Trees Not Walls! Call to Action: For Eco-Justice Bloc at MWM & Palestine Solidarity O17 and Beyond ...

Come all who conscientiously object to the capitalist transformation of Earth into industrial wasteland! In defiance of Walls designed to divide and displace us, on October 17 in Washington DC, before, during and after the Million Worker March, we invite you to join the Eco-Justice/Palestine Solidarity Bloc to participate in a powerful, long-overdue fusion of movements! <!--break--> <div><div>please forward widely! download pdf flyer at:</div><div><a href="http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/106390/index.php" target="_blank"><font color="#003399"><u>http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/106390/index.php</u></font></a></div><div><font color="#003399"></font> </div><div>Washington DC, October 17th, 11 AM </div><div> </div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><em><font size="2">Trees Not Walls! Call to Action: For Eco-Justice Bloc at MWM &amp; Palestine Solidarity O17 and Beyond ...</font></em></span></div><div><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></span></b> </div><div><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman">ECO-JUSTICE/PALESTINE SOLIDARITY BLOC</font></span></b></div><div align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman">at the Million Worker March </font></span></b></div><div><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman">MEET @ AFL-CIO HEADQUARTERS (16^th and H St. NW) at 11:00 AM</font></span></b></div><div> </div><div>because from washington dc to palestine, workers pay the price of ecological decline!</div><div> </div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><em><font size="2">Calling all refuseniks! Come all who conscientiously object to the capitalist transformation of Earth into industrial wasteland! All who till soil in community gardens and organic farms, defend local watersheds and forests, fight toxics in their factories, resist racist zoning that spews pollution at neighborhoods of color, support indigenous struggles against colonial theft of land and natural resources, and reject the economic logic that asks us to choose between viable jobs and a livable environment – come join us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I<font size="2">n defiance of Walls designed to divide and displace us, on October 17 in Washington DC, before, during and after the Million Worker March, we invite you to join the Eco-Justice/Palestine Solidarity Bloc to participate in a powerful, long-overdue fusion of movements!</font></span></span></font></em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><em><font size="2"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></font></em></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">ECOLOGICAL<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>DESTRUCTION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>HURTS<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>WORKERS!<p /></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><font face="times new roman" size="1">When runaway development and over-exploitation degrades ecosystems, local workers suffer the consequences of ecological destruction as much as any non-human species!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Few cases reveal this as starkly as Israel’s construction of a massive, militarized concrete “separation” Wall through the heart of Palestine’s West Bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Armed with watchtowers, trenches, electronic fences and sensors, and patrol routes, the Wall creates a zig-zagging 700-kilometer-long, 200-meter-wide environmental “dead zone” that obliterates the landscape’s ecological integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>The Wall disrupts the hydrology of watersheds, altering surface water flow and increasing erosion; it fragments animal populations, diminishing overall levels of wildlife; and Israeli earthmovers have uprooted hundreds of thousands of olive and fruit trees, “shaving the land” to clear the path for the Wall’s erection …</font></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><font face="times new roman" size="1"></font></span> </p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><font face="Arial Narrow"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><font size="1"><font face="times new roman">The Wall’s primary purpose is to maximize the amount of water and fertile Palestinian farmland on the side annexed to Israeli control, and the number of Palestinians on the other!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Annexing over 11 % of the West Bank and cutting tens of thousands of Palestinian families off from their ancestral land and each other, the Wall converts peasants and farm workers into the newly unemployed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This is a late stage of Israel’s ongoing war against Palestine’s economy, which forbids Palestinians from trading products outside the district in which they live, even as Israeli products inundate Palestinian markets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Under siege, the West Bank’s unemployment rate has skyrocketed to over 50% and poverty to over 67%, handing Israeli capitalists an irresistible opportunity for profit …<p /></font></font></span></p><p /></font></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><em><font size="2"></font></em></span> </div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><h1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#ff0000"><font face="Century Gothic"><em><font size="2">AGAINST<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>AND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>APARTHEID …<p /></font></em></font></font></span></h1><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="times new roman" size="1">International legal language defines ‘apartheid’ as “a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one [ethnic] group over another ... and systematically oppressing them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The 1973 International Convention on Apartheid specifies acts – including the creation of ghettos, land confiscation, and prohibition of freedom of movement – that constitute Apartheid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>By totally encircling Palestinian towns like Qalkilya and Tulkarem, illegally seizing huge swaths of land, and filtering all domestic travel through a rigid system of gates and checkpoints, Israel’s Wall administers Apartheid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But the Wall is also a capitalist tool, imposing Israel’s version of NAFTA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>On the Wall’s ‘Mexican’ side, Israel plans to establish numerous ‘industrial estates’ where Israeli companies will put Palestine’s landless and unemployed to work at sweatshop wages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Ehud Olmert, Israel’s Minister of Industry, has said: “The industrial estates resolve both the problem of Palestinian unemployment and that of the high cost of labor for Israeli businesses … and they do it without risk, since the Palestinians won’t be crossing the Green Line.”