Ceasefire Now !
On March 9th, an open letter was sent to the United Nations Secretary General to convey our message of peace. We call on the planet’s poets, artists, intellectuals, men and women to shout: Enough is enough! More than 250 persons have already signed!
Ceasefire! Let’s act together to save the chances of life on Earth!
Mister Secretary General,
What is happening in Gaza is unbearable. More than unbearable : it shows us the failure of our civilisation and makes us fear the future reserved for us of humanity as a whole.
Organized famine, massive bombardments, blocked aid convoys, destroyed apartment buildings andhospitals, malnourished children, machine-gunned civilians… Every day pushes the limits of horror. (The self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell shows what individual acts of desperation this can lead to).
According to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, ” as of today, over 100,000 Gazans are either dead, injured or missing and presumed dead.” Including 18 000 children. We need an immediate ceasefire, emergency humanitarian aid and the release of all hostages.
In Ukraine, after more than two years of terrible fightings, there are 500,000 deaths. there is no end to the bloodshed on the horizon and no project of peace on the table. And it transforms a continent that wanted to be based on a project of peace into its opposite.
While we should mobilize all means to confront the challenges facing humanity (climate change, inequalities, material and spiritual poverty), military spending has never reached such heights.
There are currently 56 wars underway in different places around the world and several areas where serious conflicts are brewing. Our planet is on fire.
Are we going to allow ourselves to be happily and unconsciously dragged into a third world war?
We call on the planet’s poets, artists, intellectuals, men and women to shout: Enough is enough! Ceasefire! Let’s act together to save the chances of life on Earth!
Poets of the Planet
250 poets who signed :
Azam Abidov (Uzbekistan) – Paola Agrati (Italy) – Juan Piera Abad (Spain) – Nafia Akdeniz (Cyprus) – Fatma Akilhoca ( Cyprus) – Anas Alaïli (Palestine / France) – Salah al Hamdani (Irak) – Zeki Ali (Cyprus) – Ajay MK (Hong Kong) – Max Alhau (France) – Maram al Masri (Syria / France) – Jorge Aliaga Cacho (Perú) – An Juanying (China) – An Yueyan (China) – Satchi Anandan K. (India) – Jotamario Arbelaéz (Colombia) – Ayo Ayoola-Amale (Ghana) – Ricardo Rojas Ayrala (Argentina) – Hüseyin Bahca (Cyprus) – Attila Balazs (Hungary) – Bedia Balses (Cyprus) -Andrés Bansart (Venezuela) – Gaston Bellemare (Québec) – Julian Ben (Brasil) – Nimrod Bena (Tchad / France) – Bengt Berg (Sweden) – Ataol Behramoglu (Turkey) – Dominique Bergougnoux (France) – Alexis Bernaut (France) – Claudine Bertrand (Québec) – Samuel Binyou (Cameroon) – Victor Blanc (France) – Daniel Boukman (Martinique) – Antoine Boulad (Lebanon) – Jana Boxberger (Czech Republic) – Diana Burazer (Croatia) – Safyie Can (Germany / Turkey) – Maria João Cantinho (Portugal) – Cao Bo (China) – Cao Shui (China) – Michel Cassir (Lebanon / France) – Javier Marin Ceballos (Spain) – Metin Cengiz (Turkey ) – Chi Ya（China） – Elbio Chitaro (Uruguay) – Jim Cohn (USA) – Francis Combes (France) – Giuseppe Conte (Italy) – David Cope (USA) – Gerardo Corrales (Mexico) – Adriana Cortés (Mexico) – Marie-Laure Coulmin-Koutsaftis (Greece / France) – Francesco Cricelli (Brasil / Italy / Iceland) Andy Croft (England) – Luis Cruz Villalobos (Chile) – John Curl (USA) – Qiao Damo (China) – Jina David (Ghana) – Gaby d’Arbel (Mexico) – Manus Dash (India) Christophe Dauphin (France) – Sandra De la Torre Guarderas (Ecuador) – Estrella Del Valle (Mexico) – Alan Dent (England) – Lanor Derkac (Croatie) – Ismaël Diadié Haidara (Mali / Spain) – Stefania Di Leo (Italia) – Nassuf Djailani (Mayotte) – Virginia Lopez Domínguez (Argentina) – Katie Donovan (Ireland) –Germain Droogenbroodt (Belgium) – Vera Duarte (Cabo Verde) – Charles Ducal (Belgium) – Nurduran Duman (Turkey) – Betül Dünder (Turkey) – Deniz Durukan (Turkey) – Panos Eliopoulos (Greece) – Pedro Enriquez (Spain) – Martin Espada (USA) – Giacomo Falchetta (Italy) – Agneta Falk Hirschman (USA / Sweden) – Ashraf Fayad (Palestine) – Antonio Fioritto (Itali) – Laurent Fourcaut (France) – Barbara Gabotto (Italy) – Angelo Gaccione (Italy) – Chen Gefei (China) – Mimi German (USA) – Fabia Ghenzovich (Italy) – Luz Giraldo (Colombia) – Petros Golitsis (Greece) – Isabel González Gil (Spain) – Jennifer Grousselas (France) – Otoniel Guevara (El Salvador) – Oldani Guido (Italy) – Guo Sisi (China) – Halmosi Sandor (Hungary) – Ümit İnatçı (Cyprus) – Emel İrtem (Turkey) – Katia Sofia Hakim (France / Spain) – Han Zhenqiu (China) – Nigar Hasan-Zadeh (Azerbaijan) – Monika Herceg (Croatie) – Alberto Hernández (Venezuela) – David Hollywood (Irlande) – Ruhsan İskifoğlu (Cyprus) – Ji Ziran (China) – Jia Zi (China) – Jing Shengcun (China) – Mike Jenkins (Walles / Cymru) – Abdullahi Lawan Kangala (Nigeria) – Duygu Kankaytsın (Turkey) – Kenia Kano (Mexico) – Halil Karapaşaoğlu (Cyprus) – Eliot Katz (USA) – Aytekin Karaçoban (Turkey) – Entela Kasi (Albania) – Khanh Phuong (Vietnam) – Kieu Bich Hau (Vietnam) – Gisela Kozak Rovero (Venezuela) – Dimitris P. Kraniotis (Grèce) – Edgar Kraus (Mexico) – Abdellatif Laâbi (Morocco / France) – Yusuf Ladna (Nigeria) – Isabelle Lagny (France) Christophe Lamiot (France) – Alain Lance (France) – Patricia Latour (France) – Irina Lazar (Roumania) – Alain (Georges) Leduc (France) – Anna Kathryn Levy (USA) – Anna Lombardo (Italy) – Gerry Loose (Scotland) – Yuleisi Cruz Lescano (Cuba / Italy) – Liu Xiao (China) – Luis Luna (Spain) – Al-Mamum (Nigeria) – Moez Majed (Tunisia) – Sonja Manojlović (Croatia) – Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli (Mexico) – Jean-Claude Martin (France) – Maria José Martinez (Honduras) – Alvaro Mata Guillé (Costa Rica / Mexico) – Mei Ye (China) – – Gloria Mendoza Borda (Perú) – Nancy Montemuro (Argentina) – Sulma Montero (Bolivia) – Burçak Midilli (Cyprus) – Christian Moroy dit Kiko (France) – José Muchnik (Argentina / France) – Eileen Myles (USA) – Francesco de Napoli (Italy) – Gérard Noiret (France) – Tal Nitzan (Israel) – Odoh Okenyodo (Nigeria) – Carmen Ollé Nava (Perú) – Mine Ömer (Cyprus) – Tamer Öncul (Turkey) – Ernesto Román Orozco (Venezuela) – Nilay Özer (Turkey) – Pelin Özer ( Turkey) -Peng Shujin (China) – Jeremy Paden (Puerto Rico) – Anton Papleka (Albania) – Marcos Pamplona (Brasil) – Margherita Parrelli (Italy) – Charles Pennequin (France) – Alberto Pereira (Portugal) – Luís Filipe Pereira (Portugal) – Serge Pey (France) – (Pham Van Anh (Vietnam) – Eric Piette (Belgium) – Richard Pietrass (Germany) – Tania Pleitez (El Salvador) – Jordan Plevnes (Républic of Macedonia) – Barbara Pogačnik (Slovenia) – Jorge Polanco (Chile) – Claudio Porgilia (Argentina) – Denis Pourawa (Kanaky) – Claudia Pozzana (Italy) – Pablo Queralt (Argentina) – Fan Qun (China) – Valeria Raimondi (Italy) – Kala Ramesh (India) – Reshma Ramesh (India) – Johary Ravaloson (France / Madagascar) – Zhu Renfeng (China) – Javier Rey (Colombia) – Ron Ridell (Noew Zeland) – Saray Torres de Ridell (New Zealand) – Max Rippon (Marie Galante / France) – Rubén Rivera (Mexico) – Joanne Rochette (Canada) – Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland) – Habiba Usman Said (Nigeria) – Davor Šalat (Croatia) – Julio Sarabia (Mexico) – Luis Filipe Sarmento (Portugal) – Elisa Scarpa (Portugal) – César Seco (Venezuela) – Aslı Serin ( Turkey) – Shi Jinzhu (China) – Keshab Sigdel (Nepal) – Jean-Pierre Simeon (France) – Dinos Siotis (Greece) – Thór Stefansson (Iceland) – Asunam Susamt (Turkey) – Su Yun (China) – Jüri Talvet (Estonia) – Philipe Tancelin (France) – Cenk Mustafa Tanova (Cyprus) – Tuğçe Tekhanlı (Cyprus) – Gustavo Tisocco (Argentina) – Carlos Luis Torres (Colombia) – Tran Quang Dao (Vietnam) – Sarah Thilykou (Greece) – Lai Tingjie (China) – Shakhawat Tipu (Bangladesh) – Rita Tormenta (Portugal) – Florent Toniello (Luxemburg) – Aliye Ummanel (Cyprus) – Petek Sinem Üstübal ( Turkey) – Adam Vaccaro (Italy) – Van Dien (Vietnam) – Vania Vargas (Guatemala) – Anais Vega (Spain) – Monica Velasco (Spain) – Patrick Verschueren (France) – Enzia Verduchi (Mexico) – Serena Vestene (Italy) – Pierre Vieuguet (France) – Piergiorgio Viti (Italy) – Katarni Vuorinen (Finland) – Les Wicks (Australia) – Christie Williamson (UK) – Enrique Winter (Chile) – Wu Zhe (China) – Xi He (China) – Fatih Yaliner (Cyprus) – Nese Yasin (Cyprus) – Nergihan Yeşilyurt (Turkey) – Yue Jian (China) – Reha Yünlüel (France / Turkey) – Salim Yunusa (Nigeria) – Daizy Zamora (Nicaragua) – Christine Zeytounian (Russia / France) – Zhang Jianjun (China) – Zhang Runsuo (China) – Zi Kong (China).
