Urgentemento - WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2004: CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ACTIONS FOR THE
THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS ON HUNGER
STRIKE.

please read and distribute widely. we call for decentralised local actions where ever we might be. we must take action before the situation of the prisoners becomes critical. we will continue to act in solidarity with the palestinian people and with their prisoners until our demands are met.

in solidatity, act.

a meeting in london will take place in the Autonomüs :Lab - Resistance And Rebellion noncentre in camden town. ( formerly london rising tide's greenwash or us, first exibition of resistance against BP and big oil ) address is 50 chalk farm road. nearest tube camden town and chalk farm, on the northern line. meet between 7 and 730 pm.

please organise meetings elsewhere in the country and the city and join with the international solidarity. report your actions on indymedias around the world. inspire and help stop injustice in this part of the world now. tomorrow.

Of the 8000 prisoners, 370 are children and 104 women.

love and rage

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On the 15th of August, thousands Palestinian political prisoners declared a hunger strike. They are demanding better conditions of detention, which include improved health, basic sanitary conditions, increased rights for family visits and a stop to indiscriminate beatings. They demand that they and their families be treated according to the law and to basic human rights.  

When asked, the Israeli Security Minister Tsahi Hangabee said,
'From my perspective, the Palestinians can strike until they die, no demand will be accepted. the prisoners can starve to death.'

The situation of the prisoners is extremely serious. International solidarity to the Palestinians is needed now more than ever. On Wednesday September 1st, people from various countries will do local solidarity actions. Everyone is urgently called to participate and organise actions in their areas.

Proposed actions for the day are:
- Solidarity hunger strikes in front of supermarkets that sell Israeli products taken from or produced in Palestinian occupied territories
- Encouraging the ongoing boycott of these products
- Sending faxes to Israeli embassies denouncing the prisonersí bad conditions of detention and demanding that the government takes immediate action to meet their demands.
- Sending faxes and letters to national governments demanding the total
suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement that offers favourable conditions of trade with Israel. (Article 2 of this agreement has a human rights clause stating that the relationship between the EU and Israel shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guide their internal and international policy as an essential element of the Agreement.)
- Demonstrations and protests at Israeli embassies and consulates
- Demonstrations with banners informing of the hunger strike.

The purpose of these actions is to call for the Israeli government to meet the demands of the prisoners and to denounce the occupation of the Palestinian territories, the repeated violation of human rights (the fourth Geneva Convention). These actions are not in any way aimed for anti-semitic purposes. There is a strong distinction between Israeli Zionists, Israeli non-Zionist and Jewish people. This has all too often been confused and brought about results and feelings which are counterproductive and dangerous.

MORE INFORMATION:

Information on the goods to boycott: 

 http://www.bigcampaign.org/boycott.html

Since capitalism is such a complicated interlinked system that does not respect any borders, this website also provides information on big (predominately American) companies that are involved or encourage the present state of Israelís politics.

Article on Hunger Strike by the International Federation of Human Rights:

 http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=1853

Press release on the EU Israel Association Agreement:

 http://www.euromedrights.net/english/emhrn-documents/pressreleases/18_10_2002.htm

International Solidarity Movement

Proposals for faxes and to be sent to the Israeli embassies and to national
governments will be sent on this list tomorrow. in solidarity ...........via zeiad faied