40 Years is Enough!

Six Days of Action against the Occupation of Palestine - June 6-12 2007

Global Day of Action - June 9 2007

Kibush 40 coalition

The second week of June will mark forty years since the occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day war. This is now the longest
enduring military occupation in the world. While the Israeli government
evades negotiations that would end the occupation and lead to a just
peace, the lives of Palestinians continue to be crushed daily by closures
and economic strangulation, their land confiscated for settlements and
their communities made into prisons by the Segregation Wall.

At the same time, violence in the region continues to supply ideological
fuel for the G8 governments in their ‘War on Terror’, explicitly
declared as a never-ending, pre-emptive global war which justifies
erasing civil liberties, supporting oppressive regimes, and attacking
refugees and migrants. We are all victims of this war: in Palestine and
Israel, in Iraq and in Colombia, in Germany and in the U.S.A.With the occupation at forty it should be clear to all that its forceful
hegemony cannot be resisted by established political means alone. This
is both morally insufficient and doomed to practical failure. As a
strategic and practical alternative, the "Occupation 40" coalition is
calling for six days of actions to mark forty years of occupation, on
June 6 to 12 2007. A Global Day of Action has also been called on June
9.

The coalition is a democratic and non-hierarchical action platform of
grassroots Israeli groups and organizations. Peace organizations,
artists, students’ groups, internal refugees, anarchists, animal rights
activists, communists and individuals participate in this initiative.
The six-day convergence in Israel will include demonstrations, direct
actions, discussions and cultural events.

This is a call-out for international direct actions against the
occupation on June 6-12. We call in particular for actions against
corporations profiting directly from the occupation that publicly shame
them and/or cause them economic damage. Information on corporations
involved with the occupation is available from
http://www.boycottisrael.co.uk and many other sources, including a
recent report by War on Want available at
http://www.waronwant.org/download.php?id=443.

We hope that actions will be organized in a decentralized way and trust
them to the initiative and self-organization of affinity groups around
the world.

These days of action fit well into this summer’s international
action calendar:

• June 5 – An international day of action against militarization, wars
and occupations, in the run-up to the G8 summit in Germany.

• June 6-8 – Protests against the G8, with the participation of
Palestinian and Israeli activists and Palestine Solidarity groups from
around Europe.

• June 6-12 – 6 days of action against the Occupation, in
Palestine/Israel and Internationally

• June 9 – Rally in London, Global Day of Action Against the Occupation

• June 10-11 – Protest, teach-in and lobby in Washington DC

Please distribute this call widely, and please organise for action with
your groups and networks. We can use this symbolic moment to hit out at
those who benefit and profit from the pain and despair in Palestine, and
to send the Israeli and G8 governments a message they cannot ignore.

Kibush 40 Coalition:

Anarchists Against the Wall – http://awalls.org

Coalition of Women for Peace – http://coalitionofwomen.org

Gush Shalom – http://gush-shalom.org

Hadash – http://hadash.org.il/

Indymedia Israel – http://israel.indymedia.org

Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions – http://icahd.org/

Machsom Watch – http://machsomwatch.org

Ta’ayush – http://taayush.org

Zochrot - http://nakbainhebrew.org

International links:

Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (USA) – http://endtheoccupation.org

Campaign Against Israeli Apartheid (Canada) – http://caiaweb.org

Enough Coalition (UK) – http://www.enoughoccupation.org