From dritan at mathpost.la.asu.edu  Thu Apr  1 08:03:23 1999
From: dritan at mathpost.la.asu.edu (Dritan Zela)
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 08:03:23 -0500
Subject: [kan-l] Arizona rally of Albanians, Saturday, April 3
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990401080323.01060950@mailbox.syr.edu>

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                Albanian-American Community
                 Shqipe (Eagle) of Arizona

The Albanian-American Community of Arizona is organizing a rally in front
of the Federal Building at 230 N. 1st Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona at 8.30am
on the 3rd  of April, 1999 to express our support for USA and NATO actions
that are trying to put a stop to the Serb genocide and ethnic cleansing of
the Albanian population in Kosova as well as to show our deep sympathy and
unity with our brothers and sisters in Kosova.

The phantom of the bloody barbaric Serb genocide is all over the Balkans
and Europe. It is long overdue to put an end to this primitive Serb type
holocaust and apartheid in the middle of Europe, as we approach the 21st
century. The right for self-determination, the right to live and not to be
slaughtered, the right to be free, get educated and have your own culture
are natural rights which, as the highest reference of rightness, only God
gives them to people and no government could take them away.

We are asking all the Albanians, their friends, all the supporters and
sympathizers in Arizona and the surrounding states to come and show the
support for these USA and NATO actions and honor the brave Americans who
are risking their lives to save Albanians in Kosova. The honor of our
nation is calling on us in these difficult times and we must honor that
call. Let us show our spirit of support and unity for our Albanian  
brethren in Kosova and for the brave American soldiers and come to the
rally on April 3rd as a sign of support for the justice and peace that the
Albanian nation deserves so much.

Long Live Kosova!
Long Live the Albanian nation!
Long Live the United States of America!

For further information please contact: Remzi Barolli :(602)561-1720,
Dritan Zela (602)517-1419 or e-mail: dritan at mathpost.la.asu.edu        
                                                                               














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From pnbalkans at igc.apc.org  Thu Apr  1 08:00:16 1999
From: pnbalkans at igc.apc.org (Peacenet Balkans Desk)
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 08:00:16 -0500
Subject: [kan-l] [KOSOVA] Translations from Albanian needed
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990401080016.00e7333c@mailbox.syr.edu>

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If anyone can help with this it would be a great service.  

Teresa


__________________________KOSOVA Discussion Forum________________________
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We're getting a lot of Albanian-language traffic at the Balkans Desk. Some
of it looks like it might be useful in opening up more dialogue with our
Serbian readers.

Anyone who wants to help by providing Albanian - English or Albanian -
Serbian translations, please let us know at <pnbalkans at igc.apc.org>. Thanks
- ed

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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Sat Apr  3 10:40:42 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:40:42 -0500
Subject: [kan-l] A direct link to Albania
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990403104042.0073b6d8@mailbox.syr.edu>

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A MORE DIRECT LINK TO ALBANIA TO HELP THE REFUGEES...

This email came from an NGO coordination group in Albania.  As overwhelmed as the international community is in Albania and Macedonia one can only imagine how overwhelmed local groups are.  

He is asking for a more direct link with groups in the US that want to help.

If anyone has any ideas please get in touch with him.  Once the international attention shifts from Kosova which we all hope it does not these local groups are going to be left bearing the brunt of helping the refugees who cannot return home.  Supporting their work is essential.

If you have any questions please call.

Teresa




>X-Sender: zpreci at mail.adanet.com.al
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>Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 16:01:05 +0100
>To: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu
>From: "A.C.E.R. (Zef PRECI)" <zpreci at adanet.com.al>
>Subject: Your message to Sh. Meko
>
>Dear Ms. Crwaford,
>
>I really appreciate your kind efforts to support overcoming of the Kosovo
>crises. Meanwhile, my organization is doing the same.
>
>As the humanitarian situation seems to be aggravating on a day by day basis
>as outlined in all reports coming from the region. In these circumstances,
>quick assistance even on a small scale support line is urgently needed in
>order to cope with the crises. If you will agree, I will be very happy to
>install an informal bilateral task force with constant E-mail hot lines
>dealing with all further issues to be coordinated by us as far as a
>potential program for donor partnerships arrangements with Kosovo refugee
>families accommodated in Albania can be initiated on your side, as far as i
>understand from your message. For that aim, as a first step, I am
>appointing part of my staff to be fully involved on that process. Also, the
>ACER phone number: (355-42) 29069 and its just installed E-mail account:
><ZPRECI at ADANET.COM.AL>  can be mainly used for our communications.
>Meanwhile, we started to get information about the legal procedures for
>humanitarian aid administration introduced recently by Albanian government.
>
>If you have any question, or remark about the ways how to facilitate the
>aid you are looking to collect, please share with us.
>
>With kind regards,
>
>Dr. Zef PRECI, ACER Director
>
>
>
>
>


The Advocacy Project
<http://www.advocacynet.org>

contact information:
teresa at advocacynet.org
(315) 471-7790 voice mail
Syracuse, NY 13210

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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Sat Apr  3 11:50:48 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 11:50:48 -0500
Subject: [kan-l] Nato and Rambouillet
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990403115048.01520530@mailbox.syr.edu>

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POLITICAL ACTION STATEMENT
KOSOVA ACTION  NETWORK
APRIL 3, 1999 

DEAR FRIENDS- 

Recent statements by NATO reveal an alarming misunderstanding of the Kosovar 
Albanian's political reality. Western high-handedness is revealed once again as NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea who declared that he "likes" the Rambouillet peace plan and sees it as useful when resettling Kosova. 

He said that since the Albanians themselves signed it, it should be put into 
effect! This was on CNN, Saturday at 8:00 a.m, April 3. He apparently has not 
yet noticed that the entire political reality of the region is changed and is 
continuing to change rapidly.

All supporters of the Kosova cause need to speak out quickly and loudly and 
--while we have a degree of world attention-- publicly---Rambouillet is over. 
Genocide has replaced it. An ethnic group which has experienced the total 
breakdown of a humane and civil society into a situation ruled by despots and 
war criminals has, at the very least, the right to its own self-determination.

Genocide was not an option at Rambouillet. The Albanians did not sign a peace 
accord that included it. They very, very reluctantly signed onto a 
protectorate with guarantees for their safety provided through NATO. They did 
not trust Europe to protect them. They only signed it because of the U.S. 
They trusted in our values of justice and democracy.

That is what is meant by "AMERICAN INTERESTS." These values are the 
underpinning of economic stability, regional partnerships, and peaceful, 
lawful conflict resolution. That is what is meant by American Interests. The 
right to vote, to be part of a representative government is vital to 
developing democracies throughout the world, according to the UN, NATO, and 
Human Rights declarations that the US has co-signed.

Woodrow Wilson in 1917 promised to take a holistic look at the "Albanian" 
problem created by the London Conference in 1912, which intentionally divided 
this ethnic population into quarters. In 1992, George Bush promised a swift 
military response to any Serb military build-up in Kosova, yet we lack the 
will to give the UCK food, let alone arms, that they urgently have requested. 
Richard Holbrooke and Bill Clinton promised the Albanians their own peace 
conference in 1995. It never came. Those un-honored commitments are part of 
out "AMERICAN INTERESTS." We owe the Kosovars one.

