[Peace-discuss] FW: WHAT CAN AND SHOULD BE DONE NOW

[Marianne Brun]

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Von: Andre Gunder Frank <franka at fiu.edu>
Datum: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:43:22 -0500 (EST)
An: Michael Albert <sysop at zmag.org>, Jay Moore <pieinsky at igc.org>,  Michel
Chossudovsky <chossudovsky at videotron.ca>, D Shniad <shniad at sfu.ca>,  Michael
Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>, wsn at csf.colorado.edu,
a-list at lists.econ.utah.edu
Cc: manni at snafu.de, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>,  Fiona Godfrey
<fgodfrey at t-online.de>,  Ann Singleton <singleton_ann at hotmail.com>,
suzannas at aol.com,  Gregory Shank <GregoryS9 at aol.com>, "Tony M. Platt"
<amplatt at earthlink.net>,  Peter G Spengler <Peter.G.Spengler at t-online.de>,
David Jacobs <david at ShellJacobs.com>, Maya Khankhoje <mayak at sprint.ca>,
Metta Spencer <mspencer at web.net>, franka at fiu.edu
Betreff: WHAT CAN AND SHOULD BE DONE NOW


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WHAT CAN AND SHOULD BE DONE NOW

-Demonstrate for peace, Feb 15 in a hundred cities large and small
 around the world 

-contact your MP or Congressperson

-propose/support an appeal to the  UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[not the Security Council]  to intervene under sections of the
UN Charter that specifically empower it to do so to safeguard the Peace
when the SC is deadlocked. Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson did so
in the 1956 Suez Crisis and got the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts,
which defused that armed conflict

-indict war makers under international law, the Geneva Conventions,
etc.  for war crimes against humanity and genocide
[following the allied Nuremberg precedent against the Nazis]
 - at the UN International Court in the Hague 
 - at the new UN International Criminal Court in the Hague,
      which stipulates PERSONAL criminal responsibility
      [as did Nuremberg as well, which said that of all crimes
      making war is the worst].
    - in any national court outside their own country, following
 the precedent of  Spain and Jack Straw as Home Secretary of the UK against
 Chilean General Pinochet  [ the same Jack Straw who, now as UK Foreign
 Secretary, is 2nd chief UK warmonger]

-prosecute war makers in the national courts of their own country
for violations of the Constitution and/or national law.
[ Republicans charged President Clinton for violation of US law
during the NATO War against Yugoslavia, miscalled ''Kosovo War.'']  Even
if Congress agrees to war under the War Powers Act,  making war still
violates US law if it is in contravention of an anti-war treaty and the UN
once it is ratified by the US, which thereby makes its provisions US
federal domestic law as well.

-inform military personnel that it is itself illegal for them to
follow an illegal order to make war and that under the Nuremberg precedent
they are liable to prosecution for their personal responsibility to refuse
to carry out illegal orders.

- spread the word that something must and CAN be done.