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le lezard
Moderator
Lebanon
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 Posted - 08/02/2006 : 23:35:06
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just post here every protest or rally or anything you here of, anywhere.
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le lezard
Moderator
Lebanon
20 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2006 : 23:37:26
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*Urgent ! A Tous les Libanais et amis du Liban en France *
*31 Juillet 2006 *
Le Liban traverse une crise sans précédent.
Le bilan après 20 jours est lourd et continue de s'alourdir au fil des heures:
- Les pertes humaines se chiffrent en centaines (dont pratiquement la moitié sont des enfants).
- Le peuple libanais se trouve réfugié sur sa propre terre
- Plus de 800 000 personnes ont du quitter leurs habitations
- Les besoins sont nombreux: qu'ils soient d'ordre alimentaire ou médical.
Le Rassemblement Pour le Liban (Paris) soutient l'aide humanitaire apportée aux familles. C'est pourquoi, la cellule de crise, créée en urgence, a déjà réalisé une collecte auprès de 4 supermarchés parisiens le week-end du 28-29 Juillet.
La réponse du peuple français et des Amis du Liban ne s'est pas faite attendre, les aides ont afflué et le bureau du RPL à Paris stocke aujourd'hui plus de 150 cartons
(3 Tonnes) de produits alimentaires et médicaux.
Devant l'enthousiasme des donateurs, nous avons obtenu l'autorisation de réaliser une deuxième collecte les vendredi 4 et samedi 5 août dans d'autres supermarchés.
Pour cela, nous avons plus que jamais besoin de VOUS.
Nous avons besoin de plus de 100 personnes ce Vendredi 4 Août 2006 de 14h à 20h et ce Samedi 5 Août 2006.
C'est pourquoi, nous invitons toute personne souhaitant contribuer à cette action humanitaire de venir nous aider dans la collecte.
Veuillez nous envoyer votre nom + vos disponibilités (Vendredi ou Samedi + Créneaux Horaires) AVANT le MERCREDI 2 AOUT (au soir) pour que nous puissions organiser au mieux la logistique de la collecte.
Une réunion se tiendra le Jeudi 3 Août à 19h30 pour vous expliquer le déroulement de la collecte et la distribution des tâches.
CONTACTS:
Rassemblement Pour le Liban, Cellule Humanitaire, Paris
63, Rue Sainte-Anne, 75002 PARIS, France
Tel : 0140150652, Fax : 01 40 15 05 52
E-mail : rpl.paris@tayyar.org
Sites web: www.tayyar.org
www.rplfrance.org
Seule notre unité et notre solidarité, nous permettra de surmonter ces dures épreuves. Nous comptons sur votre présence et votre implication.
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le lezard
Moderator
Lebanon
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Posted - 08/02/2006 : 23:53:30
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I have no implication whatsoever with this group, but any help is welcome. There will be a collect in different supermarkets in Paris, to send humanitarian aid to the Lebanese people.
On a different level, there’s a permanent sit-in in Paris, Place de la Sorbonne. You can check out the daily reports on http://danslespagesdehoda.blogspot.com/ (it’s in French).
Morgan, if you’re interested, maybe you can collect support letters for both the Israeli and the Lebanese people. We’ll post them, and we can find a way to send the letters to Lebanese refugees’ camps and to the Israeli shelters. But please beware of hate messages and one sided minds. |
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Miriam
Starting Member
Israel
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Posted - 08/04/2006 : 13:40:21
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Hi,
I was thinking of you, Le lezard, every time our army renewed the bombing of Beirut, and hoped you were OK.
I have a few ideas please check them out:
1. You wrote something about letters between Israelis and Lebanese, I think I can get people to participate in that. Also, what about children’s letters and drawings ? my daughter can write in arab as well as English (Palestinian Arab, she attends a joint Jewish-Palestinian school), maybe some of her friends (both Jewish and Arabs) can also write to the children in Lebanon. Who do I send the letters to?
2. I understand you have help in Paris for the collection of humanitarian supplies. I have got a friend in Italy asking if she can help. Do you think they can collect products in Italy and transfer it through the Paris office?
3. I have been getting emails asking for aid in food supplies to Israelis from the north that have been evacuated from their homes. I am well aware of the difference between the Israeli refugees and the Lebanese ones. However if we wish to create a new side in this conflict, one that is sane, and wants to end the violence on both sides and live in peace, we have to create a framework in which we can work towards some common interest. It occurred to me that we can start some joint campaign to collect food, or letters or something else, but for both sides. Otherwise, people will continue to support either Israel or Lebanon according to their political believes.