NATO is failing them miserably. Today the UCK reports are full of small-scale 
village massacres. The Albanians have also been represented by Western journalists and analysts as "radicalized" by NATO's bombings. This is missing the point. The 
Albanians were facing genocide all during Rambouillet and the four weeks of 
"peace" talks, which the Serbs used to set up the final touches to the 
cleansing machine we are now witnessing. The West chose to turn a blind eye 
to this ominous escalation as it was going on.

The Albanians signed a deal that gave them a future that included democracy 
not despotism and brutality. Why is NATO still insisting that they have no 
right to self-determination? Every other citizen of Europe and America has 
this basic right.



Alice Mead
Kosova Action Network coordinator
April 3, 1999

contact: alooscnon at aol.com

or





contact information:
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(315) 471-7790 voice mail
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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Tue Apr  6 12:46:57 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:46:57 -0400
Subject: [kan-l] Request for Letters of Support
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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Tue Apr  6 13:25:14 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:25:14 -0400
Subject: [kan-l] FLYER FOR PROTESTS
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990406132514.01374fac@mailbox.syr.edu>

**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
************************HOW TO GET PEOPLE INVOLVED*******************

Here is a flyer you can hand out at demonstrations and protests.  Feel free to customize it with local contact information or additional ideas.  Any questions contact Teresa Crawford teresa at advocacynet.org

10 WAYS TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF KOSOVA

1. Get more information on the crisis and the conflict from a variety of sources. Possible sources:
*** www.alb-net.com, Website devoted to up to date information on the conflict, the status of the refugees, rallies around the country, aid agencies working with the refugees, letters from people fleeing Kosova, also hosts the Albanews and Albanian email lists.  *** Read Miranda Vickers' book, Between Serb and Albanian, for a history of the relationship of peoples in the region.  *** Check out Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org and Amnesty International www.amnesty.org and their reports on the repression in Kosova.  ***Visit the website www.commondreams.com for alternative media coverage.  ***Subscribe to Illyria

2. Call, Write, Fax, Email your congressperson.  Call their foreign affairs assistant.  Ensure they are informed about the crisis.  Tell him/her you support the people of Kosova and work that will lead to peace and justice, that you support independence not autonomy.  Urge them to support a blanket amnesty for Kosovar refugees seeking asylum in the US. Protest against their being kept at the Guantanamo Bay Military Base in Cuba.

3. Contact the Kosova Humanitarian Aid Organization (KHAO) to find out how to donate money, goods, blankets, or your time to the refugees. www.khao.org,  kosova at jps.net, 714-892-7283.  Other organizations include Mercy Corps International, www.mercycorps.org, 800-852-2100. Mother Teresa Clinics, Skopje, Macedonia, mother.tereza at usa.net, 389-91-136-553

4. Join the Kosova Action Network (KAN) to stay appraised of local, regional and national efforts to help the people of Kosova. Support the work of the National Albanian American COuncil (NAAC) naacdc at aol.com, 202-955-1428

5. Organize a charity drive at your local place of worship, student organization, professional group, or sports club.  Donate the proceeds or collection to an aid agency specifically earmarked for Kosova.  For a more extensive list of agencies contact KAN.

6. Write a letter to your local paper, call in to your local radio show and voice your opinion.  Remind people that this crisis is about people who are just like you and that you can do something to help. 

7. Put together a forum on the Kosova issue.  Invite local Albanian Americans, Serbian Americans from the community, Professors, Peace activists.  Pick a good moderator.  Decide ahead of time on the framework and goals.  Realizing these are tense, emotional issues for everyone.

8. Invite a speaker to your next club meeting, religious gathering, or class to talk about the crisis, share personal stories of friends and family who are affected by the crisis and give suggestions about how to help. 

9. Lobby the local city government and school governing bodies to issue a proclamation supporting the people of Kosova and a condemning the Serbian regimes tactics of ethnic cleansing.  Urge your religious leaders to issue a proclamation in coordination with other leaders supporting the people of Kosova..

10. Educate your children, family and friends about the situation.  Become informed about this and other liberation struggles around the world.  Visit the Peace Net website, www.igc.org, for more information on how people are working for freedom around the world.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON LOCAL ACTION CONTACT:




contact information:
teresa at advocacynet.org
(315) 471-7790 voice mail
Syracuse, NY 13210

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From zahn at vbe.com  Fri Apr  9 19:22:51 1999
From: zahn at vbe.com (Ramazan Hajdini)
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 18:22:51 -0500
Subject: [kan-l] Rally in Madison Wisconsin- Prill 10th
Message-ID: <370E8BCB.1235303@vbe.com>

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Hi,
On April 10 ( Saturday) , The Wisconsin Coalition for Independent
Kosova, will hold a Rally in support of NATO ground troops and
Independence for Kosova. The Rally starts at 3PM - held at Memorial
Union Library ( at the Campus). Vice President Gore will be in town
the same day.
Please join our support for Kosova.
Ramazan Hajdini
920-232-0440






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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Sun Apr 11 23:19:24 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:19:24 -0400
Subject: [kan-l] European Aid Convoy
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990411231924.006a5e38@mailbox.syr.edu>

**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
From:
Platform for Kosova-SPAIN
Gemma Rull 
email: inanna at infomail.lacaixa.es
http://fractal.es/kosovo/
http://www.gencat.es/kosovo/

************************INTERNATIONAL AID CONVOY**************************

On April 20, 1999  

AN INTERNATIONAL AID CONVOY LEAVES BRITAIN HEADING FOR KOSOVA VIA MONTENEGRO

So far 18 trucks have commited to go from Britain.


 * Many other European groups are joining the convoy including ones from Spain and Ireland.  

 
 * We need diesel, dried food, blankets, warm clothes medical supplies and money.  


 * We will try to enter Kosova, however we are realists and know this is unlikly to succeed.  

 
 * If we can not get into Kosova we will distribute the aid to the refugees trapped in Montenegro.  

 
 * We need more trucks, vans, cars, people to go, people to stay and campaign.  


 * We need you to start a campaigning group today. Get organised, start fundraising, start awarness raising, start collecting aid, give what you can, hold collections at work, down your street, in the city centre.  


