement for a Democratic Rensaissance! A community will evolve only when the people control their means of communication. -- Frantz Fanon Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
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