[Peace] Fwd: US Campaign Adopts Proposals on Apartheid, Boycott,
and Nakba
Morton K. Brussel
brussel4 at insightbb.com
Tue Sep 11 17:10:08 CDT 2007
FYI . --mkb
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> From: US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
> <uscampaign at mail.democracyinaction.org>
> Date: September 11, 2007 3:21:02 PM CDT
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: US Campaign Adopts Proposals on Apartheid, Boycott, and Nakba
> Reply-To: uscampaign at mail.democracyinaction.org
>
>
> US Campaign Adopts Proposals on Apartheid, Boycott, and Nakba at
> 6th Annual Organizers' Conference
>
>
> More than 100 delegates from more than 50 member organizations of
> the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation met this weekend at
> the Arlington Campus of George Mason University in Arlington,
> Virginia for the US Campaign's 6th Annual National Organizers'
> Conference.
>
> Delegates to the conference amended and then passed by consensus
> all three proposals submitted for consideration. The proposals,
> which will guide the work of the US Campaign for the next year,
> call for the US Campaign to:
>
> Organize a national Anti-Apartheid speaking and organizing tour;
> Launch a national boycott campaign against Motorola for profiting
> from Israeli occupation; and
> Commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba through educational
> campaigns and days of action
>
>
> Conference delegates also elected four new members to the US
> Campaign's 12-person Steering Committee to replace members whose
> terms expired at the conference. The newly-elected Steering
> Committee members are:
>
> Omar Baddar, SUSTAIN-Memphis
> Adam Horowitz, American Friends Service Committee
> Judith LeBlanc, United for Peace and Justice
> Ashley Wilkinson, General Board of Global Ministries, United
> Methodist Church
> (Organizations are listed for identification purposes only.
> Members of the US Campaign’s Steering Committee serve in their
> individual capacities, not as representatives of organizations.)
>
> The newly-elected Steering Committee members fill the places of the
> following outgoing members who completed their terms:
>
> Huwaida Arraf, International Solidarity Movement
> Mark Lance, SUSTAIN-DC/Coalition for Justice and Accountability (Co-
> Chair)
> Samir Moukaddam, American Friends Service Committee—Southeast
> Mazin Qumsiyeh, Middle East Crisis Committee
> The US Campaign would like to express its profound gratitude to
> Huwaida, Mark, Samir, and Mazin for their hard work and inspiring
> guidance over the years.
>
> Other highlights of the conference included an inspiring Friday
> night panel entitled "Success Stories in Advocating for Palestinian
> Human Rights" and a Saturday night cultural event which featured
> the world-premier screening of "The World Says NO to Israeli
> Occupation," a documentary on the US Campaign’s June 10 protest in
> Washington, DC marking 40 years of Israel’s military occupation of
> the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip.
>
> Yesterday dozens of conference attendees stayed for the US
> Campaign's lobbying day on Capitol Hill. Conference attendees met
> with their Members of Congress and staff to express their
> opposition to $30 billion in U.S. military aid to Israel over the
> next ten years; their support for legislation to ban the export of
> cluster munitions; their support for renewed U.S. peace-making
> efforts based on human rights and international law; and their
> concern about the Israel's denial of the right of entry to the
> Occupied Palestinian Territories to U.S. passport holders.
>
> The US Campaign would also like to thank Students for Justice in
> Palestine at George Mason University for sponsoring and hosting the
> conference and the George Mason University administration and
> police department for ensuring that it was safe and successful.
> Although George Mason University was pressured to cancel the
> conference, it admirably stood up for our right of free speech
> against individuals who tried unsuccessfully to shut the conference
> down.
>
> Within the next few weeks, the US Campaign will post videos from
> the conference, a conference report, and the texts of the proposals
> passed as amended.
>
> US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
>
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