[Peace-discuss] International Call for an Independent Assembly of the Iraqi People

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Please circulate this statement and consider signing on at
>http://www.focusweb.org/int-call/
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>--Mark
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>---------- Forwarded Message
>From: Mary Lou Malig <marylou at focusweb.org>
>Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:31:21 +0700
>Subject: [wsf-war-assembly] INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR AN INDEPENDENT ASSEMBLY
>OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE
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>INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR AN INDEPENDENT ASSEMBLY OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE
>9 April 2004
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>AS the occupation of Iraq enters its second year, the demands of the Iraqis
>grow clearer every day: an immediate end to the Occupation and free
>elections - free for all Iraqis to participate and free of US interference.
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>In the present situation, Iraqis are hostage to the Occupying Forces. They
>are unable to meet and organize freely and they are denied the right to
>shape their own future. Furthermore, the political transition process
>proposed by the US administration is designed to install a tame regime,
>friendly to US interests and their continued presence inside Iraq.
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>We - the undersigned activists for peace, religious leaders, intellectuals
>and academics, writers and journalists, parliamentarians, trade unionists
>and citizens -- insist on the right of the Iraqis to be free of occupation
>and free to decide the course of their own history.
>
>We support the call for free elections: free for all Iraqis to participate
>and free from interference of the Occupying Forces.
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>We support the call of the Jakarta Peace Consensus - which was affirmed at
>the European Social Forum in Paris in 2003 and at the Anti-War Assembly at
>the World Social Forum in Mumbai in 2004 -- for an urgent and independent
>Assembly of Iraqis, where all sectors of Iraqi society can freely debate and
>propose the future shape of their State, completely free of interference
>from the Occupying Forces. This can be the start of a process of building
>the New Iraq, and a vital first step towards free elections, democracy and
>sovereignty.
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>This Assembly must be held in Iraq. However, if this possibility is denied
>by the Occupying Forces, a Preparatory Conference must be convened outside
>Iraq.
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>We guarantee all our efforts to protect the integrity and openness of such a
>meeting through our support and presence.
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>We demand an end to the Occupation and we support the Iraqi peoples right to
>sovereignty and self-determination.
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>(to sign on to this statement, go to this link:
>http://www.focusweb.org/int-call/ )
>
>Aminata Dramane Traoré, former government minister and social activist, Mali
>Chalmers Johnson, writer, USA
>Chandra Muzzafar, writer and activist, Malaysia
>Christophe Aguiton, activist, France
>Dennis Brutus, academic and activist, South Africa/USA
>Dennis J. Kucinich (Representative), presidential candidate (Democrat), USA
>Florence Carboni, linguist, Italy
>Francis Houtart, intellectual and activist, Belgium
>Gustavo Codas, trade unionist, Brazil
>Hans von Sponek, former UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Germany
>Horacio Martins, Brasil
>Immanuel Wallerstein, writer and activist, USA/France
>James Petras, writer and activist, USA
>Jeremy Corbyn, Member of Parliament, UK
>Jorge Eduardo Saavedra Durão, activist, Brasil
>José Maria Vigil, liberation theologist and writer, Panama
>Kamal Chenoy, academic and activist, India
>Mario Maestri, historian, Brasil
>Marta Harnecker, writer, Chile
>Miguel Álvarez Gandara, peace activist, Mexico
>Miguel Urbano Rodrigues, writer, Portugal
>Mike Marqusee, writer and activist, UK/USA
>Naomi Klein, journalist and activist, Canada
>Nawal El Saadawi, writer and activist, Egypt
>Noam Chomsky, linguist and writer, USA
>P.K.Murthy, All India Federation of Trade Unions, India
>Pedro Casaldáliga (Bishop), religious leader, Brasil
>Roni Gechtman, academic, Canada
>Samir Amin, intellectual and activist, Egypt/Senegal
>Samuel Ruiz, former Bishop of San Cristobal de los Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
>Saul Landau, academic and activist, USA
>Sérgio Haddad, international secretary, ABONG, Brasil
>Shivani, India
>Susan George, writer and activist, France
>Walden Bello, academic and activist, Philippines
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>ITALY
>Alfio Nicotra, peace secretary, Rifondazione Comunista
>Luciano Muhlbauer, trade unionist, Italy
>
>ITALIAN SENATE
>Sen. Luigi Malabarba (Rifondazione Comunista)
>Sen. Nicodemo Filippelli (Udeur)
>Sen. Daria Bonfietti (Democratici di Sinistra)
>Sen. Stefano Boco (Verdi)
>Sen. Angelo Flammia (Democratici di Sinistra)
>Sen. Aleandro Longhi (Democratici di Sinistra)
>Sen. Loredana De Petris (Verdi)
>Sen. Antonio Rotondo (Democratici di Sinistra)
>Sen. Angelo Flammia (Democratici di Sinistra)
>Sen. Paolo Brutti (Democratici di Sinistra)
>Sen. Antonio Falomi (Misto)
>Sen. Natale Ripamonti (Verdi)
>Sen. Elidio De Paoli (Lega Autonomia Lombarda)
>Sen. Luigi Marino (Comunisti Italiani)
>Sen. Tommaso Sodano (Rifondazione Comunista)
>Sen. Alberto Maritati (Democratici di Sinistra)
>Sen. Walter Vitali (Democratici di Sinistra)
>Sen. Livio Togni (Rifondazione Comunista)
>
>ITALIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
>On. Fausto Bertinotti (Secretary General Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Franco Giordano (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Ramon Mantovani (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Giovanni Bellini (Democratici di Sinistra)
>On. Paolo Cento (Verdi)
>On. Elettra Deiana (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Titti De Simone (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Pietro Gasperoni (Democratici di Sinistra)
>On. Luigi Giacco (Democratici di Sinistra)
>On. Alfonso Gianni (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Giovanna Grignaffini (Democratici di Sinistra)
>On. Graziella Mascia (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Giorgio Panattoni (Democratici di Sinistra)
>On. Giuliano Pisapia (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Gabriella Pistone (Comunisti Italiani)
>On. Ruggero Ruggeri (La Margherita)
>On. Giovanni Russo Spena (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Tiziana Valpiana (Rifondazione Comunista)
>On. Nichi Vendola (Rifondazione Comunista)


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
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