Press Release 21.1.2002 Dear friends,
attached you find our press release for publication after 22 January 2002. You find the "Manifesto against Conscription and the Military System" on our website: http://www.snafu.de/~mkgandhi/english.htm You find an English language summary of our publications in print on our website: http://www.snafu.de/~mkgandhi/books.htm Sincerely, Christian Bartolf (Chair; Gandhi Information Center) Gandhi Information Center Postfach (P.O. Box) 210109 10501 Berlin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.snafu.de/~mkgandhi Berlin, 21.1.2002 PRESS RELEASE Manifesto against Conscription and the Military System Since the end of the year 1993 the "Gandhi Information Center", a Berlin society for education with international membership, has collected 1.000 signatures of people of integrity, many of them famous, from many countries of all continents, who support the new "Manifesto against Conscription and the Military System ". In addition, the "Gandhi Information Center", after years of archive research, succeeded in documenting four yet almost unknown history texts of manifestoes which had been signed by famous humanists in the tradition line of Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi, among them Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore, Ernst Toller, Arnold Zweig and Stefan Zweig: 1.) "Declaration of Independence of the Spirit" (1919) 2.) "Anti-Conscription Manifesto" (1926) 3.) "Against Conscription and the Military Training of Youth" (1930) 4.) "Nobel Prize Laureates' Manifesto Appeal" (1981) These two new publications published in English resp. German languages can now be received via international book order or via email: "Manifesto against Conscription and the Military System" ISBN 3-930093-16-2 - pp.105 ; 7,57 Euro in Germany; 7,80 Euro abroad "Manifest gegen die Wehrpflicht und das Milit�rsystem" ISBN 3-930093-17-0 - pp.120 ; 7,57 Euro in Germany; 7,80 Euro abroad sgd. Christian Bartolf (Chair; Gandhi Information Center)
