September 2000

En film av Maj Wechselman By Sverigespremiär den 29 september i Stockholm på Grand Biografen, i Göteborg på Svea,i Malmö på Spegeln och i Lund på Kine  Denna film är resultatet av det första stora filmsamarbetet mellan Sverige och Sydafrika – 600 statister deltar. När Gandhi steg i land i Sydafrika var han en bortskämt överklassyngling, utbildad som advokat i England. Indier var inte populära i Sydafrika och snart blev Gandhi det nya landets mest skarpögda kritiker. Ändå bildar han en frivillig indisk ambulanskår och blir själv ambulanssoldat i det blodiga Boerkriget. I det isolerade indiska gettot i Johannesburg slår pesten ned. Gandhi ser till att isolera de pestsmittade indierna och improviserar ett pestsjukhus där han själv med ett fåtal andra tar hand om de döende. Ett par år senare gör zuluhövdingen Bambatha uppror i Natal. Åter marscherar Gandhi ut som ambulanssoldat. Men det finns knappast någon sårad europeisk soldat...

LONDON – “It was a famous victory” of large proportions – of that there can be no doubt. President Bill Clinton’s announcement that he was not going to be rushed into implementing a national anti-ballistic missile defence drew not only plaudits from Russia and China which were threatened by it, but from India, Britain and Germany, among many others, all of whom thought from their differing perspectives that it would upset the balance of power in pursuit of a purpose that was at best unproved, at worst ill-thought out and which had all the ingredients of a nasty back-fire when there were other ways of reaching the same end. One last word should be added before the issue leaves the front pages and awaits resurrection, hopefully in new form, under a new president- there is nothing wrong with anti-missile defence, if nuclear disarmament is moving apace. If nuclear weapons were reduced...

Bakgrundsorientering för departementets nya Beredningsgrupp UD använde fyra kriterier vid fördelningen till svenska organisationer. Men kan de förklara varför andra fick och TFF åkte ut? Stiftelsens internationella stödkampanj och appell har vid början av september resulterat i 1136 personliga brev, kommentarer och namnteckningar från en bred krets i 62 länder. Om man bortser ifrån uppskattande kommentarer om TFF är den mest frekventa kommentaren att människor inte finner beslutet om slopande av organisationsbidrag till TFF förenligt med den bild de hade av Sverige och av svensk utrikespolitik. Analysen har skickats utrikesminister Anna Lindh och Beredningsgruppen tillsammans med vår ansökan om bidrag för år 2001. Se också vår analys av vem det är som känner TFF är viktig och se de underbara ord om vårt arbete från runt om i världen. 1. UTGÅNGSPUNKTER Den Transnationella Stiftelsen för Freds- och Framtidsforskning, TFF, i Lund har sedan 1991 haft förmånen att få organisationsbidrag ifrån UD, till en...

Migrated from the TFF legacy site archive. In their own voice What people around the world wrote to and about TFF 1136 letters, comments and signature by September 12 – and more come in every day! From people of all walks of life in 62 countries. We did not know that we had SO MANY friends. More than one-third chose to not only write their name in support of TFF but also add very warm, sometimes strong, appreciaiton of our work. You may find your own words here. We are overwhelmed. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. All messages were copied and sent on September 14 to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, HE Anna Lindh and to the Ministry’s preparatory committee which recommends which organisations to give organisztional support. Please see also the analysis of the worldwide constituencies and our analysis in Swedish of the Ministry’s decision....

What people around the world wrote to and about TFF 1136 letters, comments and signature by September 12 – and more come in every day! From people of all walks of life in 62 countries. We did not know that we had SO MANY friends. More than one-third chose to not only write their name in support of TFF but also add very warm, sometimes strong, appreciaiton of our work. You may find your own words here. We are overwhelmed. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. All messages were copied and sent on September 14 to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, HE Anna Lindh and to the Ministry’s preparatory committee which recommends which organisations to give organisztional support. Please see also the analysis of the worldwide constituencies and our analysis in Swedish of the Ministry’s decision. The Swedish government shoul be proud to support TFF and its efforts to a...

LONDON – It seems a strange time to organize a millennium meeting of the world’s heads of government at the UN this week. What are they supposed to do? What are they supposed to say? Is anything new afoot? (Indeed one could ask, in all seriousness, are there enough toilets for them all with their mammoth entourages?) Isn’t it the same old dreary UN that everyone loves to use as a punch-bag and which they occasionally run to when they are in trouble? The millennium changes nothing- eight months on that is very clear. The thing that could give the UN a jolt, a charge, that would give it a chance of re-capturing its old idealism is not a poorly prepared meeting of bosses, nor is it a new Secretary General. It would be for the world’s only superpower to take it seriously. Not only does the U.S. need to pay...