[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:17202] Please distribute

[Al Kagan]

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> From: "Dana Lubow" <danalubow at hotmail.com>
> Date: July 19, 2005 10:41:30 PM CDT
> To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
> Subject: [SRRTAC-L:17202] Please distribute
> Reply-To: danalubow at hotmail.com
>
> Manifesto signed by Noam Chomsky, Rigoberta Menchú, Adolfo Pérez 
> Esquivel. Nadine Gordimer and Salim Lamrani.
> The intention is to distribute it, not to ask for support.
> ____________________________________________________
>
>
> THE UNITED STATES MUST LEAVE GUANTANAMO NOW!
>
> 	For over a century the United States has intervened, made war,
> imposed imperialist treaties against the rights of the Cuba people to
> sovereignty of their country.
>
> 	In 1897, when Cuba was nearing victory in the Second War of
> Independence from Spain, Theodore Roosevelt urged the USA President
> McKinley to intervene.
>
> 	In 1898, the USA declared war against Spain to prevent Cuba
> from gaining its independence.
>
> 	In 1901, among other forced measures to codify control of Cuba,
> including that "the U.S. may intervene militarily at any time", was 
> the equally
> outrageous edict that Cuba must sell or lease to a foreign state, the 
> U.S.,
> "lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specific 
> points".
> Outrageous because these turned out to be or were always intended to be
> the invasion and annexation of a country's territory by a foreign 
> state.
>
> 	Guantanamo was a "specific point". A U.S. naval base was built
> there with the consequences we all know. The poverty of the ex-colonial
> country was unashamedly exploited by democratic USA with the annual
> handout of 2 000 dollars in gold, on the righteous premise that it is 
> the moral
> privilege of a rich power to buy anything, including part of another 
> country.
> Since 1959 Cuba has not accepted the handout.
>
> 	What use this virtual theft of a sovereign territory has been put to
> eventually is the shame and disgrace of the United States and also of 
> the
> contemporary world, which, intimidated by U.S. power, turns a blind 
> eye to
> the prison that has been blatantly established in somebody else's 
> country.
> The horrifyingly inhuman conditions of isolation, deprivation and 
> torture in
> this medieval prison, condemned by Amnesty International and an
> increasing number of human rights organisations, continue to be
> perpetrated by the foreign power, the U.S.A., which has no right to be
> there.
>
> 	There are many desecrations of human rights taking place in our
> world. Many involve conflicts of great complexity, religious, 
> factional; it is
> immensely difficult to create just solutions to them.
>
> 	Guantanamo is the outstanding exception.
>
> 	The just solution is simple.
>
> 	All and every state, community, above all every individual in this
> world declared one of global responsibility, who subscribes to the 
> truth that
> only in justice can real humanity exist between nations and peoples, 
> must
> demand, in that name, that the U.S.A. leave Guantanamo unconditionally.
>
> 	Now!
>
> Nadine Gordimer, Salim Lamrani, Noam Chomsky,
> Rigoberta Menchú, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
>
> _____________________________________________________
>
> Sent byr:
> Armando Rama Martell
> Oficina del Capitulo Cubano
> "En defensa de la Humanidad"
>
>
>

Al Kagan
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61820
USA

tel. 217-333-6519
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akagan at uiuc.edu
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