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Labor-Community Resolution: Stop the cover-up of Odessa massacre of trade unionists and anti-fascist activists!

Опубликовано:  01.11.2014 - 13:56
Классификация:  Украина  США  Одесса 

Stop the cover-up of Odessa massacre of trade unionists and anti-fascist activists!

Stop U.S. Expansion of NATO!

Whereas, on May 2, 2014, at least 48 people were massacred by neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa;

And, whereas those killed were anti-fascist and opposition activists, as well as trade unionists who opened the doors of the headquarters to offer protection;

And, whereas the House of Trade Unions was set ablaze by fascists who surrounded the building, destroying the labor headquarters;

And, whereas the culprits of the massacre, though clearly identifiable in numerous videos and photos of the events, have been sheltered by the government in Kiev, which came to power through a U.S.-backed coup and has received billions of dollars in direct and indirect aid from Washington;

And, whereas the survivors of the massacre have been criminalized, forced into exile in fear of their lives or imprisoned by the Ukrainian regime;

And, whereas the U.S. government and U.S. corporate media have aided Kiev in covering up the truth about the May 2 massacre at the Odessa House of Trade Unions, while continuing to mis-represent the anti-fascist struggle in Ukraine and the independent Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and imposing sanctions and threatening war against Russia;

And whereas the crisis in the Ukraine is the result of the U.S. drive to expand NATO on Russia’s borders far beyond its original membership, through a U.S.-supported coup and the funding of rightwing and fascist groups in the Ukraine;

Be it resolved,

We honor the labor and anti-fascist activists who died in Odessa on May 2, 2014, and will make their sacrifice known throughout our unions and communities;

We demand that the government in Kiev, our elected officials in Washington, and the big-business media stop the cover-up of what happened in Odessa on May 2, and engage in truthful reporting on the civil war in Ukraine, the involvement of open fascists in the Kiev government, and the underlying U.S. goal of NATO expansion;

We further demand that the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress immediately halt all financial and military aid to the Ukrainian junta, stop NATO military expansion in Europe, and restore food assistance and other desperately needed social programs for our communities.

Fill in the form above to sign on to this statement.

Partial list of signers (in formation) 10/31/14

Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congressperson & presidential candidate
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
José María Sison, Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
Cindy Sheehan, antiwar activist, Director, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Pan-African News Wire
B. Ross Ashley, Vice President, Toronto-St. Paul’s New Democratic Party*, Ont.
William Camacaro, Coordinator, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York
Ed Childs, Chief Steward, UNITE HERE Local 26*, Mass.
Dr. Angelo D’Angelo, First Secretary, Party of Communists USA
Bernadette Ellorin, Chairperson, Bayan USA
Mary Lou Finley, San Diego County Co-Chair, Peace and Freedom Party*
Sara Flounders, Co-director, International Action Center
Steven Gillis, Vice President, Boston School Bus Drivers' Union - USW Local 8751*
Martha Grevatt, Civil & Human Rights Committee, United Auto Workers Local 869*
Paul Harris, Editor, Axis of Logic
Larry Holmes, Peoples Power Assembly Movement
Joe Iosbaker, Executive Board, SEIU Local 73*, Ill.
Mick Kelly, Editor, Fight Back! News
Steve Kirschbaum, Grievance Chair, Boston School Bus Drivers - USW Local 8751*
Joe Lombardo, Co-coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)*
Rev. F. Mark Mealing, Anglican Church of Canada*
Thistle Parker-Hartog, Anti-War Committee, Minneapolis, Minn
Lucha Rodriguez, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Margaret Sarfehjooy, Women Against Military Madness (WAMM)
Waltraud Schauer, Women in Black*, Vienna, Austria
Gerry Scoppettuolo, Co-founder, Gay and Lesbian Labor Activist Network / Pride at Work, AFL-CIO*
David Sole, Former President, United Auto Workers Local 2334*, Detroit
David Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council *
Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender

Organizations:

Anti-War Committee
Banda Bassotti, Italy
Comité de apoyo a la Ucrania Antifascista de Madrid, Spain
Committee for the Liberation of Odessa
FIST – Fight Imperialism, Stand Together
FORUM.MSK Internet Magazine Editorial Board
Institute of Innovation Development, Russian Federation
International Action Center
Juventud Comunista del Perú (Patria Roja)
LIVA Internet Magazine Editorial Board, Ukraine
Marcha Patriótica, Colombia
Mütter gegen den Krieg (Mothers Against War) Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany
Parents to Improve School Transportation, New York
Party of Communists, U.S.A.
Peoples Video Network
Russian & American Goodwill Association
Solidarité Novorossia, Paris
Solidarity with Ukraine Antifascists Committee, U.S.
Team Solidarity – the Voice of United School Bus Workers, Boston
2May.org
Union Borotba, Ukraine
Union of Bulgarian Students
Union of Communist Youth, Russian Federation
United Communist Party, Russian Federation
U.S. Friends of the Soviet People
Workers World Party

*For identification only

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