Gaza Calling: All out on Saturday 9 August Day of Rage
Join the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement today. Demand Sanctions on Israel Now.
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Palestinian
trade unions are calling on our brothers and sisters in the trade union
movement internationally to stop handling goods imported from or
exported to Israel. The trade union movement has a proud history of
direct action against Apartheid in South Africa, the Congress of South
African Trade Unions has joined us in the call for direct action to end
Israel’s impunity.
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As
we face the full might of Israel’s military arsenal, funded and
supplied by the United States and European Union, we call on civil
society and people of conscience throughout the world to pressure
governments to sanction Israel and implement a comprehensive arms
embargo immediately.
Take to the streets on Saturday 9 August with a united demand for sanctions on Israel.
From
Gaza under invasion, bombardment, and continuing siege, the horror is
beyond words. Medical supplies are exhausted. The death toll has
reached 1813 killed (398 children, 207 women, 74 elderly) and 9370
injured (2744 children, 1750 women, 343 elderly). Our hospitals,
ambulances, and medical staff are all under attack while on duty.
Doctors and paramedics are being killed while evacuating the dead. Our
dead are not numbers and statistics to be recounted; they are loved
ones, family and friends.
While we have
to survive this onslaught, you certainly have the power to help end it
the same way you helped overcome Apartheid and other crimes against
humanity. Israel is only able to carry out this attack with the
unwavering support of governments – this support must end.
This is our
third massacre in six years. When not being slaughtered, we remain under
siege, an illegal collective punishment of the entire population.
Fishermen are shot and killed if they stray beyond a 3 km limit imposed
unilaterally by Israel. Farmers are shot harvesting their crops within a
border area imposed unilaterally by Israel. Gaza has become the
largest open-air prison, a concentration camp since 2006. This time, we
want an end to this unprecedented crime against humanity committed with
the complicity and support of your own governments!
We are not
asking for charity. We are demanding solidarity, because we know that
until Israel is isolated and sanctioned, these horrors will be repeated.
Take action this Saturday
Make
boycotts, divestments and sanctions the main message at every protest
around the world. Take banners and placards calling for sanction on
Israel to every protest. Tweet them using the hashtag #GazaDayofRage.
Email us your pictures and action details to GazaDayofRage@gmail.com.
While news of
all the mass protests outside Israel’s embassies around the world have
given us hope, after weeks of protests, we urge you to intensify your
actions. Occupy Israeli embassies, challenge Israeli officials (and
others) supporting the current aggression against Gaza whenever they
appear in public and stage sit-in in government buildings.
Boycott all
Israeli products and take action against corporations profiting from
Israel’s system of colonialism, occupation and apartheid. March to
boycott targets in your city and educate the public about companies
complicit in Israel’s ongoing military assault and illegal siege of
Gaza.
Palestinian
trade unions are calling on our brothers and sisters in the trade union
movement internationally to stop handling goods imported from or
exported to Israel. The trade union movement has a proud history of
direct action against Apartheid in South Africa, the Congress of South
African Trade Unions has joined us in the call for direct action to end
Israel’s impunity.
From occupied and besieged Gaza
Signed by
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
General Union of Palestinian Women
University Teachers’ Association in Palestine
Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (Umbrella for 133 orgs)
Medical Democratic Assembly
General Union of Palestine Workers
General Union for Health Services Workers
General Union for Public Services Workers
General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers
General Union for Agricultural Workers
Union of Women’s Work Committees
Pal-Cinema (Palestine Cinema Forum)
Youth Herak Movement
Union of Women’s Struggle Committees
Union of Synergies—Women Unit
Union of Palestinian Women Committees
Women’s Studies Society
Working Woman’s Society
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel
Gaza BDS Working Group
One Democratic State Group
Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions National Committee (BNC)
BNC
includes: Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine,
Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), Palestinian National Institute for NGOs,
Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition, Palestinian Trade Union
Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS), Federation of Independent Trade Unions,
General Union of Palestinian Workers, Palestinian General Federation of
Trade Unions, General Union of Palestinian Women, Union of Palestinian
Farmers, General Union of Palestinian Teachers, General Union of
Palestinian Writers, Palestinian Federation of Unions of University
Professors and Employees (PFUUPE), Union of Professional Associations,
General Union of Palestinian Peasants, Union of Public Employees in
Palestine-Civil Sector, Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall
Campaign (STW), National Committee for Grassroots Resistance,
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
(PACBI), National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba, Civic Coalition
for the Defense of Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, Coalition for
Jerusalem, Union of Palestinian Charitable Organizations, Palestinian
Economic Monitor, Union of Youth Activity Centers-Palestine Refugee
Camps, Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Initiative
- See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/
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