Protest Escalation of Gaza Attacks at Pioneer Courthouse Square, 3:30pm Sunday, Jan 4th

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For Immediate Release

Event:  Responding to Israeli Ground Assault, Peace Groups Gather at Pioneer
Courthouse Square to Protest Escalation of Gaza Attacks.
Date:   Sunday, January 4, 2009
Time:  3:30 PM
Location:  Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Yamhill & Broadway, downtown
Portland, Oregon.

Contacts:
Portland Peaceful Response Coalition
(503) 344-5078 voicemail
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Responding to Israeli Ground Assault, Peace Groups Gather at Pioneer
Courthouse Square to Protest Escalation of Gaza Attacks.

“How many hundreds more will be killed, how many thousands injured, how many
hundreds of thousands terrorized, before Israel recognizes that this
conflict will never be resolved with military force?” asked William Seaman,
a volunteer with Portland Peaceful Response Coalition, one of the groups
involved in the emergency demonstration at Pioneer Courthouse Square, set to
take place at 3:30 PM today.  “Even if they succeed in stopping the Qassam
and Grad rockets today, there will be other forms of resistance, violent and
nonviolent, legitimate and nonlegitimate, because the underlying cause of
this conflict is the illegal, brutal, violent and entirely illegitimate
occupation.”

For the third time in less than a week, local peace and social justice
organizations will gather, this time at Pioneer Courthouse Square, to
protest the Israeli attacks in Gaza.  Among the groups involved in today’s
demonstration are Friends of Sabeel of North America, Americans United for
Palestinian Human Rights, and the Portland Peaceful Response Coalition.  As
in the previous two demonstrations, organizers are calling for an immediate
cease-fire and for the United States to pressure the Israeli government to
end it over forty years of occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, which they
believe lies at the root of the ongoing conflict.

For more information, and to set up interviews with organizers of the
demonstration today, please call 503-888-7455.

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