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In Ramallah and Around the World: Gaza at the Heart of Global Day of Action

Events in Ramallah kicked off with a demonstration organized jointly by the Palestinian National Initiative and the Stop the Wall Campaign. Hundreds of protestors - mostly young people, women, and families from Gaza's origin - marched peacefully through Ramallah's central square carrying banners reading "Stop Israeli War Crimes in Gaza" and "Boycott Israeli Apartheid" with the logo of the world social forum. This Global Day of Action offers Palestinian democratic movements the chance to urge the world to intervene and stop what Nelson Mandela has defined 'the new Apartheid of our century,'".

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2008/01/26

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The WSF Global Action Week starts at Palestine

This January 22, 2008 global press conferences on Palestine, Phillipines and South Korea have started to announce details of the 2008 decentralized World Social Forum Global Day of Mobilization and Action. Listen to the first comment by Hindi Mesleh after, after the conference in Palestina. Next alternative media records will be available at wsf2008.net media center after.

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2008/01/22 / http://www.ciranda.net/spip/article2027.html

Global Action Day at Palestine

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2008/01/27 / http://www.ciranda.net/spip/article2072.html

Bil'in - Eight injured and four kidnapped in the weekly Bil'in anti-wall protest

The villagers of Bil'in, located near Ramallah city in the central part of the West Bank, along with their international and Israeli supporters conducted their weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall on Friday.The main theme of this week's demonstration was the Israeli siege on Gaza. The protesters carried signs with "stop the war crimes in Gaza" and “stop the Israeli apartheid” signed with the with three logos, Stop the wall campaign, the Palestinian national initiative – PNI and the world social forum.

As is the case each week, the protest started after the Friday prayers, participants marched from the village centre towards the construction site of the Wall being illegally built on the village land. Israeli troops installed a military barrier along the way and as soon as the protesters reached it, the Israeli troops showered the demonstration with tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets.

Salah Alkhawaja a member of the PNI that was protesting there said: “today we are participating in this demonstration against the apartheid wall and the apartheid system and today we remember the apartheid system of south Africa, and we thank our friends and all the peace lovers from all over the world for supporting us and we thank the world social forum for organizing this day and we are asking to keep supporting our cause and we are asking them not to leave us alone in this war crimes”.

From his side Nasir Samara a member of Bilin popular committee said “it’s the time that the world should wake up because it means that there is something wrong in the world when one and a half million Palestinians under the siege and without food, medicine and electricity, and there is something wrong that we are in the 21st century and Palestine still occupied, and it’s the time to stop the human right violation and to show how the state of Israel violate the human rights and to force Israel to stop the war crimes in the Palestinians”.

Nasif Ideek from stop the wall campaign said “today we are asking for a big and organized solidarity campaign with Palestine against the Israeli attacks, wall, settlements, killing arresting confiscating land, torturing, and all kinds of war crimes, and to force Israel to destroy its ugly wall that separate Palestinians from there families. and it shows the ugly face of the “state of democracy, as well we are asking all our friends and comrades in the world to force there governments to apply an a boycott campaign and sanctions on Israel.”

2008-01-29

Nablus - No fair peace without releasing all the prisoners

The protest that was organized by the Higher Committee to follow up the affairs of prisoners and detainees, and other civil society organizations gathered Tens of protesters in the centre of Nablus as its known by “down town Square” carrying big banners says “No fair peace without releasing all the prisoners” under the logo of the world social forum, and other banners and slogans asking for releasing the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails.

Tens of women and children came to the street asking the international community to take its responsibilities in forcing Israel to release 12 thousands prisoner in the Israeli Jails and asking the world and the peace lovers to bring up the issue of the prisoners.

Um ahmad, 56 years was carrying the photo of her sun, said crying “my son is in the Jail since 4 years, no one cares about him, we are dieing here and the world is sleeping, its unfair that Israel is killing us and the world is sleeping, its enough, our kids are jailed and there is killing every day, we said enough violence and we want peace but Israel never want it”.

Dr Ghasan Hamdan the head of medical relief society in Nablus said “Nablus is one the Palestinian cities that still suffering from the Israeli violation, there is daily invasions and attacks to the city, the economical situation is very bad and collapsing, today we are asking the Palestinian authority to stop the negotiations with Israel and to ask for a hug solidarity campaign for the Palestinian rights, and one of it is the freedom of the 12 thousands prisoner.

Protesters sang for the Palestinian unity between Gaza and west bank and asked the two big parties (hamas and Fatih) and to form a national meeting that will lead to a national unity .

The “Gaza 3ala Bali” (Gaza on my Mind) campaign will marched through central Ramallah carrying a coffin with the names of the 78 Palestinians who have died from the siege on Gaza written on it the protesters named the names of the killed people in order to say to the media that this is not numbers this is real people that was killed because of the Israeli siege. “Israel will not end the occupation by itself, but only under pressure from the kind of international solidarity activity and sanctions that forced an end to the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

2008-01-29

Ramallah - In Ramallah and Around the World: Gaza at the Heart of Global Day of Action

Ramallah: Palestinians, Israelis and people around the world are taking to the streets today as part of a series of activities for the World Social Forum’s Day of Global Action.

The World Social Forum (WSF) movement brings together people and movements all over the world to push forward a global agenda of progressive change for democracy, human rights and social justice. This year, the usual centralised social forum has been replaced by a coordinated Global Day of Action, for which numerous and diverse groups have organised a wide array of activities and actions across the world.

+ text on: http://www.ciranda.net/spip/article2087.html

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2008-01-26

Palestinian National Initiative

Massive demonstration held on both sides of Erez Checkpoint against siege on Gaza

Jerusalem / PNN – A massive demonstration was held at Erez Checkpoint in the northern Gaza Strip’s Beit Hanoun. People assembled on both sides to protest the siege and starvation in the Strip, and the denial of Palestinian citizens the necessary materials for their humanitarian needs.

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