[asia-apec 1103] SF Labor Council Says No to U.S./Nato Bombings of Yugoslavia
BAYAN
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Sun May 2 08:00:48 JST 1999
From: BAYAN <bayan at iname.com>
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Date: 04/22 4:48 PM
From: Ed Rosario, unite at igc.org
Voted and Passed unanimously By the Executive Board of the San Francisco
Labor Council (AFL-CIO) on April 21, 1999.
Whereas, NATO forces under the leadership of the United States have
unleashed massive air strikes against Yugoslavia designed, in the words
of NATO officer in charge, U.S. General Wesley Clark, to "demolish,
destroy, devastate, degrade, and ultimately eliminate the essential
infrastructure" of the country, and,
Whereas, the U.S. government is allocating billions for war to destroy
among other things, bridges, apartment buildings, and factories, as
opposed to spending our resources to improve the quality of life in the
U.S., and to assist in the productive development of the Balkans and
elsewhere, and,
Whereas, the massive bombing is contributing to and has in fact severly
exacerbated the plight of the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo who are
persecuted by the Milosevic regime but whose right to self-determination
has never been supported or recognized by the United States or NATO.
Therefore Be It Resolved, that the San Francisco Labr Council call for
an end to the war, an immediate halt to the NATO/U.S. bombing of
Yugoslavia, and an end to the intervention.
Be It Further Resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council rejects the
notion that the U.S. government has, by military might, the legal, or
moral right to intervene and police the world in such disputes, and,
Be It Further Resolved, that this resolution be sent to the National
AFL-CIO, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and to President
William Clinton.
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