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| Eleanor Roosevelt Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
Call for solidarity
“Fifty years after the U.S. Freedom Riders staged mixed-race bus rides
through the roads of the segregated U.S. South, Palestinian Freedom Riders will
be asserting their right to liberty and dignity by disrupting the military
regime of the Occupation through peaceful civil disobedience.
“The Freedom Riders seek to challenge Israel’s apartheid policies, the ban on Palestinians’ access to Jerusalem, and the overall segregated reality created by a military and settler occupation that is the cornerstone of Israel’s colonial regime.”
“The Freedom Riders seek to challenge Israel’s apartheid policies, the ban on Palestinians’ access to Jerusalem, and the overall segregated reality created by a military and settler occupation that is the cornerstone of Israel’s colonial regime.”
Tomorrow (Tuesday, November 15, 2011), Palestinian activists, mostly
youth, will attempt to board segregated Israeli public transportation headed
from inside the West Bank to occupied East Jerusalem in an act of civil
disobedience inspired by the Freedom Riders of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
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| Selma-to-Montgomery 1965 |
“Palestinians understand that this act of nonviolent disobedience may
result in violent attacks and even death at the hands of Israeli settlers who
are to Israel as the Ku Klux Klan and those who supported them were to the U.S.
‘Jim Crow’ South.…
“Nonetheless, the Freedom Riders believe that this act of civil
resistance is necessary to draw the attention of the world to the illegality
and immorality of Israel’s occupation and apartheid system as well as to urge
justice-loving people to take a stand and divest from Egged, Veolia, and all
companies that enable and profit from this oppressive system.…
“Civil disobedience carries dire consequences for the Palestinian
people as it did for the U.S. Freedom Riders. The threat of imprisonment or
physical attacks by settlers and the Israeli military is very real.
“The Freedom Riders are calling for solidarity from people of
conscience around the world.”
Sources
“Palestinian Freedom Riders to Board Settler Buses to Jerusalem” [Tuesday,
November 15th, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.], News posted on November 14, 2011 by
Palestinian Freedom Rides Occupied RAMALLAH, http://www.bdsmovement.net/2011/palestinian-freedom-riders-to-board-settler-buses-to-jerusalem-8352
Facebook: www.facebook.com/PalestinianFreedomRides
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Blog: http://palfreedomrides.blogspot.com/
Live stream: www.livestream.com/freedomriders
Email: ridingforfreedom@gmail.com
Britannica Captions: The Selma-to-Montgomery, Alabama (U.S.), civil rights march, 1965.
Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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