[WCUSP] ACTION ALERT CORRECTED -- PLEASE USE THIS ONE

Sun Jul 16 18:02:30 CDT 2006

Yes, I agree that this is the most grammatically correct and includes what
we need to say.

Barb T. (writing from Salina, KS)

--- Libby or Mort Frank <lmfrank1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> WILPF MEMBERS! TAKE ACTION NOW!
>   DEMAND US URGE ISRAEL DECLARE 
> 
>   A CEASE FIRE
> 
>   END THE ASSAULT ON GAZA AND LEBANON!
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Take Action Now!
> 
>   The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom urges its members to take action now
> regarding the escalating violence in the Middle East.  We demand an end to the violence and
> negotiations under U.N. auspices. 
> 
>   The massive humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and the war between Israel and Lebanon calls
> for our immediate attention. The civilian deaths are rising as the United States Government
> remains complicit in Israel's attacks. The Israeli Army is using weapons provided by the United
> States to carry out this aggression, and US support of this assault is allowing Israel to act
> without accountability to international law, The Geneva Convention, the Road Map to Peace, or
> any previous treaty or negotiation. 
> 
>   We must oppose our government's unquestioning support of Israeli policies. This recent
> escalation of violence and civilian casualties is a direct result of 39 years of occupation of
> Palestinian land. We must demand that members of Congress, the State Department, and the
> President end our military support of Israel on the basis of its consistent violation of human
> rights and international law.  Our leaders must demand that Israel end attacks on civilians, end
> attacks on infrastructure and immediately cease all human rights violations. 
> 
>   Israel is using weapons supplied by the United States to target Palestinian and Lebanese
> civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in violation of the US Arms
> Export Control Act and the Geneva Conventions.
> 
>   The mainstream media coverage of this crisis is unbalanced and biased, and we must change the
> discourse and work to influence the general public through our media outlets. Visit
> http://wilpf.org/letter-editor/ to write a letter to the editor of all your local papers, and be
> prepared to challenge radio and television talk show hosts on their language.
> 
> 
>  
>
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> 
> 
>   A sample letter has been provided by the US Campaign to End the Occupation:  It is followed by
> suggested actions.
> 
>   To the Editors:
> 
>   I am mystified by the failure of the mainstream media to acknowledge that Israeli military
> actions in the Gaza and southern Lebanon are targeting civilians and other non-military targets.
>  The destruction being wrought on the Palestinian people, and now the Lebanese, has largely been
> ignored while all attacks - whether on soldiers or civilians - carried out by a Palestinian
> militant receives significant attention.         
> 
>   The silence of the vast majority of the mainstream media and political leadership in the USA
> regarding Israel's actions and the blind-eye taken toward Israel's continual failure to respect
> the United Nations' resolutions to withdraw from the Occupied Territories, makes a mockery of
> any concern regarding human rights and international law.
> 
>   I ask that [THE NAME OF NEWSPAPER] provide more balanced coverage of the situation in
> Palestine, and offer a forum for legitimate debate on the issues at hand.  Years after an
> atrocity, the people of the world look at themselves and ask '.why were we silent?'  It is not
> too late to preempt that question.
> 
>   Sincerely,
> 
> 
>  
>
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>   1. Call, email, fax the White House:
>   White House comment line: 202-456-1111
>   Email: comments at whitehouse.gov
>    FAX: 202-456-2461
> 
>   2. Call or email the State Department:
>   Phone: 202-647-5291
>   Website: http://contact-us.state.gov
>   Demand that  the U.S. be accountable for its violations of the US Arms Export Control Act and
> Foreign Assistance Act and urge that military aid to Israel be cut off.
> 
>   3. Write Letters to the Editor
> 
>   4. Join sister activists in protests in front of federal buildings, Israeli consulates, and
> Israeli embassies. 
> -- 
> Kate Zaidan
> Program Coordinator
> Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section
> 1213 Race Street
> Philadelphia, PA 19107
> 215-563-7110
> www.wilpf.org
> 
> "Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one
> commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime."
> 
>  Angela Davis 
> 
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