The signing of the Magna Carta.
Tyranny cannot coexist with freedom!
Friends, as the comments show, the initial reaction to my proposal have been encouraging and I am quite excited by what may follow.
So that we have something to hang our hats on as we discuss this proposal, I have come up with a quick list which will surely need many revisions but it is a start.
It may not be the Magna Carta but who would know where it might lead?
DRAFT CHARTER.
We, the Members of the democratic Anti-American Empire Movement, will, peacefully and to the best of our ability, work together and try:
1. To stop the further progression of the militaristic American Empire which is a purely selfish entity, one that threatens to bring about a Big Brother world where inequality and endless war reign.
2. To work peacefully to bring the American Empire down before it leads us further into a dangerous arms race, nuclear war, and probable extinction.
3. To use protests, sanctions, marches, boycotts, political pressure, etc, to bring awareness to the world of the dangers of rampant American nationalism and its delusions of grandeur.
4. To expose the shortcomings of capitalism and greed which the American Empire is built upon, shortcomings which result in economic inequality and injustice for the majority of the world’s people and ultra-wealth for the elitist few.
5. To work to bring down the American Arms Industry and others which fuel endless wars.
6. To stop the invasion and occupation of resource-rich countries by the leaders of the American Empire and the wanton killing and destruction which accompany such invasions and the subsequent exploitation and oppression of the occupied.
7. To work to close down every American Military Base in the world and force America to go back to its own borders where it belongs, stay there, and keep out of the affairs of other countries.
8. To help the American people to get rid of their warmongering, deranged leadership and to set up a proper democracy which is not controlled by Corporations, Corrupt Politicians, Religious Fundamentalists, Right-wing Loonies, and the Jewish lobby, etc.
9. To put pressure on our own governments to stop supporting and encouraging America’s Empire Building which is not designed to improve the quality of life on earth but is to seize control of the world purely to advantage American oligarchs and billionaires.
10. To work towards peace and equality and justice for all the world’s people and to get rid of all American-supported and financed Dictators and Despots and America’s subversive manipulators (like the CIA, etc).
N.B. A revised version of the Charter can be found at the following link:
http://dangerouscreation.com/draft-charter/
“The foreign policy of the United States has always followed the formula set out by master strategist Henry Kissenger: “promote the economic and geopolitical interests of the United States in the guise of universal normative values, such as freedom of expression or human rights.”
Philosopher: Enrique Dussel. (appeared in the leftist Mexico City-based Jornada and in New Matilda 7/02/2012)
Over to you for feedback.
I’m happy with that draft,but what we need is a name to spread the site,one that comes to mind is george galloway,he does interviews etc if he were to spruik the site ,could be a start.
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Thinking large David, I like it. We need to look in to the weakneses of the system and use it. I got small idea to make banks life more difficult. Many of us are getting in the mail credit card offers and most of us is discharging it in to the garbage or recycling. This is what I propose ; why don’t we open it put wrong informations and send it back to them, it’s prepaid postage any way. First we’ll generate more revenue for USPS, create more jobs (someone will have to open it and check it) . We can’t loose it in that one, all can happen is that you’ll stop getting those offers and save fees trees. I believe there’s plenty of similar cases we could use it.
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Good thinking, Gazza. I’ve admired him for a long time. Are you suggesting we have a dedicated site?
Great proposition, Uglykomodo. Let the bastards chase us thinking we will take their poisoned bait.
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could be the way,a dedicated site ,worth a thought.
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not all jews are evil
Petition Against the Right of Return to Israel on Behalf of Australian Jews
March 2010
We are Jews from Australia, who, like Jewish people throughout the world, have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel’s “law of return.” While this law may seem intended to enable a Jewish homeland, we submit that it is in fact a form of racist privilege that abets the colonial oppression of the Palestinians.
Today there are more than seven million Palestinian refugees around the world. Israel denies their right to return to their homes and land—a right recognized and undisputed by UN Resolution 194, the Geneva Convention, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Meanwhile, we are invited to live on that same land simply because we are Jewish, thereby potentially taking the place of Palestinians who would dearly love to return to their ancestral lands.
We renounce this “right” to “return” offered to us by Israeli law. It is not right that we may “return” to a state that is not ours while Palestinians are excluded and continuously dispossessed.
Signed:
Professor Peter Singer – Princeton University
Miriam Margolyes (OBE) – renowned actor
Eva Cox (AO) – National Chair of the Women’s Electoral Lobby.
Professor Dennis Altman – Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
Professor Andrew Benjamin – Monash University
Sara Dowse – writer
GJ Lindell – Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
Susan Varga – writer
Antony Loewenstein – writer, journalist, author of My Israel Question
Professor David SG Goodman – Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Sydney
Professor John Docker – Sydney University
Jean McClean – advisor to Vice-Chancellor at Victoria University on East-Timor
Dr Peter Slezak – University of New South Wales
Dr Tony Balint – Blue Horizon Clinic
Dr Ron Witton – University of Wollongong
Dr Ned Curthoys – Australian National University
Dr Rick Kuhn – Australian National University
Dr. Tamas Pataki
Russell Bancroft – Manager Industrial Relations, Government Branch
Alice Beauchamp
Toni Beauchamp
Wendy Crew
Bronwyn Dahlstrom
Nicole Erlich – PhD candidate, University of Queensland
Marshall Harris
David Hermolin
Sylvie Leber
Jeffrey Loewenstein
Stefan Moore
Martin Munz
Vivienne Porzsolt
Joe Rich
Margot Salom
Rene Tsukasov
Nic Witton
23 Responses to “Prominent Australian Jews, including Peter Singer, reject the Israeli right of return”
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David G Reply:
February 6th, 2011 at 10:08 am
Thanks for that, Gazza. I wonder just how much impact it would have given that most of the people are unknown. Perhaps a petition with 20,000 signatures would have more grunt?
