Plant an Olive Tree in Palestine

[Tom Joad]

http://pdamerica.org/
Progressive Democrats of America

Plant an Olive Tree in Palestine
January 14, 2008

PDA is partnered this February, 2008 with the Trees of Reconciliation project of Jewish Voice for Peace, Plant Healing, and the Olive Tree Movement in Israel and Palestine to plant olive tree saplings on land in West Bank villages where Palestinian farming families have been denied access to their orchards by the Israeli government's separation/apartheid wall.

Literally thousands of Palestinian farmers have not been allowed to work their ancestral farms and fields because, by Israeli decree, if land in Palestine remains uncultivated for three years the Israeli government claims it as unused. Planting olive tree saplings on such seized land, therefore, is not merely a symbolic action, but one with immense practical significance, one in which your contribution actually creates and maintains olive tree groves that provide sustainable incomes for Palestinian families and helps Palestinians keep their land.

Please help make a real difference in Palestine today by going online to purchase a tree for planting in Palestine. Enter “olive tree” in the Specila Funds Drive box, or send a check to P. O. Box 150064,Grand Rapids, MI 49515-0064. PDA's goal is to plant a grove of at least 150 trees this February.

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Progressive Democrats of America works both inside the Democratic Party and outside in movements for peace and justice. Our goal: Extend the victory of Nov. 2006 into a permanent, progressive majority.

The board of PDA includes Rep. John Conyers, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Lynn Woolsey, James McGovern.

[rateyes]

1. Error: You can't recommend threads from this forum...

But, I can sure give it a kick.

:kick:

[LeftishBrit]

2. This sounds constructive!

[Violet_Crumble]

3. A question....

Do these trees need fertiliser explosives to grow? ;)