Worldwide Solidarity Against the Occupation: 7-10th June 2002 : Indybay

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We Ask for Your Solidarity!

The Coalition of Women for Peace is planning a mass rally in Tel-Aviv on Saturday, 8 June 2002, to mark 35 years of occupation. We invite peace-loving people throughout the world to carry out your own actions on or about this date under slogans of your choosing. Some ideas:
End the Israeli Occupation! Israeli and Palestine: Two States for Two Nations International Intervention Now!
World-Wide Women in Black Vigils Let us know about your plans so we can publish them on our website: intl@coalitionofwomen4peace.org

Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shammas (Jerusalem Center for Women, Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling) and Terry Greenblatt Director of Bat Shalom - Library of Congress on May 9, 2002

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The brave internationals who succeeded to bring food and medicines to the beleaguered Nativity Church in Bethlehem are treated as terrible criminals. Click here for more.

Tipping Point? by Gila Svirsky

Terry Greenblatt, Director of Bat Shalom, Speaks Before UN Security Council

COALITION OF WOMEN FOR PEACE

MASSIVE RALLY IN RABIN SQUARE May 11th, 2002

The Time is Right - Translation of an editorial in "Ha'ir" newspaper May 9th, by Uri Misgav [Ha'ir is leading Tel-Aviv weekly]
NEW POLL: MAJORITY OF ISRAELIS FAVOR WITHDRAWAL FROM THE TERRITORIES AND A POLITICAL SOLUTION

The White Flag is Torn by Sumaya Farhat-Naser
Sent by Bat Shalom, Published on Neue Zurcher Zeitung on 17.4.02
…Of course, the others have their own truths about events. In Israeli history books, until recently, nothing could be found about the 418 destroyed Palestinian villages, nothing about victims and refugees. The Palestinians, on their side, close their eyes to Jewish history outside of Palestine, excluding themselves from an historical tragedy which does not concern them. Their knowledge of Israeli history is concentrated on their own traumatic memory, which knows neighbors only as colonizers and brutal occupiers. …more…

CNN / Q&A WITH ZAIN VERJEE

Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas, the founder and director of Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling in East Jerusalem. She's been involved for years in the promotion of peace and human rights for Palestinians.
Terry Greenblatt, the director of Bat Shalom, and Israeli women's peace organization

TA'AYUSH: South of Mount Hebron Protest and Solidarity Action

LINKS Conference
May 3-4, 2002 - Youth Hostel in Shlomi, Galilee
The Women’s Coalition for a Just Peace organized a preparatory conference to form a social movement which will combine all the struggles for social justice, sane environmental policies, sustainable economic policies and peace.
In contruction.

Extreme Police Violence in Tel Aviv by Dalit Baum

Idan Landau’s speech at the 27th of April rally in Tel Aviv

JENIN - THE PROPAGANDA WAR		05.05.2002 e-mail from Halonot (Windows)
01.05 Kav LaOved & Taayush at Qalqilia		27.04.2002 Idan Landau’s speech
27.04.2002 Sharon...and the 1/4 cup full by Gila Svirsky
27.04.2002 Tel Aviv demonstration		26.04.2002 Taayush Convoy to Bethlehem
13.04.2002 Jenin Checkpoint		12.04.2002 TA American Embassy
06.04.2002 Defense Ministery		03.04.2002 A-Ram Checkpoint

Read in Gush Shalom web site:
Hell made In Israel - The Daily Life of Kawther Salam
I can't survive anymore, existing in a living hell alone with soldiers of occupation invading my living space - they have a checkpoint on top of my bedroom roof!! I can't live like this: without water, electricity, T.V and telephone, in the middle of the smelly garbage and urine spread by the soldiers in front of my bedroom.

I can't live 24 hours a day, face to face with these soldiers who call me crazy names and make sexual remarks without hesitation.. ... more ...

May Day 2002
A delegation of 15 people, representing Kav La’Oved (Workers’ Hotline) and the Arab-Jewish Ta’ayush movement, left Jaljulia with 2 large trucks carrying 13 tons of rice, beans, sugar, oil and baby-food to the besieged Palestinian town of Qalqilia. The small convoy headed for the road-block on the Eastern (and now the only) entrance to Qalqilia. ... more ...

Sharon...and the 1/4 cup full by Gila Svirsky

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