Join Jewish
Voice for Peace, SUSTAIN
(Stop US Tax-Supported Aid to Israel Now),
the US
Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, and
Progressive
Portal in holding the Caterpillar Corporation
accountable for the criminal use of its products
by the Israeli army. Forcing a major corporation
to publicly acknowledge Israel's violence
toward civilians will raise public awareness
about the nature of Israel's occupation of
Palestinian lands and the role of the United
States in supporting it. Write the Caterpillar
board of directors to ask that Caterpillar
stop selling its D9, D10, and D11 bulldozers
to Israel.
Since 1967 Israel
has used Caterpillar bulldozers to demolish
nearly 9,000 Palestinian homes, leaving more
than 50,000 people homeless. Since the outbreak
of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000,
Israel has razed the homes of 12,737 Palestinians
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the past
two years the Israeli army deployed Caterpillar
bulldozers to uproot 200,000 Palestinian olive
trees. In April 2002 Caterpillar D9s demolished
an entire neighborhood in the Jenin refugee
camp. Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist,
was murdered by a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer
on March 16, 2003 as she nonviolently tried
to prevent it from destroying a Palestinian
home in the Gaza Strip. Caterpillar profits
from Israel's construction of a 25 foot high
wall and fence that will confiscate approximately
40 percent of the West Bank under the guise
of enhancing Israeli security. The wall separates
Palestinians from their farmlands and cuts
some villages off from the rest of the West
Bank, rendering as many as 100,000 people
completely isolated.
September 25,2003
Press Release Jewish Peace Group Targets Caterpillar
Corporation – Its Bulldozers Hurt Chances
for Middle East Peace DESTRUCTION OF PALESTINIAN
HOMES BY CATERPILLAR BULLDOZERS VIOLATES CONDITIONS
OF U.S.-BACKED ROADMAP AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS
Read
Press Release
April
23, 2004 CALL TO ACTION
Mass mobilization on Peoria,
Illinois CAT headquarters and call to create
local support actions. September 25, 2003
Contact the Caterpillar Board asking them
to immediately stop selling D9, D10, and D11
bulldozers to Israel.
http://www.progressiveportal.org/letters/global/mideast/cat.html
http://www.catdestroyshomes.org/about/why.html
