Yes, Marc, please get us included in this. In
fact, as an affiliated organization of Al-Awda,
we are already in support of this position, and
we should definitely sign on unless we have
decided to remove ourselves from teh ROR
coalition.
BObG
--- Marc Estrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our group's signing this is consistent with
> yesterday's meeting. Can we
> make such a decision online?
>
> Marc
>
> ----------
> From: "Right of Return Congress"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:00:41 -0700
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Action Alert: Support the Right of
> Return & Oppose All Colonial
> Occupations
> Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Resent-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:24:46 -0400
>
> Action Alert: Support the Right of Return &
> Oppose All Colonial Occupations
>
>
> May 10, 2004 Bulletin Update:
>
> (For Bulletin subscription and frequency
> details, please see end of this
> Bulletin)
>
>
>
> As the world stands shocked and dismayed about
> the brutal crimes of the
> US-British occupying forces in Iraq, more than
> 1,500 organizations,
> coalitions, intellectuals, grassroots activists
> and community leaders joined
> as signatories in an �International Response�
> (attached below) to President
> Bush�s neo-Balfour Declaration on Palestine,
> which he issued in support of
> the policies of Ariel Sharon on April 14, 2004,
> at the White House.
>
>
>
> A running list of signatories is available on:
> www.ror-congress.org.
>
>
>
> To ENDORSE the �International Response�, please
> write to:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> Recognizing the inextricable link between the
> plight of the Palestinian and
> the Iraqi people, both suffering under the
> brutality of colonial occupations
> carried out by two prongs of a joint historic
> alliance, we echo the
> sentiments of great many signatories who have
> written that today it is of
> vital necessity to support fundamental and core
> principles of justice �
> namely, ending all colonial occupations and
> supporting self-determination
> including the inalienable right of people to
> return to their homes and
> homeland.
>
>
>
> Although we are gratified and deeply thankful
> for the overwhelming support,
> we nonetheless know that much more is still
> needed, and we are counting on
> you!
>
>
>
> We are asking you to actively solicit support
> from your family and friends
> for this campaign as much as you can during the
> next 5 days. On May 15, the
> anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian Catastrophe
> (�Nakba�), we will present
> this �International Response� to all members of
> the United Nations General
> Assembly and other relevant parties. We must
> build and convey a solid
> response and a clear consensus.
>
>
>
> On June 5th, we also must take a unified stand
> against colonial occupations!
>
>
>
> In the United States, we are asking all
> community members, organizations and
> activists to support the June 5 nationally
> coordinated by-coastal rallies,
> called for by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, to be
> held simultaneously in
> Washington DC, Los Angeles and San Francisco,
> in opposition to all
> occupations and in support of the Right of
> Return. For more information or
> to endorse, we encourage you to visit:
> www.ANSWERcoalition.org. This is an
> important stand that we must take together to
> oppose the brutality of
> occupations and to call for justice that is
> long overdue.
>
>
>
> These are difficult and painful days requiring
> a unified stance on matters
> of existential nature � it is an historic
> burden placed on our shoulders
> that we must not abrogate.
>
>
>
> Every step we take together is a step closer to
> the realization of justice
> for dispossessed and brutalized peoples.
> Please join us -- Your support
> truly counts!
>
>
>
> To support the �International Response�, please
> write to:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> To see the list of signatories and endorsing
> organizations, visit:
> www.ror-congress.org
>
>
>
> International Response
>
> to the Bush Declaration on the Palestinian
> Right to Return
>
>
> In response to the most recent declaration
> given by President of the United
> States, George W. Bush, to Israeli Prime
> Minister, Ariel Sharon, on April
> 14, 2004, at the White House, we, the
> undersigned affirm the full individual
> and collective inalienable Right to Return of
> the Palestinian Arab People to
> their homes, property and land of origin. We
> assert in no uncertain terms
> that such a fundamental right is inviolable as
> it is based on the
> unbreakable natural belonging of a people to
> their property and place of
> origin, as enshrined in international law.
> Accordingly, we hold that the
> Palestinian Right to Return is an indispensable
> obligatory prerequisite for
> the achievement of any justice and peace.
>
>
> We consider any attempt to weaken, lessen, or
> alter such a right in any form
> through any proclamations or agreements between
> any parties to be counter to
> the human, political, civil, and national
> collective right of the
> Palestinian Arab People. Hence, such an
> attempt, along with its implications
> and ramifications, are null and void in total,
> regardless of the passage of
> time and the entities entering into such
> agreements or issuing such
> proclamations.
>
>
> On November 2, 1917, Great Britain issued the
> Balfour Declaration that
> promised Palestine to a European settler
> colonial movement, amounting to the
> inevitable dispossession and exile of the
> Palestinian people. Today, at a
> time when another Deir Yassin massacre is
> carried out in Fallujah in an
> attempt to cement the US occupation of Iraq,
> the Bush Administration is
> simultaneously attempting to complete the
> Balfour project of 1917 by
> nullifying the Palestinian Right to Return, and
> by giving an international
>
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