Stop the Clash of Civilizations!

Montag, 19. Januar 2009

 

Stoppt den Zusammenprall der Zivilisationen!

An die politische Führung Israels, Palästinas und der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft:

Der palästinensisch-israelische Konflikt ist das Kernproblem einer globalen Konfrontation, die uns alle zu spalten droht. Menschen in aller Welt wünschen sich einen gerechten und andauernden Frieden im Nahen Osten - und die internationale Gemeinschaft kann und muss dazu beitragen, alle Beteiligten an den Verhandlungstisch zu bringen. Echte Gespräche über den Frieden im Nahen Osten müssen jetzt beginnen und so lange geführt werden,

bis ein wirklicher Frieden erreicht ist!

 

Petition to Israeli, Palestinian & international leaders:

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict lies at the heart of a global clash threatening to divide us all. People from every corner of the world want a just and lasting peace in the Middle East - and the international community can and must help bring all sides to the table. Start Real Middle East Talks Now,

and stay at the negotiating table until we have peace!

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Payment by Cheque in Zimbabwe

Montag, 4. August 2008



$1072418003000000-00

One quadrillion seventy two trillion four hundred and eighteen billion and tree million dollars only--

 

I am sure, some of us would have a problem with the Zeros - or mind you, a Zero more or less does not matter!

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Candle for Tibet

Montag, 21. Juli 2008

 

Find more photos like this on Candle4Tibet

The Light Protest for freedom. 

On Thursday August 7th at 9:00 p.m. local time at least 100,000,000 people, from every corner of earth, will light candles in hundreds of planned candle-lit vigils, with their friends or at their homes. They will call for freedom in Tibet. (All details can be founds at CFT's press room)

SSM&S will send on the day following CFT 's candle action hundreds of mountain climbers and volunteers to ignite red smoke flares on Skyscrapers roofs in NY, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and other major cities around the world, and on over 100 mountain tops in 3 continents. The smoke ignition will coincide with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing.


The Sad Smoky Mountains will smoke together, in togetherness with City skyscrapers so as to re-establish a necessary alliance between man and environment, between man and the other self, between man and those similar to him. Monuments like volcanoes previously at rest, awakened by the Earths’ pain. These monuments will return to what they originally were meant to represent: a monition (from Latin monumentum), a warning to those who have forgotten what hides behind ancient architectures. We shall make these monuments talk the language of smoke, “the evanescent color of blood”, on the day on which the olympic torch, a double-headed symbol of peace and hypocrisy, will light the Peking Olympics. At exactly sixty years from the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the repression of Tibet during an event of world-wide interest has become the symbol of failure and betrayal on behalf of international governments: the principles then ratified have been and are still, more or less diplomatically, denied.

"We are now ready to instruct hundreds of red smoke flares in cities all over the world" says artist Alberto Peruffo, the project's creator. "We will flare up the skies red from buildings, monuments and palaces"

SSM&S has already proven record. On May 11th hundreds of mountaineers climbed to the summits of over 100 mountains in Europe, Asia, North and South America, where they flared up the sky red calling for a free Tibet

What is a LIGHT PROTEST?

A light protest is similar to a normal protest (the kind you hear about in the news or in the papers) but with several main differences:

  • A light protest unites millions of people around the world.
  • A light protest invites people to take a simple act on a specific moment in time, for a single goal.
  • A light protest is a new global medium which enhances the power of one person to make a stand.
  • A light protest will always fight for a noble cause, such as human rights, freedom of choice, thought, belief and so on.
  • A light protest is non-profit, and non-violent!

Remember, that a light protest depends on each and every one of us making our stand on the same day, and inviting other people & friends to join.

It's as simple as that and very effective!

 

Up to date, over 512.240 people out of 100 countries worldwide have joined and registered at "Candle for Tibet". Join our campaign and register today - just click on the following link:

Light my candle on the web

 
Millionen von Menschen werden ihr Licht zum größten Licht-Protest der Welt vereinigen

Der größte Licht-Protest der Welt wird am 7. August stattfinden – einen Tag vor der Eröffnung der Olympischen Spiele in Peking. Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt werden eine Kerze entzünden und JA zu Freiheit in Tibet sagen.

