Sunday December 27: March and Rally for Gaza and Palestine! NYC

[Charlotte Kates]

On the First Anniversary of the Israeli-U.S. Massacre...

MARCH AND RALLY FOR THE PEOPLE OF GAZA

 

Sunday, Dec. 27, 1 PM 
Times Sq., 42 St. and Seventh Avenue, New York City (Note Location!)
March to Rockefeller Center and the Israeli consulate

• STOP STARVING THE PEOPLE OF GAZA! LIFT THE BLOCKADE NOW!
• FREE PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS! PROSECUTE ISRAELI WAR CRIMINALS NOW!
• END ALL U.S. AID AND TRADE WITH THE RACIST STATE OF ISRAEL!
• SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO RETURN!

Last Dec. 27, the U.S.-funded Israeli war machine unleashed a blizzard of U.S.-made weapons of mass destruction on the towns and refugee camps of Gaza, the most densely populated place on earth. 1,500 died, many of them women and children. Tens of thousands lost their arms, legs, eyes, were paralyzed, orphaned or made homeless.

The United Nations Goldstone report found that the Israeli state had committed war crimes, but the U.S. government has blocked any international action on the report. Meanwhile the people of Gaza still go hungry, their children are malnourished, the sick die from lack of medicine, their homes have not been rebuilt because of the vicious blockade imposed by the U.S. and Israel and acquiesced in by Egypt and the European Union. U.S. Army Engineers are stationed on the Gaza-Egypt border to try and stop food, medicine and building materials  from going through.

People  from around the world are seeking to break the blockade. On Dec. 27, the third Viva Palestina convoy led by British MP George Galloway will try to enter Gaza with truckloads of humanitarian aid. First-hand reports from the convoy will appear on the Al-Awda NY Website. On Dec. 31, the Gaza Freedom March will also try to march through the gates.

Here in New York City, on Dec. 27, as holiday crowds throng the streets, Al-Awda NY the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) - NY, the Arab Muslim American Federation, the MAS Freedom Foundation, American Muslims for Palestine, the International Action Center, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Dec. 12 Movement, New York City Labor Against the War and many others will march through Midtown Manhattan to say the blockade must end, the flow of U.S. arms and dollars to Israel must stop and Israeli generals and politicians must be prosecuted for war crimes. Please join us.

Endorsers: Al-Awda New York, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; American Muslims for Palestine, American-Iranian Friendship Committee, Anakbayan, Arab Muslim American Foundation, Break the Siege on Gaza Coalition, CUNY Law School Middle Eastern Law Students Association, December 12th Movement, FIST (Fight Imperialism Stand Together), International Action Center, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Jersey City Peace Movement, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, MAS Freedom Society, NYC Labor Against the War, NYC Jericho Movement, Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum, Turath: The Arab Students' Organization at Columbia University, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (NY Chapter)

Al-Awda NY + http://www.al-awdany.org/ + in...@al-awdany.org + 718-228-8636

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Charlotte L. Kates     charlot...@gmail.com