Worldwide Activities for Nov 9th International Day Against the Wall

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Below the growing list of worldwide activities taking place in solidarity with those here in Palestine for November 9th, International Day Against the Wall! The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign will be updating the list of worldwide events in this section from solidarity groups, organizations, and coalitions—so contact us to add your group’s events!

http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/62.shtml

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List of Worldwide Activities for Nov 9th International Day Against the Wall!

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[bluesoul]

2. Very

low...

[laura888]

3. a wall twice the height of the Berlin wall is being built

why is it that I have seen no photo of this?

argh!

[bluesoul]

4. I saw

a great report today on Sky News regarding the wall and everything it brings and how people have to wait hours to be let through it in certain parts. Just like the Berlin wall, only this one in the 21 century...

[bemildred]

5. November 9th in History:

http://www.davesdatebook.com/64files/64db1109.htm

A few bits:

Bob "Hoot" Gibson: 1935 (is 68 in 2003, 69 in 2004)
HALL OF FAMER, MLB Pitcher, Sportscaster, b. in Omaha, NE; St. Louis
Cardinals; struck out 3117 batters, 9 Gold Gloves; Monday Night
Baseball; Baseball RHP; won 20 or more games 5 times; won 2 NL Cy
Young Awards (1968,70); MVP in 1968; led St. Louis to 2 World Series
titles; Series MVP twice (1964,67); 251 career wins; lowest ERA in
N.L. history (1.12), only man to pitch 7 consecutive complete World
Series games, played one year with the Globetrotters.

Spiro Theodore Agnew: 1918=d.Sep 17, 1996 (was 77)
Vice President, b. in Baltimore, MD; 39th U.S. Vice President; John
Denver sang a song about him, though rather short.

In 1938, bands of Nazis began roaming the streets of Germany and
Austria, looting and burning synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores
and houses in a pogrom that became known as "Kristallnacht" or
"Crystal Night".

In 1998, 5 years ago, a federal judge in New York approved the richest
antitrust settlement in US history, a promise by leading brokerage
firms to pay $1.3 billion to investors who had sued over a
price-rigging scheme for stocks listed on the Nasdaq market.

In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning
apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the
white-ruled government as "illegitimate".

In 1986, Israel revealed it was holding Mordechai Vanunu, a former
nuclear technician who had vanished weeks earlier after providing
information to a British newspaper about Israel's nuclear weapons
program. (Vanunu was convicted of treason and sentenced to 18 years
in prison.)

In 1995, Palestinian leader Yasser Araft visited Israel for the first
time to offer his personal condolences to the widow of slain Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

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[bluesoul]

7. You know? Really?

Because they'r all Nazi-lovers or something? Oh please...

[Darranar]

8. I think...

if this date was chosen specifically, it was for the event that happened in 1976.

[bluesoul]

9. Exactly

Since it is named "The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign" that related event in 1976 would be far more logical...

[bemildred]

12. LOL.

Well, that's sets my mind to rest on that subject.

[Kellanved]

10. not a good day to do that

While the wall came down on a 11/9, the day is remembered for another, a dire, event: the Reichsprogromnacht (or "Kristallnacht", the political incorrect term).

On that day in 1938 Nazi-Germany began showing it's true face, people on the street were vandalizing stores and houses of jewish citizens and setting fire to the synagogues - murder was in the air.

One of darkest days in German history and a symbol of the Weimar Republic's fall (as well as its birth) - using this day to protest against a protective measure of Israel is disgusting. I won't be celebrating the fall of the wall, nor will I be protesting against a building mistakenly perceived as being comparable to the Berlin wall: I will be remembering.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. I disagree

That assumes that the date was picked for a special reason, other than it falls on Sunday this year.

That also assumes there is some weight to given to the assertion that support for Palestinian nationalism or sympathy for the Palesitinian people is necessarily anti-Semitic. That is nonsense and deserves no currency.

For my part, I have in the past expressed the view that a wall was the second-best solution to the current problems in the ME. That was a distant second, in my view, to a genuine peace agreement. However, the execution of the plan has been odious. General Sharon's wall is not constructed on Isreal's recognized borders and has incorporated fertile land belonging to Palestinians farmers. This suggests too strongly that the wall is as much about a de facto annexation of land to which Israel has no legal claim as it is about Israel's security. For that, General Sharon and his government should be condemned 365 days a year.

[Lithos]

13. locking

Not based on a recent news or op-ed article.

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