Corporations on trial: International construction companies that are building the settlements

[Turborama]

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Seeing as President Obama is currently making settlements a key issue they have now become a large part of US policy in Israeli/Palestinian affairs, I thought it might be ok to post this here...

To quote yesterday's speech:

Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and it does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from Eastern Europe to Indonesia. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. It is a sign neither of courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That's not how moral authority is claimed; that's how it is surrendered.

I was inspired by this part of the speech to post this side of the story where Palestinians are taking a more peaceful route to try and solve their problems...

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Continuing People & Power's series of films into how some of the world's biggest corporations are facing trial, Juliana Ruhfus travels to the West Bank village of Bilin.

Villagers and protesters are taking their longstanding campaign against Israel's seperation wall to the courts.

Helped by an Israeli legal maverick, they have now filed a case against the international construction companies who are building the settlements.

They claim they have violated international human rights law by building on occupied land.

[JohnyCanuck]

1. Jewish Voice For Peace takes on Caterpillar

Let CAT know what you think. We will hand-deliver your message.

Next Wednesday, June 10th, 2009, Caterpillar will hold its annual shareholder meeting. For the sixth year in a row, Jewish Voice for Peace will be there to tell the company to get out of the business of demolishing Palestinian homes.

You can come to the shareholder meeting with us.

We've asked you to write letters to Caterpillar. Within 2 days, we got almost 4,000 emails! Thank you! As we promised, we will print each one and hand-deliver it to the CAT Board of Directors, but we are not sure if we can cope with schlepping even more paper to that meeting.

So we are going to go a bit easier on trees from now on: Instead of signing this letter, go to this petition instead. The text is the same, but we will use less paper when we print and hand-deliver to CAT.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/301/t/1849/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27360

[peacetalksforall]

2. I can no longer support Israel. I denounce all who participate in the hate and greed of taking from

the Palestinians.

I can no longer support any U.S. citizen who supports this.

[Grinchie]

3. List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel

List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel

Are Americans so fat dumb and happy to never take the time to actually research who they are giving trillions of dollars to?

[midnight]

4. Before I finished this I was wondering who these brave attorney's

might be? It is an Israeli maverick. Blessings on these people who create an avenue to correct this situation.