<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">tina ebro</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cgebro@gmail.com">cgebro@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:57 AM<br>Subject: [CommonGood] Asia-Europe Statement of Solidarity with the Greek People and Government<br>To: Common Good Newsgroup <<a href="mailto:commongood@listi.jpberlin.de">commongood@listi.jpberlin.de</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(166,77,121)"><div style="display:inline">Dear<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"> Birgit and </div></div></b><b style="color:rgb(166,77,121)"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline!important">Friends,</div></div></b><b style="color:rgb(166,77,121)"><div style="display:inline"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div></b><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(166,77,121)"><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline">D</div></div></font></div></b><b><b>espite the blackmail <div style="display:inline">and threats </div>of <div style="display:inline">the Troika and </div></b><span style="line-height:24px">EU <div style="display:inline">elite, we</div></span></b><b><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"> are jubilant that the Greek people voted NO to austerity and YES to sovereignty, dignity, human rights and democracy. </div></div></font></div></b></div></b></div></b><br></div><font color="#a64d79"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><div><b><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><br></div></div></font></div></b></div></b></div><div><b><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"></div>Please receive the Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF) Statement of Solidarity with the Greek People and Government.</div></font></div></b></div></b></div></b></div><div><b><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><br></div></font></div></b></div></b></div></b></div><div><b><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><b><div style="display:inline!important"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div>Do know that Syriza, Podemos and other people-centered parties in Europe have participated as resource persons at AEPF events.</div></font></div></b></div></b></div></b></div></b></font></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(166,77,121)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(166,77,121)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div>Much thanks and <div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">warm wishes,</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></div></font></div><div><div style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(166,77,121);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Tina</div><div style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(166,77,121);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#a64d79"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline!important"><br></div></div></font></div></b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#a64d79"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline!important"><b><br></b></div></div></font></div></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#a64d79"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline!important"><b>==========</b></div></div></font></div></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" color="#a64d79"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline!important"><b>Cristine "Tina" Ebro</b></div></div></font></div></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" color="#a64d79"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline!important"><b>Coordinating Team</b></div></div></font></div></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" color="#a64d79"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline!important"><b><a href="http://aepf.info" target="_blank">aepf.info</a></b></div></div></font></div></span></div></div></font><div><div style="display:inline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1" color="#a64d79"><b>Mobile:+63-917-8146311</b></font></div><br></div></font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">‘SOVEREIGNTY AND LIFE IN DIGNITY, NOT AUSTERITY FOR GREECE’</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">AEPF statement of solidarity with the Greek people<span><span> and govern</span></span>ment</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">5 JULY 2015</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#0000ff"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">We from the Asia-Europe People’s Forum – a strategic civil society network of Asian and European social movements working for social, economic and ecological justice, and fighting to end poverty and inequality – stand with the Greek people as they assert their sovereignty, reject austerity and vote for a life in dignity this Sunday, July 5.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"><br>The imposition of neo-liberal austerity measures by the Troika – the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission – is destroying Greece. It is responsible for severe financial and economic crisis and for the social catastrophe – e.g. massive unemployment, intensifying poverty and social inequality, rising suicide rates, and the dismantling of social services and security – being experienced by the Greek people.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">Moreover, the huge debt repayments for which the Troika is demanding have not been for the benefit of the citizens of Greece. They have been utilised to repay private sector creditors such as French and German banks, it is thus highly immoral for the people and government to be forced to pay these debts while depriving the people their basic socio-economic rights to a life in dignity (jobs, food, healthcare, housing, electricity, and other basic needs.)</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">The impositions of the Troika are not only causing misery to the Greek people and government. Outside Greece, similar neo-liberal austerity measures are destroying societies and people in Europe and other parts of the world. We therefore stand in solidarity with the Greek people and the Syriza-led government as they struggle to be free from neo-liberal austerity and odious debts.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">Over the past decades peoples from developing and developed countries have been resisting against the whole range of neo-liberal policies – liberalisation, deregulation, and privatisation – imposed by capitalist governments through the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other financial institutions.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">Peoples have struggled against repayment of odious debts and for the cancellation of illegitimate debts. They have experienced how debt bondage has resulted in poverty and elite privileges. In addition, neo-liberal austerity impositions by the international financial institutions have devastated their economies and environment, crushed human rights and exacerbated inequalities while billions of dollars flowed to transnational corporations and banks and imperialist governments.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">The debt payment terms cannot over-rule international law. Article 103 of the UN Charter provisions prevail over all other treaties. Therefore no treaty or loan agreement can force a country to violate the civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights of its population, nor can a loan agreement negate the sovereignty of a State. Any agreement that would require such a violation of human rights and customary international law is <i>contra bonos mores</i> and hence null and void pursuant to Article 53 of the Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff">Now is the time to raise our voices against this threat and stranglehold on the people of Greece by the European elite. This critical moment also requires everyone to speak up against world’s economic elites who have held us hostage and made our lives miserable for decades and who have prioritised the interest of banks and corporations over the people and planet.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"></font></span></p><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><font color="#0000ff"></font></div><font color="#0000ff"> </font><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#0000ff"></font></span></p><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><font color="#0000ff"></font></div><font color="#0000ff">With the citizens of Greece, we say NO to austerity and YES to dignity, sovereignty, human rights, and democracy!</font><i></i><p></p></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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