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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='line-height:110%;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>In this message:<br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>► March 11-14, 2021</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;background:white'>: </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Palestinian American Community Center virtual conference</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:110%;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3F6228'>► Stop destruction of Palestinian villages<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:110%;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000;background:white'>► </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000'>Tell the EU: No Israeli killer drones</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>► March 18, 2021, 6:30pm: Sacramento hosts: Ending U.S. militarism at home and abroad with Medea Benjamin</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:110%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3F6228'>► </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3F6228'>Stop the Approval of Racist, Anti-Arab Ethnic Studies Curriculum</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000'>► No rights, No Aid</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'>► March 25-30, 2021: </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://arabfilm.eventive.org/welcome"><span style='background:white'>Revolutionary Arab Women in the Arts</span></a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>► </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>March 11-14: </span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1B14AC'><a href="https://www.paccusa.org/pacc-conference.html"><span style='color:#1B14AC;background:white'>Palestinian American Community Center</span></a></span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1B14AC'> virtual conference.</span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1B14AC'> <a href="https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTA2NDc2">Click to register</a>.<br><br></span><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4858'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#355222'>► Stop destruction of Palestinian villages. </span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4858'>Tell the UN Human Rights Council when it meets on March 18 to</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#EB2F06'> <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>#SaveHumsa</span></strong></span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4858'>, a community in the Jordan Valley that has been demolished five times by the Israeli occupation forces. <a href="https://stopthewall.org/petition/unhrcsavehumsa/">Sign petition</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4858'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000'>►Tell the EU: No Israeli killer drones. </span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'><a href="https://stopthewall.org/petition/nodrones/">Sign the petition</a> telling the EU to not buy surveillance drones from Israeli companies and to only used drones for civil purposes. </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><a name="_Hlk66390999"><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></a></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk66390999'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>►</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>March 18, 6:30pm: Sacramento hosts: Ending U.S. militarism at home and abroad, </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'><a href="https://fb.me/e/iSvd9zNEh">Uniting for a Human Rights based Foreign Policy</a></span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>. Discussion with CodePink founder Medea Benjamin and Representative Doris Matsui (invited). Audience Q & A. <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkcuqqqDojGdARobalkf1E2h20NuuwwCyn">Click to register.</a> FMI: <a href="mailto:SacPeace@dcn.org">SacPeace@dcn.org</a>, 916-448-7157</span><span style='color:#1B14AC'>.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'>► </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#355222'>Stop the Approval of Racist, Anti-Arab Curriculum. </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020'>State Superintendent of Instruction Tony Thurmond and the CDE watered down Ethnic Studies principles and pedagogy, included erroneous information about Ethnic Studies, deleted Arab American Studies from Asian American Studies and relegated it to an appendix, and erased Palestine from the curriculum. <a href="https://araborganizing.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40bbc5d297cb5db1fd1a5ca21&id=e6d3970509&e=c825679d79" target="_blank"><span style='color:#EA5B3A'>Send a letter to register your objections</span></a><a href="https://araborganizing.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40bbc5d297cb5db1fd1a5ca21&id=8d496ce26d&e=c825679d79" target="_blank"><span style='color:#EA5B3A'> here.</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>In addition, please write your Assembly and Senate Representatives. You can copy and paste the language below in your correspondences to them or write your own message.<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'>Message:<br>I am writing to express my grave concerns about the 4<sup>th</sup> revision to the </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;font-weight:normal'>Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum just released by the CA Dept of Education. T</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white'>his version was shaped by predominantly white, rightwing interest groups and by non-Ethnic Studies scholars. