Conference 2009
18 resources in this category
Village of Bil’in asks Norway to divest from Leviev’s Africa-Israel
22/04/2009
It is with great dismay that we learned that Norway, a strong supporter of human rights and peace in the Middle East, has invested its citizens’ pensions in a company, Lev Leviev’s Africa-Israel, that is building Israeli settlements on our village’s land, and is destroying our olive groves and any hope for justice and peace in Palestine. Our village of Bil’in has carried out a four year campaign of creative, nonviolent protests against the construction of Israel’s wall and the Israeli settlement of Mattityahu East on our village’s land, Last Friday, one of our residents, 31 year-old Bassem Abu Rahma, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during a nonviolent protest in Bil’in. We have also endured countless beatings from Israeli soldiers as a result of our protests, as well as bullets, teargas, invasions and arrests. We are sure that the people of Norway do not want to support the seizure of our farmland, and violence against our community. Therefore, we call on the government and people of Norway to take decisive steps, as the government of the United Kingdom has recently done, to end all business relationships with Lev Leviev due his companies’ construction of settlements.
The fourth Bil'in conference of nonviolent resistance starts
22/04/2009
[IMEMC] The fourth Bil’in conference of Nonviolent Resistance started on Wednesday with the participation of 150 people from different nationalities.
Fourth Bil'in conference on grassroots popular resistance in April 2009
02/02/2009
In the wake of the Israeli atrocities in Gaza it is vital that we continue to resist against the Israeli occupation. This February has marked the fourth anniversary of the weekly non-violent protests against the construction of the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in.
Bil’in has become a symbol both of the theft of land across Palestine and of the power of non-violent grassroots movements in building local and international resistance to Occupation.
We invite you to participate in the fourth Bil’in conference on grassroots popular resistance in April 2009.
