Category Archives: Lebanon

STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
On the Sixth Anniversary of the Intifada…
STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE!
From Palestine to Lebanon, from Iraq to Brooklyn…

March and Rally
Saturday, September 30th

Gather at 12 Noon
March steps off at 1:00 p.m.
Grand Army Plaza, at the Fountain
Brooklyn, NY
Subway: 2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza

Join the Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People to march on the sixth anniversary of the Intifada to stop the war against the Arab people! We demand:

* Stop war on the Arab world!
* Immediate & Unconditional Right to return for all Palestinian refugees!
* End the occupation of historic Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and everywhere!
* End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel
* Release all political prisoners!
* Support the people’s right to resist!

We stand united in our opposition to US war, empire, occupation and racism everywhere, from Afghanistan to Brooklyn, and in solidarity with the people of Iran and Syria against the ongoing threats of war.

Join us to march, and raise our voices for justice!!

The Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People
(Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition – NY; American-Iranian Friendship Committee; Anakbayan NY/NJ; Arab American Association of New York; Arab Muslim American Federation; BAYAN USA; International Action Center; International League of People’s Struggle; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; New Jersey Solidarity – Activists for the Liberation of Palestine;New York City Labor Against the War; New York Committee to Defend Palestine; Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum; Workers World Party)

Also endorsed by: Million Worker March Movement (East), New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Queers For Palestine-East Coast

Endorse the demonstration! Send your endorsements to info @ al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636!

For more information, to join the coalition, and to get involved, please contact:
Al-Awda NY
718-228-8636

info @ al-awdany.org

NYCLAW Statement: U.S. Government and Labor Aid to Israel

U.S. Government and Labor Aid to Israel

Presented by Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against
the War; Former President, UAW Local 2325/Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys

at the

International Panel to Launch Campaign for Accountability for
U.S./Israeli War Crimes, NYC, August 30, 2006

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Israel’s crimes are possible only due to the U.S. aid for Israel.
Here are the essential facts:

Since 1948, the U.S. government -– with full bipartisan support -–
has provided Israel with at least $90 billion – which, if adjusted
for inflation and interest, comes to $247 billion.

For more than thirty years, Israel has been the top recipient of U.S.
government foreign aid, and in the past ten years alone, the U.S. has
given Israel more than $17 billion in military aid.

As a result, U.S. weapons make up the bulk of Israel’s arsenal.
These include:

*364 combat aircraft, including F-16s, F-15s and A-4s.

*261 helicopters, including Cobras, Apaches, Black Hawks and Sea
Stallions.

*More than 700 M-60 tanks.

*More than 6000 APCs.

*350 155mm artillery pieces.

*An unknown quantity of ordnance, including cluster bombs.

And this does not include the nuclear weapons provided to Israel by
the U.S. and Britain.

In addition, Israel receives huge amounts of aid from private
sources – including U.S. labor unions.

State employee retirement plans and union pension funds have as much
as $5 billion invested in State of Israel Bonds.

So it’s not surprising that in April 2002, while Israel butchered
hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Jenin, AFL-CIO president John
Sweeney spoke at a “National Solidarity Rally for Israel.”

Or that the American Federation of Teachers has specifically
supported Israel’s attack on Lebanon. U.S. Labor Against the War, a
major affiliate of United for Peace and Justice, remains silent.

It’s not that the leadership of these labor organizations is
unfamiliar with the realities of Zionism. Rather, their support for,
and/or silence about, Israeli apartheid reflects their overall
alignment with the Democratic Party and U.S. empire.

Fortunately, many labor bodies around the world have responded to
Israel’s recent attacks by standing with the Palestinian and Lebanese
people.

These include the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU),
the General Union of Oil Employees in Iraq, and major British trade
unions. Even before the current escalation, several labor bodies in
Britain, Canada and elsewhere called for divestment from Israel.

New York City Labor Against the War, which was founded in the days
following 9/11, stands with these international labor bodies.

After top U.S. labor officials vocally supported Israel during the
Jenin massacre, NYCLAW endorsed Palestinian self-defense, statehood
and the Right of Return throughout historic Palestine; picketed the
Israeli consul’s speech at the AFL-CIO Executive Council; and hosted
a forum for visiting Palestinian trade unionists.

Together with Al-Awda New York, The Palestine Right to Return
Coalition, NYCLAW is a cosponsor of Labor for Palestine
<http://www.al-awdany.org/lfp/> .

