Women In Black Solidarity Vigil

June 8, 2001
12-2 pm
Isaiah Wall, 1st Ave. & 43rd St.
[across from the United Nations]

We invite you to join "Women in Black", NY on June 8th to call for an end to the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. (Men in black are also welcome.) We are holding this vigil in response to an international call from Women in Black in Israel for solidarity events on June 8.

Other vigils are being held in West Jerusalem, Melbourne, Mexico City, Montreal, Rennes, The Hague, and Toronto and, within the US, in Abilene, Albuquerque, Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, and more to follow.

For more information about the Women In Black vigil in NYC call 212. 358. 5004 or email nbraine@hotmail.com

http://www.geocities.com/ENDTHEOCCUPATION/

VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT http://www.fegs.org

WOMEN IN BLACK

Women In Black New York stand in silent vigil to protest war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses all over the world. We are silent because mere words cannot express the tragedy that wars and hatred bring. We refuse to add to the cacophony of empty statements that are spoken with the best intentions yet may be erased or go unheard under the sound of a passing ambulance or a bomb exploding nearby.

Our silence is visible. We invite women to stand with us, reflect about themselves and women who have been raped, tortured or killed in concentration camps, women who have disappeared, whose loved ones have disappeared or have been killed, whose homes have been demolished. We wear black as a symbol to mourn for all victims of war, to mourn the destruction of people, nature and the fabric of life.

Women in Black is an international peace network. Women in Black is not an organization, but a means of mobilization and a formula for action. Women in Black vigils were started in Israel in 1988 by women protesting against Israel³s Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Women in Black has developed in the Italy, Spain, United States, England, Azerbaijan and in FR Yugoslavia, where women in Belgrade have stood in weekly vigils since 1991 to protest war and the Serbian regime³s policies of nationalist aggression. Women in Black New York have been standing in solidarity with the women of Belgrade since 1993.

We stand in silent vigil in front of the New York Public Library at 5th Avenue and 41st Street the last Wednesday of every month from 5:30 Õ 6:30. Come join us.

For information, please visit our website at http://balkansnet.org/women
Tel: Indira at 212 560-0905.
E-mail: 074182@newschool.edu to get on our mailing list.
Donations may be sent to P.O. Box 20554, New York, NY 10021, and should be made payable to RACCOON, Inc., with WIB in the memo line.
See also http://wib.matriz.net.