</font></span></div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="1"></font></span> </div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><font size="2">AND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>NO<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>COLLABORATION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>WITH<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>MILITARY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>OCCUPATION!<p /></font></span></i></b></p><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font face="times new roman" size="1">As progressive and revolutionary workers, we must unite to oppose the collaboration of organized labor with these forces of injustice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The institution of Apartheid in Palestine presents unions with the historic duty to become leaders in the international struggle for justice by building connections of mutual aid with Palestinian labor, and by withdrawing economic links with Israel until the structures of Apartheid and Occupation are dismantled. Labor unions that invest heavily in Israeli bonds, such as the AFL-CIO, must be shown that divestment is the just and humane alternative to financially sustaining the infrastructure of oppression! Gathering at AFL-CIO’s headquarters, we will call upon American labor to set a standard of solidarity against Apartheid!</font></span></div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font size="1"></font></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font size="1">In Israel, while the majority of the Left has either acquiesced to or openly supported the construction of the Wall, Anarchists Against the Wall has led the fight against it, working with international civilians to create alliances with Palestinian communities directly affected by the Wall, such as Budrus, and engaging courageously in non-violent direct action to stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In solidarity with them, and with anarchists everywhere who put their bodies on the line to defend the Earth from the ravages of corporations and governments, we will join the anarchist feeder march into the Million Worker March!</font></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font size="1"></font></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><h2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#008000"><font face="arial narrow"><font size="3"><em>BUILDING</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>A</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>MOVEMENT</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>FOR</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>ENVIRONMENTAL</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>JUSTICE …<p /></em></font></font></font></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 95%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-family: JasmineUPC"><font size="1"><font face="times new roman">In October 1991, the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit convened in Washington DC, and ratified 17 Principles of Environmental Justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Among other Principles, the Summit affirmed that environmental justice “opposes military occupation, repression and exploitation of lands, peoples and cultures.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In 2004, with the environmental racism of Occupation increasingly apparent – trees and wells destroyed, Palestinian watersheds polluted by Israeli settlements discharging untreated waste, relocation of toxic factories (like Geshuri) illegal inside Israel to the West Bank, plus the “scorched earth” pillage of the Wall – and in contrast to so much international silence regarding these violations of a nation’s life support systems, we renew this call for environmental justice! By building an American movement for environmental justice in Palestine, we aim to unite solidarity activists with radical biocentrists who oppose all injury to the Earth, whether it occurs in the name of profit or “security,” organized labor who stand against Israeli abuse of the natural rights of Palestinian workers, and interfaith groups who object to the despoliation of a Land traditionally seen as <i>Holy </i>…..</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 95%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-family: JasmineUPC"><font size="1"><font face="times new roman"></font></font></span> </p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-family: JasmineUPC"><h3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><i><font size="3"><font color="#ff0000"><font face="Century Gothic">WITH<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>AUTUMN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>SOLIDARITY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>BEYOND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>OCTOBER 17!<p /></font></font></font></i></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 12.75pt 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 90%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><font face="times new roman" size="1">Because olive workers bear the biggest burden of the latest destructive phase of Israel’s decades-long Occupation, we are calling for a national autumn campaign of solidarity with their 2004 olive harvest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>As international civilians converge in the West Bank to help Palestinians defend their right to harvest their fields and groves, we will mobilize solidarity in our own communities!