FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – Updates | in pictures
By Avaaz – Information Clearing House – Nov 15, 2011
Right now, history could be made in Palestine. A small number of brave Palestinians will risk attack and arrest to commit a forbidden act — they will board a public bus.
Lacking their own state, Palestinians are forbidden to use buses and roads reserved for non-Arabs — part of a host of race-based rules that US President Jimmy Carter has called “apartheid”. 50 years ago, African-Americans in the US challenged these rules by simply and non-violently refusing to follow them. In a few hours, Palestinians will take the same approach, and their actions will be live webcasted by Avaaz teams at the link below.
As diplomats stall in the fight for a Palestinian state, the Palestinian people are taking the fight into their own hands, one public service at a time. And they’re doing it with the simple, elegant and unstoppable moral force of non-violence in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
The Palestinian spring begins right now – watch it LIVE, register support on the right, and give these brave activists the global solidarity and attention they urgently need to win: