some steps to help the Palestinians in Gaza, please destribute widely
Please distribute widely
So far hundreds of civilians have been killed in Gaza. Five sisters in one family, four other children in another home, two children on a cart drawn by a donkey. Universities, colleges, police stations, roads, apartment buildings were all targeted. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian areas issued a statement that "The Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip represent s evere and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war."
Twenty things to do to bring peace with justice:
1) First get the facts and then disseminate them. Here are some basic background information
http://www.btselem.org/english/Gaza_Strip
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4933.shtml
http://www.mepeace.org/forum/topics/the-true-story-behind-this-war The true story behind this war
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/downloads/If%20Gaza%20falls.pdf If Gaza Falls
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10055.shtml Gaza massacres must spur us to action
2) Contact local media. Write letters to editors (usually 100-150 words) and longer op-eds (usually 600-800 words) for local newspapers. But also write to news departments in both print, audio, and visual media about their coverage. In the US http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/ You can find media listings in your country using search engines like google
3) Organize and join demonstrations in front of Israeli and Egyptian embassies or when not doable in front of your parliament, office of elected officials, and any other visible place (and do media work for it).
4) Hold a teach-in, seminar, public dialogue, documentary film viewing etc. this is straightforward: you need to decide venue, nature, if any speakers, and do some publicity (the internet helps).
5) Pass out flyers with facts and figures about Palestine and Gaza in your community (make sure also to mention its relevance to the audience: e.g, US taxpayers paying for the carnage, increase in world instability and economic uncertainty)
6) Put a Palestinian flag at your window.
7) Wear a Palestinian head scarf (Koufiya)
8) Wear Black arm bands (this helps start conversations with people)
9) Send direct aid to Gaza through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). http://www.un.org/unrwa/
10) Initiate boycotts, divestments and sanctions at all levels and including asking leaders to expel the Israeli ambassadors (an ambassador of an apartheid and rogue state). See Palestinian call http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10056.shtml
11) Work towards bringing Israeli leaders before war crime courts (actions along those lines in courts have stopped Israeli leaders from traveling abroad to some countries like Brigtai9n where they may face charges)
12) Calling upon all Israelis to demonstrate in front of their war ministry and to more directly challenge their government
13) Do outreach: to neighbors and friends directly. Via Internet to a lot of others (you can join and post information to various listservs/groups).
14) Start your own activist group or join other local groups (simple search in your city with the word Palestine could identify candidate groups that have previously worked on issues of Palestine). Many have also been successful in at bringing coalitions from different constituencies in their local areas to work together (human rights group, social and civil activists, religious activists, etc).
15) Develop a campaign of sit-ins at government offices or other places where decision makers aggregate
16) Do a group fast for peace one day and hold it in a public place
17) Visit Palestine
18) Support human rights and other groups working on the ground in Palestine
19) Make large signs and display them at street corners and where ever people congregate.
20) Contact local churches, mosques and other houses of worship and ask them to take a moral stand
if you want eny question or if you want to help by some assocations .
iam ready to help anyone want or can help the palestinians
majed abusalama
socail worker
Gaza
00972599828830
So far hundreds of civilians have been killed in Gaza. Five sisters in one family, four other children in another home, two children on a cart drawn by a donkey. Universities, colleges, police stations, roads, apartment buildings were all targeted. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian areas issued a statement that "The Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip represent s evere and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war."
Twenty things to do to bring peace with justice:
1) First get the facts and then disseminate them. Here are some basic background information
http://www.btselem.org/english/Gaza_Strip
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4933.shtml
http://www.mepeace.org/forum/topics/the-true-story-behind-this-war The true story behind this war
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/downloads/If%20Gaza%20falls.pdf If Gaza Falls
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10055.shtml Gaza massacres must spur us to action
2) Contact local media. Write letters to editors (usually 100-150 words) and longer op-eds (usually 600-800 words) for local newspapers. But also write to news departments in both print, audio, and visual media about their coverage. In the US http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/ You can find media listings in your country using search engines like google
3) Organize and join demonstrations in front of Israeli and Egyptian embassies or when not doable in front of your parliament, office of elected officials, and any other visible place (and do media work for it).
4) Hold a teach-in, seminar, public dialogue, documentary film viewing etc. this is straightforward: you need to decide venue, nature, if any speakers, and do some publicity (the internet helps).
5) Pass out flyers with facts and figures about Palestine and Gaza in your community (make sure also to mention its relevance to the audience: e.g, US taxpayers paying for the carnage, increase in world instability and economic uncertainty)
6) Put a Palestinian flag at your window.
7) Wear a Palestinian head scarf (Koufiya)
8) Wear Black arm bands (this helps start conversations with people)
9) Send direct aid to Gaza through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). http://www.un.org/unrwa/
10) Initiate boycotts, divestments and sanctions at all levels and including asking leaders to expel the Israeli ambassadors (an ambassador of an apartheid and rogue state). See Palestinian call http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10056.shtml
11) Work towards bringing Israeli leaders before war crime courts (actions along those lines in courts have stopped Israeli leaders from traveling abroad to some countries like Brigtai9n where they may face charges)
12) Calling upon all Israelis to demonstrate in front of their war ministry and to more directly challenge their government
13) Do outreach: to neighbors and friends directly. Via Internet to a lot of others (you can join and post information to various listservs/groups).
