This week the annual Cesarea Conference took place at the Regency hotel in Jerusalem (the Cesarea Conference is the annual meeting of the Cesarea Forum, in which are members politicians and capital owners). As every year, the Forum of Organizations Against Unemployment has organized protest activities vis-à-vis the conference, which we see as problematic.

We demonstrated in front of the hotel on Tuesday afternoon, June 20, 2006, and demonstrators entered the lobby of the hotel, which led to conflict with the police and violence towards one of the demonstrators.

The demonstration was successful and was widely covered in the media, as almost all the communication networks which covered the Cesarea Conference made sure to include interviews with representatives of social justice organizations and receive answers to essential questions regarding the conference, the relationship between government and capital, and increasing economic divide which is the result of existing economic policies. Our Director of Economic Justice Programs, Rabbi Idit Lev, was one of those interviewed.

We thank all participants and we’ll be glad to see you at other activities of the social justice department.

Please contact us if you would like to receive an important court decision this week on the subject of the Israeli Wisconsin Plan.

Recent Articles by Rabbi Idit Lev

• Rabbis for Human Rights protests against the expansion of the Wisconsin plan - September 26th, 2008
• Rabbis for Human Rights calls on Government not to expand the Wisconsin Plan - September 19th, 2008
• RHR protests against procedural irregularities of Wisconsin Plan - August 28th, 2008
• Volunteers Needed for Wisconsin Plan - August 28th, 2008
• RHR supports Empowerment Group for Women - August 21st, 2008
• RHR fights budget cuts that increases social inequalities - August 14th, 2008
• RHR promotes user friendly forms for Wisconsin Plan participants - August 14th, 2008
• RHR and the iniquities of the welfare to work program - July 18th, 2008
• From Welfare to Nowhere: Promoting Human Dignity for victims of the Wisconsin Plan - July 3rd, 2008
• Demonstration against the Economic Arrangements Law - December 13th, 2007
• Victory in the Regional Labor Court - November 4th, 2006
• Conference of local mayors opposed to the Wisconsin Plan - November 4th, 2006
• Ensure Economic Justice: Help the victims of the Wisconsin Plan - September 29th, 2006
• Re'e: Human Rights and ignorance and abandonment by the government - August 17th, 2006
• The Wisconsin Program: What really happens - August 11th, 2006
• Rabbis for Human Rights activists succeed in influencing changes to the Israeli Wisconsin Program - August 4th, 2006
• Rabbis for Human Rights seeks to secure Social security allowances for all Wisconsin Program Participants - July 21st, 2006
• Rabbis For Human Rights protects the rights of the unemployed - July 13th, 2006
• RHR succeeds in modifying the the Omnibus Law of Arrangements (Economic Arrangements Bill) - June 29th, 2006
• RHR demonstrates for Social Justice - June 23rd, 2006
• Rabbis For Human Rights Opposes the Omnibus Law of Arrangements (Economic Arrangements Bill) - May 22nd, 2006
• Omnibus Law of Arrangements: Background Information - May 22nd, 2006
• Rabbi Idit Lev - May 22nd, 2006
• Finance Minister Abraham Hirchson's Speech to the Knesset Plenum – State Budget and Arrangements Law for 2006 - May 8th, 2006
• Vaethannan: Acceptance of the land, and forgetting God - August 19th, 2005

Categories: Economic Justice
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