 
Bis heute haben sich über 512.240 Menschen aus über 100 Ländern weltweit auf der Seite von „Candle for Tibet“ registriert. Seien sie dabei und registrieren sie sich noch heute - dazu nur auf dem Link klicken:

Meine Kerze im Web anzünden

 
„Candle for Tibet“ ruft die Menschen auf, am 7.August 2008 um 21.00 Uhr (Ortszeit) Kerzen zu entzünden und in Fenstern, auf Schreibtischen oder wo auch immer aufzustellen, wo andere Menschen sie sehen und ihrem Beispiel folgen können. Viele Menschen werden an öffentlichen Mahnwachen auf der ganzen Welt teilnehmen. Es wird erwartet, dass der Licht-Protest auf den Fernsehschirmen weltweit zu sehen sein wird. Am Tag der Eröffnungsfeierlichkeiten der Olympischen Spiele in Peking (auch im Stadion). Den Tag diesem weltweiten Ereignis, werden Briefe an alle Staatschefs der Welt verschickt, die ihnen mitteilen, wie viele Menschen des jeweiligen Landes wollen, dass Tibet Freiheit erlangt, und wünschen, dass sich die Politiker ebenfalls für diese Freiheit einsetzen.
 

Die Traurigen Rauchenden Berge werden gemeinsam mit den Hochhäusern der Städte rauchen, um eine notwendige Allianz zwischen dem Menschen und der Natur, zwischen dem Menschen und seiner Umwelt, zwischen dem Menschen und seinen Mitmenschen wiederherzustellen. Die Monumente werden wie seit langem eingeschlafene und vom Weltschmerz wieder ins Leben gerufene Vulkane erneut ihre antike Funktion deutlich machen: als Denkzettel (vom Latein monumentum) zu dienen , als Verwarnung an diejenigen, die vergessen haben, was man unter ihren Baukünsten beherbergt. Wir werden sie am Tag, an dem die olympische Fackel, zweideutiges Symbol des Friedens und der Scheinheiligkeit, die Olympischen Spiele in Peking einweihen wird, mit der Sprache des roten Rauches, «dem Schatten des Blutes» sprechen lassen. Nach genau sechzig Jahren seit der Abfassung der Menschenrechte ist die Unterdrückung in Tibet während eines globalen Ereignisses zum Symbol des Scheiterns und des Verrats der Weltregierungen geworden: die damals anerkannten Prinzipien wurden und werden weiterhin mehr oder weniger diplomatisch verleugnet.

Ein Licht-Protest ist ähnlich einer normalen Protestkundgebung. Es gibt aber einige große Unterschiede:

Es ist ein neues globales Medium, das die Kraft des Individuums verstärkt, um etwas zum Besseren zu verändern. Und er ist mitnichten ein rein virtueller Protest.

Es ist ein Vorbote für das Ende der Ländergrenzen, wenn es um globale Demokratie und die Möglichkeit des Einzelnen geht, über eine Idee abzustimmen.

Es zeigt jedem Einzelnen weltweit, dass er heutzutage ungeachtet von Rasse, Geschlecht, politischer Einstellung oder Religion durch eine gemeinsame Aktion mit anderen an einem bestimmten Tag die Wirklichkeit verändern kann.

Es ist eine wirksamere und effektivere Abstimmung, auf die sich Regierungschefs weltweit berufen können - Angela Merkel und Gordon Brown sind sich der öffentlichen Meinung zur Tibet Frage in ihren jeweiligen Ländern mit Sicherheit bewusst.

Es vereint Millionen Menschen weltweit in einer einfachen Handlung zu einer bestimmt Zeit für ein bestimmtes gemeinsames Ziel (wie beispielsweise earth hour oder live 8 zuvor).

Es ist non-profit und gewaltfrei.

Etwas wie Candle for Tibet gab es noch nie – jedenfalls nicht in dieser Größenordnung.

Die Botschaft ist denkbar einfach: Jeder Mensch, dem Freiheit wichtig ist, hat die Verantwortung, eine Kerze anzuzünden. Die Geste des Entzündens einer Kerze – sei es spirituell oder persönlich motiviert - kann als Akt der Stimmabgabe gesehen werden. Eine solch massive Abgabe von Stimmen, dass sie die Verantwortlichen weltweit nicht einfach ignorieren können.

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Oath of Mugabe

Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008




The film of Mugabe's swearing in ceremony shook me as Mugabe clutched the bible in his right hand and made an oath on the Bible. "So help me God," he concluded - it's probably what most of his people are thinking now!!!
In the middle ages they would have burned Mugabe for his heresy.