And on August 11, we issued a statement
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LaborAgainstWar/message/2429> arguing
the labor and the antiwar movement must see the wars in Lebanon and
Palestine as inseparable from U.S. wars of empire throughout the
Middle East, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

If you are a union member or unorganized worker who wants to support
this work, please contact us at: nyclaw@comcast.net .

Against the US-Israeli War On Lebanon (TGWU)

http://www.labournet.net/world/0608/tgwu1.html

Against the US-Israeli War On Lebanon

Report by Jimmy Kelly
Chairman, General Executive Council, Transport and General Workers Union
Published: 21/08/06

*15 Aug 2006*

With the murderous Israeli assaults on Gaza and Lebanon over the last
number of weeks, the veil has finally slipped from US foreign policy in
the Middle East and that of its closest ally in the region.

Israel has slaughtered over 1,000 mostly innocent civilians and forced
well over half a million to flee their homes in terror.

Israel’s assault on Gaza and Lebanon has nothing whatsoever to do with
the capture of three of their soldiers.

Israel’s decision to collectively punish the entire Palestinian
population for electing Hamas was encouraged by the US, UK and EU who
refused to recognise the Palestinian Government and removed all aid from
them knowing this would inflict desperate suffering on the already
impoverished and suffering Palestinians.

In the attempt to blame Hizbollah for the current conflict, what is
forgotten is that Hizbollah only came into existence in response to the
murderous invasion and occupation of Lebanon from 1982 until 2000. It is
also not mentioned that Israel holds Lebanese prisoners that Hizbollah
have asked to be released and had warned they would capture Israeli
soldiers for the purpose of prisoner exchange if Israel refused. Israel
has exchanged prisoners with both Hizbollah and Palestinians in the
past. So the claim that the hostage taking or Hizbollah’s incursion into
Israel justified this devastating attack on civilians and civilian
infrastructure just does not stand up. In reality, just like Weapons of
Mass Destruction in Iraq, the hostages issue is a pretext for a war that
Israel and it’s backers in the Bush and Blair administrations had
planned for some time before.

Direct US support for the atrocities being committed by Israel is
confirmed by the US rushing an emergency shipment of bombs to Israel to
help bolster up the assault.

Finally, here in Ireland, we must point once again to the ongoing
complicity of the Irish Government in facilitating tens of thousands of
US troops at Shannon Airport and strike a blow against the war machine
by forcing an end to that complicity.

Jimmy Kelly
Chairman, General Executive Council, Transport and General Workers Union.

Labor and the Middle East War (NYCLAW)

[To endorse the following statement, please send your name, location, affiliation and title (if any) to nyclaw01@gmail.com, or NYCLAW, PO Box 3620166, PACC, New York, NY 10129]

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Labor and the Middle East War
New York City Labor Against the War
August 11, 2006

For weeks, Israel has turned Lebanon into a killing ground, slaughtering and maiming thousands of people, destroying the civilian infrastructure, and turning a quarter of the population into refugees in their own land. At the same time, it continues to brutalize Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israel’s crimes are carried out with U.S.-made F-16s, Apache helicopters, and cluster bombs. These high-tech lethal weapons are part of $5 billion that Israel gets each year from the United States, courtesy of the Republican and Democratic parties, with enthusiastic support from Neo-cons and right-wing Christian fundamentalists.

The U.S. does not arm Israel to “promote democracy” or for “self-defense.” Even Zionist historians now admit that Israel’s origins are rooted in dispossession of the Palestinian people — whose labor then built the Israeli economy — through an unrelenting campaign of ethnic cleansing: exile, squalid refugee camps, imprisonment, torture and murder.

Since the 1970s, Israel has also pursued territorial expansion by repeatedly invading and devastating Lebanon, as exemplified by the slaughter of thousands of Palestinian refugees at Sabra and Shatilla in 982. That occupation lasted until 2000, when Hezbollah forced Israel to withdraw.

Since then, Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians, taken thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese political prisoners, and tried to strangle the democratically-elected government of Hamas. When Hamas and Hezbollah responded by capturing a few Israeli soldiers, Israel unleashed a new, bloody, long-planned attack on Lebanon; only then did Hezbollah respond by firing crude rockets at Israel.

Behind its empty platitudes, the U.S. government supports this Israeli racism and state terrorism because, along with dictatorships in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, it is a cornerstone of U.S. domination over the world’s most important oil-producing region.

