Newsgroup: it.politica.pds
Titolo: Comunicato dell'International Action Center di New-York

Statement from the International Action Center
on Events of September 11, 2001 
This statement was written from New York City. 
Everyone here has been deeply affected by today's events. The
International Action Center extends its most heartfelt sympathies and
condolences to all those who have lost loved ones today as well as the
thousands of workers who were in lower Manhattan today. 
While at this moment thousands of families are in mourning for the
death and injuries of loved ones, the Bush administration is taking
advantage of the tragic human toll to strengthen the forces of
repression while intensifying the Pentagon's war drive, especially in
the Middle East. 
Arab and Muslim peoples in the United States are reporting that they
are facing racist harassment in their communities, on their jobs and
at mosques. Anti-Arab racism is a poison that should be repudiated. We
call on all people who oppose racism to stand shoulder to shoulder
with the Arab-American community in the face of this reactionary
frenzy. 
After the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995,
the U.S. government and media were quick to speculate that Arab and
Islamic organizations were responsible; but as everyone now knows,
extreme right-wing Army veteran Timothy McVeigh was to blame. 
New War Danger 
The International Action Center urges all anti-war activists and
progressive people to remain on the highest alert in opposing the Bush
administration and the Pentagon's plans to use this crisis as the
springboard for a new round of aggression in the Third World,
especially against the people of the Middle East. 
In August 1998, the Pentagon delivered murderous cruise missile air
strikes against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan without any evidence,
supposedly in retaliation for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in
Kenya. The cruise missiles destroyed the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical
factory that provided most of Sudan's medicines. Thousands of African
people perished as a direct result of the Pentagon's bombing. 
President Ronald Reagan ordered the invasion of Grenada in the
Caribbean shortly after a truck bomb exploded at a U.S. Marine Corps
base in Lebanon in 1983. Under Bush senior, over 2,000 Panamanians
were killed in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve in 1989 under
the pretext of the war on drugs. 
In 1986, after pointing a finger at Syria, Iran and several
Palestinian organizations for an explosion at a discothèque in
Germany, U.S. aircraft bombed Tripoli and Benzagi in Lybia. Hundreds
of civilians, including children, died in their sleep as the U.S. Air
Force carried out this nighttime sneak attack. 
We ask activists and the people of this country to be ready to protest
new Pentagon aggression in the coming period. 
The Bush administration will use this current crisis as a means to
justify a further expansion of the Pentagon's war budget at the
expense of money for housing, education, health care, jobs and other
human needs. 
Danger of More State Repression 
Throughout the country, the military, FBI and local police authorities
are now sealing off large urban areas, blockading bridges, tunnels and
roads, and mobilizing a massive presence of police and the National
Guard. All this reveals an advanced stage of planning for domestic
repression that can be used against the progressive and labor
movements, and the Black, Latino, Asian, Arab and other oppressed
communities. 
All the more reason to resist the current efforts to strengthen police
measures under cover of the present crisis. 
Build Solidarity 
The people of New York City and the country cannot allow the Bush
administration and the Pentagon to play on their genuine feelings of
shock and disbelief to stir reaction and strengthen the forces of
repression. This will not help the working and oppressed people of
this or any country. 
The only way to respond to today's events is to extend solidarity to
the families and friends of those who perished or who were injured at
the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; build global solidarity with
people around the world struggling against war, poverty and
exploitation; and deepen the movement to protest new Pentagon
aggression. 

 advantage of the tragic human toll to strengthen the forces of
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