From your community
to the world! From the world to your community! The International No
Foreign Bases Network invites you to join the GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION on
26 January 2008. We invite ALL organizations, networks, and
communities working to abolish foreign military bases  to join
and organize an action on or around the date of 26 January 2008.
The last Global Day of Action on 15 February 2003, protested
the War in Iraq and Afghanistan, with 38 million people participating
from every corner of the globe. 26 January 2008 will mark the second
attempt at an action of this scale, and will be taking the place of
an in-person meeting at a World Social Forum.  Instead we will
meet on the streets to be part of this international day of action.
As a part of this day of action, the International Organizing
Committee of the NO Foreign Bases Network would like to show the
people of the world that there is a growing voice and movement
against the presence and proliferation of foreign military bases in
countries where demands for justice and self-determination are being
thwarted by the expansion of foreign bases. Opposition to
foreign military presence has a long and rich history. Wherever
there’s a military base, there is usually a movement resisting its
encroachment on sovereignty and democracy. Around the world,
communities, social movements, women’s organisations, political
parties, environmental groups, intellectuals and religious groups
have been campaigning in various ways through the years against
foreign military presence, militarisation, and military
interventions. In some cases, such efforts have taken the form of a
specific single-issue campaign. In others, the campaign has been part
of broader movements for independence and social justice. For
the many groups who work on campaigns around the issue of foreign
military presence in their communities, we hope that the 26 January
2008 Global Day of Action can serve as a rallying and unifying call
to further grassroots organising, educational campaigns, and
political mobilization. Let us build on the momentum of the
first-ever international conference against military bases, because A
De-militarized World is Possible and A De-militarized World is
Necessary! INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE ABOLITION OF
FOREIGN MILITARY BASES AND OTHER FORMS OF MILITARY PRESENCE (NO
BASES! NETWORK) January 2007 What will your
organization/alliance/network/group contribute to this historic day?
Register your action at: www.wsf2008.net,
and check out the actions that others have posted. For
detailed instructions on how to post, see
http://www.ggjalliance.org/documents.php?id=100.
Here are examples of actions against foreign military bases
that are already planned for the 26 January 2008 Global Day of
Action: * January 25-27, 2008: New Zealand, WAIHOPAI SPYBASE
PROTEST The public face of New Zealand fs role as an American
ally is the NZ military presence in Afghanistan. But New Zealand fs
most significant contribution to that, and other American wars,
including the one in Iraq, is the Waihopai spybase. Waihopai is
controlled by the US , with New Zealand (including Parliament and the
Prime Minister) having little or no idea what goes on there (let
alone any control). We invite people from around the country to
join us for the weekend of anti-war protest at this spybase. Come
prepared for roughing it and camping out. We provide the food (note:
we cater for vegetarians but vegans will have to bring their own).
Bring sleeping bag, groundsheet, a tent, torch, water bottle, eating
utensils, clothing for all weather, and $40 (or $20 unwaged) to cover
costs. Absolutely no open fires. * January 23 - 10:00am:
Philippines, PROTEST AT US EMBASSY IN MANILA The Philippine
government has been complicit with the US in its occupations of Iraq
and Afghanistan by allowing it to use the Philippines as a staging
ground of its troops and as part of the US global military presence.
US troops are also present in and intervening in Mindanao, site of a
long-running war for self-determination. Thus, the Stop the
War Coalition - Philippines, a broad coalition of social movements
and civil society organizations in the Philippines, will hold a
protest action at the US embassy in Manila with the following calls:
Stop US-led wars of aggression! Philippines out of US war machinery!
US troops out of Mindanao! Apart from this, the Stop the War
Coalition will also participate in other events and actions planned
by various groups in the Philippines as part of the Global Week of
Action and Mobilization. This will include events at a People's Camp
to be held on January 24-25 and a mobilization on January 26.
OTHERS LISTED in www.wsf2008.net.