PALESTINE-RELATED EVENTS in the
For
information about history,
issues, and our Seattle Divest from Israeli
Military
Occupation campaign, please see www.palestineinformation.org, the
Palestine Solidarity Committee’s website. E-mail us at
palestinejustice@aol.com.
We
try to limit this listserve to
International Solidarity Movement to End the
Occupation. PSC is the local support
chapter
of the ISM.
***SUPPORT
The
Palestine Online Store is now featuring an extensive holiday product
selection. Please consider doing your
Palestinian
relief projects, Palestinian artisans and their families, and Palestinian
efforts
at raising awareness about the struggle for freedom. The wide selection
of
items includes beautiful Christmas cards from
traditional embroidery, handmade olive wood carvings, delightful music CDs, feature
and
documentary films, books, calendars, kaffiya scarves,
pins, and much much
more! Please take a few minutes to browse
www.palestineonlinestore.com today!
Among the beneficiaries of this project
are: KinderUSA's
Emergency Appeal
Fund
for the children of Rafah, the Children's
refugee
camp (
Foundation,
MAMA (humanitarian relief in
During
these difficult times in
elsewhere,
every little bit of help makes a difference.
www.palestineonlinestore.com
THIS WEEK:
WOMEN IN BLACK ***
YOUR FRIENDS ANYTIME -- CALL PSC FOR MORE INFO 206
633-1086***
WOMEN IN BLACK. Stand against occupation and war every Thursday at
4th & Pine. 5-6 pm. Wear Black. Men can support.
UPCOMING: ISM DISCUSSION CAFE ***SIDEWALK EDUCATION ***
LIVINGROOM? BRING SPEAKERS AND VIDEOS TO YOUR FRIENDS ANYTIME -- CALL PSC FOR
MORE
INFO 206 633-1086***
Jan
5. ISM DISCUSSION CAFE at the B&O
Espresso, Belmont and Olive on
Capitol Hill. Drop by anytime between 5 and
International Solidarity Movement to End the
Occupation. Every first Wednesday of the
month.
More info: 206 633-1086.
Jan,
8,
every
2nd Saturday from
anti-racists to join us.
palestinejustice@aol.com. Check our calendar for updates. Call 206 633-1086 if you
need to
confirm a location.
would
love to help you discuss this issue with your community. Invite friends over
for
dinner or tea and show a video and host a speaker who’s just back from
witnessing the occupation. All for free. Let us know if you’re interested: 206
633-1086,
palestinejustice@aol.com.
* Next
* Next ISM
* Next ISM Seattle Discussion Cafe: Jan. 5 ,
* Next Sidewalk Education, Jan 8,
* Next Theatre meeting: call 206 633-1086 for
info.
* Next ISM pre-training: Dec. or Jan. (call if
planning to go: 206 633-1086)
* Next ISM
Election
Campaign: December 1 to January 15 .
ISM-Palestine invites international
peace
activists to
period
and on election day. International election monitors are expected to
arrive
in
election
day. ISM activists, however, will work to monitor and document Israeli
measures
that obstruct or limit the ability of Palestinians to run smooth and
democratic elections in all of the Palestinian occupied territories, including
*
Call
206 633-1086 for locations, dates, times.
PSC
now has a copy of the new Media Education Foundation video, "Peace,
Propaganda
and the Promised Land: American Media
and the Subversion of Peace" (75
minutes)
that you can borrow to show in your living room or community hall.
We
previewed the video and found it extremely informative as a tool for
understanding what is really happening in the
don't
know about it. For more details on the
video, go to the website of
the
Media Education Foundation at www.mediaed.org.
To borrow the video, email
woodwend@earthlink.net with your request. For information about other videos in
PSC’s
lending library, contact: palestinejustice@aol.com
ONGOING CAMPAIGNS
RESPONSE NETWORK ***STOP THE WALL CAMPAIGN ***
PROJECT***
AN
INITIATIVE FROM THE
This is an invitation to participate in a new
Response Network being
organized by the
Palestine Solidarity Committee of Seattle. The purpose of
the Response Network
is to provide opportunities regularly for participants
to take action on important
issues related to Palestinian human rights. The
network will allow
concerned citizens from all over
in a coordinated way
to influence
Israel/Palestine and the
occupation.
We believe that those of us who oppose the
Israeli occupation of
and
order to influence
Israel/Palestine. In
working more effectively for justice for
are confident that we
can increase the possibility for a broader peace
throughout the
If you are ready to take part in this
initiative, please sign on by
responding to us with
as much of the following information as you wish to
share: your name,
mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. To
make the response
network function via e-mail, at the very least we need
your e-mail address.
But the more of this information you provide for us,
the more we will be
able to include you in various activities such as
meetings with
political officials or with representatives of the media.
When the Response Network is activated, you
will receive action bulletins
from us regarding the
most urgent issues once or twice a month. We will call
your attention to an
issue, suggest talking points, and provide you with the
contact information
for the appropriate government official or major media
outlet. At that time,
we hope that you will participate by contacting your
representative or
news editor, as the case may be. We also encourage you to
send us copies of
your postings so that we may learn from your work -- and
so that we can keep
track of the effectiveness of the project.
As we develop our technical capabilities, our
action bulletins will be
posted and archived
on the Response Network section of our web site (see
below), with
information about the volume of response and the effectiveness
of the project. In this
way, we hope to make a voice for peace and justice
in the
offices
of
this region's media!
To
sign up and receive action alerts, please write to us at
outreach@palestineinformation.org. If you have
questions, suggestions or
requests
for us, please let us know. Also, we would very much appreciate your
help in
forwarding this letter to other potential participants in this response
network.
To learn more about PSC—
please visit our
website at www.palestineinformation.org
STOP
THE WALL CAMPAIGN
The
Wall is higher than the Berlin Wall, will take millions of American tax
dollars
to build, and cuts the
richest
Palestinian farmland and many wells for Israeli
use. For more info:
John
Reese, jreese@scn.org, 206-568-7110 or Community Action Network
can@drizzle.com
Council
to divest its pension funds from American companies selling war machines
to
www.palestineinformation.org; 206 633-1086.
Although Rachel Corrie’s
life was cut short, many of us were inspired by her
and
have resolved to carry out her project.
Beginning with a small core
group,
we have steadily expanded since our formation last Spring. A number of our
members
have gone to live in Rafah, building connections with
people and
institutions there. We have begun a Fair
Trade exchange for Palestinian artwork
through
the Union of Palestinian Women, we support a Center for Disabled
Persons,
we have sponsored cultural exchanges, and we offer translation between
English and Arabic for our pen-pal program. You can find
out more about us, or
contact
us, through our website at http://www.orscp.org/. (360) 867-0290 or via
email
at tomwright59@comcast.net
CALENDAR
& INFO: To
have us post an event on this calendar, please email
lindabevis1@aol.com.
For more general news and analysis on the
Palestinian-Israeli
conflict without a pro-Israeli-government bias, please see:
palestinechronicle.com,
electronicIntifada.net, btselem.org, miftah.org and other sites listed
on our
website.
To
send a letter about anything you learn here to your congressional rep:
http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2174&ms=irqpeace.
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