Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:59:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeffrey Alan Sacks <jas80-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: [shirabe_report] Tomorrow: Nationwide White House Call-in/Email


hi,

following is important.

j

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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:47:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Shirabe Yamada <shirabey-AT-yahoo.com>
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Subject: [shirabe_report] Tomorrow: Nationwide White House Call-in/Email
    Campaign on Palestine


Dear Friends,

Please participate in the following actions tomorrow.  It'll take only 3
minutes of your time.  It is so important that we act in our own capacity,
even limited, to protest against what has become a mass genocide that no
governments are willing to intervene with. - shirabe

Items to follow:
1. Nationwide White House Call-in/Email Campaign (ADC Action Alert)
2. Sample letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell

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1. ADC Action Alert:
Nationwide White House Call-In/Email Campaign on Palestine Tomorrow
-----------------------------------

ADC strongly urges all its members and supporters to join a nationwide
call-in/email campaign to the White House tomorrow, Tuesday, April 2,
between the hours of 9 AM and 9 PM eastern time, to protest Israel's
onslaught against the Palestinians and to demand an end to the illegal
Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Remember that the White House will take a tally of all calls and
e-mails it receives, so every single call you make or email you send
counts. Although originally initiated by ADC's Chicago chapter, this is
now a nationwide campaign, so expect lines to be busy and please keep
trying until you get through.  This is the least we can do to show our
support and solidarity with the Palestinian people who are being subjected
to around-the-clock Israeli aggression.  So alert your family and friends
to join you tomorrow, in what will only take a few minutes of your
time, but will mean so much.


WHITE HOUSE CONTACT INFORMATION:

Email: president-AT-whitehouse.gov <mailto:president-AT-whitehouse.gov>

Tel: 202-456-1111 (Public comment line where you can leave a message)

Tel: 202-456-1414 (President's Office)

Fax: 202-456-2461


TALKING POINTS:
Reminder: Keep your comments, brief, polite and simple.

1. Demand that President Bush immediately act to enforce Security
Council Resolution 1402, which the US voted for on Saturday and which
the State Department and the UN Secretary General endorsed today.
Resolution1402 demands an immediate Israeli withdrawal from all
Palestinian areas re-invaded since Friday.

2. Emphasize that there is no military solution to the conflict. Peace
and security for both Israelis and Palestinians can only come with an
end to the 34-year old Israeli occupation.  Urge President Bush to
embrace the Saudi-initiated Arab League Declaration offering Israel
peace and normal relations with all the Arab states in return for
Israel withdrawing fully from the West Bank Gaza and East Jerusalem and a
just resolution to the refugee problem based on UN resolutions.  The Arab
League plan provides the best opportunity in years to resolve the
conflict, meets the stated needs of all parties and is consistent with
international law.

3. Express your outrage that Israeli occupation forces have reportedly
been attacking Palestinian medical services and personnel, including
hospitals, ambulances, doctors and nurses, and paramedics.

4. Urge President Bush to express as much outrage about Israel's
killing of over1,200 Palestinians in 17 months as he does concerning the
deaths of 400 Israelis in the same period.  Most of the dead on both sides
are unarmed civilians.


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2. Sample letter of protest to Colin Powell
--------------------------------------------

[date]

To U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
secretary-AT-state.gov

Secretary Powell,

I am writing to urge the United States to  immediately  implement
UN Security Council Resolution 1402, passed last  week  with  the
support of the United States, requiring the immediate  withdrawal
of Israeli occupation forces from Palestinian towns  and  cities,
especially Ramallah.

Openly defying the will of  international  community,  Israel  is
continuing its widespread attacks against the entire  Palestinian
population including medical facilities and personnel.

Israeli   occupation   forces   are   currently   attacking   the
headquarters of the Medical Relief Committees  in  Ramallah.  The
Haaretz website reported at 6 PM local time that:

"The Ramallah headquarters of the Medical Relief Committees  came
under heavy fire. Using megaphones, Israeli  troops  ordered  all
the building's inhabitants  out,  including  the  medical  staff,
resident families, and a group of Italian peace  activists.  Head
of the Medical  Relief  Committees,  Dr  Mustafa  Barghouti  told
Ha'aretz that all those who had left the building  were  made  to
stand against the walls with their hands up."

The website added that "the organization is  the  most  important
non-governmental Palestinian group, providing medical assistance,
treatment and first-aid to Palestinians. Its work  is  especially
important at the moment as the Palestinian Red  Crescent  Society
cannot reach all Palestinians injured in  the  city  due  to  IDF
roadblocks."  (IDF   shells   medical   organization's   Ramallah
headquarters, Haaretz, April 1, 2002)

This attack constitutes a direct and grave breach of  the  Fourth
Geneva Convention and UN Security Council  Resolutions  1402  and
1322 among many others.

I urge you to immediately deny press reports which say  that  the
United States has given Israel a "green light"  to  continue  its
rampage in the occupied territories. If these reports  are  true,
then it would mean that the United States has given  its  support
to overt, grave breaches  of  international  law,  and  even  war
crimes.

I urge you to declare clearly, in English and in Hebrew, that the
quickest and only route to ending all  the  violence  is  to  end
Israel's military occupation and rule of terror against  millions
of Palestinians, and to demand that Israel immediately accept the
Arab League peace plan for a political settlement  in  accordance
with international law.

Yours,

[your name]



====Middle East Children's Alliance
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