ALL OUT FOR JAN 10 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR GAZA!

Media Release 03
Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC)
Contact: Jerry Esguerra
(818) 749-0272
Los Angeles
January 9, 2008

ALL OUT FOR JAN.10 WESTWOOD MARCH RALLY FOR PALESTINE - EPCC

Los Angeles— LET GAZA LIVE, LONG LIVE PALESTINE!

ANSWER LA and the Free Palestine Alliance (FPA) has called another Regional march protest on Saturday, January 10 at 12:00 noon in front of the Westwood Federal building, 11000 Wilshire/Veterans street. This will coincide with the national day of protest and solidarity with Palestine -- all over the world and the United States especially in Washington DC.

In this regard, the Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC) calls on all the progressive individuals and organizations to joined the thousands who came out for the emergency response and mobilization for the big march and rally on Westwood on January 10. All organizations of EPCC will be joining the mass action on Westwood on Saturday and will fully mobilize for the event.

For the last 60 years since 1948, the Palestian and the Arab people in the Middle East are at the receiving ends of the Imperialist and Zionists onslaught that seeks to obliterate them from history. Despite many US-supported war of aggressions and land grabbing, the Arabs and the Palestinian continued fighting everywhere.

LET'S CALL THE ZIONIST FOR WHAT THEY ARE: WAR CRIMINALS!

"The Israeli military is failing to meet its obligation under humanitarian law......" The International Red Cross said after discovering 4 emaciated Palestinian children huddled around their dead mother while Zionist soldiers stood by a few meters away from their house in Zeitoun a district of Gaza City. (New York Times, January 8)

On the same district, Allegra Pacheco, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordinator of Human Affairs - reported that Israeli shelling killed 30 Palestinians who had been ordered along 80 others to evacuate their homes and gather in a single house.

Then she recounted in horror: "The next day the house was shelled". (BBC, January 8)

I guess we could thank The Criminal State of Israel for efficient use of our resources. The US Imperialist is bankrolling this heinous expedition to the tune of $15 million a day!

Even the Vatican's representative to the Middle East described the situation as resembling "concentration camps" from Hitler's Europe in WWll which earned the ire of Zionist officials. (Italian Left of Center Newspaper, January 8)

With the mounting pressure from colonized and oppressed people of the world - at the UN - 14 nations approved the Security Council's resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

The US abstained! It only proved that the Imperialist is complicit in this murderous crusade!

We hold the Palestinian people in high regard for fighting for their right of return and their right for self-determination.

The world sympathy and the progressive people’s solidarity are with the people of Palestine. How long can the US imperialist and the Zionist ignore world opinion and judgment is worth watching. The US imperialist and the Zionist will fail!

The inutility of the United Nations, the Arab reactionaries and their fellow travelers is now exposed to the hilt. Again, we call to STOP THE MASSACRE OF GAZA and FREE PALESTINE!

On Saturday we will indict them from the streets of the world - and we will find them guilty of war crimes!

LET US LIBERATE PALESTINE!
PALAYAIN ANG PALESTINA!

For more information on epcc please call Jerry Esguerra at (818) 749-0272 or email at epcc_la [at] hotmail.com