Miriam
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le lezard
Moderator
Lebanon
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 Posted - 08/05/2006 : 23:30:14
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Thank you Miriam, thank you for your concern, thank you because you want to help.
The letters on the walls project will, if everything is ok, start very soon. We created a gmail account: letters.on.the.walls at gmail dot com. Dimi will post the first letter, and it should be followed by replies. If you want to participate, you can just write down the things you’d like to say to the Lebanese, the Palestinians or the Israeli and send it to the gmail account. We will have to sort it all, and then act: post these letters on the walls, in Beirut, in Haifa, in Tel Aviv. If the movement can survive and grow maybe those letters will start a real dialogue between our people.
This is the first action we can do, at our level. We only need paper and glue.
The international community started to act; maybe we will have a real cease fire, maybe not. But the dialogue must go on.
The children, in my view, are the key. It would be great to have your child send drawings, to have a Lebanese, an Israeli, an American, a Greek….. child to participate. But this needs a bigger structure. We can first collect the drawings, each one of us in his area, but we will need help to give this action its full meaning. We have to contact schools, NGOs someone who might be the messenger. Or we can just give it a try and address those drawings to the governments, and post them on our city walls. Any ideas on the subject are appreciated.
The food collects go mainly through humanitarian or political organizations. You can contact the Lebanese or Israeli embassy, or the Red Cross, they surely have more details than I do. As for a joint campaign, maybe those living abroad can collect what is needed, but who will pass it through? We are not an NGO, we are not legal, we need money, volunteers…. It may be better to work with the Red Cross, which is the most impartial organization.
If you can act, act. If the war ends, keep acting. Living in the Middle East is not going to be easier on us and our children if we don’t try to make it better. I think politicians have failed us. We will not solve the Middle East crisis, but we may learn to live it differently. I think I should have the right to talk with an Israeli if I please. I think the Palestinians have the right to grow their olive trees. I think freedom of thought is my most precious right. If we come to understand each other, if we let go of our fears, maybe we can live together. |
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Miriam
Starting Member
Israel
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Posted - 08/06/2006 : 10:51:37
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Le Lezard,
I will tell my Italian friend to contact the Red Cross and I will log to the gmail for the letters.
As for the project with the children, I have an internal mailing list of my daughter's school and I can collect letters and drawing from them. I know teachers from other Jewish and Palestinian schools but I don't think they will be able to act before the school year starts. However, I think this should continue after the seize fire is reached. I will contact Red Cross and foreign embassies personnel in Jerusalem to ask for help in exchanging the children's letters and drawings.
I will keep you posted on any progress.
Miriam |
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july2006
Forum Admin
Israel
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Posted - 08/06/2006 : 11:21:00
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There is an organization called Windows (Halonot), that had been running a similar project between Tul Karm and Tel Aviv for the past ten years, also publishing a bi-lingual magazine. Perhaps you'd like to contact them? They might like to help us out with ideas, experience and resources. The director of the program is Ruti Atzmon, and their phone number is 03-6208324
Excellent idea, yeshar koach :) |
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galony
Starting Member
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Posted - 08/07/2006 : 23:50:53
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There will be a rally at Kele (prison) 6 in support of the conscientious objectors. This Sat. at 17:00.
Thank you for creating this forum. It's a really great initiative. |
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Miriam
Starting Member
Israel
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Posted - 08/08/2006 : 15:27:26
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Hi all,
On the matter of exchanging letters and drawing from children ….
Thank you administrator for the Halonot contact. I will use it.
I was too naive with my previous ideas, foreign embassies probably evacuated their people from Lebanon and the Red Cross is busy with humanitarian assistance.
However, I am sure once a seize fire is reached we will be able to establish contact between schools in Israel and in Lebanon. This coming Wednesday there is a stirring committee in my daughter's school (it’s a jewish-arab school) and I am sure they will approve the school's participation in this. We have Jews, Christian, Moslems, Armenian and more children. They all write Hebrew and Arabic (all subjects are thought in both languages to all the children), and the older ones English as well. Most of them are Israeli citizens, I can contact schools from the Palestinian authority as well. In the meantime, we can start by scanning the letters and drawings and emailing them. I will wait for Wednesday to get an official approval to contact all our families from my school and start collecting them.
Le lezard, do you have contact with children in Beirut ? What are their lives like ? What do they think of this ? Would they like to write and receive letters from Israeli and Palestinian children?
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ACTING EVERYWHERE
