Dear Supporter, Thursday, January 1, 2009 Please Announce and Forward to your Lists and Congregations: NOW is the time to act to End the Massacre in Gaza! Calling All People of Faith and Conscience in Connecticut "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu Gaza Action Alerts: Protest the Massacre in Gaza, Friday, Jan. 2, 3PM, Federal Building, Hartford Call on President-elect Obama to break his silence and condemn this human rights atrocity! Call for an End to all US economic and military aid to Israel until it respects Palestinian human rights! Stop the Massacre of Palestinians -- Sign Online Petition to World Leaders Throughout the years, Israel has proclaimed itself the victim as it grew richer, more powerful and more violent, while Palestinians were abused, impoverished, divided and demeaned. Download Informational Flyer & Petition for your Congregation and Organization: Stop Israeli Human Rights Crimes in Gaza (pdf) End Military Aid to Israel Petition (pdf) 25 Additional Things You Can Do for Peace in Palestine Background Reading: 1 Israeli Life = 100+ Palestinian Lives "Today, in face of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the essential calculation, which was always covertly there, behind this conflict, has been blatantly revealed. The death of one Israeli victim justifies the killing of a hundred Palestinians. One Israeli life is worth a hundred Palestinian lives." -- John Berger Report on Gaza Massacre from Occupied Palestine "And what would the Israeli leaders expect from a starving 1.5 million people to do? Especially when one million of those are refugees or displaced people denied their rights to return to their homes and lands for 60 years while settlers live across the borders on their lands in areas like "Sderot" and "Netviot"? Would they not expect some resistance from some of those?" -- Mazin Qumsiyeh writing from Bethlehem Palestinian American Congress Condemns the Latest Israeli Attack on Gaza "This collective punishment of the Palestinian people represents clear evidence of atrocious war crimes that violate the tenets of International Humanitarian Law and United Nations resolutions." Christian Organization Denounces Gaza Massacre "Let's be crystal clear. Israel's massive attacks on Gaza today have one overarching goal: conflict management. How to end rocket attacks on Israel from a besieged and starving Gaza without ending the impetus for those attacks, 41 years of increasingly oppressive Israeli Occupation without a hint that a sovereign and viable Palestinian state will ever emerge." -- Friends of Sabeel, North America Statement on Gaza by the U.S. National Assembly "The ruination of Gaza has been long in the making. Over 75% of Gaza's inhabitants are refugees from land that became Israel. They have been denied the internationally recognized right to return to their homes and are now denied the elementary right to flee relentless bombing and a threatened invasion. These are the families who had developed the agriculture and economy of Palestine under the rule of foreign empires for generations. Ripped from their land, they were crowded into what is now the most densely populated 360 square kilometers in the world." -- National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations Subscribe to the People of Faith Blog RSS feed: http://faithct.net/blog/feed Start Blogging Today: http://faithct.net/page/2008/08/31/how-create-blog-post In the News: New Haven Protesters Decry Mideast Violence "Heller said Israel is using American-made military equipment for the attacks. He denounced "the complicity of the Bush administration and the silence of the Obama administration. Heller said President-elect Barack Obama is issuing statements about the economic crisis, so he should not hesitate to speak out about "this obvious human rights emergency" in the Middle East." Upcoming Social Justice & Anti-War Events in Connecticut: "In Debt We Trust" Film & Discussion, West Hartford, 1/6, 7PM Danny Schechter, director and producer, will give an update on the financial crisis and answer questions. Criminal Justice Youth Poetry and Art Exhibit, New Haven, Thru Jan. 14 The exhibit entails criminal justice topics and has been produced by Youth Rights Media and People Against Injustice. Building the Antiwar Movement in the Obama Era, Middletown, 1/18, 2PM How can we force Congress to spend money on human needs and not war, occupation, and the bailouts of the corrupt financiers? What antiwar activity is planned for Spring 2009 and how can we engage the not-yet-mobilized part of the population? Come discuss with activists committed to mass mobilizations & door-to-door work this spring. Subscribe to Events RSS Feed: http://faithct.net/event/$year/$month/$day/feed/index.xml |