[van-announce] [ISM-Vancouver] FREEDOM SUMMER PALESTINE 2004

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INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
June 3, 2004
For Immediate Release
				
FREEDOM SUMMER PALESTINE 2004
June 25 – August 19, 2004

[Occupied Palestine] The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) 
invites you to join the Palestinian people for Freedom Summer Palestine 
2004 – a 56-day campaign (one day for every year of displacement and 
dispossession) against occupation.

During the campaign Palestinians will mobilize with the participation 
of their international supporters to draw the attention of the world to 
the true nature of the situation in the Occupied Palestinian 
Territories and to demonstrate that the Palestinian struggle is a 
struggle for justice, dignity, human rights and freedom.

Once a week for the first five weeks, national actions coordinated 
across the West Bank and Gaza will challenge occupation policies that 
deny Palestinians basic freedoms: checkpoints, roadblocks, settlements, 
the occupier’s prisons, and the lack of freedom of religion.  In 
addition to these national actions, activists will support local 
communities in their daily struggle against the occupation.

The campaign will end with a three week Freedom Walk beginning on July 
30.  We will march from Jenin to Jerusalem following the path of the 
Apartheid Wall to highlight the theft and destruction of Palestinian 
land.

Freedom Summer is a mobilization of the Palestinian people for justice, 
rights and freedom.  Like the Civil Rights Movement in the United 
States, India's National Liberation Movement and the Anti-Apartheid 
Movement in South Africa, Freedom Summer will utilize nonviolent direct 
action strategies and tactics to overcome oppression.

Hundreds of international civilians from all over the world are 
expected to join us this summer.  Be part of this historical 
initiative! For more information please see our website at 
<http://www.palsolidarity.org> or email us at  
<mailto:info at palsolidarity.org>

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Contacts:

In Palestine –   Email: info at palsolidarity.org
	ISM Media Office: +972-2-277-4602 (PST+10hrs)

In Vancouver -  Email: info at ism-vancouver.org
	Voice mail: Tel: 604-682-3269 Ext. 6197


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