Send a Red Card to Mugabe – Avaaz campaign
This extract below comes from the Avaaz website – please visit this link and participate, and if you are in South Africa, please join in the Saturday protest march. Please forward this information to everyone you know.
Hopes for a deal between Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangarai that would resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe are slipping away.
Yesterday Mugabe stated he would form a government and would open parliament next week. If Southern African leaders, who hold a summit this weekend, reject Mugabe’s attempt to hold onto power, and stand by the will of the people of Zimbabwe – a political solution is possible.
The key to influencing these leaders are their citizens and trade unionists. We can join with thousands of them, who will be marching on Saturday outside the summit, by raising a red card calling for Mugabe to go. [Visit the website] to send a red card and then forward this email to your friends and family. Your red card will be held up at the summit march.
The text accompanying the petition signatures reads:
We, the undersigned, issue a red card for Mugabe — and urge Southern African leaders not to recognise Mugabe as President; to acknowledge that the Mbeki-brokered talks have failed — and to urgently devise a new negotiating process to bring a just and democratic resolution to Zimbabwe’s crisis.
