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COLORADANS TAKE OVER ISRAELI MILITARY CHECKPOINT by Coloradans in Palestine 12:44pm Sat Dec 29 '01 Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace 901 West 14th Avenue, #7 Denver, CO 80204 720-956-0700 * www.CCMEP.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Release For Immediate Release Contact: Coloradans in Palestine, 011-972-56-341-820 Mark Schneider, Val Phillips, Ben Scribner, Nadya Waziri, Beth Daoud COLORADANS TAKE OVER ISRAELI MILITARY CHECKPOINT 5 From Denver/Boulder Join Over 200 Internationals in Unprecedented Action Amid tear-gas and sound bombs, five Coloradans joined dozens of Palestinians and over 150 internationals in nonviolently pushing back the Israeli military from their illegal checkpoint near Surda village -- a busy checkpoint between the Palestinian town of Ramallah and Bir Zeit University. For nearly six hours the international activists controlled the checkpoint, denying access to Israeli tanks and armored vehicles and keeping it open to all Palestinian traffic. �For the Israeli military, tear gas and sound bombs are their polite warnings to move,� said Coloradan Ben Scribner. �Clearly our level of coordination caught the Israeli soldiers by surprise and proved to them and the rest of the world the power of organized nonviolence.� After soldiers from two Israeli military jeeps attacked a line of protestors with tear gas, Coloradan Val Phillips suffered gas inhalation from two cannisters thrown at her. �I couldn�t breathe at all. I was terrified,� said Phillips. �Yet, I can�t believe Palestinians � who just want to go to school and work -- have to live with this every day of their lives.� Later at the same location an Israeli tank, two jeeps and an armored personnel carrier confronted a dozen activists attempting to nonviolently keep a main road open to Palestinian traffic. Israeli soldiers came out of their vehicles and began dragging people away, punching and kneeing people and in one case an American from Seattle was severely jabbed by an Israeli soldier�s machine gun. Yet the line held. Israel illegally maintains over 140 military checkpoints throughout the West Bank and Gaza, denying Palestinians access to education, commerce, medical care, and travel. Two days previous Coloradans witnessed Israeli soldiers humiliating and degrading Palestinians who were simply trying to go to work or school. Today�s action included activists from the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Greece, Israel and Palestine. In Palestine the local organizing body is the International Solidarity Movement and their website is: www.rapprochement.org Coloradans have been posting daily dispatches and pictures to the ccmep website: www.CCMEP.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
