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Bush faces mass protests, opposition to trade pact in Argentina
The two-day quadrennial Summit of the Americas being held in the Argentine seaside resort of Mar del Plata Nov. 4-5 will be marked by one of the largest demonstrations in the country’s history—called to repudiate the policies of the Bush administration.Wracked by multiple political crises at home and receiving the lowest approval rating for any recent US president, George W. Bush is leaving the country Thursday to face an even more hostile audience. The two-day quadrennial Summit of the Americas being held in the Argentine seaside resort of Mar del Plata Nov. 4-5 will be marked by one of the largest demonstrations in the country’s history—called to repudiate the policies of the Bush administration. On the eve of the summit, the Argentine daily Pagina 12 reported a poll showing that six out of ten Argentines oppose Bush’s presence in the country. By contrast, 75 percent welcomed the visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who has been vilified by Washington and has in turn denounced US foreign policy. Protests began yesterday over the Bush visit—three days before his arrival—with blockades of bridges and highways in the Buenos Aires area and the appearance of posters throughout the Argentine capital bearing the slogans “Stop Bush” and “Fuera Bush,” in some cases superimposed over photographs of wounded Iraqi children. Nor are the protests limited to Argentina. Last Wednesday, some 6,000 people marched on the US Embassy in Brasilia in an anti-Bush protest. The US president is scheduled to visit the Brazilian capital following the summit, going from there to a stop in Panama before returning to Washington. The presence of the US president in Argentina has been preceded by the imposition of a massive security clampdown. An army of 7,000 additional police has been deployed in the resort city, which has been divided with three concentric circles of chain-linked fencing. Residents of the area surrounding the summit site have been identified and provided with passes to enter and leave their own homes. “We’ve been imprisoned,” one of them told a local television network. A 100-mile no-fly zone has been declared surrounding the city, with orders to shoot down unidentified planes. In addition to the blanket of security imposed by the Argentine government, Bush is arriving with an entourage of some 2,000, much of it composed of security personnel. Last Friday, two giant US military cargo planes arrived in Buenos Aires carrying large quantities of arms and two helicopters for use in guarding the US president. On Friday a mass march expected to draw as many as 100,000 people will take place in Mar del Plata. Leading it will be popular football star Diego Maradona and Argentine Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Bush is “a torturer, violator of human rights, an assassin, a violator of United Nations resolutions, of international treaties and of the sovereignty of peoples, as has happened in Iraq,” Pérez Esquivel said in a radio interview Saturday explaining his participation. Maradona, who now hosts one of Argentina’s most popular television shows, said, “In Argentina, there are people who are against Bush being there. I am the first. He did us a lot of harm. As far as I’m concerned, he is a murderer; he looks down on us and tramples over us. I am going to lead that march along with my daughter.” Also participating in the march will be Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier slain in Iraq, and Javier Couso, the brother of the Spanish television cameraman who was killed when an American tank fired on the Hotel Palestine, the headquarters of international journalists, during the US storming of Baghdad in April 2003.
A riot in one of the suburbs of Buenos Aires last Monday against the privatization of the public traffic. The denationalized trains for example now more expensive, but poor and late as before the privatization.
Fortress Europe is Still Killing Refugees from the South
The situation for the African refugees, who were trying, or want to try to reach the Spanish zones in the North of Morocco is now dramatically worsen. Today’s UK daily The Guardian reported that the humanitarian organization Medics without Borders (French MSF) detected 500 African refugees in the Sahara desert zone near the Algerian border. Some days ago the Moroccan police and military arrested them near the Spanish Melilla and deported them handcuffed to there. WITHOUT TO GIVE THEM ANY FOOD OR WATER! Already last weekend German newspapers reported that between 1000 and 2000 African refugees were deported under the same conditions in the desert. THIS MEANS PLANNED MASS MURDER! But it was/is demanded by politicians of the European Union. Of course now there is an outcry about this situations in the public, but already the presence of this act of inhumanity, terror of the "develope" North against the poor in the South, in the European media is decreasing. But that’s just the reality of IMPERIALISM.Months ago I posted something about the Lunatic With the Bomb (KIm jr./북한..) But (at least) now we have the proof that there is another lunatic on the power of a state: G. W. Bush Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did.", the UK daily The Guardian wrote yesterday. Here you can read the entire article: George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq' President told Palestinians God also talked to him about Middle East peace Ewen MacAskill Friday October 7, 2005 The Guardian George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did." Mr Bush went on: "And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East'. And, by God, I'm gonna do