Vigil this Friday in solidarity with striking Palestinian prisoners & other events

[palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com]

♦ Friday, May 12, 2017, 5 – 7pm, Stand with Palestinian Hunger Strikers! <https://www.facebook.com/events/248862838922278/?ti=icl>  Free Palestine, end the occupation! Rally at 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. Hundreds of West Bank prisoners illegally detained by Israel declared a hunger strike on 4/17/17 to demand an end to their inhumane treatment behind bars. There are over 6,500 Palestinians in Israeli prisons and 500 being held indefinitely without charges.  FMI: 916-572-9680; sac at answercoalition.org

Take Action:  Call the White House (202-456-1111) and Congress (202-224-3121) and demand that Israel: 1) free all Palestinian child prisoners; 2) free all prisoners held without charges; and 3) end its inhumane prison conditions, solidarity confinement, and other abuses. More info:   Stop Administrative Detention campaign <http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=242&qid=369231>  and  <http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=243&qid=369231> Human Rights Defenders campaign.

♦ Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 4 – 6pm, Monthly Vigil for Palestinian rights. End U.S. aid to Israel. <http://www.aidtoisrael.org/section.php?id=379>  & Boycott companies aiding Israel’s abuses <http://www.sacbds.org/products> . Sign petitions for Palestinian rights <http://www.sacbds.org/petitions> . 16th & J, Sacramento. 916-448-7157.

♦ Sunday, May 21, 2017, 6pm, Vigil to protest the  <https://allevents.in/orangevale/the-prayer-for-israel-summit-sacramento-ca/272215526569658m> Prayer for [Apartheid] Israel Summit.  6521 Hazel Ave, Orangevale. FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com.

♦ Saturday June 10, 5 – 9pm, 2nd Saturday.  Photography by Bethlehem students.  First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. Sacramento. FMI: SacramentoBethlehem at yahoo.com

♦  <https://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=21599> Sign petition to ask the band Radiohead not to play in Israel.

♦  <https://freeissa.org/> Sign petition to free non-violent activist Issa Amro, who spoke in Sacramento last year.

♦ Boycott Hewlett-Packard <http://www.sacbds.org/> 

♦ See www.SacPeace.org <http://www.sacpeace.org/>  calendar for more community peace & justice events.

♦ Check us out on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sacramento-Regional-Coalition-for-Palestinian-Rights/714098718655522?ref=hl> .

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