are you willing to give up everything for PEACE??

iF YOU ARE WILLING TO JOIN ME AND MY FELLOW ACTIVISTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT TO GO TO LEBANON ON AUGUST 14TH..PLEASE READ THE MESSAGE BELOW..remember THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED!!

halla,

riham barghouti forwarded me your email about getting fellow activists to go
to lebanon to help with the situation there. i am leading a similar effort
and will arrive in beirut in the next couple of days to see about the
strategy, logistics and feasibility of such an effort. as one of the
co-founders of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in palestine, i
have some experience at this. however, we would not be looking to do
humanitarian relief (though in the context of challenging and breaking
israeli closures or sieges of the south, we definitely are interested in
that), but rather to use an international presence to change the political
and media situation.

the four basic ideas of what we can do are these, so far (obviously will
change, have more or possibly less, once i am on the ground and meeting with
lebanese and palestinian groups):

1. attempting to break the isolation of the south by having internationals
and lebanese together go there with relief aid and to establish a presence;
2. work with palestinian refugee communities to provide solidarity and a
presence
3. strategize and work with lebanese groups to develop massive civilian
collective action for various purposes, including effecting the awful
western media
4. increasing pressure on our governments to impose a ceasefire and force
israel to stop its attacks on lebanon

perhaps we can coordinate our efforts...i will share info once i arrive.

where are you located? how much response have you received to your call?

in addition to above, it is critically important to make sure that any such
effort is respected by all groups in lebanon and not seen in any way to be
taking sides in internal lebanese political dynamic...it would not help any
of us to be seen as contributing to factionalism.

hope this makes sense...

in solidarity,

adam shapiro