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Oppose Sharon at the UN--Protest in NYC September 15--Action Alert & Petition

Oppose Sharon at the UN--Protest in NYC September 15--Action Alert & Petition
NEW YORK SAYS "NO" TO THE BUTCHER ARIEL SHARON!!

-Thursday, September 15-
-3:00-6:00 PM-
-Dag Hammerskjold Plaza-
-47th St. and 2nd Ave (across from the UN), NYC-
subway: E, V Train to 53/Lexington Ave. Walk south to 47th St., turn left onto 2nd Ave. 4, 5, 6, 7, S Train to 42nd St./Grand Central
Station. Walk east until 2nd Ave. and north to 47th St.

SAY NO TO ARIEL SHARON!
SUPPORT THE RIGHT OF RETURN FOR PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
REMEMBER SABRA AND SHATILA!
FREE PALESTINE!

On Thursday, September 15, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the man responsible for the massacres of thousands of Palestinians and
Lebanese, will speak before the United Nations General Assembly as part of the "World Summit." On the twenty-third anniversary of the killing of thousands of Palestinian refugees at Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon under Sharon's watch, the war criminal Ariel Sharon will speak as an honored guest at the United Nations in New York City. JOIN US to express our outrage at Sharon's presence in New York City before the United Nations, a body whose resolutions he has repeatedly flouted and ignored!

UN Resolution 194 guarantees the right to return to all Palestinian refugees. While Sharon speaks before the UN, he refuses to honor and
implement UN Resolution 194 or countless additional resolutions denouncing Zionist occupation of Palestine and requiring the
recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people. On the contrary, he has continued his decades-long campaign of brutality against the
Palestinian Arab people, dedicated to eradicating their very existence. From Qibya in 1952 to Sabra and Shatila in 1982 to Jenin in 2002, Ariel Sharon is a butcher and a war criminal who should be on trial at the Hague, not speaking before the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Join Al-Awda New York on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM to declare that SHARON IS NOT WELCOME HERE and to demand the UN
immediately act to implement Resolution 194, the RIGHT TO RETURN OF ALL PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO THEIR ORIGINAL HOMES AND PROPERTIES!

Organizational endorsements and involvement are welcome! Please email protestsharon (at) al-awdany.org to endorse or for more information!

Endorsers include: NY Committee to Defend Palestine, NJ Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, Palestine Solidarity
Group-Chicago, Troops Out Now Coalition, ANSWER NY, New York City Labor Against the War, NYC Jericho Movement, Coalition to Free the
Angola 3, NYC Free Mumia Coalition and many more. List in formation:
email protestsharon (at) al-awdany.org

For more information: www.al-awdany.org/
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ACTION ALERT

For Immediate Release
September 11, 2005
For Immediate Release

ACTION: PETITION SENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS

OPPOSE SHARON'S ADDRESS TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY! DEMAND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UN RESOLUTION 194! DEMAND THE RIGHT OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND!

On September 15, 2005 war criminal Ariel Sharon is expected to address the U.N. General Assembly's sixtieth regular session. Ironically,
September 16 to 18, 2005 mark the twenty-third anniversary of the deliberate and systematic massacre of more than 2000 Arab civilians,
mostly Palestinian and Lebanese, in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, the chief architect of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, was found by an Israeli commission of inquiry to have been personally responsible for the massacre.

The statement below calling for the boycott of Sharon's upcoming address, as well as the implementation of UNGA Resolution 194, is
today being sent to members of the General Assembly and other relevant parties.

The victims of Sabra and Shatila -- those who perished, as well as those who continue to be saddled with the memories and horrors of the
massacre on a daily basis, would never forgive us if we were not to do our utmost against Sharon's visit to the UN.

Please join in this important campaign as we continue to encourage and add institutional, organizational and individual endorsements.

We also request that you circulate this statement as widely as possible.

Please email your endorsements to: opposesharon (at) yahoo.com

Provided is a list of organizational and individual signatories (lists in formation)

For other mobilizations of public protest against Ariel Sharon's address to the United Nations, see: www.stopthewall.org

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WE, the undersigned, DEMAND that Ariel Sharon not be permitted to address the sixtieth regular session of the General Assembly. Sharon's refusal to abide by international law, particularly as it pertains to the right of return for Palestinian refugees, is matched only by his long career as a war criminal:

* In 1952 Ariel Sharon was appointed commander of special 101 Commando Unit which carried out raids on West Bank village of Qibya in which 69 civilians were murdered, many of them women and children.

* The massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps occurred between September 16 and 18, 1982, after the Israeli invading army, then occupying Beirut and under Sharon's overall command as Israel's Defense Minister, permitted members of the Phalange and local allied militias into the camps. The over 2000 civilian victims of the
massacre included infants, children, women, and elderly.

* In February 1983, a three-member official Israeli commission of inquiry charged with investigating the events, known as the Kahan
Commission, named former Defense Minister Sharon as one of the individuals who "bears personal responsibility" for the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

* The Al-Aqsa Intifada started after Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Noble Sanctuary in Jerusalem under heavy Israeli military and police guard. The visit was a calculated step that sparked the expected resistance from the oppressed Palestinian people.

Ariel Sharon continues his utter disregard for international law. His refusal to abide by scores of United Nations' resolutions addressing
the Arab-Israeli conflict is legendary. Only recently, Sharon reiterated his rejection of the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes and lands. Such outright disregard for the will of the international community constitutes a grave violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the European, the American and the African Conventions on Human Rights, and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.

It also reflects Sharon's refusal to implement UN resolution 194, which has been reaffirmed practically every year since 1948. Generally, the same position has been affirmed by the Treaty-Based UN Committees, the regional conventions on human rights and practically all human rights NGOs.

We find it peculiar that the General Assembly would permit a war criminal like Ariel Sharon to address it, especially considering his
explicit loathing of the UN and the collective will of the vast majority of its member states.

We also DEMAND that the General Assembly embark on enforcing its resolution No. 194. The right of the Palestinian refugees and uprooted to return to their homeland is a historical right that is guaranteed by international law. It is an individual and collective right which cannot be relegated, diminished, reduced or forfeited by any representation on behalf of the Palestinian people in any agreement or treaty. As such, the Right of Return is not substituted or affected in any way by the establishment of a Palestinian state in any form. According to international law, agreements that purport to trade away the right of refugees to return to their homes, or any other inalienable right, are illegal.

The right of refugees to return has been exercised, with the support of the international community, in Kosovo, Bosnia, East Timor, Rwanda,
Guatemala and many other places. Yet, it continues to be ignored and neglected in Palestine. This selective enforcement of international law and UN resolutions serves to undermine rather than strengthen efforts to build a peaceful and just world.

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
E-mail: info (at) al-awda.org
WWW: al-awda.org
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568

Action Center For Justice, Charlotte, NC
Aidoun Group - Lebanon
Aidoun Group - Syria
Aktionsbuendnis fuer Einen Gerechten Friedern in Palaestina, Germany
Al-Awda Popular Committees - Gaza, Palestine
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition - Egypt
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition - Espana
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition - Italia
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition - North America
Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition - United Kingdom
Alrowwad Cultural and Theatre Training Center- Aida Camp, Palestine
Al-Shorouq Newspaper - British Columbia, Canada
Alternative Information Center, Palestine/Israel
Alternative Palestinian Agenda
Americans For Justice in Palestine-Israel
Americans & Palestinians for Peace (AMPAL), USA
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, USA
Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror
(ARA-LA/PART-LA)
Anti-War Coalition - South Africa
Arab Committee to Support the Intifada - Brazil
Arab-American Forum, New Hampshire, USA
Arab American Union Members Council- USA
Arab Media Watch, UK
ASKAPENA (Herriekiko Euskal Elkartasuna - Solidaridad Vasca con los
Pueblos)
The Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally
Displaced Persons in Israel ADRID
Association of Democratic Palestinian Educators
Association Palestine En Marche – France
Association Une Toile Contre Un Mur
Atlanta Palestine Solidarity (APS)
BADIL
Bay Area United Against War, BAUAW
Bourj Sahamali Refugee Camp
Break The Chains Collective, Eugene, Oregon USA
Break the Silence Mural Project, San Francisco, USA
Cafe Intifada
Canada Palestine Association
CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, France
Citizens for Fair Legislation, USA
Centro de Documentacion en Derechos Humanos "Segundo Montes Mozo S.J.,
Quito-Ecuador
Christians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, Indianapolis
Coalition to Free the Angola 3
Collectif Judeo-Arab et Citoyen pour la Paix, Strasbourg, France
Comit?© de Solidaridad con la Causa ??rabe, Madrid, Spain
Comit?© de Lutte Contre La Barbarie et l'Arbitraire - France
Comit?© de Soutien au Peuple Palestinien , Ottignies-LLN , Belgique
Comit?© pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient - Luxembourg
Comit?© Rennais France Palestine Solidarit?©
Committee for Democratic Palestine - Brazil
Democratic Palestinian Women's Organization
Democratic Union for Palestinian Youth
Democratic Palestinian Teacher's Gathering
East Jerusalem YMCA
Egypt's Renaissance and Support for Arab Rights Group
Enfants de la Palestine, Association des familles Franco-Palestiniennes
European Coordinating Committee of NGOs on the Question of Palestine
(ECCP):