Der Film vom Mugabe mit der Bibel in seiner rechten Hand bei der Einschwörung hat mich einfach schockiert! "So helfe mir Gott", hat er gesagt und ist auch das was die meisten in Simbabwe nun denken!
Im Mittelalter hätten sie Mugabe als Ketzer verbrannt!

Why the hell, didn't they suspend him from the African Union summit???
In Nairobi, Raila Odinga, the Kenyan Prime Minister, called on the union to eject Mr Mugabe from the summit. He said: “He should be suspended until he allows the African Union to facilitate free and fair elections.” The African Union’s own observers in Harare said the vote “fell short” of the organisation’s standards.

Bush also wants the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Zimbabwe as well as travel bans on Zimbabwe government officials.
Don't just talk - DO IT!

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Runoff election Zimbabwe

Samstag, 28. Juni 2008



Turnout was reported to be very light in many locations while in others reports said militia of the ruling ZANU-PF party forced voters to go to the polls. Some reports said police and other officials looked over voters’ shoulders to make sure they voted for Mr. Mugabe.

Epworth, Harare, voter Jason said he voted just to get his fingers inked to avoid being beaten by ZANU-PF militia demanding proof from residents they had voted. He said ruling party officials sought to determine how he voted.

Bulawayo correspondent Netsai Mlilo of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe said some residents decided to vote late in the day after ZANU-PF militants threatened violence against anyone without red ink on their hands as evidence they went to the polls and cast a ballot.

Moyo told reporter Patience Rusere that his organization had gathered information suggesting that non-residents had been bused into Bulawayo to cast ballots there.

Amnesty has called on the African Union and SADC (Southern African Development Community) to apply the "necessary pressure" on President Mugabe. "I think there's been some deafening silence by the AU assembly chairperson, (Tanzanian) President Kikwete, in terms of denouncing the violence that has been ongoing in Zimbabwe. And for starters, we would want to see him coming up with a very strong statement condemning what is happening in Zimbabwe. And then secondly, there was a need to convene the AU's Peace and Security Council to consider the situation in Zimbabwe…. That has happened. And in that meeting, we would like to see the African Union coming out with a very strong position and sending a clear message to President Mugabe that what has been going on in Zimbabwe is unacceptable, since it goes against the principles of the African Union, which is respect for human rights and the rule of law," he says.

Has Mr. Mugabe been getting mixed signals from his southern African neighbors? Mawanza says, "Just recently, I think there [have] been some more united messages. But the people of Zimbabwe need to see effective African solidarity, beyond making excuses for President Mugabe and being too accommodative…. And if President Mugabe does not take heed of the advice that he's getting from his peers and colleagues in Africa, they need to go to the next level, which could even be considering suspending Zimbabwe from the African Union."

He says that such a suspension could hit Zimbabwe hard."

If you suspend Zimbabwe from the African Union, there are very few countries that can survive outside these international bodies. And I think it sends a very clear signal to the victims of human rights violations in Zimbabwe that Africa is with them. And if Zimbabwe does not then take heed of that measure, there are other considerations, which might as well include those sanctions. But at this stage, I think the African Union, particularly the chairperson, need to come up with a very strong position," he says.

Mawanza adds, "Amnesty's message to President Mugabe remains the same: that he has to end the violence that is going on in the country immediately. He has to make sure that all those perpetrators of violence are brought to justice. It includes those who are linked to his political party. And we will continue to mobilize international pressure until that happens. We are also calling for the immediate release of people who have been arrested because they are associated with the MDC or they're human rights activists."

These include Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, who are leaders of WOZA, Women of Zimbabwe Arise. They've been detained since May 28th when they took part in a demonstration against election violence.

Zimbabwe's presidential runoff election

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Olympics 2008 - Abuse of Human Rights

Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2008


This is what it's like, when human rights are being abused:
No freedom of the press!

In developed countries, freedom of the press implies that all people should have the right to express themselves in writing or in any other way of expression of personal opinion or creativity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers"

Light your candle for Tibet!


