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7 June 2005
Declaration
EuroMemorandum Group
European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe
June 2005
After the
French and Dutch No to the Constitution:
The EU needs a new economic and social development strategy.
"The French and Dutch No to
the Constitution opens the window for a thorough reflection and public discussion
about the way in which the people want to live in Europe. The majority of voters have
rejected the elitist project of a European construction, which subordinates the democratic
lives and material well-being of the people to the rules of markets and competition. They
perceived European policies in their real lives as a threat to their economic and social
welfare, as source of increasing insecurity for their work and incomes, as mounting
inequality and injustice and as an obstacle to relevant democratic participation
possibilities in the process of shaping a society which allows them to lead a free and
independent life...".
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15 June, 2004
Solidarity Petition for Prof.
Song Du-yul
I wonder if any of you could sign the attached
petition with the protest against the "judicial" atrocity perpetrated currently
against one of Korea's finest social scientists, Prof. Song Du-yul. Prof. Song, currently
German citizen and one of the leaders of Korean democracy movement abroad and a well-known
activist of Korean reunification, returned to his native South Korea last year after
almost 37 years of German exile, only to be arrested and tried for the acts, which are not
considered punishable either in Germany/EU or anywhere else - except South Korea
(basically, unofficial contacts with North Korea and "benefiting North Korea by the
unbalanced criticism of South Korea" - all those things are criminalized by S.Korea's
draconian "National Security Law"). All the details on indictment/trial are
available on www.freesong.de In March 2004, Prof.
Song was sentenced to 7 years (!) - with Amnesty Int-l offering immediately a criticism of
this atrocious "verdict"
. Now, as the final appeal trial is expected in July, Prof. Song's mentor, Prof. Habermas,
and many other prominent German intellectuals drafted the "Solidarity Petition",
which is going to be submitted soon to South Korea's President and published in South
Korean media. As always in such cases, every signature is important, and I ask all of you
who agree with the petition's content, to sign it and send to Prof. Song's elder son, Dr.
Dschun Song (edge@chemie.fu-berlin.de), who
is leading the campaign for Prof. Song's release.
Best greetings,
Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja), Ass. Professor, Korean/East Asian Studies
Text of the Solidarity
Petition |
Sara Flounders:
Bertrand Russell Tribunal: Bush Cabal Plotted War on Iraq Years
ago |
| Vote to Impeach George W. Bush |
| Impeach Bush: The Four Reasons |
| Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace |
From Citizen.Org (California)
Action against Bechtel and the Corporate Invasion of
Iraq |
ISM nominated for
Nobel Peace Prize
by a member of the House of Commons of Canada... Read Letter of
Nomination |
Peace Initiative of Turkey :
Never Again - Pre-emptive Peace as opposed to Pre-emptive war
Proposal to convene an international tribunal with final
session in Istanbul - Turkey to hold the US & UK regimes to account for the crimes
perpetrated against the people of Iraq and for the violation of humanitarian and
international laws and values ... full text
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S. Pitelli ( June 14, 2003 )
When Will House Republicans Call for Bush's
Impeachment? |
Harald T. Nesvik, a Right-wing Norwegian
Member of Parliament, has nominated U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President
George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize for their "decisive action against
terrorism". Sign this petition to tell you agree on rejecting Bush and Blair from
Nobel Prize Nomination
Reject nomination of Blair and Bush for the
Nobel Peace Prize
... Click here to sign |
Urgent message from Cuba from M. Harnecker:
On dreams and nightmares...Sobre
sueńos y pesadillas
Dear friends, the participants in the Conference" Carlos
Marx and the challenges for the XXI Century" (La Habana, 5-10 May 2003) agreed on not
ignoring the critical threat situation that Cuba lives after the war of Iraq. We consider
that it was the hour of closing ranks around the revolution in which so many hopes are
played. Here I send you a communicate that was signed by most of the participants and I
want you to read it and if you agree sign it and circulate it. We are happy with the
endorsement we have received already.... full
text
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Action for the
Indictment of US-UK War-mongers
Conference of the European Network for Peace and Human
Rights, European Parliament, rue Wiertz, Brussels, 26-27 June 2003
C.P. Scherrer ( June, 2003):
...Nuclear warfare is not a thing of the past. In 1991, after
46 years of shame, it was employed again by the same USA in Iraq. Over six weeks in 1991,
US aircraft and missiles systematically destroyed lives and life-support systems in Iraq.
An equally ferocious assault by the US air force in March-May 2003 was followed by the
deployment of ground troops by the world’s mightiest nations against a country that
had been thoroughly disarmed of its weapons of mass destruction by UN inspectors over the
years! UK and US forces used massive amounts of extremely toxic and radioactive uranium in
the heart of Iraqi cities. Uranium remains active for millions of years! Since 1991 the
death toll has climbed exponentially and it is feared that it will climb even faster.
Uranium kills over generations. It attacks the human DNS. Horrifically deformed babies are
born.
Invasion of Iraq, the U.N., U.S. Unilateralism
and Crimes against Humanity: Perspectives for Accountability
...full text
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Institutions and Individuals Active in Indicting Bush-Blair et al
"Indict Bush-Blair for war crimes -- Sanctions vs. US-UK" to the Dialogue
Webpage for Conflicts Worldwide at Click Here (reformulation of
text circulated on the Abolition Caucus and Globenet lists on 22 March 2003).
Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, president, New York, Click Here
Public Interest Lawyers, Phil Shiner, Studio 19 , 50-54 St Paul's square ,
Birmingham , B3 1QS, UK England, Click Here
Professor Hisakazu Fujita, International Law, Kasai University, Professor Kenji Urata,
Waseda University, Tokyo, Click Here,
former judge at International Court of Justice
Center for Economic and Social Rights, Roger Normand, 162 Montague St., 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11201, Click Here
World Citizens’ Tribunal (WOCIT), Rikio Kaneko, Click
Here
Lelio Basso International Foundation for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples, Permanent
Peoples’ Tribunal, Via della Dogana Vecchia, 5 - 00186 Rome Italy, website: Click Here
Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI), Jonathan Stevenson, Click Here
"War crimes case planned against U.S", an article by Steven Edwards in the National
Post, Toronto, April 15, 2003; the URL of the article is Click Here.
Important personalities to support the Indictment Campaign: Denis
Halliday, former UN Assistant General Secretary; Philip Alston, NYU Law Professor; Hans
von Sponeck, former UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq; Glen Rangwala, CASI; Ramsey
Clark, former US Attorney General
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