*****Who to Contact to Contribute*****

Workers' Aid for Kosova - U.K. - tel./fax ++ 44 161 226 0404 

E-mail: workersaid at redbricks.org.uk


Ajuda Obrera - Spain coordinator- tel./fax ++ 34 93 269 11 78 

E-mail: kosova at latinmail.com

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contact information:
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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Mon Apr 12 00:21:29 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:21:29 -0400
Subject: [kan-l] Aid for Women
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990412002129.0076dc94@mailbox.syr.edu>

**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
This email came from some friends from the US who are in Macedonia looking into the work of local groups.  If you have any questions about their work or how to help please contact teresa at advocacynet.org or CRABGRASS and Tova Green directly at crabgrass at igc.org.  Crabgrass has worked with women in Kosova for years.  See their website www.crabgrass.org


*********************APPEAL FOR AID SPECIFICALLY FOR WOMEN********************

>From: crabgrass at igc.apc.org (Tova Green)
>Subject: Fran and Jan in Macedonia
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>I just got a call from Fran and Jan on their cell phone.  They were in
>Skopje, Macedonia where they have been since Thursday.  They have also
>spent some time in Tetova, a small city in Western Macedonia whose
>population is largely Albanian.  Fran was in high spirits tonight.
>
>She and Jan connected with many of the women we worked with in Pristina.
>Vjosa, the doctor who was a co-founder of the Center for the Protection of
>Women and Children, and many of the staff members, are now in Tetova.  They
>already found and rented a building to establish a Center there.  They
>needed money for the first month's rent and Crabgrass was able to pay half
>of it.  The building has a patio for psychosocial meetings, and will have
>two examining rooms inside.  It's across the street from a big, beautiul
>mosque.
>
>Vjosa has asked for people who can train local women in counseling,
>listening, and working with trauma to come to Tetova immediately.  One
>trauma counselor from Croatia who speaks Serbo-Croatian is on her way.
>
>Vjosa and Aferdita, a journalist from Pristina, will be in New York and
>Washington next week to appear on talk shows.  They hope to take back 2 or
>3 suitcases of condoms, diaphragms, NEW women's underwear (especially large
>sizes), socks, and gynecological medicines.  If you can help with this let
>me know and I'll let you know who will be collecting these things in New
>York.
>
>If you can send money to Crabgrass or know others who can, now is the time!
>I will make sure it gets to Fran and Jan, who will find groups that need
>our help.
>
>Thanks you for your concern and support.
>
>Tova Green
>
>Crabgrass, Working for Social Change is based in San Francisco.  Our
>mailing address:
>3181 Mission St. #30, San Francisco CA 94110, U.S.A
>
>Crabgrass projects include cleaning the Ganges River in Varanasi India
>(working with Friends of the Ganges U.S. and with the Sankat Mochan
>Foundation in India), organizing the 2nd Women and Water Conference in
>Kathmandu, Nepal in 9/98, and work to support refugee, women's and anti-war
>groups in the former Yugoslavia.
>
>Fran Peavey and Tova Green can be reached by phone at 510/428-0240.




contact information:
teresa at advocacynet.org
(315) 471-7790 voice mail
Syracuse, NY 13210

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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Tue Apr 13 17:51:42 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:51:42 -0400
Subject: [kan-l] Sample Letter
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990413175142.007545b8@mailbox.syr.edu>

**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
**********************SAMPLE LETTER****APRIL 13, 1999********************

Dear Friends:

Here is a sample letter to send to the White House or to tailor for your representatives or parliamentarians.  One action to take at rallies is to set up a table for people to write letters.  Provide them with stamps, addresses and envelopes along with sample letters or a list of important points.  

Newest reports are that between 250,000 and 500,000 people still in Kosova are going to die of starvation if steps are not taken soon.

Let me know if you need any more information such as representatives addresses etc.

Teresa
Kosova Action Network
teresa at advocacynet.org

****************************

Dear Madame Secretary and President Clinton-

We need to move quickly to reopen the borders of Kosova--through both 
diplomatic and military pressure--and allow the one million people of Kosova 
to flee the horrific conditions they are trapped in.

We need to airlift food and medical supplies in as soon as possible. 
Thousands are dying of starvation. Gangrene. Diarrhea. These are preventable 
deaths. While we show off our bombs on TV every night, we withhold the simple 
things like food, blankets, and infant care products that could save 
thousands of lives.

There is no need for the Kosovars to die the sort of horrible sorts of deaths 
they are dying. Besides airlifts, the borders must be opened immediately. The 
refugees must be welcomed. These are the people who signed the NATO/ 
Rambouillet Peace Accord one month ago. At that time, we pressured them for 
their trust. They gave it to us.

These are decent, law-abiding people. The war crimes being perpetrated 
against them are happening unseen. Unwitnessed. The mass grave sites are 
scattered and may never be found. They are now in danger of losing their 
homeland altogether. The helicopters that could save thousands of them and 
bring hope that scattered family members may be united one day are 
unaccountably delayed. NATO is a committee. Perhaps a committee can't fight a 
war. NATO is perhaps a committee full of weaponry but without a soul.

We can and must do better.

Sincerely,
Alice Mead
Kosova Action Network--coordinator
alooscnon at aol.com




contact information:
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Syracuse, NY 13210

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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Tue Apr 13 18:50:10 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:50:10 -0400
Subject: [kan-l] FWD: TPS for Kosovar Albanians in the US
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990413185010.014a53bc@mailbox.syr.edu>

**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
Thought this would be of interest to people.

Teresa


--------- Begin forwarded message ----------
From: Paromita Shah <PShah at gbls.org>
To: albboschurch at juno.com
Subject: TPS for Kosovar Albanians in the United States
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:52:49 -0400
Message-ID: <s7135a51.017 at gbls.org>

Dear Very Reverend Arthur Liolin,

Per our conversation, enclosed in this e-mail is some information
about the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program available to
certain Kosovar Albanians in the United States.

The Attorney General approved a TPS program in the United Status
for eligible residents of Kosovo Province.  The main benefit of
having TPS status is that one can obtain employment authorization
i.e. work permit.  TPS status expires after one year; however,
considering the ongoing armed conflict in Kosovo, the Attorney
General may decide to extend TPS to eligible Kosovars for another
year.

Eligibility requirements:  In order to obtain TPS status, you
must have continuously resided in the US since June 9, 1998.
Proof of residency can be shown through a visa, rent receipts,
leases, bills, etc.  TPS REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS JUNE 8, 1999.

Procedure: All Kosovo Province TPS applicants must file an
application for Temporary Protected Status, Form I-821, together
with an Application for Employment Authorization, Form I-765.  A
fee  of $50.00 must accompany the I-821 and a fee of $100.00 must
accompany form I-765, unless a properly documented fee waiver is
submitted or unless the applicant does not request employment
authorization. (The money order must be made out to "The
Immigration and Naturalization Service") These documents should
be submitted to local INS office in Boston i.e. the JFK Building
in Government Center.

As said before in our conversation, I would be happy to assist
those who need help with their TPS applications.  We are located
at 197 Friend Street, Boston, MA 02114 (near the Fleet
Center/North Station).  If you have any other questions, please
do not hesitate to contact me at 617-371-1270 ext. 290.

Thank you.

Paromita Shah

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From tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu  Mon Apr 19 08:59:06 1999
From: tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu (Teresa Crawford)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:59:06 -0400
Subject: [kan-l] BOSTON- Albanians and Student Unite for Peace
  Announcement;"FREE KOSOVA" RALLY. 
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The following is a message that we posted on the community board. We urge
all of you to attend, if you are able to do so, as well as help to make it
successful by:

1) Forwarding this message to anyone you know, especially student
organizations around Boston who are willing to participate.
2) Contact public voices such as: radio stations, speakers, etc.
3) We welcome your suggestions about speakers at the rally. Please
e-mail those to us.
4) If you would like to distribute flyers for the rally this week and we
will make arrangements to meet or mail them to you.



