Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:51.
We do not need another war. We are conscientious objectors and anti-militarists from Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and all of Latin America and the Caribbean, united, and we completely reject the bellicose escalation that is heading towards a war that seeks to divide us. Already we have hunger, corruption, exacerbated militarism, shameless military waste, social insecurity, the continuing trampling of human rights on the part of our governments, and now they want to give us another armed conflcit. A war which will only reinforce the respective nationalisms of the countries in conflict, augmenting the xenophobia fostered in our countries, strengthening the armed forces, which will find another reason to increase their budgets and serving to mask yet further the problems that afflict us as peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources, the ever higher levels of unemployment, gender discrimination and violence, corruption and the mafias of power, the displacement of communities by the armed conflicts or by agricultural monocultures, racism and class discrimination, etc. None of this will be solved by a war. On the contrary, it will mean these problems will be augmented, as they have been augmented in every dictatorship and civil war. A war between Latin American states will be, at the same time, a civil conflagration between fraternal peoples, led to the slaughterhouse by militarist governments, whether of the right or the left. The only winners in a fratricidal confrontation between brothers and sisters will be the global arms merchants, that from the United States to the Russian Federation, construct laboratories of war and oppression in our countries under euphemisms like "Plan Colombia."
We say no to war and preparations for war. No to the strengthening of any militarism, whether of the right or the left. Yes to the autonomy of the peoples and their struggles. Yes to Latin American brotherhood. We convoke a joint action against militarism and war, arising from our conviction to continue working together for the promotion of justice and solidarity, outside the barracks, in each of our countries.
Anti-militarists of Latin America and the Caribbean, March 5
Organizations:
War Resisters International - IRG/WRI
Grupo de Afinidad Antimilitarista de Asunción - GAAA (Paraguay)
Pelao Carvallo, IRG
Yeidy Luz Rosa Ortiz, Casa Feminista de Rosa (Quito)
Periódico El Libertario - Venezuela
Xavier León, Grupo de Objeción de Conciencia del Ecuador - GOCE
Movimiento Antimilitarista y de Objeción de Conciencia - MAOC (Chile)
Adriana Castaño Román, Red Juvenil de Medellín
Accciòn Colectiva de Objetoras y Objetores de Conciencia - ACOOC (Bogotá)
Contact: antimililat [at] gmail.com
Translated by World War 4 Report
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Latin American Anti-Militarist Declaration
We do not need another war. We are conscientious objectors and anti-militarists from Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and all of Latin America and the Caribbean, united, and we completely reject the bellicose escalation that is heading towards a war that seeks to divide us. Already we have hunger, corruption, exacerbated militarism, shameless military waste, social insecurity, the continuing trampling of human rights on the part of our governments, and now they want to give us another armed conflcit. A war which will only reinforce the respective nationalisms of the countries in conflict, augmenting the xenophobia fostered in our countries, strengthening the armed forces, which will find another reason to increase their budgets and serving to mask yet further the problems that afflict us as peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources, the ever higher levels of unemployment, gender discrimination and violence, corruption and the mafias of power, the displacement of communities by the armed conflicts or by agricultural monocultures, racism and class discrimination, etc. None of this will be solved by a war. On the contrary, it will mean these problems will be augmented, as they have been augmented in every dictatorship and civil war. A war between Latin American states will be, at the same time, a civil conflagration between fraternal peoples, led to the slaughterhouse by militarist governments, whether of the right or the left. The only winners in a fratricidal confrontation between brothers and sisters will be the global arms merchants, that from the United States to the Russian Federation, construct laboratories of war and oppression in our countries under euphemisms like "Plan Colombia."
We say no to war and preparations for war. No to the strengthening of any militarism, whether of the right or the left. Yes to the autonomy of the peoples and their struggles. Yes to Latin American brotherhood. We convoke a joint action against militarism and war, arising from our conviction to continue working together for the promotion of justice and solidarity, outside the barracks, in each of our countries.
Anti-militarists of Latin America and the Caribbean, March 5
Organizations:
War Resisters International - IRG/WRI
Grupo de Afinidad Antimilitarista de Asunción - GAAA (Paraguay)
Pelao Carvallo, IRG
Yeidy Luz Rosa Ortiz, Casa Feminista de Rosa (Quito)
Periódico El Libertario - Venezuela
Xavier León, Grupo de Objeción de Conciencia del Ecuador - GOCE
Movimiento Antimilitarista y de Objeción de Conciencia - MAOC (Chile)
Adriana Castaño Román, Red Juvenil de Medellín
Accciòn Colectiva de Objetoras y Objetores de Conciencia - ACOOC (Bogotá)
Contact: antimililat [at] gmail.com
Translated by World War 4 Report