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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;background:white'><a name="_Hlk71743251"><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:red;background:white'>●</span></b></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white'> Friday, May 14</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>, 2021 3:30pm: </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white'> </span></span><a href="https://fb.me/e/IyUA1kw7"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>Rally in Solidarity with Jerusalem</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#050505;background:white'>Demand an end to the illegal eviction of hundreds of Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> <br>Federal Building, 501 I St, Sacramento.  FMI: sacdemsforpalestine@gmail.com</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#7030A0'>●</span></b></span><a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/1bUDFJrq_kWz5sjKEeyoPQ2"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0'>Tell Congress: End U.S. complicity in Israel’s abuses of Palestinians (everyaction.com)</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>Palestinians </span></strong></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span><a href="https://twitter.com/AdalahJustice/status/1391752088393117696" target="_blank"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none'>from Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem to Lydd to Gaza</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> are rising up against Israel's continued ethnic cleansing and </span></strong></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none'>apartheid</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'> in Palestine.</span></strong></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></strong></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>As Israel violently attacks Palestinians for resisting the oppression they have faced for 73 years, the cruelty of its settler colonial regime is on full display for the world to from deadly bombs raining down on Gaza to tear gas, grenades, and raids on worshipers at the holy site of al-Aqsa Mosque. </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span><a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/1bUDFJrq_kWz5sjKEeyoPQ2"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>Click to sign the petition</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>. <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>The time to take action is now.</span></strong></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>More Actions<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk71743251'></span><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#004D00;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#004D00;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>●</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#004D00;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#004D00;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Tell Congress to protect Palestinian children.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#004D00;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#004D00;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> <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;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/contact_your_lawmaker_about_hr_2590#/7/">Ask your representative to co-sponsor HR 2590</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>the "Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act," or the Palestinian Children and Families Act.  <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;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Introduced earlier this month by Rep. Betty McCollum, this bill seeks to promote justice, equality and human rights for Palestinian children and families by prohibiting Israeli authorities from using U.S. taxpayer funds to detain and torture Palestinian children, demolish and seize Palestinian homes, and further annex Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.<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;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/contact_your_lawmaker_about_hr_2590#/7/"><span style='background:white'>Click to sign the petition</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>. Also send your own message to </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://matsui.house.gov/contact"><span style='background:white'>Matsui</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://garamendi.house.gov/contact-me"><span style='background:white'>Garamendi</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.bera.house.gov/contact"><span style='background:white'>Bera</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'> or </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.house.gov"><span style='background:white'>your representative</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'> asking them to co-sponsor this important bill. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:black'>● </span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Join New Democratic Club for Palestine </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><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;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The Sacramento Democrats for Justice in Palestine (SDJP) club, a newly formed entity affiliated with the Democratic Party of Sacramento County, is looking to recruit more members. While the club charges a $12 membership fee, it will gladly waive this fee for anyone that asks. This club, along with others in California and across the country, can play a role in ensuring the party continues to move toward supporting justice for Palestine, but that only happens if we increase our membership in clubs like SDJP.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><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;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>To join, please click on the membership tab on the website and complete the <a href="https://cadems4palestine.com/become-a-member" target="_blank">form </a>. This <a href="https://cadems4palestine.com/our-work" target="_blank">link </a>will take you to our website so you may read more about why we formed our club, the club’s policies, and its <a href="https://cadems4palestine.com/our-bylaws" target="_blank">bylaws</a>. If you have any questions, please email <a href="mailto:cyatooma7@yahoo.com" target="_blank">cyatooma7@yahoo.com</a></span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:red'>●</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'> </span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>Sign the</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-the-icc-office-of-the-prosecutor-to-investigate-war-crimes-by-israeli-military-courts-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B6%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%82-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%83?recruiter=1194416678&recruited_by_id=12fe0480-9ef7-11eb-b69d-818d1746ad98&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard">Petition to the ICC Office of the Prosecutor to Investigate War Crimes by Israeli Military</a></span><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white'>● Sign the</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/wUAYmd6RzEacXxN3WQuYQQ2"><span style='background:white'>Petition to Stop Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians from East Jerusalem!</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>To subscribe or unsubscribe or for questions or to get involved, email <a href="mailto:SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com">SacReg4PalestinianRights@gmail.com</a>. Visit www.Sac4Palestine.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>