Images rally against the war, Barcelona April 10, 2010
An image of the concentration of the Platform Aturem War, with participation of about 300 people, and interventions with regard to Palestine, the Russell Tribunal, the war in Afghanistan, and a wiretap Javier Couso. Call: http://www.aturemlaguerra.org/?q=node/216 More photos here. joint naval military base
act of protest against the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in the front door of the military base in Rota (Cadiz)
USA / Spain (NATO) Rota (Cádiz), March 27, 2010
Antimilitarista Nonviolent Network of Andalusia has done this morning a protest at the main gate of the Rota military base where he has denounced the presence of troops in Afghanistan and demanded the immediate withdrawal of this. The Network of Women in Black has staged and denounced the situation of Afghan women and the role it plays armies justifying their existence under the camouflage of "humanitarian aid", have supported and expressed his sorrow to the victims that among injured, maimed and killed in Afghanistan in 2009 alone there were more than 1500 civilians and the number of English soldiers killed in this war has now risen to 91.
During the ceremony, read a manifesto which stated:
"Spain, with the help of NATO and the paradoxical Nobel Peace Prize sr. Obama has entered and remains in the war in Afghanistan to cash in on energy resources and geostrategic Middle East. This is the same as did Spain and other countries in the European Union warmonger when the invasions of Iraq in 1991 and 2003.
Friends: this The mighty have called "peace mission" is actually an unjustified war and carnage on the search clear economic benefits to the West, and that Afghan territory would be the most ideal and inexpensive to transport 40% of gas reserves world. It lies, therefore, that they are looking at Bin Laden, and Hussein was hiding Sadan lie or fabricate nuclear weapons in Iraq. This is a war of plunder. It is a lie that the West intends to defend women or human rights in Afghanistan ... because you can not rebuild a country that has more than 30 years of war, bombing and plunging into the utter despair Besides causing a lot of innocent civilians to the powerful call "collateral effects" of the war. Do not forget this: this war is sowing hatred in many people who are overwhelmed by the Western armies and, in the near future, could respond more terrorist attacks, which is a spiral of violence that we reject.
While the Army and the armed forces seeking a new way to participate in international conflicts to justify its existence under the camouflage of "humanitarian aid", I must say that among injured, maimed and killed in 2009 alone in Afghanistan has been more than 1500 civilians and the number of English soldiers killed in this war has now risen to 91. We express our grief and solidarity with the families of these people.
Many other countries of NATO and the European Union, not only Spain, are participating in this military adventure, which is above being a complete failure to follow this doctrine most brazen military intervention, a "preventive wars" or, as they say, "Enduring Freedom", which trample on international law and trying to establish by means of arms the rule of the strongest. Currently, there are 100,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan under command of the ISAF (Interaction Forces Security Assistance Force), NATO's mission and controlled by NATO, contrary to the United Nations charter ... which they call a "peace mission."
reject, as did most of the English population, the presence of troops sent from Spain to Afghanistan and denounce Zapatero that Rota Naval Air Station, as well as the Moron and Gibraltar, is directly involved in this war , providing logistical support and all types of ships and planes going to and returning from the conflict zone.
especially denounce the bellicose attitude of the English president Mr Zapatero for having approved recently sent 500 more troops to this war, which would reach about 2,000 English troops in the area and an irresponsible military spending of about 1,500 million euros at a time which, in addition, Spain is experiencing a serious economic crisis one of the results is the increase in unemployment to more than 4,300,000 people. Only military spending resulting from the tanks sent to Afghanistan by the English Army have been 321 million euros.
denounce the puppet government of Hamid Karzai, a man who served the U.S. interests from the oil company Unocal and has not been advanced to their country or democracy or human rights, and can not even meet the basic needs of the population.
Our choice is this: 1 .- We demand that the Government of Spain to withdraw English troops from the area, 2 .- demand to enable a reconstruction plan for Afghanistan in which Spain agrees at least to double the money has been used to defray the costs of military participation, and 3 .- demand for support for a political process in Afghanistan in which people can freely decide their destiny, taking the country immediately all foreign occupying troops.
Therefore, organizations that compose the network and Nonviolent Antimilitarista Andalusia say here today March 27, 2010, very loud and clear:
SPANISH TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NATO NOT FOR SOLIDARITY AND COOPERATION AMONG THE PEOPLE "
The act and the manifest is signed: Ecologists in Action Andalusia, MOC-ELAIA-Puerto de Santa Maria, Nonviolence Now-Jerez, Mothers Against Drugs WALK-Puerto de Santa Maria, Women in Black-Sevilla, General Confederation of Labour, Objection Movement Consciousness-Sevilla, Ahimsa-Malaga, Casa de la Paz-Sevilla.
