BILIN, April 24, 2010 (WAFA)- “During this fifth annual conference, we felt the absence of our friends who are prevented by the occupations cells and bars from joining us, imprisoned for struggling Non-Violently for our freedom, activists and leaders of the popular committees and all political prisoners, said the closing statement of Bilin’s 5th International Conference for Popular Struggle.
The conference opened with a message from them written by the imprisoned coordinator of the popular committee of Bili'n Abdullah Abu Rahme. The message spoke of the need to continue the popular Non-violent struggle and the need for International support, the statement said, we felt the Absence of our brothers and sisters from Gaza who can join us only via video conference due to the occupation's criminal siege of a million and a half of our people
After a participative process the conference recommended the following:
To promote legal accountability, by giving support to the Russel tribunal for Palestine and its final conclusions and promoting legal actions against corporations profiting from the occupation, through sharing information between the different countries about the corporations based on them, sharing the experience from previous cases and using it for the second session of the Russel Tribunal about corporations and raising the responsibilities of the corporations and their collaborations in the apartheid regime.
To promote boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel in terms of Disinvestment the priorities should be: (1) To work globally against the EU preferential agreements (2) to work globally for avoiding the entrance of Israel in the OECD, in terms of Boycott the priorities should be: (1) International and Local campaigns on: international corporations that have a relevant local presence with important investments in Israel, Banks and funds, Jewish National Funds, Israeli goods coming from the free zones (2) European and International Universities should stop any kind of university agreements and exchanges with Israeli universities (3) Promoting boycott against Israeli tourism advertising (4) We must prioritize all kind of boycotts on the cultural level.
We must promote the exchange of: experiences, contacts, information, research on products and others, online forum, promotion of trainings and joining the Israeli apartheid week, it stated.