it." Mr Bush, who became a born-again Christian at 40, is one of the most overtly religious leaders to occupy the White House, a fact which brings him much support in middle America. Soon after, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz carried a Palestinian transcript of the meeting, containing a version of Mr Bush's remarks. But the Palestinian delegation was reluctant publicly to acknowledge its authenticity. The BBC persuaded Mr Shaath to go on the record for the first time for a three-part series on Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy: Elusive Peace, which begins on Monday. Religion also surfaced as an issue when Mr Bush and Tony Blair were reported to have prayed together in 2002 at his ranch at Crawford, Texas - the summit at which the invasion of Iraq was agreed in principle. Mr Blair has consistently refused to admit or deny the claim. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, who was also part of the delegation at Sharm el-Sheikh, told the BBC programme that Mr Bush had said: "I have a moral and religious obligation. I must get you a Palestinian state. And I will." Mr Shaath's comments came as Mr Bush delivered a speech yesterday aimed at bolstering US support for the Iraq war. He revealed that the US and its partners had disrupted at least 10 serious al-Qaida plots since September 11, including three planned attacks in the US. "Because of this steady progress, the enemy is wounded - but the enemy is still capable of global operations," he said. He added that Islamic radicals had used a series of excuses to justify their attacks, from conflict with the Israelis to the Crusades 1,000 years ago. "We're facing a radical ideology with unalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world," he said. He conceded that al-Qaida, led in Iraq by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and other insurgents had gained ground in Iraq but the US would not leave until security had been established. "Some observers also claim that America would be better off by cutting our losses and leaving Iraq now. This is a dangerous illusion, refuted with a simple question: Would the United States and other free nations be more safe, or less safe, with Zarqawi and Bin Laden in control of Iraq, its people, and its resources?" Mr Bush asked.
THE MELILLA REFUGEE TRAGEDY, OR BETTER THE EUROPEAN WAR CRIME AGAINST IMMIGRANTS
In the night to Wednesday, local time, during a new assault to the Spanish ex territorial area of Melilla about 65 African refugees were able to enter the Spanish territory. But also many people were injured during the attempt to reach the Fortress Europe, a.k.a. European Union. Also on Wednesday the governments of Spain and Morocco agreed that from now the Spanish “authorities” will deport all “illegal” African migrants back to Morocco. But this means for the most of them their INEVITABLE DEATH!! Here is a report by a European, bourgeois magazine from the last weekend about the refugee tragedy there (yesterday was a very impressive article about it in the German daily Berliner Zeitung, but I dont know if I have the power or endurance to translate it...): ASSAULTING CEUTA AND MELILLA Through the Razor Wire and into the EU By Yassin Musharbash in Ceuta, Spain It's a gruelling journey and many get left behind on the way. But for those who manage to finally scale the razor-wire fence surrounding Ceuta and Melilla in northern Africa, it's a dream come true. They have left poverty behind in the hopes of a new life in the EU. The new arrivals are obvious. Exhaustion written on their faces, many of them are still not up for speaking even after days in the holding center. Several sit motionless, faces propped up by their hands, on a worn-out sofa. Quiet sighs come from the wounded. They stare into empty space. The first impression of desperation is deceptive though: Behavior which normally might be mistaken for depression means victory in Ceuta. After a long battle, they have finally hit the Jackpot. The six men in the room -- all from sub-Saharan Africa -- have arrived in the waiting room for a better life in Europe. The journey is not an easy one. After a several-week-long odyssey across Africa, they've managed to get across the three-meter-high barbed-wire fence that separates Africa from the Spanish city of Ceuta. Now, even though they're still physically on the African continent, they are politically beyond Africa's reach and under the protection of EU law. The Christian organization "La Cruz Bianca" provides them with food and clothing, and since they've all "lost" their passports, they can't be sent back to their countries of origin. But the men, all between 20 and 30, are too exhausted to show their joy. Ayuba, 21, is one of them. He fled the Ivory Coast because of the political insecurity and lack of work. "That was 2003," he says. He arrived in Morocco only after trekking on foot across Mali and Algeria. Then he lived for 16 months in the forests outside of Ceuta. Until last week, that is, when he decided, along with hundreds of others, to attempt to scale the fence. Five of his companions died during the incursion. And they keep on coming Determining who shot them is the subject of serious discussion in Spain and Marocco and Spain immediately sent more security to guard both Ceuta and the country's second northern African enclave, Melilla. But the wave of would-be immigrants has continued, and on Monday morning, hundreds more assaulted the fences surrounding Melilla with some 200 managing to get through according to Red Cross officials. "I want to work in Europe and send money back home," says Ayuba. In the Ivory Coast, he was a farm laborer, he says. He lived in a simple hut and hated his life more and more. "Now everything