From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Sun Nov 10 12:09:20 2013 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:09:20 +0100 Subject: Please take immediate action to save Wadi Foquin & stop ethnic cleansing Message-ID: Please share this with others and sorry for any duplication: -- Stop the eviction of Bediouns who are Israeli citizens: http://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13809 - Help Save Wadi Foquin: Call your Congressional representative (202-224-3121) and ask them to attend the November 19 Congressional briefing about human rights violations in Wadi Foquin, a small Palestinian village being threatened with extinction by illegal Israeli settlements and the Israeli army. The hearing, hosted by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, will be 12noon to 1:30pm at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. Residents of Wadi Foquin will provide compelling testimony as they try to save their village. You can also send and email through: www.house.gov and www.senate.gov For more information go to: www.friendsofwadifoquin.com *Sample Message:* When you call ask for the Foreign Policy Aide & let them know they should have received an invitation to the event: Wadi Foquin (pronounced: "Wadi Foo-keen") Briefing on Tuesday, November 19th . Let them know that as a constituent you urge their attendance at this critical briefing. The briefing is co-sponsored by: The United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society; Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP); Arab American Institute (AAI); and Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace (PCAP). > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Tue Nov 26 06:45:47 2013 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:45:47 +0200 Subject: Rally Nov. 29: Int'l Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People Message-ID: *This Friday, November 29, *2013, 2:30 - 4:30pm, come to the rally for *International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People* and Boycott SodaStream. Front of Arden Fair Mall, Arden & Heritage, Sacramento. FMI: pm141 at att.net; sacpeace at dcn.org; 916-448-7157 As U.S. taxpayers we have a responsibility to do what we can to end U.S. financial and political support for Israel?s human rights abuses. Please take action: ? *Tell Congress* you want all U.S. aid to Israel halted until Israel ends its violations of human rights and international law. This includes ending the deadly blockade of Gaza: 1.7 million people are trapped in Gaza with raw sewage running down the street because Israel has completely cut them off by land, sea and air. Call 202-224-3121 and email through: www.house.gov and www.senate.gov ? *Sign the petition* to Stop the Jewish National Fund (JNF) from receiving charitable tax exemption for discrimination including participating in the forced displacement of 30,000 Bedouin Palestinians, and isolation of another 40,000, from their lands. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sdRGP7FxSo5xlI2FSdjVxJfURA9w5xBeZ54EHK6gGTk/viewform?edit_requested=true *Read Update from A Sacramento Activist in Palestine: www.sacbds.org/palestine-update-nov-2013 * "Even after five weeks in Palestine?s West Bank, daily reality is still stark. Every day there are incidents of brutality of Israeli soldiers, settlers, and the state. Every day Israel violates International Law and human rights with impunity. *During this visit I have: * - witnessed and heard first-hand accounts of Israeli soldier and settler violence against Palestinian civilians; - listened to a young woman who was jailed and psychologically abused by her interrogators in an attempt to stop her from non-violent activism; - been tear gassed by Israeli soldiers and had rocks thrown at me by illegal Israeli settlers; - heard repeated reports of Israeli soldiers conducting night raids into Palestinian homes; - been with a Palestinian man who was just told by an Israeli official that menacing illegal Israeli settlers would be allowed to stay on the land they had stolen and that he, as a Palestinian, would have to ask permission from the Israeli army to use his own land; - seen Palestinian men pulled off a Palestinian bus by Israeli soldiers, likely to be interrogated using physical and psychological violence; - heard a human rights attorney describe the arrest and detention of a child including his being so tightly handcuffed with plastic tie that his swollen hands bled; his being transported on the metal floor of a jeep racing through roughly-paved roads; his abuse at the hands of interrogators; and his being denied an attorney, the right to remain silent, and the accompaniment of his parents. *I have also stood with Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists*in resistance to these abuses. More need to stand with us. Please raise your voice to stop these human rights abuses so that there can be justice for the people of Palestine/Israel." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: