AlAltternativaernativa LibertariaLibertaria News-sheet of the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici www.fdca.it Israel Anarchists AnarchistAnarchistss worldwideworldwide Hello friends and comrades of the The joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle world, against the wall ignited a wide mass We hope you're all fine wherever you are non-violent struggle of the Palestinian and still struggling for dignity, freedom villagers most affected, combined with and social justice. The reason I'm sen- ding you this message is considerably Israeli radicals around the Anarchists important and we would like you to con- Against The Wall and international acti- sider a proposal we'd like to make from vists. The struggle contributed, both here in Greece, a proposal which directly and indirectly through internatio- demands the coordination, action and passion of all of us who want to call our- nal involvement, to a Supreme "justice" selves libertarians. Court stay on the route of the Wall which We are a group of comrades from harms the Palestinian villagers. Heraklion in Crete, and we've thought While there is a lull in the construction of about organizing an event of solidarity with the Palestinian people (not the fana- most of the route, the struggle continues. tic fundamentalists) who struggle and get brutally murdered every day and, on the The first joint demonstration of the peo- other side, with the Israeli conscientious ple of Mas'ha with the Israeli anarchists Peacefully Confronting the Wall in Budrus objectors who have refused to join the army of their country in the occupied and internationals ended with the esta- diers wounded 102 persons. areas and who, because of this, are now blishment of a camp on the route. I live in Budrus, a village of 1,200 people, west of . The They used sound bombs, in jail. At the request of the local villagers, the Wall will completely surround teargas, and rubber-coated The reason we address you is because symbolic joint action continued for Budrus and eight other villages, steel bullets, and beat men we wish this event to take place in all parts of the world where there are anar- months and was a catalyst in igniting the separating us from the rest of and women with clubs. In Biddu and , villages chists, ON THE SAME DAY. We all know mass activity of the Palestinian non-vio- the . There are no hospitals, universities, or civil near Jerusalem, Israeli sol- that crimes like those committed every lent direct-action struggle against the institutions in these nine villages, diers killed six people during day in Palestine (and in Iraq, construction of the Wall. and many of the people work in protests against the Wall. The Afghanistan...) are the results of the Ramallah. The Wall will prevent Israeli military tried to stop world's leaders' plans, and strategies. Budrus' peaceful protests by They are crimes that are committed There were many small victories which, thousands of Palestinians from going to work, school, universi- arresting participants. because of and due to their global web of though only delaying the construction, ties, and hospitals. We already Thirteen men from Budrus, interests and correlations. That's why we contributed to the building of high mora- live in a prison, surrounded by including my father, two believe we have to face them GLO- BALLY. That is to say, if 200 persons le and the involvement of more and settlements and checkpoints. So uncles, two cousins, and a 15-year-old classmate were demonstrate here in Heraklion, none of more people. with the Wall, it will become a prison within a prison. As a arrested. The soldiers' violen- those criminals will be bothered, none After half a year of struggle, the first young Palestinian woman, I ce scares me, but to make will listen to our voices. THEY MUST damage inflicted by the initiative to the dream of becoming a doctor. my dreams a reality I have to FEEL THE PRESSURE. And, under the conditions that dominate in the world less robust part of the fence at Zabuba, However, the Wall may prevent take part in the peaceful struggle against that Wall. now, we'll succeed in this only if we start ignited red alarm for the Israeli authori- me from studying in a university. On Nov 23rd, 2003, Wall con- Nonviolent resistance against demonstrating massively, dynamically, ties, who responded to the next symbo- struction started in Budrus and the Wall requires everyone. all together, coordinated and at the same lic action - physical damage to a gate in we immediately began holding Our entire community partici- time. From Heraklion of Crete, Greece, and on the Wall - by shooting to hit with live peaceful demonstrations oppo- pated in protests, men with women, elders with children, behalf of the circle of comrades that took ammunition at the Israeli activists. This sing it. The Israeli authorities planned to take 250 acres of and Palestinians with Israelis this initiative. Warm greetings, act, which resulted in serious