Source: Direct Submission

Organization: ADC

Email: media@adc.org

Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:03:34 -0700

Title: ADC: Petition to Next President, Live Webcast of ROR Rally

TEXT:

ADC Right of Return Task Force Update:

Petition to Next President, Live Webcast of ROR Rally

ADC Right of Return Task Force has initiated a petition to the next

president of the United States to be presented the day after the

inauguration in January, 2001, urging him to ensure that US policy

recognizes and promotes the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees.

The petition can be signed online at ADC.org at

. The petition is also

available in a formatted version in PDF for easy printing, and can be

printed from . The text of the

petition is reproduced in full below. Please return signed petitions to

the ADC ROR Task Force at the address at the bottom of the petition.

The Right of Return rally in Washington on Saturday will be the feature

of a live three-hour special broadcast on WBAI, FM 99.5 in New York

City, from 12-3 pm eastern standard time. Realaudio live streaming of

the broadcast is available at the websites: http://www.wbaifree.org, and

http://www.Radio4All.org. Click on WBAI Streaming Audio. Or simply

click on to listen.

The WBAI broadcast/webcast will carry speeches of invited guests at the

Washington Rally live, hear reports from correspondents in the streets,

and interviews with experts in our studio. Hosted by Dr. Barbara Nimri

Aziz, WBAI Producer, and engineered by Brother Shine in the NY studios.

Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz is the host and producer of Tahrir, Voices of the

Arab/Muslim Community, Tuesdays 9-10 pm est on WBAI, also live streamed

on the same websites.



TEXT OF ADC RIGHT OF RETURN TASK FORCE PETITION TO BE DELIVERED TO THE

INCOMING PRESIDENT THE DAY AFTER INAUGURATION, JANUARY, 2000:

To the incoming President of the United States:

Mr. President, as you take office we urge you to ensure that the

policies of the United States recognize and promote the Right of Return

of the Palestinian refugees. As you know, the United States has made

the right of refugees to return to their homes a central feature of its

diplomacy, from Kosova and Bosnia in Europe, to Rwanda in Africa. The

right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes is enshrined

not only in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Fourth

Geneva Convention, but more specifically in UN Resolution 194, for which