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Gaza Solidarity Day Rally and March --UN Plaza SF
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Date:
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Time:
12:00 PM
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5:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Bill Hackwell
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March Route: Market to 4th St., 4th St. to Mission, Mission to 5th St., 5th St. to Market, Market to UN Plaza
To gain maximum visibility, the march will pass through the busiest parts of downtown San Francisco on a Saturday, and then return to UN Plaza.
Join us on Saturday, June 6, 12 noon at UN Plaza (Market & 7th Sts.) for a rally and march on the 42nd anniversary of Israel's takeover of Gaza during the 1967 Six Day War.
To gain maximum visibility, the march will pass through the busiest parts of downtown San Francisco on a Saturday, and then return to UN Plaza.
Join us on Saturday, June 6, 12 noon at UN Plaza (Market & 7th Sts.) for a rally and march on the 42nd anniversary of Israel's takeover of Gaza during the 1967 Six Day War.
Sat., June 6, 12 Noon - Gaza Solidarity Day Rally and March -- UN Plaza, San Francisco
March Route: Market to 4th St., 4th St. to Mission, Mission to 5th St., 5th St. to Market, Market to UN Plaza
Join us on Saturday, June 6, 12 noon at UN Plaza (Market & 7th Sts.) for a rally and march on the 42nd anniversary of Israel's takeover of Gaza during the 1967 Six Day War.
To gain maximum visibility, the march will pass through the busiest parts of downtown San Francisco on a Saturday, and then return to UN Plaza.
On Saturday, June 6, organizations and individuals in solidarity with the people of Palestine will be taking to the streets once again to demand: End the Siege of Gaza!
The world looked on in horror this past winter as Israel mercilessly starved and bombed the people of Gaza, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians, at least a third of whom were children. The Arab world now refers to the dark days from the end of December to mid-January “The Gaza Massacre.” Although the mainstream media no longer focuses on Gaza, the suffering continues there nonetheless. Using the pretext of combating terrorism, Israel has refused to allow even one truckload of cement into Gaza. In other words, the city that was reduced to rubble still lies in rubble today. All these months later, people are still living in tents and are scarcely able to secure the necessities of life.
Sponsoring organizations for the June 6 Gaza Solidarity Day include ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), Muslim American Society Freedom, National Council of Arab Americans, Free Palestine Alliance, Al-Awda—Palestine Right of Return Coalition, American Muslims for Palestine, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Cindy Sheehan, Alliance for a Just & Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP), International Socialist Organization, Freedom Socialist Party, Industrial Workers of the World—Bay Area, FMLN—N. Calif., Barrio Unido, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Middle East Children’s Alliance and more!
March Route: Market to 4th St., 4th St. to Mission, Mission to 5th St., 5th St. to Market, Market to UN Plaza
Join us on Saturday, June 6, 12 noon at UN Plaza (Market & 7th Sts.) for a rally and march on the 42nd anniversary of Israel's takeover of Gaza during the 1967 Six Day War.
To gain maximum visibility, the march will pass through the busiest parts of downtown San Francisco on a Saturday, and then return to UN Plaza.
On Saturday, June 6, organizations and individuals in solidarity with the people of Palestine will be taking to the streets once again to demand: End the Siege of Gaza!
The world looked on in horror this past winter as Israel mercilessly starved and bombed the people of Gaza, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians, at least a third of whom were children. The Arab world now refers to the dark days from the end of December to mid-January “The Gaza Massacre.” Although the mainstream media no longer focuses on Gaza, the suffering continues there nonetheless. Using the pretext of combating terrorism, Israel has refused to allow even one truckload of cement into Gaza. In other words, the city that was reduced to rubble still lies in rubble today. All these months later, people are still living in tents and are scarcely able to secure the necessities of life.
Sponsoring organizations for the June 6 Gaza Solidarity Day include ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), Muslim American Society Freedom, National Council of Arab Americans, Free Palestine Alliance, Al-Awda—Palestine Right of Return Coalition, American Muslims for Palestine, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Cindy Sheehan, Alliance for a Just & Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP), International Socialist Organization, Freedom Socialist Party, Industrial Workers of the World—Bay Area, FMLN—N. Calif., Barrio Unido, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Middle East Children’s Alliance and more!
Added to the calendar on Fri, Jun 5, 2009 10:39AM
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Although some argue that there can be no peace until Palestinians stop their 'terrorist' attacks, many others recognize that the Palestinian ‘terrorist' attacks are desperate response against the Israeli government's continued confiscation of Palestinian lands for Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the two-year old siege of Gaza.
Furthermore, the Palestinian `terrorism' is no match for Israel's `state terrorism' with their F16's, Apache helicopters, and Merkava tanks, which is why far more Palestinians fall victim to Israeli violence than Israelis to Palestinian violence.
