APRIL 6:
NEW YORK:
Sat. April. 6, 2002 - 1pm
March for a Free Palestine Across the Brooklyn Bridge
Protest the Israeli Siege of Palestine
Gather at Borough Hall, March to City Hall Park

APRIL 7:

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA:
When: Sunday, April 7, 2002
Time: 2:00 PM
Where: 19th and Ocean San Francisco

SF CHURCHES: Sunday, April 7 at 2:30 pm after the Mass
Parishioners and Friends at St. Anne's Church & St.
George Orthodox Church will join a march at Sloat and
19th Ave.

APRIL 9:

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, NATIONAL
DAY OF ACTION: National Campus Day of Action for
Palestinian Rights, April 9th, 2002: Students Demand
University Divestment.

In response to increased Israeli military aggression
and the total siege of Palestinian society, students
across the country will hold a national day of action
on April 9th. This national day of action, in
solidarity with the people of Palestine, will demand
university divestment from Israel and will commemorate
the 1948 massacre in the Palestinian village of Deir
Yassin, which was one in a series of ethnic cleansing
operations conducted by Zionist militia against the
indigenous Palestinian population.

In Northern California, Students forJustice in
Palestine (SJP) will be holding a rally and direct
action on the UC Berkeley campus at noon on Sproul
Plaza. (Public contact justiceinpalestine@yahoo.com
,(510) 496-1269 x1948.) The General Union of
Palestinian Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State
University will also be holding a march and protest
which will begin at 12:30 pm in Malcolm X Plaza on the
SFSU campus (Public contact (650) 291-7615). UC Davis
Students for Justice in Palestine will hold a rally
and evening teach-in on their campus (Public contact
justiceforpalestine@yahoo.com).

April 9th will be a national day of action with
solidarity events on campuses across the country. For
example:

Students at Montclair State University in New Jersey
will hold an educational event entitled: Recipe for
Disaster: A look at America's Involvement in the
Middle East. A rally and street theater organized by
students at Ohio State University will highlight human
rights abuses of the Israeli occupation. Students from
the University of Minnesota will demand university
divestment in a protest at the Minneapolis Federal
Courts Building. Students at the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign will be holding a day of
action and educational events, including street
theater, film screenings and a public rally. (contact
Urbana-Champaign Unity and Struggle:
ucusnow@hotmail.com). A National Palestine Week (April
8-12th) has been organized by students at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburg, Penn. They will be
having teach-ins, slide shows, eyewitness accounts,
film screenings and a vigil. (contact the Arab Student
Organization and Palestine Solidarity Committee).
Students at the University of Washington will be
holding a vigil with visual demonstrations in the UW
Campus Center. They will also host a teach-in and
screen a documentary film.

April 9th was selected as a national day of action for
divestment at the National Student Conference of the
Palestine Solidarity Movement, held in Berkeley in
February 2002; to coincide with the annual
commemoration of the massacre of Deir Yassin. For more
information about the conference please visit
justiceinpalestine.org. For more information about the
Deir Yassin massacre visit www.deiryassin.org.

http://www.justiceinpalestine.org/
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APRIL 9:

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA:
**HUGE Rally for a Free Palestine**
Tuesday, April 9th @ 12 noon, MU Patio, University of
California, at Davis campus (UCD). Need information?
Contact: John Green (530) 754-2433 or
docmarcel@aol.com.

APRIL 9:

DENVER, COLORADO:
APRIL 9: Rally in Denver to End Israel's Illegal
Occupation of Palestine! Tuesday, April 9th...Deir
Yassin Massacre Memorial and Protest of Israeli
Atrocities: 6pm, Univ. of Denver Driscoll Lawn.
Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace * 720-956-0700
* ccmep@hotmail.com.

APRIL 12:

DENVER, COLORADO:
Friday, April 12th...TENTATIVE...Rally at the State
Capitol (Colfax & Lincoln) from 4 to 6pm. Colorado
Campaign for Middle East Peace * 720-956-0700 *
ccmep@hotmail.com

APRIL 19:
On Friday April 19th, 2002 International Students for
Solidarity in Palestine (ISSP), at American University
(Washington D.C.), will host the national student and
activist conference, "Globalization, U.S. Militarism,
and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine." This
national conference, co-sponsored by the Berkeley
Global Justice Coalition and ISSP, will address the
Palestinian struggle for self-determination and human
rights and the ways in which this struggle is
connected to the movements against capitalist
globalization and U.S. militarism.

If you would like to find out more information about
the conference contact us, toll free at (866) 860
9311, or email us at cispp@mutualaid.org If you would
like to propose a workshop, email us at:
mailto:globalintifada_workshops@yahoo.com Visit the
Stop U.S. tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now (SUSTAIN)
campaign website for the full conference announcement,
schedule, and updates: www.sustaincampaign.org

Co-sponsored by: International Students for Solidarity
in Palestine and the Berkeley Global Justice
www.berkeleyglobaljustice.org.

APRIL 19-22:

WASHINGTON DC
April 19-22, 2002

CALL TO PROTEST SHARON IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE
PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, APRIL 19-22 IN WASHINGTON, DC! The
American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC)
invited the war criminal Ariel Sharon to town for
their annual conference. On the evening of Monday,
April 22nd, the conference will be addressed by war
criminal Ariel Sharon. This year's conference is being
billed as an event "to show support for the war on
terrorism being waged by the U.S. and Israel". In
addition to Sharon, both Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
have been invited to speak!

April 19-22, hundreds of thousands of anticapitalist,
anti-war, and global justice activists will converge
in D.C, to protest the current war, the escalation of
U.S. military attacks across the globe, and the
ongoing war on economic and social rights within the
U.S. and throughout the world.

The Committee in Solidarity with the Palestinian
People (CISPP), the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC-SF Chapter), Jews Against the
Occupation, and Students for Justice in Palestine
(SJP) have called on all those struggling for justice
in Palestine to join in the protests of Ariel Sharon,
when he addresses this year's AIPAC conference.

More information and details about planned events will
be posted on SUSTAIN's [Stop US Tax-funded Aid to
Israel Now!] website at www.sustaincampaign.org in the
coming weeks. If you would like more information
please contact SUSTAIN at cispp@mutualaid.org or
866-860-9311. Also participating, Jews Against the
Occupation: http://www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org.

APRIL 26-29:

APRIL 26-29, 2002, WASHINGTON, DC
CONFERENCE: AMERICAN JEWS FOR A JUST PEACE:
RE-CLAIMING OUR COMMUNITY'S PRINCIPLES

Jews for Peace in Palestine in Israel, JPPI
http://www.jppi.org



WEEKLY/MONTHLY:

* WOMEN IN BLACK (NYC)
Weekly on Thurs. - 5:30-6:30 pm.
Women in Black Vigil for Peace
Where: Union Square - Across from Virgin Records. Wear
Black. Men are welcome.

Jews, Arabs, and all concientious people are invited
and encouraged to come to this weekly vigil which is
growing by the week (up to over a 100 now).  There are
a handful of hateful counter-protestors yelling and
screaming racist obscenities but we are silent and it
is a powerful message.

For more information, contact: hhwg2001@hotmail.com

Women in Black internet site:
www.igc.org/balkans/wib/e.

JUNE 6-9, 2002: ADC, the largest Arab-American civil
rights organization in the country takes pleasure in
announcing that it will be holding its 19th National
Convention from June 6 to 9, 2002, at the Crystal
Gateway Marriott Hotel, in Arlington, Virginia. This
year's theme is: "Arab Americans: Mobilizing for
Empowerment." For more info, see:
http://www.adc.org/convention/2002/.