TELL BOEING AND CATERPILLAR TO PUT CHILDREN’S LIVES FIRST!!

What: A vigil to pray for an end to US government and corporate support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

When: This Saturday, July 6th from 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

Where: Boeing World Headquarters, 100 North Riverside, Chicago (at the west side of the Randolph Street bridge over the Chicago River).

JOIN CPT TO TELL BOEING AND CATERPILLAR TO PUT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE AHEAD OF PROFITS!

During the current upheaval in Israel and Palestine, CPT’s Hebron team has witnessed the Israeli government’s Boeing-made Apache attack helicopters used as a weapon against innocent Palestinian civilians, including children. For several decades, the Israeli military has used Caterpillar bulldozers to destroy Palestinian homes and dispossess thousands of families.

In response to the ongoing devastation, CPT will hold the Saturday vigil at Boeing to launch an eight day, 170-mile faith walk to the Caterpillar plant in Peoria, IL. The walk will be led by CPTers Michael Goode – who was denied entry into Israel and Palestine by Israeli authorities on June 24 – and Cliff Kindy. They will be visiting churches along the route and urging Boeing and Caterpillar to place the lives of the innocent children of Palestine and Israel ahead of profits.

The current fleet of Israeli Apaches has already proven far too lethal to Palestinian children. Nonetheless, the government of Israel has announced its intention to upgrade its current fleet of helicopters with Boeing’s AH-64D Apache Longbow, a helicopter Boeing claims is the world’s deadliest – 400% more lethal than previous Apache models. CPT believes that selling more and deadlier weapons of destruction to the government of Israel will escalate the conflict, adding still more to the number of dead and injured Israeli and Palestinian children and their families.

Caterpillar manufactures the bulldozers the Israeli military has used to systematically destroy thousands of Palestinian homes in the past two decades. CPT has documented over one hundred such demolitions in the Hebron district over the past seven years. Thousands more Palestinian children are at risk of being left homeless and hopeless by impending demolitions.

CPT Hebron has consisted of approximately 6-8 members working with Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers since June 1995.

Kindy and Goode will begin their walk heading south and west on Ogden Avenue. They will spend the first night in Bridgeview, IL, visiting with the local Arab-American community and a local mosque. The walk will end Sunday, July 14, at the Caterpillar plant in Peoria.

You are invited to participate in the vigil or join Goode and Kindy for any part of their journey.
For more information, please call 1-312-455-1199.
During their walk, Goode and Kindy can be reached at 1-312-933-8986.