From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Sun Feb 3 16:23:09 2019 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 16:23:09 -0800 Subject: Ask our reps to attend Tuesday (2/5) briefing with Gaza moms and children Message-ID: ? Click here to invite your Congressional representative to attend the ?I care about Peace? briefing this Tuesday, February 5. This briefing, hosted by Senator Feinstein, features Palestinian children from the West Bank and Gaza presenting their visions of peace to Congress. It will be held in Capitol Building, Room SVC 212-10, Washington DC. ? Click Here to invite your Senators and Rep. to go see for themselves what is happening in Palestine/Israel. Rebuilding Alliance's second Congressional Leadership Learning Mission to Jerusalem & the West Bank will take place March 15-23rd. This fact-finding mission provides Congress with an opportunity to meet with Palestinian families in the West Bank and Jerusalem in villages and neighborhoods facing demolition. Rebuilding Alliance will raise funds to pay for each Senator?s or Representative?s trip and for one family member on this fact-finding mission in support of equal rights for Palestinians. Based upon Ethics Committee rules, participants have until February 13th to submit their application. Please join us at these upcoming events for Palestinian rights: ? Sunday, Feb 10, 2019, 10:30am, Protest the Pro-Israel lobby AIPAC annual event in Sacramento at the downtown Hyatt Regency, 1209 L St. Learn how the Israeli lobby spies on and tries to smear U.S. citizens and buy their elected officials. Watch The Lobby: Episodes 1 & 2 ? Episodes 3 & 4 . FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com ? Monday, Feb 11, 2019, 6pm, Discussion Series: Why Palestine Matters: The Struggle to End Colonialism. Fahs Room, Unitarian Universalists 2425 Sierra Blvd. Sacramento. FMI: Unionhackett at comcast.net, 916-716-3827. ?Tuesday, Feb 19, 2019, 4 - 6pm, Monthly Vigil for Palestinian rights. End the Siege on Gaza. End U.S. aid to Israel. & Boycott companies aiding Israel's abuses. 16th & J, Sacramento. 916-448-7157. ? Sunday, Feb 24, 2019, 1pm, Countering Repression of Activists: Protecting our right to dissent and boycott. UCD Prof Sunaina Maira and former Students for Justice in Palestine president Marcell Obeid address attempts to silence students and faculty who have organized for Palestinian rights and what this means for all efforts to challenge injustice. Click for Maira's book Boycott: The Academy and Justice for Palestine. Obeid is interviewed in The Lobby series. Doors open 12:30pm for refreshments. Arden Dimick Library, 891 Watt, Sacramento. FMI: 916-448-7157; SacPeace at dcn.org. ?Tuesday, Feb 26, 2019, 6pm, Discussion Series: Why Palestine Matters: The Struggle to End Colonialism. Fahs Room, Unitarian Universalists 2425 Sierra Blvd. Sacramento. FMI: Unionhackett at comcast.net, 916-716-3827. Save the date: Sunday, May 5, 2019. Protest the annual Celebrating Israeli apartheid event. Time & location TBA. Please do not reply to this email, send any questions, requests to subscribe or unsubscribe to SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Fri Feb 22 07:42:48 2019 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:42:48 -0800 Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?Countering_the_Israel_Lobby's_Repression_of_Activists_Sunday?= =?us-ascii?Q?_Feb_24?= Message-ID: Countering the Israel Lobby's Repression of Activists: Protecting our Right to Dissent and Boycott Sunday, February 24, 2019 Arden Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave. Sacramento. Doors open 12:30pm for refreshments. Program starts at 1pm. Addressing the attempts to silence students and faculty who have organized for Palestinian rights and what this means for all efforts to challenge injustice. Presenters: Sunaina Maira, organizer for the U.S. Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis. Her recent book is Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine. Marcelle Obeid, past president of UC Davis Students for Justice in Palestine. Obeid is interviewed in the Al Jazeera series, The Lobby, that exposes how the Israeli lobby spies on and tries to smear U.S. citizens & buy our elected officials. Watch: The Lobby; links at sac4palestine.org FMI: 916-448-7157; SacPeace at dcn.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: