From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Sun Apr 13 17:11:14 2014 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 17:11:14 -0700 Subject: On tax protest US Aid to Israel & more events Message-ID: <000001cf5776$0ce3d910$26ab8b30$@org> Tuesday, April 15, 2014: On Tax day: Protest U.S. aid to Israel! 4-6pm, 16th & J Sts. Sacramento Join people all over the world in answering Palestinians' call for tax day protests of the billions that the U.S. gives Israel, enabling it to continue its brutal occupation, colonization and apartheid. Use our banners & signs or bring your own. Protest will also include opposing U.S. use of drones, militarism, attacks on other countries and violations of human rights. FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com; sacpeace at dcn.org Please sign petition asking Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to divest from G4S, a private security company that is complicit in Israel's illegal detention and torturing of Palestinians: www.sacbds.org/petitions. Saturday, April 19, 2014, 6:30pm: The Soldier and The Refusnik Jewish-Israeli activists talk about their solidarity work to end Israel's occupation of Palestine. Friends Mtg Hse, 890 57th St, Sacramento. All welcome to a potluck Seder at 5:30pm. SabeelSacramento at gmail.com Cosumnes River College Palestine Awareness Days Tuesday, Apr 22, 7pm, Free film: 5 Broken Cameras . Followed by discussion. Library Rm 111. Wednesday, Apr 23, Cultural Fair & talk by Alison Weir 10am - 3pm, poetry, Dabka dancing, music, art, food & info booths. 7pm, Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew & author of Against Our Better Judgment , will address what the U.S. media doesn't cover about Palestine. Cosumnes River College, 401 Center Parkway, Sacramento. FMI: peshkoa at crc.losrios.edu Friday April 25, 2014, 7pm, Film: Al Helm (the Dream) MLK in Palestine Unity, 9249 Folsom Blvd. Sacramento. Free admission. SabeelSacramento at gmail.com Boycott SodaStream actions Saturdays: 11am-1pm FMI: sacramentobds at gmail.com. SodaStream is made in an illegal Israeli settlement on stolen Palestinian land in violation of international law. Take Action for Palestinian rights: 1. Tell Congress NO more U.S. aid to Israel: Call 202-224-3121 and/or www.house.gov; www.senate.gov 2. Sign these petitions for Palestine: www.sacbds.org/petitions 3. Don't buy Israeli products or invest in companies that profit from Israel's occupation and colonization of Palestine. 4. Come to demonstrations and events - sign up to receive notices from the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com 5. Spread the word to your friends, colleagues, community members. This is the list serve of the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights www.Sac4Palestine.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or for questions or more information: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Wed Apr 16 17:55:06 2014 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:55:06 -0700 Subject: Please sign petition NOW to Gates Foundation to divest from G4S for Palestine Prisioners Day Message-ID: <00e301cf59d7$acde6350$069b29f0$@org> In commemoration of Palestinian Prisoners Day, please join the international call on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to divest from complicity in Israel's prison, detention, and torture system. Please sign the petition: http://www.addameer.org/gatesdivest. Please sign tonight if you can so that your signature will be delivered by Seattle Palestine Rights Activists tomorrow, April 17. This is one way to show solidarity with the more than 5,000 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons in contravention to Art. 76 of the 4th Geneva Convention and in violation of other human rights. Approx. 200 of those prisoners are children, some held in solitary confinement and many held without access to legal help for months. More details below. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, the largest charitable foundation in the world (backed by Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates) owns shares worth more than $170 million in the controversial security company, G4S Security. G4S, the world largest security company, has been the target of several successful international boycott actions and campaigns in recent years due to its complicity in Israel's illegal detention, torture and incarceration of Palestinian political prisoners (click here to see a timeline) Earlier this month Palestinian organizations wrote to the Gates Foundation calling on the Gates Foundation to divest from G4S (click here to see). That letter to the Gates Foundation went unanswered. Palestinian organizations (led by the Palestinian prisoner organization Addameer together with endorsements from over 150 other groups) subsequently called on all peace-loving peoples around the world to organize protests this 17th of April (the international Palestinian Political Prisoner Day) outside the offices of the Gates Foundation in the various countries where the Gates Foundation operates (see the call to action here). Join us this Palestinian political prisoner's day (April 17th) in calling on the Gates Foundation to divest from G4S Security due to its complicity in Israel's illegal detention, torture and incarceration of Palestinian political prisoners - including <>200 Palestinian children. Here is Angela Davis speaking about G4S and the prison-industrial complex. Angela Davis is one of the keynote speakers at 7 pm, along with Noura Erekat -- preceded by great workshops all day -- at the Rachel Corrie Foundation PeaceWorks conference this year "Yet Again as Captives: Mass Incarceration in the US and Palestine" http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ ) Some possible signs for tomorrow, Thursday's event could be: Gates Foundation, Divest from G4S and Israeli apartheid; Gates Foundation, divest from violation of human rights and international law; Gates Foundation, your investment in G4S belies your mission; an injury against one is an injury against all; divest from the prison-industrial complex; unlike Palestinians, the Foundation can walk away from G4S prisons. Last week, several organizations and groups delivered more than 10,000 signatures for the Gates Foundation to divest from another company in the prison-industrial complex, GEO, which runs the NW Detention Center in Tacoma. We've now compounded that call to the Gates Foundation with this petition of also more than 10,000 signatures to divest from G4S. All organizations that wish to be regarded as humanitarian must divest from companies engaged in violations of human rights and international law. . Sign the online petition -- especially before midday Wednesday http://www.addameer.org/gatesdivest . Read the Palestinian civil society request to the Gates Foundation to divest from G4S http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=668 . Post on the Gates Foundation FaceBook page https://www.facebook.com/billmelindagatesfoundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Tue Apr 29 13:56:47 2014 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:56:47 -0700 Subject: Protest Israeli occupation, colonization & apartheid this Sunday, May 4 & more Message-ID: <00e101cf63ed$89066390$9b132ab0$@org> This Sunday, May 4, 2014, Protest Israeli occupation, colonization and apartheid. 21st Street & Capitol Ave, Sacramento, 11am. The local Israel-lobby affiliate, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) whose mission includes to ?Protect Israel? is holding its annual ?Celebrating Israel? event that it erroneously conflates with ?Jewish Heritage?. There is nothing to celebrate about Israel?s horrendous well-documented human rights violations, which do not reflect Judaism or Jewish values. The event goes from 11am-3pm and we plan to banner the whole time. You can sign up for a shift by emailing SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com or just come! Also this week: Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014, 12noon, Jeanie Keltner interviews Alison Weir about Weir?s new book, Against Our Better Judgment and the U.S. relationship with Israel. The Undernews, KVMR 89.5 or listen on line. FMI: jeaniekeltner at sbcglobal.net If you have not already, please sign these petitions: ? Sign the petition to the United Nations calling for an end to the blockade and for freedom of movement of the people of Palestine?s Gaza strip. ? Email Ellen Degeneres and object to her giving away SodaStream on her show. ? Ask NBC to NOT support Israeli apartheid by filming a new TV series in occupied east Jerusalem: sign the petition ? Starbucks is considering buying into SodaStream ? ask them not to. ? Support effort at Univ. of Calif. Davis to divest from the Israeli occupation: sign the petition. Saturdays in May: 10, 17, 24 & 31: boycott SodaStream bannering and leafleting. 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