27/09/2025
The "summit of poets for Peace" (against war, neofascism and for the People-World) was held successfully in Paris-La Courneuve, on the 19,20 and 21 of Sept. 2025. 45 poets coming from the different parts of the world took part in this meeting. Despite the refusal of several visas by the French Foreign Affairs. We welcomed the Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Comak, who was released after 30 years in jail. We supported the poets and people of Gaza and Palestine, people suffering because of war in Ukraine, in Africa...
We had readings, talks, music, meeting with people... and we adopted a final Address.
Address to all
Adopted by the poets, writers, and artists gathered at the RESPAIX conference�(Poets of the Planet, September 19, 20, and 21, 2025 in Paris - La Courneuve) - PROJECT -
We can explore the black holes of the universe, but we allow black holes to expand around us and within us, opening beneath our feet and in our own consciousness, and capable of engulfing us.
Everything is happening today as if international law, which was more or less imposed after the two world wars, no longer exists. It is the reign of the law of the strongest. In all areas. Peaceful coexistence is forgotten, and war is once again considered normal; in the economy, as in relations between states, even in relations between individuals. We can invade a neighboring country, send young people to their deaths, and massacre civilians, like in the war in Ukraine.
One can organize genocide, deliberately starve and thirst millions of human beings—men, women, and children—with the aim of making them disappear or forcing them into exile, as it is happening in Gaza, before our eyes, right now.
The most brutal racism, which consists of denying others their very human status, is once again openly advocated by statesmen.
More generally, almost no one takes into consideration the right of peoples to self-determination; this would nevertheless be an essential element in resolving many conflicts.
At a time when global warming is becoming evident and fires and climate disasters are multiplying across the Earth's surface, the most developed countries, instead of mobilizing to jointly address humanity's common challenges, are engaging in a new arms race.
This is, of course, a way to revive business, but it's not just that. Faced with the emergence of new powers and the relative decline of old empires, it is once again (as before the two first World Wars) a matter of sharing the world and its wealth.
But also, through the militarization of minds, of curbing protests against corruption and injustices that arouse public outrage.
Given the insane accumulation of weapons, especially nuclear weapons, the slightest of these conflicts could lead us toward a new global conflagration. The power humanity holds in its hands is such that it can undoubtedly overcome its most difficult problems, but also self-destruct and destroy its own conditions of existence.
But it is not written in the stars that humanity is ready to commit su***de.
We know that all wars aimed at changing the balance of power necessarily end in discussions and we refuse to allow the lives of children, women, and men to be wasted.
As poets, writers, artists, men and women of language, we know that it is through words that we access humanity. And it is through words that humanity can save itself. The power of language must replace the language of force, and dialogue must prevail over the unequal and murderous monologue of weapons.
Of course, a poem or a song cannot stop a missile. But we are not powerless. We can speak the truth, denounce the guilty, and restore a vigor to the reasons for hope. We are here not only to save honor, but also to assert a pro-peace cultural movement.
In the face of war, in the face of the failure of ultra-liberal globalization, which everywhere engenders the rise of chauvinism and neofascism, we can uphold the idea that we all belong to the same nation, multicolored and united, the inhabitants of the Earth.
We salute the peoples who are mobilizing and this new generation that is rising up everywhere, sharing indignation and fraternity. We are the People-World, the people of women and men who come from the four corners of the earth and who find themselves here and everywhere, because "the center of the world is everywhere and with us." We are part of this people of men and women in solidarity with their fellow men and with life on earth, this potential People-World who must attain consciousness and existence because it is through them that our common salvation will come. As artists, writers, poets, we have no higher aspiration than to contribute to this.
