[2196] in peace2
Talk on the environmental impact of occupation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Mon Feb 3 10:38:12 2003
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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:37:28 -0500
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Just like Iraq, Kosovo and Vieques, Palestine is also being littered
with toxic "Depleted" Uranium, as well as subjected to a host of other
environmental and humanitarian assaults...
BOSTONTOPALESTINE PRESENTS:
"Palestine: It's HELL"
A slide show and presentation by John Reese of the International Solidarity
Movement
Join us:
Sunday, Feb 9th 2003
2:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Christ Church Cambridge Zero Garden Street
( Harvard Sq.- Red line T stop)
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John has been in Palestine for seven months working with the International
Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org) and the Palestinian Hydrology
Group (www.phg.org). The ISM is a Palestinian-led nonviolent movement of
Palestinian and international activists working to raise global awareness of
the struggle for Palestinian freedom and help bring an end to Israeli
occupation.
John will show slides and tell stories about people living under
occupation - and about the Palestinian and international nonviolent
resistance movement that is growing in the West Bank and Gaza. A peace
activist and a hydrogeologist, John also will talk about new evidence of
environmental impacts of war and occupation on the earth and Palestinian
communities. Water is contaminated and groundwater tapped out. Israeli and
Palestinian waste pollutes villages, streams and Palestinian farmlands.
Ancient olive trees are ripped from the ground and this is all in addition
to the destruction wreaked by war and its industries - from uranium
poisoning by the use of depleted uranium shells to land and property laid
waste by fire, bombings and the machines of war.
John Reese was in Palestine until Dec 18. On Jan 8 he began a 2 month tour
of the US. For pictures from Palestine see:www.seattlecan.org/.
The real threat comes not from the bullets of the occupying force but from
those who do not want the truth to be told!
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bostontopalestine is a group of Boston activists who work in solidarity
with the Palestinian people, through the International Solidarity Movement
(ISM), in their non-violent struggle to end the occupation. Info at
www.bcpr.org/b2p
