[Imc-uk-features] Palestine demo: June 9th, London

[Genny]

Hi

I've done some editing on the wiki on this article - corrected typos and 
made suggestions for possible alterations - which I've put in square 
brackets: [Genny: suggestion]

Hope that's OK.

Genny

Chris wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed 30-May-2007 at 10:48:06PM +0100, Chris wrote:
>>   https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkFeatureEnough
> 
> The following proposed feat is now at the wiki address
> above (including some hyperlinks, more could do with being
> added), I no doubt needs some typos fixing and because we
> have been a bit slow with this it now won't be able to go
> up till tomorrow am due to the 24 hour rule, but once it's
> up it can be updated as reports of the demo come in:
> 
>  Four Decades of Occupation - ENOUGH!
> 
>  This week saw the 40th Anniversary of the Six Day War,
>  and the ensuing military occupation of 22% of the
>  Palestinian homeland. The other 78% had been seized by
>  the Israeli forces in the colonial "War of Idependence",
>  when three quarters of a million Palestinans were
>  ethnically cleansed.  Since 1967 the 22% has been eroded
>  through a system of illegal settlements, settler only
>  roads and 'Apartheid Wall'. This has served the purpose
>  of destroying contiguity of Palestinian land, and of
>  dividing the West Bank into at least three distinct
>  cantons. Vast amounts of agicultural land and crops have
>  been taken or destroyed, increasing the dependance on
>  aid, and destroying communities and livelihoods in the
>  process.  Israel showed that settlements can be
>  dismantled in 2005 when it removed the settlers and
>  military prison. Since then Gaza has become a virtual
>  prison, its borders, sea and airspace controlled by the
>  Israelis, and the Rafah crossing, Gaza's gateway to the
>  world has been closed for most of this year.
> 
>  Europe and the United States have continually refused to
>  act for the rights of Palestinians, regardless of the
>  brutal behaviour of the occupying Israeli army. In fact
>  they have demonstrated their partiality by subsidising
>  the Israeli state to the tunes of billions of dollars per
>  year, and arming them to the hilt. Israels nuclear
>  arsenal has been public knowledge for decades and has
>  been studiously ignored. When Palestinians tired of the
>  outrageous corruption practised by Fatah politicians in
>  the Palestian Authority, their decision to use their vote
>  to elect Hamas was rewarded by impopsotion of economic
>  sanctions by Western Powers.
> 
>  An international call out has been made for direct
>  actions to protest against the ongoing colonisation of
>  Palestine as the Occupation enters it 41st year.G8
>  protestors responded with a mass demo at a caterpillar
>  plant. An unconfirmed report claims that the plant was
>  firebombed that night and that Caterpillar machinery was
>  destroyed.
> 
>  In Britain, boycott camapigns have increased and votes by
>  the NUJ and UCU for action against the Israeli state. On
>  Saturday 9th June a demo has been called by the 'ENOUGH'
>  Capaign, a coalition of NGOs, unions and activists to
>  fight for an end to occupation, and peace based on on
>  justice, equality and freedom.
> 
>  The march will leave from Lincoln's Inn Fields at 1.30pm
>  and end in Trafalger Square.
>