Belgrade protestors seek world support

[Jules Siegel]

Dear Pynchon-L:

I got an urgent message today from Vaska Tumir asking me to help spread the
word about the election protests in Belgrade. She especially asked that I
communicate in her behalf to the Pynchon list, as she is too exhausted to do
so herself after working around the clock translating the Serbian news into
English. She wrote, in part:

>There are over 50,000  students and almost 2,000 faculty out on the streets
of Belgrade 
these days -- FOURTEEEN DAYS IN A ROW, Jules -- and they are dying for some
signs of official support from student and faculty associations around the
world.  They were out there in 1991, protesting against Milosevic's
butchery, and no one said a word in 
their support then -- that time, it was army tanks and armored vehicles that
suppressed the revolt.

Following is a press release I sent out in her behalf to the Computer
Assisted Research and Reporting List, consisting of 3,000 on-line working
journalists:

Endangered Radio B92, Belgrade, seeks international press coverage

Vaska Tumir <editing at interlog.com> informed me today that award-winning
independent Radio B92, Belgrade, Serbia, is in danger of being shut down in
order to suppress its reporting on massive demonstrations protesting
election cancellations, and asked me to spread the word. Constantly updated
information (much of it in English) on this can be found at
http://www.siicom.com/odrazb/

She reports:

>These guys are the only people who have *consistently* opposed the recent
wars in the Balkans and who've not only managed to keep their radio station
going for the last 7 years despite the government's refusal to grant them an
operating license, but have also established two tiny but excellent
publishing houses that specialize in contemporary literature and issue two
literary mags as well.

>The material in English is to be found below the parallel Serbian-English
announcement. 

You are encouraged to forward any of this in any way you feel will be helpful.
--
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