14) Start your own activist group or join other local groups (simple search in your city with the word Palestine could identify candidate groups that have previously worked on issues of Palestine). Many have also been successful in at bringing coalitions from different constituencies in their local areas to work together (human rights group, social and civil activists, religious activists, etc).
15) Develop a campaign of sit-ins at government offices or other places where decision makers aggregate
16) Do a group fast for peace one day and hold it in a public place
17) Visit Palestine
18) Support human rights and other groups working on the ground in Palestine
19) Make large signs and display them at street corners and where ever people congregate.
20) Contact local churches, mosques and other houses of worship and ask them to take a moral stand
if you want eny question or if you want to help by some assocations .
iam ready to help anyone want or can help the palestinians
majed abusalama
socail worker
Gaza
00972599828830
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Permalink Reply by myron joshua on
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Agreed.
Also it will take much work to help Gaza rebuild itself after the fighting stops.
There were some good years of development in Gaza..The future must be better.
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I just spoke to Majed on the phone and he sends his love to all.
He spoke on a radio station from Rome yesterday and may be meeting with Spanish journalists.
There is no electricity now..so he can not use his computer.
You see his phone number above if you want to talk to him. -
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Permalink Reply by Roro Faraj on
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Israel must do the right thing! Israel must stop this occupation, destruction, ethnic and cleansing of Palestine. Israel must begin to tear down the apartheid walls separating all the Palestinanian people from one another and from the free world. Until the Palestinian people feel free in their own homes can peace begin. Until the Palestinian people feel dignified in their own land can sanity be gained. Israeli aggression and occupation does not create a peaceful environment.This oppression by Israel must stop. The Palestinian people have a right to live freely and with dignity in their homeland. This is their home!
This massive attack on the Palestinians of Gaza is Spartan-like behavior that will only deepen the wounds already suffered by the people of Gaza. This military action will only breed more hatred against the aggressor.
What happened to the Jewish people that they don't remember what it feels like to have a military power try to obliterate them? Why don't we learn from history? -
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Permalink Reply by davinca on
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thx Majed, I put it all on this website and added some useful points (please feel free to make further suggestions) ... so everybody can distribute it widely - translations are needed too
http://www.ipernity.com/blog/davinca/119510
thx, we are all Gaza!!! -
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Permalink Reply by luisella valeri on
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Majed, may you show to your people of Gaza how many manifestations are doing in Europe?
http://maps.google.fr/maps/msie=UTF8&hl=fr&msa=0&msid=1...
In Italy, many towns who manifested are not not signed in the map, and we continue to do them. In my town Genova we are preparing a new big manifestation including many society and persons for Gaza.
With unconditioned love to all you, kiss to children
Luisella -
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Permalink Reply by Majed Abusalama on
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Every Palestinian has become a prisoner. Gaza is surrounded by an electrified fence on three sides: imprisoned like animals, Gazans are unable to move, unable to work, unable to sell their vegetables or fruit, unable to go to school. They are exposed from the air to Israeli planes and helicopters and are gunned down like turkeys on the ground by tanks and machine guns. Impoverished and starved, Gaza is a human nightmare.
Hope has been eliminated from the Palestinian vocabulary so that only raw defiance remains.
Palestinians must die a slow death so that Israel can have its security, which is just around the corner but cannot be realized because of the special Israeli "insecurity." The whole world must sympathize, while the cries of Palestinian orphans, sick old women, bereaved communities, and tortured prisoners simply go unheard and unrecorded. Doubtless, we will be told, these horrors serve a larger purpose than mere sadistic cruelty. After all, "the two sides" are engaged in a "cycle of violence" that has to be stopped, sometime, somewhere. Once in a while we ought to pause and declare indignantly that there is only one side with an army and a country: the other is a stateless dispossessed population of people without rights or any present way of securing them. The language of suffering and concrete daily life has been either hijacked or so perverted as, in my opinion, to be useless except as pure fiction deployed as a screen for the purpose of more killing and painstaking torture - slowly, fastidiously, inexorably. -
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I worked on that Majed (I added some points ...) - we could add too a list of social workers in Gaza at the end of the post of my blog - what do you think? tell me who else can be contacted ...
and if you or anyone wants to embed it to your/its website/blog contact me for the code, please:
please click the banner
and see this too please: http://arabist.net/arabawy/2009/01/06/rafah-updates-2/
latest news/comments/reports on Jaiku regarding Gaza
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After not being able to get through to Majed for over a day, i finally managed this afternoon.
His voice was not the same optimistic voice..He had sad news to tell me.
Yesterday his Uncle was killed while walking in the street to buy food for the family.
Every death is the loss of an entire World. The death of those who we know is also a personal loss. I also have others, on "our" side, civilian and military, who i mourn. Each one being a World of their own deserves their separate mournings.
Speaking to Majed today i felt the loss of his uncle was also my personal loss, and i felt a sadness that is different from the sadness and frustration felt at the ongoing suffering. Majed told me about the family and the pieces that will have to be put together.
Majed's dedication and desire to rebuild and contribute to his community are strong. He will get on line with his ideas and call for cooperation.
Looking ahead and working for a future of no strife, for a time when our bonds will not only be virtual but when we can freely meet for coffee (on both sides of whatever border governments will place between us) will be the living memorial to Majed's uncle.
Majed, we are with you and your entire family in this hour of personal sorrow. -
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