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydp28a7065bmsonormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;font-weight:normal'>This curriculum does not meet the mandate of Assembly Bill 2016. </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white'>AB 2016 promised Californians an Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum developed by experts. <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>The current draft is so deficient that the entire advisory committee and the designated writers of the original curriculum demanded that their names be removed from the document. </span></strong></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=ydp28a7065bmsonormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;font-weight:normal'>We ask that you contact Superintendent Tony Thurmond and ask him to stop the implementation of this highly flawed and racist curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=ydp28a7065bmsonormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;font-weight:normal'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=ydp28a7065bmsonormal style='margin:0in'><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=ydp28a7065bmsonormal style='margin:0in'><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white'><a href="http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Click</span></a> to find your CA legislators. Copy and paste address of your CA Legislator:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'><a href="https://a07.asmdc.org/">Assemblymember Kevin McCarty</a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'> 916-319-2007</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="mailto:assemblymemberMcCarty@assembly.ca.gov">assemblymemberMcCarty@assembly.ca.gov</a></span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#993366;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://a08.asmdc.org/">Assemblymember Ken Cooley</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>: (916) 319-2008; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="mailto:assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov" title="blocked::mailto:assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov">assemblymember.cooley@assembly.ca.gov</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://a09.asmdc.org/">Assemblymember Jim Cooper</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>: (916) 319-2009; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="mailto:assemblymember.cooper@assembly.ca.gov">assemblymember.cooper@assembly.ca.gov</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://a04.asmdc.org/">Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry:</a> (916) 319-2004 <a href="mailto:assemblymember.aguiar-curry@assembly.ca.gov">assemblymember.aguiar-curry@assembly.ca.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://ad06.asmrc.org/">Assemblymember Kevin Kiley</a> 916-319.2006</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <a href="mailto:Assemblymember.kiley@assembly.ca.gov">Assemblymember.kiley@assembly.ca.gov</a> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="http://sd06.senate.ca.gov/"><span lang=EN-US>Senator Richard Pan:</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> (916) 651-4006; </span><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="mailto:senator.pan@senate.ca.gov"><span lang=EN-US>senator.pan@senate.ca.gov</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span><span style='color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="http://sd03.senate.ca.gov/">Senator Bill Dodd</a>: (916) 651-4003; <a href="mailto:senator.dodd@senate.ca.gov">senator.dodd@senate.ca.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000'>► No rights, No Aid. </span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Tell Congress: <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(1) Israel must give equal rights to Palestinians or lose U.S. aid; and (2) the U.S. must communicate with Palestinian civil society</span></strong>. <a href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/P8Elou2Rvc0qoMPEUZrMXcOpy_XqN4R2ZGjoK-5zZnkkp6I6IlfgPESCSFN-crJ4F2pUU0WHbj-E9rsZgv-AYNPMuDFaaomsog_HvKfPg4Z1pI5tY96GueDWfCEtRLmWJ4jY8-dFvV0KZi1pcgFwEU2cikoWb2sXZlKuwwASdTaAabu6HsIOcDliusAWW-32WKZ761xfLasS1We6LVnYxyP-VJQ-kWEjuzjd0r6kBAwQX4Sbgn7q8Zg1jhmgqjJmtzi-qZtyExAKLP_XVX3t9gWtRF2s4nc5uqLeR2dQyG_Af1nEiwLZNgYzYjbylFrtu0Rjwaaue7LJHBP9xFATe3Os19UCIeVlDEF-NM-KhDc/39t/L03e38_VQ0618aRQOLllWA/h0/vH2GkeUTt_UruvkbHWsOfH5-gsofvdatG0t0IVHu0is" target="_blank">Click to contact Senators</a> <a href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/P8Elou2Rvc0qoMPEUZrMXcOpy_XqN4R2ZGjoK-5zZnkkp6I6IlfgPESCSFN-crJ4F2pUU0WHbj-E9rsZgv-AYNPMuDFaaomsog_HvKfPg4Z1pI5tY96GueDWfCEtRLmWTJVB4UgU_BD9CQkVyla3wIHNsybYFm4dUPIMclbHm4lMxT4IWiI3DJfgjTdGQ_nqNlOW2uQ8x-mxwA6K3OhLmT6kYsyC4zy6cibnou3fZPQqA4uqsX0xcB0Id5VkfTH6Y03SU0KaKFC-o7Wu0u3waH500rwyuhE4X_3nOP2W4sSyWuSLYgxQMBeFmdNX9foadYr2739F8iLm_CcLk_kwy0XB1ZfvM8Dz6UktSQLcjFc/39t/L03e38_VQ0618aRQOLllWA/h1/DOCDAXXMNeBsReXyKwoUUiJb3oE9i4TDuJ79MAcZ99E" target="_blank">Click to contact your Representative</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'>►March 25-30, 2021: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://arabfilm.eventive.org/welcome"><span style='background:white'>Revolutionary Arab Women in the Arts</span></a></span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;background:white'>. </span></u></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'>In commemoration of International Women’s Day March 2021, this program celebrates generations of Arab Women who are revolutionary in the arts. Our program consists of film features, a poetry reading, photography, a theatrical performance, personal stories of empowerment, and audience discussions. </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://arabfilm.eventive.org/passes/buy">Click for tickets</a></span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505'>. FMI: </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="mailto:dkhorsheed.6@gmail.com" target="_blank">dkhorsheed.6@gmail.com</a></span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>