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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.1pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Tell Congress Israeli settlements are a violation of international law!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.1pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contact your <a href="http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/">U.S. Representative</a> right now and tell them to <a href="http://uscpr.org/campaigns/tell-congress-not-oppose-un-resolution-israeli-settlements/">vote NO on House Resolution 11</a> which <span style='color:black'>provides political backing for Israel’s ongoing, illegal colonization of Palestinian land by objecting to the action taken last week at the United Nations in which the U.S. abstained from voting on UN Security Council Resolution 2334, reiterating the illegality of Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory. The decision by the Obama administration to abstain allowed the resolution to pass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.1pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Call the Congressional Switchboard, 202-224-3121, to be connected to any representative. The House is schedule to vote on this measure on Thursday, January 5 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://uscpr.org/campaigns/tell-congress-not-oppose-un-resolution-israeli-settlements/">Click here for more info.</a><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-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><a href="https://sacridehumandotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/tell-sacramento-regional-transit-go-local-go-ethical-go-responsible.pdf">Tell Sacramento Regional Transit not to give preference to multinational corporations!</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Attend the Monday, January 9, 2017, 6pm meeting of Sacramento Regional Transit, 1400 29<sup>th</sup> St (between N & O) and tell the board that local preference points should only be given to companies that are headquartered in the Sacramento Region, NOT to multinational corporations that have an office in Sacramento.<o:p></o:p></span></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'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Multinational G4S, involved in human rights abuses around the world including in the U.S. and with the Israeli military, was given bonus points when it bid for (and got) RT’s private security contract in 2012 for being “local” because it has an office in Sacramento. No multinational corporation should be getting extra points just because they have a local office (which is required <u>anyway</u> for a private security company to get the bid).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><br>Also, tell the RT Board <u>not to</u> prohibit advertising for the dissemination, debate, and/or discussion of public issues. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://iportal.sacrt.com/WebApps/SRTDBM/MeetingDocs/Archives/RT%20Board%20of%20Directors%20-%20November%2014,%202016%20-%20Agenda%20Item%2005%20-%20Revised%2011-10-16.pdf"><span style='background:white'>RT is proposing</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black;background:white'> </span></span><span style='color:black;background:white'>to allow alcohol ads while it restricts ads that address public issues. <o:p></o:p></span></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'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><a href="https://sacridehumandotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/tell-sacramento-regional-transit-go-local-go-ethical-go-responsible.pdf">Click here for more info and action.</a></span><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-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://sacbds.org/boycott-hewlett-packard/">Don’t Buy or Invest in Hewlett-Packard</a> or other <a href="https://sacbds.org/products/">companies that profit</a> from Israel’s brutal, deadly and illegal occupation of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hewlett-Packard (H-P) is among the world’s top military providers, specializing in technologies to control and monitor large populations, which it sells to prison authorities, immigration police, and military regimes. <br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000307;background:white'>These H-P technologies help:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000307;background:white'> ♦ <b>Deport</b> <b>U.S. immigrants</b> on a scale we have not seen before.</span><span style='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-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'> ♦ <b>Deny Palestinians freedom</b> of movement in the West Bank & Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'> ♦ <b>Israel to maintain its brutal occupation, segregation & apartheid</b> with H-P biometric IDs, retinal scanning & other products.<br> ♦T<b>rack Americans </b>held within the massive & discriminatory incarceration system.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br> </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000307;background:white'>♦ Limit</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> human rights and civil rights</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, a threat to all of us.<br><b> H-P also uses prison slave labor.</b> <br><b>For more info: www.SacBDS.org</b></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>