I just received this last night and submitted the endorsements of cafe intifada, the we project and the l.a. palestine labor solidarity committee. other organizations interested in endorsing should also submit their names.
emma n <>Endorse Protest letter to the UN; Protection of Palestinians If you or your organization would like to endorse the letter below kindly send an e-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] July 6, 2006 H. E. Kofi Annan Secretary-General The United Nations, First Avenue New York, NY 10017 Honorable members of the United Nations Security Council RE: Immediate International Protection for the Palestinian People in the Occupied Territory The United Nations was founded "to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace . . . ." The ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine has thrown into stark relief the need for the United Nations to live up to this duty. Since the Palestinian people have time and again signaled their refusal to acquiesce in their own subjugation, the inexorable march of Israeli human rights violations continues with renewed savagery. The Israeli military has escalated its assault upon the Palestinian people, with dozens of Palestinians killed and wounded in recent months. Since the so-called Israeli redeployment from Gaza, Israel has continued to attack unarmed Palestinian civilians. On June 9, seven people of the same family were killed by Israeli shelling on a beach in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of Palestinian children have been killed in the first six months of 2006 alone, with the world community looking on. As of June 27, the Israeli Occupation Forces have launched a large scale attack on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, punishing over one million Palestinian civilians for the legitimate exercise of the inherent right of self-defense against Israeli combatants conducting a wide-scale assault on heavily populated areas. Meanwhile, these forces continue illegally to arrest and detain thousands of Palestinians, confiscate Palestinian land, demolish homes, impose a deadly economic blockade, and build an annexationist Apartheid wall. The historic policy of "Hafrada" (the Hebrew word for Apartheid) has reached its apex, and the international community is confronted more vividly than ever with the fruit of its inaction. It is thus time for the United Nations to discharge its historic obligation. We therefore call upon the United Nations to intervene to defend the Palestinian people by immediately undertaking the following actions: * forming an international force to protect Palestinian lives against violent attacks by the Israeli military; * calling for the immediate release of Palestinian prisoners held in violation of international law; * holding Israel accountable for its war crimes against the Palestinian people, its violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right and the Convention Against Torture, and its blatant disregard for the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Such actions would form the necessary beginnings of a just policy on Palestine that is long overdue. The Palestinian people are under brutal assault, and the moral failure of the international community cries out for rectification. Respectfully, Palestine Bar Association - Palestine Gaza Community Mental Health - Palestine University Teachers' Association - Palestine Addameer Prisoners' Rights and Support Group - Palestine Teacher Creativity Center - Palestine Palestinian Counseling Center Palestine Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC) - Palestine Arab Cultural Forum/Gaza - Palestine Society of Christian Heritage in the Holy Land - Palestine Women's Affairs Technical Committee - Palestine Jerusalem Center for Educational Enrichment (JCEE) - Palestine Filastiniyat - Palestine Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC) - Palestine Network of Christian Organizations in Bethlehem (NCOB) - Palestine Baladna, Association for Arab Youth Association - Palestine Ittijah,Union of Arab Community Based Associations - Palestine The Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA/Nazareth) - Palestine Himaya Association for the protection of Lands Rights - Palestine Ansar Al-Sajeen Association - Palestine The Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Internally Displaced Palestinians in Israel - Palestine Friends of Political Prisoners and Detainees - Palestine Jeel Jadeed Cultural Association - Palestine The Culture and Volunteer Association, Umm el-Fahm - Palestine The Palestinian Campaign for theAcademic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) - Palestine The Nahif Development and Welfare Association - Palestine Council for National Interest - USA Center on Law and Human Rights in Colorado Springs - USA Palestine Aid Society of North America - USA Workers World Party -San Francisco Branch - USA Ohio State University's Committee for Justice in Palestine - USA Palestinian American Congress - USA Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center/ Colorado - USA Georgetown Students for Justice in Palestine - USA Women's International League for Peace and Freedom/ Washington, D.C. Branch - USA Indigenous Peoples Literature - USA New York Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions - USA International Solidarity Movement, New York Chapter - USA National Council of Arab Americans, New York Chapter - USA American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, New York Chapter - USA Troops Out Now Coalition - USA International Action Center - USA Arab Muslim American Federation - USA The Middle East Children's Alliance - USA Arab American Club/ San Diego, California - USA American Council on Middle East Policy - USA Deir Yassin Society - USA Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition/NYC - USA International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal - USA Women in Black/ Los Angeles - USA WESPAC Foundation - USA International Solidarity Movement/ Seattle - USA International Solidarity Movement/ Chicago - USA Arab Jewish Peace Alliance - USA Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project - USA Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation of Palestine/ Toronto - Canada International Women's Peace Service/Palestine - Canada Coalition for a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine - Canada The Right of Return Congress - Europe/UK Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign - UK Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine - UK Welfare Association/ Great Britain - UK Oxford Women In Black - UK Collectif Judio-arabe et citoyen pour la Paix/ Strasbourg - France Coordination de L'appel de Strasbourg pour une Paix Juste au Proche Orient - France Collectif Guantanamo - France Paz con Dignidad - Spain Aktionsb|ndnis f|r einen gerechten Frieden f|r Paldstina - Germany Comite pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient - Luxembourg Belgian Interuniversity Cooperation with Universities in Palestine - Belgium Comiti de Soutien au Peuple Palestinien d'Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve- Belgium Verein fuer Antirassistische und Friedenspolitische Initiative/Dar al Janub" (Union for Antiracism and Peace Policy/Dar al Janub) - Austria The above letter was initiated by The New York Chapter of the National Council of Arab-Americans, the International Solidarity Movement, the New York Campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, the International Socialist Movement, and ADC New York. For more information, contact Issa Mikel at file:///[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http///us.f611.mail.yahoo.com/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CJENNIF%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5CLETTER%20TO%20UN.doc%5Cfile:%5CC:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CJENNIF%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5CLETTER%20TO%20UN.doc%5CMacintosh%20HD:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@gmail.com%3e> Since Wednesday, June 28, there have been protests around the world calling for an end to the recent escalation in Israeli aggression. And many more are planned, including in Palestine; Sudan; Egypt; New York; Toledo, Ohio; France; Houston, Texas; Oxford, UK; London, UK; Ontario, Canada; Seattle, Washington; Luxembourg; Brussels, Belgium; Berlin, Germany; Washington, D.C.; and Minneapolis, MN. -- "I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. 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