Subject: AUT: SUSAN BARCLAY HELD INDEFINITELY BY ISRAELI MILITARY!!
From: chris wright <cwright.21stcentury-AT-rcn.com>
Date: 27 Feb 2003 10:35:24 -0600


I apologize to the lists for which this is not directly relevant to your
focus BUT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. Please pass this word like wildfire.
Susan
Barclay, age 26, 1999 graduate of Notre Dame University, of Seattle,
Washington was detained by the Israeli military during its incursion
into
Nablus early last Thursday morning. She had been working with the
International Solidarity Movement and was busy helping escort
Palestinian
families from homes that had been demolished to try to prevent the
soldiers
from opening fire. She has been in solitary confinement in a military
police station in Hadera, Palestine since then with no criminal charges
filed against her whatsoever and no ability to speak to a lawyer who has
agreed to represent her.

The Israeli military has appealed a ruling by a judge who said Monday
that
Susan should be released in 48 hours. She is therefore in administrative
detention indefinitely!!! Can you imagine if you we! re accused of a
crime
and at your arraignment the judge decided to dismiss the case but the
prosecution had the right to appeal his decision AND KEEP YOU IN JAIL IN
THE
MEANTIME! This cannot go unprotested, people. We need for the national
media to pick this up. If she were being held by Iraqi military, we
would
be in a full-scale war right now.

Now before going any further, it's important to recognize that THIS
EXACT
SITUATION is faced by thousands of Palestinians as a normal fact of
life.
The fact that she's an "all-American girl" does not make her a bit more
important than all the Palestinians in administrative detention but it
does
mean this: we can get the injustice being waged against Palestinians on
the
radar screen of both activists and the general public in the US if we
mobilize in protest.

If/when a war against Iraq hits, many of us fear that Palestine will be
forgotten. We're also worried that if nothing happens in p! rotest of
Susan's
detention, they will keep escalating their aggression little by little
until
they're shooting international peacekeepers in cold blood. We fear that
Israeli military plan to use the war as cover to carry out its policy of
"transfer." You can take a share of the responsibility for not allowing
this to happen by taking a stand for Susan.

Here are some action suggestions:

1) Continue to call the State Department's Israel desk at 202-647-3930
and/or the US Consulate in Tel Aviv at +972 3 519 7575 and demand that
they
stop sitting on their hands and help Susan get out of jail (the state
department's doing a better job than the consulate so don't be as angry
with
them).
2) Call your congressperson and tell him/her that a US citizen is being
held
by Israeli military in Palestine and you want the congressperson's
office to
call either the state department or consulate number above and request
information on what's ! being done to support her.
3) Look up the phone numbers of all media in your area, call these
numbers
to get their fax numbers, email that information to you and/or find a
fax
machine that you can use to send out a press statement from the
International Solidarity Movement, then FOLLOW UP WITH A PHONE CALL!
4) Get your local/regional/national antiwar organization to put together
a
statement in solidarity with Susan (I will send you a draft solidarity
statement as well as fax numbers for the Israeli Embassy and other
relevant
places if you email me).
5) Post this information to your local indymedia site. Email me if you
would like a more article-looking post to use.
6) Take direct action at the nearest Israeli Consulate or at the Embassy
itself if you live in DC. If you're interested in locating consulates,
do
the research yourself or email me as I plan to research tonight.

Blessings of peace be with you. Pray/meditate/take action f! or the
heroes
that work tirelessly to make sure that the Palestinian people are
afforded
the same basic human dignity that we would expect for all citizens of
the
world.

In Solidarity,

Morgan Guyton
Tri-City Action for Peace
tcap.mahost.org
tcap-AT-mutualaid.org
989-758-0096





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