Caterpillar Kills: PSC Motorcade and Rally in Birmingham April 16th
brum imc volunteer | 11.04.2005 17:03 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles
Action April 16th 2005
Motorcade and Rally
Show your opposition to house demolitions and casualties
Gather Hopwood Service Station M 42 at 11.0.am
Then Motorcade to Caterpillar Headquarters at Hockley Heath Solihull for a legal drive by.
Make your views known. Bring a letter of protest and a small symbolic object for Managing Director and Board of Caterpillar.
Then convoy to Birmingham, Victoria Square at 2.30.pm and Rally for Palestine.
2:30 to 4 pm, Saturday, 16th April
Victoria Square (outside the Council House) Birmingham
There is a myth circulating in the media that a just peace is getting closer in Palestine and the Middle East. Yet Israel continues to:
• Build its apartheid separation wall, destroying homes and agricultural land in the process
• Build settlements in the West Bank
• Kill and maim innocent Palestinians
• Keep thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in jail
• Harass Palestinians daily with roadblocks and checkpoints throughout the West Bank and Gaza
• Refuse to negotiate on a just solution with elected representatives of the Palestinians
• Refuse to accept responsibility for the millions of Palestinian refugees who became refugees as a result of the creation of Israel and subsequent wars.
Palestinians need your support now more than ever. Join the rally for Palestine in Birmingham on 16th April and help improve the prospects for a genuine peace in the Middle East. Such a peace is a fundamental requirement for stability and peace in the world.
Ask your MP and all the candidates in the coming general election where they stand on how to bring about a just and genuine peace in Palestine and whether they are in favour of putting more pressure on Israel to end its illegal and brutal occupation.
Speakers invited: Those starred have definitely agreed to speak
Representative of the Palestinian Delegation in Britain
Betty Hunter, Palestine Solidarity Campaign*
Richard Burden, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Committee on Britain and Palestine*
Clare Short*
Peter Beck of the Green Party*
Charlotte Carson of ISM
Representatives of the major political parties
Dr Naseem, Birmingham Central Mosque
Muslim Association of Britain
Nicola Jones, Friends of Sabeel*
Steve Marks, Jews for Justice for Palestinians*
Salma Yaquub, Birmingham Stop the War*
* Have agreed to speak
Economic Sanctions on Israel Now
Boycott Israeli Goods
Stop Caterpillar supplying Israeli War Crimes
End the Occupation
Dismantle the Apartheid Wall and Israeli Settlements
For the right of Return of Palestinian Refugees
Self-Determination for the Palestinian People
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