Stop Bush! Press Releases

Press Release and invitation (17/2/2005)

88 social movement organisations support demonstrations against the policies of the US

At least 88 environmental, human rights, peace and youth organisations have joined the platform "Stop Bush!" that is calling for protest demonstrations on 21st and 22nd February to mark the visit of US President George W. Bush to Belgium.

In a platform text, the organisations express their "concern about the negative role that the United States is playing within the international community in several areas, including the environment, human rights, peace, and aid to developing countries." A number of Belgian political parties have also expressed their support for the platform. They include SP.a, Spirit, Groen!, PS, Ecolo, KP, PC and PvdA.

The members of the platform are also pleased that also elsewhere in the country actions are planned, and that the cultural and academic is also making a stand, for example with the initiative of the Brussells Tribunal (www.brusselstribunal.org) on Sunday 20th February.

You are invited to be present on Monday 21st February, from 5:30pm, to follow a protest demonstration opposite the US Embassy. Between 6:00pm and 6:30pm, four speakers (two from each language community) will represent the views of the platform. The press spokespeople will be available at the corner of Guimardstraat and Kunstlaan staan de verantwoordelijken (easily recognisable by the large "fire engine" covered in banners). For more information about the action, visit the website: www.bushwanted.org.

On Tuesday 22nd February, a second demonstration will take place from 3:00pm, in the Wetstraat between the Jubelpark and Schumanplein. George Bush is expected to arrive at 5:15pm, for his visit to the European Union institutions.

For the complete contents of the platform text, information about the planned actions and action material, visit the website: www.bushwanted.org or contact Ludo De Brabander (Vrede vzw - NL/EN) 0473/51.64.62 or Arnaud Ghys (CNAPD - FR/EN) 0473/76.94.55

The following people are available as press spokespeople:

For the environmental movement:
Jan Turf (Bond Beter Leefmilieu NL/ENG - 0478/809 809)
Jean Francois Fauconnier (Greenpeace FR/ENG - 0496/161 587)

For the human rights movement:
Jan Brocatus (Amnesty International NL/ENG - 0477/431 088)
Françoise Dieryck (Amnesty International FR/ENG - 0497/028 113)

For the peace and development aid movements:
Ludo De Brabander (Vrede vzw NL/ENG - 0473/516 462)
Arnaud Ghys (CNAPD FR/ENG - 0473/769 455)

Signatories:

11.11.11 Koepel van de Vlaamse Noord-Zuidbeweging
ACAT francophone
ActiePlatform Palestina
acat belgië-vlaanderen
acts-of-resistance.org
AEL-BE
Amnesty International
Animo
Association Belgo Palestinienne
Association Culturelle Joseph Jacquemotte
Association Culturelle Paul Renotte
l'Association des Républicains-Démocratiques Iraniens en Belgique
l'Association pour la Paix Mons-Borinage
ATTAC-België
Basisbeweging voor democratie in samenleving en kerken
BBTK Brussel Halle Vilvoorde
Belgian Coalition Stop Uranium Weapons!
Bond Beter Leefmilieu
BRussels Tribunaal
La Cellule Anthropophage
Christenen voor het Socialisme
Coordination Nationale d'Actions pour la Paix et la Démocratie
CNCD
CoCABe
Comac
Commission Justice et Paix
Comité Surveillance OTAN
Coordination contre l'occupation de l'Irak
De Torenvalk vzw
DHKC International
Dialoog vzw
Ecolo J
Federation of Young European Greens
FIAN-Belgium
Forum Nord Sud
Forum voor Vredesactie
FOS - Socialistische Solidariteit
Gemeenschap van de Goede Herder
Globelink
Greenpeace
Handicap International
Humanistisch Verbond vzw
IJzerbedevaartcomité
IMAVO
Initiatief /Initiative Cuba Socialista
Intal
Inter-Environnement Bruxelles
Inter Environnement Wallonie
JCC
Jeugdbond voor Natuur en Milieu
Jong-Groen!
Juristen voor Vrede
LEF
Ligue des Droits de l'Homme
Manneken Peace
vzw Mediadoc
Milieu Actie Forum
MIR-IRG
Mouvement Chrétien Pour la Paix
NARF-Brugge
Natuurpunt
Netwerk Vlaanderen vzw
Pax Christi Vlaanderen
Pax Christi Wallonie Bruxelles
Oost West Centrum vzw
Oxfam-Solidariteit-solidarité
Oxfam Wereldwinkels
Résistance à l'Agression Publicitaire
Rassemblement Liégeois pour la Paix
Service Civils Internationaux -projets Internationaux
Socialisme zonder Grenzen
Solidarité Socialiste FCD
SoMBrero (Solidariteit Mexico-België)
SOS Faim
SOS Irak
StopUsa
Studiekring Vrij Onderzoek (VUB)
Théâtre de Poche
't Uilekot
Union Liégeoise pour la Démocratie et la Paix
UPJB
Universitair Centrum voor Onwikkelingssamenwerking vzw
Vaka/Hand in Hand
Vereniging voor Ecologische Leef en Teelwijze - VELT vzw
Vereniging voor Bos in Vlaanderen
VIC
Vlaams Overleg Duurzame Ontwikkeling  VODO
Vlaams Palestina Komitee
Voor Moeder Aarde
Vrede vzw
Vrienden van Cuba vzw
Vrouwen in het Zwart, Leuven
Wereldsolidariteit vzw
Werkplaats voor Theologie en Maatschappij
WWF

If your organisation has signed the platform text, and you would like to see a hyper-link to your website here, please add a link to www.bushwanted.org to your website, and send a mail to david@motherearth.org

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