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Sounds like a good idea. There are americans who would support your charter. The only ideas for change that are heard today here are coming from either the tea party or the democratic party and they are both more of the same. What we need is a clear voice for real change!
As for not buying Made in America that would only hurt more working people who are lucky enough to have a job and if you buy from China you are still buying from american corporations. The best way to go is buy used if you can or to simply buy less. We already have way too much useless junk cluttering up our lives. At holidays give a donation to a charity like Heifer Internation, which provides livestock and training to people in third world countries, in the receiptents name or make a simple handmade gift.
I am going to have to try the credit card idea.
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coco Reply:
February 6th, 2011 at 7:38 am
great idea jeannie……….i already boycott chinese goods and frequent the car boot sales in my neighbourhood. i will not buy veggies/fruits unless they are from the country i live in. what’s the point? to be healthy anyway, you should not buy fruits out of season in your environment.
i don’t know about this heifer internation charity, but will look it up now.
and of course, buy less. way too much junk cluttering up our lives, as you say………….
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American history can be very confusing. There are bones of Europeans from thousands of years ago carrying crystals on their bodies. They were spiritual seekers apparently. Later, after Colombus, the men that wrote our Declaration of Independance had the Vision for what a great land this would be as long as we stayed within our own borders and tended to our own business here. These are men who had no problem exterminating the Native population and owned slaves too.
We are WELL outside our borders now and we can only be described as an Empire. An Empire that brings poverty, torture and death to the impoverished majority across this Planet – of course, and including its own citizens. These are Global Kingpins at the top.
You bet, there are many American citizens that would support your Charter.
Unfortunately, it is the undereducated, impoverished and imprisoned that know best what it is you speak of. It is the supposedly educated that we have to get through to!
The ones with jobs and houses are the scaredest to take that leap.
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Jeannie, I wonder when it came down to it just how many Americans would get involved in a movement against their own country and its interests. It’s that indoctrination thing again!
Grace, American history seems fairly straightforward: take what you want and kill anyone who gets in your road.
“An Empire that brings poverty, torture and death to the impoverished majority across this Planet – of course, and including its own citizens.” Hear, hear and amen!
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This is interesting, although I don’t agree with the anti-capitalist bit. The world has already tried communism and it had a rather bad record, so I think we should not repeat that mistake. My ideal is to improve capitalism from within. If you look more carefully, many of the sins of capitalism are actually supported by the government and its legislations. If we have more freedom, the economy will fix a lot of problems because it is a form of distributed power.
My ideal is a world government somewhat similar to the EU. We need some international support to change the current American regime. I’m from China, and it makes me very sad when people express hatred of the Chinese government and want to boycott Chinese good, because I have nothing at all to do with the government and I’m just stuck here. Pretty much the same as innocent Americans being accused of their empire’s wars when they couldn’t do much about them.
We can we bring about a “World Union”? Perhaps we should also support a global currency instead of the US$, just as the EU uses the Euro. In my opinion, the best way to bring about a peaceful transition is to gradually transfer funding to a new regime. But, I admit that I’m still relatively clueless as to what to do…
Thanks for making this site. I’ll keep looking…
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Cy the problem in the west is politicians are essentially parasites,they produce nothing never have never will.Total agreement on a global currency,this is where china can start making a push
for it being the global powerhouse.
The ball is in the chinese court,the big problem at the moment is the rudd attempt to get the yanks to attack china,(THE RUDD COMMENT) would be classed as a declaration of war 100 years ago,
China has been strangely silent on that,however i know the chinese, silent yes but not forgotten,
so i apologise for the idiots comment.We are not all anti-chinese.As for the americans
a total bunch of no hopers.
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David G Reply:
April 17th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Gazza, the Chinese are beavering away building up their army. They know that the U.S. has to be confronted and so does Russia and India. If the three of them combine forces, that should present the Yanks with a real obstacle to their plans for world domination.
High Noon is on the horizon unless the Yanks go bankrupt like the Soviets did. That’s what I’m hoping for!
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From dan a visalli
war itself is not only “a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed,” as Dwight Eisenhower noted in a speech in 1953, but war is also destructive to the physical earth, the very source of human life, and indeed of all life. The U.S. has dropped 15 million tons of bombs on the earth’s surface in last 60 years, spread 1 million tons of napalm on fields and forests, and sprayed 20 million gallons of defoliants on some of the most diverse rainforests on the planet. By any measure, the U.S. military is conducting a war against the earth itself. Such an inane effort does not come cheaply. The total cost of all military expenses for 2012 is estimated to be $1.2 trillion dollars, one-third of the total federal budget. It is the U.S. military that is driving the U.S. itself into bankruptcy.
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