						-Albanians- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Albanians Students Organization and Students Unite for Peace are proud to
announce: 

	          	 "FREE KOSOVA" RALLY
			Sunday April 25, 1999 
				3 -5pm.
	In front of the Boston Public Library, Copley Square. 

Our objectives are:

-Protest against the violations of human rights in Kosova.
-Support the international effort to assist the refugess.
-Call upon the people of all nations, especially the people of the
Balkans, to bring peace in the area.


Organized by Albanians, a Cultural International Organization, and
Students Unite for Peace at Boston University.






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From NAACDC at aol.com  Tue Apr 20 17:42:37 1999
From: NAACDC at aol.com (NAACDC at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:42:37 EDT
Subject: [kan-l] Rally in DC, Friday April 23, 1999
Message-ID: <f3ca6c1a.244e4ecd@aol.com>

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National Albanian American Council
1899 L Street, NW  Suite 1130  Washington, DC  20036
(202) 955-1428    Fax: (202) 955-1429
Email: NAACDC at aol.com
________________________________________________________________________

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE			CONTACT: Aferdita Rakipi
April 19, 1999							(202) 955-1428


MEDIA NOTICE:

WASHINGTON RALLY ON KOSOVA

TO COINCIDE WITH NATO SUMMIT


WASHINGTON-- On Friday, April 23, 1999, Albanian Americans and others will 
hold rally in to protest NATO?s ineffective military campaign in Kosova.


WHERE:			LAFAYETTE PARK

WHEN:			FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1999

TIME:				11:00 AM ? 2:00 PM  


Demonstrators will urge NATO to take the following action: (1) step up 
airstrikes; (2) arm the Albanians so that they may defend themselves; (3) 
launch a ground troop operation to stop Serb acts of genocide and the ethnic 
cleansing in Kosova; (4) and support the territorial integrity of Kosova.

###





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This message was forwarded from Crabgrass.  May give people some ideas
about what to organize about in terms of collecting donations.

Teresa

>>To: crabgrass at igc.org
>>Cc: peaceworkers at igc.org
>>Subject: From Fran and Jan
>>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:07:31 PDT
>>Mime-Version: 1.0
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...So we returned for the first Community Services meeting chaired by UNHCR,
>>where we heard of the many, many needs at all the camps and in the
>>host families...children, elderly, disabled, adolescents, camp
>>organization issues, etc.  The question of assistance to Roma was
>>raised.  

Please tell everyone in our network that there is almost
>>unlimited need for people to work in the arts (music, drawing,
>>theatre), and sports for the summer. Also they need geriatric workers,
>>as there are so many old people.  There is a need for sports
>>equipment, chess sets, checkers, crocheting needles and thread, and
>>general recreational materials.  

They can be sent to UNICEF.  Email for UNICEF to get mailing address is:
lpakkala at unicef.org.  Say you are from Crabgrass when you write.  Tomorrow
night we are having dinner with the UNHCR person who chairs the Community
Services sector, and no doubt we will find out more special needs.

>>Tonight we are not so tired, and not very inspired to write more. Much
>>love to all.  Fran and Jan
>>
>>_______________________________________________________________
>>Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
>>
>
>Crabgrass, Working for Social Change is based in San Francisco.  Our
>mailing address:
>3181 Mission St. #30, San Francisco CA 94110, U.S.A
>
>Crabgrass projects include cleaning the Ganges River in Varanasi India
>(working with Friends of the Ganges U.S. and with the Sankat Mochan
>Foundation in India), organizing the 2nd Women and Water Conference in
>Kathmandu, Nepal in 9/98, and work to support refugee, women's and anti-war
>groups in the former Yugoslavia.
>
>Fran Peavey and Tova Green can be reached by phone at 510/428-0240.
>
>
>
>



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Here is another report from Macedonia.  Will help to make any letters you
write better informed about work people are doing and what is needed from a
humanitarian perspective.  If anyone has any reports such as this for
Albania please post them to the list.

Teresa


(Re-posted from BosNet)
From: Steve Albert <albert at total.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 07:02:20 -0400

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FOB Director Reports on Trip to Macedonia

Dear Friends:

Following is a report of a trip that I took to the Kosovo-Macedonia
border from April 1-8.

You can view photos of this trip on the Friends of Bosnia web site at
www.crocker.com/~fob or
www.crocker.com/~fob/macindx.htm

My purpose to going to Macedonia was three-fold. I went there on a fact
finding mission and to see if Friends of Bosnia could play a role in
helping with the refugee crisis. I also was interested in documenting the
crisis with photographs and recorded interviews. Lastly, I was interested
in providing limited humanitarian assistance in the form of food and
medicines.

I spoke with numerous refugees, both in English and in Albanian through my
translator Enver, and the stories were all very similar. Everyone spoke of
armed men in black ski masks entering their towns and villages and giving
people five to ten minutes to leave. The alternative was death. Many
people I spoke to told of seeing people killed, especially the elderly,
for refusing the leave. Most people also saw corpses on their way out of
Pristina and other towns and villages.

Skopje

When I first arrived in Macedonia, I spent a day in the capital city
Skopje. The city was overrun with journalists and hotel accommodations
were impossible to find. The first afternoon I walked into an anti-NATO
and anti-US rally downtown. This was similar to the concerts in Belgrade
with rock musicians and people wearing paper targets on their jackets. As
you can imagine, it was an extremely uncomfortable environment, but I did
stay for a little while to take some photographs. I also spoke with
journalists from other European countries and found very strong
anti-American sentiments for the bombing. On the other hand, journalists
from Holland said their country was supportive, and I assume that this is
in response to their failure at Srebrenica, which has deeply affected the
Dutch population.

Blace

The next morning I left Skopje at 5:00 a.m. for the border at Blace. I
went with a Russian photographer working for a French photo agency who
wanted to get to the border and back in time to have his film processed
and wired to his editors before noon. Unfortunately he forgot that
Macedonia just went on daylight savings time, and we spent an hour in the
dark at Blace before we could photograph anything.

Blace is the infamous "no man's land," heavily reported in all the
international media. Upon my arrival on Friday morning, April 2, the
refugee flow was still on the rise and almost nothing was in place yet. I
observed a huge sea of people standing in a dark, misty and muddy field,
being held back by armed Macedonian police and military guards. Some
refugees were filtering through to either get medicine or water at a
makeshift medical area set up by the International Medical Corps (IMC).
Others were leaving "no man's land" for either buses to take them to who
knows where (they didn't), or just walking on foot into Macedonia.

Most of these refugees were recently driven out of Pristina a day or two
before. They either drove to the border or were forced onto trains. In
either case, the trip was harrowing.  They had no food or water during the
trip. All along the way, Serb guards demanded money and jewelry and
continued to harass them.  They could not buy anything in the few shops
along the way that were open. Upon reaching the border, their documents
were destroyed, and they had to abandon their vehicles. Some were forced
to bribe Macedonian police to cross the border. The ones who came by train
were let out on the Kosovo side of the border and walked along the tracks
into no man's land because they feared landmines on either side of the
tracks.

