Aquest text S'ha Writing espai per a blog that area the platform Aturem to War http://eltriangle.eu
Fa poc S'ha publicat a declaration, marked per a llarga List of people from the worlds of culture, politics, social movements and universities, against the war in Afghanistan. According to this
statement: "Some people try to present the U.S. led occupation as a mission of peace and reconstruction, but the reality is quite another. Last year killed more Afghan civilians than any other year since the beginning of the occupation in 2001. "After reviewing the catastrophe for the Afghan people is the military occupation of their country, declares: "We ask the government to cancel the sending of troops and immediately withdraw the troops now engaged in the war in Afghanistan. We believe that one million euros per day that the English government currently spends employment should be allocated for social purposes. "
finally express their support for Campaign for the withdrawal of English troops of Afghanistan and driven by this mobilization.
Among the signers of the declaration are as many artists Pilar Bardem, Miguel Rios, Jose Sacristan, Juan Diego, Gran Wyoming, Monica Cruz, Willy Toledo, Juan Diego Botto, Bebe ... - prominent figures policy, including Cayo Lara, Gaspar Llamazares, Juan Herrera and Santiago Carrillo, as well as academics and social movements.
For the press, of course, the highlight is the support of artists.
The truth is that most of them are not very different from the rest of us: a few enjoy succulent income, the majority was more or less shooting, while some who live in precarious conditions.
However, the fact that many of them not only interested in their careers, dreaming of Oscars and such, but who cares about dead civilians under the bombs NATO's Afghanistan, or those who suffer from the crisis in Spain while the government engages our money to the war can only be positive.
Or at least I thought so. It turns out that I'm naive. The press
cave, which was already in full offensive against Willy Toledo because, beyond any misunderstanding, that he dared bring reigning hypocrisy regarding the rights of political prisoners, could not contain himself.
The new attack he led the so called Sun thus: "No less than eight years behind the" Union of Zeja " [Sic] just discovered, after Pilar Bardem, who delivers a war in Afghanistan is pure. "
They joined Digital Journalist:" The artists 'No War' waited which 90 English soldiers die in Afghanistan to demonstrate. "And so on, with increasingly insulting expressions.
the night sky turns out that the Internet now has a new constellation, which might call the Aznar said. The stars are many, but light, all together in little or no produce. The
less mistake is that the basic facts. To example, the text attributed to the antiwar platform in Madrid alone, when in reality it is a statement of support towards the campaign for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, national, not a call for a local action in Madrid. But seen from the Aznar said, the world begins and ends in the imperial city.
The real question is what to seek with his anger and his insults? Apparently, they want to reject the war in Afghanistan had come much earlier. The poor writers Sun , bring all this time killing fighting alone against the Asian country and in solidarity with Afghan civilians ...? Well, not exactly.
As we know, these are the same means which in 2003 held the photo of the Azores, which we were assured that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and who invented links between Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden, when all they had in common is that both were U.S. allies.
Today we can not trust us to respect them in Afghanistan.
On July 31, 2009 La Razon said in an editorial that "Spain has an obligation ... to contribute to international efforts ... Afghanistan ... So Zapatero is right to assume a greater degree of commitment. "
So really agree with the government, but this does not help in his crusade against the few things that Zapatero has made well.
Moreover, it is obvious that still outraged by the "big mistake" of voters al'expulsar the PP from power in 2004, mainly due to the Iraq war. It seems they want to make ironic commentary on Bertolt Brecht, directed the government of East Germany: "It would be simpler for the government dissolved the people and elect another?"
In fact, this apply not only right but also to the PSOE.
According to latest Elcano Royal Institute, only 5% of the English population is in favor of sending more troops.
Zapatero's government, instead of applying the principle of "no to war" that rose to power, spending huge amounts on advertising to try to convince us that the deadly presence in Afghanistan is "mission of peace. " It's just one of its major contradictions.
But let us be clear: these contradictions of the PSOE to participate in a war while call-peace-and the right to attack the government to participate in a war to support themselves, not the antiwar people.
antiwar movement was already active in 2001, against the war in Afghanistan, most of the people who signed the statement now also participated in the protests then. The movement grew dramatically in 2003 against the Iraq war. After 2004, declined somewhat, but has never ceased to exist, nor to demand the withdrawal of troops and to express solidarity with the peoples of the Middle East. A minimum
investigative journalism would have revealed these facts, but facts do not much interested in the constellation Aznar said.
Sadly, the progressive media, those specific facts not interest him much. Because the right while trying to take advantage of the "scandal" of the opposition of artists in the war in Afghanistan, for El Pais, El Periodico and Public this opposition does not exist.
The press could have explained the reasons for its rejection of the war, which might have given space to answer the attacks on the right, as did Public Willy Toledo with respect to Cuba is silent.
seems that, for them to maintain the fiction promoted by the government is more important than the lives of Afghan civilians. One of the reasons for the invisibility media movement against the war in Afghanistan. This not only happens here, in Britain there is a huge rejection of the war, but the issue will be ignored the next election, because there are two major parties in favor.
What can we do then? All we can
; continue presenting arguments and continue moving.
If we are not as many as in 2003 so be it. If you insult, it's unpleasant, and even more when you customize.
But look on the bright side. If so angry right, something is doing well. If your columnists to attack you Bardem, Toledo and the rest for his opposition to war, do not just fear of these individuals. We are trying to help his "mini me" the talk show guests the bar and canteen fascist country, to feel stronger to people on foot who oppose the war. In attacking the artists want to intimidate those voices from the base, people who suffer layoffs and ERO, people posed a simple question: why not the money is devoted to social purposes, not war?
This is a question that Sun and company can not raise themselves and for their "mini me" would have no response. So thieves.
We? Ride. As I said, maybe not so, but we are more and more.
The Campaign for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan has a very broad support of antiwar movements and social forums around the state, other movements and parties like IU, Green Initiative, Esquerra Republicana, Aralar, and now as we have seen many personalities in various fields.
Aquesta és a bona notícia, a notice must. But interess li qui? The Premsa, no, but people of a peu, pots themselves. David Karval
activist Aturem War Platform
17 març 2009
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