Die In at the Ferry Building

There is no Freedom or Democracy in Occupation
1948, 1982, 2006: The Occupation of Palestine and Lebanon Still Exists

What does it mean to be a refugee?
What does it mean to have your homeland taken away from you?

On September 16, 1982 it meant rape, torture and death for over 2,750 people living in the Sabra & Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. The camp was set up in 1949, after Israel forced approximately 711,000 Palestinians to flee their homes the year before, creating the largest refugee population in the world. In 1982, Israel allowed militias to massacre thousands of refugees living in the camps. When will the massacres end?

Today, exactly 24 years later, the Israeli siege on Lebanon and Occupation of Palestine continue. Since 1948, the number of Palestinian refugees has climbed to over 4,600,000. These people have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and their safety.

Freedom and Occupation Cannot Co-Exist.

Today's die-in commemorates the 1982 massacre of Sabra and Shatila by demanding – from Israel, and from the U.S. - an end to war and an end to occupation.

How does this affect me?
As a U.S. tax payer, your hard earned salary funds occupation in the Middle East, sacrificing much needed services here at home.

Annual U.S. Aid to Israel: $3 billion
Entire federal budget for childcare: $5 billion
Spent to date on the occupation of Iraq: $315 billion
Total tax $ spent annualy on U.S. K-12 education: $536 billion

What is being done with our tax dollars?
Instead of paying for much needed services here, our tax dollars fund home demolitions, a common tactic used by the Israeli military to occupy Palestine and Lebanon.

Since September 2000 This is more than the entire
more than 11,000 homes neighborhood of Bernal Heights
of Palestinians have been which has 9,000 homes.
destroyed

During Israel’s recent In San Francisco this means
heightened invasion of 38% of homes gone. The
Lebanon, 130,000 homes entire Richmond, Marina,
were destroyed. Sunset & Mission would be gone.