Subject: (13) MAYDAY, MAYDAY AMERICA!
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RADICAL PARTY, THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSPARTY
ABSTRACT: Insert published on payment on the "New York Times" of 28th
Septembre. The text contains a solicitation to join the radical party.
Lastly, it suggests the creation of an interactive link with the Radical
Party via Internet.
(THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 september 1993)
SEX: FROM ITALY WITH LOVE...
While also campaigning for religious, political and social freedom, the
Radical Party has been in the vanguard since the late Sixties with regard
to promoting sexual freedom and responsibility and defending the so-called
"minority groups." For a long time it was the world's only force amongst
the "official" and "parliamentary" parties to do so, especially in Italy.
This is why Italy was the first European country to approve a law to
safeguard the rights of transexuals. FUORI (OUT!), the first democratic
political organization for gay Italians, was federated with the Radical
Party. After initially having to deal with continual slurs, lack of
understanding, and the hostility of intolerant parties and deeply ingrained
political traditions left and right, it was finally able to operate
successfully, thanks to our support.
Furthermore, the Radical Party won a number of unexpected victories - for
which it has become well-known - in Europe, with its campaigns for divorce,
the right to conscientious objection, sex information, and a free and
responsible choice of motherhood, in the latter case drawing up extremely
prudent regulations in an attempt to wipe out the scourge of mass
clandestine abortions. Ten years later the number of clandestine abortions
is declining rapidly, giving us reason to hope that it will eventually
become a marginal social problem.
.. FOR LIFE: FROM NEW YORK WITH PASSION
For all these reasons we hope that the great American civil and human
rights movement, which has obtained so many results and become so strong,
will give us its friendly support so that we may secure objectives that
will do even more for the world, on a much larger scale.
It is now necessary, after the Cairo conference, to actively support and
bring pressure to bear on the United Nations, democratic governments, and
tolerant parties within religious movements, so that campaigns such as
these can be undertaken energetically and effectively at the highest
official level. We must defend human rights, first and foremost those of
women, which are virtually nonexistent in the Third World. We must help
women become aware of the choices available for responsible procreation,
for life and greater happiness among families, in order that they might be
spared the tragedy of unsafe abortion. In the same way, we must defend the
rights of sexual minorities, rights that the Nazis and Communists were not
the only ones to repress with blind prejudice and inhuman cruelty.
We need to do all this with great determination and a great capacity for
creating new legislation and laws. We must also apply organized
nonviolence, at a popular and global level, in these areas that have been
ignored for so long. In the global village, you don't win this kind of
battle unless you're organized (we repeat: organized) at all levels, unless
you take action simultaneously throughout the world.