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>From October 17 until the end of November, Trees Not Walls Solidarity Network will sponsor benefit concerts, each weekend in major East Coast cities, to aid the non-violent struggle of Palestinian olive workers against Apartheid. We want to expand our network of solidarity!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We invite individuals and organizations across America to bring the “Trees Not Walls” Tour to a venue near you, or to organize your own benefit event!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>To participate in this action, email </font><a href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=treesnotwalls@riseup.net" target="_blank"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><font face="times new roman" color="#003399" size="1">treesnotwalls@riseup.net</font></span></a><font face="times new roman" size="1">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>And in the meantime …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>join us October 17 at the Million Worker March to say:</font> <p /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 90%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'BankGothic Lt BT'"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></span></i> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 90%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'BankGothic Lt BT'"><font face="Times New Roman">“Rise Up! Resist! Squash the capitalists! No submission, no retreat! Democracy is in the streets!”</font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 90%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'BankGothic Lt BT'"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></span></i> </p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'BankGothic Lt BT'"><font face="Times New Roman"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: 7.25in 531.0pt" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Trees Not Walls Solidarity Network</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>♦<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><a href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=treesnotwalls@riseup.net" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: green; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">treesnotwalls@riseup.net</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>♦<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>www.millionworkermarch.org<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span><span style="COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font size="3">♦<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> www.palsolidarity.org <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">♦</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <font size="3">www.dontjustvote.org</font></span></span></font></span></p></font></span></span></span></div></span></span></div>

<p>Come all who conscientiously object to the capitalist transformation of Earth into industrial wasteland! In defiance of Walls designed to divide and displace us, on October 17 in Washington DC, before, during and after the Million Worker March, we invite you to join the Eco-Justice/Palestine Solidarity Bloc to participate in a powerful, long-overdue fusion of movements!</p> <!--break--><div> <div>please forward widely! download pdf flyer at:</div> <div><a href="http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/106390/index.php" target="_blank"><font color="#003399"><u>http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/106390/index.php</u></font></a></div> <div><font color="#003399"></font> </div> <div>Washington DC, October 17th, 11 AM </div> <div> </div> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><em><font size="2">Trees Not Walls! Call to Action: For Eco-Justice Bloc at MWM &amp; Palestine Solidarity O17 and Beyond ...</font></em></span></div> <div><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></span></b> </div> <div><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman">ECO-JUSTICE/PALESTINE SOLIDARITY BLOC</font></span></b></div> <div align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman">at the Million Worker March </font></span></b></div> <div><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman">MEET @ AFL-CIO HEADQUARTERS (16^th and H St. NW) at 11:00 AM</font></span></b></div> <div> </div> <div>because from washington dc to palestine, workers pay the price of ecological decline!</div> <div> </div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><em><font size="2">Calling all refuseniks! Come all who conscientiously object to the capitalist transformation of Earth into industrial wasteland! All who till soil in community gardens and organic farms, defend local watersheds and forests, fight toxics in their factories, resist racist zoning that spews pollution at neighborhoods of color, support indigenous struggles against colonial theft of land and natural resources, and reject the economic logic that asks us to choose between viable jobs and a livable environment – come join us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I<font size="2">n defiance of Walls designed to divide and displace us, on October 17 in Washington DC, before, during and after the Million Worker March, we invite you to join the Eco-Justice/Palestine Solidarity Bloc to participate in a powerful, long-overdue fusion of movements!</font></span></span></font></em></span></div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><em><font size="2"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></font></em></span> </div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><br /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">ECOLOGICAL<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>DESTRUCTION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>HURTS<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>WORKERS!<br /> <p></p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><font face="times new roman" size="1">When runaway development and over-exploitation degrades ecosystems, local workers suffer the consequences of ecological destruction as much as any non-human species!