[WCUSP] WILPF, please endorse this letter to Kofi Annan! UN demonstration today!

[KATHARLOW at aol.com]

A CALL TO ACTION: DEMONSTRATION AT THE  UN
 
PROTEST THE ASSAULT ON THE PALESTINIAN  PEOPLE! 
CALL FOR IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL  PROTECTION FOR PALESTINIANS AND A RELEASE 
OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS!  
When    This Thursday July, 6, 2006, 4:30 p.m. 
Where   1st  Avenue E 47rd St., NY (Dag Hammarskjold Park – Few blocks from 
the United Nations)  This  is the confirmed new location.  
Why: The Israeli military is conducting daily raids that have killed  dozens 
of Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others. Come to a protest and  
demonstration to demand action now to stop the killing of Palestinians and hold  
Israel accountable for its crimes. 

Additionally, a group of  organizations will present a letter to the Security 
Council and to  Secretary-General Kofi Annan demanding an end to Israeli 
aggression and calling  upon the international community to protect the lives of 
Palestinians. Dozens of  organizations and hundreds of individuals have signed. 
See below for the letter.  

Bring signs, candles, and slogans. Bring white throw-away  T-shirts on which 
you can write facts about the assault and slogans.

Who:  The New York Chapter of the National Council of Arab-Americans, the  
International Solidarity Movement, the New York Campaign for Boycott,  
Divestment, and Sanctions, The Arab American Muslim Federation, the  International 
Socialist Organization, the Troops Out Now Coalition, the  International Action 
Center, and ADC New York. 

For more information,  contact Issa Mikel at 917-446-8032 or 
_issamikel at gmail.com_ (mailto:issamikel at gmail.com) .  
Since Wednesday, June 28, there have been protests around the world calling  
for an end to the recent escalation in Israeli aggression. And many more are  
planned, including in Palestine; Sudan; Egypt; New York; Toledo, Ohio; France; 
 Houston, Texas; Oxford, UK; London, UK; Ontario, Canada; Seattle, 
Washington;  Luxembourg; Brussels, Belgium; Berlin, Germany; Washington, D.C.;  and 
Minneapolis, MN. 
(Not all organizations listed above as organizers of the protest have signed  
onto the letter. Endorsees listed below.) 
TO ENDORSE THIS LETTER, SEND  AN E-MAIL TO _PROTECTPALESTINE at GMAIL.COM_ 
(mailto:PROTECTPALESTINE at GMAIL.COM)  WITH YOUR/YOUR  ORGANIZAITON'S NAME AND 
COUNTRY 
 

July 6, 2006  
H. E. Kofi Annan
Secretary-General
The United Nations,  First  Avenue
New York, NY 10017

Honorable members of the United Nations  Security Council 
RE: Immediate International Protection for the Palestinian People in the  
Occupied Territory 
The United Nations was founded "to take effective  collective measures for 
the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and  for the suppression of 
acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace . . .  ."  The ongoing 
ethnic cleansing in Palestine has thrown into stark relief  the need for the United 
Nations to live up to this duty.  
Since the Palestinian people have time and again  signaled their refusal to 
acquiesce in their own subjugation, the inexorable  march of Israeli human 
rights violations continues with renewed savagery.  The Israeli military has 
escalated its assault upon the Palestinian  people, with dozens of Palestinians 
killed and wounded in recent months. Since  the so-called Israeli redeployment 
from Gaza, Israel has continued to attack  unarmed Palestinian civilians.  On 
June 9, seven people of the same family  were killed by Israeli shelling on a 
beach in the Gaza Strip.  Dozens of  Palestinian children have been killed in 
the first six months of 2006 alone,  with the world community looking on. As of 
June 27, the Israeli Occupation  Forces have launched a large scale attack on 
Palestinians in the besieged Gaza  Strip, punishing over one million 
Palestinian civilians for the legitimate  exercise of the inherent right of 
self-defense against Israeli combatants  conducting a wide-scale assault on heavily 
populated areas.  
Meanwhile, these forces continue illegally to  arrest and detain thousands of 
Palestinians, confiscate Palestinian land,  demolish homes, impose a deadly 
economic blockade, and build an annexationist  Apartheid wall.  The historic 
policy of "Hafrada" (the Hebrew word for  Apartheid) has reached its apex, and 
the international community is confronted  more vividly than ever with the 
fruit of its inaction.  It is thus time for  the United Nations to discharge its 
historic obligation.  
We therefore call upon the United Nations to  intervene to defend the 
Palestinian people by immediately undertaking the  following actions:  
    *   forming an international force to protect Palestinian lives against  
violent attacks by the Israeli military; 
    *   calling for the immediate release of Palestinian prisoners held in  
violation of international law; 
    *   holding Israel accountable for its war crimes against the Palestinian 
 people, its violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political  
Right and the Convention Against Torture, and its blatant disregard for the  
principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 
Such actions would form the necessary beginnings  of a just policy on 
Palestine that is long overdue. The Palestinian people are  under brutal assault, and 
the moral failure of the international community cries  out for 
rectification.  
Respectfully, 
Palestine Bar Association –Palestine  
Gaza Community Mental Health  –Palestine 
University Teachers' Association –Palestine  
Addameer Prisoners'  Rights and Support Group –Palestine  
Teacher Creativity Center –Palestine  
Palestinian Counseling Center  –Palestine  
Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees  (PARC) –Palestine 
Arab Cultural  Forum/Gaza –Palestine  
Society of Christian Heritage in the Holy Land  –Palestine  
Women's Affairs Technical Committee –Palestine  
Jerusalem Center for Educational  Enrichment (JCEE) –Palestine  
Filastiniyat –Palestine  
Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC)  –Palestine  
Network of Christian Organizations in  Bethlehem (NCOB) –Palestine  
Baladna, Association for Arab Youth  Association –Palestine  
Ittijah, Union of Arab Community Based  Associations –Palestine  
The Arab Association for  Human Rights (HRA/Nazareth) –Palestine   
Himaya Association for the  protection of Lands Rights –Palestine  
Ansar Al-Sajeen Association  –Palestine  
The Committee for the Defence  of the Rights of Internally Displaced 
Palestinians in Israel –Palestine/ Israel  
Friends of Political  Prisoners and Detainees –Palestine 
Jeel Jadeed Cultural  Association –Palestine 
The Culture and Volunteer Association, Umm  el-Fahm –Palestine  
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and  Cultural Boycott of Israel 
(PACBI) –Palestine  
The Nahif Development and Welfare Association  –Palestine  
Shumou' Association –Palestine  
Palestinian Women Development Centre (Tulkarm)  –Palestine  
Council for National Interest –USA  
Center on Law and Human Rights in Colorado  Springs –USA  
Palestine Aid Society of North America  –USA  
Workers World Party -San Francisco Branch –USA  
Ohio State University's Committee for  Justice in Palestine –USA  
Palestinian American Congress  –USA 
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center/  Colorado –USA 
Georgetown Students for Justice in  Palestine –USA  
Women's International League for Peace and  Freedom/ Washington, D.C., Branch 
–USA  
Indigenous Peoples Literature –USA  
New York Campaign for Boycott,  Divestment and Sanctions –USA  
International Solidarity Movement, New York  Chapter –USA  
National Council of Arab Americans, New York  Chapter –USA 
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,  New York Chapter –USA  
Troops Out Now Coalition –USA 
International Action Center –USA  
Arab Muslim American Federation  –USA   
The Middle East Children's Alliance –  USA 
Arab American Club/ San Diego, California –USA  
American Council on Middle East Policy –USA  
Deir Yassin Society –USA  
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition/NYC –USA  
International Concerned Family and Friends of  Mumia Abu-Jamal –USA  
Women in Black/ Los Angeles –USA  
WESPAC Foundation –USA  
International Solidarity Movement/ Seattle  –USA  
International Solidarity Movement/ Chicago  –USA  
Arab Jewish Peace Alliance –USA  
Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project –USA  
Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation  of Palestine/ Toronto –Canada 
  
International Women's Peace Service/Palestine  –Canada   
Coalition for a Just Peace in  Israel/Palestine –Canada  
Palestine House in  Mississauga ( Toronto ) – Canada  
The Right of Return Congress  –Europe/UK 
Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign  –UK   
Architects & Planners for Justice in  Palestine –UK 
Welfare Association/ Great Britain –UK  
Oxford Women In Black –UK  
Collectif Judéo-arabe et citoyen pour la Paix/  Strasbourg –France  
Coordination de L'appel de Strasbourg pour une  Paix Juste au Proche Orient –
France  
Collectif Guantanamo  –France 
Paz con Dignidad –Spain  
Aktionsbündnis für einen gerechten Frieden für  Palästina –Germany  
Comite pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient  –Luxembourg 
Belgian Interuniversity Cooperation  with Universities in Palestine –Belgium  
 
Comité  de Soutien au Peuple Palestinien d'Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve – 
Belgium  
Verein fuer Antirassistische und  Friedenspolitische Initiative/Dar al Janub" 
(Union for Antiracism and Peace  Policy/Dar al Janub) – Austria  
Frauen in Schwarz  (Wien)/Women in Black (Vienna )  –Austria  
Jüdische Stimme für  Gerechten Frieden/ Jewish Voice for a Just  Peace in the 
Middle East – Austria  
European Jews for a  Just Peace


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