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WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
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awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
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under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
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Home  Blog August 2010 August 9, 2010: International Call for FREEDOM for Vanunu on Nagasaki Day, 2010
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August 9, 2010: International Call for FREEDOM for Vanunu on Nagasaki Day, 2010 |
August 9, 2010: International Call for FREEDOM for Vanunu on Nagasaki Day, 2010 UPDATE RE: International Petition to FREE VANUNU leads August 10, 2010
Email received:
Thanks!
Yes, Eileen, someone is messing with the petition. Big-time. Twice now it has been closed down now without our saying so; twice I have re-opened it. Last I looked, at change.org if you search for 'vanunu' the petition does not come up...many many people find their signatures are not recorded. We are
about to mention this on the front of the petition (if we can),
something about 'please sign until you get a confirmation email'. Some
people have tried up to seven times to sign it.
"Anyway, it's pretty much obvious that we have upset somebody. That means we're having an impact, doesn't it?
"As Barbara Faibish says, it just makes her 'more determined.'"
Thanks for the feedback -- keep it up.
Best regards Gail
Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
FREE VANUNU NOW!
PRESS RELEASE
CALL FOR FREEDOM FOR MORDECHAI
VANUNU
ON NAGASAKI ANNIVERSARY,
10TH AUGUST, 2010
Many hundreds of people from around the
World have signed an International Petition (http://humanrights.change.org/petitions/view/release_mordechai_vanunu), calling on President Obama, Prime Ministers
Netanyahu and Cameron, and other world leaders, to ‘do all they can’ to gain the
release from Israel of Mordechai Vanunu (the Israeli nuclear
whistleblower).
Vanunu was released from Ramle Israeli
Prison, on Sunday 8th August, 2010, after serving almost 3
months in solitary confinement under cruel, inhuman and degrading
conditions. This further
sentence was imposed on Vanunu for speaking to foreign media. Although now out of prison he
is still not allowed to leave Israel. The draconian restrictions remain
on him, and he is unable to speak to foreigners, foreign media, or move freely
within Israel without Government permission.
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, who together with
Gerry Grehan, Chair of the Peace People, launched the International Appeal for
Vanunu’s release, said today:
“It is unacceptable that Vanunu continues to be punished
by the Israeli Government for telling the world that Israel has nuclear
weapons. After 18 years in prison
(12 years in solitary confinement), and a further six living under severe
restrictions, including the recent 3 month prison sentence, how much longer will
Israel continue to punish Mordechai Vanunu for telling the truth?”
The people of the world can do something to
help by signing the International Campaign online petition (http://humanrights.change.org/petitions/view/release_mordechai_vanunu) which calls on world leaders to act to ensure
Vanunu’s right to freedom of speech and freedom to travel - basic rights
enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and many other
International Laws, which Israel continues to break and act with
impunity.
August 10th, is the Anniversary of Nagasaki,
the day on which we remember those who died in the second nuclear holocaust,
which followed on the first nuclear holocaust of Hiroshima. We remember too all those who are
working to rid the world of nuclear weapons and ensure ‘No more
Hiroshima’s’ ‘ No more
Nagasaki’s’. It is
fitting we act to support Vanunu in his struggle for a nuclear free Middle East,
and a nuclear free world. He has
paid a high price in following his conscious and calling us to do the same. He has suffered enough, time to let him
go free.
President Obama, who has expressed the wish (as Vanunu
does) for a nuclear free world, has the power to help free Vanunu, who 24 years
ago expressed and acted to fulfil such a vision.
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Peace People,
www.peacepeople.com
Tel: 028 90
66 34 65
http://humanrights.change.org/petitions/view/release_mordechai_vanunu
In 1995, from Ashkelon Prison, Mordechai Vanunu noted:
"A radioactive
cloud consumed rubbed out Hiroshima...A live nuclear test sentenced you. A
nuclear laboratory…children women trees animals in and under a nuclear
mushroom…burning… burned…flattened to ground radioactive
ash-Hiroshima...Nuclear weapons gamblers win against you…Hollywood doesn't know
you - you are not a Jewish Holocaust."
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opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
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The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway. © 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith " In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
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“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946 |
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The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright |
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"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
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