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Occupation magazine - Activism Home page  back Print  Send To friend A request for financial help Kobi Snitz--April 2, 2011-- Dear Dorothy. I am writing to ask for your help. You might have heard that Yonatan Pollak has recently served a 3 month prison sentence for riding a bicycle in Tel-Aviv. Several months ago I was imprisoned and so were Adi Winter and Oshra Bar. These sentences are part of a well-orchestrated effort to stop our activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. When beating and detaining us did not stop our resistance, scores of legal indictments were issued against us. Currently, about 60 indictments are still standing. None of the human rights NGOs in Israel are representing us, and so Gaby Lasky, our brilliant and dedicated lawyer, has taken on the cause and we pay her a relatively small retainer fee. This not only includes representing us in court, but also releasing activists who have been detained, sometimes in the middle of the night. We have no office, no paid staff, and no fund raiser. The state knows that legal representation costs money and is using the fact that we do not have funding resources to undermine our activities by filing more and more indictments. We have consequently decided to try to undercut this strategy by asking people to contribute a recurring donation of $5 or $10 a month. Our objective is to reach $2,500 per month to cover the legal fees and thus to ensure that all our activists receive good representation when they need it. Donations (which are tax deductible in the US) can be made through our website http://awalls.org/donations. All the best, Kobi Snitz http://www.awalls.org P.O. Box 5046 Tel-Aviv, TA 61050 Israel opt-out Links to the latest articles in this section ‘Justice for Iyad, justice for George’: Hundreds protest police killing of Palestinian in Jerusalem Splintered but not broken: A history of Israel’s independent left Invitation: Sam Bahur and Mossi Raz speak online of annexation