What You Can Do on Human Rights Day

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December 10th, 2009



December 10 is Human Rights Day, honoring the UN's adoption of the International Declaration of Human Rights on this day in 1948. You can help celebrate Human Rights Day by making a tax-deductible contribution to the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation so that we can strengthen our work to change U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine to support human rights, international law, and equality.

Please click on the button to the right to make a secure on-line contribution, or donate by credit card by calling us at 202-332-0994.  You can also send a check to: US Campaign, PO Box 21539, Washington, DC 20009.

Here's a list of ten important things (in no particular order) that we've done since our last Annual National Organizers' Conference this September to promote human rights as the framework for our country's policy toward Palestine/Israel.

1. We organized boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) conferences in Milwaukee and Pittsburgh and played a central role at the Hampshire College BDS conference. 2. Our supporters sent thousands of letters to the Department of Energy protesting its recent grant of a contract to Motorola Israel, a corporation which profits from Israel's human rights abuses of Palestinians. 3. Speaking of Motorola, we spoofed their advertisement for their product launch of the Droid phone, highlighting Moto's complicity in Israel's war crimes committed during "Operation Cast Lead." 4. We and our member groups across the country organized weeks of action to protest Israel's Apartheid Wall and in support of the Gaza Freedom March. 5. We and other U.S., Palestinian, and Israeli human rights groups protested the New York Mets hosting a fundraiser for the settler group the Hebron Fund. 6. Our Steering Committee member Peter Miller got Columbia Sportswear to cancel an advertising campaign marketing its products to Israeli settlers. 7. Speaking of Steering Committee members, Bill Fletcher, Jr. represented civil society and spoke at the UN commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. 8. Our supporters sent thousands of letters to their Members of Congress urging them to vote against H.Res.867, condemning the Goldstone Report, which resulted in Congress' first real debate on Israel/Palestine policy.  9. We relaunched our Congressional District Coordinator (CDC) network with a hi-tech, interactive map to better coordinate our policy efforts with grassroots activists across the country.  10. And last, but not least, we're organizing people to meet with their Members of Congress during the upcoming winter recess to end U.S. support for Israel's blockade of Gaza.

This Human Rights Day, make an investment in human rights by supporting the work of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.  Make a tax-deductible donation by clicking on the button below.