2006/08/02
Stop Killing
ARTICULACIÓN FEMINISTA MARCOSUR
Let us imagine that we are having tea on a sunny day with our neighbours.
Imagine the
children are at school. Imagine we are about to take a taxi to go to a meeting
in the city, or about to get into our horse wagon to harvest our crops. Imagine
we are getting off work to go home.
And now, let us
imagine that in a single second the sun goes dark and the neighbours are dying
on our side. The school disappeared. Imagine that we can't recognize the place
we are supposed to have the meeting, or that everyone who was harvesting in the
fields has been killed. Now, imagine there is no house to return to. Imagine
that our country is Lebanon.
There will not
be peace without people to construct her. There are no human rights if there is
nobody to enjoy them. Is it possible to use the argument of wanting to obtain a
sustainable ceasefire, to reject a CEASEFIRE? Peace can never be a excuse for
war. You can't kill with the argument to prevent death.
Any kind of
fundamentalism, christian, jewish or islamic, be it religious, economic or
political fundamentalism, do not recognize humanity's diversity, and legitimize
violent mechanisms that subject one group by another, one person by another.
Essentially exclusive and belligerent, fundamentalisms undermine the project of
Humanity in which every person has the right to have rights.
We, the women
of Latin America, who, during the dictatorships, have experienced state
terrorism, know about the pain and death of our peoples, as well as we know
about the power of solidarity and people's organization. We join in solidarity
people's organizations everywhere demanding an IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE in Lebanon
and Palestine and the withdrawal of the Israeli troops.
Now, let us
imagine a meeting of the United Nations. Imagine that instead of inconclusive
and abstract communiqués about hundreds of concrete deaths, this time, state
terrorism is detained, civil population defended and dialogue is insisted upon
as the only way to solve conflict. Imagine justice, reason, dignity, respect are
chosen. That, this time, the choice is people, humanity and life.
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