Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now

Approximately 150 New Yorkers converged at Bryant Park, Manhattan, carrying three sixty-yard mock “walls” depicting the 25-ft.-high wall enclosing the Palestinian peoples in the West Bank. The protesters marched down 42nd street to Grand Central Station where they carried the wall inside to display it for passer-bys, while chanting “Tear Down the Wall.” “We are sending a message to our governments to stop their support of this hideous act of ethnic cleansing veiled behind ‘security’ rhetoric,” said Omar Jamal of SUSTAIN-NYC.

“SUSTAIN (Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now) joins hundreds of other organizations in calling for international attention to and protection of the Palestinian people. SUSTAIN asks American citizens to contact the Caterpillar corporation to express their outrage at the killing of Rachel Corrie, and to demand an end to all sales of the company’s products to the Israeli military.”

SUSTAIN activists served arrest warrants to Caterpillar executives in Washington DC today, in protest against the company’s sales of armored bulldozers to Israeli army for the demolition of Palestinian homes. Read the SUSTAIN press release.