Join the Palestinian people & the

International Solidarity Movement (ISM)

for

Freedom Summer Palestine 2004

Since August 2001, the International Solidarity Movement, in close cooperation with Palestinian community leaders, has been organizing campaigns against the injustices of the Israeli Occupation. We, the ISM and the people of Palestine, have called on international civilians from all over the world to join us in Palestine for active nonviolent resistance against 56 years of Palestinian displacement and dispossession, specifically the violence, discrimination and oppression resulting from Israel’s 37-year military Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Over the past 3 years, thousands of you answered our call in one way or another, mobilizing to send a message to the Palestinian people–that they are not alone–and to the international community–that we will not stay silent in the face of brutal occupation and injustice.

Today, the Israeli government is implementing yet another plan that has and will have serious repercussions on Palestinians’ land and their ability to survive–the building of the Apartheid Wall. The Wall symbolizes the obstacles to freedom imposed by the Israeli government and reminds us that the struggle in Palestine, despite the varied representations seen in the media, is purely a struggle for freedom. We need you to join us in Palestine for a massive campaign against the Wall and all other elements of the Occupation.

Commemorating 56 years of Palestinian dispossession (since the exile of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 and the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages), Freedom Summer 2004 will be 56 days of community-organized resistance and direct-action against the Israeli Occupation, with the last two weeks dedicated to a freedom march along the path of the Apartheid Wall.

Two-day orientation & training sessions (in Palestine) will be held once a week on Fridays and Saturdays. The first training of the campaign will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, June 23 and 24.

While the official leadership talks about a "just peace" and the "road map," few people, especially the citizens of Palestine, have seen any true progress towards peace or a solution encompassing basic human rights of the Palestinians. We urge you to take part in working for justice on the ground in Palestine and paving the road to freedom.

We look forward to welcoming you in Palestine!

(See training page for details of pre-travel training in London)

Read the programme released by ISM Palestine