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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:red'>√ We can do it – 1000 signatures!</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><br><a href="http://www.sacridehuman.org/">The petition</a> asking Sacramento Regional Transit to end its contract with human rights violator G4S is nearing its original goal of 1000 signatures. You can help by <a href="http://www.sacridehuman.org/">signing the petition</a> if you haven’t already, by sharing it on FaceBook and by personally asking friends, family, colleagues to sign. See below for a message you can send out asking others to sign.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'>→ </span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:red'>Night in Gaza with Dr. Mads Gilbert<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black;background:white'>3pm DiCarli Rm, UC Davis Memorial Union, Davis and <br>7pm First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. Sacramento. FMI: sacramento@jvp.org; 530-868-6587.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;text-autospace:none'><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447269999565_4357"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'> </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white;text-autospace:none'><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447269999565_4409"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'>DR. Mads Gilbert </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'>is the Medical Director, Clinic of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway and a professor at the University of Tromso (UiT), the Arctic University of Norway. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'>Dr. Gilbert was working at al-Shifa Hospital during Israel's assault on Gaza in the Summer of 2014 after which Israel banned him from re-entering the blockaded zone. His new book on the 2014 war, <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447269999565_4429"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/23/doctor-mads-gilbert-gaza-shifa-hospital-camera-kalashnikov">Night in Gaza<span style='font-style:normal'> </span></a></i>was released in June 2015 by Skyscraper Publications. He previously co-authored <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447269999565_4431">Eyes in Gaza </i>with his colleague Erik Fosse, an account of their experiences at al-Shifa during Israel's deadly assault on Gaza during ‘Operation Cast Lead’ (December 2008 - January 2009). Dr. Gilbert has published several papers on Gaza in<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447269999565_4433">The Lancet</i>. He has done medical work in Gaza, Occupied Palestine, for the last 15 years, and is the only Western medical doctor who has worked clinically in Gaza's hospitals during the last four Israeli attacks on Gaza (2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014). <br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'>Since the 1980s Dr. Gilbert has been heavily involved in medical solidarity work around the world, carrying out training programs and helping war wounded patients in Burma, Angola, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Lebanon, and elsewhere. He is a co-founder of the Norwegian Aid Committee (NORWAC). Gilbert was appointed a Commander of the Order of St Olav in 2013, in recognition of his international work and his services to emergency medicine in Norway. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#007434'>♦</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#007434'> Sample message to help end Sacramento’s support for G4S’ human rights violations:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Please sign and share </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><a href="http://fosna.nationbuilder.com/srt_g4s"><b>the petition</b></a><b> asking </b><a href="http://www.sacridehuman.org/rt-letter"><b>Sacramento Regional Transit (Sac RT)</b></a><b> to not extend its contract with </b><a href="http://sacridehuman.org/jvp-report"><b>human rights-violating G4S</b></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>●</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'> G4S, the largest private security company in the world, <a href="http://www.sacridehuman.org/g4s-fact-sheet">is complicit in and profiting from violation of human rights and international law around the globe. </a> <br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>●</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'> Churches, foundations, colleges and universities have <a href="http://sacridehuman.org/who">divested from and refused to contract with G4S</a>. <br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>●</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><a href="http://www.ebony.com/news-views/1000-black-activists-artists-and-scholars-demand-justice-for-palestine-403#axzz3jCGknK1O">1000 Black activists, artists and scholars</a> have recently called for join struggle again G4S, because “<span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'>G4S harms thousands of Palestinian political prisoners<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="http://www.palestinecampaign.org/campaign/prisoners/"><span style='color:#0070C0;background:white'>illegally held in Israel</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:#45B33D;background:white;text-decoration:none'> </span></span></a><span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'>and hundreds of Black and brown<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="http://www.djj.state.fl.us/programs-facilities/residential-facilities"><span style='color:#0070C0;background:white'>youth held in its privatized juvenile prisons</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'> </span></span><span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'>in the US. The corporation profits from incarceration and deportation from the US and Palestine,</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:#0070C0;background:white'> </span></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/22/g4s-convictions-deaths-employees-racial-overtones"><span style='color:#0070C0;background:white'>to the UK</span></a><span style='color:#0070C0;background:white'>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/13/south-african-prisoners-sue-g4s-over-torture-claims"><span style='color:#0070C0;background:white'>South Africa</span></a><span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'>, and<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/manus-security-firm-g4s-responsible-for-february-violence-says-law-centre"><span style='color:#0070C0;background:white'>Australia</span></a><span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'>.” <br><br></span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#2A2A2A;background:white'>●</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#2A2A2A;background:white'> G4S </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/resources/fact-sheets/3541-the-environmental-impact-of-israeli-settlements-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territories"><span style='background:white'>contributes to environmental destruction</span></a><span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'> through its complicity with Israel’s illegal military occupation and settlements.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#2A2A2A;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Background:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'> In 2010, G4S bought Wackenhut, the national company that was providing private security personnel on light rail trains and at stations. In 2013, <a href="http://iportal.sacrt.com/WebApps/SRTDBM/MeetingDocs/Archives/RT%20Board%20of%20Directors%20-%20April%208,%202013%20-%20Agenda%20Item%2005.pdf"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Sacramento Regional Transit entered into a 3-year $12+ million contract with G4S for these services<sup>4</sup></span></a>. That contract expires on June 30, 2016 unless the Regional Transit board extends it; two one-year extensions were provided for in the 2013 contract. The Regional Transit Board should announce soon that it is not going to extend the G4S contract so that a new request for proposal can be put out or other options considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>More you can do to support this effort:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>- Like & share our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Sac-RT-Riders-4-Human-Rights-NO-G4S-SacRideHuman-767941923331735/timeline">Facebook page</a> <br>- Follow @SacRideHuman on twitter<br>- Send a personal message to the <a href="http://www.sacrt.com/rtboard.stm">SacRT Board</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Please contact us at <a href="mailto:SacRideHuman@gmail.com">SacRideHuman@gmail.com</a> about:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>- Asking other groups to which you below to add their names to <a href="http://www.sacridehuman.org/rt-letter">the letter</a> <br>- Helping with distribution of leaflets and other actions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Learn more at: <a href="http://www.SacRideHuman.org">www.SacRideHuman.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>