| Support the Right Of Return Take Action for The Right of Return
What you can do: - Hold teach-ins to focus on the Palestine refugee right of return. Use effective educational materials for this purpose. Please refer to the excellent information provided at www.badil.org
- To help defray the cost of carrying out our mission to defend and support the Palestine refugee right of return, please make your cheque payable to PRRC London and send it to:
PRRC - London
BCM Box 7223
London WC1N 3XX
United Kingdom
Or send your donation directly to the bank at:
Account name: PRRC London
Account no.: 20089739
Sortcode: 086001
Unity Trust Bank
Nine Brindleyplace
4 Oozells Square
Birmingham B1 2HB
Tel: 00 44 121 631 2743
e-mail: utb@unitygroup.co.uk - Join the coalition of individuals and organizations working for the right of return. Start with local groups such as your chapter, Peace Action and others whom you think might be interested. To join our e-mail discussion list on this issue, send a blank message to Al-Awda-London-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .
- Write opinion editorials and letters to the editor in local newspapers about the right of return signed by one or several people, chapter presidents and/or boards of local organization. Talking points are provided separately and will be posted at shortly. A good resource for activism is a kit found at http://www.fair.org/activism/activismkit.html from the group called Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.
- Lobby MPs in your areas. Organize delegations (don't have to be large) and set up personal meetings before the march/rally in Washington and London.
- Encourage student and other organizations to adopt Right of Return resolutions. For a draft of such a resolution please send a message to info@al-awda.org.uk
- Take part in an email action, letter write-in, and phone-in campaign to MPs, Lords, state departments and Downing Street.
- Publicize the rally at all events and in mosques, churches etc. Also hold local events to publicize the issue of the right of return (e.g. show films such as "Children of Shatilla") Make sure to issue press releases to local media about these events. For help with press releases write to info@al-awda.org.uk
- Sign and Circulate Right of Return petitions and refer to them in your letters and public events.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has" -- Margaret Mead.
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