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| Rally for Palestine Attracts 100,000 Americans |
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| bhaloo |
| 04/21/02 at 01:27:07 |
| [slm] Rally for Palestine Attracts 100,000 Americans Saturday, April 20 2002 @ 06:36 PM GMT WASHINGTON, D.C. (CAIR): An estimated 100,000 Americans from diverse ethnic, religious and political backgrounds turned out today in the nation's capital to call for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. The largest-ever national rally in support of the Palestinian people filled the White House Ellipse and poured into streets leading to Capitol Hill during the six-hour gathering. "Today's event brought together Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, and Jews, as well as people from a rainbow of ethnic backgrounds and political philosophies. The tremendous success of the rally shows that elected officials who offer blind support for Israel's brutal polices are out of step with their constituents," said Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad, who spoke on the Ellipse. Awad noted that rally participants included Korean-Americans, Filipinos, Native Americans and Hispanics. They chanted: "We are all Palestinians." "Today marks the beginning of a national broad-based coalition that will seek to put America's interests before those of a foreign government engaged in an Apartheid-like occupation of another people," said Awad. CAIR, a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group, called on all those at the rally to contact their elected representatives and demand an end to billions of American tax dollars being sent to Israel and an international investigation of the Israeli massacre of Palestinian civilians in the Jenin refugee camp. The main organizer of the protest was International A.N.S.W.E.R. The rally was carried live on C-SPAN (http://www.c-span.org) |
| Re: Rally for Palestine Attracts 100,000 Americans |
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| muqaddar |
| 04/24/02 at 13:40:06 |
| [slm] Hmm I find that pretty interesting that yahoodi's turn up at these rallies but never seem to critisize Israel in the letters pages of newspapers or editorials. talk is cheap , stamps cost money |
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