Media Work / Press Releases and Statements/ HRIC Press Advisory: Legal Guidelines for Foreigners—Olympic Traps for Foreigners? June 05, 2008

The "Legal Guidelines for Foreigners Entering, Exiting and Staying in China during the Olympics," released June 2, consist of 57 questions and answers divided into eight categories including transportation, accommodations, medical treatment, intellectual property protection of the Olympics logo, and "special notes." The English translation prepared by HRIC is appended to this Press Advisory.

The Legal Guidelines also prohibit carrying out of China documents or other materials that are classified as "state secrets." The state secrets laws and regulations, however, are extremely broad and provide for retroactive classification, such that everything can potentially be classified as a state secret.

By linking specific illegal activities with vague prohibitions invoking national security, state secrets, criticism of the country, and mass gatherings, these Legal Guidelines can be traps for foreigners. If foreigners do run into trouble, the recent crackdown on lawyers and the lack of a functioning rule of law in China should raise additional concerns. Finally, the spirit of the Legal Guidelines is in tension with official commitments of openness to welcoming the international community to the Olympic Games.

Just bear in mind: Most participants are also considered to be foreigners!

Read more concerning these Legal Guidelines by clicking on the link below:

Legal Guidelines for Foreigners—Olympic Traps for Foreigners


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Eine Kerze in meinem Fenster - fuer Tibet

Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2008


Bitte schicken Sie dies als email weiter zu so vielen Kontaktpersonen wie moeglich.

Machen Sie mit beim groessten Protest aller Zeiten fuer Tibet

Am Donnerstag den 7. August, in der Nacht vor dem Anfang der Olympischen Spielen.

Machen Sie mit in

Eine Kerze in meinem Fenster - fuer Tibet


Zuenden Sie eine Kerze fuer Tibet an in Ihrem Heim, Arbeitsplatz oder in einem oeffentlichen Ort.


Sie werden damit nicht allein sein. Viele Millionen weltweit werden dasselbe tun, werden dabei fuer Freiheit und Hoffnung beten.

Und unsere Kerzen werden von Millionen weltweit im Fernsehen erscheinen, am Tag der Eroeffnung der Olympischen Spiele. Tibet wird nicht vergessen werden.

Schliessen Sie sich heute an in :

candle4tibet.org

und fordern Sie Ihre Freunde auf, sich auch anzuschliessen.

Wir koennen es machen. Die Welt wird uns wahrnehmen.

Bitte schicken Sie dieses email weiter zu so viele Kontaktpersonen wie moeglich.
Jeder Einzelne von ihnen kann ein neuer Antrieb fuer das Steigen unserer Zahl werden!


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Candle for Tibet - Olympic Games 2008

Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008



Candle in My Window - for Tibet


This will be our opening ceremony for the Olympic Games. And it will begin darkness falls in India on Thursday, Aug 7th 2008.


A GLOBAL VOTE FOR FREEDOM

In about 7 weeks, on the night before the Olympic flame will be lit in Beijing, at least 100 million people all over the world will light a candle for a free Tibet. That aggregate flame will be brighter and will call for freedom in Tibet and in any other place in the world. That is at least the vision of the organizers of "Candle in My Window for Tibet". They tagged this world event: "Our opening ceremony of the Olympic Games". Mr. Califa has recently volunteered to assist the organizers in carrying their message:"Take part in our Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games. Light a candle for Tibet.

We will light a candle for Tibet because Tibet has become a symbol of freedom.
It is a symbol that represents the natural right of any human being for self determination, freedom of thought, conscience, belief and religion. Freedom is the most important value for us working for this movement.

The Olympic Games in Beijing is a unique opportunity to focus the world's attention on the annulment of those rights in Tibet and in many other places in the world. Lighting a candle represents solidarity with the people of Tibet. "Enlightenment" by Jamie Williams Each candle lit window is one more prayer of hope for the world to witness. This will be our opening ceremony for the Olympic Games. And it will begin darkness falls in India on Thursday, Aug 7th 2008. In this way we will ensure that our millions and millions of candles are seen and noticed throughout all the time zones of the world.

We are going to create a unique moment when so many millions who otherwise would do very little or nothing for Tibet, or any other cause, would actually do something spiritual and meaningful. And do it together. Our modest objective is to reach 100 million people.

The media, I have no doubt, will pick on the story soon, which will bring more participants, which will bring more coverage, and will raise awareness for the Tibetan Cause. It's a virtuous circle.

Read more about this event - click on link below:

Candle in My Window - for Tibet


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