Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel. 1-917-699-9935,
Ioannis Fidanakis, New Jersey, Tel. 1-973-464-0211
NEW YORK--The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) has launched the STOP THE
ANTI-HELLENIC HATE coalition to STOP THE ANTI-HELLENIC LOBBY. Please act on the
action alert to the President of VISA CARD (VISA U.S.A. Inc.) corporation, Mr.
William M. Sheedy below and send on to family, friends and colleagues.
STOP THE ANTI-HELLENIC HATE is a coalition of grass-roots Anti-Racist activists
in New York City, joining together in the struggle to save Hellenic people from
racial discrimination, racial prejudice and false historical revisionism .Join
our informative campaign outside the American headquarters of the CardPartner
Visa affinity credit card program to STOP THE “UNITED MACEDONIAN DIASPORA (UMD)”
in Manhattan during the Mid-Manhattan lunch hours of 12noon-2PM on Friday,
January 02nd, 2009.
Visit our campaign blog, www.stoptheantihelleniclobby.wordpress.com
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URGENT: URGE VISA TO STOP THE “UNITED MACEDONIAN DIASPORA VISA AFFINITY CREDIT
CARD PROGRAM”
CURRENT STATUS
The “United Macedonian Diaspora UMD” a Washington DC-based lobby promoting false
historical revisionism for the fascistic and irredentist Skopje government in
FYROM ,is sponsoring a VISA card with the Star of Vergina symbol that is
copyrighted exclusively in all its forms by the Hellenic Republic, in violation
of Article 6ter of the Paris Convention for the Protection of State Emblems, and
Names, Abbreviations and Emblems of International Intergovernmental
Organizations under the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization).
The VISA affinity credit card program of CardPartner INC. reportedly designed
the VISA card in collaboration with the “United Macedonian Diaspora UMD”; please
see the UMD webpage detailing the card, which also offers the credit card of
Alexander The Great in this webpage on their website:
http://umdiaspora.org/content/view/373/1/
CANA activist Ioannis Fidanakis contacted CardPartner INC, of the copyright
issue in regards to the use of the Star of Vergina and its protection under the
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
The email to CardPartner INC follows below:
-----Original Message-----
From: oarchangelos@aol.com
To: mark.levitt@cardpartner.com
Sent: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 2:36 pm
Subject: Vergina sun symbol, copyrighted by Greece 1995
Dear Mark,
Hello I’ve attached just some basic information about the Star of Vergina and
the copyright below from the WIPO web site. The last 3 links shows the 3
different designs based on the number of star bursts that are copyrighted by the
Greek state. Also the flag is the official flag of the Macedonia inside the
Greek state. So you can see where the problem would be with them having it on
their card.
Here it gives info about the copyrights of flags and emblems.
http://www.wipo.int/article6ter/en/
For the bellow link where it says "state", insert Greece, for "objection" insert
The former yugoslav rom.
http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/search/6ter/search-struct.jsp
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*WHAT YOU CAN DO
Contact the President of VISA U.S.A. Inc , Mr. William M Sheedy, at VISA
corporate headquarters
Please help us send a loud and clear message that the Star of Vergina is
protected by the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and that false
historical revisionism by the anti-Hellenic lobby should NEVER be endorsed by
VISA, Ask VISA President Mr. William M. Sheedy to call on the CardPartner Visa
affinity credit card program to end collaboration with the fascistic and
irredentist “United Macedonian Diaspora UMD” lobby:
By Mail:
Mr. William M. Sheedy, President of North American Operations
VISA U.S.A. Inc.
900 Metro Center Blvd.
Foster City, CA 94404
By Fax: 1-650-432-3631
By The VISA “Contact Us” webpage:
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ADDRESS THE LETTER TO VISA PRESIDENT Mr. William M. Sheeny.
Please make sure to personalize your letter and to include your name, address
and phone number and please don’t forget to “click” the “submit” button on the
bottom of the page in the link when you are done:
https://corporate.visa.com/ut/contactus.jsp
** Important: Please maintain a courteous and professional tone.
*** Please forward this web page to five or more friends or colleagues who you
believe will act on it -- after five cycles, your e-mail can generate 23,580
letters.
(To avoid ">>>" please copy and paste the entire text onto a new e-mail when
forwarding)
For more information visit:
MACEDONIA ON THE WEB: UMD and VISA violated the WIPO Regulations
http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/forum/anti-greek-macedonia-propaganda/9299-umd-visa-violated-wipo-regulations.html
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