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William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:39:42 -0700
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We get enough of this from the friendly corp. media, no need for a
person(?) inside Yugo.
>
>     Dear friends,
>     General Strike in Serbia continued through whole day today (3rd
> October). Students organized their own demonstrations which started at 12
> o'clock at the square in front of Philosophical faculty. We blocked the main
> streets in Belgrade for more than 6 hours. We also blocked highway for more
> than 2 hours. During all that time we had loud support of people from
> surrounding buildings and from blocked cars.
>     In some places of city police started betting up people which is the
> best sign that Milosevic is loosing control and that this fight is his  life
> or death fight. God news is that police on some places in town refused to
> beat protesters up, that is showing that Milosevicis  system is braking up
> inside. Until now police was main protecting force of Milosevic regime.
>     Coal miners in the biggest mine in Serbia are striking for 3 days now,
> some 7000 miners were faced in Leskovac (city in Serbia) with 2000 armed
> policemans, several of them are injured and arrested. Electricity in some
> parts of Belgrade was out today, regime is trying in that way to turn public
> opinion against striking miners but  we have data from independent
> syndicates that there is enough coal for electricity and that this is only
> trick by the regime.
>     Whole Serbia is in General Strike, Belgrade is in worst position of
> whole Serbia.  If we want to take this bastard of the power we have to stop
> Belgrade, and we hope to do that as soon as tomorrow or day after tomorrow.
> Lot of people from cities in Serbia tried to come to Belgrade but were
> stopped by police.
>     Organization of student protest was total shit. We, anarchists, had
> fight with secret leaders of Otpor, pro-opposition student movement, which
> didn't have any organizing ideas and plans but wanted to make strike!!
> Tomorrow (Wednesday) we are going to join organizing board of strike, we
> will put some more demands that we think that should be gained, like full
> autonomy of university and other student-related stuff. We hope that
> organizing of strike tomorrow will be much better, if it doesn't goes that
> way, we will see what other things we can do to put General Strike in
> practice.
>     Those are the news for now, tomorrow I'll send some more news.
>
> Anarcho-syndicalist greet
>
> Rata
>
> "If I can't have a Revolution, what is there to dance about?"
>                                                                     Albert
> Meltzer
>

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