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Faced with global threats that are today looming over mankind -some of them of an irreversible nature- and looking into the eyes of our descendants and the forthcoming generations, it is inevitably up to “Us, the Peoples” to fulfil our essential duties, now that we are aware of the seriousness of the situation and we know, at last, that we are equal in dignity and able to express ourselves freely. Joining our voices in a big popular clamour we shall firmly promote:
- The
immediate cease of fire in Ukraine and other ongoing conflicts, with the
corresponding peace processes being started immediately after,
- The
immediate change of the supremacist plutocratic governance (G6, G7, G8, G20...)
-that has led the world as a whole to an extremely risky situation
(environmentally, nuclearly, socially...)- by a democratic, multilateral
governance, with a reformed and broadly extended United Nations willing to
adopt, in a first extraordinary meeting a Universal Declaration of Democracy, aimed at redirecting the gloomy trends we
are facing now and making possible the transition from a culture of imposition,
domination and war to a culture of encounter, dialogue, conciliation, alliance
and peace,
- The
total elimination of nuclear warheads, because it is unbearable from all points of views that the
Sword of Damocles of total extermination should cast a shadow over the destiny
of human species,
- the
immediate review of justice institutions, in order to put an end to the ruling
of “conservative” or “progressive”
judges, which are bad judges whose sentences are dictated by virtue of their
own ideology instead of administering impartially the law such as is required
by the quality of a “fair” justice.
- eradicate
without contemplation the “tax havens”, which are a big obstacle to reducing
the social gap that is constantly growing ,
- the
current Security Council, deprived of
its veto capability, would be reinforced both by an Environmental Security and
Economic Security Council,
- also
on the scale of other local, regional and worldwide institutions, the obstacles
that have always for the same reasons of absolute power hindered the democratic
function would be removed: the most clear and urgent example is represented by
the European Union, which cannot continue to accept that specially relevant
decisions are adopted unanimously, which is the antithesis of democracy,
- The
new concept of security[1]
shall take very much into account the quality of the environment and the
adequate conservation of the sea, the earth and the air. The unacceptable
recycling of waste, with accumulations and dumps designed to satisfy
disproportionate economic ambitions instead of preserving the quality of the
earth and its aquifers as well as the sea bed -lets never forget that the water
of the sea occupies 2/3 of the earth’s skin- that slowly fills itself with
toxic substances thus reducing the carbon dioxide recapture capacity of the
phytoplankton,
- Having also into account that summer fires may be prevented with the adequate action during winter (firewalls, space limitations...) , and with the availability of devices and technical media of all type that allow a swift and adequate action when a fire occurs. Yes: the world citizenship is claiming for less bombs and more firemen, less war planes and more media to look after the Earth, less soldiers in the garrisons and more military emergency units... and more health workers...
Everything mentioned above has been a part of multiple projects whose aim was to move from the reason of force to the force of reason. But it couldn’t be put it into practice -I must insist on this- because the “peoples”did not exist: 90% of mankind was born, lived and died in a few square kilometres and a radical discrimination was made based on gender, sexual sensibility, beliefs, ideology, ethnicity... In only a few years, the progressive equality in dignity has opened new scale future perspectives and -what is important for human beings -now fully equal!- may be freely said. Now it has become possible to participate and, “We, the peoples”can and must raise our voices to face those menaces that could otherwise reach points of no return. Now we can finally leave war (“bellum”) and chose word (“verbum”). Now we can fulfil our unavoidable intergenerational responsibilities.
My mother -I have never forgotten it- always told me: “Never accept what you find unacceptable”. Well: it is unacceptable that due to the veto of the five victor countries and due to unanimity, respectively, the United Nations and the European Union cannot fulfil the important role they should be playing in order to open a new era in which the culture of peace and non violence could finally supersede confrontation and force, in which democratic multilateralism would allow the agreements that are not possible in the context of a supremacist plutocracy.
Today, the citizenship who has become aware, equal in dignity and capable of expressing herself freely, could allow humanity -“the eyes of the universe”- to start a new period of grandeur making use of the unlimited distinctive creative capacities of the human species. Today, the time has come: “We the peoples” can invent the future. We cannot remain silent any longer. Let us raise our voice so that hope and joy of living are again possible.
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