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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:4.0pt;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:red;background:white'>●</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;color:red;background:white'> Eyewitness report from international supporters of Palestinian resistance.</span></b><span style='color:black;background:white'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black;background:white'>Tuesday, April 3</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black;background:white'>, 2018 7pm</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;color:black;background:white'>. 909 12th St. Sacramento. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:110%'><span style='color:black;background:white'>Two alumni of the <a href="https://palsolidarity.org/about">International Solidarity Movement</a> will share their experiences and provide an update on international activism in Palestine. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/167084273947301/">Please share on facebook</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:110%'><span style='color:black;background:white'>Co-sponsored by the Leon Lefson Memorial Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:110%'><span style='color:black;background:white'>FMI: 916-448-7157; <a href="mailto:SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com">SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:red;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:red;background:white'>●</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red;background:white'> Mark your calendars:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><b><span style='color:blue;background:white'>Sunday, April 22</span></b><span style='color:black;background:white'>, 2018, 10:30am, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1852062081492969">Protest the pro-Israeli apartheid lobby, AIPAC</a>, at their annual Sacramento Annual event. Hyatt Regency, 1209 L St. Sacramento. FMI: <a href="mailto:SacReg4PalestinanRights@gmail.com">SacReg4PalestinanRights@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><b><span style='color:blue;background:white'>Sunday, April 29</span></b><span style='color:black;background:white'>, 2018, 12:30pm, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2088427744761570/">Protest event celebrating Apartheid Israel</a>. There is nothing to celebrate about Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St, Sacramento. FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com.</span><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:120%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:red;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:120%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:red;background:white'>●</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:120%;color:red;background:white'> Send a simple message to your local electeds:</span></b><span style='color:black;background:white'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black;background:white'>Tell them “Don’t go to the April 22, 2018 AIPAC meeting.”<br>Click to find your <a href="https://www.cityofsacramento.org/Mayor-Council/Find-Your-District">Sacramento City Council member</a>.<br>Click to find your <a href="http://www.saccounty.net/SupervisorLookUp/Pages/default.aspx">Sacramento Board of Supervisor</a>.<br>Click for your <a href="http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/">State Assemblymember and Senator</a>.<br>Click for: Representatives <a href="https://matsui.house.gov/contact/">Matsui</a>, <a href="https://bera.house.gov/connect-with-me/email-ami">Bera</a>, <a href="https://garamendi.house.gov/contact">Garamendi</a>, <a href="https://www.harris.senate.gov/contact">Senator Harris</a><br>See letter below for more information. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='color:#222222'>Letter to Sacramento Area Elected officials:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:4.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b>Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights</b><br>c/o 909 12<sup>th</sup> St., Suite 118, Sacramento, CA 95814 – 916-448-7175<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>March 29, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>You and other elected officials have likely been invited to the April 22, 2018 “Sacramento AIPAC Community Annual Event,” sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which self-identifies as “America’s pro-Israel lobby.”</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>As your constituents, we urge you and your staff not to attend this event.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>AIPAC’s primary mission continues to be ensuring the ongoing flow of U.S. political and military support for Israel’s ever-alarming policies of dispossession, annexation, discrimination, extra-judicial killing, and armed aggression, all in gross violation of international law.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>AIPAC is promoting legislation in Congress, S 720 and HR 1697, that attack our right to boycott, a fundamental element of our constitutionally protected right to free speech. American citizens have a right to criticize our government and other governments, particularly ones receiving our tax dollars and political cover.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>At its recent showcase conference in Washington, D.C., AIPAC tried hard to backpedal from its increasing identification with the most hard line views. But as If-Not-Now<sup>1</sup> leader Emily Mayer, expressed in a March 6, 2018 Ha’aretz article<sup>2</sup>, leading presidential contenders and other politicians stayed away this year, a sharp break from the past.</span><a name="m_1078699521004280151__GoBack"></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>AIPAC has no problem with Israel’s recent announcement of a blacklist under which leaders of U.S. groups including the American Friends Service Committee and Jewish Voice for Peace are being denied entry into Palestine by Israel, which controls all Palestine’s borders. Israel has prevented some of your Sacramento area constituents from entering Palestine; for some this means they cannot visit their families.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>Sane Americans and most U.S. Jews are aghast at Trump’s announcing plans to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital infers acceptance of Israel’s illegal annexation of East Jerusalem and large parts of the surrounding West Bank. Israel has illegally implanted hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews on occupied Palestinian land in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Meanwhile Israel puts relentless pressure on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents of Jerusalem who are denied basic rights including being able to elect the government that controls them.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>Americans are tired of endless wars. Their sentiments were expressed in June of last year at the U.S. Conference of Mayors who </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#262626'>passed three resolutions opposing the military-heavy Trump budget proposal.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#262626'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>We want our government to support human rights and international law, to utilize the power of diplomacy, and to not engage in more military aggression. In this regard, we are dismayed by the extent to which AIPAC and the right-wing Israeli regime have had so much influence on U.S. foreign policy.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>In contrast to AIPAC’s continuing support for Israel’s occupation and abuses, the</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> California Democratic Platform calls for ending U.S. support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine. We urge you to support this call.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>Even if you are not a member of Congress, AIPAC seeks demonstrations of loyalty to its positions from political leaders at all levels to maintain the illusion of unanimous support. By attending the annual AIPAC event you send it a message of approval. We ask that you not send this message by not attending the AIPAC event. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222'>We are happy to meet with you to further discuss our concerns and address any questions you have. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>