From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Sun Mar 4 15:49:22 2018 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 15:49:22 -0800 Subject: Nat'l call in day March 5 to protect our right to boycott & other event updates. Message-ID: Please attend and spread the word about these actions and events for Palestinian rights: ? Monday, March 5, 2018 National call in day: Tell Congress (202-224-3121) to protect our right to boycott! Ask Reps Matsui , Bera , Garamendi or your representative , to vote no on HR 1697 - the Israel Anti-Boycott Act . Ask Senators Harris and Feinstein to vote no on the Senate?s version S 720. Lobbyists from the Israel lobby (AIPAC) are descending on Capitol Hill on March 6 to pressure Congress to criminalize boycott campaigns trying to stop the abuses of the Israeli regime including its illegal settlements. FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com ? Monday March 5 - Wed, March 7, 2018, 12 - 4:30pm, Palestine Unlimited: An exhibit by young Palestinians offering an intriguing look at their day-to-day lives. Closes 3/7. Robert Else Gallery, Kadema Hall, CSU Sacramento, 6000 J St. Sacramento. FMI: SacramentoBethlehem at yahoo.com ? Monday, March 19, 2018, 7pm, Film: Thank God it's Friday, a documentary about daily life in the Palestinian village and in its opposite Israeli settlement. The film does not try to present a narrative of ?two sides? who just misunderstand each other, rather everyone speak for themselves. 2425 Sierra Blvd, Sacramento. FMI: uujmesac at gmail.com ? Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 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. Save these dates: ? Sunday, April 22, 2018, 11am - 2pm, Protest the Israelis regime?s lobby, AIPAC, at their annual Sacramento Annual event. Location TBA. FMI: SacReg4PalestinanRights at gmail.com ?Sunday, April 29, 2018, 1pm, Protest Happy 70th Birthday Israel Party. There is nothing to celebrate about Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St, Sacramento. 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 Thu Mar 29 18:05:10 2018 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:05:10 -0700 Subject: Special eyewitness report 4/3/18 on Int'l solidarity ; take action on AIPAC Message-ID: ? Eyewitness report from international supporters of Palestinian resistance. Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7pm. 909 12th St. Sacramento. Two alumni of the International Solidarity Movement will share their experiences and provide an update on international activism in Palestine. Please share on facebook . Co-sponsored by the Leon Lefson Memorial Fund. FMI: 916-448-7157; SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com ? Mark your calendars: Sunday, April 22, 2018, 10:30am, Protest the pro-Israeli apartheid lobby, AIPAC , at their annual Sacramento Annual event. Hyatt Regency, 1209 L St. Sacramento. FMI: SacReg4PalestinanRights at gmail.com Sunday, April 29, 2018, 12:30pm, Protest event celebrating Apartheid Israel . There is nothing to celebrate about Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St, Sacramento. FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com. ? Send a simple message to your local electeds: Tell them ?Don?t go to the April 22, 2018 AIPAC meeting.? Click to find your Sacramento City Council member . Click to find your Sacramento Board of Supervisor . Click for your State Assemblymember and Senator . Click for: Representatives Matsui , Bera , Garamendi , Senator Harris See letter below for more information. Letter to Sacramento Area Elected officials: Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights c/o 909 12th St., Suite 118, Sacramento, CA 95814 - 916-448-7175 March 29, 2018 Dear You and other elected officials have likely been invited to the April 22, 2018 ?Sacramento AIPAC Community Annual Event,? sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which self-identifies as ?America?s pro-Israel lobby.? As your constituents, we urge you and your staff not to attend this event. AIPAC?s primary mission continues to be ensuring the ongoing flow of U.S. political and military support for Israel?s ever-alarming policies of dispossession, annexation, discrimination, extra-judicial killing, and armed aggression, all in gross violation of international law. AIPAC is promoting legislation in Congress, S 720 and HR 1697, that attack our right to boycott, a fundamental element of our constitutionally protected right to free speech. American citizens have a right to criticize our government and other governments, particularly ones receiving our tax dollars and political cover. At its recent showcase conference in Washington, D.C., AIPAC tried hard to backpedal from its increasing identification with the most hard line views. But as If-Not-Now1 leader Emily Mayer, expressed in a March 6, 2018 Ha? aretz article2, leading presidential contenders and other politicians stayed away this year, a sharp break from the past. AIPAC has no problem with Israel?s recent announcement of a blacklist under which leaders of U.S. groups including the American Friends Service Committee and Jewish Voice for Peace are being denied entry into Palestine by Israel, which controls all Palestine?s borders. Israel has prevented some of your Sacramento area constituents from entering Palestine; for some this means they cannot visit their families. Sane Americans and most U.S. Jews are aghast at Trump?s announcing plans to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel?s capital infers acceptance of Israel?s illegal annexation of East Jerusalem and large parts of the surrounding West Bank. Israel has illegally implanted hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews on occupied Palestinian land in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Meanwhile Israel puts relentless pressure on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents of Jerusalem who are denied basic rights including being able to elect the government that controls them. Americans are tired of endless wars. Their sentiments were expressed in June of last year at the U.S. Conference of Mayors who passed three resolutions opposing the military-heavy Trump budget proposal. We want our government to support human rights and international law, to utilize the power of diplomacy, and to not engage in more military aggression. In this regard, we are dismayed by the extent to which AIPAC and the right-wing Israeli regime have had so much influence on U.S. foreign policy. In contrast to AIPAC?s continuing support for Israel?s occupation and abuses, the California Democratic Platform calls for ending U.S. support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine. We urge you to support this call. Even if you are not a member of Congress, AIPAC seeks demonstrations of loyalty to its positions from political leaders at all levels to maintain the illusion of unanimous support. By attending the annual AIPAC event you send it a message of approval. We ask that you not send this message by not attending the AIPAC event. We are happy to meet with you to further discuss our concerns and address any questions you have. 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