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Call for Action - 40 Years of Occupation in Palestine - June 6-12

Kibush 40 Coalition | 05.05.2007 18:51 | Palestine | World

40 Years is Enough!
Six Days of Action against the Occupation of Palestine
June 6-12 2007

Call for International Solidarity and Direct Actions

The second week of June will mark forty years since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day war. This is now the longest enduring military occupation in the world. While the Israeli government evades negotiations that would end the occupation and lead to a just peace, the lives of Palestinians continue to be crushed daily by closures and economic strangulation, their land confiscated for settlements and their communities made into prisons by the Segregation Wall. At the same time, violence in the region continues to supply ideological fuel for the G8 governments in their ‘War on Terror’, explicitly declared as a never-ending, pre-emptive global war which justifies erasing civil liberties, supporting oppressive regimes, and attacking refugees and migrants. We are all victims of this war: in Palestine and Israel, in Iraq and in Colombia, in Germany and in the U.S.A.

With the occupation at forty it should be clear to all that its forceful hegemony cannot be resisted by established political means alone. This is both morally insufficient and doomed to practical failure. As a strategic and practical alternative, the "Occupation 40" coalition is calling for six days of action marking forty years of the occupation on June 6 to 12 2007 – with a Global Day of Action called on June 9. The coalition is a democratic and non-hierarchical action platform of grassroots Israeli groups and organizations. Peace organizations, artists, students’ groups, internal refugees, anarchists, animal rights activists, communists and individuals participate in this initiative. The six-day convergence in Israel will include demonstrations, direct actions, discussions and cultural events.

This is a call-out for international direct actions against the occupation on June 6-12. We call in particular for actions that publicly shame and/or cause economic damage to corporations profiting directly from the occupation or from business interests in Israel.

We expect these actions to be decentralized and trust them to the initiative and self-organization of affinity groups around the world. Information on corporations involved with the occupation is available from  http://www.boycottisrael.co.uk and many other sources, including a recent report by War on Want available at  http://www.waronwant.org/download.php?id=443.

These days of action fit well into this summer’s international action calendar:

• June 5 – An international day of action against militarization, wars and occupations, in the run-up to the G8 summit in Germany.
• June 6-8 – Protests against the G8, with the participation of Palestinian and Israeli activists and Palestine Solidarity groups from around Europe.
• June 6-12 – 6 days of action against the Occupation, in Palestine/Israel and Internationally
• June 9 – Rally in London, Global Day of Action Against the Occupation
• June 10-11 – Protest, teach-in and lobby in Washington DC

Please distribute this call widely, and please organise for action with your groups and networks. We can use this symbolic moment to hit out at those who benefit and profit from the pain and despair in Palestine, and to send the Israeli and G8 governments a message they cannot ignore.

Kibush 40 Coalition:

Anarchists Against the Wall –  http://awalls.org
Coalition of Women for Peace –  http://coalitionofwomen.org
Gush Shalom –  http://gush-shalom.org
Hadash –  http://hadash.org.il/
Indymedia Israel –  http://israel.indymedia.org
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions –  http://icahd.org/
Machsom Watch –  http://machsomwatch.org
Ta’ayush –  http://taayush.org
Zochrot -  http://nakbainhebrew.org

International links:

Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (USA) –  http://endtheoccupation.org
Campaign Against Israeli Apartheid (Canada) –  http://caiaweb.org
Enough Coalition (UK) –  http://www.enoughoccupation.org

Kibush 40 Coalition
- Homepage: http://www.kibush40.org

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