From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Thu Jun 6 13:19:02 2024 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 13:19:02 -0700 Subject: Sacramento Area Palestinian Rights Updates: Redline protest 6-8, Pride events 6-8 & 6-9, and more Message-ID: For updates: www.Sac4Palestine.org Tell Matsui, Bera, Biden, etc. to stop arming Israel and end the genocide now! Click to take action now . SACRAMENTO AREA EVENTS FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS ? Support UC Davis Student Encampment to end the genocide in Gaza. Quad, UC Davis, Davis, CA. FMI: @davispulp, PULPhelp at gmail.com, @sjpatucd ? Thur. June 6, 6-7:30pm, Boycott Sadaf Teach-in and Strategy Session to be rescheduled. FMI: PalestineAmericanLeague at gmail.com ? Thur. June 6, 6pm. Support Folsom Students? Right to Free Speech. Education Services Center Boardroom, 1965 Birkmont Ct. Rancho Cordova. ? Sat. June 8, 2024, 9am-12pm, Run 4 Palestine: Gaza 3 K, William Land Park, 3800 William Land Park Dr. Sacramento ? Sat. June 8, 2024, 11:30am. Queers for Palestine protesting SacPride. DM for location: norcal_antiwar_action ? Sat. June 8, 2024, 6-8pm. We are the Redline to stop the Genocide in Gaza. Part of a National Day of Action. 20th & J Sts., Sacramento. Wear red. ? Sun. June 9, 2024, 10:30am. No pride in Genocide Rally. Sacramento Gay Pride, Southside Park 2115 6th St, Sacramento. FMI: @SacQueersforPalestine ? Sun. June 9, 2024, 11:30am Vigil for Queer and Trans Martyrs. Bring something for the altar. Southside Park Mural. 2115 6th St, Sacramento. FMI: @queersportz, @SacQueersforPalestine ? Tues. June 11, 4:30-5:30pm. Vigil for Palestine at Rep. Thompson?s office, 622 Main St, Woodland. ? Tues. June 18, 4:30-5:30pm. Vigil for Palestine at Rep. Thompson?s office, 622 Main St, Woodland. ? Sat. June 22, 2024 ? SAVE the date for family picnic and kite flying for Palestine, details TBA. ? Tues. June 25, 4:30-5:30pm. Vigil for Palestine at Rep. Thompson?s office, 622 Main St, Woodland. ? Sat. June 29, 2024 10:30-11:30am Shabbat service with Tzedek Tirdof, Anti-Zionist havurah. First United Methodist 2100 J St. Sacramento. ? Nov. 14-16, 2024. International Conference on Genocide. CSUS, Sacramento. ? Online events, visit @sac4palestine on Instagram. San Francisco Bay Area events, go to: AROC Arab Resource & Organizing Center MORE ? Boycott companies that support Israel?s human rights abuses. Click for more info ? Got Human Rights Palestinian don?t t-shirts small sizes only. FMI: sacreg4palestinianrights at gmail.com. ? Urgent: Tell Congress to restore funding to UNWRA for Palestinian refugees. To see past events and actions, click here. Please do not reply to this message. To subscribe or unsubscribe, email SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Mon Jun 17 12:55:06 2024 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Call Assembly members today; come to a hearing Tuesday References: <1495562978.3799595.1718654106410.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: JVP California, our new statewide formation, has been working hard in opposition to?SB 1287, a state? bill that would unconstitutionally undermine free speech on campuses in an effort to stigmatize and suppress protests against Israeli actions and in support of Palestinian rights. Please use this?action alert from ACLU?to contact your Assembly member and those on the Assembly Higher Education Committee. Do it now, as the committee will hear the?bill? Tuesday. It will then likely go to the Judiciary Committee two weeks later. If you possibly can, join us at the hearing Tuesday, starting at 1:30 p.m. in the (old) Capitol, room 437. Unfortunately, we can't know exactly when SB 1287 will come up, amid 13 other bills. But when it does, everyone present can line up at the microphone, identify yourself and say in a few seconds why you're opposed. Attached is a one-page statement JVP is distributing to legislators explaining our opposition. Thanks very much for stepping up to help. And please stay tuned as SB 1287 likely advances toward a final vote, and as another bill we're opposing,?SB 1277, goes to hearing next week.? Please do not reply to this message. To subscribe or unsubscribe, email?SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: one pager on SB 1287.docx (2).pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 91222 bytes Desc: not available URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Mon Jun 24 12:41:39 2024 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Sacramento City Ethics Committee Mtg. at 5:30 TONIGHT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi All: This is going out late, but if anyone can attend to make public comments at the city's ethics committee meeting tonight, that would be great.? Here's the message I was asked to share. "The Ethics Commission will meet this Monday June 24th at 5:30pm to make a decision re: the report of the independent evaluator and there needs to be some presence that day to push for the 2 demands we made in our statement:? (1) pass a motion to direct the Evaluator to conduct further investigation on Sacramento City?s investment portfolio to determine whether or not the matter is fully outside the jurisdiction of the city as its report claims,?