Independent Media Center, Israel http://indymedia.org.il suggestions after the Tsalfit action March 22Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 author: Illit R. (irose45@earthlink.net)

Sorry my computer does not have Hebrew fonds. Thank you for the experience! The image of all 300 of us on the closed road & surrounded by settlements is still with me. In retrospect I am thinking what we can do in future similar action, in addition to transporting the food, waiting around etc. What if we were to group ourselves into affinity groups and have each group come up with a creative way to respond to the situation. For example: We could take small buckets and shovels (beach stuff) & start dismantling the dirt mounds closing the road. We could have arranged a "teach in" with testimonies from the villages on their daily lives. We could have stood there pointing fingers and shouting "shame" at the settlements & soldiers. We could have played the drums angrily. Doing many diferent things at the same time. Thus taking advantage of our numbers and adding a political message to our humanitarian action. I feel it's time we voice loudly our outrage. Thanks, Illit PS how about arraging a campain to "introduce" (lehakir) the "unknown" villages -- i.e. to have people from these villages introduce themselves & their villages where they & their ancestors have lived for a long time to the Israeli courts & society that apparently do not "know" them. -- It could maybe done in the media with ads, or with introduction tours. -- "Tiolay hekerut"

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