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| GurL_Interrupted | Posted
on 02-Nov-03 12:34 PM
"NOV. 9 GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL'S "SEPARATION" WALL" In June 2002, Israel began building a massive wall through Palestine\'s West Bank, a wall designed to physically separate Palestinians and Israelis from one another. Falsely termed a \"security barrier\" by the Israeli military, the Wall is part of the largest land grab Israel has launched since it occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem in 1967. Israel has used the Wall\'s construction to take over the lands of dozens of Palestinian communities. The Wall is dividing Palestinian cities, towns and villages, trapping Palestinians in open-air prisons reminiscent of apartheid South Africa and depriving them of access to their livelihoods, markets, hospitals, and schools. When completed, the Wall will in effect annex nearly 50% of the West Bank to Israel. Without active U.S. political and financial support, Israel would not be able to build this Wall and pursue its land grab. November 9th will kick off a week of international education and action to stop the Wall. On that day thousands will promote freedom for the Palestinian people and peace and security for all in a global day of action against the Wall. In response to a call from the Palestinian Environmental NGO Network and Palestine Monitor, United for Peace and Justice encourages all supporters of peace and justice to participate in this important day of action. UFPJ member groups like the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, the American Friends Service Committee, Al-Awda, Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel, and SUSTAIN (Stop U.S. Tax Aid to Israel Now) are organizing activities across the country. Join UFPJ as we demand that the U.S. pressure the Israeli government to stop building and begin dismantling the Wall now! UFPJ RESOURCES FOR NOV. 9 ACTIVITIES On November 9th, educate yourself and your community about the impact of this new wall. If you're already organizing on this issue or just want to learn more, United for Peace and Justice has put together resources to give you a hand. At UFPJ's website (http://www.unitedforpeace.org), you'll find: - a downloadable mobilizing leaflet for November 9 - ideas for what you can do and tools to help you out - a calendar of November 9 events across the US. Post or find events in your community! TEN THINGS YOU CAN DO ON NOVEMBER 9th TO MAKE THE WALL FALL 1. Distribute fact sheets about the Wall to raise awareness of the issue in your community. Download facts sheets at: http://stopthewall.org/news/factsheets.shtml. 2. Organize a demonstration, vigil, teach-in, or street theater to highlight the devastating consequences of the Wall for Palestinians living in the West Bank. Publicize your event by submitting information to: http://unitedforpeace.org/calendar_gxinput.php and: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/calendar_input.php 3. Distribute an activist resource packet entitled \"The Wall Defeats the Roadmap.\" Download this on-line packet, put together by the Boston-Area Working Group on the Wall, at: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=64 4. Gather signatures to protest the Wall. Download a petition at: http://stopthewall.org/downloads/pdf/englishpetition.pdf 5. Construct a Mock Wall to draw attention to your public event and to dramatize its impact. Instructions on how to build a replica of the Wall can be found at: http://www.stopthewall.us/wallreplica.htm 6. Download a PowerPoint presentation with maps of the Wall and an analysis of its political, economic, and social implications. The presentation can be used effectively for teach-ins or public speaking events and can be found at: http://stopthewall.org/activistresources/59.shtml 7. Contact the White House, State Department, and your Members of Congress and demand that the United States deduct money from Israel's loan guarantees to match the amount of money that Israel is spending on the Wall and other illegal settlement activities in the Palestinian occupied territories. Talking points and contact information can be found at: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=234 8. Write letters to the editor and op-eds for your local newspaper, and call local radio talk shows to discuss the Wall and urge deductions in Israel's loan guarantees. A model op-ed can be found at: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=248 9. Print t-shirts against the Wall. A t-shirt design reading \"Stop the Wall in Palestine\" can be downloaded at: http://stopthewall.org/activistresources/60.shtml 10. Sign up to receive email updates about the Wall. Subscribe to a list-serve run by the Stop the Wall Campaign at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stop_the_wall/ |
| GurL_Interrupted | Posted
on 02-Nov-03 12:35 PM
BACKGROUND At the end of July 2003, the Israeli government misleadingly announced the completion of the \"first phase\"-145 km from some 600km-of the Wall that it began erecting inside the West Bank in June 2002. In fact, bulldozers continue to ravage the northern West Bank by building buffer zones and expanding sections of the Wall. The Wall-falsely declared a \"security barrier\" by the Israeli military-is the largest land grab since the Occupation began in 1967; when completed the Wall will de-facto annex nearly 50% of the West Bank by the Israeli government. The Wall effectively annexes West Bank land on which Illegal Jewish-only settlements were built and confiscates prime resources, turning the West Bank into a series of cantons and enclaves in a bantustanization of the area. The Wall has already taken over the lands of dozens of Palestinian communities and stolen the livelihoods of thousands of families in the northern West Bank as well as in the Jerusalem and Bethlehem areas. The US Administration has yet to exert pressure on the Israeli government to stop building and start dismantling the Wall. It is up to US citizens to demand that the US Administration hold the Israeli Government accountable for international law, and to coordinate their actions to stop the Wall and promote freedom for the Palestinian people and peace and security for all. The communities affected by the Wall, under the umbrella of the Palestinian-led campaign against the Wall, declared November 9th the "International Day Against the Wall" to coincide with the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This date is also the sixty-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the day rampaging mobs attacked Jews in the streets of Germany, Austria, and Poland, in their homes and at their places of work and worship. This November 9 let all who stand for peace and justice pause to remember those whose rights have been taken from them and stand up for freedom from occupation and equal rights for all. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: - Stop the Wall! Campaign: http://www.stopthewall.org - Electronic Intifada: http://electronicintifada.net/ - B'Tselem: Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: http://www.btselem.org - Israeli Committee Against Home - Demolitions: http://www.icahd.org - Palestine Monitor: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/ - A Jewish Voice for Peace: http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org ------------------------------------------ Be a Voice 4 those who have 4gotten to use their own OR r in situations where they are unable to use it! Ur voice can save many marginalized lives, who are being taken advantage of! |