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APN Launches Blue Ribbon Email Campaign

Americans for Peace Now launches a unique campaign to show solidarity with Israel's settlement evacuation initiative.

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Washington, D.C.-Americans for Peace Now (APN) today launched a unique campaign to show solidarity with Israel's settlement evacuation initiative. The organization is encouraging its supporters to sign their emails with an HTML image that includes a blue ribbon, the caption "Get Out of Gaza, Get Back to Negotiations," and the APN website address, www.peacenow.org.

The APN effort parallels the Israeli Peace Now movement's own street campaign in which volunteers across the country are handing out real blue ribbons-the color of solidarity with settlement evacuation-to Israelis at street corners and other locations. The APN email campaign is also similar to one launched earlier by French Friends of Peace Now (La Paix Maintenant).

APN is a Jewish, Zionist organization dedicated to enhancing Israel's security through peace and to supporting the Israeli Peace Now movement.

"The APN blue ribbon campaign is an easy and effective way to support Israel's pullout from Gaza and the northern West Bank," said Debra DeLee, President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now. "It's particularly meaningful for us to be sharing the blue ribbon theme with our colleagues in Israel and France. I encourage everyone who is looking to show their backing for the settlement pullout to go to the APN website and find out how to get involved."

People who want to use the blue ribbon signature with their emails must go to a specific page on the APN website, http://www.peacenow.org/images/ribbon.html, where they will find easy instructions on how to download the image and use it with either Microsoft Outlook Express or Netscape email software. Once the image is saved and connected to a person's email, the blue ribbon banner will appear every time an email is sent.

The APN blue ribbon campaign will continue until the settlement evacuation is completed. A version of the image appears above and can be downloaded below.