Now, with the Iraq war in shambles, the U.S.-Israel partnership seeks to break Lebanese and Palestinian resistance, while recklessly provoking confrontations with Syria and Iran. The U.N. has done nothing to stop this war of empire — what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sickeningly calls “birth pangs of a new Middle East.”

It is not surprising, therefore, that Hezbollah has won tremendous support in and beyond the Arab world, even amongst those who question some aspects of its ideology or tactics. For this spiraling cycle of oppression and resistance evokes Iraq, Afghanistan, Soweto, Vietnam, Algeria, the Warsaw Ghetto, or David and Goliath.

Horrified by the images from Palestine and Lebanon, international labor has strongly denounced Israel’s attacks.

On July 10, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) urgently called for sanctions and boycotts against the “apartheid Israel state,” which it branded worse than the former racist regime in South Africa.

On July 31, the General Union of Oil Employees in Iraq issued an “appeal to all the honorable and free people of the world to demonstrate and protest about what is happening to Lebanon.”

On August 5, major British trade unions supported a massive London protest against Israel’s attacks. Even before the current escalation, several labor bodies in Britain, Canada and elsewhere called for divestment from Israel.

In the United States, however, nearly all labor bodies either support Israel or say nothing at all.

State employee retirement plans and union pension funds invest hundreds of millions of dollars in State of Israel Bonds. In April 2002, while Israel butchered hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Jenin, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney spoke at a “National Solidarity Rally for Israel.” The American Federation of Teachers has specifically embraced Israel’s new assaults.

In the antiwar movement, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), which consistently segregates the Palestinian cause, has organized no mass response. U.S. Labor Against the War, which promotes union resolutions against the war in Iraq, remains disturbingly silent.

Fortunately, growing protests have been organized by the Arab-Muslim community, people of color, anti-Zionist Jews, and other activists who recognize that Lebanon and Palestine are inseparable from Iraq and Afghanistan.

New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW) is part of this grassroots movement, and with Al-Awda New York, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, a cosponsor of Labor for Palestine <http://www.al-awdany.org/lfp/>.

NYCLAW believes that the labor and antiwar movements in the United States have a special obligation to speak out and demand:

1. End the U.S.-Israel war against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.

2. No aid for Israel.

3. Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

4. End Israeli occupation, and fully implement the Palestinian right of return.

5. Out Now from Iraq and Afghanistan — No timetables, redeployment, advisors, or air-war.

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NYCLAW Co-Conveners (other affiliations listed for identification only):

Larry Adams
Former President, NPMHU Local 300

Michael Letwin
Former President, UAW Local 2325/Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys

Brenda Stokely
Former President, AFSCME DC 1707; Co-Chair, Million Worker March

http://www.traprockpeace.org/nyclaw_blog/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LaborAgainstWar/

Next NYCLAW Meeting: Monday, 8.7

Wed Aug 2, 2006 4:41 am (PST)

The next NYCLAW meeting will take place Monday, August 7,
2006, 6:30 p.m., at CUNY Grad Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
(between 34th and 35th Street), DSC Lounge, 5th floor,
Rm. 5414 (photo ID required to enter building).

The agenda will focus on mobilizing labor against the
U.S.-Israel war on Lebanon and Palestine.

All NYCLAW members and friends are encouraged to attend.

National Day of Action – U.S. OUT of the Middle East

Make the weekend of August 5
National Days of Actions to say
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!
U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!

*Support the Palestinian and Lebanese Peoples’ Right to Resist!
*End the Occupation of IRAQ, PALESTINE and LEBANON
*Support the Palestinian People’s Right to Return
*U.S./Israeli Troops Out Now
*No More Fighting and Dying for Oil Profits
*STOP U.S. aid to Israel

*New York – Los Angeles – San Francisco – Boston – Detroit – Buffalo –
Denver – Philadelphia – Tucson – Washington DC – Raleigh – Atlanta – San Diego – Rochester – and dozens of other cities

*In New York – August 5 – Rally at Times Square at 4 pm, march to
ExxonMobil Building at 5 pm

In Los Angeles – August 5 – Rally at Westwood Federal Building at 2
pm, march to Occidental Petroleum

Details of other actions to be listed soon.

