Dear Friends,

 

Please consider joining me in adding your name to the following statement. Thousands of

people have already done so, including Ezequiel Adamovsky, Vittorio Agnoletto, Michael

 Albert, Tariq Ali, Patrick Bond, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher, Eduardo Galeano,

Susan George, Marta Harnecker,Boris Kagarlitsky, George Monbiot, Suren Moodlar, Hector

 Mondragon, Tanya Reinhart, Carola Reintjes, Arundhati Roy, Lydia Sargent and Howard Zinn.

 Benno Fritz Schaer

If, after reading it, you like what it has to say, take a few seconds to visit http://www.zmag.org/wspj

and add  your name to the list of endorsers.

 

The statement was released on March 27, 2003, and already more than 58681 people have

signed on! Here it is...

 

"I stand for peace and justice.

 

I stand for democracy and autonomy. I don't think the U.S. or any other country should ignore

the popular will and violate and weaken international law, seeking to bully and bribe votes in

 the Security Council.

 

I stand for internationalism. I oppose any nation spreading an ever expanding network of military

bases around the world and producing an arsenal unparalleled in the world.

 

I stand for equity. I don't think the U.S. or any other country should seek empire. I don't think the

U.S. ought to control Middle Eastern oil on behalf of U.S. corporations and as a wedge to gain

political control over other countries.

 

I stand for freedom. I oppose brutal regimes in Iraq and elsewhere but I also oppose the new

doctrine of "preventive war," which guarantees permanent and very dangerous conflict, and is

the reason why the U.S. is now regarded as the major threat to peace in much of the world.

I stand for a democratic foreign policy that supports popular opposition to imperialism, dictatorship,

 and political fundamentalism in all its forms.

 

I stand for solidarity. I stand for and with all the poor and the excluded. Despite massive

disinformation millions oppose unjust, illegal, immoral war, and I want to add my voice to theirs.

I stand with moral leaders all over the world, with world labor, and with the huge majority of the

populations of countries throughout the world.

 

I stand for diversity. I stand for an end to racism directed against immigrants and people of color.

I stand for an end to repression at home and abroad.

 

I stand for peace. I stand against this war and against the conditions, mentalities, and institutions

 that breed and nurture war and injustice.

 

I stand for sustainability. I stand against the destruction of forests, soil, water, environmental

 resources, and biodiversity on which all life depends.

 

I stand for justice. I stand against economic, political, and cultural institutions that promote a rat

 race mentality, huge economic and power inequalities, corporate domination even unto

sweatshop and slave labor, racism, and gender and sexual hierarchies.

 

I stand for a policy that redirects the money used for war and military spending to provide

healthcare, education, housing, and jobs.

 

I stand for a world whose political, economic, and social institutions foster solidarity, promote equity,

maximize participation, celebrate diversity, and encourage full democracy.

 

I stand for peace and justice and, more, I pledge to work for peace and justice."

 

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