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Office report 2007-08
The WRI Staff and Executive Committee report for the current year is now available in English (HTML or PDF).
The September 2008 WRI appeal is now online in German, English, Spanish, and French.
WRI Council and seminar in Bilbao
The 2008 WRI Council meeting will take place in Bilbao, Basque Country from 29-31 October. There will be a public event on 1 November in Donostia/San Sebastian, focusing on nonviolence and the Basque conflict.
Prior to the Council, from 26-29 October, WRI will hold a three-day International Nonviolence Training Exchange. Please note that participation for the training exchange is by invitation only. If you are a trainer or have experience in nonviolence training and you are interested in participating in the exchange please contact the WRI office to coordinate your participation. Read more here in English and Spanish.
Practical information for both events can be found here in English.
WRI Programmes
Nonviolence
The 2008 European Social Forum (ESF) took place in Malmö, Sweden in September. A report (actually an issue of the <wri-info> e-newsletter) can be read here in English and Spanish.
War Starts from Europe is the title of the 14-15 November 2008 days of action against the European military infrastructure. Read about it here in English, French, and Spanish.
The September issue of The Broken Rifle also follows this theme; read it here in English (HTML or PDF), Spanish (HTML or PDF), French (HTML, or PDF) and German (HTML or PDF)
The 14th issue of War Profiteers' News, our email newsletter, is now online in English and Spanish. You can subscribe to the newsletter either as email or as an RSS feed or consult past issues through the web archive.
The Right to Refuse to Kill
The October issue of CO Update is online in English. You can subscribe by email, or subscribe to the CO-Update RSS feed.
Colombia
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has just released an "opinion" (non-binding judgement) on recruitment in Colombia, charaterizing it as "arbitrary detention". Read a press release here in English or Spanish and the full text of the opinion in Spanish.
Quinto mandamiento, a new youth anti-militarist group in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, has posted its manifesto in English and Spanish.
A Flash slideshow from Colombian affiliate ACOOC is now available in English as well as Spanish.
Andreas Speck's ICOD speech in Cali, Colombia [titled "Objeción de conciencia en el mundo: el derecho a la objeción de conciencia y estándares internacionales"] is available here in Spanish.
Statements and alerts
Red Juvenil, WRI's affiliate in Medellín, Colombia, has received death threats in the name of "Las Aguilas Negras" (Black Eagles), a name widely used by groups of supposedly demoblised paramilitaries. This followed two incidents: one where a group demanded protection money from an eco-shop that shares the premises of Red Juvenil, and the other on 15 May when Red Juvenil were organising an antimilitarist concert.
Read the WRI executive's statement here in German, English, French, and Spanish, and Red Juvenil's statement in English and Spanish. Both statements include email addresses for letters of solidarity and protest (which ideally should be sent in Spanish).
War tax resistance
War Resisters' International has been asked to explain to Inland Revenue why it has not paid a portion of its employees' income tax deductions. Office coordinator Andreas Speck has sent the following letter in response.
Links to earlier correspondence with Inland Revenue, and with the 2002 and 2004 court cases which resulted, can be read on the war tax resistance page.
Website notes
Language monitor: Of the 25 most recent articles posted to this website, 13 are in English, 2 in German, 2 in French, and 8 in Spanish.
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