From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Wed Sep 16 12:52:04 2015 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:52:04 -0700 Subject: SacRideHuman launch & new petitions for Palestinian Rights Message-ID: SacRideHuman: The SacRideHuman campaign asking Sacramento Regional Transit to end its contract with human rights-violating G4S has been launched! G4S, the world?s largest private security company is complicit in and profiting from well-documented violations of human rights and other international laws . Sacramento Regional Transit?s contract with G4S expires at the end of this fiscal year (6/30/15) unless the RT Board extends it. Over two dozen local groups, several clergy and others have asked RT not to extend the contract and to incorporate criteria to exclude companies that are involved in human rights violations. Learn more at: www.SacRideHuman.org Yes to public transportation! Yes to human rights! ? Please like and share the SacRTRiders4HumanRights- No G4S - SacRideHuman new facebook page. ? Please sign and share the petition : ? Please follow @SacRideHuman on twitter. ? Add your group?s name to the letter : SacRideHuman at gmail.com Petitions: Please sign new petitions for Palestinian rights , including no weapons for Israel. Upcoming events: Phyllis Bennis will speak & sign her new book, Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror , in Sacramento on September 30, 7pm at Time Tested Books, 1114, 21st St, Sacramento. FMI: 916-447-5696 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Thu Sep 17 11:17:15 2015 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:17:15 -0700 Subject: SacRideHuman launch & new petitions for Palestinian Rights In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We included this event in the alert we just sent out and it is posted on the calendar at www.sacpeace.org. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:52 PM, < palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com> wrote: > *SacRideHuman:* > > The SacRideHuman campaign asking > Sacramento Regional Transit to end its contract with human > rights-violating G4S has > been launched! G4S, the world?s largest private security company is > complicit in and profiting from *well-documented violations of human > rights and other international laws > **. > **Sacramento Regional Transit?s contract with G4S expires at the end of > this fiscal year (6/30/15) unless the RT Board extends it. Over two dozen > local groups, several clergy and others have asked RT > not to extend the contract and to > incorporate criteria to *exclude companies that are involved in human > rights violations. Learn more at: www.SacRideHuman.org > Yes to public transportation! Yes to human rights! > > ? Please like and share the SacRTRiders4HumanRights- No G4S ? > SacRideHuman > > new facebook page. > > ? Please sign and share the petition > : > > ? Please follow @SacRideHuman on twitter. > ? Add your group?s name to the letter > : SacRideHuman at gmail.com > > > > *Petitions:* > Please sign new petitions for Palestinian rights > , including no weapons for Israel. > > > > > *Upcoming events:* > Phyllis Bennis will speak & sign her new book, Understanding ISIS and > the New Global War on Terror > > , in Sacramento on September 30, 7pm at Time Tested Books, 1114, 21st St, > Sacramento. FMI: 916-447-5696 > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Wed Sep 23 10:55:55 2015 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:55:55 -0700 Subject: Sign petition No G4S on RT; Two women speak on Palestine; new petitions Message-ID: Please sign & share the petition asking Sacramento Regional Transit (Sac RT) to not extend its contract with human rights-violating G4S . G4S, the largest private security company in the world, is complicit in and profiting from violation of human rights and international law around the globe. Churches, foundations, colleges and universities have divested from and refused to contract with G4S . 1000 Black activists, artists and scholars have recently called for join struggle again G4S, because ?G4S harms thousands of Palestinian political prisoners illegally held in Israel and hundreds of Black and brown youth held in its privatized juvenile prisons in the US. The corporation profits from incarceration and deportation from the US and Palestine, to the UK, South Africa, and Australia.? Here?s more you can do: - Like & share our Facebook page - Send a personal message to the Sac RT Board. - Follow on Twitter @SacRideHuman. - Add your group?s name to the letter to the RT Board ? email SacRideHuman at gmail.com - Help distribute handouts at your school, work, place of worship, and other locations: SacRideHuman at gmail.com Learn more at: www.SacRideHuman.org NOTE: This campaign is directed at G4S, not its local workers. They deserve to be rehired by a company that does not violate human rights and their right to organize must be guaranteed. --------------------------- Voices from Palestine: Two Women tell their Stories Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 7pm First United Methodist Church 2100 J Street, Sacramento FMI: SabeelSacramento at gmail.com Sahar Abbasi, a mother of four and deputy director of Madaa Silwan Creative Center located in East Jerusalem will provide a firsthand account of daily life under occupation and siege by the Israeli military. She will also talk about the impact of child arrests on the children as well as the larger community. Abbasi is on a U.S. tour hosted by the Middle East Children?s Alliance . Journalist Charlotte Silver , will talk about Gaza and the newly released anthology, Gaza Unsilenced. Silver reported from the West Bank, Palestine for two years. She writes regularly for The Electronic Intifada and Al Jazeera English. Her work has appeared on The Nation, In These Times, VICE and Jacobin Magazine. Room Number 4: Photograph display Illustrating the violations of Palestinian children?s rights in East Jerusalem, Room No 4 refers to the Israeli room at the Russian Compound in Jerusalem where the children are interrogated after they are arrested. The staged photos are accompanied by written testimonies from the children themselves. Additional photos show the violations of children?s rights in Jerusalem from home demolitions to illegal settler violence. Photographs from Gaza will also be displayed. --------------------------- Please sign new petitions for Palestinian rights: ? Stop the illegal Separation Barrier. ? Tell Congress: Stand against forced displacement. ? 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