GLOBAL DECLARATION AGAINST U.S. CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Network of Artists and Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity

Text written on July 17, 2017 by sociologist Atilio A. Boron, researcher Telma Luzzani, sociologist Paula Klachko, journalist and writer Stella Calloni, and writer Alejo Brignole, as part of the campaign for August 9 – International Day of American Crimes Against Humanity.

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WE, THE PEOPLES AND NATIONS OF THE WORLD, DECLARE:

That civilization, understood as a plural, diverse and multicultural expression that shelters all human manifestations, coexistence among peoples and provides the natural framework for the full development of the human being, strongly condemns U.S. political and military actions throughout the world that flagrantly violate international conventions, humanist values and the protocols of international law set forth in the framework of the United Nations and in organizations created to make possible just coexistence among peoples.

NOW THEREFORE:

We denounce and condemn the repeated expressions of programmed horror practiced by the various state apparatuses of the United States throughout the world. We also condemn their attempts to legitimize the military and diplomatic violence they exercise, appealing in their speeches and proclamations to democratic and republican principles, which are violated both in their foreign and domestic policies.

We denounce and condemn the fact that throughout the twentieth century, and throughout the course of this twenty-first century, the United States has promoted, used, perfected and legalized torture as a method to achieve economic, repressive and ideological domination objectives. Understanding that this systematic, continuous and methodologically organized use has ended up naturalizing everything that civilization must eradicate: terror, the cruel and ruthless abuse of some people against others, the domination of some nations over the rest, State terrorism, and the disintegration of the moral will that every human person must possess, but that the fear of torture dissolves.

We denounce and condemn the irrefutable signs given by the United States as a torturing State that not only applies, but legitimizes violence, organizing resources and people for torture, deploying these capabilities around the world, publishing manuals to instruct on forms of torment and training specialists for these tasks against humanity.

We denounce and condemn the unilateral actions of the United States all over the world which, pretending to be legal using world democratic forums such as the United Nations, contravene any principle of coexistence among nations, generating unnecessary wars and millions of deaths dispersed in multiple conflicts, together with the destruction of cities and infrastructures all over the world, thus bringing degradation, death and despair to millions of human beings, simply because they do not accept the policies imposed by Washington.

We denounce and condemn the fact that the United States has a thousand military bases all over the world, since this presence turns that country into a colonialist, oppressive and irrefutably imperialist nation that not only perverts the humanist ideals with which it was founded in 1776, but also turns the rest of the world into a prison camp of its military power, without any international organization or forum authorizing or enabling it.

We denounce and condemn the fact that the United States carries out selective assassinations throughout the world, that it finances and builds clandestine detention centers for people, that it promotes political persecution followed by death or torture for thousands of intellectuals, activists and social leaders who do not agree with the strategies of the United States in the world, understanding that such practices promote a system of retrograde international coexistence that degrades civilization.

We denounce and condemn the fact that the United States exercises, in its diplomacy and with its military and economic power, repeated, intentional and programmed violations of a large part of the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, sanctioned by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948, making the United States the nation that has most violated and is currently violating all the articles contained in said Universal Declaration. And that, therefore, should be considered a nation dangerous to world coexistence and contrary to all humanism, because it promotes the dissolution of fraternal ties that should be the basis of civilization, damaging harmony among nations.

The peoples and nations of the world denounce and condemn the militaristic actions, armed interventionism and political interference of the United States in different countries, whose most visible consequences are death, famines, the destruction of the social fabric and basic infrastructure through bombings, invasions and attacks by land and air, they succeed in sweeping away everything that does not suit U.S. global supremacy, turning the planet into an unstable place condemned to suffering, only to satisfy the cravings of a single dominant national state lacking an effective humanist morality.

Finally, we denounce and condemn all propaganda and discursive attempts on the part of the United States to show itself as a nation defending humanity, democracy and the best ideals for international coexistence, since none of this is consistent with the actions that can be observed in its modern history. Today we know that the resources that the United States allocates to humanitarian aid and cooperation projects and incentives to democracy are conceived to obtain strategic results or to install the concept that the United States is a benefactor nation, instead of an aggressor State that tortures, oppresses and limits the development of nations and societies throughout the world.

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Because U.S. military and political actions have violated human dignity in many and varied ways, sowing death, malnutrition, economic backwardness, promoting and financing dictatorships, assassinating militants and humanist leaders, disappearing and torturing people en masse, bombing cities and defenseless civilian populations…

WE DECLARE AND WARN: That for their subsistence, future generations will have to understand and then act politically to put an end to the necrophilic, militaristic and imperialist philosophy that the United States of America applies to its international crimes, including the serious ecological crimes that it commits for its exclusive economic benefit and that of its transnational corporations scattered throughout the world, further delaying the signing of international protocols and undermining agreements for ecological defense and pollution reduction.

