From: AdamTurl@aol.com
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 02:48:14 EDT
DIVEST IN ISRAEL'S TERROR
This past weekend's demonstration in Washington D.C. of upwards of 75,000 and
25,000 in San Francisco is a tremendous display of solidarity with the
struggle of the Palestinian people to fight the racist and illegal Israeli
occupation. It is a clear indication that there are literally tens of
thousands of people in this country who want to join in the struggle not only
to help liberate Palestinian people but to also put pressure on our own
government to stop funding the murderous Israeli regime. Hundreds of people
mobilized around the Chicago area alone to go to Washington and register
their protest against the treatment of the Palestinian people and the U.S.
government's collaboration with the Israeli government. But there is more we
can do.
An organizing meeting has been set for Thursday April 25th at 6:30pm at
Columbia College--35 Congress, enter on Wabash, room 309-- to discuss and
plan a divestment campaign against the Israeli state. Every year the U.S.
government takes our tax dollars and sends billions of dollars in direct
military aid to the Israeli military forces. Moreover, hundreds of millions
more goes to building illegal and racist Israeli settlement homes on Arab
land. This funding is in addition to the billions the Israeli state receives
in the form of direct investment from private American corporations. We have
to build a divestment movement that shames these American corporations into
taking their money out of Israeli and that can additionally inform people
that their tax money is used to kill and maim Palestinians and destroy their
homes and land.
There is a precedent for this kind of activity. In the 1980s, thousands of
activists and college students organized a divestment campaign directed at
the racist regime in South Africa. This movement went a long way in educating
the public about this country's collaboration with the racist South African
government. It also applied real pressure on American companies and the
American government to get out of South Africa. We can do this again.
This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in helping to organize a
divestment campaign in Chicago. This meeting has been called by the Committee
for a Democratic Palestine and the International Socialist Organization. We
welcome everyone's participation.
There will also be representatives from Chicago Al-Awda in attendance to
discuss actions coming up next week. For more information please call
773.317.0027.
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