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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 2. Oktober 2008 / Time Line October 2, 2008
Version 3.51. Oktober 2008, 3. Oktober 2008
10/02/2008
Den britiske regering beslutter at sende tropper til Irak for at
'beskytte olieinstallationer ved Abadan',
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10/02/2008
Mohandas
Gandhis fødselsdag mindes, bl.a. i Gandhis
Plæne på Nørrebro i København.
10/02/2008
Gandhi Service Day
Dear Friends,
It's a pleasure for me to join today in commemorating Mahatma
Gandhi's day of birth, celebrated across America and around the
world by service to our neighbors and other good works. Gandhi's
commitment to creating positive change by bringing people together
peacefully to demand it resonate as strongly today as they did
during his lifetime. Through the power of his example and his own
unshakeable spirit, he inspired a people to resist oppression,
sparking a revolution that freed a nation from colonial rule. In
formulating his strategy to achieve freedom, Gandhi had a choice,
and he chose courage over fear.
America faces many choices as we work to address the challenges of
our time. We must act from a place of strength and conviction to
reclaim the high road and position of moral leadership that has
defined the United States at its best. Gandhi's significance is
universal. Countless people around the world have been touched by
his spirit and example – his victory in turn inspired a
generation of young Americans to peacefully wipe out a system of
overt oppression that had endured for a century, and more recently
led to velvet revolutions in Eastern Europe and extinguished
apartheid in South Africa. Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke of their great debt to Gandhi. His
portrait hangs in my office to remind me that real change will not
come from Washington - it will come when the people, united, bring
it to Washington.
This is a pivotal election. This is our time for change. For far
too long, we've watched as ordinary Americans work harder and
harder for less and less. We've watched our standing in the world
erode as we continue to lose American lives in a war that should've
never been authorized and never been waged. I need you to stand up
and work for change. Let us all rededicate ourselves, every day
from now until November 4 th, and beyond, to living Gandhi's call
to be the change we wish to see in the world. Sincerely,
Barack Obama
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