Videos, Letters, & Announcements, June 5, 2010

Gaza: The last siege on earth... (2 minute video)

Friends and activists for Justice,

Please help circulate this small contribution to the efforts to break the siege of Gaza. Also, please feel free to use it in any other way you see fit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfEmA4tUNVc

(We apologize if you have received this more than once)

In solidarity,

The Never Before Campaign Team

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CAIR-NY: Muslim Eid Holiday Proposed (Video)

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Dennis Kucinich sends an important message concerning Afghanistan, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the influence of corporate money on federal elections.

Click here to view the video online

New General, Old Graveyard...more money?

Get your phone ready. Congress is set to vote on $33 billion dollars for war in Afghanistan TODAY, and we need to stop them in their delusional tracks.

We just returned from the US Social Forum in Detroit, where we witnessed the devastation of the Motor City. The 20 percent unemployment rate there is the highest of any major city, and tens of thousands of homes and stores are abandoned. Senator Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is from Detroit.

At the end of the confirmation hearing he chaired for General Petraeus to take over the war in Afghanistan, CODEPINK confronted him for his shameful "leadership", letting Detroit--and Michigan--crumble while funding an unwinnable war.

How can we let Congress send $33 billion dollars to Afghanistan after we've learned that large amounts of US money are being funneled to Afghan warlords and corrupt officials? When we were at the Petraeus confirmation, librarians from around the country were rallying on Senate grounds for funds to stop the massive closing of libraries and layoffs of librarians. How can we throw $33 billion at a mistake when millions of Americans are losing their jobs, their homes, their security?

Call your Congressional representative TODAY at 202-225-3121 and urge them to vote no on the supplemental. Tell them to follow the lead of Reps. Obey and Lowey and take it a step further by halting all war funding due to pervasive corruption in Afghanistan. As Dennis Kucinich reminded Congress, the only way to bring an end to this corruption is to end the war and bring our troops home.

Frank Rich recently noted in the New York Times that "until last week, Obama's only real ally in making his case was public apathy." Let's show Congress and Obama that the American public is not apathetic, and we will not stand for money going to war that is so desperately needed at home. Picking up our phones for peace and justice.

Code Pink,

Bonnie, Dana, Farida, Gael, Gayle, Joan, Jodie, Medea, Nancy, Rae, and Victoria

 The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC): Weekly update July 1st 2010

In this week’s update:

BDS Day of Action

– 9 July Flotilla: IHH report on the Mavi Marmara BDS Victories: Swansea say no to Veolia, Methodist Church boycott settlement goods; Bristol council calls for sanctions on Israel Defend the Gaza protesters

– 13 July Seminar with Knesset members Haneen Zoabi and others

– 28 July Palestinian MP’s arrest for refusing to comply with expulsion order News, actions, events and more 

PSC Conference:

Campaigning for Palestine - End the Siege on Gaza, Free Palestine - the next stage.

Saturday 17th July 2010, 10.00 – 4.30, 356 Holloway Road, London

Please RSVP to guarantee a place: info@palestinecampaign.org

Read it here: http://bit.ly/ccMNdf

Join PSC – www.palestinecampaign.org/join

Donate to PSC – www.palestinecampaign.org/donate

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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) aims to raise public awareness about the occupation of Palestine and the struggle of the Palestinian people. PSC seek to bring pressure on both the British and Israeli government to bring their policies in line with international law. PSC is an independent, non-governmental and non-party political organisation with members from communities across the UK. Join PSC today!

Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Box BM PSA London WC1N 3XX

Tel:   020 7700 6192 Fax:  020 7609 7779

Email: info@palestinecampaign.org

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