From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Wed Jan 4 15:32:27 2017 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:32:27 -0800 Subject: Urgent: tell Congress Israeli settlements are illegal & attend 1/9/17 RT meeting Message-ID: Tell Congress Israeli settlements are a violation of international law! Contact your U.S. Representative right now and tell them to vote NO on House Resolution 11 which provides political backing for Israel?s ongoing, illegal colonization of Palestinian land by objecting to the action taken last week at the United Nations in which the U.S. abstained from voting on UN Security Council Resolution 2334, reiterating the illegality of Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory. The decision by the Obama administration to abstain allowed the resolution to pass. Call the Congressional Switchboard, 202-224-3121, to be connected to any representative. The House is schedule to vote on this measure on Thursday, January 5 2017 Click here for more info. Tell Sacramento Regional Transit not to give preference to multinational corporations! Attend the Monday, January 9, 2017, 6pm meeting of Sacramento Regional Transit, 1400 29th St (between N & O) and tell the board that local preference points should only be given to companies that are headquartered in the Sacramento Region, NOT to multinational corporations that have an office in Sacramento. Multinational G4S, involved in human rights abuses around the world including in the U.S. and with the Israeli military, was given bonus points when it bid for (and got) RT?s private security contract in 2012 for being ?local? because it has an office in Sacramento. No multinational corporation should be getting extra points just because they have a local office (which is required anyway for a private security company to get the bid). Also, tell the RT Board not to prohibit advertising for the dissemination, debate, and/or discussion of public issues. RT is proposing to allow alcohol ads while it restricts ads that address public issues. Click here for more info and action. Don?t Buy or Invest in Hewlett-Packard or other companies that profit from Israel?s brutal, deadly and illegal occupation of Palestine. Hewlett-Packard (H-P) is among the world?s top military providers, specializing in technologies to control and monitor large populations, which it sells to prison authorities, immigration police, and military regimes. These H-P technologies help: ? Deport U.S. immigrants on a scale we have not seen before. ? Deny Palestinians freedom of movement in the West Bank & Gaza. ? Israel to maintain its brutal occupation, segregation & apartheid with H-P biometric IDs, retinal scanning & other products. ?Track Americans held within the massive & discriminatory incarceration system. ? Limit human rights and civil rights, a threat to all of us. H-P also uses prison slave labor. For more info: www.SacBDS.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Mon Jan 16 20:51:26 2017 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:51:26 -0800 Subject: No child behind bars Jan 18, action alert on illegal settlements & Jan & Feb Palestinian rights events Message-ID: Take action: Tell Senator Kamela Harris to remove her name as a co-sponsor of Senate Resolution 6, which supports Israel's illegal settlements, and to vote against it when it comes to the Senate Floor. Tell Harris she is starting off on the wrong foot - backing the Israel lobby instead of standing up for human rights and international law - including those of Palestinians! Sen Res 6 denounces last month's United Nations action affirming that Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, are illegal. Click for more info . You can use Harris' online form to send a message, and call or fax (do it all!): (202) 224-3553 Fax (202) 224-2200 ; Sacramento office: Phone (916) 448 - 2787 ; Event highlight: Wednesday, Jan 18, 2017, 7pm, No Child Behind Bars : Living Resistance from the US to Palestine, featuring Amanda Weatherspoon, Unitarian Universalist minister whose ministry is centered on collective liberation and 15 year old Ahed Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, Palestine. Unitarian Universalist Society, 2425 Sierra Blvd Sacramento. Click for facebook event page. FMI: UUJMESac at gmail.com More Events January & February 2017 Tuesday, Jan 17, 4 - 5:30pm, Monthly 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. Tuesday, Jan 31, 6:30pm, Potluck & discussion of The Way to the Spring, the acclaimed book about civil resistance in the occupied West Bank by Ben Ehrenreich who will speak in Sacramento on Feb 13. Call 917 913-5412 to RSVP & for the address (Tahoe Park neighborhood). Discounted copies of book available. FMI: sacramento at jewishvoiceforpeace.org. Monday, Feb 13, 7pm, Author Ben Ehrenreich speaks on The Way to the Spring , his acclaimed book about civil resistance in the occupied West Bank. Time-Tested Books, 1114 21st St., Sacramento. Discounted books available. FMI: sacramento at jewishvoiceforpeace.org Tuesday, Feb 21, 4 - 6, Monthly 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: