Protests against Airbase Ramstein and drones

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Dear friends and colleagues, a few weeks ago we sent you an appeal (again enclosed) calling the German peace movement to protest for the closure of the US Airbase Ramstein and against drone warfare on the weekend of September 25-27. We would like to thank all of you who have send encouraging messages to us and would like to inform you on the protest actions. Please find enclosed a press release in English. An English article in the US Army … Continue reading →

Colorful, diverse protest at Ramstein Air Base

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Press Release September 27th, 2015 Colorful, diverse protest at Ramstein Air Base On Saturday, 09/26/2015, the “Stopp Ramstein” campaign protested in front of the United States Air Base Ramstein with a colorful and vivid demonstration. In the region’s largest peace protest in recent years, 1,500 demonstrators called for the closure of the central hub for the preparation and execution both of wars of aggression violating international law and of drone warfare. The procession stopped for a short manifestation at the … Continue reading →

Ramstein Campaign: No Drone Wars!

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Appeal The US Air Force base at Ramstein, Germany, is a central pivot for preparing and executing wars of aggression violating international law. Most of the lethal missions of US combat drones, e.g. in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, and Africa, are conducted via Ramstein’s satellite relay station. US drone pilotes from a multitude of military bases use Ramstein for operating killer drones in illegal war missions around the world. In Ramstein itself, about 650 personnel continuously analyze, update and … Continue reading →

MEETING OF THE ITALIAN NO WAR NO NATO COMMITTEE FOR AN EUROPEAN POLICY OF PEACE AND NEUTRALITY

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Italian No War No NATO Committee INVITATION TO PARTECIPATE IN THE MEETING OF THE  ITALIAN NO WAR NO NATO COMMITTEE FOR AN  EUROPEAN POLICY OF PEACE AND NEUTRALITY ROME 26TH OCTOBER 2015 – 9,00 – 17,30: OFFICES OF THE  EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT – HALL OF FLAGS – VIA IV NOVEMBRE 149 Dear Madam/Sir, the Italian No War No NATO Committee invites you to take part in the Rome meeting and to give your contribution with an intervention. On October-November 2015,  NATO forces … Continue reading →

On Common Security for the European Union and Russia

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No to War – No to NATO Statement Helsinki – September 6th 2015: The Conference on NATO and Russia in the Baltic Sea Area. On Common Security for the European Union and Russia In Sweden before the Parliamentary elections in 2014, the Swedish Government signed the Host Nation Agreement with NATO. The implication of this signature was that NATO, in times of crisis and war, will be able to deploy military equipment and staff for training on Swedish soil. Since … Continue reading →

demonstration in Rome- Italy against western sanctions to Syria, Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen

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Dear List members, My name is Anita Fisicaro, I am member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom ( WILPF) and also,as an activist of the No War Rome network, among the promoters of the No War No NATO Campaign. I wish to inform you about the  demonstration organized Tuesday and Wednesday in Rome in front of the Lower House.  Italians, Americans, along with Yemeni and Syrian families, asked Italian Parliament to distance itself from ”European and western sanctions … Continue reading →

ICC elected via e-mail in 2015 announced in Helsinki

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The election committee, Dave Webb and Pascal Luig wrote 4th September 2015: as our responsibility as election committee we would like to inform you on the election of the ICC No to War No to NATO: All candidates were elected to the ICC. 21 election forms were returned and all 15 candidates received 21 votes.  Please announce the result at the annual meeting in Helsinki for us.   name organization country Brabander, Ludo de vrede vzw Belgium Braun, Reiner IALANA, … Continue reading →

NATO expansion strategy and the militarization of Europe

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Speech by Ingeborg Breines, Co-President International Peace Bureau, Helsinki 5.Sept.2015. How much I would have preferred to speak here in Helsinki on the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe 40 years after the signing of the forward-looking OSCE treaty in this city, instead of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which should since long have been a thing of the past! How much more would I have liked to speak about human security, so intensively important these days when … Continue reading →

RUSSIA AND THE BALTIC REGION – ACTORS AND VICTIMS

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Oleg Bodrov, physicist, environmentalist, Interregional Movement GREEN WORLD, St. Petersburg – Leningrad Oblast, Russia Phone/fax +7 81369 72991, mob. +7 921 74 52 631, e-mail: www.greenworld.org.ru www.decomatom.org.ru The Baltic region is divided by confrontation of the EU and Russia. There is a militarization of consciousness on both sides of the political opposition. There is an increase in the risk of the use of military force. There is a “nuclear power polarization” in the Baltic region: There is de-nuclearization, that … Continue reading →

Avoiding War in Europe: How to Reduce the Risk of a Military Encounter Between Russia and NATO

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Position Paper III(*) Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe (**) http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2015/08/18/2f868dfd/Task%20Force%20Position%20Paper%20III%20July%202015%20-%20English.pdf * This paper is published in the name only of those Task Force members who have signed it, and not on behalf of the Task Force in its entirety. **About the Task Force The Task Force brings forward proposals to allow all countries of the region to decisively break with the costly legacy of the Cold War and focus more effectively on meeting the emerging political, economic, and security … Continue reading →

NATO must be consigned to the rubbish heap of history

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07.09.2015 – Helsinki, Finland – Pressenza Budapest               During the weekend conference on NATO and Russia in the Baltic Area organised by the No to War, No to NATO campaign, Reiner Brown, co-President of the International Peace Bureau participated in a panel meeting on the subject of Common Security gave a talk based on the following text which Pressenza publishes with permission of the author. “Basic Principles of Common Security Politics” by Reiner Braun … Continue reading →

Message to the World – “Operation Trident Juncture”

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by German Foreign Policy BERLIN/ULM/BRUNSSUM (Own report) – The German Bundeswehr will play a leading role in “Operation Trident Juncture,” a large scale NATO exercise, set for late September. German NATO-General Hans-Lothar Domröse will command the exercise involving more than 36,000 soldiers. The German Armed Forces’ “Multinational Joint Headquarters” based in Ulm (Baden-Württemberg) will be the main coordinator. “Trident Juncture” will exercise a military intervention in a fictitious country at the Horn of Africa with NATO’s “Spearhead” response force, comprised … Continue reading →

Activities against NATO exercises in Italy

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Today there was the AGM of the No-to-Nato, No-to-war group at the Helsinki conference. We talked about the proposed activities in Italy and both Reiner Braun and Tobias Pflueger from Germany expressed an interest in participating.  Tobias says he knows you from your days as an MEP. When you have information about the activities then please circulate them.  If you haven’t subscribed to the no-to-nato e-mail list, then you can do so here: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/no-to-nato There was a lot of talk … Continue reading →

first article from Helsinki about the first day of the conference

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Dear friends, here is the first article from Helsinki about the first day of the conference. I will transcribe some of the presentations that we heard over the two days, and publish the statements and presentations that people send me. It was very nice to meet some of you here and I look forward to working closely together in the future. Best regards, Tony http://www.pressenza.com/2015/09/nato-is-not-the-solution-for-security-in-the-baltic/

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