and for Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, a long list in London and in many other places around the world.
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=915&Itemid=144 Also, for the The Norwegian Locomotive Drivers Union. On Thursday 8 January all trains in the whole of Norway, and all trams and subways in Oslo, stood still for two minutes in protest against the Israeli invasion. Also, for the hundreds of thousands who will demonstrate tomorrow, Saturday, and on Sunday around the world. I bet it will be even more than last weekend. Chinese Clocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXqSPJpuDBM Western Clocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFmuOtKrBc Latinamerican Clocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85X3ZGwYtk Because of the situation in the Gaza Strip, the Locomotive Drivers Union in Norway has decided to demonstrate our solidarity with the Palestinian people. This will be organised by adding two more minutes of stoppage at the station. The same action applies to all passenger trains in Norway simultaneously. We demand the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli troops from the Palestinian territory. Thank you for your understanding. (Message from the Locomotive Drivers Union in Norway to passengers). http://njf.no/arkiv/stopp-krigen-mot-gaza And, of course, for those living in Gaza. Chinese woman with 3 kids caught in Gaza war zone. (Xinhua) http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/08/content_10622942.htm BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- She is one of the tens of thousands of mothers battling with life, and death. With Israeli shells and mortars raining day and night, she and her children face the worst crisis of their lives in the Gaza Strip. Qu Yang is reportedly the only Chinese in Gaza, and has not left her home in days. Though unlike many Palestinians in the territory, she has stocked some food at home, she fears it will run out soon. Perhaps her greatest predicament is that the person for whom she moved to Gaza 13 years ago is in Shanghai. Qu met her husband, a Gaza- based Lebanese businessman, during his trip to Beijing in 1994. He was in Shanghai on one of his business trips to China when Israel launched the attack on Gaza 11 days ago. He is stuck there because he cannot return home. Qu spoke to China Radio International from her home in Gaza earlier. "I've not seen attacks of such scale," she was quoted as having said. "We underestimated the situation because Israel had been threatening to attack but it didn't do so earlier." Her deadliest experience was when she was walking back home after picking up her 5-year-old child from school on December 27 and a bomb hit a building a few hundred meters away, the Legal Evening News reported. "The building collapsed in seconds and I ran" blindly toward home thinking about the other two children. Qu could not be contacted yesterday because communication channels had collapsed. "No one dares to go out after the air raids," Beijing News quoted Qu as having said earlier. "Most of the shops are closed. We cannot get anything " Qu has moved from the second floor to the ground floor of her house for safety, and has been using her generator for electricity for the past six days after power supply was disrupted. Yang Weiguo, head of the Office of the People's Republic of China to the Palestinian National Authority, said they were in regular touch with Qu and had advised her not to leave the house. Peace and best wishes. Xi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
