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
ACTUALIZACIìN 30.04.03, 12:00 M
Este documento fue firmado inicialmente por
Leopoldo Zea Adolfo S°nchez V°zquez Miguel Len Portilla Andr©s Henestrosa Mara Rojo Jaime Labastida Vctor Flores Olea Federico Ålvarez Gilberto Lpez y Rivas Pablo Gonz°lez Casanova
A este llamamiento se han adherido los Premios Nobel: Rigoberta Mench Nadine Gordimer Adolfo P©rez Esquivel Gabriel Garca M°rquez
Y adem°s: Mario Benedetti Ernesto Cardenal Oscar Niemeyer Harry Belafonte Danny Glover Antonio Gades Alfonso Sastre Volodia Teitelboim Jos© Balmes Karen Lee Wald Jorge Enrique Adoum Thiago de Melo Eduardo Galeano Daniel Viglietti Pino Solanas Jorge Sanjin©s Luisa Valenzuela Luis Seplveda Abelardo Castillo Sylvia Iparraguirre Fernando Garca Eduardo Mignogna Tristan Bauer Eduardo Pavlovsky Norman Brisky No© Jitrik Tununa Mercado Mempo Giardinelli Miguel Bonasso Andr©s Rivera James Petras Emir Sader Atilio Born Arcira Argumedo Arturo Andr©s Roig Gianni Min° Claude Couffon Roy Brown Paul Estrade Hebe de Bonafini Santiago Garca Ariel Dorfman Claudia Korol Renato Prada Oropeza Fernando Butazzoni Keith Ellis Victor Heredia Nelson Osorio Hildebrando P©rez Giulio Girardi Piero Vivarelli Juan Antonio Hormign Rosa Vicente Deonisio da Silva Henri Alleg Fernando Ansa Danny Rivera Pablo Marcano Armando Gnisci Margaret Randall Heinz Dietrich Steffan Angela Correa Miguel Vayo Horacio Gonz°lez Liliana Herrero Dolly Oussi Rodolfo Hermina William Blum Jane Franklin Mamani Mamani N©stor Cohen Manuel Cabieses Donoso Claufe Rodrigues Alessandra Riccio Rosa Mara Robles Mayt© Pinero Bia Falbo Tony Ryan S. Brian Willson Jorge Pixley Ivana Jinkings Evaristo Villar Miguel Urbano Mara Pilar Aquino Joao Pedro Stedile Ana Esther Cece±a Rosa Elvira Z±iga Stefaan Declercq Ricardo Gebrim Ral Zibechi Mara Poumier Rosalyn Baxandall Nancy Rice Louis Segal Beth Carvalho Vera de Abreu Figuereido Nelson Rodrigues Filho Marilia Barbosa Mauricio Figueredo Mara Jos© Zack Arthur Poerner Rodolfo Livingstong Alicia Pelliza Carlos Sbriller Ana Escudero Baltasar Patricio A. Brodsky Francisco Caldern S°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 Simn J. Ortiz Alejandro Stuart Josefina Morales Ramrez Felipe Lamparero Ral Ariza Ren© Benedicto Sergio Carcas Beinusz Szmukler Beatriz Lajland Daniel Campione Julio C. Gambina Marta Harnecker Michael Lebowitz Graciela Rosenblum Pedro Salazar Guillermo Mariaca Iturri Hern°n Lpez Ewchagºe Mercedes Alifano Bentez Miguel Baires Mario Maestri Florence Carboni Pancho Navarrete Gonz°lez Rodolfo Daz Sarvide Mara Pilar Aquino Gºnther Belchaus Mara Dolores de la Pe±a Caty Eibenschutz Antonio Mir Carlos Azn°rez Rosa Ribeiro Efr©n Orozco Elza Ferreira Lobo In©s V°zquez Manuel Callau Michael Albert Walter Lippmann Yoshie Furuhashi -- Yoshie
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