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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:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anti-Palestinian rights activism bill AB 2844</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> will likely be voted on today or tomorrow in the California Assembly. <br><br>Please take these actions right now to help stop this bill (<a href="https://sac4palestine.org/stop-ab-2844/">click for more info</a>):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><br>►First: Call your <a href="http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/">Assemblymember</a> and tell them to vote NO on AB 2844:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><br>Sacramento & Elk Grove:</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong></span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Assemblymember.McCarty@assembly.ca.gov" target="_blank"><span style='color:black'>Assemblymember.McCarty@assembly.ca.gov</span></a><span style='color:black'>, <span style='background:white'>Tel: (916) 319-2007</span>, Fax: (916) 319-2107, Tweet: @KMcCartyAD7<br> </span><a href="mailto:Assemblymember.cooper@assembly.ca.gov">Assemblymember.cooper@assembly.ca.gov</a><span style='color:black'> <span style='background:white'>Tel: (916) 319-2009</span>; Fax: (916) 319-2109. Tweet: @AsmJimCooper<br> </span><a href="mailto:Assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov">Assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov</a><span style='color:black'> <span style='background:white'>Tel: (916) 319-2008</span>; Fax: (916) 319-2108. Tweet: @KenCooley <br></span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Folsom:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:Assemblymember.gaines@assembly.ca.gov">Assemblymember.gaines@assembly.ca.gov</a>. Tel 916-319-2006. Fax 916-319-2106. <br>@BethGaines_<br></span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>All other CA legislators: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/"><b><span style='color:black'>http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov</span></b></a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><br>►Second: Call Governor Jerry Brown and tell him to oppose the bill and state that he will veto it if it comes to his desk: <br> </span></b><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;font-weight:normal'>Governor Brown: tel: 916-445-2841. Fax 916-558-3160. Email at: www.gov.ca.gov Tweet: </span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#F5F8FA;font-weight:normal'>@<span class=u-linkcomplex-target>JerryBrownGov</span></span></a><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><br>►Third: sign <a href="https://iak.salsalabs.org/noab2844/index.html">petition to oppose AB 2844</a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>►Please also <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/641/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=20288">sign this petition</a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> asking President Obama to investigate the murder of West Bank Palestinian Mahmoud Shaalan: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>►<b>Please share this alert with others</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><b>Upcoming events:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><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;background:white'>Wednesday, Oct 5</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>, 2016, 7 - 9pm, <b>Panel Discussion: Mass Incarceration from United States to Palestine</b>. Richard Becker, with the ANSWER Coalition will address Palestinian and U.S. political prisoners. Beth Miller, with the No Way to Treat a Child Campaign of Defense for Children International will address Israel’s targeting arrest, detention and torture of Palestinian children. Dale McKinney, with NAACP Sacramento, will address the school to prison pipeline and mass incarceration in the U.S.. Unitarian society, 2425 Sierra Blvd, Sacramento. FMI; UUJMESac@gmail.com; 916-448-7157<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue;background:white'>Saturday, Oct 15</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.gaza5k.org/"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>2016. </span><b>Annual Gaza 5K walk/run</b></a>. Fund raiser for UNRWA's Community Mental Health Program to support thousands of refugee children in Gaza affected by PTSD and other psychological trauma. Click to register. Lake Merced Park, San Francisco. Carpools from Sacramento: 916-873-6619; farrahshields@gmail.com.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>