Palestine: It's Hell

John has been in Palestine for seven months working with the International Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org) and the Palestinian Hydrology Group (www.phg.org). He was one of the coordinators for ISM actions and organized and coordinated the ISM Olive Harvest Campaign. He also collected information on the environmental effects of the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and collected data for and was one of the authors and editors of the first report on the Israeli Apartheid Wall put together by the Palestinian Environmental NGO’s Network (www.pengon.org). WHEN: Monday, March 3rd 7 – 9:00 PM WHERE: The Women’s Building, 3543 18th St San Francisco, Ca Suggested donation: $5 to $100 or whatever – will go to help John return to Palestine and continue his work. A portion will go to the ISM, the PHG and Community Action Network. John will show slides and tell stories about people living under occupation – and about the Palestinian and international nonviolent resistance movement that is growing in the West Bank and Gaza. A peace activist and a hydrogeologist, John also will talk about new evidence of environmental impacts of war and occupation on the earth and Palestinian communities. Water is contaminated and groundwater tapped out. Israeli and Palestinian waste pollutes villages, streams and Palestinian farmlands. Ancient olive trees are ripped from the ground and this is all in addition to the destruction wreaked by war and its industries - from uranium poisoning by the use of depleted uranium shells to land and property laid waste by fire, bombings and the machines of war. For more information, contact: nomoreoccupation@yahoo.com Community Action Network can@drizzle.com 206-568-7110 (tour contact) The real threat comes not from the bullets of the occupying force but from those who do not want the truth to be told.