injury to Budrus' land and bulldoze our and internationals. Nikos one Israeli activist's legs, caused havoc olive groves. The day construc- I had never dealt with Israelis Participating will be anarchist groups from: Canada in the media and public opinion, forcing tion began, the soldiers formed a as friends before. Israelis were always occupiers and USA the authorities into clumsy lies that all line to prevent us from reaching the bulldozers, but I was able to soldiers. During the first Mexico Israelis have seen exposed in the main cut through the line and sit in demonstration I met three Costarica TV channels. front of the bulldozer. We stop- women who became my first San Paolo, Brazil ped Wall construction that day. Israeli friends. They believe Argentina the Wall will not bring them Peru The Anarchists Against the Wall group We protested peacefully for three months until March 1, security, and they wish more Spain actively contributes to the delegitimizing when the Israeli authorities said Israelis would see what is Greece of the Wall as a tool for annexation of they would move the Wall to the happening on the ground. I Poland Australia Palestinian territory and the quiet tran- , so Budrus would not now have many Israeli friends. A friendly relationship Israel sfer of the villages. The contribution of lose land. Recently, they told us that they still want to take 44 between Palestinians and Malta the initiative to the upsurge in mass, acres of our land, and Budrus Israelis is important, because Italia non-violent direct action by the and eight other villages will also I look to the future when there Supplement to Antipodi Palestinians has also been important. still be surrounded by the Wall. will be a Palestinian state Magazine registered at the Tribunale So we will continue to struggle within the 1967 borders next di Firenze against the theft of our land. to Israel. Security and under- Director: Ilan Though our demonstrations standing requires friendship. Oreste Taliento were peaceful, the Israeli sol- Please support us in ending to contact the editorial collective: this oppressive Israeli military 22nd October 2004 occupation of our land. [email protected] Printed privately International day of anarchist solidarity with [From an article by Iltezam c/o Sede Associazione Culturale Morrar, aged 15, in The the Palestinian non-violent resistance against Electronic Intifada, 16 July Alternativa Libertaria 2004.] Via Serravalle, 16 the occupation and the Israeli dissidents 61032 FANO ITALY We will not be stopped! How much is this No to the apartheid fence! occupation costing us? No to State violence! From October 2000 to the end of Monday, October 18th will see the start of the court indictments have ever been made. Never before January 2004 there have been killed hearing of 11 activists who demonstrated against have the security services bothered to send a 2,376 Palestinians, amongst whom the apartheid wall at the War Ministry compound in representative to a police station, as happened 445 minors, and 600 Israelis, amongst Tel Aviv on 23rd February 2004 - the day the with our people, to interrogate and warn the whom 74 minors. In the last 3 years International Court in the Hague started its delibera- detainees. more than 500 kids under 18 were kil- tions on the apartheid wall. That day, tens of acti- We intend to transform the trial into a trial against led in the region. The violent Israeli vists demonstrated in front of the War Ministry com- the fence. With the help of our supporters, we will occupation, the illegal settlement pro- pound and blocked Kaplan Street in protest against stand in the court and insist on conveying the ject (paid for by the Israeli government the building of the separation fence by the Israeli message for which we blocked the road: The from taxes), and the atrocities against government, after they were bloc- apartheid fence will only lead the civil population in the occupied ked from reaching a demo there to despair and hatred. , brought about were to carry out withPalestinian harm to [Israeli] civilian society within people in the Tulkarem area, [Members of Anarchists the Green Line. The harsh conditions where the fence separates them Against the Wall] cause despair, frustration and the from their fields which have been taking of extreme steps. declared by the authorities as a A few days ago Tel Aviv The Israeli government found a "solu- "closed military zone". anarchists issued a call for a tion": building a twisting 8-metre high Just a few minutes it took the riot noise demo. We gathered at wall and barbed-wired fence as a sup- plolice to arrest 13 of the activists the location of the Friday posed partition between the using excessive violence that was vigil of the Women In Black Palestinian and Israeli populations, but documented by 4 video cameras. and joined them with black in reality the fence not only separates The video tapes refute the police coffins and placards. us from our neighbours. The fence, claim that a "policeman was attac- When we started to march, which is more than double the length of ked while on duty", which is what the demonstrators we were joined by other radicals of the left from the Green Line and is built deep in the were accused of... after having submitted a formal- the Friday vigil and from the refusnik move- occupied territories, separates many ment. The police tried to block us from mar- complaint to the "department for investigating poli- villages from near-by towns and other ching as there were too many of us and we had cemen" about the violence against them. One of the villages and also separates the villa- no permit. 