[Peace-discuss] Fwd: action items for ISM

[Peter Rohloff]

Below are a few messages containing action items you can take regarding 
the recent ISM arrests.

Peter


Begin forwarded message:

> From: kelly at riseup.net
> Date: Fri May 9, 2003  3:18:36 PM US/Central
> To: rohloff at uiuc.edu
> Subject: flo
>
> hey peter,
>
> thanks for the email.  i'm forwarding you what ism is asking everyone 
> to
> do, i'm not sure if you got it or not.  i have been having a really 
> hard
> time getting any real response from the state dept or the consulate, 
> so i
> would recommend appealing to your congressperson (but what they would
> probably say is that it is flo's congressperson's responsibility).
>
> what will probably happen is that they will try to deport her.  if she
> fights the deportation, which i'm sure she will, legal funds are always
> helpful.  ism has a legal fund people can contribute to on the website:
> http://www.palsolidarity.org
>
> I know that everyone in palestine is meeting now to discuss what to 
> now...
> i'll keep in touch with what i hear.
>
> talk to you soon,
>
> kelly
>
> INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
> Friday, May 9, 2003
> For Immediate Release
>
> ISRAELI FORCES RAID ISM OFFICE
>
> [Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine] Israeli forces raided the ISM
> office this morning, confiscating equipment and material and
> snatching three women. At 12:30pm on Friday, May 9, approximately 20
> military vehicles, army jeeps and a large armored personnel carrier
> (intended for many arrests) surrounded the ISM media office in Beit
> Sahour. Dozens of soldiers, border police and civilian police
> officers raided the ISM office, confiscating all computers, not only
> in the ISM office but in the nearby office of the Palestinian Centre
> for Rapprochement. Files, CD, and photos were all pillaged, while
> soldiers broke equipment and damaged office space. Israeli forces
> kidnapped Palestinian volunteer, Fida, American volunteer, Flo, and
> a worker with Human Rights Watch visiting the office. At the time of
> this writing, Fida has been released, and the internationals seem to
> have been moved to the office of the Israeli Ministry of Interior,
> most probably for deportation.
>
> The Israeli government has declared an open war on international
> peace and human rights workers. Israeli forces are doing everything
> in their power to specifically prevent the nonviolent resistance to
> their military rule. The stepped-up harassment of internationals and
> journalists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is nothing short
> of a further attempt to shield from the international community the
> brutality of daily Israeli military actions against the Palestinian
> people.
>
> The ISM, however, has no plans to leave the Palestinian areas nor to
> reduce our actions or our efforts. We need your help. Please protest:
>
> In the US: Contact your congressperson, the State Department and the
> White House using this link.
> http://www.cflweb.org/congress_merge_.htm or http://www.congress.gov
> Also call the State Department and demand action. STATE DEPARTMENT 1-
> 202-647-5150
>
> For UK, Please call THE FOREIGN OFFICE 020 7008 1500, Also Contact
> your MP and Prime Minister
>
> For Israel Contact Israeli Minister of Interior, Tel: +972-2-629-
> 4701; Fax: +972-2-629-4750
> Israeli Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom Fax: +972-2-5303704 e-mail:
> sar at mofa.gov.ilIsraeli
> Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz Fax: +972-3-6916940, 6976990 e-mail:
> sar at mod.gov.il
> Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fax: (+972-2) 566-4838 or 651-3955 or
> 651-2631
>
> For Canada: Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham, House of
> Commons, Ottawa ON K1A 0A6; Fax 613-996-3443
>
> Everyone, Contact the Israeli embassy in your country
>
> See our website: www.palsolidarity.org for more ways to help or get
> involved.
>
> For more information, please call: +972-2-277-4602
>
> END
>
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