Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik juli 2003
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07/01/2003
Det er nu 2 måneder siden, at USAs præsident Bush
erklærede krigen i Irak for vundet.
07/01/2003
Folkeret
FNs sikkkerhedsrådsresolution om amnesti for krigssforbrydere
ophører.
07/01/2003
Ubåden Sælen vender hjem
til Danmark efter odysseen til Mellemøsten.
Litteratur: Brøndum, Christian: Ubåden fra
ørkenkrigen bliver museumsskib. I: Berlingske
Tidende, 11/13/2004.
07/07/2003
Forsvarsministeriet ansøger finansudvalgets tilslutning til
en forhøjelse af Forsvarskommandoens lønsum i 2003
med 349 mio. kr., mod en tilsvarende reduktion af øvrige
driftudgifter.
07/08/2003
Det hvide hus erkender, at oplysningerne om Iraks
påståede forsøg på at købe uran i
Afrika var falske.
Charges Dismissed Against First Jailed War Protesters
[CHICAGO] The State dismissed charges against sixteen members of
the faith-based Circle of Life Affinity Group on trial Monday, July
7 for criminal trespass to property in Judge Mark Ballard's Cook
County Circuit Courtroom.
Members of the Circle of Life were arrested at the Kluczynski
Federal Building on January 27 protesting the first strike war in
Iraq, becoming Chicago's first arrested demonstrators prior to the
recent invasion of Iraq.
Melinda Power, the group's attorney, said, "This dismissal is a
victory for all of the tens of thousands of Chicagoans who
protested against the war in Iraq."
Defendant Chris Inserra, a music teacher and mother of three said,
"The state dismissed our charges but they cannot dismiss our acts
of conscience against the unjust war in Iraq." "The state dismissed
our charges, but the U.S. government cannot dismiss the illegality
of the war in Iraq. They cannot dismiss the fact that every
justification for the war has been found to be false," she
added.
The group faced penalties up to a year in jail. They were prepared
to utilize the Necessity Defense, a legal procedure demonstrating
that the defendants reasonably believed such actions were necessary
to prevent a greater harm or illegality.
The group is representative of various faith and peace
organizations including Voices in the Wilderness, IL School of the
Americas Watch, Iraq Peace Pledge, Pax Christi and the American
Friends Service Committee. The group is composed of grandfathers,
mothers, fathers and includes university chaplains, a UCC minister,
a seminary professor, an engineer, social workers and people who
have visited Iraq.
Source: Email fra Anthony Nicotera, LSW
Chaplain Center for Spirituality & Values in Practice
Dept. of University Ministry - DPC 11009
1 E. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
312-362-5896
anicoter@depaul.edu
07/09/2003
Masseødelæggelsesvåben ; Israel
Efter en strømafbrydelse sender dansk TV1 BBC-udsendelsen
Israels hemmelige våben. I udsendelsen dokumenterer BBC bl.a
den israelske stats skandaløse behandling af Mordecai Vanunu.
07/10/2003
Herman Will, former church peace worker, dies
By United Methodist News Service
Herman Will Jr., who spent 37 years working for peace and justice and wrote a history of Methodism's peace witness, has died.
Will, 88, a former staff executive of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, was remembered Oct. 4 at a memorial service. He died Sept. 27 in Des Moines, Wash.
"Herman Will was an unrelenting guardian of justice and was unafraid to witness to the church's commitment to world peace and attendant issues," said the Rev. Thom White Wolf Fassett, former top executive at the board in Washington. The two men worked together for four years before Will retired in 1980.
After retiring from the board, Will was hired to write a history of the church's peace witness, titled, A Will for Peace (Peace Action in the United Methodist Church: A History).
Will embraced religious pacifism and became involved in the national youth movement of the former Methodist Episcopal Church at age 19. He served as youth secretary for the Methodist Commission on World Peace and was president of the National Council of Methodist Youth from 1939 to 1940.
He was a delegate to the 1939 Uniting Conference of the Methodist Church, which merged three branches of Methodism that had been separated over issues of race and lay representation.
Because of his pacifist leanings, he became a conscientious objector when drafted during World War II. He performed alternative service primarily as the director of the Castaner Project, a rural hospital and service project in the mountains of Puerto Rico that was operated by the Church of the Brethren. He traveled, speaking and organizing for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in Cuba and Mexico.
