Trees Not Walls: Villagers Mobilize Against Apartheid

[Resistance]

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On Thursday 22 January 2004 at 12 noon the villagers of Budrus will again march against the building of a Wall in and around their village that will isolate them from their agricultural lands and imprison them in their cantons, turned ghettos. One hundred olive tree saplings, donated to the village of Budrus by Rabbis for Human Rights, will be planted by members of the community with the support of international and Israeli peace activists.

The saplings will be planted where the Israeli military has uprooted nearly 100 olive trees belonging to the villagers and in the proposed path of the Apartheid Wall. The construction of the Wall in this region will destroy the economic well being of the community, and put the daily lives of students, farmers, and business people at risk.