Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases

Hello friends,

Here are latest news from our struggle against the US Missile Defense:

This week was a very important week in our struggle. Both chambers of our parliament planned to vote on this issue. And none of them did!!!

Yesterdays and todays meetings of the chamber of deputies were a success for us – the government didn’t manage to get to the actual voting on the treaty ratification (due to the time constraints and the big number of speakers from the oposition). It seems that they won’t vote on it tomorrow, either (that will be the last day of this session), so this session will end without this issue being voted on.

Also, the Senate has decided not to vote on this issue today. We think that the letters that we all have sent to many of the senators had a strong influence on their final decision.

Both chambers may vote on this issue during their next sessions. However, there will be a very different situation in the Senate by then, since about one third of all senators will be replaced by the newly elected senators (most of whom are radar opponents!) The people in the chamber of deputies will be the same, but with the current turbulence within the government many things will surely change, so we may have much better chances then than we have now.

The Prime minister announced during the Wednesday session that he would like the debate about this issue in the chamber of deputies to be expanded by 60 more days. So it could take 120 days before the final ratification vote would take place in this chamber. The lower chamber of the parliament will probably meet again around November 11th, so we have time until then to continue our pressure. So far so good!

Thanks for your support! We won one very important battle. But the war is not over yet! So let’s keep the pressure strong.

With very warm greetings from Prague

Jan Tamas

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
www.space4peace.org
globalnet@mindspring.com
http://space4peace.blogspot.com (Blog)

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Joint Committe on Human Rights: Policing and Protest
The Committee heard evidence from the first panel followed by the second panel, on Tuesday 21 October 2008 at 2 pm

CAAB was in the second panel.
Here is a video of the meeting.

Previous relevant posts on the CAAB website:
Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (Posted October 24th, 2008)
CAAB submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (Posted October 13th, 2008)

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2 October 2009 – 2 January 2010

CAAB plans to work with the Humanist Forum to bring them past Menwith Hill.

World March for Peace (brochure in pdf format)

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BBC News: 22 October 2008

Exiles of the Chagos Islands will not be able to return to their homeland, the House of Lords has ruled. … He added: “Our appeal to the House of Lords was not about what happened in the 1960s and 1970s. It was about decisions taken in the international context of 2004.” … The exiled residents had hoped that if the Law Lords ruling had gone in their favour, their heritage could be rebuilt around a new tourist industry. …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7683726.stm

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BBC News: 22 October 2008

Exiles of the Chagos Islands will not be able to return to their homeland, the House of Lords has ruled. … He added: “Our appeal to the House of Lords was not about what happened in the 1960s and 1970s. It was about decisions taken in the international context of 2004.” … The exiled residents had hoped that if the Law Lords ruling had gone in their favour, their heritage could be rebuilt around a new tourist industry. …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7683726.stm

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The Independent, Thursday, 23 October 2008

War has come to the world’s only Muslim nuclear state. Not just terrorist bombs, but pitched battles bringing refugees down from the mountains and even into Afghanistan. In a powerful dispatch, Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich report on the conflict which has left 200,000 people caught between the Pakistani Army, the Taliban and the tribal warlords.

There was a loud, sharp sound followed by flames and massive blast of wind that threw the young boy twenty yards through the air. It felt as if he had fallen off the mountain. When he pulled himself to his feet, dazed and battered, he discovered nine members of his family were dead and that his mother was badly wounded. All were victims of a deadly artillery shell fired by the Pakistani military battling with Taliban fighters in the country’s mountainous border region. …

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/exclusive-dispatch-pakistans-hidden-war-969784.html

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The Independent, Thursday, 23 October 2008

War has come to the world’s only Muslim nuclear state. Not just terrorist bombs, but pitched battles bringing refugees down from the mountains and even into Afghanistan. In a powerful dispatch, Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich report on the conflict which has left 200,000 people caught between the Pakistani Army, the Taliban and the tribal warlords.

There was a loud, sharp sound followed by flames and massive blast of wind that threw the young boy twenty yards through the air. It felt as if he had fallen off the mountain. When he pulled himself to his feet, dazed and battered, he discovered nine members of his family were dead and that his mother was badly wounded. All were victims of a deadly artillery shell fired by the Pakistani military battling with Taliban fighters in the country’s mountainous border region. …

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/exclusive-dispatch-pakistans-hidden-war-969784.html

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Asia Times Online – Kowloon,Hong Kong
By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON – The final draft of the United States-Iraq Status of Forces agreement on the US military presence represents an even more crushing defeat for the policy of the George W Bush administration than previously thought, the final text reveals.

www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JJ24Ak01.html

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The Associated Press – Fri Oct 24

As of Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, at least 4,186 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths

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The European Humanist Forum, with more than 2000 people from 63 countries and 187 organisations, was held on 17/18/19 October in Milan. Lindis Percy was one of the speakers.

www.humanistforum.eu

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