Next Friday, December 9, will be at Tel-Aviv and Haifa the annual Human Rights March, organized by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), an one important event of the Israeli human rights and social change community. Hundreds of organizations, communities, and activists – all come together to say: “It’s our right, to all human rights, for all human beings.” Among them: Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), the Communist Party of Israel, TANDI (the Democratic Women’s Movement in Israel) and Hagada Hasmalit (Progressive Culture Center in Tel-Aviv and radical website).

According to ACRI “the March has room for all the different flags, for all the groups and initiatives that view human rights as the moral and social foundation for change. Many voices that are not frequently heard, or even not heard at all – thousands of activists for freedom of expression, protest, and movement, for the right to privacy, for human dignity; activists for migrant workers, asylum seekers, homeless persons, the unemployed, Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, and Palestinian citizens of Israel; for the adequate housing, health, and education that we all deserve. Once a year, just before International Human Rights Day, we join forces: all of the rights, all the activists, all the groups and organizations, all the believers come together”.

And more: “Anti-democratic winds are sweeping through Israel, but last year’s Human Rights March proved that Israeli civil society is wide awake, working and struggling to protect human rights and democracy. The winds are blowing and anti-democratic legislation continues to be promoted, as though the people never flooded the streets in a demand for social justice. And yet the Israeli society has now changed – we are more united, we know how to protest, we know how to demand. So join us in the Human Rights March – this is your stage!”

Meeting point in Tel-Aviv at Habima Square,10:00 am. Rally in Rabin Square, 12:00 pm.

Read more in the March Blog in English: http://themarch.org.il/?cat=38
Attend and share the Facebook event: http://on.fb.me/tpFL55