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Queer Activist from Bay Area Held in Israel
Kate Raphael, a long time queer activist in the Bay Area, and a member of the International Women's Peace Service, is one of four internationals who were arrested in a demonstration in Budrus on December 30.
1/2/03 Kate Raphael, a long time queer activist in the Bay Area, and a member of the International Women's Peace Service, is one of four internationals who were arrested in a demonstration in Budrus on December 30. The demonstration was protesting the construction of the Israeli apartheid wall, which is planned to completely surround the Palestinian community in Budrus. The Israeli army attacked the non-violent march with rubber bullets and teargas. Details of the action Kate and an IWPS volunteer, Kimberley Gray, are being held in Khadera prison, pending a hearing on their appeal of the deportation order. Swedish Member of Parliament Gustav Fridolin was expected to leave Israel/ Palestine voluntarily today. Another Swede, ISM activist Freidrek Batzler, is being held in the Ariel settlement police station pending his appeal.
Kate is a member of LAGAI-Queer Insurrection (www.lagai.org), and QUIT! (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism). You can read more about QUIT's exploits, including the occupation of the Berkeley Starbucks ("a cafe without people for people without a cafe"), the Estee Slaughter campaign, and the protest of Yossi and Jagger at www.quitpalestine.org. Kate has spent the last four months in Palestine with the IWPS, which has organized many actions against the wall, and has documented Israeli human rights abuses in the occupied territories.
As a member of QUIT! and LAGAI, Kate has fought for queer visibility in many progressive movements, from the Central America Solidarity Movement to the current anti-war movement. She believes that queer liberation is inextricably linked to all liberation struggles. Kate is active in the women's movement and direct action movement here as well. While in Palestine she has done some work in conjunction with Black Laundry, an anti-occupation queer group in Israel that includes both Israelis and Palestinians.
Please call Israel's Ministry of the Interior, specifically Raz Godelnik or his secretary, Dorit: 011 972 2 670 1400, to express your support for Kate remaining in Palestine. (Note: It is ten hours later in Israel and the Israeli weekend is Friday and Saturday.) To donate for Kate and Kim's legal fund: International Women's Peace Service 2018 Shattuck Avenue, PMB 122, Berkeley, CA 94704
Kate is a member of LAGAI-Queer Insurrection (www.lagai.org), and QUIT! (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism). You can read more about QUIT's exploits, including the occupation of the Berkeley Starbucks ("a cafe without people for people without a cafe"), the Estee Slaughter campaign, and the protest of Yossi and Jagger at www.quitpalestine.org. Kate has spent the last four months in Palestine with the IWPS, which has organized many actions against the wall, and has documented Israeli human rights abuses in the occupied territories.
As a member of QUIT! and LAGAI, Kate has fought for queer visibility in many progressive movements, from the Central America Solidarity Movement to the current anti-war movement. She believes that queer liberation is inextricably linked to all liberation struggles. Kate is active in the women's movement and direct action movement here as well. While in Palestine she has done some work in conjunction with Black Laundry, an anti-occupation queer group in Israel that includes both Israelis and Palestinians.
Please call Israel's Ministry of the Interior, specifically Raz Godelnik or his secretary, Dorit: 011 972 2 670 1400, to express your support for Kate remaining in Palestine. (Note: It is ten hours later in Israel and the Israeli weekend is Friday and Saturday.) To donate for Kate and Kim's legal fund: International Women's Peace Service 2018 Shattuck Avenue, PMB 122, Berkeley, CA 94704
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