[GushShalom] Gathering of activism / 1 CO - 6 AWOL / Biddu / Vanunu etc.

Wed Apr 7 20:38:07 IDT 2004

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - www.gush-shalom.org/

[] The yearly gathering of activism starting tomorrow 
   April 8, 9,10 - NB: LOCATION CHANGED to Givat Haviva

[] The Killing Zone 8/4 20:00 - Tel-Aviv

[] New CO Daniel Tsal, refusing to enlist to occupation army; 
   come and join him to the Bakum gates, Tuesday

[] 6 go AWOL after forced to guard 40 hours non-stop at Gaza settlement

[] The latest from Biddu: army attacks nonviolent protesters 

[] Ongoing struggle - with new data re Vanunu 

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[] The yearly gathering of activism starting tomorrow 
   April 8, 9,10 - NB: LOCATION CHANGED to Givat Haviva

Due to unreasonable demands set by the Kakal on the subject of security 
and the managment of the camp. the festival is changing location.

The Third Activism Festival will be held as planned in April 8,9,10 in 
Givat Haviva.

For more information www.greenaction.org.il/festival 

See you there,
Green Action Staff.

ôñèéáì äà÷èéáéæí ôòåìä éøå÷ä 
Activism Festival Green Action 

[] The Killing Zone 8/4 20:00 - Tel-Aviv

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From:           	uri ayalon <uri_ayalon at yahoo.com>

"The Killing Zone" (50 minutes, UK)
Thursday, 8.4, 20:00
Ahad Haam 70, Tel-aviv

While the world's attention has been fixed on the war in Iraq, dispatches 
reporter Sandra Jordan and producer Rodrigo Vasquez risk their lives to 
reveal the shocking level of daily violence and murderous hate in the 
Gaza strip.

for more, see:
http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/special_reports/dispatches_killing_zone.
html

[] New CO Daniel Tsal, refusing to enlist to occupation army; 
   come and join him to the Bakum gates, Tuesday

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From:           	"Anat Matar" <matar at post.tau.ac.il>
To:             	<info at gush-shalom.org>, <info at taayush.org>
Date sent:      	Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:31:21 +0300

         Daniel Tsal refuses to enlist to an army of occupation
             We'll join him in the Induction Center on 13/4

Next Tuesday, April 14th, at 7:30, Daniel Tsal will arrive at the IDF 
Induction Center and will declare his refusal to join an occupying and 
oppressing army. 
Daniel informed the Minister of Defense about his planned refusal three 
months ago, and his request to be brought to the IDF conscience committee 
was rejected. 
Last January, the five COs who refused to enlist to an army of occupation 
were sentenced to one year imprisonment. Daniel is the first refuser who 
follows in their footsteps, apart from Laura Milo, whose case will be 
heard in the HCJ on the very same day.

We'll join Daneil at the gates of the Induction Center and will shout out 
loud - 
  Down with the occupation and the oppression! Free the consciencious     
                           objectors!

(Car owners are requested to stop at the Arlozorov terminal at 7:00 to 
pick up potential riders)

Excerpts from Daniel Tsal's letter to the defense minister:
"The principles of the "only democracy in the Middle East" have become 
void of meaning as a result of the trampling of the rights of about three 
million people, and more indirectly, of the ongoing destruction of the 
foundations on which the State of Israel is supposed to be based...
In such historical times, a sane individual must rise up against the 
system that makes the ongoing oppression possible. I have a moral 
obligation – not a choice but an obligation - to refuse to participate in 
the occupation and to struggle against the institutions that cancel such 
basic human rights. Any sane person, who has not yet been wholly overcome 
by fear and racism, must by dint of his basic humanity refuse to be part 
of an occupying and oppressive system such as the IDF has become."

