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I began writing about Paul Larudee on the WAWA blog in June.Paul is an American citizen who spent two weeks in a Ben Gurion detention cell in June, had a 'trial' and was still deported without being able to enter Israel because he is a NONVIOLENT resister against the occupation in Palestine.
Paul is also a co-founder of ISM/International Solidarity Movement: grass roots that is spreading like a wild fire through the world and is now converging in Lebanon.
ISM co-founders (and husband and wife) Adam Shapiro and Huwaida Arraf, Paul Larudee, other internationals and Lebanese nonviolent resisters will be taking a caravan of 50-100 cars south from Beirut to southern Lebanon on Saturday to bring supplies to that devastated region.
To sign the petition of support of
NONVIOLENT Resistance please visit:
http://www.lebanonsolidarity.org/
Call for Action
August 7th, 2006
'Lebanon: An Open Country for Civil Resistance'
We, the people of Lebanon, call upon the local and international community to join a campaign of civil resistance to Israel's war against our country and our people. We declare Lebanon an open country for civil resistance.
In the face of Israel's systematic killing of our people, the indiscriminate bombing of our towns, the scorching of our villages, and the attempted destruction of our civil infrastructure, we say NO!
In the face of the forced expulsion of a quarter of our population from their homes throughout Lebanon, and the complicity of governments and international bodies, we re-affirm the acts of civil resistance that began from the first day of the Israeli assault, and we stress and add the urgent need TO ACT!
We urge you to join us in defying Israel's aggression against our country and in defending the rights of the inhabitants throughout Lebanon, and particularly in the South, to live on their land. When the United Nations, created to preserve peace and security in the world, is paralyzed; when governments become complicit in war crimes, then people must show their strength and rise up. When justice and human rights are scorned, those who care must unite in their defense.
Building on our belief in our country, the efforts of the civil resistance, and on the arrival of the internationals coming to Lebanon for solidarity, we declare that Lebanon is an open country for civil resistance, starting from August 12.
On August 12 at 7 am, we will gather in Martyrs' Square to form a civilian convoy to the south of Lebanon. Hundreds of Lebanese and international civilians will carry relief as an expression of solidarity for the inhabitants of the heavily destroyed south who have been bravely withstanding the assault of the Israeli military.
After August 12th, the campaign will continue with a series of civil actions for which your presence and participation is needed. Working together in solidarity we will overcome the complacency, inaction, and complicity of the international community and we will deny Israel its goal of removing Lebanese from their land and destroying the fabric of our country.
more on WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org