President Carter in his book, ‘Palestine: Peace not Apartheid’, cites that between September 2000 and March 2006, 1,084 Israelis were killed of which 123 were children, while 3,982 Palestinians were killed of which 708 were children. The disparity in the casualties is even greater now.
Sara Roy, who is a daughter of a Holocaust survivor, addressed what the Palestinians endure under the Israeli occupation at a Holocaust Remembrance lecture at Baylor University in 2002:
"Israel's occupation of the Palestinians is not the moral equivalent of the Nazi genocide of the Jews. But it does not have to be. No, this is not genocide but it is repression and it is brutal. And it has become frighteningly natural. Occupation is about the domination and dispossession of one people by another. It is about the destruction of their property and the destruction of their soul. Occupation aims, at its core, to deny Palestinians their humanity by denying them the right to determine their existence, to live normal lives in their own homes. Occupation is humiliation. It is despair and desperation. And just as there is no moral equivalence or symmetry between the Holocaust and the occupation, so there is no moral equivalence or symmetry between the occupier and the occupied, no matter how much we as Jews regard ourselves as victims."
After 40 years of military occupation, Israel has 500,000 settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and 2.5 million Palestinians herded into isolated Bantustans. Israel is building the separation wall to consolidate the confiscated land and to wall off the Palestinians.
Israel views itself as an enlightened western democracy, but they have established an Apartheid state in their backyard. Israel’s attack on Gaza is not in self-defense. It is a continuation of Israel’s plan to annihilate the Palestinian people.
Please support Palestinian peoples struggle for Justice.
Furthermore, the Palestinian `terrorism' is no match for Israel's `state terrorism' with their F16's, Apache helicopters, and Merkava tanks, which is why far more Palestinians fall victim to Israeli violence than Israelis to Palestinian violence.
President Carter in his book, ‘Palestine: Peace not Apartheid’, cites that between September 2000 and March 2006, 1,084 Israelis were killed of which 123 were children, while 3,982 Palestinians were killed of which 708 were children. The disparity in the casualties is even greater now.
Sara Roy, who is a daughter of a Holocaust survivor, addressed what the Palestinians endure under the Israeli occupation at a Holocaust Remembrance lecture at Baylor University in 2002:
"Israel's occupation of the Palestinians is not the moral equivalent of the Nazi genocide of the Jews. But it does not have to be. No, this is not genocide but it is repression and it is brutal. And it has become frighteningly natural. Occupation is about the domination and dispossession of one people by another. It is about the destruction of their property and the destruction of their soul. Occupation aims, at its core, to deny Palestinians their humanity by denying them the right to determine their existence, to live normal lives in their own homes. Occupation is humiliation. It is despair and desperation. And just as there is no moral equivalence or symmetry between the Holocaust and the occupation, so there is no moral equivalence or symmetry between the occupier and the occupied, no matter how much we as Jews regard ourselves as victims."
After 40 years of military occupation, Israel has 500,000 settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and 2.5 million Palestinians herded into isolated Bantustans. Israel is building the separation wall to consolidate the confiscated land and to wall off the Palestinians.
Israel views itself as an enlightened western democracy, but they have established an Apartheid state in their backyard. Israel’s attack on Gaza is not in self-defense. It is a continuation of Israel’s plan to annihilate the Palestinian people.
Please support Palestinian peoples struggle for Justice.
Until people go hungry in America everyone goes back to sleep eventually under the illusion that savior Obama and democrats will save them from the republican party from ever declaring another war again.
Please!
It's going to take a revolution to put a stop to American aggression. Obama is a war monger too but too many people see him as opposite.
DUMB ASSES.
Nothing ever changes with the U.S. Government and that goes for the movement supposedly against that's too afraid to revolt to put a final stop to it.
You play into their hands.
Who's hands?
The hand s of the ruling elite.
The masters of deception and control over your mind and there for your actions. control of the past present and future.
They run both parties and the media playing you like an all time pimp of the year.
hahahaha
So funny it brings tears one's face. sad existence
A society that doesn't learned from the mistake of the past is a doomed society.
Please!
It's going to take a revolution to put a stop to American aggression. Obama is a war monger too but too many people see him as opposite.
DUMB ASSES.
Nothing ever changes with the U.S. Government and that goes for the movement supposedly against that's too afraid to revolt to put a final stop to it.
You play into their hands.
Who's hands?
The hand s of the ruling elite.
The masters of deception and control over your mind and there for your actions. control of the past present and future.
They run both parties and the media playing you like an all time pimp of the year.
hahahaha
So funny it brings tears one's face. sad existence
A society that doesn't learned from the mistake of the past is a doomed society.
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