Tetova

That afternoon I left Skopje for Tetova, the center of the Albanian
population in Macedonia, and checked into the Hotel Macedonia. The next
morning, I was fortunate to meet up with a young Kosovo Albanian, Enver
Vrajolli, who became my translator for the remainder of the trip. He just
came across the border two days before from Pristina with his parents and
his girlfriend, Afradita. His story was just like the others. Armed
paramilitaries came to his house and gave them ten minutes to leave. They
also demanded money from him. When he said he didn't have any, they
pointed a gun at him and said they would kill him if he didn't produce
any. He did manage to give them 200 German marks, leaving him and his
family with 20 marks and the clothes on their backs upon entering
Macedonia by train. His father was a partisan in World War II and spent
the post-war years building a house and raising a family. Now they have
nothing. They don't know if or when they will be able to return.

West Kosovo

Enver educated me about-or told me his view of-the Albanian situation in
the region. Macedonia is officially 23% Albanian, the remainder being
primarily Macedonian, but with a sizable Serb and Roma community as well.
The Albanian community on the other hand estimates that the country is
really 50% Albanian. Like Kosovo, they feel oppressed by the Macedonians,
and do not have access to government institutions. They are vastly
under-represented in all aspects of the official economy, and have very
little representation at the ministerial level in government. Neither is
their university in Tetova recognized by the government.

Western Macedonia, closest to the Kosovo border, is 95% Albanian. The
Albanians refer to the region as West Kosovo. This makes no sense because
it is on the eastern edge of Kosovo. Someone later explained to me that it
is called West Kosovo because there is actually a region in northeast
Macedonia that is called East Kosovo.

Many Albanians I spoke with said they must fight for their freedom and can
imagine taking up arms against Macedonia. It is unclear from my
discussions if greater autonomy would satisfy their need for freedom,
although they did say they do not need land, just control of their
destiny. Understandably, the Macedonians are extremely nervous about this
new influx of Albanians that will skew the demographics in favor of the
Albanian population.

Enver and other Albanians repeatedly said that the Serbs and Macedonians
are of the "same kitchen." I am not so sure that I agree, but the
important matter is that they think so. They also are very suspicious of
Slavs in general, although they are somewhat sympathetic to Bosnians.
When I mentioned that Bosnians are Slavs, they didn't have an answer.

Albanians comprise the oldest nation in the Balkans and they have a
distinct language from the rest of the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Most of the younger Kosovo Albanians also speak Serbian, but not all. The
Macedonian language is similar to Serbian-also written in Cyrillic-but
there are differences in the way Croatian and Bosnian are now distinct
languages.

Visiting refugees

I spent the afternoon on Sunday talking with refugees from Kosovo who had
settled in Tetova. They were not difficult to find. My translator
literally just stopped someone on the street and asked if they knew where
we could find some refugees to talk with. In the house in front of us were
three families from Pristina living on one floor. These were
professionals-doctors, economists, engineers-who like everyone else in
Pristina were forced to leave. And like everyone else, they were missing
family members and not knowing what would happen to them next. I loaned
one family my cell phone so that they could call their relatives in
Switzerland whom they had not talked to since there exodus from Pristina.

Enver and I later went to the El Hilal office in Tetova. We noticed this
organization at all locations where there were aid groups and they
appeared very effective in working with the refugees. Their office was
mobbed with refugees looking for assistance and they were extremely busy
working out logistics and helping refugees find lost relatives and find
places to live in Tetova. Friends of Bosnia will be sending donations for
Kosovo relief to El Hilal so that they can continue their work in helping
refugees.

Delivering Aid in Blace

On Tuesday, April 6, I joined forces with some local concerned Albanians
and went out to the markets in Tetova to purchase direct aid for refugees.
With resources that I had at hand just in case this opportunity arose, I
spent $800 on the following items:

50 liters of juice
100 bottles of water (1.5 liters)
80 loaves of bread
150 liters of milk
30 packages of cheese
100 packages of crackers
Miscellaneous medical supplies

Members of the local Macedonian Red Cross joined us with a van filled of
water, and by mid-afternoon we drove back up to Blace. I spent the rest of
the afternoon bringing arms full of food down into the no man's
land-alternately taking pictures and ripping open six packs of water and
juice. I also helped to bring four elderly people and one invalid on a
stretcher out of no man's land to the medical tent set up by the IMC.

Delivering Aid in Jazince

The next day I met two Germans who had come down to Macedonia to help out
with the refugee crisis and to bear witness. We again went to stores in
Tetova to purchase food and medical supplies. We rented a taxi for the day
and drove to the border at Jazince where there were about 7,000 Kosovo
Albanians at the border but prevented from coming in by the Serb police.
On the Macedonian side of the border were approximately 15 aid workers,
10-15 journalists, and 50 refugees who were waiting for family members to
cross.

Upon our arrival, nothing was happening other than both sides watching the
stand off. My German companions and I went up to the border where we
negotiated with the Macedonian police to allow us to bring food to the
other side. For a brief period of 20 minutes, we grabbed all the food that
we brought, as well as food stockpiled by the Macedonian Red Cross and
brought it to the border where it was delivered to the waiting refugees.
Finally the Macedonian police forced us to stop.

We then attempted a similar effort to bring sick people from the Kosovo
side across the border to waiting medical personnel. We were unsuccessful
in this effort. An hour later we watched as the refugees in Kosovo started
to turn away from the border and head back into Kosovo. We soon realized
that the Serb military were forcing them back into Kosovo for unknown
reasons. Perhaps they were to be used as human shields, or worse.
Standing next to me was a young Albanian woman with tears streaming down
her face as she watched members of her family who were moments before
within view, head back into Kosovo.

Vratnica

When we realized that there was nothing else that could be done, we loaded
up our taxi with the food that was stockpiled by the Red Cross and drove
back towards Tetova where we noticed earlier a group of refugees waiting
in a small town Vratnica. They were from a village in Kosovo, and like all
other refugees were forced out at gun point. They had walked over steep
mountains in two feet of snow and just wandered across the unmanned border
into Macedonia.

My German companions drove back to Tetova to purchase another taxi load of
food to distribute to this group. About an hour later three buses came and
the group were brought to the nearby refugee camp set up by NATO.

NATO refugee camp

This was erected by German and Dutch NATO forces to house 3000 refugees.
When I arrived there were only 900 refugees, but within a few days the
camps was filled. It was quite an impressive facility with tents with
wooden floors, windows, heaters and electric lights. There were also
washing facilities, a fully equipped field hospital and a mess tent to
feed the residents.

Enver and I went into a few tents while he was looking for family members
from Pristina who were unaccounted for. The refugees now were living the
slow, sad life away from their homes, with no apparent future. They didn't
have access to news and didn't know what was happening in Kosovo,
Belgrade, or to the hundreds of thousands of other refugees coming across
the border into Macedonia and Albania. They all wanted to know when they
could go home.

I met one woman with a five week old baby swaddled in white cloth. The
infant had been driven out like everyone else, and now was laying
peacefully on a green army-issue blanket in the tent.

An appeal for contributions for refugee relief

Friends of Bosnia is accepting cash donations to send to El Hilal in
Tetova to further their support for refugees. Checks can be made out to
Friends of Bosnia/Kosovo Relief Fund and sent to the address below. FOB is
a non-profit, tax-deductible organization.

