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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>● Press Conference calling for an End to Israel’s Rampage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 9am, <br>Federal Building, 501 I St, Sacramento<br>FMI: <a href="mailto:SacramentoBDS@gmail.com">SacramentoBDS@gmail.com</a><br>916-769-1641 – 916-448-7157<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please bring letters to deliver to Rep. Matsui and Senator Boxer, whose offices are in the building.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>● If you have not done so, please:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Contact<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact"><span style='background:white'>Pres. Obama</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black;background:white'> </span></span><span style='color:black;background:white'>and Congress and tell them to demand that Israel respect international law and immediately<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20140630_refrain_from_acts_of_vengeance"><span style='background:white'>end its rampage against the Palestinian people</span></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Obama 202-456-1111 or<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact"><span style='background:white'>email</span></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>. Congress: 202-224-3121. <br>Email Reps:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://matsui.house.gov/email-representative-matsui"><span style='background:white'>Matsui</span></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://bera.house.gov/connect-with-me/email-ami"><span style='background:white'>Bera</span></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://garamendi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me"><span style='background:white'>Garamendi</span></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://mcclintockforms.house.gov/forms/contact-form.shtmlm"><span style='background:white'>McClintock</span></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="http://www.house.gov/"><span style='background:white'>others</span></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>. Email Senators: </span><a href="https://www.boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm"><span style='background:white'>Boxer</span></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me"><span style='background:white'>Feinstein</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black;background:white'> </span></span><span style='color:black;background:white'>FMI: <a href="mailto:SacramentoBDS@gmail.com">SacramentoBDS@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Also contact the Israeli consulate 415-844-7500, email<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:info@SanFrancisco.mfa.gov.il@jps.net"><span style='background:white'>info@SanFrancisco.mfa.gov.il</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black;background:white'> </span></span><span style='color:black;background:white'>. Although Israel has announced that it <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/report-israel-finds-three-bodies-hebron-2014630162857704850.html">found the bodies of the 3 missing</a> teens, it cannot use their tragic deaths to continue inflicting collective punishment by murdering, arresting, torturing, and home demolitions. <br><br>FMI: <a href="http://sacbds.org/take-action-2/">http://sacbds.org/take-action-2/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>● And if you have not contacted your state assembly person on SCR 121</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, please do that: <a href="http://sacbds.org/stop-scr-121/">http://sacbds.org/stop-scr-121/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Organizational statements regarding Israel’s rampage: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [Statement from American Muslims for Palestine, <a href="http://www.ampalestin.org">www.ampalestin.org</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The American Muslims for Palestine, a national education and advocacy organization, holds that all life is sacred. And while the world marks the deaths of the three Israeli settlers, AMP asserts that Palestinian life is no less important. We call upon western media and President Barack Obama to recognize the more than one dozen Palestinians who have been killed since Israel launched “Operation Brothers’ Keeper” on June 12 in response to the settlers’ disappearance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[Statement from Israeli human rights organization, B'Tselem, <a href="http://www.btselem.org">http://www.btselem.org</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> “B'Tselem renews its call to the Israeli government to refrain from acts of vengeance for the abduction and killing of the three Israeli teens. B'Tselem cautions the security forces to avoid harming the innocent Palestinian population, or abusing the public atmosphere in Israel with the discovery of the bodies, to impose collective punishment, as was done in the past two weeks as part of the searches. The deliberate harming of an entire civilian population as punishment for the actions of individuals is both illegal and immoral. Additionally, the security forces must prepare for possible acts of revenge by settlers.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IMEU Fact Sheet on Israel’s rampage as of June 27: <a href="http://imeu.org/article/israels-west-bank-crackdown">http://imeu.org/article/israels-west-bank-crackdown</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>