The
international civil society and social movements are raising their voice and
mobilizing throughout the world not only to express their indefectible
solidarity with the Lebanese people, but also to build a huge international
barrier against the global war of re-colonization of the world.

 

International
appeal

 

If
you would like to sign this appeal:

[email protected] http://www.alternativenews.org/

Today,
July 30th, another massacre was committed in Lebanon:
More than sixty civilians, among them 37 children, were killed by Israeli bombs
while they were sleeping in shelters in the village
of Qana.
They died not very far away from the mass grave holding the bodies of 106
civilians burned by a previous Israeli attack in April 1996 inside a shelter
provided by a UN battalion.

 

Reacting
to this terrible news, the only sane decision that needs to be made immediately
is that of a ceasefire. A ceasefire would allow for humanitarian relief to
reach the innocent victims, for the bodies to be buried instead of being eaten
by the dogs, and for all the underlying problems to be negotiated and
eventually solved.

 

More
victims can only produce more hatred. In the last few days, Lebanon has been
promised by the EU, the UK and the US help in rebuilding its infrastructure and
humanitarian aid to assist the eight hundred thousand internally displaced
persons and ‘humanitarian corridors', but they stopped short of demanding a
ceasefire, which encouraged Israel to continue with its "mission" of
unilaterally enforcing the resolution to disarm Hezbollah. With that same
logic, Hezbollah could argue it has a mission to enforce the many UN Security
Council resolutions demanding Israel
to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories and to implement the
right of return of the Palestinian refugees. On July 27, Israeli Justice
Minister Haim Ramon said that Israel
had given civilians ample time to leave southern Lebanon.
"All those now in south Lebanon
are terrorists who are related in some way to Hezbollah," he said, according to
the BBC. The same strategy is in these days deployed in the Gaza Strip where
the populations of neighborhoods and refugee camps are asked to leave their
homes. This comes down to blatant collective punishment of entire populations.
The escalating violence in Lebanon
can not be solved unilaterally with self-proclaimed righteousness by any party.
Peace is negotiated between enemies, not with friends. And the first step to
any negotiation is a ceasefire. Or is it that every child has to die so that
they do not grow into "terrorists"?

 

A
year ago, the UK Prime Minister championed the cause of including in the UN
mandate the "responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes,
ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity". 
Yet the UN, the European Union, The United States and the United
Kingdom have failed in their
responsibility to protect the Lebanese and Palestinian children. Or even to
clearly condemn the latest Israeli criminal acts. The international civil
society and social movements are raising their voice and mobilizing throughout
the world not only to express their indefectible solidarity with the Lebanese
people, but also to build a huge international barrier against the global war
of re-colonization of the world. We are demanding

              

An
immediate and unconditional cease-fire, in Lebanon
as well as in the Palestinian
Occupied
Territories!

             

The
implementation of full sovereignty to Lebanon
and the national rights of the Palestinian people!

 

No
NATO forces on the Lebanese territory!

We
support the call of the international solidarity delegation in Lebanon
for an international day of protest and solidarity on August 12th.

 

 

International
appeal

To
sign this petition please write to:

[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>

 

 

 

First
Signatures 

 

Organisations

 

Michel
Warschawski, Anti-war Israeli Coalition, AIC

Ziad
Abdel Samad, ANND – Arab NGO Network for Development, Lebanon

All
India
Peoples Science NetworkWalden Bello, Focus on the Global

SouthElisabeth
Gauthier, Espaces Marx /    Transform!

Christophe
Aguiton, European Marches
Against Unemployment / WSF IC

Nicola
Bullard, Focus on the Global South / WSF IC

Gustave
Massiah – Alternatives Internationales

ATTAC-Brasil,
member of WSF International Council

Network
for Social Justice and Human Rights (Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos
Humanos), Brazil

REMTE
(Latinoamerican Network of Women Transforming the Economy / Red

Latinoamericana
Mujeres   Transformando la Economia)

ALAI
(Agencia Latinoamericana de Información)

Ubuntu
Forum Secretariat, participant of the WSF

Habitat
International Coalition (HIC)

IBASE,
Brasil, member of WSF International Council

International
Alliance
of Inhabitants

Third
World Network

Network
Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)

Central
Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), BRASIL

LGBT
South-South Dialogue / Dialogo Sur-Sur LGBT

Articulacion
Feminista Marcosur

Social
Development Network,
Kenya,
a member of the WSF International Council

Attac
Vlaanderen (Belgium)

Karamat
Ali, WSF Karachi
Organising Coommittee, and Pakistan
Peace Coalition

Abong
­ Brazilian Association of NGOs / Associação Brasileira de ONGs

Jubilee
South Asia

Instituto
Paulo Freire

Red
Afrolatino-americana e Afro-Caribenha de Mujeres

MST
– Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, BrasilCLACSO – Consejo

Latinoamericano
de Ciencias   SocialesREPEM, Red de
Educación Popular Entre

Mujeres
de América Latina
y el Caribe

ARCI,
member of Italian Working Group for WFS

Red
Nacional Género y Economía (de México)

Palestinian
grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign

Nova,
Centre per a la Innovacio Social

Cheri
Honkala, the National Coordinator of the Poor People's Economic

Human
Rights Campaign (PPEHRC)/Campaña   de los
Pobres por los Derechos

Humanos
Económicos

Grassroots
Global Justice

The
International Council for Adult Education – ICAE

FAMES
(Forum des Femmes Africaines pour un monde de l'Economie Solidaire)

Encuentros
Hemisféricos contra el ALCA

Convergencia
de los Movimientos de los Pueblos
de las Américas (COMPA)

Centro
Memorial Dr.Martin Luther King Jr., Habana,
Cuba

Social
Watch

Transnational
Institute

Habitat
International Coalition-Latin America
Regional Office (HIC-AL).