Glenn Ruga
Director

________________________________________
Friends of Bosnia
47 East Street
Hadley, MA 01035
Tel: 413-586-6450
Fax: 413-586-2415
fob at crocker.com
www.crocker.com/~fob
________________________________________





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Subject: [kan-l] REFUGEES: evacuation from Macedonia to USA
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Here is the most current information I have on how the refugees will be
taken care of in the US.  Contacting one of these offices is probably best.
Hope this helps.

Teresa


wichtige Information f?r Kosova-albanische Fl?chtlinge in Macedonien, 
                   die Verwandte in den USA haben
important information for Kosova-Albanian refugees in Macedonia 
                       with relatives in USA 

                 evacuation from Macedonia to USA
______________________________________________________________________

> Betreff:  [ALBANEWS] Fwd: Kosovar Evacuation from Macedonia
                      (check this message) shqipe
> Datum:    Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00:20 EDT
>   Von:    Shqipe Malushi <Malushi at aol.com>
> 
>  Betreff:        Kosovar Evacuation from Macedonia
>  Datum:          Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:05:29 -0500
>  Von:            Colleen Ryan <Colleen at intrescom.org>
>  An:             malushi at aol.com, shqipem at media.info.com
> 
> Dear Ms. Malushi,
> 
> As you are aware, the US Government has announced that it will begin to
evacuate up to 20,000 Kosovar refugees from Macedonia to the US in
approximately one week.
> The evacuations will be voluntary and initially will give priority to
refugees with close relatives in the U.S.  Individuals will enter the
United States as refugees and will receive assistance from a refugee
resettlement agency.
> 
> We recommend that individuals with permanent status in the US who have
Kosovar refugee relatives contact a refugee resettlement agency immediately
to file an Affidavit of Relationship (AOR) on their behalf.  The AOR should
be filed by the individual in the U.S. with the closest level of family
link - i.e. parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle,
cousin. 
> This document will be used as evidence to establish a legitimate
relationship between the refugee and their relative in the U.S. The agency
that will assist the US Government in the evacuation also will use the
document to locate the refugee relative in Macedonia, to arrange their
interview with a US Government representative and their evacuation.
> 
> AORS can be filed at an International Rescue Committee office in the
following locations:
> 
> Decatur, GA (Atlanta)  - (404) 292-7731
> Boston, MA  -  (617) 482-1154
> Charlottesville, VA -  (804) 979-7772
> Dallas, TX -  (214) 351-6864
> Elizabeth, NJ - (908) 282-0881 or NY office (212)
> 551-3100
> Garden Grove, CA - (714) 741-6147
> Los Angeles, CA -  (213) 386-6700
> Miami, FL - (305) 444-1417
> New York, NY  -  (212)  551-3100
> Oakland, CA  -  (510) 452-8228
> Palm Desert, CA - (760) 346-8065
> Phoenix, AZ -  (602) 433-2440
> Sacramento, CA -  (916) 421-2163
> Salt Lake City, UT -  (801) 328-1091
> San Francisco, CA -  (415) 863-3777
> San Diego, CA -  (619) 641-7510
> San Jose, CA -  (408) 453-3536
> Seattle, WA -  (206) 623-2105
> Tucson, AZ -  (520) 319-2128
> Washington, DC -  (202) 822-0043
> West New York, NJ  -  (201) 861-6116
> 
> Please contact me if you need additional information or if there is any
way that we can assist you.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Colleen Ryan
> Resettlement Program Officer

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any one have any contacts for this person?

Teresa

>Reply-To: sstevens at c-store.com
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for contacts in the Lehigh Valley (Allentown, Bethlehem,
>Easton) in Pennsylvania.  I'm a member of the Unitarian Universalist
>Church here and we'd like to put on a fundraiser for those who need help
>in the Balkan region.  We'd like to hook up with Albanian groups here.
>Thank you for any help you can give.
>Sincerely,
>Sidney Stevens
>
>
>
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>
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>
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* * *


The United Nations Association Dallas Chapter
Committee on Refugees

Kosovo Relief Project

Your tax-deductible donation* is urgently needed and greatly appreciated.   
Please also consider asking your company, school, place of worship, 
and community organizations to participate in this effort.

Funds will be applied to refugee assistance via the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Please make checks payable to:

USA for UNHCR
(memo:  "Contribution for Kosovo")
P. O. Box 171802
Dallas, TX  75217

Thank you for helping!

*Acknowledgment and tax receipt for your records 
   will be sent by USA for UNHCR, Washington DC.
      
If you would like to receive more information about this and other programs, 
or request a speaker to address your organization, contact:

       Linda Evans
       Chair, Committee on Refugees
       UNA-USA Dallas Chapter
       (214) 398-8880
       LCEvans at aol.com




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Subject: [kan-l] KAN: URGENT-Albin Kurti Arrested
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I am sorry to be forwarding to the list something that I do not have an
action recommendation for but knowing that many people on the list have a
personal relationship with Albin I thought you would want to know.

The Kosova Action Network (KAN) is trying to come up with ideas about how
to campaign for his release.  If anyone has any suggestions or contacts
please email me:  teresa at advocacynet.org

Teresa

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From: Natasa Kandic, Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade, HLC_NK at EUNET.YU,
YHRF # 11

Arrests in Pristina, 29 April 1999

On 28 April 1999, Albin Kurti was arrested in Pristina, the former leader
of the Albanian Students Union and spokesman to the former political
representative of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Adem Demaqi. Albins father,
an official with the Kosovo Parliamentary Party, was also arrested at this
time, as well as Albins two brothers, Nazmi Zeka, the owner of the house
where the Kurtis were temporarily residing, and Nazmis son. Witnesses claim
that the arrest was conducted in an extremely brutal manner. Twenty-four
hours later, Albins fifteen-year old brother and Nazmi Zeka were released;
they both had visible signs of beating. 

The day before Albin Kurti was arrested, on 27 April 1999, the brother of a
prominent soccer player Fadil Vokrri, Adil, was arrested. No information
has been available about the destiny of the arrested persons.

On 25 April 1999, Adem Demaqi was taken in for questioning. According to
his account, he had been interrogated for two hours in relation to his
attitudes towards the solution to the Kosovo issue.

There are other developments in Pristina, which cause a feeling of
insecurity among the remaining Albanians. The police make rounds visiting
homes and compiling lists of Albanians with permanent residence in Pristina
and refugees staying with them. A number of Serb shopkeepers refuse to sell
their goods to Albanians. There are only a few Albanians in Pristina whose
telephone lines have not been cut off. 

 
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**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
Thought the list might be interested in these reports.  Subscription info
at the bottom. If anyone has suggestions, additions, ideas please forward
them for inclusion.

Teresa         

          ON THE RECORD TO REPORT ON CIVIL SOCIETY
                   AMID THE KOSOVO CRISIS

              Excerpts from Internet traffic show
         that civil society struggles, but survives.

The crisis in Kosovo is changing the face of civil society in the
region, according to a new series of the E-letter, On the Record.