[] 6 go AWOL after forced to guard 40 hours non-stop at Gaza settlement

  On he morning of April 5, reporter Carmela Menashe of the Kol Yisrael 
Radio Station disclosed that six soldiers of the Shimshon Batallion had 
gone together "Absent WithOut leave" in protest against intolerable 
conditions at the settlement enclave of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip where 
day and night soldiers guard a handful of fanatic settlers. The 
complaint: they were forced to guard without stop for consecutive 40 
hours; moreover, a soldier was ordered to guard alone at the most 
dangerous position where Palestinians have in the past penetrated and 
where the army's own regulations say that two should guard together; nor 
were soldiers provided with food drink and warm clothes. The radio 
brought an interview with  Albert Shoshan, father to one of them who, 
himself a veteran of several wars, gave full support to his son. "I 
phoned his commander: Don't worry, he has not been kidnapped. You can get 
him back when you start treating him decently."

[] The latest from Biddu: army attacks nonviolent protesters 

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TFrom:           	"International Solidarity Movement" <ism-
alerts at palsolidarity.org>
Date sent:      	Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:19:01 -0000

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
Wed April 7, 2004
For Immediate Release

ISRAELI ARMY ATTACKS NONVIOLENT PROTESTERS IN BIDDU
Two Palestinian community leaders arrested and dozens villagers 
injured

[Biddu, NW Jerusalem] Before 6am this morning, Israeli army 
bulldozers started the construction of the wall in the outskirts of 
Biddu village again. They were confronted by villagers, 
Internationals and Israeli activists who tried to reach the worksite and
stop the work. Israeli soldiers opened fire directly at the line of
nonviolent protesters, shooting tear gas and concussion grenades and then
rubber-coated metal bullets. Dozens of Palestinians are reportedly injured
by eyewitnesses. 

At 7:30am, the Israeli army arrested two Biddu community leaders, 
Mohamed Mansour and Ibrahim Saleh Bedwan, as they were protesting 
nonviolently the construction of the Wall through the village 
farmlands. They have been taken away to an unknown location. 

The protesters are now completely surrounded by over 80 soldiers who are
firing tear gas canisters, concussion grenades and rubber-coated metal
bullets, targeting upper parts of the body. 

The Popular Committee against the Wall and the activists are now 
trying to protect a house located at the outskirts of the village 
which is about to be demolished by the Israeli army. Some villagers 
are staying in the house to prevent its destruction while other are 
staying outside and are currently targeted with tear gas canisters 
and rubber-coated steel bullets.

For more information, please contact:

Biddu Village Council: +972.22.47.12.20 
Mohammed Ayyash: +972.67.395.422 
Mansour Mansour: +972.55.804.830 
Neal: +972.66.346.165
ISM Media Office: +972.22.77.46.02

[] Ongoing struggle - with new data re Vanunu 

    #Against the Wall (contact addresses)
    #Refusniks (prisoner addresses & links to constantly updated sites)
    #Vanunu  to be released April 21
           [ links to the latest re the Donate Now "Instead of Flowers" 
		   campaign / worldwide vigils etc. especially important for 
		   those who don't have the Paypal option ]
        New: Contact re activities in Israel <legalese at netvision.net.il >

#Against the Wall

Day to day presence at villages threatened by route of wall.
Contact:  Ivy Sichel 064-604172 isichel at netvision.net.il who set's up a 
list for people who can come at short notice, or: Arik Asherman 050-
607034  info at rhr.israel.net 

#Refusniks

Constantly-updated list of all presently jailed refusniks:

English - http://www.yesh-gvul.org/english/prison/
Hebrew / òáøéú - http://www.yesh-gvul.org/prison/

For the latest news about the five:   

http://www.refuz.org.il/News.html

	NB:
	Letters of support to 
	Noam Bahat / Haggai Mattar / Matan Kaminer
	AGAF BET
	Ma’asiyaho Prison
	P.O.B 13
	Ramla
	Israel

	Adam Maor / Shimri Tzameret:
	Hermon Prison
	P.O.B 4011 
	KFAR M’RAR
	Israel

#Vanunu to be released April 21

Instead of sending flowers 
Wordlwide campaign WELCOME VANUNU by donating a few dollars 
(N.B.: online but ALSO otherwise) as a welcome gesture:
<http://www.vanunu.org/>

List of international vigils on day of Vanunu release (April 21): 
http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/
http://www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk/ 

Online petition for the unconditional release of Vanunu 
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/freemordechaivanunu/

For details about Free Vanunu vigils and activities in Israel, 
Call: 02-6254530 or 051-368236
or email: legalese at netvision.net.il

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