[OccupyComms] Fwd: White Flag Call

[Mark Barrett]

Forwarded message from Manuel. Please participate / support / comment.
Cheers!  :)

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Dear friends,



This is to inform you about the latest development on the white flag
proposal The group

white flag has been created in Facebook and a

white flag pad for open cooperation. I would like you to read this
statement below seriously –I think it contains the disperse information
shared with you in the past, and I hope there are people interested in
launching the plan…

Thank you very much

Best wishes.



Our present – as 15M, Occupy, etc:



All our claims against capitalism or against corruption,…. can be reduced
to one; we are against violence, this is; we are against being forced or
against people being forced –we, humans are free and cannot surrender
freedom, we all know that even if we say yes to force, we are actually
refusing it because our word is not worth, as we were forced to give it…….
Therefore, we are waving the white flag, the signal for violence to stop,
so that we can start a global dialogue and generate a new and common system
based on shared responsibility, because we all need each other, we all are
interdependent; this is; for violence to definitively stop we need to build
up the human community. But, dialogue, words can only serve to this purpose
if they have the white flag as its reference, because otherwise, reality,
conditioned by violence, will impose on us. Words alone are empty; they
need an explicit context or reference to get a meaning.



Our past:



Common sense can harmonize human relations, but the existence of an object,
already in nature, for killing and destroying, the arm, prevents us from
applying that common sense because the arm is acting on us from its
potential, this is; it is delivering its effect by its simple existence, by
just meaning a threat; and since we anticipate each other, we all are
compelled to get together in armed units or states and build always more
powerful arms, so that, as we see, the simple arm existence actually means
the most powerful possible arms in the world –and this is the world main
condition, we all actually know

a priori, no matter where -earth or heaven- or when –past or future.



Our call:



Therefore, we are calling on all states, i.e. armed units to arrange a full
disarmament conference for Fall 2012, which is the same as building up the
human community at the political level. We are calling for a worldwide use
of the white flag by the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, GDAMS,
on April 17th, then, we can go on using it by the occasion of NATO meeting
in USA at the beginning of May and then all along the Global Dawn/Spring so
that everybody everywhere shall know/understand and being appealed to the
community already in summer this year.



First of all,

however, is to save lives as they can and they shall be spared; therefore
we are calling here to all people to immediately show the white flag i.e. -
this white flag resources as this one-, to everybody and particularly to
any party involved in a concrete bloody conflict now, for them to call
ceasefire and give chance to this project and join it as an integrated way
out for both sides. We are from now on relentlessly looking for ceasefire
in Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Congo ...



Please, join now, spread the call, contribute with this work, show the
white flag!!



Yours

Manuel
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