[WCUSP] Fwd: Join JVP's Call for an End to the Siege of Gaza

[Odile Hugonot Haber]

Please join WILPF! JVP has good web designers
Get WILPF post cards signed, Tura still has a lot!
e-mail: "Tura Campanella Cook" <turacc at earthlink.net>,
if you need WILPF post cards.

Odile
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 When Palestinians succeeded in breaching the siege along the Egyptian
border last week, Gazans cross the border en masse to buy food and
supplies and, in many cases, enjoy some semblance of freedom. (Wissam
Nassar, Maan Images) Dear karen,

 The people of Gaza cannot leave, even if they have a medical
emergency. One and a half million people are packed into an area less
than 1/10th the size of Rhode Island. They are being deliberately
malnourished because Israel controls the flow of food and supplies.
Without crucial filters, the water is becoming a source of sickness
and death. A few miles away in Sderot, a working class community of
Israelis is caught in the line of fire and is also dying, their
suffering manipulated by their own government. Israeli papers are now
talking of possible plans for a major incursion into Gaza.

 Giving a donation to JVP right now is a way to take action to support
an end to the siege of Gaza.

 In late January, a convoy of Israeli peace and human rights
organizations, in partnership with Palestinian civil society groups,
drove to the entrance of the Gaza Strip to deliver badly needed food
and medical supplies. Thousands of you wrote letters to your
legislators to ask them to help end the siege. JVP supporters across
the country stood on street corners, spoke to the media, and raised
funds to support the convoy. On February 18, over 6 tons of supplies
from the convoy were finally let through.

 But the blockade goes on and JVP is not stopping its work on the Call
to End the Siege of Gaza.

We are taking out several ads in The Nation, including a full page
color ad on the back cover.
We are using online advertising to bring thousands of people to our
website to access information they are not getting in the US media.
We will offer resources, posters, action alerts and ways to plug in to
local and international nonviolent campaigns being led by civil
society groups in Gaza and Israel.

 A gift of $35, $80 or $100 will bring thousands of people to support our work.
 The larger we are, the more powerful we are!

 Click on the thumbnail image to the right to see a larger version of
the poster.

 Join JVP's Call for an End to the Siege of Gaza.

 Donating is easy and will raise our voices to end the injustices in
Gaza and the needless deaths of Palestinians and Israelis..

 Thank you
 Cecilie, Sydney, Rachel

Donation link: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/301/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=3335

Learn more:

1. The war on Gaza's children
 http://imeu.net/news/article006533.shtml

2. Life must go on in Gaza and Sderot (blog)
 http://gaza-sderot.blogspot.com/

3. JVP Gaza Action and Information Center
 http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/publish/gaza.shtml

4. Sderot protest, the ISrael they don't belong to
 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/953269.html





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