Dear friends & supporters,
we get in touch with you again because you signed the petition "Irish friends vote no for me" last year.
Unfortunately, the Irish government and the EU did not respect the Irish vote against the Lisbon treaty. Instead, the Irish people should vote again "in the right way" now on October 2nd 2009.
In order to convince the Irish electorate to vote Yes, their own government and the EU Council have made - legally non-binding - promises regarding neutrality, their own EU commissioner, tax law and abortion. However, they will be voting a second time on exactly the same treaty as before.
In our view, it is just as undemocratic to have an electorate vote on the same issue twice as it is to simply ignore the three previous plebiscites.
That´s why we launched a new campaign website for a peaceful, social, ecological and democratic Europe:
http://www.no-means-no.eu
Please, have a look at our website, sign the new petition and spread the info! Help us to stop this undemocratic treaty!
Attached you´ll find a web banner which can be freely used to promote our campain. Thanks again for your support!
Yours faithfully,
Paula Polak, Christian Felber & Stephan Siber