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

[Chris]

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.

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