[fse-esf] PROPOSAL: pan-European demonstration against the EU starvation blockade of Gaza.

[Dave Stockton]

Dear comrades, 

The people of Gaza face an emergency. The situation is urgent. I believe the
ESF and the social movements need to respond in a united and solidaristic
way.

In short I want to propose a pan-European demonstration against the EU's
blockade of Gaza.

The moves by the USA, the European Union and Israel to end the  embargo on
tax revenues, aid, etc to the Palestinian Authority might be welcome if it
represented the recognition of the democratic choice of the Palestinian
people in January 2006. In fact it represents the exact opposite - they are
rewarding Abbas for dismissing the elected government and are intensifying
the blockade and siege  of Gaza.

It is the duty of the ESF and the antiwar movement to come to the aid of
the people of Gaza, by maximising pressure on the EU governments to end the
blockade immediately, not only by allowing into Gaza supplies of food, fuel,
and medicine but also of money to pay wages owed to the public sector
workers of Gaza.

There is no time to lose and we cannot afford to stand on ceremony. We
cannot wait until the European Preparatory Assembly in Sweden in September.
We propose that all organisations and make proposals for a common date for
action. Plainly the EPA in September will also have to put the basis for an
ongoing campaign high on its agenda.

Dave Stockton
League for the Fifth International