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Madeleine Albright demonstration tomorrow - call by OSAN

osan | 27.10.2003 18:18 | Anti-militarism | Oxford

Oppose MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Former US Secretary of State
- the woman who thinks 500,000 Iraqi Children
dying due to Sanctions is a price worth paying.

(All actions are done in the name of those who go to them not of OSAN as a whole)

Where and When?:
Tuesday 27th October: BORDERS and the Oxford UNION

Demonstration Meets Balliol Lodge 5pm
- book signing in Borders at 6 pm (demonstrations starts earlier)
- Then on to the Union at 8.00 pm

Bring Pots and Pans, Banners, Drums and loads of difficult questions.

Those of you in the Union go in and make sure that she is challenged with critical questions.

Why oppose Madeleine Albright?:

IRAQ

a.. In a Television interview in 1996, Albright responded to a question about half a million children dying in Iraq due to US led sanctions: "We think the price is worth it."
b.. In 1998, Albright was at her jingoist best in the context of Iraq: "If we have to use force, it is because we are America! We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall, and we see further into the future."

THE BALKANS

a.. Convinced that she could bomb Milosevic into signing her Rambouillet agreement, Albright strongly made the case for aerial bombings in Kosovo. So blinkered was her vision that all warnings by the CIA about Serbian retaliations were ignored. As a US report later stated, the Serb focus before March 1999 was on rooting out the KLA, not on genocide, and that the Serbs turned to "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo Albanians in general only after the beginning of the bombing.
b.. Albright's own spokesman James Rubin was forced to admit about Kosovo "Over 580,000 people have been either internally displaced or forced to flee.''
c.. When Colin Powell argued that the U.S. should not commit military forces to Bosnia until there was a clear political objective, Albright presented her logically flawless reply: "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?"

RWANDA

a.. After US failure to act to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994, Albright ensured that no one else upstaged the US; as UN ambassador, she stalled the deployment of further UN troupes in Rwanda. She threatened to veto any proposal that would increase UNAMIR forces in the troubled region, thereby ensuring UN failure to act under the 1948 Convention Against Genocide. Around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus are killed.

UNITED NATIONS

a.. On more than one occasion while U.N. ambassador, Albright yelled at U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali that he must not publish the report about Israel's bombing of the U.N.-run refugee camp in Qana, Lebanon, in April 1996, which killed more than 100 refugees. The U.N. report said that the attack was not a mistake, as Israel claimed. Albright warned the Secretary-General that if the report came out, the U.S. would veto him for
his second term. The report came out, and so did Boutros Boutros-Ghali. (Despite the unanimous support of all 14 other members of the security council)




osan
- Homepage: http://osan.org.uk

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CORRECTION

27.10.2003 19:00

CORRECTION:

the Madeleine Albright demo is on Tuesday 28th October.

Not Tuesday 27th (as that does not exist) :-).

osan


NO ADDRESS

28.10.2003 10:18

This is the third version of this advert I've seen without any address details. Which also happens to be an endemic, widespread & utterly unneccessary failure within the anti-war movement.

Research shows that providing proper directions & maps can treble people's chances of
attending events, even if they already know where it is! As you haven't even provided a basic address I would say the chances of people attending from outside Oxford are approximately zero!

Please resend this info with at least a road name, some directions & preferably a map, see:  http://www.multimap.com

Get Organised


Address

28.10.2003 11:10

Borders in Oxford: 9 Magdalen Street, at the corner of Magdalen Street and Broad Street, see
 http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=451000&Y=206000&width=500&height=300&client=public&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&scale=25000&advanced=&multimap.x=236&multimap.y=81 . Magdalen Street is the street between Cornmarket and St Giles on this map.

Oxford Union: access by St-Michael's Street, see  http://www.oxford-union.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=13&page_id=10 .

Both venues are located right in the center of Oxford.

ciao :-)

societelibre


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