Partial list of endorsers:
(to add your endorsement, go to http://iacenter.org/aug5endorse.shtml  )

International Action Center
Al-Awda The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Arab American Muslim Federation
NJ Solidarity – Activists for the Liberation of Palestine
Defend Palestine
AWS, Albuquerque, NM
Proyecto Guerrero Azteca Por La Paz, Escondido, CA
Wael Mosfar, Arab American Muslim Federation
Millions 4 Mumia
Birmingham Interfaith Human Rights Comm, Hoover, AL
Guyanese-American Workers United, New York, NY
Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council
Chris Silvera, Chair National Teamsters Black Caucus*, Sec-Treas.
Teamsters 808*
Justice 4 Homeless San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Charles Barron, City Council Member, NYC
Martin Luther King, Jr, Bolivarian Circle Of Boston, Boston, MA
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice
BAYAN USA
New England Human Rights Organization For Haiti, Boston, MA
Action Center For Justice, Charlotte, NC
Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March East Coast Chair
Million Worker March Movement
Peoples Video Network
Chuck Turner, Boston City Council, District 7, Boston, MA
Tony Van Der Meer, Prof. Africana Studies, U Mass Boston; Co-director,
Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee*, Boston, MA
Teresa Gutierrez, May 1 Coalition, NYC
All Peoples Congress, Baltimore
NYCHRP – New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
St. Pete For Peace, St. Petersburg, FL
Veterans For Constitutional Respect, Wilcox, PA
Chito-Quijano, Spokesperson Bayan-USA;
FMLN – LA;
Ishmail Kamal, founder Sudanese-American Society*;
Javier Rodriguez of March 25th Coalition and May 1st Boycott;
Puerto Rican Alliance;
Rev. Meri Ka Rah Byrd
Howard Guidly, Texas Death Row Activist
KRST Unity Center LA
ANAKBAYAN
Unity Center for African Spirituality
Hilton Head For Peace, Hilton Head, SC
Incarceration In Question, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
World Homeless Union, Mansfield, PA
Troops Out Now Coalition
Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Pan-African News Wire*, Detroit, MI
Leslie Feinberg, Author and Co-Chair LGBT Caucus, Nat’l Writers Union/UAW*
Mary Lou Finley, Peace And Freedom Party*, San Diego, CA
Chuck Mohan, President, Guyanese-American Workers United, New York, NY
Reza Namdar, Dele.Executive Council, Washington/Baltimore Newspaper Guild*,
Gloria Rubac, Steward, Houston Federation Of Teachers, Local 2415*,
Houston, TX
Rev Max Surjadinata, Clergy, United Church Of Christ*, New York, NY
The Most Rev. Filipe C Teixeira,  Diocesan Bishop, Diocese Of Saint
Francis Of Assisi,
Juyeon Rhee-Korean Action Network for Unification
Thomas Rockriver, Vets for Peace*, NC
New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW)

Antiwar Bulletin: Today & Sat. – Antiwar Protests

From: Michael Letwin
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 8:48 AM
To: 1199 Members; ALAA MEMBERS
Subject: Antiwar Bulletin: Today & Sat. – Antiwar Protests

Demonstration on Friday July 28, 2006 at the Israeli Consulate March Across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday July 29, 2006

STOP THE WAR STOP THE KILLING
DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE ISRAELI CONSULATE

NYC, July 28, 2006
What: Stop the War, Stop the Killing Demonstration
When: FRIDAY –  JULY 28th  3:30 to 6:30 P.M.
Where: 2nd Ave. – Bet. 42nd St. & 43rd St (In front of The Israeli
Consulate)

Sponsored By: Arab Muslim American Federation, National Council Of Arab Americans, International Action Center, Troops Out Now Coalition , Alawda New York, Al-Khuli Islamic Center, ICNA N.Y, MAS New York. [Also endorsed by New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW)]

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STOP US SPONSORED ISRAELI TERROR
MARCH ACROSS THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

NYC, July 29, 2006
Links to Downloadable Fliers Below

What: Stop Us Sponsored Israeli Terror – March Across The Brooklyn Bridge

When: Saturday July 29, 2006 – 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Where: Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn (near the Brooklyn Bridge) March across the Bridge followed by rally at Thomas Paine Park at Worth, Pearl and Centre Streets in lower Manhattan at 3:30 PM.

