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Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: "We are going to Jerusalem!"
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By Stop the Wall
News Article
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009
This afternoon, exactly 20 years after the fall of
the Berlin Wall, popular committees struggling against the Apartheid
Wall and the settlements destroyed part of the Wall near Qalandiya.
Hundreds of people, with some 30 international supporters, used a truck
to pull down part of the Wall in the area east of the Qalandiya refugee
camp and beyond the UN Vocational College. They also destroyed iron
gates and other pieces of concrete in the same area.
After breaching the Wall, protestors approached the road on the other
side where they burned car tires to slow the approach of Occupation
forces, who quickly arrived in the area and began firing gas and rubber
bullets. Protestors were wearing shirts upon which was written "We are
going to Jerusalem", the name of the planned action.
Today is 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and marks the
first day of a week of resistance to the Apartheid Wall in Palestine
and around the globe. Several demonstrations and campaigns are planned,
including the November 12 launch of Stop the Wall's campaign calling
for the immediate and unconditional release of all anti-Wall activists
currently imprisoned.
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