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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>November 29 is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian peoples. Please take these actions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:red'>1) Sign petition against US State Dept attacks on BDS <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'>Sec of State Pompeo <span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#141403'>announced that the State Department will designate the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as antisemitic, and directed his office to create a blacklist of organizations that support BDS. BDS is a successful tool for Palestinian rights, following in the tradition of the global boycott and divestment that helped apartheid in South Africa.<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:12.0pt;color:#7030A0'><a href="https://act.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/YPCfaejJ8EWJpWKZ4Jnesw2?sourceid=1001193&contactdata=PxEvMELtptKNDErP2o5nb1FMJkUchn%2FVcxL3zpqlV6bZaHC09TNzLSu2Kz7hZrNr%2BRsEOwxCdI81o0VA0CGetY5sEiAEAqosL7rdnrNQlEM%3D&emci=65896831-7e2b-eb11-9fb4-00155d43b2cd&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=49614" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0'>Please sign </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0;text-decoration:none'>the </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0'>petition if you haven’t already. If you have already signed, please share widely. </span></strong></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>2) Tell MoveOn to boycott, not promote Ben and Jerry’s ice cream<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'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MoveOn is using Ben and Jerry’s ice cream as an incentive to donate to its Get Big Money out of Politics campaign. The problem is the company that makes Ben and Jerry’s is profiting from Israel’s brutal occupation, selling its products in illegal settlements built on stolen Palestinian Land. <a href="https://icecream.vtjp.org/"><span style='color:#0070C0'>Click for more info</span>.</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'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Email MoveOn at <a href="mailto:membersupport@moveon.org">membersupport@moveon.org</a> or through their website: <a href="https://front.moveon.org/contact-us">https://front.moveon.org/contact-us</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'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tell MoveOn not to be PEP (progressive except Palestine) and to not use settlement products like Ben and Jerry’s ice cream to promote its campaigns. Note MoveOn tries to claim that the individuals Ben and Jerry no longer own the ice cream company, Unilever does, but the fact is MoveOn is giving away the ice cream, a product being sold in the illegal settlements. <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:12.0pt'><a href="https://icecream.vtjp.org/contactbj/">Click to send a message</a> to Ben & Jerry’s CEO.<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:12.0pt'>For other products to boycott, see also <span style='color:#2C2C94'><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-puma"><span style='color:#2C2C94;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Boycott Puma</span></a>, </span><span style='color:#333333'> </span><span style='color:#2C2C94'><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp"><span style='color:#2C2C94;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Boycott Hewlett-Packard</span></a>,</span><span style='color:#333333'><br> <a href="http://new.israelpalestinemissionnetwork.org/advocacy/boycott-101?id=232">Boycott Israeli wines</a>. For more info about boycotts of companies profiting from Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine, visit the <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/">BDS Movement</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:#006600'>3) Don’t buy Pillsbury products this holiday<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'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;background:white'>Pillsbury is making products in one of Israel’s illegal colonies in Palestine’s West Bank, the Atarot Industrial Zone. The company is exploiting land, water, and other resources that were captured by force from their legal Palestinian owners, in violation of international law—and directly profiting from the illegal occupation and colonial dispossession.<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:12.0pt;color:#333333;background:white'>Here is what you can do:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>●</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;background:white'> Don’t buy any Pillsbury products.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br><span style='background:white'>● </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#0070C0'><a href="https://www.afsc.org/action/boycott-pillsbury"><span style='color:#0070C0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Send a message to General Mills CEO</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;background:white'> to stop manufacturing on stolen land.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br><span style='background:white'>● Contact Pillsbury </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#0070C0'><a href="https://www.pillsburybaking.com/contact-us"><span style='color:#0070C0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>through their website</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;background:white'> and tell them you are boycotting their products until they end all operations in the occupied territories.. Click General Questions, click “complaint”, “other”, “very disappointed”, then on “Next” to leave your message.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><br><span style='background:white'>● Tell your friends, family and others not to buy Pillsbury.</span><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:12.0pt;color:#333333;background:white'>More information: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#0070C0'><a href="https://www.afsc.org/boycott-pillsbury"><span style='color:#0070C0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>https://www.afsc.org/boycott-pillsbury</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you haven’t already, please also:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:red;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Tell our Reps they can’t keep ignoring Palestinian rights, including home demolitions</span></b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:red'>.<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;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54823660"><span style='color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Thanks to the BBC</span></a>, the world knows about Israel’s recent disgusting and horrible demolition of 76 Palestinian homes and related structures in early November 2020.<br>While, 41 members of <a href="https://pocan.house.gov/sites/pocan.house.gov/files/documents/Final%20Congressional%20Letter%20to%20Secretary%20Pompeo%20Condemning%20Palestinian%20Home%20Demolitions%2011.17.20.pdf"><span style='color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Congress signed a November 17, 2020 letter</span></a> asking the U.S. State Department to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/17/house-progressives-call-pompeo-condemn-israeli-demolition-west-bank-village-left"><span style='color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>condemn these demolitions</span></a>, area representatives Matsui, Bera and Garamendi were not among them.<br>Click to email: <a href="https://matsui.house.gov/contact/"><span style='color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Matsui</span></a>, <a href="https://bera.house.gov/contact"><span style='color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Bera</span></a>, <a href="https://garamendi.house.gov/contact"><span style='color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Garamendi</span></a>, <a href="https://www.house.gov/representatives"><span style='color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>other representatives</span></a>.<br>Your message can be short, here is a sample:<br><i><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Tell me why, if you support human rights and families, that you did not join your colleagues in signing the November 17, 2020 letter asking the U.S. State Department to condemn Israel’s recent mass destruction of Palestinian homes. For more information, please go to: <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/dems-send-pompeo-letter-demanding-information-on-palestinian-village-demolition"><span style='color:#333333'>https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/dems-send-pom</span></a></span></i><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/dems-send-pompeo-letter-demanding-information-on-palestinian-village-demolition"><span style='color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>peo-letter-demanding-information-on-palestinian-village-demolition</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'>To subscribe or unsubscribe or for questions, contact <a href="mailto:SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com">SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>