Fw: [ANSWER]: Free Palestine Alliance: APRIL 20 CALL TO ACTION

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg at tin.it>]

 APRIL 20 CALL TO ACTION
BY FREE PALESTINE ALLIANCE
 
 At this critical moment in the struggle of our people, the 
 Free Palestine Alliance-USA calls upon all those who stand 
 for justice and liberation to join us at the White House 
 in Washington, DC on Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 11 a.m., 
 in a national mobilization in support of the struggle of 
 the Palestinian People as we gear up for the protest 
 against the war criminal Sharon.
 
 As we join thousands from across the nation who will 
 assemble at the White House on that day, we intend to send 
 a clear message that we hold the Bush Administration 
 responsible for the carnage carried out against our 
 steadfast people in heroic Janin, Nablus, Bethlehem, 
 Ramallah, Doura, Qalqilia, Tulkarem, Rafah, Jabalia, and 
 every town and camp in our beloved land.
 
 Indeed, we call on all to stand shoulder to shoulder with 
 those who stand clearly and unconditionally with our 
 people?s stubborn quest for liberation. As we assemble at 
 the White House, we will join millions across the world 
who have declared repeatedly that the ?green light? and 
 political cover granted by the US Administration is 
 largely what allowed the war criminal Sharon to launch his 
 genocidal campaign on the cities, town and refugee camps 
 of Palestine. 

 At the White House, we will demand an immediate end to all 
 U.S. aid to Israel, as we render support to the 
 Palestinian People's right to self-determination.
 
 At the White House, we will join the national mobilization 
 organized by the A.N.S.W.E.R. -Act Now to Stop War and End 
Racism Coalition, which stands in full support of the 
 Palestinian people. Among the keynote speakers will be two 
 prominent Palestinian student activists, Fadia Rafeedie of 
Yale University and Randa Jamal of Columbia University.
 
 The organizing for April 20th follows on the heels of the 
 very successful nationwide student mobilizations on April 
9th marking the 54th anniversary of the Deir Yassin 
 massacre. On campuses across the country, students and 
 community activists came out in unprecedented numbers -- 
1,500 at U.C. Berkeley, where 78 people were arrested in a 
 building sit-in that captured the attention of the US and 
 much of the world; and 1,000 students at San Francisco 
 State, with strong and significant protests on dozens of 
other campuses.  Our community?s mobilization is also but 
 an extension of our people?s stand from coast to coast who 
 stood with tens of thousands of supporters rendering 
 solidarity with the Palestinian People  from Washington, 
 DC to Los Angeles, and from New York to Chicago, and to 
San Francisco.
 
 The April 20th demonstration will also provide a 
significant push and preparation for the April 22th 
 protest against the war criminal Sharon, who is scheduled 
 to speak along with George Bush that evening at the annual 
convention of AIPAC-the American-Israel Public Affairs 
 Committee, at the Washington Hilton. 
 
 We call on all who stand in support of the Palestinian 
people at this crucial juncture to join us at the White 
 House on April 20.
 
 Free Palestine Alliance - USA
 1-877-253-2547
 
 For information, please contact:
 Hanna Hanania (202) 256-6061 or Elias Rashmawi (530) 
 304-4573