Why: Israeli attacks on Palestine and Lebanon have reached new heights with the displacement of almost 1 million people in Lebanon, the killing of hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, and Palestine, the destruction of civilian infrastructure; all of which are crimes against humanity, as the world watches in either silent complicity or outright support.  The United States wants to give Israel enough time to ‘finish the job’ and has accelerated shipment of even more destructive bombs to add to the Israeli arsenal which includes illegal phosphorous and cluster bombs being used against the civilian population in Lebanon and Palestine.

We call on all people of conscience to come out and demand an end to the US Sponsored Israeli War Crimes being perpetrated against the people of Palestine and Lebanon.

Stop the Invasion of Lebanon
End the Occupation of Palestine
Stop US AID to Israel
Free Arab Political Prisoners In Israel

To download flier go to:
http://www.naaponline.org/ny/Rally06/rally_7_29_11.JPG
http://www.naaponline.org/ny/Rally06/rally_7_29_5.5.JPG
http://www.naaponline.org/ny/Rally06/rally_7_29_8.5.JPG

Sponsored by: Ad – Hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East

Endorsed by: National Council of Arab-Americans – NYC, ANSWER Coalition, International Action Center, Network of Arab-American Professionals of NY-PC, the International Solidarity Movement – NYC, the New York Campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, the International Socialist Organization, ADC New York Chapter, Action Wednesdays Against War, Jews Against the Occupation – NYC, WESPAC Foundation, NYC Labor Against the War.

To endorse and for further information contact – Ad-Hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East – protectpalestine@gmail.com

Transportation by subway:

*A, C (8th Ave Line) High Street station located at Cranberry Street and Cadman Plaza.  Exit at the rear of the train, if coming from Manhattan.
Walk one block south and cross the Cadman Plaza.

*M, R (BMT) Court Street station is located at the corner of Montague Street.  Exit at the front of the train, if coming from Manhattan.  Walk north on Court Street (which becomes Cadman Plaza) about five or six blocks.

*A, C, F (8th Ave Line, Culver Line) Jay Street–Borough Hall station, located at Jay Street and Myrtle Avenue.  Exit at the rear of the train, if coming from Manhattan.  Walk north to Tillary Street, then west to Cadman Plaza

Transportation by car:

*From Manhattan, take first exit off Brooklyn Bridge

*From Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island take the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the Cadman Plaza exit.

SHELTER UNDER THE PALESTINIAN FLAG

SHELTER UNDER THE PALESTINIAN FLAG
Al-Awda 7-28-2006

Approximately 3,000 men, women, and children rallied and marched outside the Israeli consulate with fists raised to demand that the US government stop all financial support of the Israeli State; that the Israelis cease fire and withdraw from all Lebanese and Palestinian Lands; that the Israelis release all Arab and Palestinian Political Prisoners, over 10,000 are held of whom approximately one thousand are women and children; that all Lebanese and Palestinian Refugees be immediately allowed to return to their homes to live in safety.

Through blazing heat and torrential rain, the protesters stood unmoved, knowing the price they paid to stand in solidarity and outrage was insignificant compared with the losses suffered by the People of Palestine and Lebanon.

Brenda Stokely from the Million Workers March said, ‘It is no surprise that the U.S. imperialists are actively advocating the Zionist Israeli government massacre and exploitation of the Arabs’. Samia Halaby of Defend Palestine & Al Jisser applauded the courage of the Lebanese Popular Resistance headed by Hezbollah and said that we must learn from their example of solidarity. Lamis Deek of Al-Awda-NY said that the People of the Arab World have always known this day would be revisited upon them, adding that they are prepared by the knowledge that until the Palestinian Refugees return to their rightful homes, this will not be the last assault the Arab World will suffer at the hands of the Genocidal Apartheid Israeli State.

Fueled by anger and the desire to inform the American public about the plight of the Palestinians and the Lebanese who live below the clouds of US-made Israeli F-16 fighters and Apache helicopters, the protesters took over the streets, marching without police escort or knowledge, stopping traffic all along, and settling onto the Army Recruiting Station in Times Square.

As they marched the street shook with echoes of English and Arabic Chants. All that could be heard on the buzzing 42nd Street were cries of “Gaza, Lebanon Don’t You Cry Palestine, Will Never Die,” “Stop Bombing Palestine, Stop Bombing Lebanon,” “Occupation is a Crime, from Iraq to Palestine,” and the name of Hezbollah. Hecklers were outnumbered by the people who cheered the marchers on from the streets and sidewalks, all of whom were received by roaring victory salutes from the marchers. And all along the route pedestrians stopped the organizers asking for flyers, information and ways they can help.