will get better," he hopes. In a couple of weeks, the Spanish authorities will likely have to take him to the Spanish mainland; the holding center in Ceuta is once again filled to overflowing. Ayuba will then be officially asked to leave the country. But, unofficially, everyone knows that Ayuba won't do that. Instead, Ayuba will labor in the plantations of the Iberian Peninsula, or sell sunglasses on the streets, or move to northern Europe where he'll work on the black market. No one who has made it this far will go back voluntarily. He's dreamed about this moment for a long time. Ayubas story is a typical one among sub-Saharan African migrants -- a group that makes up the majority of the thousands each year who try to reach Ceuta. But, Africans are no longer the only ones dreaming of Ceuta. Indeed, globalization has made a deep imprint on the paths taken by refugees. The 16-square-kilometer enclave has become a world-wide symbol of hope. Indeed, a quick trip to the "Centro de Estancia temporal de Inmigrates" -- CETI for short -- reveals a vast array of peoples and nationalities. The camp is occupied by Iraqis, Indians, Pakistanis, and Algerians, among others, all clad in donated clothes and in possession of green, plastic ID cards. Even Chinese have turned up in the camp -- some of whom took the long way in by actually swimming out to sea from the African mainland and then back to the Ceuta waterfront. Raising the fence won't help Ceuta -- a city that is half vacation paradise and half grimy border town -- deals with the flood of migrants in astoundingly calm fashion. There is little violence say the residents of CETI, and there are several organizations, like "La Cruz Blanca", that help out when CETI fills up. But the residents of Ceuta are aware that things can't continue this way forever. The numbers of would-be immigrants continues to rise and Thursday's deaths show that the EU doesn't have any productive answer to the pressure that migrants are putting on the small city. The fence is now being raised to six meters and the army is taking control of security while Spain itself is determined to allow even fewer immigrants in. In reality, though, the problem is not the height of the fence, but the failure to address the root causes of immigration. No one has an answer to the most pressing question: how to prevent immigrants from leaving their countries in the first place? Ceuta lies on the seam between the first and third world. And as long as Europe seems like a paradise, people will continue to fashion home-made ladders in hopes of crossing over the fence. The story of Nadem Waheed, who was born in Bangladesh, gives a fair sense of the hardships migrants are willing to endure for the sake of reaching Europe. "My income in Dhaka wasn't enough to support my wife and two sons," reports the 38 year-old, who stands in the sunshine wearing a jogging suit and flip-flops. "It wasn't even enough to send my kids to school." Nadeem struggled to save €5,000 for the man who promised to smuggle him "directly to Europe." It was a lie. Instead of a direct path, Nadeem undertook a miserable trek that ended up taking the lives of many of his fellow travelers. Dying of thirst in the Sahara The journey began when the smuggler loaded Nadeem and his fellow migrants onto a cargo ship. After several weeks -- Nadeem doesn't know how many -- the vessel arrived on the West African coast and Nadeem and his companions went on to Mali by foot. "There, they packed 15 of us into a pick-up truck and we crossed the Sahara," says Nadeem. "That took 23 days, and there was almost nothing to drink." Many died of dehydration; their corpses were left behind in the sand. "Most of the time, I was barely coherent. I thought that it would never end. I didn't know where I was. I was scared," he recalls. "Finally, we saw the ocean." Nadeem's group thought that this was the end of the journey. Actually, they had just reached the Moroccan city of Casablanca on the Atlantic Coast. Here, the smugglers herded the Indians and Bangladeshis onto tiny boats, or "pateras." The horror continued. "The boats capsized repeatedly," says Nadeem. "Again, many people died. They just let them drown." Now Nadeem is waiting to be shipped to the Spanish mainland. Nadeem has trouble sleeping because of the terrible journey. He's lonely. For over a year, he hasn't spoken with his wife and his sons; he doesn't know if he'll ever see them again. Nonetheless, he says, "I am happy." Such is a typical portrait of a winner: at least it is here in Ceuta.
10.4 GENERAL STRIKE IN FRANCE
Nothing was going anymore on Tuesday, 10.4, in France – except, according to the trade unions, millions of people on demonstrations across the entire country. For this day in a strong unity all left parties, from the anarchists to the communists, and trade unions were calling for a nation wide 24-hours general strike against privatization, termination of jobs and deterioration of working conditions of the masses of the working class. So nothing was going anymore. No near and far public traffic. Many flights were cancelled. There were no news papers, no baguettes, no city cleaning, all the restaurants were closed... “A unity like that since 30 years it was not happen in France”, so a reporter of the German TV news ARD. And at least 75 per cent of the French population, according to the bourgeois media, supported the strike. By the way THIS is a GENERAL STRIKE!! PS... It is a little difficult for me to write an article here. At first I have to think if I want to use pictures. If I want to do this, I have to go to pc bang and to select and process them. Then I can upload there this stuff. And later at “home” I add the article...
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