[WCUSP] Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: Friday rally marks International Day of Action to Stop the Siege of Gaza.

[yvonne simmons]

--- William Seaman <wseaman at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: "William Seaman" <wseaman at comcast.net>
> To: <wseaman at comcast.net>
> Subject: PRESS RELEASE:  Friday rally marks
> International Day of Action to Stop the Siege of
> Gaza.
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:27:56 -0800
> 
> MEDIA ADVISORY              MEDIA ADVISORY          
>    MEDIA ADVISORY
> 
> For Immediate Release
> Portland Peaceful Response Coalition
> 
> Event:  Friday rally marks International Day of
> Action to Stop the Siege of
> Gaza.
> Date:	 Friday, December 1, 2006
> Time:  5:00 p.m.
> Place:  Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Broadway & SW
> Yamhill, downtown
> Portland
> 
> Contacts:
> PPRC
> (503) 344-5078
> pprcnews at yahoo.com
> www.pprc-news.org
> 
> Friday rally marks International Day of Action to
> Stop the Siege of Gaza,
> calls for immediate suspension of US military aid to
> Israel.
> 
> Along with Women’s International League for Peace
> and Freedom, Women in
> Black and other local peace and justice groups,
> PPRC’s Friday rally marks an
> International Day of Action to Stop the Siege of
> Gaza,1 calling on the US
> government to suspend military aid to Israel. 
> “Israel’s military has killed
> nearly 400 Palestinians in Gaza since June, at least
> 75 children, and the
> Israeli assault has caused serious and ongoing
> shortages in electricity,
> water and food,” said William Seaman, a volunteer
> with PPRC and a member of
> Jewish Voice for Peace.  “As US taxpayers, we are
> financing the imposed
> malnutrition, the crippling of medical care and
> sanitation services and the
> deepening social crisis resulting from the Israeli
> siege.”
> 
> PPRC and other peace and human rights groups are
> urging that pressure be put
> on the government of Israel to end the siege. 
> “We’re asking folks to
> contact their representatives in Washington, DC, to
> demand an end to the
> illegal US support for Israel’s aggression in Gaza
> and an end to the
> economic blockade against the Palestinian
> government, a form of collective
> punishment that has contributed to the current
> crisis.”
> 
> Nine Israeli human rights organizations have issued
> a joint call to the
> international community to ensure human rights in
> the Gaza Strip.  The
> organizations include B’Tselem (the Israeli
> Information Center for Human
> Rights in the Occupied Territories), Association for
> Civil Rights in Israel,
> Amnesty International – Israel Section, Bimkom:
> Planners for Planning
> Rights, HaMoked: Center for Defense of the
> Individual, Gisha: Center for the
> Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement, Physicians
> for Human Rights –
> Israel, Public Committed Against Torture in Israel,
> and Rabbis for Human
> Rights.  For more information, please visit
> www.gazasiege.net ,
> www.endtheoccupation.org or
> www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org or call (503)
> 344-5078.
> 
> 1.  The International Day of Action to Stop the
> Siege of Gaza is set for
> December 2nd and will be marked by demonstrations in
> Israel and throughout
> the world, including actions in over 80 cities.
> 
> - END -
> 
> 



 
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