Once at the Army recruiting station, the crowd remained strong, and full of energy. They denounced the Pentagon’s bloody war against the people of Iraq, linking it to the U.S.-financed war against Palestine and Lebanon as one war against the Arab people.

As the demonstrators finally dispersed after nearly six hours of rallying and marching, it began to drizzle, and once again they flocked for cover under the shelter of the Palestinian Flag.

It is clear that the city will not rest until the People of Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq may do so as well.

[NYCLAW] Breaking War News: The Antiwar Movement, Palestine & Lebanon

From: NYCLAW <nyclaw@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:37 PM
Subject: [NYCLAW] Breaking War News: The Antiwar Movement, Palestine & Lebanon
To: LaborAgainstWar <laboragainstwar@yahoogroups.com>

1. August 12 Marches in DC, SF, LA, Seattle
2. Open Letter to United for Peace and Justice

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August 12 Marches in DC, SF, LA, Seattle

Permits have been obtained for Lafayette Park directly in front of the White House for the opening rally of the mass demonstration in Washington DC on August 12. There has been an amazing response to this call for a national emergency action to protest the U.S.-Israeli war against the Palestinian and Lebanese people. The streets around the White House will fill up with a sea of protestors on August 12. Read the call to action for August 12: http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=7876

There will be sister demonstrations on August 12 for those on the West Coast who are unable to travel to Washington D.C. The West Coast demonstrations will take place in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.

[Full text: http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=7875]

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Open Letter to United for Peace and Justice
Gabriele Zamparini
July 22, 2006

In your e-mail you remind your supporters of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s call for an immediate ceasefire. Immediately after you have the impudence to write: “Yesterday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki condemned the Israeli aggression and called on the world to take action.”

Among all the heads of States and Governments you could mention [the entire world but the Axis Washington – London – Tel Aviv] why did you choose the PUPPET Prime Minister of Occupied Iraq?. . . .

Your letter to “Dear Ambassador Bolton” continues: “We are gravely concerned about the loss of life on all sides. We condemn all attacks on civilians, and call for the release of political prisoners and POWs held on all sides in this conflict.” A masterpiece of hypocrisy. . . .

Your letter continues: “Hezbollah’s crossing of the Israeli border to capture two soldiers may have violated the 1949 Armistice between Israel and Lebanon.” Spreading Israeli propaganda must be the main goal of United for Peace and Justice. The two Israeli soldiers were captured in Lebanon and the “cross-border operation” is just another myth coming directly from Tel Aviv. . . .

But as tradition wants, you left the best for the end: “Help us continue to do this critical work: Make a donation to UFPJ today.”

[Full text: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m24929&l=i&size=1&hd=0]

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STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
On the Sixth Anniversary of the Intifada…
STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE!
From Palestine to Lebanon, from Iraq to Brooklyn…

March and Rally
Saturday, September 30th

Gather at 12 Noon
March steps off at 1:00 p.m.
Grand Army Plaza, at the Fountain
Brooklyn, NY
Subway: 2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza

Join the Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People to march on the sixth anniversary of the Intifada to stop the war against the Arab people! We demand:

* Stop war on the Arab world!
* Immediate & Unconditional Right to return for all Palestinian refugees!
* End the occupation of historic Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and everywhere!
* End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel
* Release all political prisoners!
* Support the people’s right to resist!

We stand united in our opposition to US war, empire, occupation and racism everywhere, from Afghanistan to Brooklyn, and in solidarity with the people of Iran and Syria against the ongoing threats of war.

Join us to march, and raise our voices for justice!!

The Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People
(Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition – NY; American-Iranian Friendship Committee; Anakbayan NY/NJ; Arab American Association of New York; Arab Muslim American Federation; BAYAN USA; International Action Center; International League of People’s Struggle; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; New Jersey Solidarity – Activists for the Liberation of Palestine;New York City Labor Against the War; New York Committee to Defend Palestine; Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum; Workers World Party)

Also endorsed by: Million Worker March Movement (East), New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Queers For Palestine-East Coast

Endorse the demonstration! Send your endorsements to info @ al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636!

For more information, to join the coalition, and to get involved, please contact:
Al-Awda NY
718-228-8636

info @ al-awdany.org