To all citizens of Europe and to their representatives. Together let us stop the war on Iraq.

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday September 10, 2002 16:27 by MoI - Globalise Resistance globalise_resistance at yahoo dot com

European call for action against war on Iraq

The following call was drawn up at the organising meeting for the European Social Forum in Brussels on September 7/8. It was initially signed by a number of individuals and organisations present. We wish to make it public very quickly. If you wish to support, please write 'supporting anti war call' with your details to [email protected]

drafted at the Brussels preparatory meeting for the ESF 8.9.02

To all citizens of Europe and to their representatives. Together let us stop the war on Iraq.

We do not accept this war and we do not believe it is inevitable. There is massive opposition in every country of Europe, and in many places people are starting to mobilise for peace.

This war will be a catastrophe first for the people of Iraq and second for people accross the Middle East. It will be a war without resolution with the potential to lead to global disaster.

Those who show solidarity with the people of Iraq have no hearing in the White House. But we do have the chance to influence European Governments - many of whom have opposed the war. We call on all the European heads of state to publicly stand against this war whether it has UN backing or not, and to demand that George Bush abandon his war plans.

We believe imminent war makes the European Social Forum ever more important and we urge the movements to redouble their efforts to bring people to Florence for the ESF which will be a vital platform for organising coordinated European wide action against war. Particularly we ask for attendance from across Europe for the anti war demonstration in Florence on Saturday November 9.

We call on the citizens of Europe and their representatives to take steps now to mobilise maximum resistance to war.
Mass demonstrations are planned in a number of European countries in the next few weeks. We urge the movements in every European country to follow this example as a matter of urgency.

Together we can stop this war.

signatories so far include:
Leo Gabriel, European Marches - Austria
Elisabeth Gautier, (Espace Marx) - France
S.in.Cobas - Italy
IAC - Catalunya
Globalise Resistance
FIOM - Italy
ARCI Italy
C.A.D.T.M.