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End Occupation March in DC ignored by so called progressive media; Palestinians can suffer

by 40 years is too long
Progressive media is missing in support of the Palestinian people as the main stream medea trumpet Israel's sucess at trampling the Palestinians.
A quick survey shows me there is no committment to help the Palestinian people.
Where is the progressive media covering the march in DC right now by how many people. We don't know.

KPFA is talking about scent vulnerability. OK that's a problem for a few people, but the people being blown to pieces and sweltering in camps for 40 years have another level of pain.

WPFW is playing sweetly sick jazz instead of broadcasting.

Airamerica Laura Flander is discussing Venezuela; maybe she will get around to it.

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1281

Call to Action





People around the world are joining together in a global Day of Action as “The World Says No to Israeli Occupation” to protest the 40th anniversary of Israel’s illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and Syrian Golan Heights.
In the United States, thousands of people from all over the country will converge on Washington, DC from June 10-11, 2007 to send a clear message: The United States Says No to Israeli Occupation!



We know that occupation is wrong. We see U.S. troops occupying Iraq, and we say no. We see Israeli troops and civilians occupying Palestinian land, and we say no again. Wrong in Iraq, wrong in Palestine.

We in the United States have a special obligation to protest Israel’s illegal military occupation because it is our government that provides Israel with the uncritical military, economic, diplomatic, and corporate support that it needs to sustain and expand its control of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.

If we do not protest, then we are complicit in the human rights abuses inflicted daily on Palestinians who are forced to live under Israel’s brutal military occupation. In its 40 years of military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians and injured tens of thousands; destroyed thousands of homes; uprooted hundreds of thousands of olive trees; built hundreds of illegal settlements on expropriated land; denied Palestinians their human rights to food, water, education, livelihoods, and health care, and imposed a system of checkpoints, walls and fences, road closures, military bases, barricades, sieges, and curfews that restrict freedom of movement and collectively punish the entire Palestinian population.

Israel is committing these human rights violations with U.S. aid, in violation of the U.S. Arms Export Control and Foreign Assistance Acts. Every time Israel kills a Palestinian civilian with an F-16 fighter jet, Apache helicopter gunship, or Boeing JDAM missile, it is done with our taxpayer dollars in our name. Every time Israel demolishes a Palestinian home with a Caterpillar bulldozer, it is done with our taxpayer dollars in our name. Every time Israel steals Palestinian land to build another settlement, it is done with our taxpayer dollars in our name.

And Israel’s human rights violations of the Palestinian people are not limited to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestinians are subjected to a system of apartheid. Inside Israel, Palestinian citizens are discriminated against and cannot exercise their full rights as citizens. And Israel continues to deny Palestinian refugees, who were forcibly exiled from their homeland during Israel’s establishment, their internationally guaranteed right of return.

On the 40th anniversary of Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, we will come together in Washington, DC to say “The United States Says No to Israeli Occupation” and to demand:

* An end to US military, economic, diplomatic, and corporate support for Israel’s illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.

* A change in US policy to one that supports a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis based on equality, human rights and international law, and the full implementation of all relevant UN resolutions.

Sponsored by:

1. US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

2. United for Peace and Justice



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large palestinian population in Michigan
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