I concur with all these suggestions.
Shahid
> OK, so how shall we proceed?
>
> I suggest, given the urgency:-
> 1) We leave the statement as it is.
> 2) Ask for an indication BY CLOSE OF MONDAY if anyone feels unable to
> support issuing the statement. If the number of those opposing its
> issue is more than 50% of list membership then we don't issue it.
> Otherwise we do.
> 3) Assuming that we can thereby rapidly agree to issue it, we follow
> Paul's suggestions below, also doing a press release to The Psychologist,
> the UK national press (i.e. Morning Star, Guardian, Independent) and
> BBC/ITV. Also Indymedia.
> 4) With regard to involving other psychologists / CPs we should send to
> Psychologists for Social Responsibility, PsyAct, RadPsyNet.
> 5) We should also send it to the President or equivalent of the Israeli
> Psychologists Association (or whatever it is) and to any Israel based
> colleagues members have contacts for. And of course to any Palestinian
> contacts / orgs. Also Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Serdar M. Degirmencioglu wrote:
> > Thanks Wendy for the "please wake up" message. Looks like a good
> > statement - thanks to Paul.
> >
> > Just curious as to why has it taken just about 3 weeks to come up with
> > a firm response to the bloodshed. Might be useful to ponder.
> >
> >
> > *Serdar M. Degirmencioglu*
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Mark Burton <[log in to unmask]>
> > *To:* [log in to unmask]
> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:21:34 AM
> > *Subject:* Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] The War in Gaza -from Paul Duckett
> >
> > From Paul Duckett (having difficulty sending to list)
> > ----Original Message-----
> > *From:* Paul@home [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > *Sent:* 17 January 2009 20:20
> > *To:* The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> > *Subject:* RE: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] The War in Gaza
> >
> > Yes, Wendy, I absolutely agree.
> >
> > Here is a possible statement we might work on as a list (quickly). It
> > is based on statements issued by other orgs - a statement in the
> > Guardian (friday) and a statement made by the Right to Education
> > Campaign). If we agree something like this, I suggest we send it to
> > No.10, the Foreign Office, various organisations working in the Gaza
> > Strip and to national and international orgs of CP's (see if we can
> > attempt a global CP voice on this one to replace the CPUK in teh
> > statement with CP's of the world! )
> >
> >
> > CPUK statement of support and solidarity with the people of Gaza.
> >
> > Community Psychologists in the UK (CPUK) extend their support and
> > solidarity for the people of Gaza. We call upon the British
> > government and the British people to take all feasible steps,
> > beginning with immediate boycotts, divestments and sanctions against
> > the state of Israel, to oblige Israel's political admnistration to:
> > abide by international law; dismantle its apartheid regime spanning
> > both the occupied territories and Israel; immediately and
> > unconditionally end its assault on Gaza; end the occupation of the
> > West Bank; abandon all claims to possess or control territory beyond
> > its 1967 borders; and commit to pursuing a long-lasting, just peace.
> >
> > CPUK denounces as war crimes and crimes against humanity the
> > disproportionality of Israel's attacks on Gaza, which includes the
> > indiscriminate killing of the men, women and children of Gaza.
> > The Israeli Defence Force deliberately: targets hospitals, civilian
> > shelters and prevents medical aid reaching the injured and medical
> > supplies and equipment from entering the Gaza Strip; uses white
> > phosphorous munitions in civilian areas; and destroys Gaza's
> > infrastructure of roads, water supplies, sanitation, food production,
> > food distribution, food security, electricity, social services,
> > education services, health services, law and order, housing,
> > environmental services, and broader social support structures. These
> > actions indicate the Israeli political administration's genocidal
> > intentions towards the people of Palestine.
> >
> > The massacre of civilians in in Gaza is the latest phase of a war that
> > successive governments of Israel (supported by the USA and Britain)
> > have been waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60
> > years. The goal of this war has never changed: to use overwhelming
> > military power to eradicate the Palestinians as a political force
> > capable of resisting Israel's ongoing appropriation of Palestinian
> > land and resources. CPUK believes that for the sake of justice and
> > global peace, Israel must lose this war. Our belief in the right of
> > the Palestinian's to democratic self-determinantion, and to resist
> > military aggression and colonial occuption, obligises us to take the
> > side of the people of Gaza and the West Bank and to side against Israel.
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Duckett
> > Department of Psychology and Social Change
> > Manchester Metropolitan University
> > England
> > Phone +44 161 247 2552
> > Fax +44 161 247 6364
> > email: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]*On Behalf Of *Wendy Franks
> > *Sent:* 17 January 2009 18:03
> > *To:* [log in to unmask]
> > *Subject:* [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] The War in Gaza
> >
> > Hello all.
> >
> > The list has been silent about the war in Gaza. It feels hard to
> > know what to say, and the killing continues.
> >
> > I'm horrified by the news every day. I've done little things like
> > writing letters with the Amnesty and Avaaz campaigns, tried to
> > attend a local demonstration (another story!), made a donation to
> > support humanitarian aid in Gaza.
> >
> > I would appreciate if anyone had any other thoughts, suggestions
> > or ideas to share?
> >
> > Or even if others who haven't been involved yet, and would like
> > to, could take a few minutes to check out the Amnesty website:
> > http://www.amnesty.org.uk/index.asp and the Avaaz website:
> > http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_time_for_peace/?cl=170174582&v=2689
> >
> > Best wishes to all,
> >
> > Wendy
> >
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