An important political declaration to which every reader of this material ought to add their name.
Please note its broad signers list, including Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harry Belafonte, Oscar Niemeyer, Danny Glover, Jane Franklin, Micheal Albert and Eduardo Galeano.
This document, including Galeano's signature, was read out today at the May Day rally here in Havana, Cuba. I urge you all to sign this, too.
Walter Lippmann, Moderator CubaNews list ======================================
TO THE CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD
The international order has been violated as a consequence of the invasion against Iraq. A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of understanding, debate and mediation amongst countries. This power has invoked a series of unverified reasons in order to justify its invasion. Unilateral action has led to massive loss of civilian life an devastation of one of the cultural patrimonies of humanity.
We only possess our moral authority, with which we appeal to world conscience in order to avoid a new violation of the principles, which inform and guide the global community of nations. At this very moment, a strong campaign of destabilization against a Latin American nation has been unleashed. The harassment against Cuba could serve as a pretext for an invasion. Therefore, we call upon citizens and policy makers to uphold the universal principles of national sovereignty, respect of territorial integrity and self-determination, essential to just and peaceful co-existence among nations.
Mexico, April 2003
ACTUALIZACIˆìN 30.04.03, 12:00 M
Este documento fue firmado inicialmente por
Leopoldo Zea Adolfo Sˆ°nchez Vˆ°zquez Miguel Leˆ„n Portilla Andrˆ©s Henestrosa Marˆ‚a Rojo Jaime Labastida Vˆ‚ctor Flores Olea Federico ˆÅlvarez Gilberto Lˆ„pez y Rivas Pablo Gonzˆ°lez Casanova
A este llamamiento se han adherido los Premios Nobel: Rigoberta Menchˆ† Nadine Gordimer Adolfo Pˆ©rez Esquivel Gabriel Garcˆ‚a Mˆ°rquez
Y ademˆ°s: Mario Benedetti Ernesto Cardenal Oscar Niemeyer Harry Belafonte Danny Glover Antonio Gades Alfonso Sastre Volodia Teitelboim Josˆ© Balmes Karen Lee Wald Jorge Enrique Adoum Thiago de Melo Eduardo Galeano Daniel Viglietti Pino Solanas Jorge Sanjinˆ©s Luisa Valenzuela Luis Sepˆ†lveda Abelardo Castillo Sylvia Iparraguirre Fernando Garcˆ‚a Eduardo Mignogna Tristan Bauer Eduardo Pavlovsky Norman Brisky Noˆ© Jitrik Tununa Mercado Mempo Giardinelli Miguel Bonasso Andrˆ©s Rivera James Petras Emir Sader Atilio Borˆ„n Arcira Argumedo Arturo Andrˆ©s Roig Gianni Minˆ° Claude Couffon Roy Brown Paul Estrade Hebe de Bonafini Santiago Garcˆ‚a Ariel Dorfman Claudia Korol Renato Prada Oropeza Fernando Butazzoni Keith Ellis Victor Heredia Nelson Osorio Hildebrando Pˆ©rez Giulio Girardi Piero Vivarelli Juan Antonio Hormigˆ„n Rosa Vicente Deonisio da Silva Henri Alleg Fernando Aˆ‚nsa Danny Rivera Pablo Marcano Armando Gnisci Margaret Randall Heinz Dietrich Steffan Angela Correa Miguel Vayo Horacio Gonzˆ°lez Liliana Herrero Dolly Oussi Rodolfo Hermina William Blum Jane Franklin Mamani Mamani Nˆ©stor Cohen Manuel Cabieses Donoso Claufe Rodrigues Alessandra Riccio Rosa Marˆ‚a Robles Maytˆ© Pinero Bia Falbo Tony Ryan S. Brian Willson Jorge Pixley Ivana Jinkings Evaristo Villar Miguel Urbano Marˆ‚a Pilar Aquino Joao Pedro Stedile Ana Esther Ceceˆ±a Rosa Elvira Zˆ†ˆ±iga Stefaan Declercq Ricardo Gebrim Raˆ†l Zibechi Marˆ‚a Poumier Rosalyn Baxandall Nancy Rice Louis Segal Beth Carvalho Vera de Abreu Figuereido Nelson Rodrigues Filho Marilia Barbosa Mauricio Figueredo Marˆ‚a Josˆ© Zack Arthur Poerner Rodolfo Livingstong Alicia Pelliza Carlos Sbriller Ana Escudero Baltasar Patricio A. Brodsky Francisco Calderˆ„n Sˆ°nchez de Rojas Cristina Barros Valero Marco Buenrrostro Beitia Iddia Cecilia Fridman Roxana Dunbar Ortiz James Cockcroft Leslie Hoag Hope Coriun Aharonian Uzman Islam Khan Alicia Castellanos Guerrero Mario Casartelli Simˆ„n J. Ortiz Alejandro Stuart Josefina Morales Ramˆ‚rez Felipe Lamparero Raˆ†l Ariza Renˆ© Benedicto Sergio Carcas Beinusz Szmukler Beatriz Lajland Daniel Campione Julio C. Gambina Marta Harnecker Michael Lebowitz Graciela Rosenblum Pedro Salazar Guillermo Mariaca Iturri Hernˆ°n Lˆ„pez Ewchagˆºe Mercedes Alifano Benˆ‚tez Miguel Baires Mario Maestri Florence Carboni Pancho Navarrete Gonzˆ°lez Rodolfo Dˆ‚az Sarvide Marˆ‚a Pilar Aquino Gˆºnther Belchaus Marˆ‚a Dolores de la Peˆ±a Caty Eibenschutz Antonio Mirˆ„ Carlos Aznˆ°rez Rosa Ribeiro Efrˆ©n Orozco Elza Ferreira Lobo Inˆ©s Vˆ°zquez Manuel Callau Michael Albert Walter Lippmann Yoshie Furuhashi -- Yoshie
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