The Caravan of possibilities http://caravane.palestine.free.fr

The Caravan of possibilities http://caravane.palestine.free.fr

For some months now, the Caravan for Palestine has been offering the opportunity of taking part in an international action on the basis of a fundamental and consensual claim where everyone can find their place. It is a concrete, enjoyable and inspiring action which also assumes a significant contribution from each participant and a real desire to act together. It is a question of showing the strength of civil society when it decides to work together, to raise its head and to argue for justice and dignity in the world.

For those who want this project to succeed, who wish that the Caravan will be huge and strong, remember that any form of participation is possible: from the distribution of a leaflet to making the whole trip by car, while not forgetting attendance at events, demonstrations, meetings, festivals, or making financial and mechanical contributions, or assisting with media communications, etc.

Of course, the ideal is to take a car with some friends and to travel the whole way with us. For some, that is impossible (and we won’t expect that of you).There are many who will bring
their car to Strasbourg to take part in the large gathering on July 4/5 and will leave with the convoy for a few dozen km, and, why not, even accompany us to Geneva. Others will come to Strasbourg on foot, horseback, by bus or train... Others will come to the gathering at Geneva... or at Milan, Trieste, Zagreb, Belgrade, Sofia or Istanbul... Some will take the plane to join us in Damascus, Amman or Jerusalem...

They will have done their very best to take part in this international action. But no-one is expected to give everything. It is possible to belong to this project
, to contribute to its success, in a thousand ways:

By joining a “Roulotte”, a local group which prepares the departure of one or more vehicles, publicising the Caravan, speaking about Palestine and about breaches of international law over the years (and will do so still more intensely during the trip in July). In this group, there are those who will be travelling, the “nomads”, but also those who will remain, the “sedentaries”. Those have a really significant role in July, to make ‘live’ the Caravan, everywhere. A great effort will be made to communicate along the route, so that all, sedentaries and nomads, take part in this mobilisation.

By helping with finance: The trip has a cost and to contribute to the financing is also a way of being in the convoy... then a small part of you will make the trip, whether you gave one euro or 100, according to your means. It will be thanks to these thousands of gifts that the trip will be possible for hundreds of people.

By getting informed: what should an association do, for example? The first thing is to be very familiar with the Caravan project. For that there is the web site, but do not hesitate
to contact us: Caravane.palestine@free.fr
or by Tel.: Chris 06 79 96 99 51 / Eric 06 75 32 63 63.

Put any questions on the agenda of the next meeting and present the initiative (if nobody in the association knows the project well enough, do not hesitate to contact us, a Caravaneer will surely be able to come to your aid), and see then if we can release a little (or much) energy for the Caravan. If it cannot be done at the association level, perhaps some members will want to organise it separately ...

We know that you, as an activist, are engaged in various actions, campaigns, mobilisations. We are not at all asking you to drop your activities, we encourage you on the contrary to continue each one, especially if they are benevolent ... But we invite you to find some energy for the Caravan. Thus you’ll belong to this collective adventure, which searches also to be another way to fight. Effective solidarity, sharing, confidence and all those relations which we miss so much in this dehumanized world, we must put them into practice as of today if we want them to govern the construction of these “other possible worlds”.

In solidarity

the Caravan for Palestine.