[] The yearly gathering of activism starting tomorrow
April 8, 9,10 - NB: LOCATION CHANGED to Givat Haviva

[] The Killing Zone 8/4 20:00 - Tel-Aviv

[] New CO Daniel Tsal, refusing to enlist to occupation army;
come and join him to the Bakum gates, Tuesday

[] 6 go AWOL after forced to guard 40 hours non-stop at Gaza settlement

[] The latest from Biddu: army attacks nonviolent protesters

[] Ongoing struggle - with new data re Vanunu

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[] The yearly gathering of activism starting tomorrow
April 8, 9,10 - NB: LOCATION CHANGED to Givat Haviva


Due to unreasonable demands set by the Kakal on the subject of security
and the managment of the camp. the festival is changing location.

The Third Activism Festival will be held as planned in April 8,9,10 in
Givat Haviva.


For more information www.greenaction.org.il/festival


See you there,
Green Action Staff.

tqhial d`whiaifm treld ixewd
Activism Festival Green Action



[] The Killing Zone 8/4 20:00 - Tel-Aviv

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From: uri ayalon

"The Killing Zone" (50 minutes, UK)
Thursday, 8.4, 20:00
Ahad Haam 70, Tel-aviv

While the world's attention has been fixed on the war in Iraq, dispatches
reporter Sandra Jordan and producer Rodrigo Vasquez risk their lives to
reveal the shocking level of daily violence and murderous hate in the
Gaza strip.

for more, see:
 http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/special_reports/dispatches_killing_zone.
html

[] New CO Daniel Tsal, refusing to enlist to occupation army;
come and join him to the Bakum gates, Tuesday

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From: "Anat Matar"
To: ,
Date sent: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:31:21 +0300

Daniel Tsal refuses to enlist to an army of occupation
We'll join him in the Induction Center on 13/4

Next Tuesday, April 14th, at 7:30, Daniel Tsal will arrive at the IDF
Induction Center and will declare his refusal to join an occupying and
oppressing army.
Daniel informed the Minister of Defense about his planned refusal three
months ago, and his request to be brought to the IDF conscience committee
was rejected.
Last January, the five COs who refused to enlist to an army of occupation
were sentenced to one year imprisonment. Daniel is the first refuser who
follows in their footsteps, apart from Laura Milo, whose case will be
heard in the HCJ on the very same day.

We'll join Daneil at the gates of the Induction Center and will shout out
loud -
Down with the occupation and the oppression! Free the consciencious
objectors!

(Car owners are requested to stop at the Arlozorov terminal at 7:00 to
pick up potential riders)

Excerpts from Daniel Tsal's letter to the defense minister:
"The principles of the "only democracy in the Middle East" have become
void of meaning as a result of the trampling of the rights of about three
million people, and more indirectly, of the ongoing destruction of the
foundations on which the State of Israel is supposed to be based...
In such historical times, a sane individual must rise up against the
system that makes the ongoing oppression possible. I have a moral
obligation not a choice but an obligation - to refuse to participate in
the occupation and to struggle against the institutions that cancel such
basic human rights. Any sane person, who has not yet been wholly overcome
by fear and racism, must by dint of his basic humanity refuse to be part
of an occupying and oppressive system such as the IDF has become."


[] 6 go AWOL after forced to guard 40 hours non-stop at Gaza settlement

On he morning of April 5, reporter Carmela Menashe of the Kol Yisrael
Radio Station disclosed that six soldiers of the Shimshon Batallion had
gone together "Absent WithOut leave" in protest against intolerable
conditions at the settlement enclave of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip where
day and night soldiers guard a handful of fanatic settlers. The
complaint: they were forced to guard without stop for consecutive 40
hours; moreover, a soldier was ordered to guard alone at the most
dangerous position where Palestinians have in the past penetrated and
where the army's own regulations say that two should guard together; nor
were soldiers provided with food drink and warm clothes. The radio
brought an interview with Albert Shoshan, father to one of them who,
himself a veteran of several wars, gave full support to his son. "I
phoned his commander: Don't worry, he has not been kidnapped. You can get
him back when you start treating him decently."


[] The latest from Biddu: army attacks nonviolent protesters

------- Forwarded message follows -------
TFrom: "International Solidarity Movement"
Date sent: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:19:01 -0000


INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
Wed April 7, 2004
For Immediate Release


ISRAELI ARMY ATTACKS NONVIOLENT PROTESTERS IN BIDDU
Two Palestinian community leaders arrested and dozens villagers
injured

[Biddu, NW Jerusalem] Before 6am this morning, Israeli army
bulldozers started the construction of the wall in the outskirts of
Biddu village again. They were confronted by villagers,
Internationals and Israeli activists who tried to reach the worksite and
stop the work. Israeli soldiers opened fire directly at the line of
nonviolent protesters, shooting tear gas and concussion grenades and then
rubber-coated metal bullets. Dozens of Palestinians are reportedly injured
by eyewitnesses.

At 7:30am, the Israeli army arrested two Biddu community leaders,
Mohamed Mansour and Ibrahim Saleh Bedwan, as they were protesting
nonviolently the construction of the Wall through the village
farmlands. They have been taken away to an unknown location.

The protesters are now completely surrounded by over 80 soldiers who are
firing tear gas canisters, concussion grenades and rubber-coated metal
bullets, targeting upper parts of the body.

The Popular Committee against the Wall and the activists are now
trying to protect a house located at the outskirts of the village
which is about to be demolished by the Israeli army. Some villagers
are staying in the house to prevent its destruction while other are
staying outside and are currently targeted with tear gas canisters
and rubber-coated steel bullets.

For more information, please contact:

Biddu Village Council: +972.22.47.12.20
Mohammed Ayyash: +972.67.395.422
Mansour Mansour: +972.55.804.830
Neal: +972.66.346.165
ISM Media Office: +972.22.77.46.02


[] Ongoing struggle - with new data re Vanunu

#Against the Wall (contact addresses)
#Refusniks (prisoner addresses & links to constantly updated sites)
#Vanunu to be released April 21
[ links to the latest re the Donate Now "Instead of Flowers"
campaign / worldwide vigils etc. especially important for
those who don't have the Paypal option ]
New: Contact re activities in Israel

#Against the Wall

Day to day presence at villages threatened by route of wall.
Contact: Ivy Sichel 064-604172  isichel@netvision.net.il who set's up a
list for people who can come at short notice, or: Arik Asherman 050-
607034  info@rhr.israel.net


#Refusniks

Constantly-updated list of all presently jailed refusniks:

English -  http://www.yesh-gvul.org/english/prison/
Hebrew / raxiz -  http://www.yesh-gvul.org/prison/


For the latest news about the five:

 http://www.refuz.org.il/News.html

NB:
Letters of support to
Noam Bahat / Haggai Mattar / Matan Kaminer
AGAF BET
Maasiyaho Prison
P.O.B 13
Ramla
Israel

Adam Maor / Shimri Tzameret:
Hermon Prison
P.O.B 4011
KFAR MRAR
Israel

#Vanunu to be released April 21

Instead of sending flowers
Wordlwide campaign WELCOME VANUNU by donating a few dollars
(N.B.: online but ALSO otherwise) as a welcome gesture:


List of international vigils on day of Vanunu release (April 21):
 http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/
 http://www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk/

Online petition for the unconditional release of Vanunu
 http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/freemordechaivanunu/

For details about Free Vanunu vigils and activities in Israel,
Call: 02-6254530 or 051-368236
or email:  legalese@netvision.net.il


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