Vesna Manojlovic on Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:42:29 +0200 (MET DST) |
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[i'm not the author of the announcement, just one of the participants and the webmistress of http://www.ark.org.yu/ but, we are all trying to inform as many people as possible, and to encourage them to take part in.. ] THE ANTI-WAR CAMPAIGN Belgrade, April 21, 1998. I would like to inform you about an action initiated by a group of activists from various organizations (student unions, European Youth Association in Serbia, Belgrade PostPessimists, the XXL Group, AEGEE, GLIB, Student Federation, etc.), the Anti-war Campaign. The idea to start thi action came as a reaction to the conditions that we are experiencing. Besides the socially and politically critical situation , in which we find ourselves, a new threat of the potencial war conflict and suffering appears in Kosovo. Furthermore, neither the political factors, nor the public in Serbia show neither interest or ability to cope with this crisis. All activities of the Anti-war Campaign`s initiators and activists have by now been targeted to provide for an alternative to dominant authoritarian concepts -- mainly through striving for the mutual understanding, tolerance, solidarity, open-mindedness, and non-violence. With full awareness of the fact that all our future work toward those aims strongly depends on the reaction to the current developements, we have decided to consolidate our potentials and treat this action as a priority. We see as primary goals of the Anti-war Campaign the following: 1. Activating and connecting of numerous individuals and organizations of different profiles from the whole teritory of Serbia and giving them an opportunity to express their anti-war atitude; 2. Driving public attention to the danger of new suffering and devastation; 3. Promotion of a responsible view of patriotism, as a process aimed at the country`s progress, instead of destructive adventures in the name of mystified values and for the benefit of the ruling elites; 4. An attempt to raise the issue of ways for solving the crisis in general, and the Kosovo crisis in particular; 5. Motivating and encouraging people gathered around the Anti-war Campaign to get involved, network, and initiate on their own similar actions in the future. Action Description: This action should last for fourteen days and consist of distribution of one million A5 leaflets in the whole of Serbia. The text on the leaflet will be a warning of the dangers that any war carries (i.e., it would affirm peace and non-violent conflict resolutions), neutral in any ethnic or religious sense, readable, clear and simple, non-ambiguos, etc. It would only be signed with the Anti-war Campaign in order to avoid possible dislike or hostlity to any of the organizations involved. The idea is to d istribute the leaflets in all Central Serbian towns with minimum 5 to 10 thousands inhabitants, as well as in Vojvodina, especially in towns where the Serbian Radical Party won many votes in the last elections. When Kosovo is concerned, we believe that th e initiation of similar action among the Albanian population is necessary. That is why we are already puting efforts to find among our Albanian friends those willing to participate - of course with all the help that we could provide. The accomplishment of this action`s goals does not depend just on the distribution of leaflets, but also on drawing public attention to the issues at stake. Thus, we believe that the independent media should also have their role in coverage of this acti on. The activists gathered by now have managed to form working groups, with tasks concerning the begining of the action (spreading the information on the Campaign, getting new activists, contacting the media, propaganda design, raising logistic and material support, etc.). I hope that you are interested to participate in the Anti-war Campaign. All the assistance that you would be willing to supply for the realization of this action is more then welcome. With respect, for the Anti-War Campaign, Vesna Manojlovic --- # 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: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl