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lennart
07-10-03, 19:44
Separation Wall

Call for Action and Provisional Calendar of Activities:
Make the wall fall : Let’s make the 9th of November the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians against the new Israeli Apartheid Wall

September 2003

The wall must fall!
On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall – which truly epitomized the Cold War in Europe and, therefore, became the symbol of shame of the politics of division of the 20th century - was torn down.
Now, a new wall must fall!

Let’s make the coming 9th of November a worldwide Protest Day against the new ‘Berlin’ Wall currently being erected by Israel across the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Such construction, now commonly known as Separation Wall or Apartheid Wall has become Israel’s new stranglehold of Palestine and the latest assault by the Occupation: land confiscation, water confiscation, destruction of lives and livelihoods of Palestinians, all in a new drive to expand truly colonialist measures under the usual pretenses in order to achieve long-standing goals in a frightening fashion similar of 1948’s events.

Join those who share a belief that the absurdity of this medieval concept must soon succumb.
The Palestine Monitor and the GIPP – Grass Roots International protection for Palestinian People movement - urge you to participate in this effort by organizing activities to raise awareness in your community about the impact and meaning of this new wall.

We are urging people to come up with anything they think they can do in their own communities.
It could be : Pickets; Demonstrations; Vigils; lectures; conferences; debates; artistic events; fairs; festivals; theatric performances; other types of gatherings; Convoys; marches or ANY related activities to raise awareness in your community about the impact and meaning of this new wall.
Some people who live in administrative capitals are choosing to demonstrate in front of Israeli Embassies, other are choosing to stage demos on public squares, others in community centers, churches, etc.
It all depends on the expertise of those who are sponsoring the events (some events will be very loosely organized, some more formally thought through). Some are thinking about media advanced work. Some plan to erect a paper or plastic walls across roads or parks and then make the wall fall. Some are printing leaflets. Some are organizing boots and stands with info about the humanitarian impact of the wall (which can be easily downloaded from many websites). So, whatever you might propose must come out of your perceived capabilities. The ones who know better a community are the ones who live in it, so what works for a place may not be as productive for other setting or environment. So people at various places can come up with the best solution about what could mobilize their peers, their communities, their media outlets, etc.
Any good idea or effort are welcomed, so we invite you to invite others to debate, share ideas and think of what would work for your community.

After you had sorted out what you want to carry on, we would appreciate if you could let us know about more specific details: description of planned activities, meeting points, schedules, people to contact and their contact details, etc.
This is because we want to post a list of everything that will be going on everywhere at our website, so people can look for what will be going on in their own places and then join the activities!!!

Provisional list of activities on the initiative for a global demo on November 9th against the Israeli Apartheid Wall:


ACROSS EUROPE:
European Jews for a Just Peace – EJJP, have manifested interest in organizing activities.
Contact: Sveva Haertter
E-mail: [email protected]

NETHERLANDS

Activities are in the process of being organized

Contact: Hajo G. Meyer
[email protected]

Following some controversy regarding the chosen date and following up requests from Jewish groups that another anniversary should also be brought to the fore (Kristallnatch, the “Night of Broken Glass” 09 Nov 1938), Mr. Hajo Meyer declared:

“ I speak as one of the few people still living and active, who,
-as a fourteen year old lived through the 9th November program in Germany, and who also
-survived 10 months of Auschwitz and who also
-survived for full 12 years the worst anti-Semitism ever, and I feel justified to comment : There cannot be a better day to demonstrate under the devise 'let the wall fall' than precisely the 9th of November. Only this date and Jewish participation at the demonstrations can make clear to the world that we are matured, wise and ethically- sane enough to realize that we, the Jews are not the only and eternal victim. That also we have become perpetrators of terrible crimes against humanity. Only if we show this to the world, all those who did not survive, have not died in vain. Only then their death can be given a positive meaning. That is what the German Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing, who was already murdered by the Nazis in the early thirties, meant when he coined the phrase: 'Sinngebung des Sinnlosen' i.e. attributing sense and meaning to events which do not have any intrinsic sense.”

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Special%20Section/Closure/Wall_must_fall.htm

lennart
24-10-03, 16:20
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