Action Planning for Sunday: Settlers in North Miami

[rachelhinda]

Hey all,

This Sunday, a group of Israeli West Bank settlers will be selling homes on occupied territory to Jews in Miami and Boca Raton. Everyone who cares about peace should be outraged. Their previous event was held in Teaneck, New Jersey and was protested by eleven prominant peace groups including A Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The protests were covered by media such as JTA, AP and Haaretz. There was also a New York Times editorial which condemned (in a lazy Phil Ochs liberal way) the practices of this group.

The Tel Rumeida project is run largely by Israeli Jews. Look at their videos. www.telrumeidaproject.org. The people throwing stones at Palestinian school children are the ones who are coming to OUR community to sell houses.

I believe this is important because it encompasses all of the issues we claim to care about down here: anti-gentrification, human rights, workers' rights (because many settlements are built over Palestinian agricultural land), and anti-racism. Unlike some activists down here, I believe in standing up against injustice whether my people (the Jews) are responsible for it or not. This pisses me off and you should be pissed off too! If you can't come to our planning meeting, then please try to show up to our protest this Sunday. If you'd like to protest the Boca events, write to me and I'll give you the addresses. Details to follow.

Best,

R

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:12:27 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: forward please

Rachel- hey... can you forward this lil' invite to the list?


Hey everyone! Amana- the Yesha Settement Organization is going to be
selling illegal settlement houses in Miami this Sunday!
If you are interested in brainstorming an action/ making banners/signs -
please come to my house - The Boiling Point- on Friday evening- March 16 around 7 p.m. 8015 NW 16 Ave call if you can't find us- 305-694-1978
~abi~

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[muhammed malik]

oh man i wish i could have attended. i would have sent this out to
people with whom i work with against gentrification in miami. i just
got back from washington, d.c. i was organizing over there for the
protest against the war in iraq. please call me and update me.

as always--and especially because this issue strikes in my own
backyard (north miami)--i'd like to know what's going on and what i
can do to raise awareness about this.

Muhammed Malik
President: ANSWER-FIU & AID
305-761-6843