From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Fri Jan 15 14:35:49 2016 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:35:49 -0800 Subject: January 2016 events & actions for Palestinian rights Message-ID: Upcoming January 2016 events, details below: - Sat, Jan. 16: Read Palestine Book Club at McClatchy library - Sun, Jan. 17: Twitter storm to protest AirBnB in illegal Israeli settlements - Mon, Jan. 18: Annual Martin Luther King Jr. March - Wed, Jan. 20: Tell ReMax to stop selling in illegal Israeli Settlements - Sun. Jan. 31: Protest annual AIPAC meeting in Sacramento Actions As Israel continues its attacks (see news links below), including extrajudicial killing of Palestinians and arrests of Palestinian children, it is imperative that our electeds hear from us. Please take these actions: ?Sign petition to Oppose H.Res. 567, Congress? Attack on EU?s Labeling of Israeli Settlement Goods ? Sign petition supporting Student Workers? Union Historic BDS vote ? Contact President Obama (202-456-1111) and urge him to veto HR 644 which includes a provision protecting Israel?s illegal West Bank settlements . All these settlements are in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention . ?Tell your California Assembly member to publically state they will not support recently introduced AB 1551 , the ?California Israel Commerce Protection Act? that attacks the successful efforts to use boycott and divestment to pressure Israel to ends its occupation, Apartheid policies, and violations of human rights and international law. Click for electeds contact info. ? Sign petition telling ReMax to stop selling in Israel?s illegal settlements. ? Sign petition asking Sacramento Regional Transit to not extend its contract with human rights violator G4S. Tell the Sac RT Board that you support public contracts only with ethical and socially responsible firms and G4S doesn?t meet that standard. News Links See Ma?an News for updates about the situation for Palestinians, including these articles: Majority of Jerusalem Palestinians detained in 2015 were minors Gazan 14-year-old sentenced to 6 months in prison by Israeli court Israeli soldier praised for shooting protesters in video footage Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian fishermen off Gazan coast See also: IMEU, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada Events in January 2016 Sacramento related to Palestine & Palestinian Rights Saturday, Jan 16, 2pm, SacramentoBethlehem Sister City Read Palestine Book club will discuss Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land . McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd St., Sacramento. FMI: SacramentoBethlehem at yahoo.com Sunday, Jan 17, Join Twitter storm to protest Airbnb renting illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land . Monday, Jan 18, Martin Luther King Jr Memorial marches . One march starts 8am from Grant Union High School, 1400 Grand Ave, Sacramento. FMI: 916-646-6631. One march starts 9am from Sac City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd, Sac, near Hughes Stadium. FMI: 916-426-4227. Both marches converge at Convention Center, 13th and K Sts. Sacramento. Two contingents leaving from Sac City College: Anti-war sacpeace at dcn.org, 916-448-7157 and anti-racism Sac at answercoalition.org, 916-572-9680 Tuesday, Jan 19, 4 - 6pm, Vigil for Palestinian rights. End U.S. aid to Israel. & Boycott companies aiding Israel's abuses . Sign petitions for Palestinian rights . 16th & J, Sacramento. 916-448-7157. Wednesday, Jan 20, 12:15 - 12:45pm, No Open House on Stolen Land! #RemodelREMAX Action CodePink. Sign petition. RE/MAX Gold Midtown Office 2014 Capitol Ave, Sacramento. FMI: arielgold19 at gmail.com Sunday, Jan 31, End U.S. support for Israel's human rights abuses, apartheid, extrajudicial killings, etc. etc. Protest at the annual event of AIPAC, the self-proclaimed Israel lobby. Time & Location TBA. FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or for more information, email: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Wed Jan 27 21:45:09 2016 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 21:45:09 -0800 Subject: This Sun, Jan 31: Protest AIPAC's Sacto annual event featuring neoconservative, racist, warmonger, climate change denier, Bret Stephens Message-ID: Come, bring your friends, family, colleagues and spread the word, share on facebook ? Protest AIPAC?s Annual Sacramento Event Calling itself America?s Pro-Israel Lobby, AIPAC advocates for continued U.S. financial ($10+ million/day) and political support for Israel's occupation, apartheid, extrajudicial killings, home demolitions, and other violations of human rights and international law. Sunday, January 31, 2016 11am-1pm Hyatt, 1209 L St, downtown Sacramento On street parking is free on Sundays FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com The event?s featured speaker is Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, neoconservative, racist, warmonger, anti-Palestinian, climate change denier Here are some articles by Bret Stephens: The Islamist Tantrum Palestine: The Psychotic Stage And articles about him: WSJ columnist says ?I?m almost grateful? for attack on kosher supermarket that killed four On Bret Stephens? hate speech ? If you have not already, please sign the petition asking Sacramento Regional Transit to not extend its contract with G4S: www.SacRideHuman.org ? Support Palestinian rights: don't buy products from or invest in companies that support Israel?s occupation & apartheid and sign petitions for Palestine at: www.sacbds.org/petitions To subscribe, unsubscribe or for more information, contact the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights, SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: