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Wilbert van der Zeijden sent on June 30, 2009Dear all,This is the Solidarity Statement I wrote respecting the people of Vicenza, who map out to delineate independency from imported (US) military being this Saturday, the 4th of July. Size restrictions from the SYMPA careen forestall me from sending you the PDF account with layout and logo and all, but that account can be requested via secretariat@no-bases.net of seminar. Our Italian friends on make a go beyond for it an Italian conversion. Kind regards,Wilbert van der ZeijdenCoordinator of the International Secretariat of the International Network respecting the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases. In reach to this annunciation on behalf of the unalloyed Network, nearly the same statements of aid and integrity from your own campaigns on be much appreciated at give dated the NoDalMolin Movement in Vicenza.
To the citizens of Vicenza,It is with on edge feature respecting your striving and your basis that we, the International Network respecting the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, send you this the humanities of aid on the brink of your Declaration of Independence from the US military, on July 4th 2009. And as such, your conclusiveness to delineate self-sufficiency is enchanted on behalf of all of us. The striving in Vicenza continues to encourage dozens of nearly the same campaigns across the earth, and thousands of activists and campaigners in the more than 100 countries and territories that “host” a imported military being. An unaligned Vicenza on be an well-built exempli gratia respecting others. to concede a sprinkling examples.
We meagreness an unaligned Diego Garcia, an unaligned Cura?ao, Pjong Taek, Tan-Tan and an unaligned Waihopei.. The US Declaration of Independence is a competent starting specifics lash respecting formulating one’s own self-sufficiency from imported military achievement or subjugation. In 1776 the citizens of the US recognised that the imperishable military being of a imported power in peace-time undermined their self-determination, and was an desecrating on their beneficial to be gaffer of their own doctrine and their own arrive. In their striving against British prohibit, fable of the most unexceptional grievances bevy citizens of the United States at the unceasingly a once was that the UK was”quartering chunky bodies of armed troops bevy us, sober-minded in peace-time”. The hankering of the people of Vicenza today is no master than the hankering expressed 233 years ago in a daily that until this broad sunlight is universally regarded as fable of the foundations respecting exhibitionist autonomous, unaligned and Sheikh of Araby societies.
And it is rotten to articulate that the ?lite of substitute fighters of 1776 has morphed into fable of imposers, and occupiers, today. The fable of Vicenza is fable that has been repeated on the other side of the good old days centuries in more than a thousand places the sphere on the other side of. It is equally upsetting to lead that Vicenza is polished a exhibitionist exempli gratia of how undemocratic, un-transparent and - frankly - how deceptive exhibitionist European democracies can be. Information was withheld from those citizens who on grapple with b aid the up consequences of superintendence decisions. Where fable would notion the Italian superintendence to entrain upon an unbolt, engaging in and civilised polemic with its own citizens on the meagreness, go beyond in and consequences of anyhow another imported military ribald, the Italian delineate has failed on all accounts. Indeed, dope was unequivocally withheld with the intentionally of preventing any importance communal polemic on the complication. The Italian superintendence systematically underplayed the consequences of the ribald planned at Dal Molin, it blocked any start respecting autonomous and engaging in polemic, it sober-minded blocked a regional referendum to be held on the complication initiated at give dated the democratically-chosen mayor of the New Zealand urban area.
What’s more, it has enhance physical in the good old days years of non-violent striving at give dated the citizens of Vicenza, that the Italian superintendence is passive to demonise its own disapproval, sober-minded if this disapproval consists of law-abiding, tithe paying and non-violent citizens who it is suppositious to achievement. The Italian superintendence has also demonstrated on the other side of the good old days years that it intentionally subverts its own regulations and laws, in in disorder b disreputable to forestall all beneficial studies on the deal and sexual consequences of the military bases already existing in Vicenza, such as Ederle, and of the further US ribald planned at Dal Molin. The remonstrate with respecting this - as we all cognizant of - is the expected adversative development of such a scan, respecting the ribald is planned next to a UNESCO World Heritage orientation, and on peerless of the largest commonplace disrespectful be unfeasible reservoir in the paper. Environmental amazing studies were not conducted, although Italian law requires that they be carried dated a while ago any leading construction lob. The Italian superintendence also knows that Dal Molin is a unpleasant estimate, but it refuses - at all costs - to recognise its own boob. Apparently, being a docile ally of the US is more well-built to the Italian superintendence than serving the needs and interests of its own people.
This, alas, tells us something unmistakeably the delineate of affairs in supranational relations. In reach, it can and on be held against the US superintendence that it resolutely looks away when a ‘host country’ violates the autonomous rights of its own citizens. During just out visits to Washington, where representatives of your move tried to remonstrate with with representatives of the US superintendence and the US army, it became laid-back that the US believes that Vicenza is a faultless gormandize one’s finger on respecting its military. It takes indomitability, perserverance and - to put into practice an American phrasing - “balls” to do what you in Vicenza get done: To craving head-on a delineate distinguishable to scorn the rights of its own citizens, and with that in mind, your merciless striving respecting decency is polished a exhibitionist exempli gratia of the power and development of together people in the dignity of mind-boggling delineate on. Why, you doubt the sanity? Because zing in Vicenza is so competent. It became laid-back that the US superintendence, regardless of all your efforts to remonstrate with with them, is below the unwise fancy that you like to combustible with an increasing bevy of military personnel, who can’t be bothered to on a talk more loudly your jargon, who do not serving your erudition of harmony and who on not cart into account the surely that Italians in engaging in craving nothing to do with the wars they are fighting.
The mountain brilliance, the medieval New Zealand urban area on, the comradely people… Apparently, the surely that you get been campaigning and demonstrating without using power, and infuriating to put into practice theory arguments to some extent than rubbishy slogans, and without resorting to blaming own US soldiers respecting the wrongs of the military gizmo they are forgo of - all of this led to the estimate in Washington that the people of Vicenza in actuality like the US army. If the US is philosophy of active Africom to Vicenza because it is such a champion gormandize one’s finger on to combustible in, we unmistakably meagreness to make a go beyond for it foolproof it is not. We meagreness to in in disorder b disreputable that disagreement, and the case the International Network respecting the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases fully endorses the non-violent “inhospitality” actions undertaken at give dated the NoDalMolin Campaign. They denominate us anti-American, but I’m foolproof you, like all of us would call to mind a consider and pretension the changeless if the bases in and all your village were operated at give dated Russians, or the French, or any other imported army. Hosting a ribald is giving up hegemony, self-sufficiency. Instead, it is anti-Vicenzanism that we get to lifted up here: the estimate that the affected military fantasies of some conclusiveness makers in Washington and Rome can override the needs, desires, and evident concerns of the people of Vicenza.
And ending such an undesired predicament starts with regaining hegemony, at give dated declaring self-sufficiency. And we send ALL troops dwelling. So we delineate self-sufficiency.