BEIRUT APPEAL : day of common mobilisation, the August 12

BEIRUT APPEAL

"We, International delegation of solidarity with Lebanon, and the Lebanese
political parties, associations and movements, at their common meetings,
declares that we :

1 - Appeal for an immediate and unconditional end of bombing on Lebanon and
Gaza.

2 - Condemn the American-Israeli aggression on Lebanon.

3 - Call for an international day of common mobilisation, the August 12
under these points.

Signatures for the International delegation of solidarity :

– Tasos Koronakos for the Greek delegation.
– Nahla Chahal for the French delegation.
– Leo Gabriel for the Austrian Social Forum.
– Dennis Brutus for the South African organisations.

French Délégation of the " Collectif National Palestine de France* "
– ABDALLAH Samir, "Film makers appeal", and CCIPPP (International civilian
campaign for the protection of the Palestinian people) ,
– BEN HIBA Tarek, représentant of the " Fédération pour une Citoyenneté des
Deux Rives ", Régional elected deputy Ile de France, Alternative Citoyenne.
– CHAHAL Nahla, CCIPPP
– COURTIN Christophe, CRID ( Collectif pour la Recherche, Information et
développement)
– CRINON Monique, IPAM ( initiative pour un autre monde ) and " Alternatives
Internationales "
– DEWANGEN Sylviane, CVPR ( Comité de vigilance pour une Paix Réelle au
Proche-Orient)
– GUICHARD Serge, PCF (Parti communiste français)
– HIRIART Emmanuel, CCIPPP
– LEMAIRE Gilles, les Verts
– MANSOUR Chadi, CCIPPP
– MENDES FRANCE Mireille, Association Internationale des Juristes Démocrates
, and UJFP (Union Juive Française pour la Paix)
– OUCIBLE Kamal, PSM ( Participation et Spiritualité Musulmane ) and AFD (
Alliance for Freedom and Dignity)
– POUILLARD Nicolas, LCR (Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire)
– RAVENEL Bernard, AFPS ( Association France-Palestine Solidarité)
– SOMMER Thomas, LCR
– SID Mohand , journaliste
– SEDDIQ Naoufel, journaliste

This gathering is grouping : Collectif National pour une Paix Juste au
Proche-Orient : Abnah Philistine (Enfants de Palestine), Africa, Les
Alternatifs, Alternative libertaire (AL), Alghadir, Association de défense
des droits de l’Homme au Maroc (ASDHOM), Association
France-Palestine-Solidarité (AFPS), Association franco-palestinienne d’
échanges culturels (AFPEC), Association des jumelages France-Palestine
(AJFP), Association des Marocains en France (AMF), Association des
Palestiniens en France (APF), Association pour la taxation des transactions
financières et l’aide aux citoyens (ATTAC), Association des travailleurs
maghrébins en France (ATMF), Association des Tunisiens en France (ATF),
Campagne civile internationale pour la protection du peuple palestinien
(CCIPPP), Centre de recherches et d’initiatives de solidarité internationale
(CEDETIM), Collectif interuniversitaire pour la coopération avec les
universités palestiniennes (CICUP), Co ! llectif solidarité Algérie, Comité
des sans-logis (CDSL), Comité de vigilance pour une paix réelle au
Proche-Orient (CVPR), Comité pour l’organisation de spectacles en faveur de
la Paix au Proche-Orient (COSPO), Coordination des appels pour une paix
juste au Proche-Orient (CAPJPO) , Coordination des groupes femmes "Egalité",
la Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), Droit au logement (DAL), Droits
devant ! !, Fédération des associations de solidarité avec les travailleurs
immigrés (FASTI), Fédération démocratique internationale des femmes (FDIF),
Fédération des Tunisiens pour une citoyenneté des deux rives (FTCR), Femmes
en noir de Paris, Femmes solidaires, Forum Palestine, Hourriya Liberté,
Jeunesses communistes révolutionnaires (JCR), Ligue communiste
révolutionnaire (LCR), Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH), MRAP, Parti
Communiste Français (PCF), Plurielles Algérie, Rassemblement arabe de
résistance à la globalisation (RARG), Rencontre progressiste juive (RPJ),
Solid Al, Solidaires des Israéli ! ens cont re l’occupation (SICO), Union
des étudiants communistes (UEC), Union générale des étudiants de Palestine
(GUPS-France), Union générale des étudiants de Tunisie (UGET-France), Union
juive française pour la paix (UJFP), Union syndicale G10-solidaires, les
VERTS.

From Greece
– DESPINA SPANOU, ADEDY (Higher Association of Public Servants)
– ANTONIA LEGAKI, Alternative intervention of Barristers of the Athens Bar
Association.
– PAVLOS ANTONOPOULOS, OLME ( Union of teachers in secondary level school).
– GIORGOS TSITSILIANOS, Synaspismos, (left Party).
– NIKOS GIANNOPOULOS, Greek Social Forum
– MANOLIS ILIAKIS, Antiwar movement of Crete
– VAIOS SKARLATOS, Antiwar Internationalist Movement
– GUIDO CHIOFI, Network for Social and Political Rights
– KOSTAS FOTAKIS, Antiwar Internationalist Movement and NAR ( New Left
Current)
– THEODOROS ZDUKOS Union of Hospital Doctors of Thessaloniki
– MIHIAR EKTAMI Union of Palestinian Workers in Europe
– MICHALIS TRIKAS, AVGI newspaper

From Austria
– GABRIEL LEO , Austrian Social Forum.

