[asia-apec 1103] SF Labor Council Says No to U.S./Nato Bombings of Yugoslavia

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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.