The PanMacedonian Association and the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York are planning a demonstration in New York City on March 18 at the United Nations Plaza to express their opposition to any use of the word “Macedonia” in negotiations currently under way between the governments of Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Massive demonstrations have already taken place in Thessaloniki and Athens, as well as smaller demonstrations in numerous European, Canadian and Australian cities. This is the first demonstration happening in the United States.
The demonstration will begin at noon on Sunday, March 18 at United Nations Plaza.
Organizers are working with a nationwide network of Greek American organizations and are hoping for a large crowd from throughout the nation.
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It all started with the uneducated goat herder writing poetry about his village. Georgi Pulevski claimed that he was a direct decendent of Alexander the Great. I tend to think he was a decendent of Alexander the Goat. Like Ljubčo Georgievski he had an about face and claimed to be Bulgarian. In fact he stated he regretted not being able to execute the unification of Bulgaria and Ottoman Macedonia. Antiquization was replaced by a pan Slavic united Bulgaria. Georgi Pulevski went from being a goat herder to a stonemason to a founder of Macedonism to a Bulgaphile upon his death. Goergievski and Pulevski are similar in this regard. They both renounced their new found religion and came to their senses. With the death of the uneducated stonemason the Bulgarians of Vardar Macedonia were cured until the unimaginable happened – TITO. A half caste Croat/Slovene redefines the Bulgarians of Vardar Banovina as Macedonians. The Diaspora left their little villages with a suitcase and a story. Tito’s story. Just when it couldn’t get any worse Todov and his deluded intellectuals addicted to Pulevski poetry brainwash their population. FYROM is born. Gruevski is the second coming of Pulevski.
The ethnic Bulgarian will always be the ethnic Bulgarian. The ethnic Greek will always be an ethnic Greek. Language defines both of us. The Antiquization story is flawed. This why FYROM today has failed. Let’s not nation build on an uneducated stonemason. Read his work as a literary piece rather than a historical piece. Be proud of your Bulgarian ethnicity and don’t allow historical distortions. You are what you speak and the FYROMIAN Slavs speak Bulgarian.
Change your name to your providence South Macedonia and issue is resolved.