From kmedina67 at gmail.com Wed Nov 1 19:14:57 2023 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 14:14:57 -0500 Subject: [Peace] GEO's Panel On Palestine / Thursday, Nov 2, 2023; 6-8pm / University YMCA Message-ID: Dear Peace, An event: GEO's Panel On Palestine / Thursday, Nov 2, 2023; 6-8pm / University YMCA - Karen Medina The GEO Solidarity Committee invites you to their PANEL ON PALESTINE! The GEO (Graduate Employees' Organization) would like to invite you to an Educational Panel and Dialogue on Palestine Thursday November 2nd, 2023; 6-8 PM University YMCA Murphy Lounge (1001 S Wright St, Champaign). "The panel includes graduate workers, professors, students, and community members with relevant research and organizing experience who will shed light on the oppressive roots of recent events and plant seeds for a more just future. Following the panel Q&A, we will engage in a constructive and respectful dialogue to share thoughts on the panel and shape our vision and future actions as a community. As a labor union of educators and researchers concerned with building a better world, we hope this panel will serve as an initial step in the democratic process of engaging one another as GEO members on Palestine." Free dinner from Shawarma Joint will be provided. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=719584310202248&set=a.623422663151747 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgestabrook at gmail.com Mon Nov 6 18:00:31 2023 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 12:00:31 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Pro-Palestine protests are becoming a mass movement. Message-ID: <07CE76C5-45B1-42EF-88F1-E9842E582EDD@gmail.com> View this email in your browser Pro-Palestine protests are becoming a mass movement. On October 20, thousands of protesters marched through the streets of New York City to call for an immediate cease-fire and an end to hostilities in Gaza. Jeremy Cohan, cochair of New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and a Jewish organizer, told reporters that ?we have to do what we have to do for justice and for peace.? Sumaya Awad, a prominent Palestinian member of DSA and author, said much the same that night: ?We?re out here, it?s pouring rain, we?re wet, but they have blood on their hands.? These are the sentiments of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have mobilized for a cease-fire in recent weeks, as Israel carries out its indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza following the brutal October 7 Hamas attacks. Just one month into the ongoing crisis, with well over nine thousand Palestinians in Gaza killed (the vast majority of them civilians, including some four thousand children), and with international pressure heightening, the United States is witnessing perhaps its largest and most coordinated antiwar movement since the demonstrations against America?s invasion of Iraq in 2003. A week ago, Palestinians in New York marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in droves, while demonstrations in Los Angeles and San Francisco drew thousands the last two weeks of October. Hundreds rallied in Austin, Texas, last weekend. Students have walked out at universities in New York and California, defying the on-campus repression that organizations like the Anti-Defamation League are trying to stoke. Tens of thousands showed strength in the Palestinian stronghold of Chicago through a series of marches last month, demanding an immediate cease-fire and the end of Israel?s decades-long occupation. Thousands of young Jewish Americans staged dazzling actions over the last two weeks, including a sit-in on Capitol Hill and an occupation of Grand Central station in New York and the 30th St Station in Philadelphia. All of this culminated in Saturday?s National March on Washington for a Free Palestine, which is being hailed as the largest demonstration for Palestine in US history. Tens of thousands strong, the march brought together labor organizers, black civil rights activists, Jewish anti-Zionists, antiwar veterans, and relative newcomers invigorated by events like the George Floyd protests of 2020. Prominent Palestinians such as Noura Erakat and Dr. Omar Suleiman condemned the failings of the international order to prevent the atrocities in Gaza and called on supporters of Palestine to use their voice to demand change. Elsewhere in the United States, tens of thousands conducted concurrent marches in cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and Provo, Utah. 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