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ASSEMBLY OF THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AT WORLD SOCIAL FORUM CALLS FOR GLOBAL ACTION ON MARCH 18

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 11 February 2006
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Edito Social Forum Demos-Actions Movement Wars and conflicts

Section on war of the statement of the Assembly of the Social Movements, World Social Forum, Venezuala, January 29th.

MARCH 18TH: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MOBILISATION AGAINST THE
OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AGAINST THE WAR AND OCCUPATIONS. NO MORE WARS. PEACE IS THE ONLY SOLUTION

– We demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and an end to the privatisation of energy resources.

– We oppose all occupations by foreign troops and demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. We call for the creation of an independant Palestinian state.

– We oppose intervention in Syria, Iran and Latin American countries, for example Plan Colombia and the presence of foreign military bases. We also oppose the use of economic blockades as a weapon of war, as used for example against Cuba.

– We call for the the elimination of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction.

– We demand respect for human rights, civil liberties and an end to torture, kidnappings and illegal detentions including secret prisons.

– We call for participation in the Cairo Conference in Egypt on the 23 to the 26th March against US hegemonyand the occupation of Iraq.

– We call to everyone to mobilise on March 18th 2006 for a day of global protest against the occupation of Iraq as part of the campaign to get the troops out.
Please send details of demonstrations around March 18th to the website

www.marchinmarch.org

http://www.march-in-march.org/

Forum posts

  • If anyone, wants to have clear and true idea about what is going on in Iraq, he should ask other parts and not only Mr. Ramsfeld and his generals?. The generals will only give their own views. They do not like negotiation and only know how to use excessive force against the Iraqis !. I suggest that the UN should send a committee to Iraq which will ask wide spectrum of Iraqi politicians, educated Iraqis, as well as the Iraqi National Assembly about their views towards the behavior of USA troops in Iraq.
    The generals spoke about 20,000 insurgents, but what about the tens of thousands prisoners in Abu-Garib, Bukka and other prisons?. The generals insisted on denying the Iraqi resistance to the occupying forces. Millions of the Iraqis are against the unlimited stay of the USA troops. At some time 82 members of the Iraqi National Assembly declared that they are against the extension of USA troops stay, but USA will passed and extention oked.
    Mr. Ramsfeld is justifying the staying of his troops by the need to train Iraqi forces. I should remind you that the Iraqi army, which Mr. Bremer has dissolved, has war experience of more than 10 years. It lacks no training but now it lacks equipments, airplanes, and armors which has been destroyed by the invasion of Iraq. The USA troops are insisting on depriving this army from having such facilities. The new Iraqi army is using ordinary civilians cars for its military missions !. This army is allowed to use light Kalashnikov machine gun and nothing else. It has been deprived from the use of the simplest helicopters !. Yet the USA generals are telling you that they are BUILDING a new army. The Kurdish militia in north part of Iraq are very much well equipped in comparison with the NEW Iraqi army !.
    The other reason for the troops stay in Iraq is the alleged war against Al-Qaida. If it is a war against Al-Qaida, then why it is done in Iraq and why the Iraqis are put as a fuel for this war?. Al-Qaida was not in Iraq before the USA troops came to Iraq. They came to Iraq to fight USA troops, and the Iraqis found themselves at the center of the battle .
    A time table of withdrawing USA troops will certainly reduce the escalating violence in Iraq and it will save more lives of USA troops. Is it enough that more than 200,000 Iraqis and 2266 USA troops have been killed ? those who were injured are 10 times larger ! . All that was caused by Mr Bush and his advisors policies in Iraq.
    I call every kind man in USA and Iraq to start to think how to end this massacre.

    Mohammed Younis
    Mosul / IRAQ.