Mock Israeli Checkpoint- Pittsburgh, PA May 13, 2009 (1 of 2)

MOCK ISRAELI CHECKPOINT ACTION EVERY WEDNESDAY! Pittsburgh, PA

Don't you just hate it when you are coming home from work and the military has blocked the roads between your school/home/hospitals, your produce rots in the sun, the patients in your ambulance are forced to wait in pain before receiving treatment, and you have to divert to a route that takes hours to get to your destination instead of minutes?!

Well, it probably doesn't happen much to you in the U.S. But it happens everyday in the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories...

So.....

Let's show these Pittsburgh commuters what it's like to be held up at one of Israel's 600 illegal checkpoints!!!

This week the Israeli checkpoint will took place at
Fifth Ave at Meyran Ave. (Near the parking garage entrance to Children's/Presby Hospital)



Our last action at at Forbes and Craig was amazing! Lots of engagement with passersby, lots of information handed out, chanting and added props. Like the checkpoint monstrosities in Occupied Palestine, this checkpoint keeps getting bigger...Similar to Israel's roaming checkpoints that are constructed on Occupied Palestinian land, this checkpoint action will continue to roam as we hit different locations each week in and around Oakland. Note that Wednesday will be the new day for this weekly action- every week at 5:30pm. Feel free to dress the part-- soldier garb with toy guns encouraged.

Like with our previous actions, this will be a non-arrestable action. At no point do we hold up traffic- so feel free to join us! The feedback has been amazing, including people getting out of their cars to join the demonstration, and Rustbelt Radio doing a news story on the mock checkpoints. Many people I know have said they heard the news report and that they will join in on the actions.

So, as the weather gets nicer, and the rain is pushed away by sunshine (for now), join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine this Wednesday for the next mock Israeli checkpoint!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• pittsburgh
• palestine
• solidarity
• committee
• oakland
• university
• apartheid
• israel
• israeli
• palestinian
• conflict
• middle east
• gaza
• west bank

[HalfLifeFan91]

@kostaad - Israelis also wear and use such things.

Barely succeeds? You call a country that fails to comply with international nuclear and biological weapons agreements barely successful?

You're a weird, weird person.

[HalfLifeFan91]

Awesome stuff, really good idea.

[OnLyMe859]

/watch?v=eTGbP55HGi8

try this...

[xWeaponOfChoicex]

GO PITTSBURGH!

[kostaad]

"Indian reservation" rings a bell? Black Ghettos? Why don't you deal with moral grounds of your own country, you buy cheap foods that are made under slavery conditions in Indonesia and Thailand, you wear shoes and T-Shirts made in Chinese sweatshops by 8yr olds and yet a country that barely succeeds to prevent terrorist attacks is painful to you..... weird, weird people...

[kostaad]

Or may be some one should open schools in your town, where they would teach little children of native American heritage that killing is good and if you kill an American white person then you will earn 72 virgins in heaven, it would be called "mock palestinians".

[kostaad]

You know what someone should do, is sit next to you on a bus or a subway and shout "ALLAH HU AKHBAR" and press some fake button :) He would call it a mock terrorist act, or may be while you are driving your car someone should stick out a toy gun and point at you and call it a mock attack...

[pitbrand]

Go back to school little girl!

[RapahelakaMac]

one more thing, you should have handed out a flyer to the ppl sitting in there car. Might have stopped them a few seconds from yelling and gave them something to look at later too!

[RapahelakaMac]

When are we going to have some PA solidarity in action?