[WCUSP] 5-10 June: International Protests

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Protest Israeli Occupation – 6 Days of International Protests --- 5 - 10 June 
 2007 
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6 days of protests to mark 40 years of occupation - press  release  
International release, May 30, 2007 
 
5-10 June 2007, 6 days of protests to mark 40 years of  occupation
 

www.kibush40.org
A wave of protest events, marking 40 years of occupation, is expected in the  
early part of June Main protest march and rally: Tel Aviv, June 9, 18:00  
Coinciding with world-wide protests at dozens of locations June 5, 2007, will be  
the fortieth anniversary of the malignant Israeli occupation of the West 
Bank,  Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. The present suffering and bloodshed at Gaza 
and  Sderot are a direct outcome of the policy of occupation, settlement and 
killing.  Only the end of that policy and the signing of a just peace could put 
an end to  violence and to the continuing injustice against the Palestinian 
People.  
"40 Occupation" is a convergence of peace activists and groups  (including 
Gush Shalom, Anarchists Against the Wall, Women's Peace Coalition,  the Israeli 
Committee Against House Demolitions, Yesh Gvul, Indymedia,Ta'ayush,  Zochrot, 
Hadash and others) which jointly organize protest actions marking forty  years 
of occupation. In order to bring about a concrete change in the situation  
and the end of the occupation, there is needed a tactic of wide opposition.  
Therefore, the model of convergence was chosen which was used with great success  
in other struggles, for example the 1999 Seattle protests against the World  
Trade Organization meeting. Convergence implies public organising around a  
common goal, relying on coordinated but autonomous and decentralized  activity. 
For six days, June 5 to 10 - corresponding to the days of the 1967 War - a 
wide spectrum of events will take place, including exhibitions,  demonstrations, 
theatre plays, academic conferences etc., in order to place a  the occupation 
and the millions suffering under its yoke on the public agenda.  June 9 and 
10 had been declared as International Days of Protest Against the  Israeli 
Occupation, and we will hold The main march and rally on Saturday,  June 9.  
Demonstrations and events in early June  
June 1 from 10:00 am at the Port of Tel Aviv - "Until She Opens her Eyes",  
an event organized by the Human Rights groups, including presentations,  
testimonies, artistic performances, theatrical performances, a panel discussion  by 
writers, exhibition of photos. Ronit Piso 054-4750614, Maskit Mendel  
054-7700477. 
June 2 - an Israeli-Palestinian car convoy, organized by the  Geneva 
Initiative, leaving the Redding Parking Lot in north Tel-Aviv  at 10:30 am. In 
Jerusalem, the Israeli and the Palestinian convoys will join up  and together round 
the Old City and wind up at The Mount of Olives, where a  joint rally will take 
place with Knesset Members, Members of the Palestinian  Legislative Council 
and artists. Contact 03-6938728.  
June 2 to 8 - Every evening at 21:00 a panel discussion on Forty Years of  
Occupation will be broadcast on the "Mikan" Channel on the cable and  satellite 
TV, as well as on www.actv.co.il. 
On the morning of June 5, the Peace Now Movement will hold a demonstration in 
 Hebron, with the call "Stop the Settlements!" Conatact: Yariv Oppenheimer  
0544-200060 
June 5 "The Desert Generation" - An exhibition by Israeli and Palestinian  
painters at Beit HaAmanim (Artists' House), Jerusalem. David Tartakover,  Sliman 
Mansur, Larry Avramson, David Reeb 0546-531469 03-6819653. 
June 5 - Day of Protest by the Student Coalition at Tel-Aviv University,  
including an exhibition, placing of placards, artistic performances. Michal  
054-487061 June 5 - "Critical Mass - bicycle and roller skates convoy through  the 
streets of out Tel Aviv", painting the city with messages of Freedom and  
Equality. Meeting point at 16:00 on the Tel-Aviv Cinemateque Plaza.  
June 5 - testimonies from the Occupied Territories, a photo exhibition and  
presentation of documentary films at the the Tel-Aviv Cinemateque, organized  
by Machsom Watch, Bereaved Families' Forum, Fighters for Peace, PCATI, Yesh 
Din,  IPCRI. A checkpoint, similar to those erected by the army in the 
Territories,  will be erected on the plaza and all visitors will have to pass through 
it.  
June 5 - A mass Israeli-Palestinian event on the football field of Anata,  
north-east of Jerusalem. Buses from Jerusalem at 16:30. Suliman Al Hatib  
054-4315043.  
June 5 to 7 - International academic conference on "Forty after Sixty Seven" 
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Tel-Aviv University. Minerva  
Center for Human Rights 02-5881156. 
June 7 - "Act of State 1967-2007" - a historical photo exhibition on the  
Occupation. Opening at 21:00 at the gallery of Minshar Art School, 18 David  
Hachami St, Tel Aviv. 03-6887090  
June 7 - Israeli-Palestinian demonstration near the Wall separating  Bak'ah 
Al Sharkiya in the West Bank from Bak'ah Al Gharbiya in Israel. Suliman  Al 
Hatib 054-4315043.  
June 8 - Protest vigils by Women in Black in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa at 
13:00-14:00. In Jerusalem, throughout the preceding week a daily protest  
vigil will be held at the Paris Square. Contact 054-7515797. 
June 8 to 9 - Festival of Peace and Music, Israeli and Palestinian  artists 
and groups, films and more. At Tantur, on the border of Jerusalem and  
Bethlehem. Gershon Baskin 052-2381715, Aviv Alhasid 052-3689612. 
June 9 - Mass demonstration in Tel Aviv, marking 40 Years to the Occupation - 
 march and rally initiated by the Israeli peace movements and parties. 
For details Adi Dagan 052-3575526, Adam Keller 050-6709603 
June 9 has been declared the International Day of Protest Against the Israeli 
 Occupation. Demonstrations will take place at dozens of cities around the  
world. For details about worldwide activism on June 9: 
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1460.shtml 
June 9 - Israeli-Palestinian demonstration in the morning hours, outside the  
Old City Walls. Michael Warshawsky 052-4733453.  
June 11 - The Old City of Jerusalem: Opening event for a campaign to rebuild  
destroyed houses, by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. The  
event takes place on the fortieth anniversary of the destruction of the Old  
City's Mugrabi Quarter, with its 350 houses, and is dedicated to the memory of  
Haja Rasmiya Tabaki, crushed under the ruins of her destroyed home. Shai  
050-6986964.  
For details Adi Dagan 052-3575526, Adam Keller 050-6709603  



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