email we received:
Growing out of the protest DAWN put together last night, there will be a peaceful candlelight vigil every evening at the Israeli embassy. Israeli agression and war crimes cannot be tolerated. Israel out of Lebanon now!
People will be arriving between 6:45 and 7pm.
Embassy of Israel
3514 International Drive, NW,
Washington DC 20008
(Closest Metro Station is Van Ness on the red line)
Location of Israeli embassy on Mapquest
William Hughes
August 1, 2006
“No one dies from being uncomfortable.” – Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister
Washington, D.C. – It was steamy at �Foggy Bottom,� the site of the U.S. State Department�s headquarters, on Monday, July 31, 2006, near the campus of George Washington U., at 23rd and C St. (NW). The noon time heat and high humidity were only a part of it. It even got hotter as the passionate speakers/chanters ripped into the U.S. Secretary of State, Condi Rice; the Bush-Cheney Gang; and the ongoing wrongs of Zionist Israel in Lebanon. They were there to demand a ceasefire in Lebanon and to protest the Qana Massacre. The sponsors for the rally were Arab-American and Peace groups. It was attended by about 100 demonstrators.
Background: The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) targeted for bombing a shelter at Qana (Cana), in Southern Lebanon on Sunday, July 30, 2006. The air strike cost the lives of 56 civilians, most of them children. The Israelis� lame excuse that it was �a mistake,� rang hollow, especially coming after the recent IOF’s attack on a UN outpost at Khiyam, also in Southern Lebanon, that took the lives of four unarmed observers. Media reports indicate the bomb used at Khiyam, a precision-guided U.S.-made weapon, was the identical kind employed at Qana. (1) Qana (or Cana) is also the same village the IOF viciously shelled on April 18, 1996, killing 110 civilians, many of them women and children. (2)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=12004
( photos above )
WHAT: EMERGENCY PROTEST AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE
WHEN: MONDAY, JULY 31 @ 12 NOON
WHERE: US DEPT OF STATE, 23RD AND C ST, NW
Take action to demand an immediate ceasefire which the US government is still refusing to do despite Israel latest massacre of 56 Lebanese, the majority of whom were children, in the town of Qana in south Lebanon. This is almost exactly 10 years since Israel’s last massacre in Qana in which over 100 Lebanese civilians were killed by Israel as they sought refuge in a UN compound from a similar attack on Lebanon by Israel. Then as now Israel claimed that it targetted the area because Hizbullah fighters were launching attacks from the area, a lie that was later exposed. The US government must be held directly responsible for the nearly 600 Lebanese civilians who have been killed by Israel in this latest invasion of Lebanon. The Bush administration has not only given Israel a green light to carry out its attacks but has rushed shipments of weapons to Israel so that it can continue to carry out its brutal assault.
( protest organized by local activists, this webmaster attended and shot these pictures )
Qana Massacre, Robert Fisk on site (MP3)
Democracy Now with Amy Goodman: Robert Fisk reporting
( photos from event described below, photo credits Charngchi Way. Thanks out to the organizers of this event. )
What:
Women to women, Mothers to mothers, Sisters to sisters, and Children to children
Where: In front of the White House
When: Monday, July 31, 2006
Time: 8:00 – 10: 00 PM
Join American concerned women in a candlelight vigil this evening between 8 10 PM in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Ave. Please wear black if possible and bring a candle. We will stand quietly to mourn the most recent deaths in Qana and others. This is the least we can do. Let us show solidarity. Let us ACT. We hope you can be part of this event.
Please wear black if possible and just GET OUT to the White House on
Pennsylvania Ave entrance. It is important that we take a stand. Please
distribute this message widely
Here’s the email we received to attend the protest:
7PM SUNDAY PROTEST ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES IN LEBANONWhat: Protest Israels continued unlawful, unjustified, military aggression, and war criminality against the people of Lebanon and its continued illegal occupation. Stand in solidarity and speak out for those who cannot. Use your life to oppose war and occupation for those who cannot. Where: Meet at Van Ness UDC Metro. When: 7PM, Sunday, July 30.
The viciousness of Israel’s war crimes intensified today in Lebanon as a missile strike killed an estimated 56 civilians, mostly children. This has been in keeping with the last 19 days of air strikes by Israel’s US funded War Machine that has destroyed Lebanon’s economy, infrastructure, maiming thousands and killing hundreds of mostly civilian people. Last week Israel’s murderous criminality was on full display as Israel knowingly bombed a UN compound killing UN representatives. Come out at 7PM this evening, Sunday, and show your outrage against the US-funded Isreali terrorist state that is inflicting unimaginable death and destruction on the people of Lebanon. Speak out Sunday for those who have no more Sundays. Silence and inaction is complicity. Don’t be complicit. Join others calling for peace with justice in this war-torn region.
About fifty of us showed up for this protest. Thanks to the organizers
of this protest for a job well done.
Photo credit Charngchi Way.
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State Department, 23rd and C Streets NW. Nickname: Foggy Bottom. Condaleezi Rice works her evil from this building. |
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Father Louis Vitali on 27th day of hunger strike. |
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The State Department Building. Harry S Truman would have puked to see what the Neocons have done to this once great country. |
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Civil disobedience at the State Department. |
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Martha Odom in 27th day of hunger strike has strength to protest the Qana massacre at State Dept. |
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Later that night there was a vigil for the victims of the Qana massacre at the White House. Photo credits Charngchi Way. |
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Protest against Israeli ambassador Daniel Ayalon There were about sixty of us present for this protest on Sunday, organized by our friends at D.A.W.N. Photo credits for these six: Charngchi Way |
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