Action Alert: Stop the Wall !

From: "Ewa Jasiewicz"
To: palglobal [at] lists.riseup.net
Subject: [palglobal] Action Alert - Stop The Apartheid Wall
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:52:18 -0800

Please fwd - from Huwaida, ISM

Action Alert: Stop the Wall !

Yesterday, on the first day of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
hearings on Israel's Apartheid Wall, Palestinians, Israelis and
internationals joined in massive, popular protests against the Wall
throughout major West Bank cities - Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Nablus,
Qalqilya, Jenin, Tulkarem, Ramallah, and even in smaller heavily affected
villages such as Budrus, Mas'ha, Jayyous, Deir al-Ghosoon, and others in
an attempt to send a clear message here in Palestine, to Israelis and the
international community that the Apartheid Wall is sealing the fate of
the Palestinian people and must be torn down.
In solidarity with these protests, we call on people from around the
world to act locally by demanding that their governments act immediately
to stop Israel's Apartheid Wall.

Around the world people are recognizing that the wall is a tool for
Apartheid, land seizure, collective punishment and the denial of
fundamental human rights. As a result, the past days have shown an
unprecedented outpouring of criticism of the Wall in the world's press
(see examples from the English press below).
Make sure these messages are heard by your politicians.
Contact
representatives from your government (see contact info below) and urge
them to:
Stop the Wall because it violates Palestinian human rights and
international law; and
Support fully the International Court of Justice hearings.
For Americans, contact your Senators and Congressional Representatives
and demand that they reject Senator Hillary Clinton's letter asking Kofi
Annan not to support the ICJ hearings
(http://www.aipac.org/UN%20ICJ%20letter.pdf)
And send them a copy of one of the articles below.

Articles in the US Media
Huwaida Arraf, Co-Founder of the International Solidarity Movement, "Tear
it Down, It's an Oppressive Grab of Palestinian Land", The Detroit Free
Press
http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/earraf23_20040223.htm
David Bloom, Co-editor WorldWar3 Report, "Letter from Jayyous", the
Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040308&s=bloom
Noam Chomsky, Professor and Activist, "A Wall as a Weapon, The New York
Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/opinion/23CHOM.html
Marda Dunskly, Professor, "Build Bridges, Not Walls", The Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0402220392feb22,1,6343181.story
Gary Fields, Professor, "Build Bridges not Walls, The Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0402220391feb22,1,5949964.story
Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolition, "America is Complicit in Illegal Wall", The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/02/21/america_is_complicit_in_illegal_wall/
Jamal Juma', Coordinator of the Campaign to Stop the Wall, "A Noose
Around the Necks of Palestinians", The Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/8007056.htm
Shamai Leibowitz and David Nir, human rights lawyer and physicist and
activists, "Wall that Must Fall to Save Israel from Itself", The Houston
Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/outlook/2413330
Jessica Montell, Executive Director, B'Tselem, "Crossing the Line", The
Baltimore Sun
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.court23feb23,0,3978374.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines
Iltezam Morrar, 15 Year Old Student from Budrus, "It Exists not for
Security but for Apartheid", The Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/7994868.htm
Sharif Omar, Jayyous Farmer and Community Leader, Alternet (Forthcoming)
http://www.alternet.com
Ma'arouf Zahran, Mayor of Qalqilya, Build Bridges, Not Walls, The Chicago
Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0402220390feb22,1,5556747.story

To Contact the US Government
Phone and fax numbers for your Members of Congress:
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=59
To send an email to your Members of Congress, visit:
http://www.cflweb.org/congress_merge_.htm
White House: phone 202-456-1111, fax 202-456-2461,
president [at] whitehouse.gov
State Department: phone 202-647-6575,
http://contact-us.state.gov/ask_form_cat/ask_form_secretary.htm
to Contact the Israeli Government
· Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Kaplan Street, PO Box 187
Kiryat Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem 91919
Fax: +972 2 651-2631
Email: sar [at] pmo.gov.il or webmaster [at] pmo.gov.il
· Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz
Fax: +972 3 696-2757, +972 3 691-6940, +972 3 691-7915
· Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom
Fax: +972 2 530-3704, +972 2 530-3506
Email: sar [at] mofa.gov.il
3. United Nations
· Office for the Spokesman for the Secretary General United
Nations, S-378
New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 963-7162
· Fax:(212) 963-7055
· Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Kofi Annan
Phone: (212) 963-5012
Fax: (212) 963-4879
· Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr.
Bertrand Ramcharan
Email: Webadmin.hchr [at] unog.ch
· Representative of the UN in Palestine, Mr. Terie Rod Larsen
Phone: +972 8 282-2914
Fax: +972 8 282-0966
unsco [at] palnet.com
4. European Parliament
Email: civis [at] europarl.eu.int
Individual members of the EU Parliament:
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep5/owa/p_meps.short_list?ilg=EN&ictry=GB&iorig=members
5. United Kingdom
· Prime Minister, Tony Blair
10 Downing Street
London
· EMAIL: http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page848.asp
fax 020 7925 0918.
From outside the UK, the FAX is +442079250918
The Foreign Secretary
Rt. Hon Jack Straw MP
Downing Street West London SW1A 2AL
Ph: +44 20 7270 2059 :: Fax: +44 20 7839 2417 :: Email
private.office [at] fco.gov.uk
· Your MP at
House of Commons,
London
SW1A 0AA
Find your MP at http://www.parliament.uk/about_commons/about_commons.cfm

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
http://www.palsolidarity.org