(2) pass a motion to direct its Administration, Investment and Fiscal Management Board to enforce socially responsible investments which include not having direct investments in corporations such as Caterpillar, Barclays Bank and Amazon as well as other corporations profiting from ongoing human rights violations in Palestine.? ? Can u make it to this meeting to make a public comment?" ? Please do not reply to this message. To subscribe or unsubscribe, email SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com ? ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Thu Jun 27 06:51:53 2024 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Action Alert: Students' Free Speech Rights Are Under Attack References: <1957314956.5994968.1719496313181.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: We need the community to attend the CA Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing on July 2nd at 8:30am to express its opposition to SB 1287, a bill that attempts to violate students' free speech rights. It is important to show up in large numbers at this hearing to voice our opposition to the bill. You should have an opportunity during public comment on the bill to say, "I oppose this bill." Below are some JVP talking points on the measure.? We hope you can attend this important hearing.?? ? SB 1287 IS PRIMARILY REDUNDANT LAWAfter being amended to delete several of its most flagrant violations of the First Amendment, SB 1287 reads mostly like a solution in search of a problem. Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act and existing California law already require UC, CSU, community colleges and most private institutions in the state to protect students from harm and empower them ? subject to constitutional limits ? to bar violence, illegaldiscrimination and acts of harassment or intimidation that create a ?hostile environment? that preventsmembers of the campus community from enjoying the benefits of higher education and campus life.? SB 1287 IS STILL UNCONSTITUTIONALNevertheless, SB 1287 still attempts to violate students? and faculty?s constitutionally protected right to freespeech by mandating the imposition of unspecified additional restrictions on student codes of conduct andby forcing students to waive these rights in order to enroll. This violates the First Amendment and theCalifornia Constitution.? SB 1287 IS AN ATTEMPT TO STIGMATIZE AND SUPPRESS CERTAIN SPEECHSB 1287 was introduced to try to silence students exercising their rights of free speech about Israel?sattacks on Gaza, for which the war crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide have been charged by majorhuman rights organizations.?SB 1287 DOESN?T FIGHT ANTISEMITISM, IT FEEDS ITThis includes Jewish students who do not agree with the pro-Israel lobby. The implied premise of the bill isthat ALL Jews think and act alike, which is clearly false. Criticizing Israel and advocating for a society withfreedom and equality for all are not antisemitism, let alone a threat to us as Jews; calling it that weaponizesfalse charges of antisemitism in service of a new McCarthyism ? and makes Jews and everyone else lesssafe.? SB 1287 IS INTENDED TO BULLY STUDENTS INTO SILENCESB 1287 seeks to bully students into silence by threatening them if they voice certain opinions. Today thoseopinions are about stopping the killing of civilians in Gaza. In the past such opinions could have beendemanding equal rights for all regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation or stopping the war onVietnam. Tomorrow these restrictions could be used against a different group.? SB 1287 IS A WASTE OF TAX DOLLARSCurrent law and public colleges and universities already protect students. SB 1287 would force them towaste untold tax dollars to first create new codes of conduct and train staff on them, then to defend the bill?sunconstitutional provisions in court, all at a time of major state deficits. Please do not reply to this message. To subscribe or unsubscribe, email SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG-20240626-WA0000 (2).jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 379666 bytes Desc: not available URL: