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>architectsforpeace > >Dear friends and colleagues, > >Architects for Peace has initiated the following >campaign and petition (see below), this is in relation >to the proposed anti-terrorism legislation and we are >asking you to consider signing the petition and to >assist us to spread the word. Hope you can help. > >What Architects for Peace is highlighting is an issue >of ethical nature and we believe this should be the >concern all intellectuals and, therefore, we thought >that you may be interested. My apologies of you >disagree. In that case, please just disregard this >post. > >Thanking you in anticipation, >architectsforpeace > > >URGENT: Sign up NOW - tell our leaders that Architects >for Peace opposes the anti-terrorism laws. > >(http://www.petitiononline.com/speaknow/petition.html) > >The sedition laws will affect critical political and >creative expression, which nourishes public art, urban >and architectural design. It is not clear to us as to >how removing rights of protest and criticism is >supposed to make us safer. The law threatens the >legality of actions by professional organisations such >as our own who actively pursue independent debate on >the development of our cities. > >We are most concerned to think that our civil rights >and especially our right to voice difference and >dissent are being compromised at the expense of laws >that are seen by many as not only extreme but >unnecessary. (...) > >The shared built environment relies, like public >society, on a degree of trust. We see the new laws as >signalling the decreasing level of trust the >government has in its citizens. As that mutual trust >and conviviality is eroded, this sets a dangerous >precedent, which is quickly reflected in a >hardening/armouring of the public realm. It is the >poor, the young, and the migrants, of non-Anglo >descent, who are most at risk of suffering human >rights abuse and systematic discrimination under these >new laws. We are most concerned that this can too >easily lead to their sense of victimisation and a >hardening into violent resentment from which we will >all suffer. (...) > >Sign the petition NOW: the terrorist legislation or >http://www.petitiononline.com/speaknow/petition.html > >Regards, > >architectsforpeace - http://www.architectsforpeace.org/ >Australia
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