The series, which will shortly be sent out to subscribers by The
Advocacy Project, will start by excerpting previously unpublished
reports and personal accounts from Internet traffic. This will be
developed and expanded into a series of profiles of civil society
in the region once funding is secured from donors. The second phase
will also involve working with others to help Albanian groups make
better use of the Internet and broaden their contacts abroad. This
is one of the goals of The Advocacy Project.

The series is being compiled and edited by Teresa Crawford, a
founding member of the Advocacy Project who was arrested by the
Serbian authorities in 1998 while working in Prishtina with Kosovar
peace groups.

Like others, Crawford was impressed and inspired by the alternative
"parallel" society that was constructed by Albanians in Kosovo
after provincial autonomy was revoked in 1989. In an introduction
to the series, Crawford writes that these autonomous structures
also fueled the demand for independence: "These autonomous
structures were developed by ordinary people, even if they were
funded in large part by the diaspora community. It meant that
Kosovars began to see themselves in a democratic political
environment. This helped to change the demand for autonomy into one
of independence."

While not disputing the brutality of the Serbian crack-down, and
the devastation it has caused to civil society inside and outside
Kosovo, the first issue also shows that Albanians and their friends
are responding to the crisis with courage and initiative in the
refugee camps and in private homes:

"We are learning of women helping other women. There is the woman
who was blocked at the border for 24 hours before being able to
leave Kosovo. Once in Macedonia, she contacted the local Macedonian
Albanian Women's Organization. Within days, they had a clinic open.
 There are the two women from the United States, who rescued
another woman's 84-year-old mother in law from the camps and paid
for the rent of a clinic with money collected in the United States.
There is the group of former women journalists who are organizing
to go out and interview refugees in private homes in the south of
Macedonia and sell their stories to news services to avoid becoming
dependent."

"There is the man in Tirana who is helping women organize within
the National Albanian Farmers Union. There is the 24-year-old
Albanian-American woman who (with her father) has started the
"Kosova Humanitarian Aid Organization" and is sending two teams to
Macedonia and Albania to distribute aid and register the names of
refugees in a database.  Then there is "Women 4 Women," an
organization that originally started working with women in Bosnia,
and is now opening an office in Tirana."

These examples underscore the fact that civil society is never
completely destroyed by a crisis. More important, it often rises,
Phoenix-like, from the ruins in a different form to play an
important role in reconstruction. This has happened in many other
war-torn societies, from Bosnia to Rwanda, and the current crisis
will prove no exception. In the meantime, however, international
agencies and foreign governments must do more to identify and
nurture the seeds of self-help, even as they struggle to provide
basic emergency aid.

This series is one of two new initiatives by The Advocacy Project
to inform our subscribers about the efforts of civil society in the
Balkans to build something amidst the chaos and carnage. Peter
Lippman, who was also arrested and expelled with Crawford in Kosovo
last year, has spent the last six months visiting communities in
Bosnia, and trying to understand why so few refugees have managed
to return home. His dispatches will be available to subscribers and
posted on the Projects webpage, early in May. They present a
unique community-based portrait of one of the key elements in the
Dayton peace package.

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**********Sample Letter: arrests/disappearances****April 30, 1999****

Over the years people in the international community have worked with and
befriended a number of people in Kosova.  Some, because of the publicness
of their activities and others just because of their last name or
ethnicity, are in jeopardy.  There are no eyes, ears, bodies in Kosova to
protect them.  The letter below was prompted by the arrest of Albin Kurti
but can be tailored to campaign for attention and information on anyone we
have worked with in the past.  Please send it to your representatives and
follow up with calls and faxes.  If your representatives are not familier
with the work of these people please let KAN know and we can provide you
with background information and in some cases pictures.

Sample letter on arrests and disappearances below:


Dear Ms. Malloy,

I am writing to you as the coordinator of the Kosova Action Network. I wrote 
to you months ago, regarding the imprisonment of the nine students who had 
been arrested in Prizren in May, 1998, and you were very helpful--three of 
the students were released.

At this time, I am writing about grave concerns for the location and 
well-being of the many brave and hard-working individuals from Kosova who 
were its social and political leaders and stood up for democratic ideals at 
peril of their lives. Nobody seems to know where most of them are. 

We have not spoken up for their protection. Nor have we mourned their loss if 
they are, in fact, dead. And if they are arrested, we have not petitioned for 
their release as we should. Dr. Flora Brovina was kidnapped yesterday.
Today the student leader, Albin Kurti, who our government supported so
strongly in 
December, 1998, is reported as arrested along with his father and brother. 
Many fear that they will be assassinated as the Kelmendi family was.
And, as a result of "allowing" the Albanian leadership to disappear from 
sight, our media has aired Serb leaders for six weeks without even making 
poicy statements about the executions and kidnappings of Albanian leaders. We 
have silenced their voice and that at a time like this is shameful.

Sincerely,
Alice Mead
Kosova Action Network coordinator
aloosconon at aol.com.
207-767-7289

598 Shore Rd.
Cape Elizabeth, ME 04207
207-767-7289







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**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
********************Sample Letter: Refugees*******April 30, 1999*************

Below is a sample letter to Julia Taft in the US State Department.  Similar
letters can be written to representatives, parliamentarians etc.  The
refugee issue is complex but is being framed simplistically in some
circles.  Attention to the goals of keeping families together may seem
simple in a nuclear family kind of scheme but there are many definitions of
what constitutes a family.  Other refugee concerns are that other ethnic
groups such as Serb, Roma and Turks who are fleeing the fighting are not
being considered for refugee status. This too must be addressed.  

Below is a sample letter re: the refugee situation.


Dear Ms. Taft--
I am writing to you as coordinator of the Kosova Action Network with some 
grave concerns about the refugee situation, which I am sure you share. At the 
moment, I am addressing the issue in Macedonia, where the US has agreed to 
sponsor 20,000 temporary refugees to come to the United States.

As you know, the conditions at the two Stenkovic camps near the border 
entrance are horrific. After weeks of terror and malnutrition within Kosova, 
families (that I know personally) as well as thousands of others, find 
themselves placed there in chaos and filth. The fear of disease is rampant. 
Unaccompanied women and girls feel shamed. Every new wave that crosses the 
border adds to the chaos.

One reason people feel compelled to stay in Stenkovic and do not try to 
improve their situation is that an unsubstantiated rumor widely believed to 
be true is that to be reunited with US family members, who may be trying to 
file papers on their behalf, is that they have to stick it out in Stenkovic. 
Authorities here say that the waiting period for processing a family refugee 
claim will be at least thirty days, and then there is no way of knowing if 
they will be chosen. In the meantime these same individuals face physical and 
emotional collapse. They feel coerced into living in this inhumane and 
unsanitary situation, becoming not only physically and psychologically 
weaker, but taking up much needed camp space that could be turned over to new 
arrivals who have not had a chance to marshal their resources.

This only adds to the tension, fear, and hysteria of camp members I have 
spoken to.In addition, Albanian American family relatives here are receiving 
wildly contradictory reports from their local IRC offices as to what 
constitutes a family. Yesterday's rumor was that Albanian Americans can only 
send for their spouse and children, that it is not possible to send for one's 
parents and siblings. Yet the local office in Maine totally disagrees that 
that is the policy.

