May 14, 2008

ACTIVISM: Nakba resistance in Jersualem, Ottawa and other places

21,915 BLACK BALLOONS OVER JERUSALEM

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Download event flyer (Arabic)

To celebrate 60 years of independence, Israel is planning a large-scale birthday bash with events taking place in many different countries around the world. In Jerusalem, a 3-day conference, under the title “Facing Tomorrow” is planned from May 13 – 15, to which many world leaders, such as U.S. President Bush, and French President Sarkozy, and celebrities such as Barbara Streisand and Steven Spielberg have been invited and plan to attend.

It is wrong to celebrate and we need to do something BIG to make the world, and those gathered to celebrate Israel, see and hear us. We* have this idea and we need your help to make it happen! On May 15, we will launch 21,915 (365 days x 60 years) black balloons over the skies of Jerusalem. We aim to turn the skies over Israel’s celebrations black to let people know that there is another side of the story, a side of heartache, suffering and dispossession. At the same time, each balloon will carry a letter from a Palestinian child expressing his/her hope for the future, to let the world know that we believe in and dream of justice.

Please help us make this happen by buying a balloon! $1.00 will help us cover the cost of 3 balloons. Please buy 3, 6, or 9 balloons (or more!) and be part of our action. Donation information below.

Other things that you can do:

  • On May 15, we are asking everyone, wherever he or she is, to wear back. PLEASE WEAR BLACK!
  • WRITE LETTERS, or help collect letters from Palestinian children. You can email us the letters and we will print them out and attach to the balloons that we will launch;
  • If you are in Palestine, volunteer to help us inflate and LAUNCH the balloons on May 15;
  • Wherever you are, consider doing an action in SOLIDARITY with our action (in addition to whatever else you may be planning). For example, you can launch your own balloons, fly black kites, march with black banners, etc.

To donate to the cost of the balloons, you can:

  • Make a bank transfer:
      • HSBC Bank -- Ramallah
        Account name: Palestinian Strategic Initiative
        Acct No: 011-026630-087
        Swift Code: BBMEPS22
        Contact Number: +970-599-130-426

4 comments:

ladybroadoak said...

Yes, I see you live in FINLAND.

Would you care to tell me how you plan to end your lack of comments on the apartheid of the Palestinians?

I have known many Palestinians. All have told me the identical story.

Jews, too, are entitled to the RIGHT OF RETURN.

The UN gives out the citations against ISREAL because it practices genocide, apartheid, commits CRIMES AGAINST ALL HUMANITY.

The State of Israel was NOT set up for the jews (and not all jews support the establishment of the ZIONIST state of Isreal, as you are aware) but to satisfy AngloDutch financial interests. The Israeli overlords do their level best to keep the Middle East wound into a coil of hatred.

Having been a STATELESS PERSON myself for many years, I can assure you that it is no fun. Why not put the statistics about the PALESTINIAN tragedy on here including the statistics on the number of Palestinian stateless persons?

I started out in life as a rabid zionist and even sent money to
"the cause".

Education and association with Palestinians has certainly changed all that for me.

Yes, I agree there is antisemitismin this world. It is a nother form of HATRED that is PROGRAMMED. No one comes into this world with prejudiced; it is all learned. It can be unlearned, too.

But postings like yours which are disrespectful of the suffering of Palestinians do show why many bash ISRAEL. You have totally ignored the calls for the destruction of Palestinians by the rabbis of Israel!
and NOT all of them are ARABS either. I KNOW.

You are in for a huge surprise soon. The US/Canada won't be able to support its 51st state soon. Things are going to DEMAND an end to Isreali apartheid on the part of the entire world. No one is going to put up with the Israeli AGGRESSION anymore. Time to start learning DIPLOMACY and how to build a two state solution and give back LAND that Israel has no legal title to have.

No one is denigrating the contribution of jews on this blog - your insinuation is much resented. What it does call into question is ISRAELI APARTHEID !! and you very well know that.

So SHAME ON YOU.
Want to discuss the KHAZARS now?

ladybroadoak said...

ps - some jewish inventions have distinctly been distasteful and antihuman, btw.

Are we to IGNORE that?

Ojalanpoika said...

I just want my neighbors to acknowledge the basic statistics behind the media war, before they make their judgment. I don't want people to get committed to indoctrination, wakening only in their own judgment day:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-Jews-statistics.htm

Jaakonpoika said...

"The UN gives out the citations against ISREAL because it practices genocide, apartheid, commits CRIMES AGAINST ALL HUMANITY."

I wonder, if you have a sense of equality between countries whose issues are handled in the UN. Not a single country under Islam majority has ever been judged at the UN council for human rights, compared to Israel's 26% proportion. Not a single one.

Do you think that means human rights are never violated in the former countries? For instance, while the Lebanese forces annihilated Shatillah and sabra camps in 1982, about 800 victims were murdered. At the same time, the Syrian army destroyed the whole town of Hama with 20,000 victims. However, the focus of the magnification glass finds Israel as the culprit from those weeks. Why? Because Israel was the only country that came up with an investigation and openly declared and judged its own involved people, although the responsibility was only an indirect one. (My father gave free cottage to a Lebanese refugee for months and I know something about that history.)

Could we find some common ground here, my friend:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Dinoglyfs.htm
?

Pauli Ojala
Biochemist, dropout (MSci-Master of Sciing), evolutionary critic

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