That the preventive wars, the programmed tortures and the persecution of opponents together with the devastation of ecosystems all over the planet imposed by a philosophy of infinite profit, must cease. And for that to happen, the peoples of the world have the imperative to respond to the systematic destruction imposed by Washington’s foreign policy.

That without ignoring or abjuring the multiple contributions of the American people and society to humankind in the fields of science, culture, art and technological progress, we must condemn everything that perverts, degrades and dilutes those valuable contributions to the world, understanding and defending the idea that no nation has a greater right over another, nor any culture, human society can arrogate to itself the right to domination and tutelage of any kind.

NOW THEREFORE: In the face of the multitude of American crimes against humanity, we designate a commemorative date as a tribute to those peoples, countries and societies that were crushed by the will and ambition of a single State that seeks to subdue almost every nation in the world by different methods. From the remote islands of the Pacific, to the European States, from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Asia or Latin America, all have suffered on their soil the ravages of militarism and the interventionist diplomacy of the United States.

In this historical and humanist perspective, which is free of sectarian ideologies, rather than those which encourage a universal and horizontal humanism…

WE PROMOTE: That the 9th of August be recognized by the nations of the world, as the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF U.S. CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, because the 9th of August 1945 was the day on which the city of Nagasaki was unnecessarily destroyed by a second atomic attack. A bombardment of genocidal magnitude that was carried out in order to send a deterrent message to the Soviet Union about U.S. power and that resulted in a brutal massacre of the civilian population. May this date be one of many that could serve as a disgraceful reminder to civilization of America’s role in the history of the last century and its contempt for human life.

All the peoples of the world who feel united by fraternal ideals, by principles of peaceful coexistence and harmony in diversity, can raise this universal slogan to allow Civilization to continue an edifying path based on equality before the law and with an international law freed from hegemonies and sectarian dominations.

THE UNDERSIGNED, WHO DECLARE OURSELVES MILITANTS FOR ANOTHER POSSIBLE WORLD

Pedro Calzadilla, Venezuela

Atilio Boron, Docente UNDAv / CCC IEALC-UBA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Stella Calloni, Periodista REDH Cap. Argentina

Paula Klachko, Docente UNPAZ-UNDAV / Coordinadora del cap. Argentina REDH

Marco Teruggi, Argentina/Venezuela

Tim Anderson, Australia

Hugo Moldiz, Bolivia

Maria Nela Prada, Bolivia

Marilia Guimaraes, Brasil

Carlos Alberto (Beto) Almeida, Brasil

Pablo Sepúlveda Allende, Chile/Venezuela

Omar González, Cuba

Adhesiones REDH- Capítulo argentino

Fernando Buen Abad – Filósofo – UNLa. REDH Cap. Argentina

Sergio Arria – Comunicador Venezolano y Argentino. REDH Cap. Argentina

Alejo Brignole – Escritor. REDH Cap. Argentina

Jorge Rachid – Médico. REDH Cap. Argentina

Telma Luzzani – periodista y analista internacional. REDH Cap. Argentina

Carlos Aznarez – Director Resumen Latinoamericano. REDH Cap. Argentina

Andrea Vlahusic – Abogada Mopassol. REDH Cap. Argentina

Luis Wainer – Docente UNAHUR/ Coordinador AEN-CCC. REDH Cap. Argentina

Nicolás Canosa – Investigador CENACK. REDH Cap. Argentina

Matías Caciabue – Docente UNAHUR / Investigador CLAE. REDH Cap. Argentina

Paula Giménez – Investigadora CLAE. REDH Cap. Argentina

Laura Capote – ALBA Movimientos. REDH Cap. Argentina

Laura Vásquez – Cineasta y Documentalista. REDH Cap. Argentina

Mara Espasande – UNLa Centro de Investigación Manuel Ugarte. REDH Cap. Argentina

Héctor Hussein – Teatro Comunitario Pompapetriyasos. REDH Cap. Argentina

Javier Tolcachier – Centro Humanista Córdoba. REDH Cap. Argentina

Juan López – CEFMA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Javier Calderón – CELAG / CCC / Investigador IEALC-UBA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Tania Ferreira – Brasil, Voluntaria APDH. REDH Cap. Argentina

