What They Call Nato

CounterPunch sitka at teleport.com
Wed Jun 2 08:45:52 PDT 1999


I just heard from a green activist in Cyprus who says that anti-war protesters are gathering outside the NATO base there on a daily basis, impeding the traffic of trucks and tanks, harrassing the brass. Many are carrying signs that read "ThaNATOs Kills". According to Petros Evdokas, an editor of Oikologica magazine, "In Greece, especially Salonica, our friends and comrades go out and stop the tanks with their bodies, spray-painting them and leaving them stranded on blocked railroad tracks. Also popular, is changing the street name signs, misdirecting the nato tanks around to the farmers' market instead of the border...

"The events here have pushed the sense of solidarity of the national liberation struggles in the region, Kurdish, Balkan, Hellenic right to the forefront of popular daily discussion at the workplace, home and the streets. For us here, liberation means geting rid of the military occupation in the north of Cyprus and a peaceful re-union with our Turkish Cypriot neighbors, and this includes tossing out the Brittish nato bases in the south, remnants of the Brittish Empire, still armed to the teeth.

"We are for building up the solidarity of people of all nations and of all faiths, for freedom and equality". The only item to possibly confront, if it comes up, perhaps even anticipate it if you think the mood is right, is a sickening call for nato to carry out the same obscene bombings to "bring justice to Cyprus". You can quote me by name, or the OIKOLOGIA group on this, as we speak on behalf of the majority of the population in Cyprus and Greece: "we want none of that: we all want to see nato defeated, disarmed and dissolved!"

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