[asia-apec 1548] Statement of the NY People's Assembly

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>From the: NY People's Assembly Against Imperialist Globalization
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EXPOSE THE UNITED NATIONS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF U.S.  IMPERIALISM: JOIN THE
ANTI-IMPERIALIST CONTINGENT AT THE UN MILLENNIUM SUMMIT
(Statement of the NY People's Assembly Against Imperialist Globalization)

On 6-8 September 2000, New York City will host the largest gathering of heads
of state in history at the United Nations Millennium Summit. Activists and
representatives of progressive national and international organizations will
mobilize to ensure that the true conditions and needs of the people are put
forth and that the UN and its member states are exposed for their unabashed
support of imperialistglobalization at the expense of the world’s peoples.

The United Nations was formed in 1948 with rhetoric about peace and
brotherhood. But from its outset, the UN has been an undemocratic-and
anti-democratic-organization that promotes the interests of wealthy
governments
and corporations against the interests of the world’s poor and oppressed
majority. The five states holding permanent seats on the UN Security
Council-the U.S., China, Britain, France, and Russia-control the levers of
power in the UN. These imperialist and semi-imperialist countries, with the US
in the lead, have accumulated great wealth by exploiting the natural and human
resources of the oppressed nations.

The imperialist powers have also ensured that almost all UN member states
adhere to their will. These member states represent their countries’ elite and
dictators, and are propped up by the imperialists. Any country that refuses
this world order is deemed a ‘rogue state’ by the imperialist countries and
becomes a target of economic sanctions and bombing campaigns. Democracy within
the UN cannot be a reality until democracy becomes possible at the national
level. This requires the elimination of the main obstacle to democracy: U.S.
economic and military world domination-imperialism.

The United Nations has served as a useful tool for the government and
multinational corporations of the United States. When the U.S. government
wages
wars for markets or oil fields, it periodically uses the UN to disguise U.S.
wars of aggression as ‘international police actions against rogue states.’
Such
was the case in Korea in 1950 and in Iraq in 1991. Even now, the U.S. is using
UN weapons inspections as a pretext for further atrocities.

So far UN sanctions on Iraq have killed over a million people, mostly children
and the elderly. A UN which endorses U.S. wars can hardly be said to represent
the world’s peoples, the victims of these wars. The last thing the people of
the world or the people of the U.S. need is another U.S. war of aggression,
whether fought in the name of ‘the American people’  or in the name of ‘the
international community.’

The UN provides limited support to the poor through programs such as the
United
Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), but this is like trying to cure a
headache with aspirin when the headache is caused by brain cancer. The root
cause of war and poverty is imperialism, mainly U.S. imperialism.

But rather than stand with the people to fight and end the main cause of
oppression, the UN turns a blind eye. On September 8 we will stand at the
doorstep of the United Nations to call for an end to the system it serves.

Down with U.S. imperialism!
Down with imperialist globalization! 
Forward to a people’s millennium!

NEW YORK PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY AGAINST IMPERIALIST GLOBALIZATION (NY-PAAIG)



INITIATING ORGANIZATIONS: 
Colombia Action Committee
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru
International Action Center
Makabayan Youth Collective (Youth and Students for the People)
Molokon Community
Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines
Philippine Forum
Queers for Racial and Economic Justice
Resistance in Brooklyn
Student Liberation Action Movement

ENDORSERS BEYOND NYC: 
League of Filipino Students-Seattle
NO to the WTO!/Seattle International People’s Assembly
Sentenaryo ng Bayan-Seattle
South Bay People’s Assembly
Pilipino Workers Center-Los Angeles
Alliance of Filipino Immigrants and Advocates of Southern California,
League of Filipino Students-SFSU
Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
Philippine Information Network Services
Filipino Workers’ Committee
Karapatan-Filipino Center for Human Rights-South Bay
People’s Artists-Los Angeles
League of Filipino Students-Los Angeles
Committee on Philippine Issues-Chicago
League of Filipino Students-Chicago
Philippine Solidarity Committee-Chicago
BAYAN International, USA-Los Angeles
PESANTE-Philippine Peasant Support Network
GABRIELA Network-Los Angeles
Kabataang maka-Bayan-Los Angeles
Nagliliyab-Los Angeles
Panay Solidarity Network
Alyansa ng Komunidad-Los Angeles
Balagtasan Collective-Los Angeles
Foundation Kollective-Los Angeles
Filipino Ministry of San Bernardino
People’s Health Network
Migrante International, USA

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