Dear Pen-Lers: I would urge you to consider reading and adhereing to this initiative : http://www.vdw-ev.de/manifest for an updating of the original Potsdam document fromsome 50 years ago.
David Barkin Origianl message: On Friday, October 14th, the Potsdam Manifesto > 2005 and the extended version, the Potsdam > 'Denkschrift' 2005 was presented to the public in > Berlin. At the same time the international > signing process was opened - beyond the first > signatories. > > We are interested to collect more signatories > from all continents and cultures embracing all > topics and disciplines. You find attached an > actual list of the first signees (up to November > 3), but further signatures are coming in daily. > > We need now the further support from all strands > of life and work, from all disciplines and > cultures. Signing the Manifesto and adding > constructive comments may be a good way to > strengthen this evolutionary process. > > We urgently need the active assistance of people > who clearly see the necessity of basic change. > > Let us phrase this in more explicit terms: > > To safeguard a future for humankind in peace and > to preserve the vitality of the earth in which we > are existentially embedded it is necessary to > initiate an intensive intercultural discourse to > promote creative thinking to support diversity > and in addition a cooperative, organismic > integration of this rich diversity. > > For this process all are needed. > > Through workshop discusssions, salons, > symposiums, articles and public discussions > - at the locations where we live, in our institutions and networks, we can strengthen this movement which has already started on many levels all over the world. > > We call on you and invite you to support this > process actively! > > A radical re-orientation in the relationship of > us human beings with each other and to our living > earth is required. Many questions will be posed > to us in this long and difficult transition > process and have to be resolved. > > We received a good, critical resonance from the > media - and now the question is put to us: How > does this continue? > > With only 11 prominent signatures Bertrand > Russell and Albert Einstein in 1955 turned to the > governments of the world. But not the governments > reacted. It were the scientists who started to > pick up the challenge. And this will not be > enough. > > The Potsdam Manifesto together with the Potsdam > 'Denkschrift' 2005 will be available soon at the > Oekom Publishing House, Munich (ISBN No. > 3-86581-012-8). You can download both as pdf-files > http://www.vdw-ev.de/manifest. > > We keep you up to date - and are pleased about > message and news! > > With cordial greetings > > Hans-Peter Duerr > > Daniel Dahm > -- > _________________________ > > Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr > Max-Planck-Institut für Physik > Foehringer Ring 6 > D-80805 München > > tel. +49(0)-89-32354-280 (office) > fax. +49(0)-89-32354-304 > > eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________ > > Dr. J. Daniel Dahm > Dolzigerstr. 7 > D-10247 Berlin > > tel. +49-(0)30-42087499 > cell +49-(0)179-6966989 > eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________ > > Federation of German Scientists - Vereinigung > Deutscher Wissenschaftler e.V. (VDW) > Marienstr. 19 / 20 > D - 10117 Berlin > _________________________ > ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- David Barkin Mexico __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
