[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > The following is a speech delivered by Hillel Cohen at the October 13, > 2000, mass rally in New York City in support of the Palestinian people. > The demonstration was over 10,000 strong and mainly organized from > the Arab-American community. Mosques from the New York/New > Jersey area mobilized to attend. Cohen's speech was met with a > tremendous ovation. > > Right-wing and racist propaganda wants to portray the Israeli- > Palestinian struggle as a "religious war." The same propaganda > demonizes those who are fighting against U.S.-backed Israeli > aggression as "anti-Semitic." Cohen, who is a member of Workers > World Party, puts the Palestinian struggle in a more accurate context > as a struggle against imperialism, racism and colonialism. > > EXCERPTED FROM REMARKS OF HILLEL COHEN FROM RALLY > ON OCT. 13, 2000: > > Brothers and sisters, I speak to you today as a member of healthcare > workers’ union 1199/SEIU, an organizer for the International Action > Center and a Jewish-American in solidarity with the struggle of the > Palestinian people for self-determination. > > Working people join unions in order to fight for a better life for their > families. This includes the right to a decent place to live, to healthcare, > to education and to be treated with dignity and justice. Isn’t this what > the Palestinian people are in the streets fighting for? It is the same > struggle which is why every union and every union member should be > here, standing side by side our Palestinian brothers and sisters. The > Union movement is all about solidarity and right now the Palestinian > people need and deserve the solidarity of working people here and the > union movement in particular. I also urge all of you who are in unions > to appeal to your union for solidarity. And, if you are not in a union, to > join one and teach the union movement about the Palestinian struggle. > > The International Action Center is trying to reach out to the people of > this country to explain that Ariel Sharon is a killer. Barak is a killer. > But people have to know that Sharon and Barak are not acting by > themselves. They are hired killers. They are bought and paid for by the > banks, the oil companies and the big businesses in the United States > that stand to profit from the blood of the Palestinian people. > > The guns have been paid for by the Pentagon. The bullets are paid for > by the Pentagon. The tear gas, the helicopters and the rockets, all > paid for by the Pentagon. The same bankers and big business > interests that pay to kill Palestinian youth are the ones who pay the > cops here to attack workers fighting for justice and to terrorize peoples > of color. The millions and billions of dollars being used to pay for these > crimes should be used instead for jobs, housing, education and > healthcare. Stop all U.S. arms to Israel! > > There are many parallels between the struggle in Palestine and the > struggle here. New York cops killed Amadou Diallo in front of his > home. They shot Patrick Dorismond for refusing drugs. They tortured > Abner Louima for daring to speak out against an unjust police attack. > The police were carrying out acts of racist violence. This is the way the > Zionist police and military treat Palestinian youth We have to fight to > stop the police murders here and in Palestine. > > Whose Right to Return > > I was born in New York City. My parents were born here and my > grandparents came here from Eastern Europe. Because I am Jewish, I > can go and buy an airline ticket to Jerusalem and claim first-class > citizenship rights. But my Palestinian friends who were born in > Jerusalem or whose parents and grandparents were born in Jerusalem, > don’t have that right! The Zionists say that I as a Jewish-American have > the right to return. I don’t want that right! That right belongs to the > Palestinian people. > > Long live the just struggle of the Palestinian people for their homeland! > > Long live Palestine! > > International Action Center > 39 West 14th Street, Room 206 > New York, NY 10011 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.iacenter.org > CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE www.mumia2000.org > phone: 212 633-6646 > fax: 212 633-2889 -- Les "Editions Democrite" publient un mensuel en francais : > "Les dossiers du BIP" avec des traductions d'articles provenant de la > presse communiste(grecque, allemande, anglaise, turque, russe, espagnole, > portugaise...)sur des evenements qui interessent des lecteurs communistes. > Editions Democrite, 52, bld Roger Salengro, 93190 LIVRY-GARGAN, FRANCE > e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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