From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Fri Apr 6 12:48:17 2018 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 12:48:17 -0700 Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?Take_Action_to_stop_Israel's_killing_of_unarmed_Palestinian_?= =?us-ascii?Q?demonstrators?= Message-ID: Take action to stop Israel's killing of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators: 1) Send an email to Congress: https://org.salsalabs.com/o/641/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=2294 9 2) Forward this email, and share this video and action alert on Facebook and Twitter More information from U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights: A week ago today, 30,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began six weeks of sit-ins and demonstrations to demand their internationally recognized right of return to the villages they were displaced from in 1948, which lie just a few miles away, totally inaccessible to the residents of the besieged coastal enclave. As they exercised their right to protest, Israel met them with brutal force and 100 snipers, killing 18 Palestinians and injuring more than 1,400. The Israeli military used drones to drop tear gas over the encampments of the demonstrators, where entire families were gathered, and prevented medics from evacuating the injured. And then they bragged about it, tweeting that they knew where every bullet landed. Palestinians are being killed for having the audacity to assert their right to freedom, justice, equality, and life. Email your Members of Congress today to tell them that Palestinians have the right to protest without paying for it with their lives. Human Rights Watch blasted the Israeli military's actions, calling them unlawful and saying, "Israeli soldiers were not merely using excessive force, but were apparently acting on orders that all but ensured a bloody military response to the Palestinian demonstrations." Israel's devaluing of Palestinian lives and regular use of excessive force are not new, but central features of its illegal military occupation and apartheid regime. Today, the Palestinians participating in the Great Return March are marching again. They are being met with tear gas and live fire from Israeli snipers, again. One Palestinian, 39-year-old Usama Khamis Qudeih, has already been killed and more than 40 others injured with live ammunition. Israel is expecting to act with impunity, as it has so many times in the past. It is past time for us to demand accountability. EMAIL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NOW TO DEMAND THE US OPEN AN INVESTIGATION INTO ISRAEL'S UNLAWFUL KILLINGS OF 18 PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS IN GAZA. Congress will not act until they hear from YOU. When they hear your voices, your Members of Congress may call for an investigation into the murders of the 18 who lost their lives last week. Israel's impunity must come to an end. After you take action, forward this email to three friends to encourage them to stand up for Palestinian rights. As Palestinian analyst Diana Buttu wrote in the Washington Post, "An independent investigation would highlight that Gaza remains under Israel's 50-year-old military rule and decade-old naval blockade, cut off from the world. It would undoubtedly highlight that, in addition to the electrified fence on Gaza's eastern and northern sides, Gaza is blocked in with a concrete wall to the south and by the naval blockade to the west. It would highlight that all of the Palestinians killed were killed inside Gaza, and within the undefined Israeli-imposed 'buffer zone' that further cuts into Gaza's territory, in many places by as much as 1,000 feet. In the words of one protester friend shot on Friday, 'We did not go to the buffer zone; the buffer zone came to us.' An independent investigation would undoubtedly highlight that live fire may only be used against combatants participating in military action. Killing people is neither a video game nor a sport. In sum, an investigation would reveal that for Israel, it does not matter that Palestinians protest; our lives are considered expendable." I can't say it enough times, M. Your voice matters, now more than ever. Tell your representatives that you will not stand for the continued impunity of Israel as it steals and suffocates Palestinian lives. Demand an investigation today. In solidarity, Yousef Munayyer, Executive Director U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Fri Apr 20 18:54:21 2018 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:54:21 -0700 Subject: This Sunday, April 22, Protest AIPAC: the anti-human rights, pro-apartheid, pro-killing Israel lobby Message-ID: Protest AIPAC: the anti-Palestinian, pro-war, pro-Israeli apartheid lobby! This Sunday, April 22, 2018, 10:15am at the non-union Hyatt Regency, 1209 L Street, Sacramento. Do you support protecting human rights for all? Do you oppose extrajudicial killing and the militarization of our police? Do you oppose the U.S. war machine and the killing of civilians? If you support unions, oppose racism, and work for justice, join us this Sunday! AIPAC's choice of a non-union hotel for its annual Sacramento meeting is consistent with its blatant disregard for civil and human rights of Palestinians, other Arab peoples in the region, as well as indigenous people in Latin America and Asia. AIPAC intimidates Congress into supporting Israel's racist, apartheid, pro-war, anti-Palestinian agenda. The Israeli regime executes Palestinians like U.S. police murder people of color here - shoot to kill, ask questions later. AIPAC endorses the police exchanges between the U.S. and Israel - these exchanges promoting the worst practices of both countries including militarized policing and abuse of the civil rights of people of color. Israel supplies weapons, surveillance equipment, and training that fueled the military abuses in Guatemala, among others, and sold advanced weapons to Myanmar during its anti-Rohingya ethnic cleansing campaign. Israel destroys the homes of Palestinians, steals their land and water, ruins their livelihoods, and is trying to ethnically cleanse them from their homeland, like settler colonists did to the native people of this country. >From Stephon Clark to unarmed protestors in Gaza: Stop the killing! End U.S. aid to Israel - End U.S./Israel police exchanges! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Fri Apr 27 17:31:11 2018 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:31:11 -0700 Subject: Join our protest this Sunday April 29: Israel's abuses are nothing to celebrate! Message-ID: Stand up for Human Rights! Protest Event celebrating Apartheid Israel There is nothing to celebrate about Israel's killing unarmed demonstrators & journalists in Gaza, apartheid laws, home demolitions, land theft, torturing children or ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. This Sunday: April 29, 2018 12:30pm Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St, Sacramento Share on facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/2088427744761570/ Sign Petitions for Palestinian rights: www.sacbds.org/petitions More info: Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights, SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com. www.Sac4Palestine.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: