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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt"><strong>This Friday, November 29, </strong>2013, 2:30 - 4:30pm,</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span> c</span>ome to the rally for <strong>International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People</strong> and Boycott SodaStream. Front of Arden Fair Mall, Arden & Heritage, Sacramento. FMI: <a href="mailto:pm141@att.net" target="_blank">pm141@att.net</a>; <a href="mailto:sacpeace@dcn.org" target="_blank">sacpeace@dcn.org</a>; <a href="tel:916-448-7157" target="_blank" value="+19164487157">916-448-7157</a></span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">As U.S. taxpayers we have a responsibility to do what we can to end U.S. financial and political support for Israel’s human rights abuses.<span> </span>Please take action:</font></span></span></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">● <b>Tell Congress</b> you want all U.S. aid to Israel halted until Israel ends its violations of human rights and international law. <span> </span>This includes ending the deadly blockade of Gaza: 1.7 million people are trapped in Gaza with raw sewage running down the street because Israel has completely cut them off by land, sea and air.<br>
</font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"><span> </span>Call <a href="tel:202-224-3121" target="_blank" value="+12022243121">202-224-3121</a> and email through: </font></span><a href="http://www.house.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">www.house.gov</font></span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> and </font></span><a href="http://www.senate.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">www.senate.gov</font></span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"></span></div>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">● <b>Sign the petition</b> to Stop the Jewish National Fund (JNF) from receiving charitable tax exemption for discrimination including participating in the forced displacement of 30,000 Bedouin Palestinians, and isolation of another 40,000, from their lands. </font></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sdRGP7FxSo5xlI2FSdjVxJfURA9w5xBeZ54EHK6gGTk/viewform?edit_requested=true" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:blue"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sdRGP7FxSo5xlI2FSdjVxJfURA9w5xBeZ54EHK6gGTk/viewform?edit_requested=true</font></span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">Read Update from A Sacramento Activist in Palestine: <a href="http://www.sacbds.org/palestine-update-nov-2013" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"><strong>www.sacbds.org/palestine-update-nov-2013</strong></font></span></a></font></span></b></p>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">"Even after five weeks in Palestine’s West Bank, daily reality is still stark. Every day there are incidents of brutality of Israeli soldiers, settlers, and the state. Every day Israel violates International Law and human rights with impunity. <span> </span></font></span></font></span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"></font></span></b></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span><font size="3"><strong>During this visit I have: </strong>
<div> -</div></font><font size="3">witnessed and heard first-hand accounts of Israeli soldier and settler violence against Palestinian civilians;<span> </span></font></span></div>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">- listened to a young woman who was jailed and psychologically abused by her interrogators in an attempt to stop her from non-violent activism;<span> </span></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">-<span> </span>been tear gassed by Israeli soldiers and had rocks thrown at me by illegal Israeli settlers;<span> </span></font></span></p>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">- heard repeated reports of Israeli soldiers conducting night raids into Palestinian homes;</font></span></div>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">- been with a Palestinian man who was just told by an Israeli official that menacing illegal Israeli settlers would be allowed to stay on the land they had stolen and that he, as a Palestinian, would have to ask permission from the Israeli army to use his own land; </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">- seen Palestinian men pulled off a Palestinian bus by Israeli soldiers, likely to be interrogated using physical and psychological violence;</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3">- heard a human rights attorney describe the arrest and detention of a child including his being so tightly handcuffed with plastic tie that his swollen hands bled; his being transported on the metal floor of a jeep racing through roughly-paved roads; his abuse at the hands of interrogators; and his being denied an attorney, the right to remain silent, and the accompaniment of his parents.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">I have also stood with Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"> in resistance to these abuses.<span> </span>More need to stand with us.<span> </span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN">Please raise your voice to stop these human rights abuses so that there can be justice for the people of Palestine/Israel."</span></font></p>
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