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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please help stop <a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2844&firstNav=tracking">AB 2844</a>! </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CA Assembly </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>bill violates free speech and attacks efforts to end Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and violations of human rights by penalizing companies that are identified as observing a boycott of Israel. <a href="Please%20help%20stop%20AB%202844!%20It%20is%20an%20attack%20on%20Free%20Speech">Share on facebook.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>1) This Wed., April 13, 2016, 9am</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> please attend the Accountability and Administrative Review (AAR) Committee hearing on the bill, State Capitol Room 437. A couple of main speakers will speak against the bill and all others can briefly state their opposition. The more the better to show legislators how many of us care. If AB 2844 passes at this first hearing, it will be considered by the Judiciary Committee April 19. Save the date.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>2) Please send an email now</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> to the members of the AAR committee telling them to vote against AB 2844. Ask them to enter your opposition as part of the public record. You can copy and paste their emails below into one message: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Accountability and Administrative Review: <br><a href="mailto:assemblymembergarcia@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymembergarcia@assembly.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:assemblymemberburke@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymemberburke@assembly.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:assemblymemberfrazier@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymemberfrazier@assembly.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:assemblymemberirwin@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymemberirwin@assembly.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:assemblymembermedina@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymembermedina@assembly.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:assemblymemberrodriguez@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymemberrodriguez@assembly.ca.gov</a>,<a href="mailto:assemblymembergarcia@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank"> </a><a href="mailto:assemblymembergarcia@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'><br></span></a><a href="mailto:assemblymemberlackey@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymemberlackey@assembly.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:assemblymemberbrough@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymemberbrough@assembly.ca.gov</a>,<a href="mailto:assemblymembergarcia@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank"> </a><a href="mailto:assemblymembergaines@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymembergaines@assembly.ca.gov</a>, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please copy and paste as a cc: Legislative directors:<br><a href="mailto:ashley.medina@asm.ca.gov">Ashley.medina@@asm.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:allison.ruff@asm.ca.gov">allison.ruff@asm.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:robert.simpson@asm.ca.gov">robert.simpson@asm.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:brett.williams@asm.ca.gov">brett.williams@asm.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:erica.costa@asm.ca.gov">erica.costa@asm.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:philip.horner@asm.ca.gov">philip.horner@asm.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:tim.townsend@asm.ca.gov">tim.townsend@asm.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:christina.hulick@asm.ca.gov">christina.hulick@asm.ca.gov</a>, <a href="mailto:danny.martinez@asm.ca.gov">danny.martinez@asm.ca.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please bcc: <a href="mailto:SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com">SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sample message: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear Members of the Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review:<br> I call on you and your committee to oppose AB 2844, an unconstitutional attack on free speech with provisions that would be impossible to implement in any rational manner.<br> Whether or not one agrees with any particular boycott or divestment campaign aimed at pressing Israel to end its occupation, obey international law and respect Palestinian human rights, participation in such activities, in response to a call from Palestinians using nonviolent methods to secure their freedom, is a legitimate form of expression, protected by the U.S. and state constitutions. The state must not deny financial relationships to people or organizations on account of their political views. <br> California can lead the way in stopping a wave of such illegal legislation around the country. I look forward to hearing your commitment to oppose AB 2844 or anything like it.<br> Please register my opposition to AB 2844 as part of the public record.<br>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:middle'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>3) Email your own Assembly member</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and tell her or him to speak out now against AB 2844. Here are emails for some Sacramento area Assembly members; if yours isn’t on the list or you aren’t sure who it is, <a href="http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/" target="_blank">click here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:1.0in;vertical-align:middle'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Assemblymember Kevin McCarty </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Assemblymember.McCarty@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">Assemblymember.McCarty@assembly.ca.gov</a><br><b><span style='color:black'>Assemblymember Jim Cooper </span></b><a href="mailto:assemblymember.cooper@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymember.cooper@assembly.ca.gov</a><span style='color:#404040'> <br></span><b><span style='color:black'>Assemblymember Ken Cooley </span></b><a href="mailto:assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov</a><br><b><span style='color:black'>Assemblymember Bill Dodd </span></b><a href="mailto:assemblymember.Dodd@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymember.Dodd@assembly.ca.gov</a><br><b><u><span style='color:black'>Assemblymember</span></u><span style='color:black'> <u>Beth Gaines</u> </span></b><a href="mailto:assemblymember.gaines@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank">assemblymember.gaines@assembly.ca.gov</a><span style='color:#404040'> (If Gaines is your Assembly member, please call her also, as she is on the </span>Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review <span style='color:#2E2E2E'><a href="tel:%28916%29%20319-2006" target="_blank">(916) 319-2006</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4) <a href="https://sac4palestine.