>Forward from mart. >Important. >Please Distribute Widely! >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Middle East List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: October 23, 2000 12:33 AM >Subject: STAND with PALESTINE: An urgent call to all progressives > > >AN URGENT CALL TO ALL PROGRESSIVES IN THE U.S. > >Let's stand with the Palestinian people in the continuing U.S. corporate- >backed war against the peoples of the Middle East. The events of the last >three weeks in the Middle East are a clarion call to our movement to make >our >voices clear, determined and loud. The fact is that Israeli soldiers could >not >shoot and bomb Palestinian people without the hundreds of billions of >dollars in aid that the Israeli regime receives from the U.S. > >Even in the face of the lies and confusion that the corporate media >deliberately propagates about the Middle East, our movement, after years of >struggle and experience, has made the correct conclusions: We know that >supporting the just and courageous struggle of the Palestinian people does >not equal anti-Semitism. In essence the struggle of the Palestinian people >for >their rights is no different than the struggle of the South African people >against apartheid, or the struggle of Native peoples here in the U.S. >against >the centuries-old campaign of racist genocide. > >The struggle in the Middle East is not a war of Arab against Jew. It is >part of >the worldwide struggle of poor and oppressed peoples against U.S. >imperialism, globalization, domination, and against the regimes that serve >the >interests of the super rich. > >If we stand together�as we did in Seattle against the WTO, and in >Washington DC against the IMF and the World Bank, and at the other >meetings of the globalizers in Melbourne and Prague�then it is consistent >that we stand with the Palestinian people against the military machine and >the institutions of oppression. > >Precisely because the role of U.S. imperialism and militarism is so dominant >in >the Middle East, more than anywhere else, our movement in the U.S. must >shoulder the main responsibility of exposing the U.S. role and fighting it. >The health, the future, the very existence of our movement for genuine world >justice demands that we guard against being paralyzed by confusion, or >intimidated into silence. > >Let us gather in front of The New York Times on Friday, October 27 at 5 pm - >and stand strongly and proudly with the oppressed Palestinian nation in the >struggle. > >Statement issued by International Action Center >39 West 14 St., #206, New York, NY 10011 >(212) 633-6646 web: www.iacenter.org email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >International Action Center >39 West 14th Street, Room 206 >New York, NY 10011 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web: www.iacenter.org >CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE www.mumia2000.org >phone: 212 633-6646 >fax: 212 633-2889 > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