CADTM
(Committee for the Abolition of Third World
Debt)

Central
de Trabajadores Argentinos (CTA)

Mesa
Nacional del
FSM en Argentina
(seis comités locales)

Organización
Continental Latino Americana
y Caribeña de Estudiantes

Tavola
della Pace (The Peace Roundtable), member of the IC of the WSF

The
Pakistan Institute of Labour, Education and Research, Karachi.

INESC
(Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Studies)

Foundation
for Media Alternatives

Ciranda
Internacional da Informação Independente / Internationl Ciranda of Independent
Information

TWN-Africa

Peruvian
Committee of Support to Global Call against Poverty

Regina
Soares Jurkewicz, Red Latino americana
de Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir ­ Brasil

Jorge
Carpio, Foro Ciudadano de Participación por la Justicia y los Derechos
Humanos, Argentina

Middle
East Peace Now of Minnesota, St.
Paul, MN,
USA,
Florence Steichen, president

Pax
Christi Minnesota, St. Paul,
MN,
USA,
Florence Steichen, coordinator

Akshara
Centre, India

Tamilnadu
Women's Collective,
India

Focus
on The Global South

Arci

Attac
Italia

Associazione
Per La Pace

FIOM-CGIL

Libera

World
Women March-Italy

Carta-Cantieri
Sociali

Rete
Lilliput

Sin.Cobas

Un
Ponte Per

Action
For Peace Italy

Forum
Sociale Ponente Genovese

Terre
des Hommes

Social
Agenda Working Group,Thailand

Global
Policy Forum

Observatorio
da Cidadania – Brasil, Fernanda Carvalho

Action
for Economic Reforms

Associação
Latino Americana de Combate a Miséria e a Violência-ONGD

Red
de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe, RSMLAC / Latin

American
and Caribbean
Women´s     Health Network, LACWHN

Intervozes
– Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social

Southen
Africa Human Rights Non
Governmental Organizations Network Tanzania
Chapter

Lebanese
Women Council

Down

Lebanese
Court Of Women

Minar
Pimple (MDG campaign)

Sunie
Arima/Action Aid International

Karine
Lacasse, Alternative,
Canada

Mohamad
Noman Jalal/Bahrain Center For Studies And Research

Graciela
Rodriguez/EQUIT Coordinator and IGTN Global Coordinator

Fátima
Mello/Brazil-Director-FASE

Atila
Roque/Brazil-INESC

Driss
el Yazami/FIDH

Mohamed
Zeidan/Arab association for Human rights-Israel

Yao
Graham/TWN Africa secretariat-Ghana

Ana
Agostino/ ICAE-International Council for Adult Education-General Secretariat/Uruguay

Simon
Stocker/Eurostep

Anriette
Esterhyusen/APC

Nadim
Center, Egypt

 Egyptian Association Against Torture,
Egypt

 Tadamoun
Wa
Tanmya/Lebanon

 Fronteers Center/Lebanon

 ATTAC Lubnan

 Sameer Jarrah/ Arab
World
Center
for Democratic Development

 

Individuals 

 

Amanda
Soares de Brito, estudante, Londrina
­ PR, Brasil

Martha
de la Fuente, profesional  y feminista,
Argentina/Holanda

Elsa
Drucaroff, argentina.

Alejandro
Horowicz, argentina.

Rodolfo
Panizza, Médico,
Uruguay

Alicia
Guerra

Claudia
Mauri, Casa de la Mujer,
Argentina

Eva
Hanfstaengl, Germany

Moriana
Hernández, CLADEM, Uruguay

Chikako
Nishiguchi/JapanValeria BismarIllena rivera/Venezuela

Jean
Kasaparbauer/US citizen, Caucasian-German

Hadi
Bismar/Lebanese Canadian

Eva
Efried Leander/IGC

Jean
Marie Kraemer/Lebanon

Rafic
Baddoura/medical doctor

Leila
Sharaf/Jordanian senate

Martin
Khor/Third World Network

Shirley
Walters/Cape Town- South Africa

Yvonne
Underhill-Sem, Cook- Islands/New Zealand

Lea
Maria/journalist from Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil

Jorge
Beloqui/Maths Professor at the University
of São Paulo

Chola
Mtonga/Zambia

Professor
Vijay Naidu/Director, Development Studies-Institute of

Geography-School
of Earth-Sciences-Victoria  
University-Wellington

Mariama
Williams/Jamaica

Noji
Matutu/Johannesburg -South
Africa

Charaf
Ahmimed/IDRC-Canada

Aida
Seif El Dawla/Egypt

Suzan
Fayad/Egypt

Magda
Adly/Egypt

Maha
Youssef/Egypt

Mona
Hamed/Egypt

Ragia
El Gerzawi/Egypt

Amal
Abdel hamid/Egypt

Ashgan
Abdel Hamid/Egypt

Laila
Soueif/Egypt

Lamis
Nakkash/Egypt

Haroon
Rasheed/Canada

Alia
Moubayed/Lebanon