From South Africa
– BRUTUS Dennis, Jubilee South Africa (Cancellation of debt), Antiracist and
anti Apartheid Organizations, and former prisoner against apartheid.

First Lebanese signatures

Saadallah Mazraani - Lebanese communist party
Ali Fayyad - Hezbullah Party
Najah Wakim - People current
Jubran Basil - Free National Current*
Issam Naaman - National Unity tribune/ the Third Power
Kamil Dagher - Communist Revolutionnary League -Lebanon

* waiting for final confirmation

USA : Mobilisation contre la guerre les 5 et 12 août - No Justice - No Peace
; U.S. Out of the Middle East !
mercredi 2 août 2006

Plus d’informations sur le site de l’IAC - International Action Center

August 5

Support the Palestinian and Lebanese Peoples’ Right to Resist !
End the Occupation of IRAQ, PALESTINE and LEBANON
Support the Palestinian People’s Right to Return
U.S./Israeli Troops Out Now
No More Fighting and Dying for Oil Profits
STOP U.S. Aid to Israel

In the past few days, the horrific crimes committed against the people of
Lebanon and Palestine by the U.S.-backed Israeli regime have inspired
outrage and protest across the globe. What has become clear to many watching
the criminal invasion of Lebanon and the ongoing brutality against the
people of Palestine is the role of the U.S. as the initiator, supplier, and
funder of Israel’s crimes.

The Qana Massacre : Made in the U.S.

– Ever since Israel launched its criminal attack against the people of
Lebanon, the U.S. government has been rushing shipments of precision
missiles to Israel—the same sort of weapons that were used against Qana.

From 2001-2005, Israel received $10.5 billion in Foreign Military
Financing — the Pentagon’s biggest military aid program — and $6.3 billion
in U.S. arms deliveries

The U.S. has resisted and blocked every call for a ceasefire in order to
allow the Israeli Defense Forces time to complete its campaign of terror
against the people of Lebanon.

There would be no occupation, no bombs dropping on Lebanese and Palestinian
children, no tanks destroying homes, no artillery to rain destruction on
hospitals without billions of dollars each year that the U.S. government
gives to the Israeli government. Since 1949 the U.S. has given Israel a
total of $84,854,827,200. We must expose, challenge, and struggle to end the
U.S. support for Israel’s crimes.

Immediately after the criminal invasion of Lebanon, the International Action
Center issued a call to action for August 5, under the slogan, "No justice,
no peace—U.S. Out of the Middle East !" Across the U.S., activists are
organizing pickets, protests, teach-ins, informational leafleting, and
public forums, all directed against the U.S. role in the crimes of war and
occupation. Now, more than 200 organizations worldwide have signed on to the
call, and protests will take place across the globe, from London to Cairo to
Tel Aviv and throughout Latin America.

It is not enough to just say "Bring the troops home from Iraq." We must
challenge the Empire everywhere that it is attempting to carve up and
recolonize the area, from Afghanistan to Iran to the West Bank. We can no
longer look at these struggles as isolated crises—we must unite on the
streets to say "U.S. Out of the Middle East !"

LOCAL ACTIONS :

NEW YORK CITY, NY (Sat., Aug. 5 - 4:00 pm Rally at Times Square) ; SAN
FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (Sat., Aug. 5, Street Meeting, Education & Outreach
Day 1 P.M. at Powell & Market Street) ; SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (Sat., Aug.
5, 6 P.M. to 9 P.M.) ; LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (Sat., Aug. 5, 2 P.M.) ; SAN
DIEGO, CALIFORNIA (Join the protest in Los Angeles on August 5th.) ;
DETROIT, MICHIGAN (Fri., Aug. 4, 4:30 P.M.) ; CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (US Out of
the Middle East ! No more war, mass murder, and occupation for oil profits
! - 11 AM - Gather at State + Jackson) ; BOSTON, MASS (Sat., Aug. 5, 11
A.M. - Israeli Consulate at 20 Park Plaza March to JFK Federal Bldg) ;
ROCHESTER & BUFFALO, NY (Regional protest in Rochester - Friday, Aug. 4,
4:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.) ; PHILADELPHIA, PA (Friday, Aug. 4 - Federal
Building at 5th & Market Sts.) ; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND (Friday, Aug. 4 Street
Outreach and Corner Protest) ; ATLANTA, GEORGIA (Sat. Aug. 5) ; CLEVELAND,
OHIO (Sat., Aug. 5) ; HILTON HEAD, S.C. (Fri., Aug. 4, 4:30 P.M.)

Next Step : August 12, Washington DC

Join us this weekend on the streets for emergency international protests.
Then, join us for the next step, the August 12th National March on
Washington, called by the National Council of Arab Americans, the Answer
Coalition, and the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation. Contact us at
212-633-6646 for buses from New York to Washington.