Verónica Zapata – Psicóloga y profesora teatro, activista Boliviana. REDH Cap. Argentina

Silvina Romano – AEN-CCC / Investigadora de CONICET. REDH Cap. Argentina

Ibán Díaz Parra – AEN-CCC. REDH Cap. Argentina

José Seoane – Instituto Tricontinental. REDH Cap. Argentina

Sebastián Salgado – Docente UNLP / Hispan TV. REDH Cap. Argentina

Juliana Marino – Ex embajadora argentina en Cuba. REDH Cap. Argentina

Manuel Santos Iñurrieta – Teatro CCC. REDH Cap. Argentina

Daniel Campione – Investigador FICYP /Prof. UBA y UNLP. REDH Cap. Argentina

Beatriz Rajland – Directora FICYP / ATTAC. REDH Cap. Argentina

Paola Gallo – Abogada Mopassol. REDH Cap. Argentina

Cynthia García – Periodista. REDH Cap. Argentina

Edgado Esteban – Periodista. REDH Cap. Argentina

Héctor Bernardo – periodista. REDH Cap. Argentina

Juan Francisco Martínez Peria – Historiador, AEN-CCC. REDH Cap. Argentina

Miguel Mazzeo – Docente e investigador UBA-UNLA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Néstor Kohan – Filósofo UBA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Guillermo Wierzba – Economista. REDH Cap. Argentina

Paula Ferre – Cantautora. REDH Cap. Argentina

Gabo Sequeira – Cantautor. REDH Cap. Argentina

Jorge Elbaum – Sociólogo, Director Llamamiento Judío de la Argentina. REDH Cap. Argentina

Gabriel Merino – Director CEFIPES. REDH Cap. Argentina

Julio Gambina – Presidente FISyP y Director IEF-CTA Autónoma. REDH Cap. Argentina

Julio Ferrer – Escritor. REDH Cap. Argentina

Lautaro Rivara – Sociólogo CECS – brigadista en Haití. REDH Cap. Argentina

Liliana Demirdjian – Socióloga docente UBA-UNSAM. REDH Cap. Argentina

Magalí Gómez – Periodista. UNLa. REDH Cap. Argentina

Ana Maria Ramb – Escritora. REDH Cap. Argentina

Aurelio Narvaja – Editorial Colihue. REDH Cap. Argentina

Daniel Feipeler – Lic. Informática. REDH Cap. Argentina

Mariana Vázquez – Prof. UBA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Aldana Martino – FUTURA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Germán Leyens – Filósofo. REDH Cap. Argentina

Amilcar Salas Oroño – Politologo. REDH Cap. Argentina

Marcelo Rodríguez – Sociólogo CEFMA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Abril García Mur – militante feminista – FUTURA. REDH Cap. Argentina

Jimmy Herrera – Artista. Carta Abierta. REDH Cap. Argentina

Vivian Elem – periodista. REDH Cap. Argentina

Otras adhesiones:

Américo Alvarado, filósofo – Venezuela

Fernando León Jacomino, Cuba

Ángel Guerra, Cuba/México

Ariana López, Cuba

David Alvarado Patiño, Filósofo. REDH – Cap. Venezolano

Manuel Azuaje Reverón, Profesor de Filosofía, escritor – Venezuela

Irene León, Ecuador

Alicia Jrapko, EE.UU

Alejo Brignole, escritor – Argentina

Javier Couso, España

Arantxa Tirado, España

Nayar López, México

Luis Hernández Navarro, México

Fernando Buen Abad, México/Argentina

Katu Arkonada, País Vasco/México

Hildebrando Pérez Grande, Perú

Carmen Bohórquez, Venezuela

Roger Landa, Venezuela

Pasqualina Curcio, Venezuela

Hildebrando Pérez Grande. Coordinador del Capítulo Peruano de la REDH.

Vicente Otta. Ex Vice Ministro de Cultura. Sociólogo, Perú

Juan Cristóbal. Premio nacional de Poesía, Perú

Gustavo Espinoza. Periodista, Perú

Sergio Nolasco. Editor, Perú

Fanny Palacios Izquierdo. Pintora, Perú

Bruno Portuguez. Pintor, Perú

José Luis Ayala. Poeta y periodista, Perú

Diana Bohn, NICCA Co-Coordinator, USA

Rick Sterling, journalist and writer, USA

William Camacaro, activist, USA

Rita Barouch MSW, member of Richmond, Ca.-Regla, Cuba Friendship Committee, USA

Bob Brown, Co-Editor; Pan-African Roots, USA

Banbose Shango, USA

Lee Robinson – President, African Awareness Association Inc. USA

Jane Franklin, Historian and Writer, USA

Denis G. Rancourt, PhD, Researcher, Ontario Civil Liberties Association, USA

Lisa Makarchuk, Canada

Hussein Dirani from Australia

Dr Tim Anderson, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, Sydney, Australia