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Few cases reveal this as starkly as Israel’s construction of a massive, militarized concrete “separation” Wall through the heart of Palestine’s West Bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Armed with watchtowers, trenches, electronic fences and sensors, and patrol routes, the Wall creates a zig-zagging 700-kilometer-long, 200-meter-wide environmental “dead zone” that obliterates the landscape’s ecological integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>The Wall disrupts the hydrology of watersheds, altering surface water flow and increasing erosion; it fragments animal populations, diminishing overall levels of wildlife; and Israeli earthmovers have uprooted hundreds of thousands of olive and fruit trees, “shaving the land” to clear the path for the Wall’s erection …</font></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><font face="times new roman" size="1"></font></span> </p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><font face="Arial Narrow"><br /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><font size="1"><font face="times new roman">The Wall’s primary purpose is to maximize the amount of water and fertile Palestinian farmland on the side annexed to Israeli control, and the number of Palestinians on the other!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Annexing over 11 % of the West Bank and cutting tens of thousands of Palestinian families off from their ancestral land and each other, the Wall converts peasants and farm workers into the newly unemployed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This is a late stage of Israel’s ongoing war against Palestine’s economy, which forbids Palestinians from trading products outside the district in which they live, even as Israeli products inundate Palestinian markets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Under siege, the West Bank’s unemployment rate has skyrocketed to over 50% and poverty to over 67%, handing Israeli capitalists an irresistible opportunity for profit …<br /> <p></p></font></font></span></p> <p></p></font></span></p></span></div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><em><font size="2"></font></em></span> </div> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><br /> <h1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#ff0000"><font face="Century Gothic"><em><font size="2">AGAINST<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>AND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>APARTHEID …<br /> <p></p></font></em></font></font></span></h1> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="times new roman" size="1">International legal language defines ‘apartheid’ as “a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one [ethnic] group over another ... and systematically oppressing them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The 1973 International Convention on Apartheid specifies acts – including the creation of ghettos, land confiscation, and prohibition of freedom of movement – that constitute Apartheid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>By totally encircling Palestinian towns like Qalkilya and Tulkarem, illegally seizing huge swaths of land, and filtering all domestic travel through a rigid system of gates and checkpoints, Israel’s Wall administers Apartheid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But the Wall is also a capitalist tool, imposing Israel’s version of NAFTA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>On the Wall’s ‘Mexican’ side, Israel plans to establish numerous ‘industrial estates’ where Israeli companies will put Palestine’s landless and unemployed to work at sweatshop wages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Ehud Olmert, Israel’s Minister of Industry, has said: “The industrial estates resolve both the problem of Palestinian unemployment and that of the high cost of labor for Israeli businesses … and they do it without risk, since the Palestinians won’t be crossing the Green Line.”</font></span></div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="1"></font></span> </div> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><br /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><font size="2">AND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>NO<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>COLLABORATION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>WITH<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>MILITARY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>OCCUPATION!<br /> <p></p></font></span></i></b></p> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font face="times new roman" size="1">As progressive and revolutionary workers, we must unite to oppose the collaboration of organized labor with these forces of injustice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The institution of Apartheid in Palestine presents unions with the historic duty to become leaders in the international struggle for justice by building connections of mutual aid with Palestinian labor, and by withdrawing economic links with Israel until the structures of Apartheid and Occupation are dismantled. Labor unions that invest heavily in Israeli bonds, such as the AFL-CIO, must be shown that divestment is the just and humane alternative to financially sustaining the infrastructure of oppression! Gathering at AFL-CIO’s headquarters, we will call upon American labor to set a standard of solidarity against Apartheid!</font></span></div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font size="1"></font></span> </div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font size="1">In Israel, while the majority of the Left has either acquiesced to or openly supported the construction of the Wall, Anarchists Against the Wall has led the fight against it, working with international civilians to create alliances with Palestinian communities directly affected by the Wall, such as Budrus, and engaging courageously in non-violent direct action to stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In solidarity with them, and with anarchists everywhere who put their bodies on the line to defend the Earth from the ravages of corporations and governments, we will join the anarchist feeder march into the Million Worker March!