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
