From: Zahi Damuni <zdamuni-AT-email.msn.com>
Subject: URGENT: RIGHT TO RETURN AND RESTITUTION
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 01:02:54 -0500


PLEASE READ, RESPOND AND FORWARD

Dear friends,

In just one week, thousands of Palestinians and their supporters from all
over the globe have signed the online petition at
http://rightofreturn.org/be-active/petition/ sponsored by The Council for
Palestinian Restitution and Repatriation (CPRR) whose website is at
http://rightofreturn.org.

The petition affirms that "every Palestinian has a legitimate, individual
right to absolute restitution of all of his or her property and the right to
return to his or her original home."

If you have not done so, please take a moment to add your signature to the
petition. We need all Palestinians and their supporters to sign and we are
seeking your help in achieving this goal.

A paper version of the petition is available at
http://rightofreturn.org/tell-others/materials/petition.html. We kindly ask
you to print, collect signatures, and return completed forms to CPRR, P. O.
Box 21520, Washington D.C. 20009, USA.

Organizations and/or their chapters wishing to affiliate with this campaign
may do so directly at
http://rightofreturn.org/tell-others/affiliateregister/. Implied is support
for CPRR's mission statement and the text of the petition.

Should you or your organization have a website, we ask that you make a link
the petition in order to further publicize the petition.

Please help this campaign by encouraging as many people as you can to sign
the petition. The world needs to know that Palestinians are determined to
preserve their legitimate rights and that their friends stand by them.

CPRR is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to providing
legal aid to Palestinians and their heirs to achieve their legitimate
rights. CPRR's Advisory Board members include Haidar Abdul Shafi, Ibrahim
Abu Lughod, Salman Abu Sittah, Basel Aql, Naseer Aruri, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam
Chomsky, Burhan Dajani, Abulhuda Farouki, Norman Finkelstein, Shafiq
al-Hout, Said Khoury, Fouad Moughrabi, and Hasib Sabbagh.

Organizations and/or their chapters that have so far affiliated with CPRR
include ADC-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Chapter; ADC-Central
Pennsylvania Chapter; Deir Yassin Remembered; Hanthala, Palestine; LAW - The
Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment;
MIFTAH - The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and
Democracy; National Lawyers Guild (USA), Palestine Solidarity Committee at
the University of Texas at Austin; The Arab Student Organization at Michigan
State; The Palestine Chronicle; The Palestine Committee at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor; and The Quaker Palestinian Youth Program.

For more information visit http://rightofreturn.org or write to CPRR, P.O.
Box 21520, Washington D.C. 20009, USA, fax (1) (775) 418-5980, e-mail:
info-AT-rightofreturn.org.

This action-alert is signed by:

Sawsan Abdulrahim
Zahi Damuni
Arjan El Fassed
Hanan Elmasu
Maysam Faruqi
Adam Hanieh
Nancy Mahmoud
Mary Nazzal
Nigel Parry
Mazin Qumsieh

















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