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/take-action-to-stop-ab-2844.pdf">Spread the word</a> and </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="Please%20help%20stop%20AB%202844!%20It%20is%20an%20attack%20on%20Free%20Speech">Share on facebook.</a></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>MORE INFORMATION</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Remember California Assembly Bills 1551 and 1552? Introduced in January, they would have barred state pension fund investment in and state/local government contracting with companies, churches, unions, etc. that were thought to be engaged in boycott of Israel, in some form. <br><br>Many of you helped kill these bills by telling legislators that they were an unconstitutional infringement on political speech, were impossibly vague and had a hidden agenda of legitimizing illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The bills languished in limbo until last week, but after a complex set of parliamentary maneuvers, they have reemerged with a new name and number: <a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2844" target="_blank">AB 2844</a>. It was hastily assigned to two committees: Accountability and Administrative Review will hear it Wed., April 13. If it passes there, Judiciary will consider it April 19. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AB 2844 is narrower in scope and some ways less extreme (e.g. it applies only to for-profit corporations), but it is still unconstitutionally violates free speech and remains loaded with vagueness and arbitrariness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Either of these committees can kill AB 2844, and with your encouragement, they will. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks! Together we’ll stop AB 2844.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>If you have not already done so, please sign these pettions to support Palestinian rights: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545454'>►</span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545454'> </span></b></span><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00359E'><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/641/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=19467"><span style='color:#00359E'>Tell the IRS to Investigate the Charity Status of the JNF</span></a>.</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545454'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545454'>►</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF6600'> </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006600'><a href="http://www.codepink.org/protect_pal_human_rights_defenders?utm_campaign=pal_hum_rights&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink"><span style='color:#006600'>Sign the petition: Protect Palestinian human rights defenders</span></a>.</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545454'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>►</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><a href="https://actionsprout.io/754F12/initial"><span style='color:#7030A0'>Tell Santana not to play in Israel. </span></a></span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>More petitions at:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'> <a href="http://www.sacbds.org/petitions">www.sacbds.org/petitions</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Upcoming events</span></b><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;font-weight:normal'>:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Tuesday, April 12, 2016: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.vtjp.org/icecream/FCD_Alert.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Free+Cone+Day+Action+Update+from+...&utm_source=YMLP&utm_term=...jp.org%2Ficecream%2FFCD_Alert.html">National day of Action:</a> Tell Ben & Jerry's to stop selling in Israel's illegal Settlements. Location and time TBA. FMI: SacramentoBDS@gmail.com</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Tuesday, April 12</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>2016, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>6:30pm, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1766166010294259/">Palestine Awareness Week.</a> Panel on BDS Movement. Wellman 226, UC Davis campus, Davis. FMI: sjpatucd.gmail.com</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Wednesday, April 13</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>2016, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>6:30pm, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1766166010294259/">Palestine Awareness Week.</a> No Way to Treat a Child. Wellman 226, UC Davis campus, Davis. FMI: sjpatucd.gmail.com</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Friday, April 15</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>2016, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>6pm, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1766166010294259/">Palestine Awareness Week.</a> Palestinian Food Night. Location TBA, UC Davis campus, Davis. FMI: sjpatucd.gmail.com</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Tuesday, April 19</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>2016, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>4 - 6pm, Vigil for Palestinian Rights. <a href="http://www.aidtoisrael.org/section.php?id=379">End U.S. aid to Israel.</a> & <a href="http://www.sacbds.org/products">Boycott companies aiding Israel's abuses</a>. <a href="http://www.sacbds.org/petitions">Sign petitions for Palestinian rights</a>. 16th & J, Sacramento. 916-448-7157.</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Saturday, April 30</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>2016, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>6pm, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/194143594276033/">Benefit Dinner for the needy people of Palestine</a>. Guest Speakers: Hussam Ayloush (CAIR Executive Director LA) and Imam Sh. Abdeljalil Mezgouri. Valley Oak Ballroom, Wackford Acquatic Complex, 9014 Bruceville Rd Elk Grove. FMI: hjamali@irusa.org; 916-230-8887<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0033CC'>Sunday, May 15, 2016, 12:30pm</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Protest Annual <a href="http://jewishsac.org/jewishheritagefestival">Celebrate Israel</a>i Apartheid event, Raley Field, West Sacramento. FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>For more Sacramento Area Events on Peace, Justice and the Environment, please see the online community calendar: <a href="http://www.SacPeace.org">www.SacPeace.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>To subscribe, unsubscribe or for questions or comments, email: <a href="mailto:SacReg4PalestiniaRights@gmail.com"><span style='font-weight:normal'>SacReg4PalestiniaRights@gmail.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><br></span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>