| florian schneider on Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:14:10 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> lift the kosov@ refugees out |
hi you all, below you find the text of Rainbow Antiracist Organisation from Norway. they call for a campaign quite similar to the statement Open the borders! but already more concrete - whatever you might think about the truly quite problematical comparisonism. By the way: for Open the borders! websites actually hosted at <http://www.teleportacia.org> we are looking for translations, logos, banners, links etc. please put the call on the top of your homepage and link to the support sites! please keep on posting the Open the borders! statement to newsgroups, mailinglists and friends! write to the responsables, whoever you think it should be! set them under pressure! we are very few and we might not have enough power to set even such very pragmatic and minimalistic demands into reality, but lets do something, lets work together and break the logic of war - at least amongst us! take care florian --- forwarded message from [email protected] (fri 2 apr 1999) LIFT THE KOSOVA REFUGEES OUT The Rainbow Antiracist Organisation has started a campaign to get the refugees out of the Balkans into Norway. We ask all good people and organisations in Western Europe to start similar campaigns. The initiative from Rainbow Antiracist Organisation is called the "White busses", after the famous busses that saved prisoners from concentration camps in the end of the second world war from Germany. The idea is to transport refugees from Albania and Macedonia into Norway and other safe western european contries. This needs not be by bus, it can also be done with planes or ships. Dispute the fact that there has been a refugee problem counting hundreds of thousands since the situation in Kosova escalated one year ago, the authorities in western countries have so far done nearly nothing to save the refugees. It is not easy to understand how the tragedy that has evolved the last days could come as a surprise. The western countries claim that the refugee problem could be solved within in the neighbouring countries of Yugoslavia. The fact is that these countries do not at all have the infrastructure needed to help a large number of refugees, while the western countries have all this emergency facilities. There is also a risk that the refugees in these countries could be trapped once again if the conflict should escalate. Some of the neighbouring countries may now stop to let the refugees in because they lack the resources. Thousands of refugees are trapped inside Kosova because Macedonia do not let them in. The situation for these refugees are critical because of lack of food and shelter and exposed to attacks by Milosevics forces. Thousands of these people are condemned to die if an rescue and evacuation operation is not carried out immediately. For the Rainbow Antiracist Organisation Tore Vik Dear friends. Please note that our e-mail has changed. The new e-mail address is [email protected], my new personal e-mail address is [email protected]. With greetings from Tore Vik and the Rainbow Antiracist Organisation Troms� ++47 77619950 ++47 907 32685 homepage:http://www.student.uit.no/regnbuen/index.html -- Break the logic of war! Desert! Open the borders! http://www.teleportacia.org --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: [email protected]