What is sad about all this is that it seems that once again, the American 
administration is once again way behind the eight ball with the way it is 
treating this population. I am advising with the setup of a refugee camp for 
Kosovars in New Brunswick, Canada, and the process there is progressing 
swiftly, with every possible consideration for the care and well-being of 
this fragile population.

I hope you can advise me on what the rules are for Kosovars in the camps. If 
you are willing to clarify these rules, you may suddenly find much more space 
in the camps as people are allowed to arrange for other temporary shelter. 
Albanians are masters of networking and helping themselves. They should be 
supported in doing this and not penalized for it.

Sincerely,
Alice Mead
Kosova Action Network coordinator
alooscnon at aol.com

598 Shore Rd
Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107
207-767-7289







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*********KAN: Sample Letter 2 Arrests and Disappearances***April 30, 1999***

Here is another sample letter to use.  While it is especially tailored to
Albin Kurti this can be adapted to just about anyone that we in the
international community have worked with over the years.  For more
information please contact KAN teresa at advocacynet.org
 


Dear 

Yesterday, April 28, 1999, The Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade reported
that student leader, Albin Kurti, age 24, was arrested along with his
father, and two younger brothers, ages 20 and 15. The owner of Kurti boy
was released and showed signs of beatings. The arrest was reported to be
extremely abusive. No mention was made of their access to medical care, the
Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, or what their future would be.

The outside world has made no response to this arrest, nor to a series of 
other arrests and disappearances over the past few days. From August, 1997 
until March, 1998, Albin was one of the major organizers of the UPSUP, a 
union of Albanian students numbering 20,000, who demonstrated peacefully in 
the hopes of regaining access to their school buildings. Ironically, Albanian 
students were finally granted full access to the buildings just as the Serb 
military attacks made attending school far too dangerous.

During the time of the student demonstrations, UPSUP received broad public 
and diplomatic support from the U.S. State Department, which negotiated with 
them directly to support their non-violent, democratic approach to the 
problem of Albanian educational discrimination. In particular, Ambassador 
Gelbard and later Ambassador Chris Hill met with them repeatedly as did 
Richard Huckaby of the USIA office in Prishtine.

Now that this young man and his even younger brothers are in dire need of 
outside support and a call for justice, the US government officials I spoke 
with declare no familiarity with this brief history. Ambassador Gelbard has 
been "transitioned" out of his former position. Ambassador Dobbins has no 
knowledge of the role UPSUP played. Matt Palmer is no longer the Serb desk 
officer. He has been replaced by the Macedonian desk officer. Asst. Secretary 
of State Eileen Malloy, who knew a great deal about the arrests and trials 
within Kosova in the past, now works at the Department of Energy. Even at the 
National Security Office, Jack Covey, the former assistant in charge of 
Kosova affairs, is gone. With them goes the history, the accountability, the 
insistence on real justice for the extraordinary individuals who played roles 
in the agonizingly slow liberation of Kosova from ten years of brutality.

Do not let this matter vanish in silence.  Aren't we supposed to be
supporting those who stand up for democratic ideals?  With Selsej being
bandied about on the media and Draskovic fired, this seems timed to be an
ultranationalist crackdown we cannot ignore.

Sincerely,






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**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
********************Action Appeal***April 30, 1999***********


For those of us watching the agony of the suffering in Kosova--the worst of 
the suffering we cannot watch as it is happening in silence, without 
witnesses, in remote villages, in apartments, in mountain valleys and 
gorges--we must acknowledge that a new model of peacework is needed. And it 
is needed immediately. 

No national army has the legal right to kill one segment of its population, 
and if this occurs, the international community then does not have the legal 
right to force this ethnic community to remain within that same nation-state. 
The equivalent action by Milosevic's army against the Albanians in an effort 
to solve "the Albanian problem," would be if the U.S. Army set out to 
systematically erase the presence of all blacks in the United States. Or 
Hitler's army set out to erase all Jews. Or Hussein's army sought to recreate 
and restore ancient Persia by eradicating Kurds.

Unfortunately, we, the peace community, have failed in the former 
Yugoslavia--just as surely as the military has. So let us acknowledge it. 
Loudly. For ten years, every conflict resolution model in the book has been 
tried and re-tried. Frankly, local former Yugoslav citizens gag at the site 
of another troop of do-gooders approaching them with handbooks on how to 
solve conflicts, usually civil rights conflicts. But that isn't the problem 
here.

 There have been no civil rights in Kosova for ten years. There have been no 
human rights. Kosovars do not even have the right to exist nor the documents 
to prove they ever existed.There is no traditional conflict here. There is no 
balance of power. There is only the brutal use of force to terrorize and 
destroy an entire population within perhaps two months. While we watch.

Meanwhile NATO is fighting a war run by committee. A cautious war that they 
claim is just. Milosevic must be stopped. That is true. The time has come. 
Does that mean we must let him take 2,00,000 Albanians down with him, while 
Serbs stand at rock concerts claiming to be innocent victims of this whole 
mess?

We in the peace community have several huge tasks to confront--and fast. In 
the information age, cirucmstances change overnight. Milosevic knows that 
even if NATO doesn't.

1. We must force the Serb people to acknowledge their complicity in the 
repression and brutality being waged in Kosova. How should we accomplish that?

2. We must discipline ourselves and give up the comfort of email statements 
of outrage sent back and forth. Only 1% of the world population has email. 
After its primary use in dispersing information widely and quickly, there 
must be action.

3. We must move on from the 1960's model of peacework, which was based on 
loss or abuse of civil rights. That model does not work for genocide at all. 
The insistence on its appropriateness at this time is patronizing and further 
degrades the true suffering of the Albanians. 

4. We must focus on the immediate goal that we all share: to help both the 
Kosovar refugees and more to the point, to help feed and provide justice for 
the hundreds of thousands still inside Kosova. Estimates state that there are 
still two thirds of the 1.2 million Albanians trapped inside Kosova. Like the 
population of the death camps in World War II, for that is what Kosova has 
become in the past four weeks, we watch helplessly while the systematic abuse 
and massacre of these people goes on. Too afraid to use the armed forces of 
19 nations, even to drop food and medical supplies, the young and the old of 
Kosova are probably already dying of starvation.

To confront genocide as it occurs is not easy. When Greenpeace wants to save 
a whale from extinction, its members go out in motorized rafts and place 
themselves between the whale and the boat. When there is no time, this model 
works. Both Hussein and Milosevic know the power of human shields in 
brutalizing the innocent. What prevents us from using that same model to save 
human life?

The world peace community is large, educated, and relatively wealthy. We need 
to mobilize. Truly mobilize--not to stand in front of a college 
administration building or the White House, but to go to the region. By the 
thousands. Why not?

If  our army is afraid to enter Kosova for relief purposes, if joining the 
KLA is not the right commitment, if the Red Cross has rejected you as a 
volunteer who will simply be in the way, then the peace community needs to 
become a chain of human kindness.

We must intervene at once.

There are ways to get into Kosova. There are ways to overcome all the 
objections and obstacles blocking this path. But there is not much time.

Alice Mead
Kosova Action Network--coordinator
alooscnon at aol.com

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