Sacto: Tonight at 7pm, 16th & Broadway Pro-Palestine Demo

For those of you who can't make it to the emergency protest in San Francisco today to "Stop the U.S.-Israeli Assault on the People of Palestine!," we will have a local demonstration to support the same cause.

If you can, please come to 16th & Broadway from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm to show your support for Palestinian peace and to express opposition to Israel's siege of Gaza.

Round-the-clock Israeli artillery shelling is taking place in Gaza. Most of the people of Gaza are now without water and electricity. Palestinians are dying. The use of U.S. planes and other military equipment against illegally occupied land is a violation of both international and U.S. law. In a further act of act of colonial aggression, the IOF has arrested a third of the members of the Palestinian Authority governing body.

While there is a great outcry in the mass media about one captured Israeli soldier, the same media pays no attention whatsoever to the 9,000 Palestinian political prisoners being held illegally under terrible conditions in Israeli prisons. All of them were abducted by the IOF. At least 335 of these prisoners are children. Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured by Israel, the only country in the world that has legalized torture.

Deliberately attacking the civilian population, with the intent of causing maximum suffering, is clearly a crime against humanity. What we are witnessing today in Gaza is collective punishment -- a war crime under international law -- against the entire population.

Israel's racist apartheid system and the latest assault on Gaza is supported by the Bush regime, Congress and the corporate media, because of Israel's vital role in Washington's project of Middle East domination. Israel receives more military and economic aid from the U.S. than any other country. Without that aid and support it receives from Washington, Israel could not carry out its crimes against the Palestinian people.

Please join us at 16th & Broadway, in Sacramento, tonight at 7:00 pm to help us draw attention to these injustices!