IT'S TIME FOR PRO-FRENCH AND PRO-GERMAN RALLIES IN U.S.!

e-mail french consulate
by Martha Rosler (from list) • Sunday February 09, 2003 Sunt 12:00 AM



from martha rosler:
>
>A good friend writes with an encouraging suggestion:
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>
> I just spoke to the French Mission to the UN, urging them as a
>U.S. citizen to vote against any resolution authorizing war against
>Iraq--rather than abstaining, which apparently is what the Bush
>administration is expecting them to do. The person who answered
>the phone asked if I would put that in writing--and offered to give
>me the mission's email address. I found this
>encouraging--suggesting that at least some people in the mission are
>arguing for casting a veto, and would like to have evidence of
>grassroots U.S. support for such a move. If you would like to
>provide such evidence, send a quick note to france-presse [at] un.int.
>You don't have to explain at length why they should veto--they
>wouldl ike to veto. Just tell them that you think they ought to
>veto too.
>
> Here's the address for China: <mailto:chnun [at] undp.org>
> Here's the address for Russia: <mailto: rf.mission [at] atnet.at>
> And, again, the address for France: <mailto:france-presse [at] un.int>
>
> France, China and Russia are the permanent Security
>Council members who oppose war with Iraq. A vote against a war
>resolution
>by any of them would defeat the resolution. Please pass this on! This
>may be the last best chance of preventing war.
>
>
>
>------ End of Forwarded Message
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This feels so good after all. I will spiritually be with you.
Greetings from
Albert
Stuttgart, Germany

A thank you to France, Germany, China, Russia, and all the people all over the world who are in the streets!

Our allies are our fellow workers of all nationalities. The ruling class of France and Germany are just as despicable capitalists as the American capitalist class. Their disputes with Bush are simply a falling out among thieves. The Germany ruling class has as its ancestors the promoters of Hitler because he, like they, was a good pro-capitalist and anti-communist, just like the current ruling class. To the German ruling class, we say not danke schon, but the battle cry of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance: Nicht vergeben; nicht vergessen! Never forgive! Never forget! To the entire capitalist class, we say:
The workers united will never be defeated!
Die Arbeiten vereinigten nie werden uberraschen!
Los trabajadores unidos jamas seran vencidos!

Here is a good summary of the colaboration of French and German capitalism with US oil imperialism, from Revolutionary Worker, 2/9/03:
"Chancellor Schroeder has declared the US' 60 air bases, army bases and other forward facilities it enjoys in Germany untouchable . I n fact, German tropps have been assigned to 'protect' the 116,000 American soldiers stationed there. From what? Antiwar demonstrations? Germany is also helping out in other ways, such as flying AWAC's military surveillance aircraft over Turkey to cover the US invasion force's flanks, and taking over from the US in leading the occupation of Afghanistan outside Kabul, freeing up the US for other adventures . German Green Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer talks as if he opposed US war plans, but he is doing everything in his power to prevent Germans from doing anything about it. "

"France's President Jacques Chirac may issue threats about UN resolutions, but in the previous weeks he told his French armed forces to mobilize for possible participation in the war and sent the nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Middle East to facilitate French intervention. At the January 27 Security Council meeting, French Foreign Minister de Villepin said that the question was whether or not a war with Iraq would have the 'legitimacy' of UN backing. In other words, if the US accepts giving France what American officials called a 'seat at the table' when it comes time to divide up Iraq, it will willingly take part in the bloodbath. "