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Dear Kenneth,
I am writing you with the most urgent request to make a donation to
help defray the huge expenses for the "Let Gaza Live" Emergency
National Mass March on Washington D.C that will take place this
Saturday, January 10. Buses are coming from all over the United States. Click this link to make
a donation.
Because the March on Washington has been called on just one week’s
notice, we urgently need your financial support. We must raise $65,000
in the next 72 hours. We will have all the expenses—for bus rentals
($2,100 per bus from NYC for instance), sound, stage, printing,
placards, banners, porta-toilets, etc.—that are involved in organizing
other mass marches. But those demonstrations usually are done with
months of lead time in which fundraising activities can carried out. Click this link and
please make as generous a contribution as possible.
As I am writing this letter the latest gruesome news reports keep
coming in. Seven minutes ago the AP reported, "Israeli mortar shells
struck outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought
refuge on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people -- many of them children
whose parents wailed in grief at a hospital filled with dead and
wounded."
The people of the United States must take action now to end the
horrific U.S.-backed Israeli assault underway against the Palestinian
people. After days of merciless bombing, tens of thousands of Israeli
troops, armed by the Pentagon with the deadliest technology, have
invaded, occupied, and cut Gaza in half. More than 600 Palestinians
have been killed and at least 2,400 wounded. Power and water are shut
down. The overflowing hospitals have no more medicine. Food supplies
are exhausted. The catastrophe worsens by the hour.
Click this link to make
an urgently needed donation to support this Saturday's Emergency "Let
Gaza Live" Demonstration.
Cluster and phosphorous bombs, and depleted uranium munitions are just
some of the atrocious weapons being used indiscriminately against one
of the poorest and most densely populated areas of the world. Nearly
half the 1.5 million residents of Gaza are jammed into crowded refugee
camps, where they and their families have lived since their forcible
expulsion from towns and villages in Palestine in 1948.
In response to this dire situation, the ANSWER Coalition, together with
the National Council of Arab Americans, Free Palestine Alliance, Muslim
American Society Freedom Foundation, Al-Awda Palestine Right of Return
Coalition, Council on American Islamic Relations and other
organizations have issued an emergency call for a National Day of
Protest on Saturday, January 10. Mass marches will take place in
Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities, demanding
“Let Gaza Live!!” Among the endorsers of the demonstrations are Cynthia
McKinney, Ramsey Clark, Howard Zinn, Cindy Sheehan, and hundreds of
others individuals and organizations.
Click this link to make
an urgently needed donation to support this Saturday's Emergency "Let
Gaza Live" Demonstration.
Already, tens of thousands of people across the U.S. and millions
around the world have taken to the streets against the war and in
solidarity with the Palestinian people. Protests on every continent
have refuted the lies of the politicians and corporate media which
attempt to portray the oppressor as the victim and vice-versa.
What is needed now—especially here given the role of the U.S.
government in arming and backing Israel—are national mobilizations of
greater scale. That is the aim of the January 10 March on Washington
and the other actions around the country.
Again, I appeal to you to click this link and
please make as generous a contribution as possible.
Thanks in advance and we hope to see you on January 10,
Sincerely,
Brian Becker
National Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition
P.S. Contributions made to Progress Unity Fund are tax-deductible.
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