Gregory Klave, Minneapolis, MN, USA

D Leland Castleberry, Attorney at Law, USA

Julie Rufo, USA

Bill Martinez, Attorney, USA

Simon McGuinness, National Coordinator, Cuba Support Group Ireland

Cheryl LaBash, contributing editor, Struggle La Lucha for Socialism news, US

licia Jrapko, activista, Argentina-USA

Bill Hackwell, photo reportero, USA

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), USA

REDH, Capítulo Venezuela :

Judith Valencia

Alba Carosio

Américo Alvarado

Chela Vargas

Carmen Bohórquez

Beatriz Aiffil

Iván Padilla Bravo

Julio Escalona

Mario Sanoja

Iraida Vargas

Luis Britto García

Alexander Torres

Humberto González

Ana Cristina Bracho

Maria Fernanda Barreto

Nelson Guzmán

María Alcira Matute

Isidoro Hugo Duarte

Christian Valles

Vladimir Lazo García

Fabiola José

Pedro Calzadilla

Omar Galindez

María Eugenia Inojosa

Ximena Benítez

Juan Romero

Jhonny Balza

Manuel Azuaje

Víctor Chirinos

Liliane Blaser

Carola Chávez

Pascualina Curcio

Xavier Sarabia

Carlos Luis Rivero

Hennyz José González (Tony González)

Jhonny García Calles

Edgardo Ramírez

Flor Márquez

Vladimir Acosta

Omar Hurtado

Carlos Azpúrua

Asociaciones y plataformas internacionales (América, Europa y África) que adhieren:

ACR Constantí Llombart, Catalunia

Brigada Artística Tina Modotti

ONGD Africando

Soldepaz Pachakuti

Colectivo Tortilla con Sal, España

El cielo protector, España

Frente Amplio por la Democracia Panamá

Movimiento Autónomo Zapatista (MAZ), México

Izquierda Unida, España

Unidad comunista

Amnistía Internacional

Centro de Promoción y Formación en Derechos Humanos Venezuela

Frente Popular Antiimperialista

Asociación de Amistad Rioja-Cuba

Comité de solidaridad con África Negra Umoya

Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España

ALBA MALTA NORTH AFRICA COORDINACION

Colectivo Ecología I Pau

Universidad de la Filosofía

Asociación hispano-cubana Paz y Amistad de Avilés

Nación Andaluza, España

En pie Miranda de Ebro, España

Presidencia Consejo Superior UNA

PSUV

Consejo Naciónal e internacional de la comunicación popular #Conaicop

Red Intelectuales y Artistas En Defensa de la Humanidad

Comitê Carioca de Solidariedade a Cuba, Brasil

Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies

Comité Internacional Paz, Justicia y Dignidad a los pueblos

Plataforma Canarias Con Venezuela Bolivariana, España

Inimigos do Império

COMITE CHILENO DE SOLIDARIDAD CON PALESTINA

Economíapolítica.uy, Uruguay

Movimiento colombiano de solidaridad con la República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Cada de Amistad HOY POR CUBA

A la contra radio

Asamblea de Tortuguitas

C. Sobrevivientes, Familiares y Compañerxs de Campo de Mayo por Memoria Verdad y Justicia. Argentina

Cátedra Libre Salvador Allende. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Buenos Aires

Cátedra Libre de Pensamiento Latinoamericano «Ernesto Che Guevara»

Red Roja

FUNDACRITICA UPEL-IPM, República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Mundo Lesa

Comité Internacional Lula Libre Zona Norte Bs. As.

Asociación Umoya, Comité de Solidaridad con África Negra Valladolid

Espacio Asambleario de Parque Patricios, Argentina

Sortu

AndaluSiria, España

CASAL D´AMISTAT AMB CUBA » JOSÉ SÁNCHEZ » DE SANTA COLOMA DE GRAMENET, Catalunya, España

ÁREA ANTIIMPERIALISTA DEL PARTIT COMUNISTA DEL POBLE DE CATALUNYA (PCPC), Catalunia.

Manticore, Movimiento Teatral

MADRES CONTRA LA REPRESION

Associació Amics de Cuba de Lleida, Catalunia

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