GMJ North America News

Global March To Jerusalem
March 30, 2012

Join the world to demand real change!

In three short weeks the world will join in solidarity with Palestinians to demand real change in their struggle for human rights. Land convoys will arrive from India and South Africa. Marches will commence from several locations toward Jerusalem in the West Bank and historical Palestine (Israel). Creative actions and large rallies will occur in Gaza. Palestinian refugees and their supporters will march towards Jerusalem and then hold mass rallies near the borders in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. While solidarity demonstrations will take place around the world on Land Day March 30, 2012. In the United States the Occupy movements in Washington DC and San Francisco are planning to participate. And other actions in the US and Canada are sure to happen.

One of the inspirations for the Global March to Jerusalem was the events of May 15, 2011 where Palestinian refugees marched form Syria and Lebanon toward their homeland Palestine. Although they were clearly unarmed and have the right to return under international law, they were met with live ammunition by Israeli forces.

This year the nonviolent organizers from May 15 will join with human rights supporters from around the world and within Palestine in the spirit of the Arab Spring and the international Occupy movements.

North American participants have several options available to them including marching in solidarity with refugees from border countries, joining in demonstrations within Palestine, and participating in local actions in North America. All interested participants should register here .

If you cannot join us in the region please help sponsor North American participants. There are volunteers in the US and Canada who are prepared to take part in the march but are lacking the financial resources to do so. Your donations will go directly to these willing volunteers.

GMJ-North America Endorsers

Individuals

Following is a list of indivduals who endorse the Global March to Jerusalem. Additional endorsements are welcome and may be sent to organize@gmj-na.org.
• Dr. Amir M. Maasoumi
• Ann Wright, United States Army colonel, ret.
• Benjamin Monnet, World Assembly Member, USA/Korea
• Clayborne Carson, Professor & Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
• Cornell West, Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University; Philosopher, writer and Civil Rights Activist
• David Hartsough, Director, Peaceworkers, San Francisco
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake, Presiding Minister, Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, San Francisco
• Edward Peck, Retired US Ambassador and career US Diplomat
• Professor Francis A. Boyle, University of Illinois College of Law
• George Galloway, British Member of Parliament
• Dr. Ghada Karmi, Co-Director, Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter
• Dr. Hatem Bazian, Senior Lecturer in Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• Izzet Sahin, International Affairs Secretary, IHH
• Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor Emeritus, Trinity Church of Christ, Chicago
• Joe Meadors, Veteran and Survivor of the 1967 Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty
• Dr. Judith Butler, American philosopher and Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Lauren Booth, English broadcaster, journalist and pro-Palestinian activist
• Fr. Louis Vitale, Order of Franciscan Monks; Pace e Bene; nonviolent resistor
• Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, American rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement
• Mairead Maguire, , Nobel Peace Laureate
• Marcy Winograd, Los Angeles teacher, peace activist and former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
• Medea Benjamin, Co-founder Code Pink and Global Exchange
• Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian democracy activist and former presidential candidate
• Richard Falk, Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University
• Roger Leisner, Radio Free Maine
• Ronnie Kasrils, South African ANC leader and cabinet minister
• Samuel F. Hart, U.S. Ambassador, ret.
• Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian-American author and Founder of Playgrounds for Palestine
• Tariq Ali, British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator

Organizations
Following is a partial list of organizations that have endorsed the Global March to Jerusalem. It includes those that are based or have a significant presence in North America, and are either participating in the organizing of the North American contingent of the GMJ or have been invited to do so. If your organization wishes to endorse and/or participate in the organizing, please contact organize@gmj-na.org. For organizations outside North America, see www.globalmarchtojerusalem.org.

• A.N.S.W.E.R-Act Now to Stop War & End Racism - Coalition
• Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
• American Indian Movement - West
• Bay Area Women in Black
• Birthright Unplugged
• Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid - Southern California
• Canada Palestine Association
• Canadian Arab Federation
• Canadian Boat to Gaza
• Canadian Peace Alliance
• Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
• CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine & Israel
• CODEPINK Women for Peace
• Existence is Resistance
• Free Palestine Committee, National Lawyers Guild
• Free Palestine Movement
• Friends of Sabeel - Hawaii
• Friends of Sabeel - North America
• Friends of Sabeel - Northern California
• General Union of Palestinian Students - San Francisco State University
• Global Exchange
• Hamilton Coalition to stop the War
• Hilton Head for Peace
• Independent Jewish Voices
• International Committee, National Lawyers Guild
• International Solidarity Movement Bard College
• International Solidarity Movement Northern California
• Intifada Tent - Occupy Oakland
• ICAHD USA
• Leadership Team of Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, MN
• Middle East Crisis Response
• Middle East Study Group
• Middle Eastern Student Association (MESA) York University
• Muslim American Society Immigrant Justice Center
• North Coast Coalition for Palestine
• Our Neighbors in Palestine
• Palestine House
• Palestinian American Congress
• Palestinian Association of Brantford
• Palestinian Association of Hamilton
• Resource Center for Nonviolence
• San Jose Peace & Justice Center
• September15
• South Alameda County Peace & Justice Committee
• Students for Justice in Palestine - UC Berkeley
• United Progressives
• U.S. Dominican Palestine Coordinating Committee
• Voice of Palestine
• Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club

The following Palestinian organizations have called on the international community to support the Global March to Jerusalem
Al-Rowwad Cultural and Theatre Training Centre
www.alrowwad-acts.ps

Al-Walaja Popular Resistance Committee

The Alternative Information Center
www.alternativenews.org

BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
www.badil.org

Beit Ummar Popular Resistance Committee

Bil'in Popular Resistance Committee
www.bilin-village.org

Friends of Freedom and Justice, Bil'in
www.bilin-ffj.org

Gaza Youth Breaks Out
www.gazaybo.wordpress.com

Handala Center
www.handalla-center.org

Holy Land Trust
www.holylandtrust.org

International Solidarity Movement
www.palsolidarityorg

Nebi Saleh Popular Resistance Committee

Ni' lin Popular Resistance Committee

Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement between People
www.pcr.ps

Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
www.stopthewall.org

Palestine Justice Network
www.palestinejn.org

Palestine Non-Governmental Organizations Network
www.pngo.net/

Palestine Solidarity Project
www.palestinesolidarityproject.org

The Palestinian Cultural Englightenment Center (Tanweer)

Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee
www.popularstruggle.org

Siraj Center for Holy Land Studies
www.sirajcenter.org

Youth Against Settlements
www.youthagainstsettlements.org

Youth Activity Center – Aida Camp
www.key1948.org

The International Solidarity Initiative
www.internationalsolidarity.org

Palestine National Initiative
www.almubadara.org

ENDS

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