Monday, December 28, 2009
Never to Forget..Never to Forgive..GAZA one year on
One year ago yesterday, Israel launched an invasion of the Gaza strip with the stated aim of targeting militant groups that had been firing rockets into Israel. The massacre that followed lasted 22 days, and resulted in 5,000 Palestinians wounded, almost 1400 Palestinians dead, including over 250 children under 16. The majority of the dead were civilians. Civilians were executed in cold blood, used as human shields, and shelled with white phosphorus. Hospitals, schools, universities and even UN schools were all targeted and bombed. Nothing near the required amount of aid was allowed in due to an illegal siege of the strip. No one has been held accountable for these war crimes, and Gaza remains under the same crippling, and illegal, siege today.
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Penn State SJP
Fighting Discrimination, displacement and apartheid from Palesitne to University Park
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Dear SJP members,
On Monday, February 8th at the University of California Irvine, the Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was invited to speak at UCI about US-Israeli relations. On that day, 11 students were arrested for expressing their FREE SPEECH that institutions of higher education should not honor a man who has contributed to the deaths of thousands in Palestine. These students are also under threat of expulsion - essentially a threat not only to their futures, but also to EVERYONE's right to speak out against human rights atrocities!
We need your voices to join the thousands and tell UCI that their actions are contrary to the aims of higher education - that of critical thinking and progress. STUDENTS have been the heart of civil rights movements across the decades and it is our RIGHT to speak freely about what we care about - HUMAN RIGHTS!
See more information at:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=296764351034&v=info#!/group.php?v=wall&gid=296764351034
and on the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/salam-al-marayati/free-11-muslim-students-r_b_461927.html
Sign the online petition at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/petition-sign.cgi?irvine11
PLEASE PASS THE WORD ON! EMAIL AND FACEBOOK EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
Email the Chancellor or call him at the number provided on facebook. We need your help to free these students from the charges and continue our right to free speech!
In solidarity,
Elisabeth
thanks for the post..we support you guys are have signed the petition.. let us know what else we can do.. we shared your message with the listserve too
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