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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-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Please <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-of-Freedom-and-Justice/782170095158770">click to sign and share the petition</a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> to the Sacramento Kings: Call foul on war crimes! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>The Kings are one of 6 U.S. & Canadian basketball teams involved in exhibition games with Israeli teams this month. These games have been or are being <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/181907/israels-war-gaza-not-game-scenes-nba-preseason-protest">protested</a> in each of the five cities (<a href="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nY3dopUvf24&sns=fb">Cleveland</a>, <a href="https://m.facebook.com/events/637040066410796/">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1511114582467257">Washington DC</a>, Portland, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-of-Freedom-and-Justice/782170095158770">Sacramento</a> <span style='color:black'>and Toronto) because they are <span style='background:white'>intended to divert attention from Israel’s very recent</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:#4B4F4F;background:white'> </span></span><u><span style='color:#0033CC'><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/11/us-mideast-gaza-war-idUSKBN0H60XZ20140911"><span style='color:#0033CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>war crimes</span></a></span></u><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:#4B4F4F;background:white'> </span><span style='color:black;background:white'>in Gaza and its other human rights violations.</span></span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:#4B4F4F;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4B4F4F;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-converted-space><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:red;background:white'>On </span></b></span><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:red'>Saturday, October 18, 2014, 5:45pm. Join the Sacramento protest and ask the Kings to boycott Israeli sportswashing</span></b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:red'>. Sleep Train Arena, Exact location TBA, <span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:white'>Sacramento. FMI:</span></span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;background:white'> </span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4B4F4F;background:white'><a href="mailto:SacramentoBDS@gmail.com">SacramentoBDS@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#4B4F4F;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#006600;background:white'><a href="http://www.firstgiving.com/team/273795"><span style='color:#006600'>Join or sponsor the Sacramento Team for the 5 K Walk/Run for Gaza</span></a></span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white'> on Saturday, October 18, </span></span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white'>Lake Merced Park near CSU San Francisco. Carpools from Sacramento: SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com or <a href="mailto:dlmandel@gmail.com">dlmandel@gmail.com</a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:blue;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#7030A0;background:white'>Upcoming events: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:blue;background:white'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;background:white'>Tuesday, Oct 21</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;background:white'>, 2014, 4 - 6pm, Protest U.S. Support for Israel's human rights abuses</span></b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;background:white'>. End the blockade of Gaza. 16th & J, Sacramento. FMI: 916-448-7157; sacpeace@dcn.org</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> <b><span style='color:black;background:white'>Wednesday, Oct 22</span></b><b><span style='color:black;background:white'>, 2104,</span><span style='background:white'> 7pm, On the ground: Palestinian non-violent popular resistance</span></b><span style='background:white'>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/675214229259469/?context=create&previousaction=create&source=49&sid_create=3391818668">Talk by Basim Tamimi</a>, a leader of West Bank villagers struggling to stop the theft of their land, water and future. Chapel, First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St, Sacramento. Free, donations welcome. FMI: SabeelSacramento@gmail.com</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;background:white'>Sunday, Nov 9</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;background:white'>,</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white'> 2014, 12:30pm,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.sacramentobethlehem.org/">Sacramento Bethlehem Sister City</a> Celebrates 5 years</span></b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white'> in "sistership" with Bethlehem, Palestine! Delicious Palestinian food; displays; and sales of holiday crafts and olive oil. St John's Hall, Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 5057 Cottage Way, Carmichael. FMI: SacramentoBethlehem@yahoo.com</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>