13 arrested was even taken to hospital for treatment gers from hospitals, children from their They even detained 6 people, but failed to stop to a seriously damaged nose, while another activist schools, and the villagers from their us. Instead marching as one contingent of 70 lost consciousness and a female activist was fields and workplaces. On this side of we were divided by the police efforts to block us the Green Line, the building of the wall sexually harassed while in custody. The 13 demon- into three main groups - each marching on the also separates old people from proper strators - one of them underage, were detained for pavements with placards, a coffin and shouting care, children from food and proper the night at the Abu-Kabir detention facility. The next slogans, along the streets towards the war education, and separates us from day they were brought to court where the judge refu- ministry compound. security... all because of the "budget sed to allow the police demand to release them with After an hour of vigil people went to the schedu- deficit". Above all, The wall separates conditions that would limit their right of demonstra- led meeting of the refusnik initiative in the us from peace, justice and security. tion in the future. downtown park. The budget deficit? A third of Israel chil- This was the first time action was taken against On the public radio news, they "reported" the dren live below the poverty line. More "Anarchists Against The Fence" by bringing them to police lies - that they had detained 6 of us than half a million people are hungry. court, since the incident at the Mas'ha village gate because we had quarrelled with passers-by and More than 13% of the population of the on 26th December 2003, when Gil Na'amaty was caused disturbances... and falsely claimed they Gaza Strip suffer from malnutrition. shot in the legs. Next month will also see the start of dispersed us... There is more than 50% unemploy- the court hearing in the case against other undera- ment among the Palestinian population ge activists also accused of blocking streets in Tel [report on A-Infos 08.10.04] of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Aviv. It seems this is the beginning of a chain of Number 2: Reflections on the Economy cost of the separation wall is about harassment and political persecution culminating in US$2.2m per kilometre - about US$1.4 an urgent and substantial danger to the freedom of Available from: Crescita Politica Editrice billion for the whole fence. Every she- expression and demonstration in Israel. CP 1418 50121 Florence or [email protected] kel for the building of the fence and the Before this demonstration and even since it, there settlement means one shekel less for have been dozens of political and social demonstra- ANTIPODI food, education, health care and deve- tions in which roads were blocked, but no court lopment. Being at the antipodes can mean

THE FENCE IS NOT SECURITY! It is leaflets anarchist Israeli being upside down aimed at annexing territory and expan- in the other hemisphere with respect ding the settlement project! to the dominant society; NOT IN OUR NAME! We demand to but in a round world defining just who live in dignity and security - for us and is upside down depends on for our Palestinian neighbours! how you look at reality. It is imprtant to stress that there is a Looking at it from another point of continuous non-violent movement of view, being at the antipodes means Palestinian people against the occupa- having your feet firmly planted in the tion and the prolonged lack of justice. reality you want with respect to the We have to cooperate with them in the world which is upside down, having struggle against the atrocities lost the ability to reason properly. WITHOUT HARMING THE INNO- Let's start looking at reality from this CENTS and with no walls! Just in the last week, in the village of Biddu, Israeli point of view - it might be useful along soldiers killed 4 demonstrators and our path to the economic and social dozens were wounded during a joint reality that we want. Israeli-Palestinan protest activity Number 3 out soon against the building of the Wall on their Wars land! Available from: Crescita Politica Editrice [distributed at a Critic Mass in Tel Aviv] CP 1418 50121 Florence or [email protected]