Italian NGO Platform for Palestine--Italy
COMITE DE ONG SOBRE LA CUESTI?³N PALESTINA--Spain
Plateforme des ONG fran?§aises pour la Palestine--France
Greek Committee for International Democratic Solidarity--Greece
CAABU (The Council for the Advancement of Arab-British
Understanding)--United Kingdom
Norwegian Association of NGOs for Palestine--Norway
Danish/Palestine friendship association--Denmark

Filastiniyat, Palestine, Ramallah
Films For Justice In Palestine St. Petersburg, Florida
The Freedom Archives
Freedom Road Socialist Organization, USA
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
Free Palestine Alliance - USA
Free Palestine Club, Santa Monica, California
Generation Five, San Francisco, USA
Gesellschaft Schweiz Pal?†stina, GSP, Association Swiss Palestine, ASP
Switzerland
Glasgow Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Glasgow PSC) UK
Harrisburg Middle East Justice and Peace Group
Heartland Muslim Women's Network
Houston Coalition for Justice Not War (HCJNW), USA
Human Rights Protection Center - Palestinian NGO, Beirut, Lebanon
Humans Against Israeli Occupation Team
International Action Center, USA
Interfaith Council for Peace in the Middle East, USA
International Socialist Organization
International Solidarity Movement - USA
International Solidarity Movement in France
Jacques & Fran?§oise SALLES - 33410 - Sainte croix du mont - France
Jews for a Free Palestine, San Francisco
Jews Against Zionism, UK
Jordanian Women's Union - Amman - Jordan
Justice for Palestinians, USA
Justice in Palestine Coalition, San Francisco
Kolectivo Kahuin, Chile
L.A.U.G.H.O.E. Let's All Unite to Gain Heaven On Earth
L'Associazione di Amicizia Italo-Palestinese, Italy
L.A. Palestine Labor Solidarity Committee
MarWen Media.com
Middle East Children's Alliance, USA
Middle East Crisis Committee
Middle East Committee of Women Against Military Madness
Middle Eastern Student Society-California State University, Fullerton
MidEast: JustPeace, Traverse City, MI
Movement for Peace and Justice Mumbai - India
Muslim Voters of America, Oak Park, Illinois
Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa
Najdeh Association, Lebanon
Nakba '48, a student organization at the University of Florida
National Council of Arab-Americans (NCA), USA
Network of Christian Organizations/Bethlehem
New England Committee to Defend Palestine
New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW)
New York City Jericho Movement
New York Committee to Defend Palestine
New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine
Niagara Palestinian Association, Ontario
Niagara Coalition for Peace NC4P, Ontario
Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition
OPTICS (Organizing Pittsburgh To Increase Community Solidarity),
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Palestine Community Centre - British Columbia, Canada
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
Palestinian National Initiative Southern California Chapter
Palestine Media Watch
Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK
Palestine Solidarity Group (PSG) - Chicago
Palestine Solidarity Group of Vancouver
Palestinian Solidarity Committee - South Africa
Palestine Support Committee, Durban, South Africa
Palestine Youth Organization - Jordan
Palestine Youth Organization - Lebanon
Palestine Youth Organization - Syria
Palestine 13, local group of the French-Palestine Solidarity
Association(AFPS), Marseille, France
Palestinian American Women's Association
Palestinian Arab Association - Sao Paulo, Brazilia and Koromba
Palestinian Arab Cultural Center - El Rio Grande Do Sul
Palestinian Women Democratic Association Party for Socialism and
Liberation
Peace and Freedom Party, California, USA
Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee
Pomona Valley Greens
Progressive Democratic Alliance
RAWAN (the Radical Arab Women's Activist Network)
RESOCI (R?©seau Solidaire et Citoyen) France
Right of Return Congress
Right of Return Congress-USA
Riverside Area Peace and Justice Action, Riverside California
Scottish Palestinian Mediawatch
Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Center- Shaml
Socialist Workers Party, Belgian section of the Fourth International
Solidarity Association for Social and Cultural Development
Stanford University Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (CJME)
Stanford University Muslim Student Awareness Network (MSAN)
The House of Peace and Non-Violence, St. Petersburg, Florida
Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Southern
California
Troops Out Now Coalition, USA
Union of Palestinian Youth Center
Union of Committees of the Right to Return
Union of Palestinian Women- Jordan
Union of Palestinian Democratic Youth
Union of Palestinian Youth
Vlaams Palestina Komitee--Flemish Palestine Solidarity Committee--Belgium
Women in Black-Los Angeles
 
 

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