PLANETA O MUERTE!
PLANET OR DEATH!
G8/G20 Communiqué | Rejection of Failed System that Places Profits over Mother Earth and People
Sign the Petition HERE
May 28, 2010
Joan Russow, Global Compliance Research Project
Cory Morningstar, Canadians for Action on Climate Change
Gordon Brown, in his press conference, arrogantly equated the G-20 states as being ‘the world” when he made statements such as “now the world has agreed” [the same arrogance has been present for years with the self anointed G7and G8]. In June, statements from the G8 and G20 will be released; it will be presumably nothing more than tinkering with the economic system. If the current global situation is to be changed, there must be more than status quo measures to prop up the current capitalist system. Instead the G8 and G20 could reverse the years of contributing to war and conflict, of violating human rights, of denying social justice, and of devastating the environment, and could draft the following communiqué:
We, the G20 and above all the G8 states recognize that we have for years been part of the problem and have contributed to a state of global urgency.
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” – Albert Einstein. No self-anointed group of 20 countries can solve the urgency of the global crisis.
We now commit to do the following:
1. Reduce the global military budget and security by reallocating military security expenses and transferring the savings into global social justice as undertaken through numerous UN Conference Action Plans and UN General Assembly Resolutions.
2. Abandon the pre-emptive/preventive attack policy that has resulted in aggressive attacks on sovereign states and that has been in violation of the UN Charter Article 2 and international law as being the ‘supreme’ international crime of war of aggression.
3. Withdraw immediately from any military involvement and occupation of sovereign states, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
4. End the practice of mollifying public opposition by couching aggressive acts in euphemistic “operations” such as “Operation Just Cause”, Operation Iraqi Freedom, “Operation Enduring Freedom”, etc.
5. Undertake to sign and ratify all Geneva Protocols, including Protocol V, which requires the removal of remnants of war.
6. No longer perceive justice in terms of revenge through military intervention and to instead seek justice through the International Court of Justice.
7. No longer misconstrue Art. 51 (self-defence) of the Charter of the United Nations to justify premeditated non-provoked military aggression, or to use various such pretexts for invading other sovereign states.
8. Not engage in and to oppose any attempt to undermine the international resolve to prevent the scourge of war; this would include not engaging in intimidation or in offering economic incentives in exchange for support for military interventions.
9. Be willing to be judged by an international tribunal for any actions that might be deemed to violate international law, to be crimes against the peace, to be war crimes, or to involve genocide.
10. Not misuse UN “peacekeeping” forces to clean up aggressive acts of destruction and occupation of other states.
11. Close and convert to peaceful purposes all foreign military bases in sovereign states around the world.
12. Undertake to respect the mandatory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, and to abide by its decisions.
13. End the production and circulation and berthing of nuclear powered or nuclear arms-capable vessels throughout the world.
14. No longer engage in “war games” or “military exercises” such as Exercise Trident Fury.
15. Discontinue propping up and financing military dictators. Read the rest of this entry »
June 16th, 2011
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