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A Campaign of Solidarity, Resistance and Liberation
August 2004. Over a decade of economic and military warfare against the people of Iraq. Over a year of occupation of Iraq. The Apartheid Wall being built in Palestine. People cut off from their lands, livelihoods and each other. Economic devastation in Iraq and Palestine. Health care and education destroyed in each land. Resource wars over oil, water and land.
The times cry for change. The times cry for peacemakers and justice-seekers. The times cry for action. It is high time that we respond to the call to act. The times cry for us to act as if the lives of the peoples of Iraq and Palestine truly matter.
It is time to challenge our comfortable lives in the United States. To challenge our country's acts of war and oppression. To resist the machinery of war enveloping our country. To choose the path of nonviolence over continual destruction.
We therefore initiate this campaign of Solidarity, Resistance and Liberation as we demand that our country end its actions of economic and military warfare that result, for so many, in Life Under Occupation.
Our demands include:
- Respect for all worker rights and human rights in Iraq and Palestine.
- An end to the occupations in Iraq and Palestine.
- Self-determination for the peoples of Iraq and Palestine, not a puppet "sovereignty."
- A dismantling of all walls that separate and tear lives asunder.
- Reconstruction of Iraq and Palestine that benefits and is directed by the people of Iraq and Palestine rather than by the dictates of corporations or foreign countries.
- Reparations to families of Iraqis killed as a result of the US-driven economic and military warfare since 1990.
- Clean up of all cluster-bombs, landmines, depleted uranium and other unexploded weapons, as well as a prohibition on any future use of such weapons.
- Redirect our country's resources away from war and to uses which affirm life, including universal health care, education, economic development and a justly reformed criminal injustice system.
Campus Organizing: Most Recent
Rolling Blackouts: 11/07/2004We are here today in nonviolent solidarity with the people of Iraq as well as Palestine to dramatize the effects of occupation on their lives.... Working With The Media: 10/27/2004
Prepare and maintain a list of all media contacts including newspapers (weekly & daily), TV, and radio. Don’t neglect alternative and religious press. Your list... Writing A Media Release: 10/27/2004
Write “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE” and indicate the DATE for the release at the top left of the page. At top right of page, list name... Resist War Profiteering: 10/06/2004
Divestment is a political tool that was developed during the anti-apartheid student movement. In the 80s, students protested their universities’ relationship to the racist South... Talking Points for the Abolition of ROTC: 10/06/2004
ROTC directly benefits a foreign policy that is imperialistic and advocates preemptive war. Choosing to have ROTC on campus is not a politically neutral choice....
Our Call:
Let Iraqis Live
Bring Our Troops Home Now
Bring Them All Home Alive!
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The following comparison of the Vietnam and Iraq wars was written by Karl Meyer of Nashville Greenlands.
At no point yesterday did anyone mention occupation. Like sex, “occupation” had to be censored out of the historical narrative.
by Robert Fisk
original at Selves and Others
So, the Palestinians will end their occupation of Israel. No more will Palestinian tanks smash their way into Haifa and Tel Aviv. No more will Palestinian F-18s bomb Israeli population centres. No more will Palestinian Apache helicopters carry out “targeted killings” - ie: murders - of Israeli military leaders.
The Palestinians have promised to end all “acts of violence” against Israelis while Israel has promised to end all “military activity” against Palestinians. So that’s it, then. Peace in our time.
Donna Mulhearn has spent the last week in the Palestinian West Bank “sleepy farming town” of Saida under curfew and military occupation with its people. The following are her last three letters and photos describing the effects of this military occupation of a small village.
27 January - 1 February 2005
House arrest in Palestine
By Donna Mulhearn
27 January
Dear friends,
I am writing this by candlelight in a family living room in the Palestinian West Bank town of Saida where I am currently under military-enforced house arrest, along with 3,500 others. The living room of my adopted home is packed full of people. Grandma with the white scarf and wise face and several of her 13 children: four cheerful sisters with their various tribes of children, three younger brothers and several cousins.
They have no choice but to stay inside. If they open their front door they will be confronted by the machine gun of one of the hundreds of heavily armed Israeli soldiers who invaded and occupied this sleepy farming town three days ago.
By LILA GUTERMAN
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Thursday, January 27, 2005
When more than 200,000 people died in a tsunami caused by an Asian earthquake in December, the immediate reaction in the United States was an outpouring of grief and philanthropy, prompted by extensive coverage in the news media.
Two months earlier, the reaction in the United States to news of another large-scale human tragedy was much quieter. In late October, a study was published in The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, concluding that about 100,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since it was invaded by a United States-led coalition in March 2003. On the eve of a contentious presidential election — fought in part over U.S. policy on Iraq — many American newspapers and television news programs ignored the study or buried reports about it far from the top headlines.
Ceylon Mooney, co-coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness and the Wheels of Justice Tour, traveled recently in the Middle East with three friends; Joel G, Jacob Flowers, and Kyle Kordsmeier.
Having recently returned to the U.S. with firsthand stories from occupied Palestine they are all eager to talk and relate what the occupation means. Compiled below are all 4 journals in one place for easier printing and reading.
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Geneva Fast
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Life Under Occupation
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