March 15-22: int'l peace demo against 5 years of war & occupation of Iraq

Troops Out of Iraq And Afghanistan! Don't Attack Iran!

Worldwide peace demonstrations planned for March 15-22, 2008

LONDON - December 1, 2007 -- Delegates from 26 countries addressed the World against War conference in London. There was unanimous agreement to organise demonstrations for Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and against an attack on Iran in every country around the fifth anniversary of the attack on Iraq between 15 and 22 March.

Source: www.stopwar.org.uk

EXXON exposed for twisting facts

Check the Exxon files and take action!

Brussels, September 26, 2007 – Climate change is at the top of Europe’s political agenda but not everyone is happy about that. The world’s biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, is working hard to block internationally agreed policies designed to combat climate change. Friends of the Earth Europe released The Exxon Files - an animation spoof exposing how oil giant ExxonMobil is working to prevent action on climate change. The cartoon's website, www.exxon-files.eu, asks people to add their signature to a formal complaint Friends of the Earth is submitting to the Belgian Economic Affairs Minister about Exxon's advertising at Brussels Airport. In the ads, Exxon claims to be reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, despite data from its own Corporate Citizenship Report stating the contrary: Exxon's CO2 emissions actually increased by 8.7 million metric tons (over 6 percent) from 2003 to 2006.

Iraq war blamed for 600,000 Iraqi deaths

The Human Cost of the War in Iraq, A Mortality Study, 2002-2006 .

BAGHDAD - BALTIMORE - October 12, 2006 -- The School of Medicine at Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq, and The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University--in cooperation with MIT's Center for International Studies--have released a report on the under-examined question of civilian deaths in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in March 2003. Its central conclusion, based on a population-based survey conducted at some risk by a team of Iraqi and American public health researchers, is that approximately 600,000 people have died violently above the normal mortality rate. Including non-violent deaths that are nevertheless linked to the war, the total is estimated to be more than 650,000.

Source: MIT Center for International Studies

More information:
Comments on The Lancet study: www.brusselstribunal.org/Lancet111006.htm

International call to boycott US multinationals

No money for war! Boycott Bush!

Illustration: US tank sponsored by US multinationals

One can not protest US foreign policies while drinking a can of Coca Cola or smoking a cigarette of Marlboro, two important sponsors of Bush re-election.

With the military attack and invasion of Iraq in March 2003 the US acted once again as a "Rogue State" and violated the UN Charter.

Today more than ever, US government policy is increasingly marked by arrogance and self-interest, and US multinationals seem to have a major impact on the policy of the US administration.

For this reason we are calling for an open ended boycott campaign.

As opposition to the Nazi regime would have boycotted German companies supporting the fascist regime of Hitler, today we need to boycott US multinational as an effective tool to oppose US foreign policies which are the most dangerous threat to international security and peace today.

The economic boycott is an effective non-violent tool with which concerned citizens around the world can vote with their wallets against the aggressive policies of Washington and use their consumers power to built another world in purchasing local, fair-trade and organic products as an alternative for the US corporate products.

By boycotting US multinationals who are large donors to the Republican Party, we want to put pressure on the US government to join the international community, complying with the rules of the United Nations and international law, the same way Mahatma Ghandi drove out the British empire out of India, or the international opinion put an end to the apartheid regime in South-Africa.

And as most US embassies became military fortresses US multinationals became today for boycotters worldwide the most natural US embassies.

The unilateral policies of the US must stop now and all US troops must leave Iraq immediately.

As consumers we do not want our money to be used to fuel wars, environmental destruction and human-rights violations.

The Boycott Bush International Network

May 2005

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