Who we are
This began with concern for children. It can grow through all of us.
Why this began
Ciorsdan Hibbert, a South African truck driver living in Ireland, started Three Days Down after feeling powerless while watching children suffer. Earlier, while working as an overland guide in Africa, including the Congo, he had seen the effects of hunger on children firsthand. Seeing how truck drivers acting together could make governments and industries respond helped shape a simple question: what could ordinary people achieve if enough of us stood together peacefully?
An idea for all of us
The idea may have started with one person, but it is not meant to remain one person’s campaign. The hope is that people, Palestinian communities, nonprofit organisations, workers and community groups around the world will improve it, carry it forward and make it their own.
People around the world are invited to help shape this campaign. Palestinian people and affected communities should have a meaningful voice in where it goes. Nonprofit organisations, workers and community groups can bring experience, improve the plan and help carry it forward.
You can share the idea in your own words, make banners or music, and invite your community to take part. Anyone who has felt powerless while watching children suffer has a place in that effort.
Power is supposed to serve people
Every day, ordinary people are expected to follow laws, meet responsibilities and accept decisions made in our name. We should be able to expect the same seriousness from governments when children and families are being killed, displaced and denied food, water and medical care.
When official statements do not stop the suffering, people need a peaceful way to say that delay is not enough. Three Days Down is one way to stand together and remind those in power that protecting human life is not optional.
This campaign is focused on Palestinian children and civilians. The wider principle is simple: institutions should serve people, and ordinary people are not powerless when they act together peacefully.
Accountability without hatred
Our focus is protecting Palestinian children and civilians. We seek peaceful pressure on the Israeli government and military leadership, and on governments that enable their actions, to end the killing, displacement and deprivation of Palestinian families.
Accountability must extend to those who commit, order or enable abuses: political leaders, military commanders and personnel, and settlers who attack Palestinian families or forcibly take their land. Religious or national identity offers no exemption from responsibility for harming others.
Rejecting antisemitism does not diminish Palestinian suffering or shield any official, soldier or settler from accountability. We condemn attacks on civilians, torture, hostage-taking, collective punishment and dehumanisation, whether committed by Israeli forces, violent settlers, Hamas or any other actor.
Jewish people and communities are not collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government or of individual perpetrators. We reject antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and all identity-based hatred. People of every faith and none are welcome as equal participants, without being required to answer for a government because of their identity.
Participation must remain peaceful and voluntary. We will publicly condemn attempts to use this campaign to promote hatred, threats or violence. We will not endorse or partner with groups that promote them, and will publicly disassociate the campaign from anyone using its name to do so.
Who looks after the campaign today?
For now, one person maintains the website and answers questions about pledge information while a wider team is formed. Any change in who looks after the campaign or pledge information must be explained publicly. Earlier pledges keep their original terms.
You do not need to pay or donate to pledge. Three Days Down does not sell participant information. Questions about costs, affiliations or who is responsible are welcome.
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Support and honest feedback
We welcome discussion with individuals and organisations. A private reply, an introduction or helpful feedback is not an endorsement. Names, quotations and logos will only appear with permission.
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