[van-announce] Fw: First Hemispheric Forum

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From: Clajadep Canada     http://clajadep.lahaine.org
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 10:38 PM
Subject: First Hemispheric Forum

Clajadep supports this event
This Forum inaugurates the Continental Campaign against Militarization and for Peace
Con este Encuentro se inaugura la Campaña Continental contra la Militarización y por la Paz 

For more information :

http://www.sitiocompa.org/desmilitarizacion/english.html




            First Hemispheric Forum
            against Militarization 
           
            The People speak out,
            to silence the weapons! 

            Week for Peace and Cultural Diversity

             


            San Cristóbal de Las Casas
            Chiapas
            MÉXICO
            May 6- 9, 2003 
           

            PRESENTATION 
            Facing the deception of so-called "preventative wars," crimes against humanity, the poverty of people all over the world, and deaths of innocent people, the attacks on liberty supposedly in the name of democracy. Facing impunity and contempt for the international community shown by the economic and military hegemony of the US government and the submission of the Latin American and Caribbean governments, the networks and organizations listed below, CONVOKE organized civil society in North America, the Caribbean, Central and South America to the 


            First Hemispheric Forum 
            against Militarization 

            In times of war, the Hemispheric Forum represents the first immediate space in which networks, organizations and people from the entire continent will have the opportunity to sit down and talk, listen, and design initiatives and coordinated actions together to allow us to influence in a more effective manner the protection of all human rights, and work together to find the mechanisms and strategies in order to push the role of the United Nations to the level that international civil society demands. 
            Facing an actor that has shown it's intolerance and abuse of it's economic and military power, in order to defend private interests above human rights, civil society and the many protests all over the world in rejection of these actions, should organize continuous affirmative actions in order to stop these horrible histories from repeating. 

            The war against Iraq puts to test the possibility of a world order based on the respect of human rights and sovereignty of the People. It is an affront that puts global human security at risk along with the exercise of free determination, the creation of alternative development models for the Peoples, based on the dignity of women and men, and on equality and respect for diversity, and the right to peace. 

            Even in the midst of a context of war and facing the unleashing of more neoliberal policies imposed by the economic and military threats, the First Hemispheric Forum Against Militarization is an opportunity for civil society from all of the Americas to meet together in order to 


              1.. Discuss the social and human impacts of the US government's economic-military hegemony in this part of the world, 
              2.. Reflect on the challenges to the construction of a civilized world order guided by the human rights and people's rights, 
              3.. Make proposals about the role that the United Nations and Organization of American States should play in the strengthening of alternative proposals to the binomial economic-militarization model.
            OBJECTIVES OF THE FORUM: 
              1.. To share information and analysis about the militarization of the American Continent in all of it's levels and spheres. 
              2.. To share experiences about the significance of militarism and it's causes, effects and consequences on rural and urban social, political, economic and cultural life. 
              3.. To unite forces, hearts and wills in order to create alternatives and coordinate actions for peace facing this continental militarization. 
              4.. To create a permanent, long-term process of analysis, reflection, experience sharing and search for alternatives
           

     

       


       
     



             
           


             



           

             
           

     

       



     

     







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