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GANDHI INFORMATION CENTER - INTRODUCTION:
Established in 1990 the GANDHI INFORMATION CENTER has been freely available
for Education and Culture. It has more than a hundred members at home and
abroad, amongst them well-known scientists, artists and authors as e.g.
the Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Count Serge Tolstoy
(1911-1995) and Professor Joseph Needham (1901-1995).
The Gandhi Information Center became well-known all over the world on
account of the distribution of the Manifesto against Conscription and the
Military System. This Manifesto revives attention to two manifestoes signed
by Gandhi, Einstein, Buber, Freud and Tolstoy's assistants Birukoff and
Bulgakov against military training of youth. In the meantime this Manifesto
has been translated into 25 languages and has been signed by more than
200 outstanding personalities from over thirty different countries.
Since 1990 the Gandhi Information Center for Research and Education
on Nonviolence, has organised educational activities with publications
about the Life and Achievement of Mahatma Gandhi. The Gandhi Information
Center has made contacts all over the world and contributes to an international
network.
The nonviolent, active resistance as developed and lived by Gandhi is
to serve as focus and support. Connected with this the active members wish
to document the origins of Nonviolence in multifold traditions (e.g. the
nonviolent doctrine of Tolstoy in Russia, the Civil Disobedience of Henry
David Thoreau, the Civil Rights Movement of Martin Luther King in the USA,
the Social Ethics of John Ruskin in England, the Arc communities of Lanza
del Vasto in France as well as the reasons of conscience of religious conscientious
objectors in Austria and Germany).
Satyagraha was the title under which the Gandhi Information Center has
recently published information for its members. The first two issues were
dedicated to the commemoration of Gandhi's 125th birthday and our correspondences
to the followers of Leo Tolstoy in Russia.
Support the Gandhi Information Center, P.O.Box (Postfach) 210109, 10501
Berlin
Our e-mail-address is: mkgandhi@snafu.de
Our internet website is: http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi
The annual membership is 180 Euro, reduced membership is or 60 Euro.
Financial support of the volunteer work of our Center is requested for
account number 495283-106, Postbank Berlin, Bank Code 100 100 10 - -
BIC: PBNKDEFF - IBAN: DE77 1001 0010 0495 2831 06
This manifesto has been translated into more than 25 languages and
it has been signed by many signatories, among them four Nobel Peace Laureates.
It is aimed to have the Manifesto signed by more individuals who are publicly
active in Peace, Ecology and Human Rights issues or in Scientific and Cultural
spheres.
Please address your signatures (with name, address and date) to the:
Gandhi Information Center, P.O. Box (Postfach) 210109, D-10501 Berlin
MANIFESTO AGAINST CONSCRIPTION AND THE MILITARY SYSTEM
In the name of humanity,
for the sake of all civilians threatened by war crimes,
especially women and children, and
for the benefit of Mother Nature suffering from war preparations and
warfare,
We, the undersigned, plead for the universal abolition of conscription
as one major and decisive step towards complete disarmament.
We remember the message of 20th century-humanists:
"It is our belief that conscript armies, with their large corps of professional
officers, are a grave menace to peace. Conscription involves the degradation
of human personality, and the destruction of liberty. Barrack life, military
drill, blind obedience to commands, however unjust and foolish they may
be, and deliberate training for slaughter undermine respect for the individual,
for democracy and human life.
It is debasing human dignity to force men to give up their life, or
to inflict death against their will, or without conviction as to the justice
of their action. The State which thinks itself entitled to force its citizens
to go to war will never pay proper regard to the value and happiness of
their lives in peace. Moreover, by conscription the militarist spirit of
aggressiveness is implanted in the whole male population at the most impressionable
age. By training for war men come to consider war as unavoidable and even
desirable." (1)
"Conscription subjects individual personalities to militarism. It is
a form of servitude. That nations routinely tolerate it, is just one more
proof of its debilitating influence.
Military training is schooling of body and spirit in the art of killing.
Military training is education for war. It is the perpetuation of war spirit.
It hinders the development of the desire for peace." (2)
We encourage all people to emancipate themselves from the military system
and, therefore, apply methods of non-violent resistance on the lines of
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, as they were:
Conscientious Objection (by conscripts and professional soldiers, in
war and peace time), Civil Disobedience, War Tax Resistance, Non-Cooperation
with military research, military production and arms trade.
In our age of electronic warfare and media manipulation, we cannot deny
our responsibility to act in time, according to our consciences. It is
high time to demilitarize our minds and our societies, to speak out against
war and all preparations for it.
Now is the time to act, now is the time to create and to live in a way
that saves the lives of others.
(1) Anti-Conscription Manifesto 1926, signed among others by Henri Barbusse,
Annie Besant, Martin Buber, Edward Carpenter, Miguel de Unamuno, Georges
Duhamel, Albert Einstein, August Forel, M.K. Gandhi, Kurt Hiller, Toyohiko
Kagawa, George Lansbury, Paul Loebe, Arthur Ponsonby, Emanuel Radl, Leonhard
Ragaz, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore, Fritz von
Unruh, H.G. Wells
(2) Against Conscription and the Military Training of Youth 1930, signed
among others by Jane Addams, Paul Birukov und Valentin Bulgakov (collaborators
of Leo Tolstoy), John Dewey, Albert Einstein, August Forel, Sigmund Freud,
Arvid Jaernefelt, Toyohiko Kagawa, Selma Lagerloef, Judah Leon Magnes,
Thomas Mann, Ludwig Quidde, Emanuel Radl, Leonhard Ragaz, Henriette Roland
Holst, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Upton Sinclair, Rabindranath Tagore,
H.G. Wells, Stefan Zweig
Index
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(c) 1997 Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum e.V.; date: 7/2008
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