</font></span></span></div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font size="1"></font></span> </div> <div align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><br /> <h2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#008000"><font face="arial narrow"><font size="3"><em>BUILDING</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>A</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>MOVEMENT</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>FOR</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>ENVIRONMENTAL</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1">  </font></span><em>JUSTICE …<br /> <p></p></em></font></font></font></h2> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 95%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-family: JasmineUPC"><font size="1"><font face="times new roman">In October 1991, the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit convened in Washington DC, and ratified 17 Principles of Environmental Justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Among other Principles, the Summit affirmed that environmental justice “opposes military occupation, repression and exploitation of lands, peoples and cultures.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In 2004, with the environmental racism of Occupation increasingly apparent – trees and wells destroyed, Palestinian watersheds polluted by Israeli settlements discharging untreated waste, relocation of toxic factories (like Geshuri) illegal inside Israel to the West Bank, plus the “scorched earth” pillage of the Wall – and in contrast to so much international silence regarding these violations of a nation’s life support systems, we renew this call for environmental justice! By building an American movement for environmental justice in Palestine, we aim to unite solidarity activists with radical biocentrists who oppose all injury to the Earth, whether it occurs in the name of profit or “security,” organized labor who stand against Israeli abuse of the natural rights of Palestinian workers, and interfaith groups who object to the despoliation of a Land traditionally seen as <i>Holy </i>…..</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 95%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-family: JasmineUPC"><font size="1"><font face="times new roman"></font></font></span> </p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-family: JasmineUPC"><br /> <h3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><i><font size="3"><font color="#ff0000"><font face="Century Gothic">WITH<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>AUTUMN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>SOLIDARITY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>BEYOND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>OCTOBER 17!<br /> <p></p></font></font></font></i></h3> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 12.75pt 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 90%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><font face="times new roman" size="1">Because olive workers bear the biggest burden of the latest destructive phase of Israel’s decades-long Occupation, we are calling for a national autumn campaign of solidarity with their 2004 olive harvest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>As international civilians converge in the West Bank to help Palestinians defend their right to harvest their fields and groves, we will mobilize solidarity in our own communities!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>From October 17 until the end of November, Trees Not Walls Solidarity Network will sponsor benefit concerts, each weekend in major East Coast cities, to aid the non-violent struggle of Palestinian olive workers against Apartheid. We want to expand our network of solidarity!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We invite individuals and organizations across America to bring the “Trees Not Walls” Tour to a venue near you, or to organize your own benefit event!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>To participate in this action, email </font><a href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=treesnotwalls@riseup.net" target="_blank"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><font face="times new roman" color="#003399" size="1">treesnotwalls@riseup.net</font></span></a><font face="times new roman" size="1">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>And in the meantime …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>join us October 17 at the Million Worker March to say:</font><br /> <p></p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 90%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'BankGothic Lt BT'"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></span></i> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 90%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'BankGothic Lt BT'"><font face="Times New Roman">“Rise Up! Resist! Squash the capitalists! No submission, no retreat! Democracy is in the streets!”</font></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 90%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'BankGothic Lt BT'"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></span></i> </p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'BankGothic Lt BT'"><font face="Times New Roman"><br /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: 7.25in 531.0pt" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Trees Not Walls Solidarity Network</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>♦<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><a href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=treesnotwalls@riseup.net" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: green; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">treesnotwalls@riseup.net</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>♦<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><a href="http://www.millionworkermarch.org">www.millionworkermarch.org</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span><span style="COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font size="3">♦<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <a href="http://www.palsolidarity.org">www.palsolidarity.org</a> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">♦</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <font size="3"><a href="http://www.dontjustvote.org">www.dontjustvote.org</a></font></span></span></font></span></p> <p></p></font></span></p></span></p></span></div> <p></p></span></p></span></p></div>