Will also worked with members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation on issues of desegregation and racial justice, culminating in the 1942 creation of the Congress of Racial Equality.
He served as administrative secretary for the Board of World Peace of the Methodist Church in Chicago. When the Board of Christian Social Concerns, now the Board of Church and Society, was formed in 1960, he moved to Washington, directing the peace division until he retired in 1980. He also played a role in the creation of the Church Center for the United Nations in New York in 1963.
Fassett said that Will's abilities as a lawyer, along with his knowledge of the church and its public policy agenda, served the denomination "in powerful ways to witness to the convictions that were embodied in the Social Principles."
In 1994, responding to a query from grandson Alexander Lwazi Will, the retired church executive offered words of advice. "Don't believe all you hear on TV or read in the papers," he said. "Be independent in your thinking. Remember that the U.S. has one form of democracy and that political leaders here are greatly influenced by campaign contributions from wealthy and powerful individuals and corporations and their lobbies, and less by labor unions, mainline churches and social reform organizations. We are a very violent nation and have more people in jail than any other country in the world.
"Religion can help you to be more concerned about others, less about yourself, and to seek justice and peace."
07/16/2003
Uran-gate
Hasteindkaldt møde i Udenrigspolitisk Nævn.
Kilde: Seks spørgsmål om krig til en
statschef, der vil have fred. I: Information.
07/17/2003
Bush og Blair mødes. Den engelske Bilateral Defence
Acquisition Committee oprettes.
Kilde: Lord Astor of Hever asked Her Majesty's
Government: Bilateral Defence Acquisition Committee.
Lords Hansard
10 Jun 2004 : Column WA50
.
07/17/2003
Militærkup i den vestafrikanske stat Sao Thomé,
noterer Politiken.
07/18/2003
Den britiske våbeninspektør i Irak David Kelly
findes død i nærheden af sit hjem, skriver the
Guardian inetrnational.
07/22/2003
International Boycott of Coca Cola products called by workers in
Colombia to focus world attention on the murders and repression of
union leaders at Coca Cola plants there.
07/25/2003
Folketinget misinformeret før
krigserklæring
Venstres udenrigsordfører, Troels Lund Poulsen, erkender
fejl i regeringens information til folketinget forud for
Irak-krigen, skriver Information.
07/25/2003
Halliburton Milks British Nuclear Submarines for
Millions
by Solomon Hughes, Special to CorpWatch
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7729
July 25th, 2003
Just outside of Plymouth on Britain's south coast are the Devonport
royal dockyards, which have maintained ships for the British navy
for hundreds of years. For the last three decades these docks have
been the home for four nuclear powered "Trident" submarines, each
carrying 48 atomic warheads that roam the world's oceans.
In 1997 Tony Blair's Labour government sold the docks to Devonport
Management Ltd. (DML) -- a consortium led by Brown and Root, a
division of Halliburton, the Texas-based energy services,
engineering and construction multinational -- and contracted the
new owners to refuel and refit the nuclear engines, which involves
stripping and replacing their radioactive parts once a decade.
Halliburton chief executive officer Dick Cheney took a tour of the
dockyards in April 2000, following which he met up with Labour
ministers and military officials at a conference on military
privatisation in Oxford.
"My general impression is that our British colleagues are far ahead
of us in the US in the extent to which they have adopted changes in
culture, attitude and style of operation that are required for
successful privatization efforts," said Cheney, just months before
he quit his job at the company to launch a successful bid to become
vice-president of the United States.
Not surprisingly Cheney's new job as vice-president has coincided
with a major increase in military privatization in the United
States with Halliburton profiting handsomely from contracts to
supply US troops around the world from Bosnia to Uzbekistan.
Meanwhile Halliburton has allegedly been milking their British
colleagues for as much money as they can get. The National Audit
Office (NAO) was called in to investigate when Devonport project
costs budgeted at $904 million in 1997 increased by over 50% by
2002.
Halliburton claims the British government caused the price-hike, by
demanding better safety standards than those in the firm's original
tender, stating that "cost increases have been driven by the need
to meet nuclear regulatory requirements and the work required being
greater than previously experienced."
For example Britain's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate refused to
license the dockyard until it was made earthquake-proof by building
stronger walls for the docks and by redesigning and strengthening
both the cradles that hold the submarines as well as the cranes
that lift nuclear flasks out of the submarines. The inspectors also
wanted better training for staff and better inspection of
work...
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