[WCUSP] [womeninblack] Belgrade: HAOS (Urgent Antifascist Opposition--Serbia)

[yvonne simmons]

       "Zene u crnom - Beograd" (Women in BLackBlack
-Belgrade)  <stasazen at EUnet.yu>               
 WIB, Belgrade Serbia works in a very hostile
environment. I stood with them in Belgrade during the
ex Yugoslavia war and we made a couple of videos for
cable access. One of the women then was a WILPF member
that has since deceased. Some of the video  was also
shown on channel 2, one of our local channels. The
WILPF IEC videos have interviews with women from our
PAlestinian, Israeli and Lebanon sections and are
available.    In peace Yvonne          
                     Dear Friends,
  
 We are very pleased to announce the formation of
HAOS(Urgent  Antifascist Opposition--Serbia) a new
coalition of individuals,NGOs, and  political parties
that will work to confront the rising fascismand 
fundamentalism in Serbia.  The Women in Black
Network--Serbia is oneof the  founding members of this
coalition.
  
 The founding manifesto, stating the beliefs and
goalof HAOS  members, is attached to this message.
  
 Best wishes,
 Violeta and Rachel
  
 for Women in Black--Belgrade

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 Urgent Antifascist Opposition—Serbia (HAOS, from its
Serbian initials,which means ‘chaos’) is a coalition
of individuals, nongovernmental organizations,and
political parties based on the idea of changing the
current dominantvalues system in Serbia.
The state incites, directs, and supports fascist
ideology.
This means that it condemns, discriminates against,
and persecutes all difference,especially religious and
ethnic minorities.
Undisguised Orthodox Christian fundamentalism and
nationalism which is practicedon all levels, subjects
everyone who does not belong, as well as everyonewho
refuses to belong, to discrimination.
Based on these reasons, we formed HAOS, Urgent
Antifascist Opposition—Serbia.


THE HAOS MANIFESTO

1. HAOS is a coalition of individuals, nongovernmental
organizations, associations,and political parties that
joined of their own volition because they sharethe
concern about the growing fascism and feel a need to
change these conditions.
2. HAOS is made up of members whose values systems
have a civic, democratic,and freedom-loving
orientation.
3. HAOS has the goal of changing the dominant fascist
values systems, whichis practiced by governing parties
as well as the opposition parties whichsupport them
and with which the government collaborates, and
strengtheningdemocratic values.
4. The denial or glorification of war crimes,
genocide, and the Holocaustare crimes.
5. Praising and supporting murderers and war criminals
are criminal acts.
6. Freedom of speech not dot include advocacy of
fascism.
7. The state is comprised of its citizens, not its
territory.  People aremore valuable than land.
8. Nationalism is a synonym for fascism.  It is a
degenerate system of valuesthat denies people’s
differences.
9. Religion and belief are private for every
individual.  They cannot andshould not be part of
state politics.
10. Human rights are inalienable and non-negotiable.
11. The state is not permitted to use secret societies
or armed or militantgroups to protect its interests,
in opposition to the interests of citizens. The state
is not the property of individuals or groups that
would remakeit by their own methods to serve their own
purposes.
12. Fascist ideology is an ideology of hate.  Hate
brings only suffering,fear, and support to individuals
and groups who appropriate the state fromthe citizens.
 Values systems based on all forms of hate must be
abolished.
13. Fascism means that belonging specific racial,
ethnic, or religious groupsis considered ‘adequate.’ 
Members of the specified groups are worth moreand have
more rights than others.  That ideology should be
abolished.  ‘Others’are the same as us and have the
same rights.
14. The restriction of belonging based on any
religion, ethnicity, or raceseparates people from
their membership in the human race and the entire
world,which is truly our home.
15. Antifascism is a value which we will not give up. 
We will not be ableto be part of the Europe to which
we aspire if we equate fascism with antifascism,if we
relativize those ideas, if we tolerate hate speech and
incitement todiscriminate in the name of free speech,
and if we are indifferent to theincreasing fascization
of society.



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