América Latina: las implicancias de la militarización de EEUU en Ecuador

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Ecuador, como muchas naciones de América Latina, están siendo militarizadas por los Estados Unidos – el principal país de la OTAN – que sigue imponiendo en el mundo su hegemonía y dominio por medio de la presión y la fuerza militar.
Ecuador ha firmado, lamentablemente, un acuerdo con EEUU y enviará sus armas de fabricación rusa a la guerra de Ucrania. Los países de América Latina están contra la guerra y apoyan negociaciones de paz para resolver los conflictos internacionales.
¡¡No más Militarización de EEUU ni de la OTAN!!
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Killing Oneself to Try to Stop a War

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Aaron Bushnell and Ann Wright’s excellent piece on

by Ann Wright, 26 Februar 2024. Common Dreams

In the wake of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation, Ann Wright recalls other suicides committed in protest against U.S. policies, including by five Americans opposed to the U.S. war in Vietnam.   Continue reading →

Anu Chenoy: NATO Expansion – What is global NATO

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2024-02-22_FL-Webinar_NatoExpansion.pdf

Anuradha Chenoy is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies at the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

The complete documentation of the webinar in German is here: Beiträge aus Webinar: EU-Militarisierung und Globale NATO

Contribution by Anuradha Chenoy as part of a webinar organized by the Peace-Left Initiative on 22.2.2024

A new start for the World Social Forum

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by Tord Bjork, 23.02.2024*

A new start for the World Social Forum

On the surface, things look very good. Trees are covering more and more areas. In pictures from above, the Himalayan valleys are green, two-thirds forest. But 90 per cent are conifers. Below them there is hardly any vegetation, biodiversity is being lost, the soil is becoming more and more sterile, dry, unusable and unable to store water. The Himalayas are rapidly becoming what is known as a green desert. There is also less and less snow. This is accelerating the melting of the glaciers.

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World Social Forum in Nepal 2024 (fact box)

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The WSF in Nepal on 15-19 February was the 16th time the meeting was held. 18000 registered participants took part in 400 activities from over 1100 organisations. The organisers estimate that people from 98 countries participated and that 50,000 people passed through the Forum during the meeting days. The march on the opening day was attended by 12,000 to 15,000 people. Participants came primarily from Nepal and neighbouring countries in South Asia, mainly India but also Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka … Continue reading →

International compromise agreed in Tunis December 2022 (fact box)

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International compromise agreed in Tunis December 2022 one, and if there is interest several assemblies, bringing together different popular movements could be established as permanent features of the global WSF family. They can make statements in their own name during the WSF and on their own mandate between meetings. The first of these is the WSF World Assembly of Struggles and Resistance of WSF, which had a small beginning before and during the WSF in Kathmandu. Several other thematic World … Continue reading →

The International Committee (fact box) and a conflict

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The elected board the International Committee  The WSF is governed by the International Committee which consists of many of the original Brazilian initiators and organisations that are elected if they are active internationally. Conflict between Open Space and a forum that takes decisions. One conflict that has hampered the WSF is between groups who want the forum to be able to make decisions and those who have favored a strict interpretation of what is meant by open space. At a … Continue reading →

Guidelines adopted in Porto Alegre (fact box)

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Declaration adopted in Porto Alegre The WSF is guided by a declaration adopted in Porto Alegre that seeks alternatives to imperialism, capitalism, patriarchalism and a better relationship between man and nature. The declaration favours what is called an open space where no decisions are made in the name of all participants. Popular movements and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can participate, but parties and armed groups such as the Zapatista EZLN in Mexico cannot, even though the Zapatistas were the unifying force … Continue reading →

World Social Forum (fact box)

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World Social Forum The WSF started in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil in 2001 with an estimated 15000 participants as a parallel forum to the World Economic Forum in Davos. The first time the meeting was held outside Brazil was the fourth time in Mumbai, India in 2004, this time with 150,000 participants. Since then, the meeting has been held in Venezuela, Mali, Pakistan, Kenya, Senegal, Tunisia twice and several times again in Brazil. The first and so far only … Continue reading →

US Holocaust Memorial Museum calling to “Never Again” tolerate genocide for anyone

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NVI along with Jewish Voice for Peace DC-Metro, and Friends of Sabeel North America, projected photographs and slides [1] on the exterior walls of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum calling on the world to “Never Again” tolerate genocide for anyone.

https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/letter_by_nvi_director_to_the_holocaust_museum_silence_death

Why Israel’s Violence Gets So Much Notice (It’s Not Antisemitism)

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The question of Israel is whether European colonialism can ever make peace with the rest of the world.

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Partisans of Israel have often asked: On a planet overflowing with war, famine, and cruelty, why does the world pay so much attention to what’s happening in Gaza (and the West Bank) in comparison with other horrors? The implied or explicit answer is that this must be due to antisemitism.

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/20/israel-colonialism-europe/

Resilience 2049

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In this powerful 5 minute video future children talking to us about our inaction on climate change and environmental destruction. It could apply to war as well.

How Nato seduced the European Left

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The anti-war movement has fallen for a progressive circus

BY May 16, 2023

In January 2018, Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg held an unprecedented press conference with Angelina Jolie. While InStyle reported that Jolie “was dressed in a black off-the-shoulder sheath dress, a matching capelet and classic pumps (also black)”, there was a deeper purpose to this meeting: sexual violence in war.

https://unherd.com/2023/05/how-nato-seduced-the-european-left/

For God’s Sake Joe, What the Hell Are You Doing?

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From U.S. military attacks on Syria, Iraq, and Yemen to the related complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank, Biden’s course of action is a danger to U.S. national security.