Other protests (was: Re: (WAR/IRAQ) Emotional Reactions)

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 07:17:52 MST

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    >Additionally, I would be curious to know if you if you organized or
    >participated in any protests either here or abroad of the Soviets
    >invasion

    Oh yes. Soon after my (Latvian) father and his brother made contact
    again after their 44 years separation, in 1988, Gorby took a trip to
    the U.S., with one stop at Stanford University. I was one of the
    many thousand Baltic people protesting the USSR's continued
    occupation, on that day, booing and hissing and carrying banners and
    flags as Gorbachev's limo drove past us along Palm Drive. (hey, we
    made it into the Mercury News :-) ) Since then, my 'protests' have been
    more of an educational role- via some personal Latvian web pages that
    still are accessed regularly all of these years later. Ignorance
    abounds regarding the Baltics- especially on the other side of the
    Atlantic; people confuse that region with the Balkans or somewhere
    else. Since Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania will (probably) be part of
    the EU starting May 2004, I expect there to be an interest to know
    something about that region, so I'll maintain the pages.

    In addition, I have a number of photographs I took in July 1991 when
    I was there of the barricades around the government buildings in
    Riga and Tallinn that are not online yet. This was a time before the
    Baltics gained their independence, but after the Soviet Omon killed
    some who were trying to protect newly freely elected government
    (nonCommunists). This story needs to be told too. I must get those
    pictures up sometime ...

    Presently the page is
    http://www.amara.com/aboutme/latvian.html

    .. and It's spring. (='pavasaris' in Latvian)

    Pretty Latvia Springtime pictures
    http://www.amara.com/pavasaris/pavasaris.html

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